Uh, you should be able to deal with that with just one of either of the two bombs you mentioned. The spike shower is the easier of the two, but I've killed all the bombers in T3 arenas with a shivermist, an ash of agni and I'm sure that the shock bomb can do it also.

To be quite honest, the 4* spike shower maybe be second only to the 5* Dark Briar Barrage in ease of killing those gremlin bombers.

tha looks quite fun to walk through

Using bombs on the bombers is actually a VERY bad idea. They go NUTS. especially with the shivermist. You freeze them in place and they start throwing bombs across the screen then any of your team mates trying to get in and sword them down... can't. Guns are your best bet with those suckers. That's why your screen shot is a cluster.... I try to bring my acheron for such occasions and avoid bombing altogether with those things around.

Any shadow gun will do, even blackhawk/sentenza. If you run around constantly, you'll almost always have a clear place (without planted bombs) to be and this wave actually turns to be much more manageable than if the place was full of mechas.

That was a pretty rough map. For the back story: the previous levels were a Wolver Den and Stone Grove, so I had geared up for that with my snarby sword, nightblade, spike shower and plasma cap with a virulisk set and snarby shield (all 4*).

In hindsight, dropping the plasma caps instead of the spike showers wasn't the best plan. I was hoping that the chain shock would make up for the damage resistance and keep them interrupted enough for Rangerwill to chip away at them but it didn't work too well.

I switched to the spike shower after I noticed we weren't making any headway and that thinned them out enough for me to kamikaze the menders with my silent nightblade. From there it was just a matter of cleaning up the stragglers.

But for most of that wave the entire arena was just a carpet of explosion.

Stagger storm + final flourish or BTB.

Do not inflict status (frost, fire, shock) on them as they would spam bombs everywhere. Stun seems to be the only status that work on them without them spamming bombs.

I had the DA, BTB, and the Polaris equipped. I was ready for anything except gremlin bombers.

One pill later, I had taken out the 2 menders. Taking out the bombers... slow. Very slow.
Then Evanti shows up with his Umbra driver and kills them all.

Show off.

that's exactly what happened to me. Except I was solo and it was Tier 2.

Spike bombs work great on those gremlin mobs...if you can get rid of the menders, you can use the spike bomb to kill off the gremlin bombs at a fast pace. Best combo there would be poison plus spikes (obviously your highest version of each).

biohazard works really well and is a lot of fun for that wave. you just run in circles and spam like 10-15 charge shots into the middle, boom :D

I love having curse vials in rooms like this, throw one and half of the room is dead. :D

Using my snarby bomb (and ash of agni in other types of T3 arenas), I've often had the healers be one of the last to die. By then, I can get the bombs close enough to kill the healers too. As long as you have at least 3 or 4 monsters being damaged by the AoE of the bomb, you are going to be out DPS'ing the healers.

Sure, hit the healers if you can *safely* hit them, but don't kamikaze them.

OK, in my first reply to this thread, I said that either bomb could deal with that crowd of gremlins, the spike shower being the easier of the two. Now, I've never gotten good enough with my sword, so I'm curious, can good sword users clear those bombers using just the grand flourish?

@Algol I should say I kamikaze'd them in the sense that I dove in with full health and tanked a few bomb blasts in order to kill them, whereas my usual play style is to try to avoid taking any damage at all.

I don't know about clearing the wave with just a grand flourish, but using the snarby or nightblade's charge attack can be effective, if slow. The nightblade is nice because the explosions penetrate the mass of mobs and can do damage to the healers hiding in the middle, whereas the snarby's shotgun charge spreads the damage over a lot of them to keep the healers busy, and can one-shot them if you're close enough. Doing it with just regular snarby/flourish attacks should be doable if you have a strong enough shield to absorb a few bomb blasts here and there... ok, a lot of bomb blasts.