Yeah, I know what you're thinking: "This argument has been made like 1,000 times. Why do you want to post a thread that will fall on blind eyes?" Well, I agree. But seriously. I'm sure that if you ever used this bomb to its actual potential, you agree with me. I mean, who wouldn't? It was pretty obvious that the "Clone" loadout was (and is) way more broken than any other set, and yet Three Cheerios decided to take away the Radiant Sun Shards/Ionized Salt Bomb -- pretty much the only real way for a bomber to do actual damage. And to make matters worse, they turned them into FIVE sets of practically unusable* bombs. So, apart from those stated above, here are my main points:
1. I don't know if anyone visited it, but a while back I had a thread suggesting to debuff the Final Flourish/Barbarous Thorn Blade and Gran Faust/Divine Avenger. Well, I got shot down for one reason: Many people had already invested in them as weapons. Well, OOO, I've got news for you. People also invested in the shard Bombs. The fact is, there wasn't exactly a legitimate excuse for taking them away when they were pretty much the only real way for a bomber to deal good amounts of damage. The very idea that they could just whisk away a weapon that, oh, I don't know, maybe 75% of bombers were already mastering and using to their full potential because OOO thought they weren't bomb-like enough is simply ridiculous.
2. Taking away those weapons actually destroyed value. People had already gone to lengths to craft them, to buy them, to get trinkets and unique variants to support them, and ultimately to practice and get very good at using them.
3. I think it's quite ridiculous that OOO took away these weapons, then brought them back as entirely different things that don't even "seem like bombs" or act nearly the way they used to. It's also ridiculous that OOO made them all flashy, plasticky, and glittery to make them appeal to people who didn't have the slightest care about their competitive use.
I hope to get enough support to suggest to OOO that maybe they should change a little something. I don't know. After all, the Iron Slug update hasn't happened yet. I realize that OOO has been busy lately, and I realize that it may not be possible to change them back, and if that's true, then what I think I -- and a large portion of the SK community would be most grateful for is simply an answer from one of the developers who figured in this change.
*I realize that these bombs are usable in some situations, but there are others that would do much, much better in those situations.
I agree, but everything you've said has been said before many times, and it won't change anything.