If Limpet is to stay thematic with Sealed Sword and Antigua, shouldn't it split into elemental and shadow? We really already have the perfect piercing bomb and a couple more already.

Apart from that, Napalm Mine really sounds like something that should set things on fire.

Also, how much knockback do these things have? How much damage is there compared to other bombs?

One thing
Limpet would have to go somewhere else. Tokens each provide 2 different sets of items
Snarby-Bomb and sword
Jelly-Sword and Gun
Twins-Bomb and Gun
So, putting a bomb into jelly would mess up this triangle
(and vana?Armour)

Take Jelly armor out of brinks, or out of HoH. It shouldn't be in both.

@Warrior: the actual pattern is that each set is missing one of 5 pieces. Snarbolax has no gun(if you count Snarbolax Cap/Armor from Shadow Lair), Jelly and Vana have no bomb, and Roarmy has no sword.

So the 4* version has 2 barrels which shoot at angles to the front, in a V pattern where the "tip" of the V is the wielder. That makes sense. But for the 5*, it shoots in a W? So does it have three barrels? Like "\|/" ?

(and since it's a "sound" gun, what does it have that makes it look "sound-y"?)

3* Limpet (Normal) > 4* Phantasmal Bomb (Shadow) > 5* Barracuda (Piercing)

wat.

I like the new names for the elemental branch. Got any opinions on damage yet? DBB is identical to Nitro and it seems like that'd work just fine on these.

Maybe check out my Flamethrower idea?

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/search/node/Flamethrower (Search doesnt work for me)

"The Black Dwarf uses sweeping nycton beams to hungrily devour ambient warmth, light and unfortunate souls in the bomb's vicinity, providing ample power to drive an encabulating resonator. The resultant pulsed antigraviton radiation has enough potential to flash-freeze even the mightiest of monsters and beverages." (3-star bomb)

"The Neutron Strobe improves on the Black Dwarf's performance by the crudely conceived, yet effective expedient of using more of everything. The girdlespring now supports a third grammeter, resulting in a 50% increase in detraction throughput. Before consuming chilled beverages, consult the manual's intructions for calculating safe exposure limits." (4-star bomb)

"The Dark Star brings perfection to the concept by augmenting the turbo-accretive armature with a retro-perturbic Shannon oscillator, increasing depleneration efficiency beyond the Schwarzschild phase boundary. Exercise extreme care to avoid direct contact with any beverages when consuming." (5-star bomb)

Visually, the bomb produces rapid chartreuse flashes while casting laser-like beams of darkness that whirl about ominously. It sounds like a giant capacitor bank charging and discharging with terrifying quantities of energy, set contrastingly against the deep sound of a big transformer- I'm thinking 60 to 100 Hz. After a few seconds of this, it suddenly explodes with an anticlimactic pop, scattering a few harmless chunks of steampunk-looking scrap, similar to the spikes in the Spinecone's blast visuals. The model has three important features: Leyden Jar-looking doodads like Alchemers, a big glowing purple coil, and a pair of shiny horn-like "cantennas" with central posts, pointing in opposite directions and rotating. Maybe the 4- and 5-star versions could upgrade to 3 and 5 antennas, respectively.

It's something of a more focused alternative to the Graviton Vortex or Shivermist Buster, having a much smaller area of effect for a given star level in exchange for dealing some more damage and pinning monsters in place for longer. The flashy pulses rapidly deal Shadow damage with a small chance to inflict mild Stun, and the final pop inflicts Freeze status.

It doesn't grow like the other bombs? Flood, I already bought and learned some recipes. :(

In that case, I'm leaning toward dropping to a teeny-tiny radius. (weird, and requiring satisfying skill) Much of the point here is combining different ways of pinning monsters in one weapon, so there's a vortex period where you're free to wail on them, followed by a freeze period where you either have your cake or eat a cake that you don't have, however that works. I dunno which of those is waiting for thaw damage and which is trading it for whatever you get from wailing, I guess it depends on the wailing. Maybe the whole pull+freeze concept would work better as an Autogun variant resurrecting the backwards knockback... knockforward... knocktoward... un-reversed knock- eh, you know what I mean. Actually, I think that would be perfect; a cold, dark, slow gun that sucks, due to its big charge attack ...that sets targets up for a big charge attack. The charge projectiles would have to be non-damaging like those of the Catalyser, so they don't break Freeze... For that matter, just low-powered (ordinary Autogun charge projectile damage) mini-Catballs would look super-epic orbiting around a target, and preserve the bomb theme! I'll have to come back when I'm not sleep-deprived, and see if the idea seems insane in a good way, in which case I'll take your suggestion to start a thread on it.

I have to admit that much of the point outside here is also just combining Shadow damage with Freeze status, though, since it's a thing the lack of which bugs me because I'm unreasonably cranky about things like how we have a Blazebrand, Blizzbrand, and ...Boltbrand, when "Blitzbrand" would have made more sense. Maybe it's "Boltbrand" because "Blitzbrand" would be confusing, since we have a "Blitz Needle," which does not inflict Shock.