The cited FAQ for bombs specifically calls out Two-Weapon Fighting and Fast Bombs.
We're in the 'rules questions' part of the messageboards. Please refer to rules when making a statements such as this. Nowhere is it stated that you can't have more than one bomb at a time.
Take a look at Fast Bomb and the FAQ:
An alchemist with this discovery can quickly create enough bombs to throw more than one in a single round. The alchemist can prepare and throw additional bombs as a full-round action if his base attack bonus is high enough to grant him additional attacks. This functions just like a full-attack with a ranged weapon.To extrapolate: "as a full-round action" - It's a separate action, not a full-attack. This means that you can not use any other attacks/weapons than bombs, while using the Fast Bomb discovery (since never is it specified to be allowed during this full-round action).
However, the discovery mentions that it works as "full-attack with a ranged weapon" - This does not make it into a full-attack and you still can't perform attacks with a different weapon during this full-round action. It does, however, mean that anything that applies to a full-attack with a ranged weapon also applies to this (Fast Bomb) full-round action, as confirmed by the FAQ:
This all very clearly points towards TWF being possible with multiple bombs.If an alchemist has the Fast bombs discovery, can he use Rapid Shot, Two-Weapon Fighting, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, haste, and similar abilities and effects to add more attacks?
As written, yes, all of these apply because fast bombs "functions just like a full-attack with a ranged weapon."
Ah, as a full-round action... not as a full-attack action... doh. That is different. GG
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It would not be; he assumed BAB +8, which is level 11 for you (alchemist 3/4 BAB). You have BAB +6, so:
+6/+1 to hit
Haste: +7/+7/+2
Throw Anything: +8/+8/+3
Rapid Shot: +6/+6/+6/+1
TWF: +4/+4/+4/+4/-1
Of course, this ignores your dexterity. If you have Dex 14, then you would have:
+6/+6/+6/+6/+1
Or at 16 dex: +7/+7/+7/+7/+2
(For your full attack bonus, we need dex, sorry)
Also, if using this logic, the Fast Bomb discovery shouldn't work at all.Creating and throwing a bomb is a single action (weather it is a standard or an attack in a full-attack action does not matter), the action ends in the bomb not existing anymore (a lot like ray attacks). TWF will apply to bombs, but you cannot have more than one bomb at a time, so you need a second weapon to benefit from TWF.
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Saethori that is not what two weapon fighting is. Two Weapon fighting allows you to add an extra attack to your full attack, full attacks are made in order
How would it not work?
Okay, then:
BAB +6/+1
Haste +7/+7/+2
Firebug +8/+8/+3
Point-Blank +9/+9/+4
Throw Anything +10/+10/+5
Dex PRE-mutagen +15/+15/+10
Rapid and Two-Weapon: +11/+11/+11/+11/+6
Mutagen: +13/+13/+13/+13/+8
All at touch.
Fast Bombs doesn't grant any new bombs. What it does is let you throw bombs as a full attack, as opposed to the usual for bombs which limits then to one a round due to standard action gating.
So once you have Fast Bombs, then you can full attack with bombs based on your base attack bonus, feats, etcetera. It is entirely possible that at the time you get the discovery, you have no iterative or additional attacks with which to benefit from it.
If you are only wielding a single weapon it is never in your off hand, therefore the only way for you to be wielding a weapon in your off hand (as TWF requires) is to be wielding two weapons at the same time.
This FAQ says that using TWF is an active decision you can make. That FAQ states that at the moment you choose to get an extra attack, your second hand becomes your off-hand.
The second bomb is obviously a second weapon. You do throw a weapon from each hand. If what you say was true, you could never TWF with thrown weapons, because at the moment you throw your MH weapon (i.e. before you have a chance to make an OH attack), you are no longer wielding two weapons. And, as mentioned, Warlock's Mystic Bolts ("the bolt appears only briefly") say your reading is simply wrong.
Edit @ _Ozy_: Agreed.