Not completely for 1/2, I just couldn't think of anything else at the time.

Basically no curse weakness, but a slightly greater weakness than 1/3.

3/5?

To clarify on the two possible balances that are far more exciting and interesting-

Option A: Better than chaos for bombers

Bomb CTR: high
Bomb DMG: high
MSI: low

Same defensive stats

Example sets, to show why this is good-

2x Mad bomber = no need to heat many bombs, MSI: med
Mad bomber + Mercurial Demo = Very doable and still defensive bomber setup.
Mad bomber + black kat/chaos = Allows many side weapons with various buffs, focus on bombs

Option B: Fundamentally different

Bomb CTR: med (Possible high)
Bomb DMG: med (Possible high)
MSI: low? (Possibly, or possibly not at all)
Sword damage: Negative high (possibly for CTR/ASI instead or as well)
Gun damage: Negative high (possibly for CTR/ASI instead or as well)

No weaknesses to status effects; higher defenses, one bar of positive status resist to something, just like other class armor has.

It's restrictive, but that's kind of the point. What side weapons you are allowed would be determined by the negative- if it is damage, then you could still bring a gun/sword to break things, for knockback, status, what have you. If it isn't damage, then you'd be restricted to some type of damage- being either normal hits or charges which would be an interesting choice. Limiting both would really make your guns and swords feel clumsy in combat, and I don't know that that would play as well as limiting just damage.

The issue is that being a bomber-man you get told all the time: you should get a chaos and a sword or a gun, but beyond that Utterly idiotic statement, the issue is: the Chaos set giving stats considered "better" over the Mad Bomber's is pretty lame, a jack of all trades as the Chaos set shouldn't be better than a specific set like the mad bomber, the overall buff to ALL the weapons shouldn't be higher than the Bomb Buff.. but if you dare to say that Chaos should be toned down you get Crucified and torched like an Heretic Gremlin...
as the chaos SET is considered the jack of all trades for glass canons the stats should be:
+5 to all
while the Mad Bomber SET is the specific Bomb Glass canon, the stats should get to:
+6 to Bombs and nothing but bombs
adding a Gun SET(although there might be one, not entirely sure)
+6 to guns and Guns only
and a glass canon sword SET(although there might be one, not entirely sure)
+6 to sword only
Yes if the negatives effect should be added and I haven't added
and set the chaos where it should be JACK of ALL trades Master of NONE, you read it right MASTER of NONE.
that should solve the Chaos getting in the middle of a bomber Panoply.
if you want to use the chaos set because it grants you +6 damage to all the weapons, the lets take 2 of the negative stats of the Class canon specific class Sets... because is Pathetic having a specific set overruled by a All-round set... why would you do the Specific set, what are the specific thing you can seize from the mad is chaos is "better". We either Tone out the Chaos from the elites sets or buff the specific sets to a Elite+ value

Suggestions forums is for suggestions. We've had hundreds, probably thousands of threads in here that haven't been implemented, but that doesn't mean we can't harbor discussion about the ideas.

Better to say what's right or wrong with a suggestion than to say what's right or wrong in the game. If the suggestions forums listened to statements like "this will never make it into the game", then lots of great and new ideas would never have been discussed or seen the light of day.
We're a forum after all, not a government agency. We can talk about ideas all night and day and never see them appear, or mention them once and have them in the game in a few days. It's fun to talk about a game we love, so let's keep the talking up and the moping down on this subforum, eh?

I've always been of the idea that we should buff everything to be fun and different rather than nerf everything to be samey and boring. In TF2 a demoman's primary weapon can be a grenade launcher, a grenade launcher that relies on direct hits to do anything, a cannonball launcher, and a pair of boots(there's more but whatevs). Each one of those items has a use in that class, and is equally effective despite largely different playstyles.

In Spiral Knights, we only really have two playstyles - shrugging off damage, or completely avoiding damage. You go into the thick of enemies, but you either get hit or you don't, and your armor reflects that. If you get hit, you're more likely to bring vog cub to vanaduke rather than skolver because of the fire resistance, however if you can dodge hits bringing that extra damage might benefit you more.

What Fehzor is saying, and what I believe, is that by making all sets interesting in their own ways it makes every set desirable and opens up different styles of play. What if skolver gave sword damage med + sword CTR: low, but gun ASD: low?

Dread skelly could deal bonus damage vs fiends and undead (low each), but deal less damage vs constructs and jellies. Vog cub could increase movement speed while on fire, plate mails could grant players a defense up for several seconds after shielding with ancient plate getting an ASI: maximum while charging a weapon (to make troika smashes be very fast) etc. Giving something fun, something unique, something that makes the armor sets worth getting... Something that, in one scenario, could be borderline game breaking, but in most others is very balanced... That's what is fun.

We need more unique armors offering bonuses that mesh with playstyles better than black kat and chaos. Right now, end-game is black kat or chaos. Personally I prefer black kat because movement is critical to my playstyle, whereas people who use more bombs or rely on charges would prefer chaos.
Really what we need are more combat boosts or variables that armor can modify. After that, we can have a whole lot of new combat styles.

That's basically what you argued last time, to which my point was that if you want players to use more armor (and you do) then you have to make them worth getting. The idea is that Skolver, Vog, Shadowsun.. those are just the tip of the iceberg. Armors like armor of the fallen, dread skelly and volcanic salamander that are basically just vestigial features of what the game was like in its beta are the real issue here, and the real question is how we can make these armors worth getting, not how we can make black kat and chaos not worth getting.

And just so we're clear, I do agree that chaos and black kat are too powerful, just not offensively. In a perfect world, they'd have some combination of negative high instead of med, less raw defense and less HP boost. These things would make them much harder to turn into super armor, while still keeping them exciting and fresh from the players' perspective.