Now that gunners have perfect coverage with decent handgun stats to back that up, it is only right for bombers and swordies to receive that same kind of coverage. It makes no sense for gunner armor to just be incredibly strong compared to swordie and bomber armor for no real reason.. Assuming that bombers and swordies do receive perfect coverage in the future, where does that leave the rest of armor sets and types?
The other armor sets could just be left there, but would you ever want to use armor of the fallen over the sword/gun fire+shadow variant? Or bombastic demo? Would you rather use bombastic demo, or an elemental+freeze variant that gives charge time reduction? At the same time those redundant armors are of little consequence when the new sets conflict with themselves internally- if I craft a fire+shadow set, I'm only really ever going to want one of them because the cost to craft a second armor set to deal with one different enemy is just ridiculous- we're talking about moving a 4% bonus around.
So will the other armor sets and types receive something? Will we get a blanket of split resistance armors so that I can resist piercing + elemental + freeze for example? What about things like grey feather set? How will those be handled? Is it even still possible to fix the armors so that all are relevant and interesting in some way?
What do you guys think the future will hold for us?
Bombers and Swordies won't get new armors. Plain as that.
BUT, if they did, I feel like it would be incredibly hard to balance. It might take, say, another 2 years.
Also, Bombastic is is a PvP set. Nothing else, unless you're rich on trinkets, in which case it can be a Freeze variant of Volcanic.