I’m curious about how popular bombs actually are. I have over 500 hours in the game and I’ve probably used around 10 of them total. Most of those were early on, when I was just testing what different items do, plus a few while leveling an alt character. Other than that, I almost never use them.
That might just be a personal preference—I generally don’t like consumables. Stopping, selecting a consumable, using it, and repeating breaks the flow for me. The main goal of the game is optimizing your character and gear. Character is usually strong enough to kill everything using weapons and runes alone. Thank you
would like to use them more but I find this game more enjoyable with controller and changing bomb type during a fight is so very inconvenient I end up using them only if I have the right one equipped during the fight. If I have buffs selected instead I simply do not use anything else.
I sadly do not have alien hands that allow me to control my character and switch bomb at the same time.
Not entirely the Devs fault though as they do not design controllers.
Yes i can relate to that.. its also very inconvenient to throw bombs because when you are out of one type of bomb it directly switch to poitions instead of another bomb type.
It would be better if they let us slot bombs into an offhand rune slot or a rune that have a pouch ability or
A bomb thrower weapon for the offhand where you can slot your craftable bombs in which also would give you a range marker like some bows get so you know how far its going?
I use bombs alot!
You know theres enchantments for that?
Anyways no its not extremely expensive because of how much bombs you find usually in small chests(ofc that an rng aspect) if you dont do bomb builds i dont really see a reason for you to value it that high, it is very niche builds
Silver ore is not that hard to find if you know where to find it and ofc these builds is better as side projects after you have upgraded your stuff
Good to know. I wrote it from my own perspective, and I’ve only ever seen them used in guides as a way to deal high damage when you don’t have any items (basically for leveling alts).
5 silver or is more expensive than an endgame armor which requires 3 silver ingots. Silly ring increases damage by 30% which is nothing. It’s not hard to find it takes ages to refine and it’s annoying to use.
Yes that is one way but to level alts fast you are wanna slot experience boost gems into all your equipment and use the experience potions then you can throw bombs and use wands and shield because if you use bows it doesnt/shouldnt count the offhand shield stats.. and because you slot gem into quivers.
Its good to save the low level armor from your main character, see it as an early gift for your alts
Yes it would break the flow if you dont make sure that you only have bombs in your quick item inventory and use the utility runes for boosting your stats instead of consumables.
just for fun and like @Gupegegam said “they dont exist” and at the moment i have Legacy enchantments you cant get ahold of i guess if they dont exist but i just cant remember if i got them before the together beta 2025.. or if i got them while waiting for the together update in jan 2026.
However they probably need reworking because i know someone made a really OP bomb build on youtube a while back xD
A controller with rear paddles is a game changer. I never stop moving while navigating the d-pad. It all mapped to my paddles. I tend to pop potions like skittles in hardcore to ensure I come out on top.
I always thought about doing a full bomber run and fists (unarmed) but unsure what that scales with if not dex. Would be nice to have rune attacks for unarmed as well. Without gauntlets.
Based on Thomas’s write out of the class guides. I think bombs right now is the preview version of the future “Bag of Tricks” we will be able to slot into our weapon slots.
Making throwables limited doesn’t really make sense since its combat. It would be like limited ammo for a bow. I have stacks of 90+ of each bomb right now just from chests.
It is definitely not something meant to be a primary mode of combat though, at least currently.
I don’t know if you played Elden Ring and Dark Souls but in those games the bombs are the same only they do more damage but you can use a limited number of them.
And if I have to choose between a useless item that I can use endlessly and a useful one that has limited uses, I choose the second option.
