In Alchemer lines the shadow variant has no status but more base damage than the status inflicting lines. With Brandish lines Nightblade has no status either but has the same base damage as the status inflicting lines. Shadowtech line has around 15% more base damage than the status inflicting Alchemer lines. Swords are currently at a huge advantage over other weapon types. Therefore, instead of buffing Nightblade, nerfing the other lines; Nightblade line would be untouched.

Electron and Graviton currently have the same base damage values. The only difference excluding damage type is that Electron can inflict shock, a major advantage for bombers to be able to inflict, while Graviton has nothing redeeming in comparison. These two suction bombs are more strategic than offense based, making damage increase for Graviton to balance it less helpful for people who actually use it.

Being able to inflict a status is an advantage, if you were unaware.

They're OP. But we shouldn't be keeping any type of weapon from doing anything. There should be swords that do AoE, guns that help protect the user from attacks and bombs that kill a single target quickly.

lol, I love it when people fire mechas into themselves with nitros for once, instead of me.

/me looks at oat, jen, milky and every other bomber ever

@Luguiru & Oatmonster: I personally don't mind that the Catalyzer charge-bombs disappear after enemy death, a lot of enemies have a death animation and you have time to shoot the bomb off of the dying enemy anyways.

I only get pissed off when the stationary/large enemy I am putting bombs on is killed by someone. EDIT: I suppose I do care that my charges are being wasted. Having them explode would be nice, but another way to go about it could be to increase the charge attack damage to offset lost damage. (which may have been done in some previous update when I was not playing SK yet)

I'd like it if the Catalyzer charges chain reacted, and blew up charges that are within range rather than just pushing the charged-enemies away. I find it annoying that after I do my Catalyzer bomb preparations to a group of enemies, I have to make sure all the charges detonate by spamming bullets and walking towards the enemies. They should just go boom when I shoot once ._. (I have heard this being mentioned in some place, probably in-game)

-It'd be cool to have a group of charged-enemies blowing up, and make Catalyzers slightly more useful.

Two things I feel are important, but less so
-I'd really like it if the Volcanic Pepperbox was somehow buffed in the eyes of the ignorant. People don't quite appreciate pushing enemies rather than doing damage... I just don't know what should be done to make it more appealing...
(faster attack speed or charge time?)

-I don't know if this fits in here because it would be quite the major fix, but it would be really great if the spur line was normalized in the charge attack when it has been normalized in the attack combo already. (aka fix the charge attack T.T)

Nerfing the boom on the status brandishes seems a little odd. In the alchemers case, every alchemer has an equal opportunity to deal the same amount of hits. The non-status ones are just stronger. It would be awkward if the nova and umbra could hit more times than the others. I think just reducing the damage of the status brandishes is a better idea.

Adding poison to Graviton Vortex does seem like a good idea. It would be very useful in gremlin floors for sure, or anywhere with a healer giving the Electron Vortex competition.

Why not change the deconstructor line to a bomb that makes 3 pulses, each with small knockback (small enough so the target gets hit by all three pulses if he's standing halfway to the center of the explosion). The damage would be slightly less than Nitronome on a neutral target and it would, of course, be elemental damage. Just an idea of course.

Catalyzers work just fine solo. The problem is when in a party people often kill targets with mines on them and the mines do nothing when the target dies. You hit the mob successfully, so why should you deal no damage? The simple fix would be to have the mines explode if the target dies, so the shots have a much better chance of not going to waste.

Volcanic Pepperbox's main issue is not being able to hit enough with it's shots due to the knockback. If you use on something big, say a lumber, you'll notice how wonderful it works. Reason being is that the shots can actually land cause the lumber is not pushed away on the first few shots. A simple fix would be to reduce the strength of the knockback to allow more hits, while still keeping the mobs at bay.

Just my two cents of course.

I talk about fixing Catalyzer here.

In a nutshell:
-Increase chaining radius so that any monster hit by the explosion radius is nearly guaranteed to have the charge around it explode as well.
-Let charges stick to an enemy even if it hits a shield around it. (This is particularly a problem with using this shadow-damage weapon against gremlins, meaning I'd never bring it to fight gremlins with. That leaves you with a gun only effective against one type of enemy, and nobody needs a gun specialized for slimes.) Charges must still be detonated when hovering next to a weak spot before it'll deal damage to the enemy.
-Make an elemental variety that inflicts freeze! : D

i would like my sentenza to do the most damage to its final shot. but balancing this by making the first shots weak.

I believe a 4/3 rate of shock on the EV wouldn't be so far off for a guess... or maybe a 4/2... I don't remember how long i was told the shock rate lasts.

Anyway, I've already agreed to these changes... or similar ones... on more than one occasion with my friends.

I talk about adding a fire-inflicting, shadow-damage Polaris here. In a nutshell:

-REVERSE knockback, making it crowd-contolling in a way less hazardous to teammatess and slightly more focused on damage.
-That's... that's it really.

Oatmonster's existing suggestion of cutting the Pulsar clip size to 2 seems perfectly legit. As does Luguiru's suggestion elsewhere about slightly nerfing the status rate on them.

Not removing knockback would leave it underpowered compared to the electron vortex. Electron vortex has shock, which is stronger than poison, and cancels the knockback, making the bomb functional and amazing. While I'm here-

Brandish Lines
-If anything, could use with more charge time, other than that are somewhat balanced compared to other elemental/shadow weapons. Acheron could use a status effect as well.

Deconstructor Line
-No. I don't want deconstructor as a blast bomb, I want it's style of attack changed radically into something cool and functional. Kind of like the shard bombs, but something that does enough to actually work.

Catalyzer Lines
-I've written this before, but it got owned by all the "Pets" threads etc... Cata lines could really use with a buff in one of two ways, being the accurate+stylish way, and the big sprosions way. The accurate stylish way includes cata bullets traveling+rotating faster, as well as starting their rotation relative to where the shot lands. The big sprosions buff includes less damage, faster charge time, and bullets that are detonated by charge detonations on other monsters. The accurate way needs more damage.

Pulsar Lines
-Clip size down to 2 bullets? First of all, that wouldn't be such a huge buff, the clip size already only hits with 2ish bullets unless its on a turret. Basically, you'd be casting the polaris into the sea of unusable crap weapons by removing its only huge niche use of killing turrets. Yes, it is usable outside of turrets, no it isn't optimal.

Cutter Lines
I wouldn't say no knockback, but perhaps less knockback, especially on the first few hits if anything.