Freezing and nitro are ok, I would prefer full mad bomber, but it seems your a hybrid bomber, so volcanic is ok. May wantto keep some trinkets in mind, Levi is good all-rounder, suggest a new shield, you don't have to worry about dark damage dealing or taking IMO. then again, I'm only a 4* player but have read the wiki extensively. So... yea.

so its seems ur a bomber? Well my set is mad bomber with a nitro and electron (and other stuff that is useless to mention). You would want the full mad bomber (trust me, the weaknesses look bad but its not that bad) with very high ctr and medium ctr on the nitro...it pwns with Maximum CTR (Plus the damage bounus very high, but dam bounus isnt that usefull with bombs). Electron is somewhat better cuz shock reduces knock back and it can suck in Kats unlike the graviton and elemental is far more usefull. It would also be a good bomb for FSC along with polaris(possibly AP, idk) and cold iron vanquisher (or Levi). Now the debate of the guns...AP vs. Polaris. It depends on your preference really, if you love just lugging slow bullets aroung not caring about acurracy then get polaris. If you are an acurate gunner and want to shoot a better verision of the autogun (cuz u can actually move while firing) dealing a possibly little larger amount of damage on one enemy then get the AP. Now shivermist is good bomb, just dont trap your teammates... For a sheild a good shadow or piericing one. DA is a great sword, but ur kinda like me almost going all elemental weps, which is ok cuz elemental is the most useful damage type.
I hope this helps!!!!
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Whenever anyone posts a thread like this, I wonder why they limit themselves so much. Play with a lot of different things (buy as much 2* and 3* stuff as you can afford and tool around in tier 2 with it to see what suits you best).

Sure, you need to build up a first set of gear so you can really start playing comfortably in tier 3 to get materials and recipes, but there's no reason to plan that set so far out or to decide everything you want when you're still at the 3* stage.

My first 3* armor was a cobalt set because I couldn't find the demo recipes and I wanted to play comfortably in tier 2. Now I have heavy demo suit and volcanic demo helm, plus I'm working up an elemental cloak to make a miracle cloak which will eventually be a divine mantle (I find I need shadow defense in tier 3) and I'm thinking about a justifier jacket or skolver coat, too, so I have a piercing defense option, because I've had fun wearing wolver and gunslinger stuff.

My first 4* sword was a winmillion, and now I have that, plus dread venom striker, furious flamberge, dark thorn blade, faust, avenger, and silent nightblade. I carry my nitronome as I had planned from the beginning, but I've also got shivermist, sipke shower, fiery atomizer, and graviton bomb (which I don't care for, to be honest).

My blaster became a super blaster and was then set aside for blackhawk and silversix which have in turn been collecting dust in my arsenal recently while I play with my hail driver, firo driver, and virulent catalyzer. If I had more time to play the twins, I'd have a pulsar by now, but I'm still a few runs away from adding that to the list.

I've got a wise owlite shield and dark thorn shield (3 heat levels from being a barbarous thorn shield). I'll add a dread skelly shield to the list as soon as I can find the recipes I need.

With so many different pieces of weaponry, I can equip myself with an ideal package for any stratum. I need more armor and helmet options, but I've got too many 5* recipes waiting for my 4* stuff to hit level 10, so I'm trying to slow down my expansion in favor of progression for now.

My advice: Figure out what kills you most often, and prioritize the gear you need to kill it more efficiently (for me, that was shivermist to stop teleporting alpha wolvers and a piercing sword to help with devilites and greavers). Once you have that, try to have every piece of gear that you think is fun to play with. It doesn't matter what the forumgoers say is best. All that matters is what you find fun.