The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Mine Raid Bomb Mechanic Guide

To defeat the boss efficiently in The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin's Mine Subjugation raid, position your character directly behind spawned explosive barrels and launch them into the boss using controlled normal attacks. Hitting a barrel propels it forward along your attack vector, rapidly depleting the boss's shield gauge and knocking the target down into an extended groggy state upon impact.

How Barrel Trajectories and Collision Work

Explosive barrels in the Mine Subjugation encounter function as kinetic projectiles rather than passive stage hazards. During specific combat intervals, these containers appear across the chamber floor. When hit with direct physical attacks, they slide rapidly across the arena along the angle of impact. Connecting a sliding barrel directly with the boss's collision box triggers an instant detonation that inflicts massive posture damage far exceeding standard character abilities.

Barrels do not track targets automatically. Keep the following physical factors in mind:

Straight-Line Physics: Barrels travel in a strict line based on the direction of the hit that launched them. Oblique strikes push barrels off toward the perimeter.
Environmental Obstacles: If a barrel strikes cavern support pillars, debris piles, or uneven floor geometry before reaching the boss, it stops immediately or detonates prematurely without damaging the boss.
Boss Repositioning: Launching a barrel while the boss is charging or leaping across the room will cause the projectile to miss. Always verify the trajectory is clear of obstacles and that the boss has stopped moving before striking.

Step-by-Step: How to Push Bombs Accurately

Spot Spawns Early: Adjust your camera angle to locate newly appeared barrels as soon as they spawn, ensuring you reach them before the boss covers the area with attacks.
Form a Straight Vector: Move directly behind the barrel so that your character, the explosive, and the boss's center mass form a straight line.
Use Controlled Normal Attacks: Strike the barrel with a basic light attack or a narrow directional thrust. Avoid wide-arcing heavy swings or multi-hit sweep abilities, as wide weapon hitboxes can clip the barrel at odd angles and knock it off-course. Fast, narrow attackers like Ban or rapier users line up shots with high consistency.
Dash-Cancel Backward: Dash backward or laterally immediately after releasing your strike to clear the blast threshold and evade incoming boss follow-ups.

Stagger Windows and Mine Raid Gear Synergy

A successful bomb detonation immediately drops the boss into an extended groggy knockdown, removing its active defensive barriers for several seconds. Reserve your primary burst skills and high-multiplier elemental abilities for this down window rather than expending them during normal movement phases.

The Mine Subjugation raid drops specialized equipment sets designed around posture breakage and down-phase burst windows:

Gear Set	Core Set Bonus Effect	Combat Role Application
Stagger Burst Set	Significantly increases Critical Damage against knocked-down or groggy targets	Primary burst DPS characters capitalizing on boss vulnerability windows
Impact Breaker Set	Boosts poise reduction and shield damage from environmental and weapon impacts	Frontline characters redirecting barrels and breaking auxiliary shields
Mine Vanguard Set	Grants temporary damage reduction and attack speed after triggering a stagger	Brawlers maintaining uptime and stability through hazardous raid transitions

Explosion Radius and Safety Rules

The blast produced when a propelled barrel detonates deals heavy friendly fire. Characters standing too close to the point of impact take severe physical and fire damage along with heavy knockdown, which can eliminate more than half of a character's health on higher difficulty tiers.

Evade Before Detonation: Always back out of the blast radius as soon as the barrel begins sliding toward the target.
Avoid Crowded Hazards: Never attempt to position behind a barrel if the boss is actively channeling a frontal slam or wide sweep directly over it. Let the boss attack resolve first, or bait the boss into charging toward the barrel and launch the projectile right before the charge connects.

Common Bomb-Pushing Mistakes to Avoid

Wasting Ultimate Skills on Barrels: Barrels launch from basic attacks and possess a fixed launch threshold. Using ultimate abilities or high-cooldown skills to push a barrel wastes offensive resources that should be saved for the boss's groggy window.
Firing into Invulnerability Frames: If a barrel hits the boss while it is airborne, invulnerable, or mid-transition, the explosive deals zero poise damage and cannot be recovered. Wait for the boss's feet to plant firmly on the ground before launching.