Relevant.

Status?

Both aren't very protective close-up, but that's why you have other weapons. Like you said, it's more of a support, not a primary.

At least that would be the case if the charge attack wasn't expanded right when you shot it, giving it push-back without needing to be a certain distance away.

idea: what if you could throw bombs by simply clicking the attack button but would have a smaller radius and its charge would be the current form of offense

It would also be cool that when you throw the grenade and hits a monster/player, it deals a small amount of damage kind of like the vials but more (vials only deal about 5-15 dmg or something)

I hope you are not suggesting that each bomb should be throwable.

Just imagine throwable Electron Vortex: Infinite suction, while shocking and all that without the biggest danger of vortex bombs: the proximity.

The current bombs are meant to hit many monsters around you with the danger of its proximity.

If you want to suggest completely new weapons (Grenades?) then you should think about a way to make them not beeing a Polaris 2.0, but giving them a place *between* guns and bombs.

This new kind of weapon...
-should deal obviously less damage than bombs because of its range advantage
-should travel shorter than its gun counterpart.
-its blast radius should be smaller than bomb radia but larger than gun explode areas (maybe excluding polaris because of the unique of this gun-line).
-because of its ranged ability, status effects (if available) should have a weaker power; similar to bombs and guns

Im lazy so imma just copy and paste what I put on my post :)
Okay I have been playing for some time and im a little bored of the current weapons and weapon sub-types (Bombs > Shard bombs, Swords > Rapiers, Swords > Heavy Blades) mostly because I have used a majority of them and it gets a little boring to own 2 or 3 of what is essentially just the same weapon but with a different effect

so I thought why not a few ideas on new forms and types of weapons?
EG: Lances/Axes/Shotguns/Grenades etc

for example,
Grenade
the Grenade would come under bombs and you would throw it out much like the enemy gremlin demolitions do
have a shorter blast range
detonate quicker the longer you charge them
They would detonate much like the Blast bombs
the blast itself would do normal damage and depending on what kind of grenade the shrapnel or after effect will deal another form
like a Fire Grenade that after exploding creates an elemental flame that lingers for a few seconds
or a Pierce grenade that works similar to the Shard bombs and the Snarbolax bombs but the blast deals normal and the shrapnel both deals piercing and lingers on the floor for a few seconds like a spike trap

Lance
The Lances would work similar to Swords like the Flourish Line, just that the pole area that is close to you doesn't deal damage or weaker damage (essentially your hitting them with the pole) and it hits enemies up to about 4 or 5 tiles away
Charge attacks can either work like a Javelin throw, do a multitude of hits, or maybe even jump on a enemy similar to Fizz from LoL or Kain/Dragoons in Final Fantasy, mostly normal/piercing damage but normal/elemental or normal/shadow types could exist
EG: a Trident alchemy line would be normal/piercing to start but at 3* or 4* you can make it into something like a Hades Trident like weapon that would deal part shadow + fire damage and the charge would be a stab that uses its three prongs to do a forwards stab and have to diagonal stabs on either side

Shotgun
work quite similar to the Scouts weapons in TF2, the normal shot would just be a tight or wide spread scatter depending on the weapon line your using and the charge would send out a few more shots that knock the enemy back, a tight spread charge would push in a tight spread over a great distance while the wide spreads would cover more enemies but have less knockback

Axes
Again like swords, more similar to the Troika line, the attacks are far more "savage" and can work as a 3 or 4 hit combo troika
Charge attacks would throw the Axe over a distance similar to the bullets of a gun, can hit switches
they generally deal more damage than swords at the cost of a lower swing rate
most of the Alchemy paths would be similar to the swords, like a Brandish for Axes where you get a fire ice shock and shadow one
or a Cutter line for Axes that swing faster than the rest and you throw like 3 out instead of 1

New Sword Line, Venom weapons
basically a calibur/brandish (yes I know we have obsidian and dread)
would look like a purple cold iron vanquisher/carver and have a green glow to it

New gun Line, Burst Pistol
think of the M93R from BFBC2, just a pistol that deals 3 rapid shots 3 or 4 times before reloading
would look like a mix of autogun and magnus

@Dibsville: Every awesome bomb-throwing thread I see someone crushes my hope by referencing a Pulsar line. (nothing personal)~Z

I love the Axe idea. Maybe the axe, in a sort-of-homage to Fire Emblem, can be thrown in a slight arc at the cursor before flying back around like a boomerang, much like the Hand Axe animation in the GBA Fire Emblems.

The Lance can be likely split into different lances with different charges. For example, the "General's Throwing Spear" line gets the "throw spear" charge, while the "Drake Knight Lance" line gets the "Jump attack" charge.

grenades arc and have delay after landing, polaris does not