What if they added a weapon that was like a pole arm or halberd that had a very long reach, attack speed of about the brandish line, and damage output of the DA GF line. To balance it perhaps it would half your shield strength or negate blocking all together?

On the shield side, I think it would be interesting to see a shield that gave gunners some type of bonus like the BTS or maybe a shield that was like the chaos set which gave you big bonuses at the cost of resistances and possibly health.

Alright maybe I had that one coming >.> but I was more or less thinking about the first part, a gunner only shield...I do like the SSB but you can't really use it in T3 which is a pretty big drawback...it would be nice if they made it go to 5* and reduced the asi bonus to low at 3*, medium at 4*, and high at 5* ...but that's just wishful thinking there...
and when I was referring to the chaos set I meant that it would have the same bonuses as the chaos set and possibly the same drawbacks giving you the maximum ctr and damage boost across the board but making the resistances go all the way negative. Though in reality I suppose you'd only need the damage boost, considering a lvl 10 heated 5* weapon will still give you the ctr maximum...

OOO can't really make Zelda references. But a certain friend and I (/poke Dibsville) have been coming up with a special gun.

Also there's a section of the forums called suggestions. I highly recommend you move this thread there, it'll probably get you more feedback.

SK contains tons of Zelda references.
Graviton Bomb
Statues
Caliburs
and so on.