Testing out some stuff in the LD.

Right now the catalyzer that has freeze chance and shadow damage does like no damage but shows the animation of pips falling off my char. Broken?

I'm worried that the gear may cause these to be more powerful than most weapons in the game. With the multiple defenses against a variety of elements (ex: Shadow, and freeze resistance/defense) AND damage boosts, doesn't that mean that these will be more beneficial to their classes than any other armor in the game that solely benefits its class?

For example, even though it's low, the damage with double gear adds up to medium (or very high versus one type of monster), plus ASI boost (more DPS), and although I see the attempted balance through having weakness to something, I don't feel that it makes up for how much of a bonus in stats this gives-

vs

(Average) Very High Damage boost OR Very High ASI, has defense/resistance versus elemental, shadow, or piercing, with 1 defense to either fire, ice, or poison.

It would be nice if each specific sets of gear are more equal to one another- unless you intend to release gear in this new fashion for each class (bomber, swordie, or gunner).

I love how you can pick up SUPER specific gear, for any specific situation, but the nice thing before was that you could have gear that fit more or less every situation. I don't see many people going for the Anti-Beast gear, because honestly... the beast are too stupid to buy gear against. The "Damage vs. x" is kind of cool to see in so many options, but there aren't options like that for every class- at least not to this degree, and I could see in PvE sticking to gunning because with this update there will be:

Very comparable damage to swords
Defense against a pretty good amount of things from one armor
ton of stats boosts from one piece of gear
SAFETY IN DISTANCE
movement speed isn't really a hindrance anymore and allows me to be safe when charging/shooting equal to how using a sword is.

After this update I may just focus on gunning to avoid dying.