Sure its still a useful bomb, and I'm sure every Vana-Bomber has one in their arsenal, but once you REEEEALLY run the crap out of FSC enough to qualify as a veteran, doesn't it seem a tad obselete?
It's decent for crowd control yeah, but I can't count the times I've been hit by slags in my early days simply because they weren't being knocked back from hits or, worse yet, trapped in by frozen baddies while tryna move totems. I'm a gunner now (not because of that) so not much of a problem anyore, but still...
Save it for Vana...
Makes it worse when they up and decide that my Electron Vortex and their ice-tray firecracker are good synergy. Uh-huh, because freezing enemies just outside of my vortex so they can't get sucked in and shocked is soooo helpful. And no, you're not keeping them together afterwards, thats what the shock is for. Well at least they'll take a bit of thaw damage.
...If you ever let them thaw...
Sure its just my opinion and I'm just venting, but theres gotta be at least a few people that think so. Maybe just a select few that check their party's loadouts on entrance, see that bomb, and just "FFFFFUUUUUUUUU-" their heads off.
Yeah there was a thread about that recently
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/89547