Ok, we all know the new shard bombs are bad. Really bad. So I came up with some ideas to make them somewhat better.

Upon the initial blast, it sucks enemies in, like a vortex, but not continuous. No graphical effect for it, like the old sucking effect with the pepperbox charge. Second, the shards go off 1 at a time, staggering all enemies for a longer time, rather than going off all at once, only staggering once, if at all.

I also thought that the new mechanics we have would be different. The shards would go out in 8 directions like normal, But doing no damage or knockback. Then, they would halt for around half a second to a second at their maximum range. Then they would go back, doing damage and dragging enemies with them towards the blast point. When all shards get there, a big blast happens.

I just thought of these randomly. :P