Energy Ballista Gun Idea

So I was playing a game that came out on steam's midweek madness, Sanctum 2, and I also got the DLC.
Well, in the DLC, came a special character called Tsygan that came with a spectacular "crossbow" of sorts that shot energy arrows.

Well this inspired me to put this up here:

Energy Ballista

• This is a Primary Weapon.

• A lvl 55+ Gun that shoots energy arrows.

Effect:

• The bolt sticks in either the floor or a player and releases shockwaves in 1.2 second intervals that deal damage to all enemies within a 5-block area around the bolt.
  
• Emits 1 shockwave per level pulled back. (The gun is like a crossbow.) (3 Level Max)

Damage: I don't know how much damage each shockwave should do, so You guys put up your suggestions. I would say not a ton for each one, since it emits several shockwaves.

Here is what it looks like in Sanctum 2.
Gun + Shockwave pics from the Sanctum 2 game

I just thought this would be cool.

(Please do not vote just-because. Please explain in the comments/replies below why you do/don't care/don't want it in War. )

 

No, this is not a nerfed crossbow. It has entirely different damage ranges, style, damage source, etc. This has nothing to do with the crossbow. If I wanted A nerfed crossbow, then I would put up "Nerf the crossbow", not "Energy Ballista Gun Idea"

I suppose that's true, but surely we could have some guns from other games/come up with ourselves.

 

It could be another item. it could be a grass block if it really needed to be. We have mods, and although it'll make it harder to program than just the current cbow because we have to program it to fire arrows still. It's possible.

Mc-War is COD themed. Who's to say McBrawl can't put in their own little tidbits or themes from other games or just ones they come up with themselves?

Ummm... Since when have explosive crossbows that mutilate a body in one shot been used in a war?
Also, the Ray-Gun is entirely Energy-Based, so why couldn't we have a hand-ballista that fires something else energy based?
It would really just be a seriously upgraded Taser.

Sorry bro, but I have to go McTech on you.
There are two (2) particle effect that create explosive animations. The first one is called "explode" or something similar to that depending on the directory. The second is called "LargeExplode" and starts from a certain core area and very quickly shoots outward in a large radius, somewhere around 5-6 blocks.
Since the cbow only has around a 2-3 block radius, the we could use "explode" for the cbow explosions and live the explosive texture the way it is. For this, we could re-texture "LargeExplode" to look transparent and blue/purple.
Then all we would have to do is program the entity that is fired from the energy ballista to send out the re-textured "LargeExplode" particle depending on how many levels the Energy Bolt was drawn back.
Judging by the skill of our current coder(s), I would say this project all by itself would take less than a few days, a week at the highest point, if they were busy enough.