Why would you keep bombing armour purely elemental defence??
Mad Bomber=Shadow/normal defence
Mercurial demo=Piercing/normal defence
bombastic demo=elemental/normal defence
Volcanic demo=elemental/normal defence
This has been here for ages and should be fixed
Also off-topic: Volcanic OR Bombastic should have their bonus to bombs put to LOW with a DMG bonus to[Insert elemental attack family here] med
Sorta like Deadshot for guns.
Discuss.
¬ Sppw
The exact same topic has been discussed several times though not necessarily with the same delegated changes.
Everyone agrees to changing Mad Bomber from split normal-element to split normal-shadow, but whether Bombastic or Mercurial has its element defense changed to pierce has been tossed around. Apparently Bombastic used to consume pierce relevant materials in order to craft, though it seems to have been changed to imitate VDemo with a couple of the materials changed; considering Bombastic has freeze defense and not fire as Volcanic has and equipment tends to have relevant materials to the item. This seems to have been a lazy attempt to make it into a different item. Mad Bomber still uses shadow related materials, at least.
No family bonus changes for this line. It works for Gunslinger because they have limited variety since charge buffs are very significant for swords and guns over damage or attack speed, but for bombs you only have charge or damage bonuses. Charge tends to be more vital. Maybe a +1 family bonus per Bombastic part.
I agree about changing the defence of bomber's armour, and the bonuses they get could do with tweaking a bit.
However, lowering the CTR bonus and adding a DMG bonus to certain enemies seems detrimental to bombers.
The haze bombs in particular don't benefit from ANY damage bonus whatsoever, so they will be disadvantaged considerably.
I'm not really a big fan of specialised armour for killing one family type, and Bombastic wasn't that great to begin with.
If anything, Mercurial could do with a boost - the MSI isn't all that much, and it's a Shadow Lair armour, so it should be fairly good.
As it stands, you can only max it out with two damage trinkets and a set of bombs with CTR Very High UVs...
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