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When I went with bomber I chose:
Tangle-foot Bomb (Loved it...its brutal especially against casters. Became my signature bomb for like 7 levels.)
Frost Bomb (Regretted it but was more for different Element)
Explosive (had its uses)
Force (loved it..and after I never used frost bomb again.)
Cursed Bomb (Really freaking good...Really really...50% to do nothing or -6 to a Stat is brutal)
The only one I did not like was Frost tho it helped in the early levels to overcome Fire Resistance.
I chose to avoid the stink cloud style as the rest of my group did not want to fight the vision problems clouds cause.
I chose not to take TWF AND Rapid Shot...I just took rapid shot so I could use a bow and with Polymorph spells + Agile Amulet of mighty fists the character was very much like a switch hitter that was viable at many different ranges. Optimization will tell you take both as a bomber as more bombs=more damage/effects. But I like how flexible the class is and played that up in my build.
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Force Bombs are amazing. Works on anything, and big monsters are still challenged by the Reflex save. You can probably use only Force Bombs and dispense with all other elements.
Holy Bombs were disappointing, the Fort vs. Staggered save doesn't matter a lot, and there's almost no situation where it does something Force Bombs doesn't.
At low levels Explosive Bomb is pretty good. Feel free to retrain it to something else at level 8 (like Fast or Force).
I'm looking at Tanglefoot bombs. Looks interesting. Although I do quite well with Explosive Missile/Tangleshot Arrows as well.
I'm also impressed by the Smoke line - quite a few cool options. To really drive them over the edge pick up a Goz Mask and if you're going for stink/poison/disease bombs, a Necklace of Adaptation. The idea of the Goz Mask is that after you throw the first smoke bomb, enemies can't see you anymore but you can see them, so you're attacking against flat-footed touch AC. That way, even with rapid shot/2WF, your iteratives will still hit.