Okay, first of all I figure OOO must hate multihitting or something since they put an arbitrary hit limit on this bomb. So I thought, how about the bomb just hits twice? Instead of exploding, spreading shards and then have those shards explode, let's just have the explode bomb explode and then explode again, but in a slightly bigger radius that just about covers the old ring of shards we have.

Also, reduce the fuse time for the secondary shard. I'm thinking somewhere in the area of 0.2 seconds?

Let's fiddle with the damage numbers. In D24, the shard bombs currently do 70 with the core and 95 damage with the shards. I thought we could increase it just a tiny bit since they're underpowered right now. How about, uh... 391 damage with the core and 427 damage with the second explosion? I think that sounds pretty good. Also, the core will have no knockback at all while the second explosion will have almost as much knockback as BAB. But instead of exploding in a circle, the crowd control aspect would be improved by having all the knockback happen in the direction you're facing.

I also think the bomb needs a little something extra, so let's give it a Fair chance of causing Moderate Stun. And we should have a second line, also normal damage, that has a Slight chance of causing Strong Freeze.

Oh, and the bomb should be a grenade. After letting go of the charge button, you're locked in an animation where you dash forward a bit and "throw" the bomb a few tiles ahead of you. The animation will lock you in place until the bomb is done exploding.

And while we're at it, the bomb should have a regular attack. You'll hold out the bomb while walking forward and it'll explode in front of you two times for 241 and 297 damage, and the second blast has more knockback than the first one.

Even hipster weapons sound overpowered when they're presented as shard bomb buffs.