I think that feels like an artificial solution as well, especially since I can't actually imagine a gun being LESS destructive than a sword. A cool idea, however, would be that certain enemies would only drop certain items when killed in certain ways. For example, some lava enemy killed with an ice weapon would have a chance of dropping obsidian, but wouldn't have a chance of dropping it if killed with a non-ice attack.

A few ideas that would help:
1) better A.I. including the ability to dodge/block your shots and lead their shots (they shoot where you are going, not where you are; makes kiting/strafing and shooting much less easy)
2) special abilities for swords, such as attacks that make you charge rapidly at your opponent to close the gap
3) make enemy ranged attacks not get stopped by anything the player can shoot over
4) special enemies that are hard to damage with guns; perhaps they reflect the majority of ranged attacks back at the player
5) more enemies with clever designs like the spookats, who are simply easier to kill with swords than with guns.

While I agree that guns = *easymode* right now, there are a spectum of enemies and with some ability to pick your targets, it makes it easy to play to your strengths.

As it stands (at least IMHO): zombies, and lumber are pushovers for gun users. Kats and wolves are moderate difficulty due to their juking speed/teleports and gremilins are major PITA and are better sword targets (force them into the corner and keep them down). I leave out jellies, lichens and chroma since they really are easy either way you do it, and gun puppies cause often they neccesitate gun use.

That said, I avoid known gremlin levels for the PITA factor, because even though they are better with swords, they all around annoy me.

So I guess my points are a) different blows for different foes and b) as said upthread, they will re-balance these things (i personally think my cryotech alch mk1 is a bit op)

I love my swords. I really do. But they are most efficient in a situation where I have gun wielders standing behind me and I'm using knockback to help make their jobs easier. I'm batting enemies in a direction to help my gun bunnies shoot them to death (and doing massive damage in the process). Of course, I need more health and better armor, because I am essentially tanking.

By "bullet system" I assume you mean limited ammunition. I don't see this happening.

I really wanted to say a limitted amunition system, something like, 1 crown for every 10 bullets, but, as i said, i just felt like suggesting. I'm really not a fan of ammunition...it's anoying.

If I wanted to bankrupt myself with gameplay, I'd go play a merchant in RO.

It is the best class for making money, but it also has varying levels of coin toss abilities, in which you literally throw your money at enemies. At the time I was playing there wasn't a cap, and there might still not be, but if you had enough money you could one shot bosses.

Maybe higher level lumbers should ignore shot damage sometimes, and eventually ignore ALL shot damage altogether.

When a slow, strong enemy gives you the chase, you can just run and shot. This makes VERY strong enemies nothing more than a boring pushover.

I always found it kinda dumb how a Tortodrone couldn't just withdraw inside it's own shell to shield itself from attacks.

I mean, I thought they were meant to be pacifists not dormant psychopaths.

Some monsters, instead of walking directly toward the player, should spread out around the player, surrounding them. Swords work better when you’re surrounded than guns do, because swords do knockback, thus breaking you out of the surround.

The solution is better enemy AI, and enemies that work together as a group to surround the player.