Scintillating Sun Shards is generally regarded as the more effective of the two.

This is for several reasons- namely that fiends are typically regarded as being far worse than beasts, and that to make Deadly Splinter more effective than Scintillating Sun Shards, you'd have to just naturally have charge time reduction max and bomb damage max. Even then, whether or not you value the stun effect would come into play.

My opinion is that the Sun Shards and Deadly Splinter Bomb are novelty items to begin with, as Dark Briar Barrage is just that much better due to not having invincibility frames, dealing consistent damage without disappearing randomly, and allowing the user to take out grievers without mastering every detail of the game beforehand. But the new shard bombs are still cool items to go for, and they are a ton of fun to use even if they are a bit worse than every single alternative barring winmillion and the iron slug. That being the case, I would still recommend sun shards, because stunning enemies + dealing with fiends better makes it more interesting to use.

The two tactics I use are either the drop + smash w/ brandish or troika, or the chain indefinitely tactic.

As for a video, Zoggo does the drop+smash tactic in FSC here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=X4AbDXobgo8#t=350

Hi, I've got a question about crowd control for freeze-immune monsters.

On the last depth found in the Gauntlet, there is an arena where you fight freeze-immune monsters.

When you're in a situation like that, you can't rely on freeze - Shivermist Buster - for crowd control.

So what should one be using there instead?

I'm thinking either Stagger Storm or Voltaic Tempest, but I'm not sure which status would be the better of the two.

Or just ignore vaporizers and go with a nitronome or BAB.

@Tekrat

Your best bet against ice+undead+fiend would probably be something along the lines of voltaic tempest + stagger storm if you're fighting with friends to support, or dark briar barrage + ash of agni + voltaic tempest if soloing the area, though these are really just ideas for how to handle it.

I wouldn't recommend using a vortex bomb in that arena, because the fiends and turrets and grievers present will trump you easily as you waltz about slowly to gather the ice-slags.

Another idea would be venom veilor + ash of agni + dark briar barrage/deadly crystal bomb. This would let you use ash of agni to murder things, and then switch to venom veilor when/if a healer presents itself. DBB is useful for when the grievers get you, ofc. An age old combination that lets you do anything provided you can survive.

I'm not a bomber (though I do have all of the bombs, most with CTR uvs at level 10) so I haven't tried much in that area, because I personally would rather just strafe n' shoot for that one. But bombing should be plausible for it.

Fuse time is unaffected by level.

Is anyone still following this thread?

Anyway, I'm a relatively new player who's only rank 6-2. So far I've been playing as a pseudo-bomber.

My question is what I should upgrade my Super Blast Bomb into. I'm a little partial towards Irontech because of that Stun chance, but that slowed walking speed is kind of making me hesitate.

Irontech and Nitronome are your best choices. While Nitronome is probably better if you will upgrade to 5* and you can heat it, Irontech is a very good choice if you just choose to keep it at 4*. While Nitro would be the better choice, it may not be for you if you can't get it to a high level because of lack of Radiants. You could always try googling around for something like site:forums.spiralknights.com irontech nitronome radiants. Bear in mind that you need to look for information from the current era of hard to heat 5* items and not things before that. That, or perhaps someone who's more into bombing could give a better answer, as I'm a swordsman.

As for double posts, you can't delete them. You can make them content-less by putting 0 in the subject (removes subject line) and   (empty space which will not be removed, unlike regular spaces) in the comment. You can also make an invisble character by pressing alt+255, I think.

Wow, thank you very much for the fast replies!

First of all, no I'm not a very dedicated bomber. I'm actually mainly a Faust-wielding swordsman. But since that sword has terrible crowd control, I've been using a bomb to compensate.

That being said, I actually think bombing is a lot more fun than swordmanship, but much harder lol.

Ultimately, my favourite set is the Fire+Poison haze combo, but that one is a little situational.

Anyway, looks like I'll be making an Irontech Bomb. Thanks for the help everybody!

Imo a good bomber play with blast and other alone , and dont use blast at all in team.

When i play in team i use crowl control bomb (cloud bomb) and its enough , but i'll use crystal bomb soon.

And about the shield it can help for bump mobs , or for add vitality (in the case of scarlet shield) , because a little pasiv bonus its even better than a big def not used cuz ABC rule (always bomb charge).

cya sry for my english.

Heater Shield and Scarlet Shield are two different shields.

Heater Shield branches off the Defender line and has Elemental and Normal defence along with Freeze resistance, which was quite unique and useful until the Tortodrone shields were released and could fill that purpose and more.

Scarlet Shield is a 3* shield which is the only shield to give increased maximum health. It increases your health by 2 points. While it's not really super useful for anything as most people want more shield power or better bonuses, bombers can still find the health quite useful since they spend most of the time charging bombs and are unable to shield.

Full Volcanic gives you damage+0. Full Mad Bomber/Chaos gives you damage+4. So you're wondering what the damage difference is between +0 and +4? This is answered at the wiki page "Abilities", which explains all kinds of damage bonus.

You are welcome. Happy travels.

Late game bombs (4*+) and late-game armors seem really good... but low level bombs are a pain to use. Do I just spam Combuster or something until 4*?