Blast = bleed procs. Please Consider

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Blast - unlike a conventional condensed explosive a thermobaric BLAST will generate an overpressure wave in the surrounding air causing many internal  injuries to organic targets; ruptured lungs and internal organs,including burst eardrums and crushed inner ear organs, severe concussions, and blindness, yet minimal damage to brain tissue so victims are not rendered unconscious by the blast but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate in pain to death

• there is literally no reason to use blast for a long time, the cc effect was irrelevant
• with the removal of toxin procs from gas (for shield changes sake) has a left a gap in the elemental line up for the "combined elemental special proc effect" for build options/gameplay variety
• new changes did not alter build limitions much, its still pretty set as before since gas is gone and now its status/status hybrid instead of crit as a potential option
• blast would be a good canidate, the best canidate even, to full the "elemental hole" indirectly helping primary weapons compete, and most importantly more thematic