The UVs you rolled are essentially useless, and personally I wouldn't bother to buy one. I wouldn't expect a knowledgable person to pay much more than the going rate of a vanilla vaporizer.

Status bombs only really benefit from CTR. Anything else is a waste of money. Why? Because the blast zone of a vaproizor is extremely small and is only there for an instant compared to the mist which is there for a few seconds. Also, the main point of those bombs is applying status effects, not dealing direct damage.

What you should keep is CTR Med or higher. You only need CTR Med and 1 trinket, piece of bomb gear, or full chaos set to get CTR Max!. CTR Low goes for 15-20kcr, CTR Med goes for ~120-150kcr, and I've never seen anything higher on the AH and never bothered to shop for them on the forums.

"So then, is the damage from these bombs caused ONLY by the status? And is the status affect damage increased by having the damage bonus? Then if I'm reading correctly, Toxic line does no damage at all. OR is there explosion damage?"

All of these bombs have a small blast radius that does immediate damage. The haze-style bombs are all elemental bombs, and the blast damage is elemental. They also induce a status, which in some cases (fire, shock, freeze thawing) can cause additional damage. If this is confusing, you might want to read the wiki pages on "Damage" and "Status effect", to get them straightened out. They are two completely separate phenomena in the game.

If you use a variety of weapons, then you're right not to focus exclusively on bomber armor, of course. Consider mixing sworder, gunner, and bomber armor, including Barbarous Thorn Shield (sword damage+2). Meanwhile, Chaos armor benefits all of your weapons (CTR+1, damage+1), Fallen armor benefits swords and guns (ASI+1), Swiftstrike Buckler benefits swords and guns (ASI+3) but offers terrible protection. And invest in trinkets if you can.

I should mention that the damage from fire benefits from your damage bonuses on the bomb, though. Still, no one wants those toxic bombs, which are also naturally not very popular. The fiery bomb is pretty useful in graveyards, though. Just not in FSC.

@Halifix no, status don't benefit from damage bonus. Haze bombs are wanted on some levels, they are not popular because they are not all-rounder.

They are just useful in crowded places, meaning RJP, FSC and arenas. The fire + shock combo destroy crowds very fast in RJP and arenas, and shock is still a useful status in FSC.

Also, poison is a perfect anti-mender (there was a time with arena with menders were hard ...)

Yvanblo, status bombs are not exactly good vs gremlins (besides VV and menders). If mortars annoy you, a VV is enough to make them drop their shield (well any status does that, the trick works without fire). Else, shiver them in place.

I always felt that AoA is a weak bomb. If there's a big group of enemies, a Voltaic deals more damage. If there's a small group, sun shards or DD can handle them easily and outDPS the fire.

If you're going to bomb, I'd recommend making the following to mix and match:

Shiver, Ash of Agni, Voltaic Tempest, Electron Vortex (Graviton will work, but isn't as good due to no shock, keep in mind how good shock is on such a thing), Nitronome, Dark Briar Barrage, Radiant Sun Shards (although you don't like them... so don't if you don't want to) and Dark Retribution. And if you want it, Venom Veilor shouldn't be that terrible around healers.

Equip them like this-

-Status bomb
-Status bomb (or damage bomb, if you don't need additional status)
-Damage bomb
-Normal Sword or Gun; if you have extra in your budget you can make 3 different guns and 3 different swords to have a pierce/elemental/shadow of each. If you don't get RSS, you'll need a piercing sword/Callahan, or even an alchemer with fiend VH.

For instance, say you're fighting beasts-

-Shivermist Buster
-Voltaic Tempest (or Venom Veilor)
-Dark Briar Barrage
-Leviathan blade

Most of the time you'd be using Dark Briar Barrage to barrage them to death... if you encounter a random bunch of lumbers, you could easily shiver + voltaic them, and then finish them off with your leviathan blade.

Thats not to say that these are the only bombs, the others are all usable. These are just my recommendations for which bombs will be the best given a limited budget and no desire to make every single bomb... just to be a bomber.

what is DD???????

Nordlead's giving good advice, but we should keep in mind that Yvanblo is more of an all-around player (post #3), so he may not be using a lot of bomber armor and trinkets. For instance, I take Ash of Agni into the Royal Jelly Palace, even when my armor and trinkets are optimized for swording. In that situation, it's really useful to have a big CTR UV on the bomb itself.

Right: Heat level 10, paired with a High UV, gives you CTR Ultra.

Nordlead's point is that most armor/trinkets that enhance your bomb CTR give you +2, not +1. So wearing any of these put you over Maximum!. In that sense, a High UV is no better than a Medium UV.

On the other hand, Chaos Cowl/Cloak gives you only +1, so High is better than Medium with that piece. And if you're not getting any extra bomb CTR from armor/trinkets, then Ultra CTR is certainly a bit better than VH CTR.

Enjoy your bomb.

Weegeeftws - you don't understand the bomb then. VT does 30 damage each tick (S6 against zombies) to both that monster and all surrounding monsters. Throw down a VT at the start of a spawn area with 5+ zombies near each other and you'll easily be doing 90-150 damage per tick to every zombie which is greater than what AoA can manage (97). As you add more zombies you add more damage capability to the VT, but the AoA stays flat. If there are fewer zombies, then yea the VT would do less damage, but in most cases with only a few monsters I wouldn't be using either bomb anyways since I could just use my swords to quickly finish them off.

So, do you care to explain how VT really does a worse job than AoA? Personally, I have both bombs and think they are both great, however I use my VT more because I can use it in FSC and it actually contributes. AoA is useless in FSC and I have no use for Shiv in FSC (not even for Vana). If Ice Queen lair's didn't cost 450CE I'd be running that more and use my AoA a lot more often.