Bombing Guide

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Being a bomber is one of the most satisfying tasks in a party. You range from shielding others from freakishly annoying wolvers, shielding yourself from freakishly annoying wolvers.... and flailing in a corner just out of reach of gun puppies. Sure it doesn't sound fun, but if you have picked up a bomb, you will understand that evil laugh, that prods anyone into becoming a mad bomber.

First step to being a bomber, is overcoming the spam randomly thing. As soon as you pick up a bomb, you feel the need to run circles in a room... this makes things frustrating using a blast bomb as enemies fly everywhere and more often than not, into you - mid attack. One simple strategy is to place a bomb, run towards your enemy, make a sharp U-turn and place another bomb in the same spot. This results in successful spamming.

Second is caring about you party members. The blue screen of death..... That’s what people tell me as I spam Nitronomes everywhere. And as when the eerie blue cloud disappears everyone is dead.... and everyone blames Fallout. Blast bombs are great for Soloing, but in a party, your group will begin to tire of not being able to see enemies, and have constant jellies fly into them mid attack. It might be fine for you standing at the epicentre of your bomb..... However try to think of your fellow knights. The only real way to effectively blast bomb in a party is to follow members closely if they have a gun, or just heard enemies into a corner for your Swordies to make their move. And if you don’t blast.... great you can skip everything here apart from the blue screen of death business. And being a pain in the neck with ash + oilers or ionized + quicksilver’s isn't nice.

3rd is to know party pad placements. Dungeon knowledge is key in bombing. Knowing where to place a bomb before running to the party pad will mean you and your party can last that much longer. Developers have been evil, as spawn spots now change quite a fair bit. Don't worry about the jeering you'll receive from fellow knights after placing a bomb that doesn’t hit, just make sure it’s a vaporizer.... at least then you can say you're pre-firing.

4th is dealing with range mobs. There is essentially not a lot you can do being just pure bomber against gun puppies or Devilites (etc). Blast bombs won’t help, and unless you’re skilled with crystal bombs you’re out of luck. The only way to get anywhere is to freeze or poison them when you have the chance.... otherwise be me and sit in a corner while waiting for Njthug and Riodaisho to sort things out for you.

Bombs:

detailed outline of each from the bomb balance thread: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/9924

CTR effects:

• Time in milliseconds

Combinations:

Contributions - later date stuff.

Support tactics:

Kamikaze.

situations can unfold where you'll have to take one for the team. a prime example is against spiny toxilargos, where poison really demoralizes he team. simply place freezies next to him risking running through the poison field as the status affect of the bomb is all that matters.

Corner shielding.

One of my favourites is to grab a big radius blast bomb, sit in a corner while the rest of your team guns. it keeps melee mobs distant and your teamates will thank you when a zombie starts noming on their face.

Carry your team tactics:

Graviton + Freezy + Fire + Irontech.

if you can afford four weapon slots, and still be pure bomber, this is essential for clearing out rooms solo. basically heard your mob crowd with you graviton, stick them in one place with a freezy. drain their damage with fiery then blow the bajeebus out of them with a well placed irontech. this is serious fun, and can be minimized if a party all puts in for one bomb type - all stand in one place and let it rip.

Diagrams/videos:

Sources

All of the bombers from The Elite bomber thread, and all the ones in game who i have learnt from. Main contributers to THIS page:

• Eeks
• Fallout
• Culture
• Syor