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I'm running Carrion Crown for a group of friends, and they're nearing the end. While gearing up at a wizard npc I made up, one player decided he didn't need anything else, and instead gave the wizard 30,000 gold and said "Make the biggest bomb you can." He then gave him his Ring of Retribution to be used as part of the bomb, preferably the trigger.
So now I ask you, experienced community, to help me satisfy my player. A few things to keep in mind.
The wizard doesn't strictly work alone. If a specific feat or class ability is needed, make up any npc you need to.
Forget how long it would normally take to make by RAW. They're nearing the end of the campaign, I'm letting them have at it.
They won't be carrying it themselves. The wizard will get it to them once they've decided where it'll go; the Witchgates won't be an issue.
Don't feel obligated to include the ring in the bomb. The player is pretty lenient, so he wouldn't be too upset if it wasn't.

Thanks guys.

If I reach a level where I gain multiple feats, such as one through level up and one as a bonus combat feat, can I take a pre-req feat and the feat it's the pre-req for at the same time?
For example, Improved Critical and Seize the Moment?

Rangers get a lot of good stuff that I feel can compliment a Magus pretty well. I play in non-optimized campaigns, so an idea like this might not be so bad in the long run, but I would still love some advice for making sure I can still stay relevant.

Magus - Spellstrike is the key ability in this build, making this the class I'm going to be favoring levels in.
Ranger - The good BaB progression and free feats are what interest me here, I can see myself taking up to 6 levels of this.

In the first Pathfinder campaign I played in, I played a Half-Orc Barbarian. He was a selfish brute. I eventually got tired of playing him, and the DM let me roll up a new character. I wanted to try something obscure, and he let me play a Catfolk. I had become interested in Arcane Archer, so I took levels in Ranger and started multiclassing Wizard.
At this time a new player joined us. We were in town and headed out into the forest to investigate a roar we heard. It turned out to be a green dragon. I had just become a wizard, so I didn't have a familiar yet. The new player joked about me taking the dragon as my familiar, and the DM said that if we knocked the dragon to exactly 0 hp, he'd give me a chance to make it my familiar.
In the end, the new player ended up dying his first session, and the rest of us ran away.

I've decided that I'm not going to worry about how high player stats become; I will work on being able to build encounters that can take it, moving to higher CRs if necessary.

When it comes down to deciding stats; I've seen a lot of recommendation for a 20 point buy. I actually saw in a different thread someone talk about rolling 2d6+6 for stats, and I'm thinking of giving that a try. I was worried about stats being over-powered, but I still want my players to have decent stats to work with.

Thank you everyone for the advice and opinions; a lot of it was really helpful to me, and I'm amazed I sparked such a conversation about this.

Thanks for all the replies,everyone.
What my real concern is about whether or not players will have fun in combat; I'm not trying to kill them, but I want them to feel like they accomplished something instead of just walking through encounters. But from what everyone is saying building encounters to match the party should always be possible.
I see a lot of mention of early game, but I was thinking more of late game where things like belts+6 and tomes+5 become craftable. I don't want the barbarian in the group using Greater Vital Strike with his 36 str to one-hit the biggest threat before the Druid gets a turn.

I'm an aspiring DM whose currently just running Adventure Paths until I get a better understanding of the game to homebrew my campaigns. One thing I've become concerned about is if player stats can reach a point of absurdity, that it becomes unbalanced in their favor. This hasn't happened to me yet, I'm just wondering if it's something I should look out for.
As a side question, what would you say is the highest reasonable number for a stat? I imagine this number would be different for each stat, right?