Time Bomb should be changed to Hand Grenade. Use the animation from Web Grenade, reduce the damage to something a little less than Fireball (since its in a secondary powerset), and add some knockback (maybe 20% chance).
Ideally, the tank will die precisely as everyone else starts fighting, allowing aggro to be spread evenly among the blaster. -seebs, "How to Suck at CoH/CoV" Guide
I love timebomb.
yes, in teams it's situational at best, but lets face it, it's essentially a penalty-free nuke.
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I'd even love to see it replaced with a short range, 20ft, Sticky Bomb. No setup time, quick and dirty, set the mob to fear/panic, countdown 5 seconds, boom.
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This is what I want.
Same recharge, same damage, everything the same except the casting time and the countdown.
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.
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I'd even love to see it replaced with a short range, 20ft, Sticky Bomb. No setup time, quick and dirty, set the mob to fear/panic, countdown 5 seconds, boom.
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This is what I want.
Same recharge, same damage, everything the same except the casting time and the countdown.
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Personally, if anything I'd rather see it turned into kind of a copy of Omega Manuever. Obviously edited for a more heroic-minded hero, but does the same thing: Taunts enemies towards it, then explodes at a mini-nuke damage level.
I would also take that. 
Anything that makes it something you want to use every time it's up.
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.
I think that might be the best option for Time Bomb as well.
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Personally, if anything I'd rather see it turned into kind of a copy of Omega Manuever.
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This is something I have been in favour of ever since the OM came out
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I want them to leave it as it is so I know what to skip when planning my builds - I don't have room for it! :P
Another interesting possibility might be turning it into an AoE version of Web Grenade.
I'd pick up the power in a second if it were like that.
I think Im the only devices player that would rather take Time Bomb in its current form than targetting drone. For me, thats a more useless power than even lowly Time Bomb. which holds 5 scirocco's very nicely.
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Personally, if anything I'd rather see it turned into kind of a copy of Omega Manuever.
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This is something I have been in favour of ever since the OM came out
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I'd rather have it drop a Terrorize on enemies withing a short range, for a short time, similar to the Assassin Strike adjustment.
Being a more tech based player, I'm a fan of the gadget powersets. Considering Time Bomb is a part of Traps and Devices, and could eventually be shared by four AT's, I'm just bringing it up here.
I know I've read a lot of /Devices threads over the years, and a lot of ideas for Time Bomb have been thrown around. Could it ever get the plastic surgery treatment Moment of Glory received? Should it?
Some of the ideas I've read throughout my browsing have included simply offering a granted temporary power that allows you to decide when to detonate it, or replacing it with a tossable satchel charge, to summoning a controllable pet that you can decide when and where to detonate it, similar to the MM's version.
After having watched a short clip of the Trooper class, from Star Wars: Old Republic, I'd even love to see it replaced with a short range, 20ft, Sticky Bomb. No setup time, quick and dirty, set the mob to fear/panic, countdown 5 seconds, boom.
Trip Mines is simply vastly superior to Time Bomb. In such a fast paced game such as this, Time Bomb's recharge and setup time are just ill-fitting. If you solo, you can still use Trip Mine strategically to act very similar, filling it's place quite easily actually; toe-bombing, and even offering more options; pulling to mine fields, etc.