Talk:Thunderbolt/@comment-213.167.11.175-20130610192502/@comment-10719468-20130611100410

The whole point of thunderbolt is to deliver an aoe attack with the bow. The explosion's element can be controlled through one single elemental mod, but if you have multiple elements it will choose one at random, which could lower your damage in the end. For example, I don't use elemental mods on my bow to begin with (other than armor pierce which probably doesn't affect thunderbolt's element), but when I finally got my thunderbolt, I slapped on hellfire + thunderbolt for farming xini. Why? Because it changes the element of thunderbolt and thus does way more damage, makes it easy to pick off enemies that are bunched together if you don't feel like spamming 4 on almost every frame. Grineer and corpus are slightly resistant to fire, so if I wanted to generalize my thunderbolt's damage and lose damage overall on the bow itself, I can just remove the fire element, since nothing is immune to explosive, and if I know I'm going to be fighting corpus, I can just slap on an electric mod, cold for grineer shields which bows are supposedly bad at taking out anyway. This mod is amazing for any situation where you have to hit more than one enemy horizontally which regular arrows can not do without having to snipe enemies in a  row. I can shoot a wall with an arrow, get thunderbolt to proc and kill enemies behind that wall, same with the ceiling, in maps like kappa/kiste when there's enemies above the center room, I can use the red dot on the radar to shoot and kill them with thunderbolt without having to go all the way up there and find them. Thunderbolt was never meant to be a DAMAGE mod, thunderbolt is a UTILITY mod which makes the bow even more versatile than it already is. Get creative. Low rank targets will die from 250 damage which means it is meant for clearing groups of enemies, NOT to do more DPS on a heavy unit/boss.

I am not a min/maxer, I play with utility, I don't care if I'm doing less damage than you, I don't have a douchegasm for getting most kills on the scoreboards.

Don't limit yourself to numbers, play like a real ninja.