Proto Gear, excluding Shield, with an Unheated Ionized Salt Bomb as your Only Weapon.

Full Valkyrie would be terrible against fire.

full proto useing a proto bomb and gun I want some one to do an fsc run with those equips an record it

Go Ironmight Plate set with Triglav, Wild Hunting Blade, Biohazard, and Iron Slug.

Nah, Full ancient set but carrying Gran Fausts. Sure, lots of life, but try to attack and not get hit.

Full Ancient Plate Set with Graviton Vortex & Big Angry Bomb Bomb as your Only Weapons. Not only will the Mail Slow you Down, the Bombs will, too, When being Charged, which you'll have to do every time if you want to Attack. Oh, & to Add Insult to Injury, your Shield will be Barbarous Thorn Shield.

Agazide you noob, skolver lets you run through spikes :3

an armor set with curs and fire weakness if so that armor with fang of vog and GF

The Ancient plate set. At least 50% of all damage will pass right though that armor.

Edit: If you are looking for weapons, I'd say an Ash of Agni, Venom Veiler, Callahan, and a Dark Retribution.

-Edit 2-
The volcanic pepperbox actually does decent damage. The callahan restricts movement slightly while retaining a low damage output against red rovers.

flamberge or rigadoon, with lets say mercurial armor and a jelly shield.
then as other weps, shadow vortex, the ionized bomb, and irontech destroyer.
as non 5-star armor, id recommend spiral scale.

Armor

Valkyrie Helm
Valkyrie Armor
Proto Shield

Weapon
Fang of Vog
Ash of Agni

The point is that with a in zinqf's fail loadout, the valkyrie set would give a massive fire weakness.

While you could flail your slow fov during fsc, you would be tempted to use your charge, resulting in death. The proto shield doesn't help your combo'ing, but at the same time, it's not a 5* shield, so it would have to be changed.

No one thought my Loadout was the Worst?

Ancient Plate Set-Negative Movement Speed DeBuff & Only Normal Defence.

Barbarous Thorn Shield-No Shadow nor Fire Defence. The Damage Bonus is a Slap to the Face with the Weapons told to be Used.

Graviton Vortex-Movement Speed when Charging is very Noticable, combined with the APS' Movement DeBuff. Weak Shadow Damage, too.

Big Angry Bomb-Small Radius, Unimpressive Damage, & Movement Speed that of an Old Woman. Yep, you're in for a Ride.

Either Valkyrie set or Chaos set.

Ancient Plate is actually decent in FSC. It won't help you if you crash into the shadowfire a lot, but almost all the enemies do normal damage.

I highly recommend AGAINST using an Ash of Agni as a "horrible" weapon in FSC, Trojans REALLY hate that thing, it's pretty deadly, so it's not on the bad weapon list :P

EDIT: not to mention the guards hate it too, if you can waste enough time trying to kill them with it though

@Bigfoot

Oh, that doesn't sound too bad really. Only barely more fire time than no fire resist. I'll change my opinion as just Valkyrie, though the (old) Dread Skelly set still takes the crown if it wasn't buffed.

Indeed. Although I forgot the shield having to be 5*...in that case you will use the Royal Jelly Shield (5*).

@Traev You'd probably die from fire before the slag guard finishes exploding.

Lawlno. The shadow resist does not make up for the fire weakness, partiality because the strongest fire in FSC comes from oilers and because 15 seconds of status is never fun.

full ancient plate cause it only blocks normal and sentna as your only wepon or an iron slug

The wiki reports that Vana is immune to all shadow damage in phase 5 (http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Vanaduke - first paragraph of tactics section). I've never seen this verified - does anyone have experience?

If this is true, a lot of these pure shadow damage loadouts would not only be really difficult, but actually impossible to kill vana with weapons (with the exception of half normal swords).

I've finished off Vana with an energy rez blast before and the water orbs do something like -8 damage when they connect with his body. So perhaps there's still a chance?

Vanaduke is/was immune to shadow in phase 5, I tested it with both a Sentenza and an Umbra Driver. I haven't re-tested it recently so it could have been changed when they slightly buffed his elemental defense.

Gran Faust doesn't count. It's half Normal so it'd still do damage even if he's immune to the shadow part. :P

Zinqf

Royal Jelly Shield has stun resistance

Something like Aegis would be less protective against those trojan smashes etc.

Also, Fang of Vog would take care of things too quick being elemental.

I say, that Ash of Agni you picked out is genius, Zinqf.

ONLY Ash of Agni the ENTIRE run xD you have to damage things with the initial mist hit.

I use Mad Bomber all the time. It isn't the worst, because it's good armor. Those deficits are there to try and make up for the fact that I kill things so fast it isn't funny. With an elite boom trinket, I can kill zombies with one well placed bomb. Since they all pack together down there, i can clear some areas with two or three bombs. So, the only risk I suffer is catching on fire! Vitapods and Remedy capsules make fire much less scary, but at two health bars or more per tick, for 10 seconds, fire really is scary. Makes lag a beast.

So if you're wanting armor that makes you safe on the defense, sure, you can try and say Mad Bomber is bad. But that just shows you don't know what you're talking about. The offensive boost of Mad Bomber makes it awesome: The best defense is killing things so fast they can't hurt you!

Also Mad Bomber has normal defense, which there is some of down there. For worst probably you want a setup that gives only piercing and elemental defense. But that would be dragon scale, which gives fire defense, so...

Chaos Cowl, Chaos Cloak, Biohazard, Umbra Driver, Sentenza, and Dark Retribution.
And of course the two five star sleep trinkets.
Whoever used Gran Faust, or Acheron, was doing it wrong. Anything with half normal damage in it will still do OK damage.
All the weapons I chose, are pure shadow, thus have fun doing 20 damage, except with Sentenza..you'll do nine damage.
:D