I have played spiral knights for over 2 months (in game time btw, yes that's 62 days) I have all 3 sets of bomber and am wondering if I should keep them all/what mixture to use I love the mad bomber set as it just makes me feel like a bad [cog]and the bombastic i only ever pull out when I know there's going to be frost creatures of the fiend variety as that 6 second wail on period absolutely screws me over and I hate having to use 2 trinkets that I could use for health/defence instead to get max ctr I use AoA Nit RSS and SMB as this lets me deal with most of the mobs in the game I am going for mercurial atm but was wondering wether or not any other setups where best? i run everything btw
mad bomber vs bombastic demo vs volcanic demo
Lun, 12/10/2012 - 11:13
Lun, 12/10/2012 - 14:15
#2
Bombing Guide
Have you read the Bombing Guide on the wiki? It's pretty good, and it explains various combinations of bomber armor.
The basic idea is that CTR is always useful for offense and defense, while damage bonus is useful for offense on damage-oriented bombs (Nitronome and RSS), but not very useful for offense on status-oriented bombs (Ash and Shivermist) or defense. So many people agree with you that Volcanic is more useful than Bombastic. Of course, Mad Bomber is extremely powerful, if you can survive.
It would be easier to read your post and give you help, if your post were written in sentences.
Lun, 12/10/2012 - 15:53
#3
I'd like to point out that
I'd like to point out that CTR is the most important. Even as a dps bomber with max damage, you'll find yourself craving more CTR, but with no damage and max CTR you'll be pretty content, if itching for more.
Removal of invinci frames, reduced walking speed, reduced spammability and increased chance of being interrupted and increased chance of statuses interrupting you (whereas with max CTR you can get a full bomb charge off in between fire/shock spasms).
It all counts for a huge amount. Damage doesn't actually add that much of a diffierence, and you'll probably find kills to actually be slower with max damage over CTR, especially if the mobs are spread out and you need to bring them together and such, and especially for vortexing (where funnelling them is the key; no CTR means you can't get another one down in time and they spread out more and catch you quicker).
Basically, I'd just say to focus on whatever trinkies/UVs/set etc it is you need/want to ensure you have max CTR, then try to add damage onto that in your most preferred way.
Personally I've just always went with Mad Bomber. Volca is for pure support hazing (with heart trinkies) and Bomba is a recon LD loadout imo.
The best solution would be getting CTR UVs on bombs so you don't depend on armor/trinkets for that.
Or check if you really need that ctr/damage It's cool and all, but maybe you can do fine with high bonuses instead of max.