"HE SUGGESTED THE UNTHINKABLE! KILL HIM! BURN HIM AT STAKE!"

Now, we know bombs once had a standard attack. But it was too powerful. It provided the full radius and effect of the bomb while allowing three to be spammed at once, and charging only added a little bitty damage bonus. Shard bombs provided the best damage output, as you can imagine (three slightly less damage RSS bombs at once IS overpowered). And I shudder to think at the sheer might of Haze Bombs and their upgrades if they had the same effect... if VT had been like that, Mercurial would have been the Skolver of the day in PvP.

Three Rings saw this, and naturally, they removed bombs' normal attacks. Now they only have charges. But this comes with problems of its own- I'm lookin' at YOU, Greavers.

What I propose is a toned-down version. Allow bombers to lay up to three bombs at once (before 'reloading' with an animation that looks like reaching into our pockets) with a standard attack- but these bombs will not be nearly as strong as the charged version.

Here's each standard attack I propose for each line of bombs.

Blast Bombs (Nitro, BAB, Irontech, Decon, and DBB lines) would lay tiny grenades that deal some minor damage and knockback. Hitting with all three would be required to outdamage a fully charged Nitro- but it would take skill to do that! The blast would be one to two spaces wide, at MOST, so don't freak out.

Dark Retribution (and its predecessors) would lay smaller versions of themselves that have one tiny orb for a small amount of time in addition to a small initial Shadow-damage blast. The radius is the same, and the orb operates in this tiny radius for about two seconds (one-third the time of a regular DR).

Old Shard Bombs, if kept, would not have a central explosion, but rather would shoot four much weaker shards out at a slightly scattered distance; if the blast was dead-center on a square, the four shards would shoot one at each corner, and wouldn't be able to multihit anything smaller than a Lumber (if that). The damage and range of the shards would be much less.

New Shard Bombs would have a tiny explosion and shoot out two shards that made two more tiny explosions.

Haze Bombs would emit a much smaller cloud that lingered for much less than the time of a charged Haze, with very minor damage. Not nearly enough to hold a chokepoint, but enough to make your getaway from a tough foe (read: Deadnaught). They would inflict a Minor status even if Haze Bomb charges were changed to Moderate (which they really oughta be, becauses Skolvers, even with max Shock UVs, SHOULD NEVER BE IMMUNE TO VT, and Stagger Storm? Please, nobody can 'harmlessly subdue dangerous species' in four measly seconds).

Vortex Bombs would pull enemies in for half a second and then make their own tiny blast.

There, see? Not so powerful. But enough to give each bomb a new use, and put us on par with gunners and swordies against certain enemies (Greavers, for example). It'd also make Nitro less detested by parties, as you could just lay three small Nitros instead of one big one.

Compliments? Suggestions? Problems? If anything here seems overpowered, by all means tell me!