The sawrm in spiral knights seriusly reminds me of aida fromhack g.u: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQeMR77b7lc

i think the weapons should consist of things that have to do with space. like i shoot a bulet that creates a crystal formation that blocks enemies from coming through the crystal. then i shoot the crystal again for it to break and shoot tiny shards at the monsters for damage. So something like a support kind of gun that can control the flow of battle like the way the pulsar control somewhat the flow of battle by pushing enemies of how the tortogun control the flow of battle by creating those spikes to stop monster from coming through and damging them. And the charge attack can launch a huge bullet that creates a huge crystal formation around the enemy traping them like the ice status. Then the player will need to shoot the crystal again to make it break and hurt the enemy like a small bomb but at the same time the huge crystal will launch tiny shards of it like the previous shard bomb all over the area 360 degree hurting all monsters around it with crystal rain. I feel swarm weapons need to be intricate and interesting. Not the lazy though of idea of bullet shoot and does damage and that is it. I want more strategy, more thought out new types of intricate weapons.

Is it me or does the swarm also feel very or somewhat connected to apocrean weapons?

I totally forgot to do the new missions. Well i guess there unrelated then. They both have the darkness theme though so it feels like there related a little bit. I wonder if there will be more swarm mision variety now that new missions are coming out for them?

The gun would shoot a crystal, the charge would put a wall around a targeted enemy and the wall will break when contacted by a normal shot, dunno about the swords abillities yet, the bomb leaves behind a swarm source when explodes but the swarm source affects are reversed, increasing knight defence while slowing monsters, the source would look just like the shadow lair version