here is to much to say about the new and old radiant sun shards and about OOO right now. i´m gonna try to cover all about the rss bomb/s

---->first the old radiant sun shards:
yes it was OP! i´m not gonna discuss that but there was a lot of ways to nerf it instead of delete it and put a diferent bomb with the same name,
>lets say why it was OP;

• the shards could go further than a pistol bullet
• in close range it was able to make multiple hits to a creature with 124 to 273 damage per shard (in stratum 6 depending of the creature type), mostly 3 shards for something of the size of a zombie, 4-5 to a lumber or a troyan (but that requires more skill from the player) and used properly it was able to hit with 8 shards and OHKO the creature (but thats depend of the amount of players on the group)
• with a group of one or two players it could do a lot of damage and make quick kills but in a group of 3 or 4 players the damage wasn´t enough
• the mixed damage of elemental and piercing made it very useful to kill undeads and fiend in general and it wasn´t bad at all to kill three of the four families able to resist 50% of that mixed damage

>lets say why it was useful aside the damage

• the bomb was able to charge and explode fast making it usefull to hit switches, special blocks, break minerals and general uses. other bombs can´t do fast (try to break a mineral with a irontech)
• aside the damage it was useful to interrupt creature attacks
• it was the unique bomb able to do damage depending of the distance of the player and the monster, able to do multiple hits in close range and a few single hits in distance this was balanced by the blind spot making it not so useful as a radius bomb to hit a mob of creatures, the rss was able to hit only the monsters near the planted bomb
• it was extremely good (used properly) to kill these creatures that bombers can´t kill with other bombs like greavers (fast creatures able to attack faster than the time needed to charge and explode a bomb to attack them) and turrets at far range (it was usefull because it was able to interrupt the turret irrespective of the amount of damage doing)
• it was almost the unique bomb useful in pvp to made damage instead of only play to made control with Voltaic Tempest and found half of the other team able to resist shock due UV´s (the other damaging bombs take to long to charge and the bombers get hit in this time interrupting the charge besides that the enemy players are able to see and easy dodge the bomb radius in the floor)

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so now we see the basic pros and cons, lets try to nerf that old rss instead of delete it and made a new bomb

   A-the first problem was a bomb with more range than a pistol, so the easy way to nerf it, is cutting the distance of the shards and making it have the range of a nitro. this solves the OVER-PISTOL problem and the noobs raging of it in pvp because they don´t understand how to dodge a linear hazard.
------> decrease the range of the shards

   B-now the bomb was making to much damage for a 4* weapon - 263 to undead (the main use of this bomb was on FSC for the elemental to kill zombies and piercing damage for troyans and vana) and 275 to fiends in S6 -, it´s true but OOO can easy made it to do half of that damage 137(instead of less than one third, as it does now) and keep the 263 damage for a 5* version
------> make it deal half damage
a side note a used to make fast kills in FSC with the old RSS but i tried to made a room in a group of four in the depth 25 and it take me 20 twenty bombs to kill four zombies and the inpredictible knockback almost kill me

   C- other way to keep the utility of the bomb was. made the shards deal less damage the further they travel, even deal 0 damage outside of the nitro radius keep them able to hit switches special blocks etc
bomb placed ------------------------------------ nitro range -------------------------------------------------- old shard limit
260 DMG--220----160---110---75---40 DMG ---0 DMG ------------------------------------------------- 0 DMG shard limit
this way keeps the utility over damage it used to had and remain the lot of damage in close range at the same time
------> made it do less damage per distance traveled

 D- all above

these are realy easy ideas to made and more easy to implement instead of rework the entire bomb
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now lets see the new RSS (Rarely Sustainable and Sad :V)

the new bomb called RSS instead of a fragmentary bomb with utility and usefull damage like his predesessor is a buged mix with a area bomb and fragmented damage with less utility of a DBB resulting in a cluster bomb

------>the problems:

• the charge time is like the other bombs, there is no more a quick bomb for bombers (the gravers see bombers now as a feast)
• the knockback made the position of the monsters impredictible
• the shards in the floor take to long to expode and fast creatures get out of the area instantly (to be a piercing bomb to kill wolvers is awfull and it is totally useless to kill any fiend)
  fiends move fast and cover a lot of area dodging, the first shard make devilites dodge like when they dodge a pistol bullet and they never gonna enter on the radius of the shards in the floor, for greavers the bomb is too slow and the distributed damage make just a litle bit of damage to a troyan, basicaly the fiend bonus is useless. even the stun don´t help here in any case a DBB is better or a shiver to make slow kills in less time without so much risk
• the main utility of it for most players was the elemental damage in FSC and OOO decided to put his "problem.jpg" mask and made it a piercing bomb, now a lot of players who made many UV rolls with the gremlin have a useless UV in a useless bomb, (did I say it take 20 bombs to kill some zombies on depth 25 in a group of four? before it take 4 almost) and we know the gremlins dont give a medium or high or a good UV with the first try (it take like ten tries)
• for some reason creatures don´t get hit with more than 2 shards, this is maybe the knockback (this need more testing)
• the distance of the shards on the floor made almost imposible to made multiple hits on even the biggest creatures
• the poor distribution of damage, make it do very poor damage

------> the pros:

• the new bomb in a first look, looks able to made multiple hits if the creature is near a wall so the main combo is push the creatures with nitro or other bomb with good knockback and put the creatures on the wall and made multiple hits with the shards... but the problem is... the shards disappear when the bomb is placed near a wall, apparently this is a bug (maybe not)
• a fancy animation
• is good if you don´t have a DBB or a nitro (?) or if the player is not a bomber and don't know anything about bombs (:P)
• is good for the enemy team in pvp if you try to defend the point of your team (?)

< right now with the bugs i can´t see any pro fell free to sugest some and if they work i put them here later >
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some awesome videos for the meorial of the bomb and for the people who thing it was a spamable bomb
lumbers
turrets note that range is aceptable for a bomb and is not a far range sniping
silent legion
FSC
there are good comparison on this thread with the new bomb

ok @Grandtheftgnome say something important. OOO never say the bomb was OP even if it was comparable with a 5* bomb before the rework, so i was thinking OOO (instead of fix 75% of the Blast Bomb/damaging bombs because they aren´t ussefull or they need a rework) just buried the best bomb for damage, at the same time the bomb that was requiring more skill over other bombs to let the other bombs be more sustainable and accurate to the (new simple) concept
i´m not saying OOO made that with a bad intention, instead they change the meaning of bombs or what some bombers understand
the old meaning of bombs was a area of effect/damage to made control of a area, or made a minor damage to more creatures than a sword or pistol were able to do, making a balance of;

• "swords deal good DMG for single targets or minor groups"
• "pistols deal damage to simgle targets at far distance with safeness (making a lesser damage to balance)"
• "bombs deal less damage than a sword but are able to affect much more creatures" making them more reliable to kill many creatures and less reliable to kill a few

OOO just simplificate that and changed the angle/point of view, the result is more restriction on the differences so, no more weapons between the specific diference of weapons

said that. again a short review of the new RSS at 5* (acording to the concepts)

• Nick sayd "bombs create areas of damage" the new RSS and the bomb added before to the game, the dark retribution, have blind spots on their areas (huge blind spots) and their balance in teory work because "the players put other bomb to cover that area" but that just work on teory, bombers have a gameplay based on kitting because they can´t block or use the shields in the same way swordies or gunners can (at any time during the attack without lossing the entire build of it) so for kit properly most times they can´t go back and place the bomb next to the creature (wich is now aggro) so they can´t cover the area without a risk. this don´t happend with the blast bombs because they push the creatures to a safe distance and let the player organisate the way he/she gonna attack and control bombs do control covering all the area so no problem there (DBB is a special bomb in t3 most of the creatures don´t get affected by the knockdown but the player can kit with no problems and the creatures follow him/her and receive the damage anyway)
  even if they go and take the risk the inpredictible knockback of the NEW RSS make the creatures get scattered in a way that bombers can´t place the bomb properly.
  a side note, the DR work because it charges and detonates faster and the player is able to cover the blind spor quickly, but the RSS line isn´t that fast to charge and explode. even the secondary shards take too long to explode but not enought to let the player made a mine filed (paradox?)
  tl;dr the new rss is slow to cover the blind spot

ways to solve the basic problems aside the bugs

• the bomb have a small area of effect comparing the 5* with other 5* bombs and have a huge blind spot and the shards places in the floor have such a small area that make it unable to do multiple hits to a creature (this will work with low damage and multiple hits). worked as a bomb to made a distributed area of damage without multiple hits the damge isn´t enought (my matt says it do less than 200 damage per bomb to a creature but it still isn´t a lvl 10) even with the summed amount of damage of each part. co made it have more area on the land shard explocions or made it do more damage
  ------> low damage and/or bad distribution,
• the stun is bugged and added the unpredictable knockback make this bome a hazard for the player, add poison to it instead of stun will work in any way better (silkwings + poison would made the fiend bonus more believable)

yeah my english isn't the best, is not my natal lenguaje. anyway i need to leave now i´m gonna fix the typing error and the orthographic errors later