@Duke
I'm currently looking for a suitable magic hood for that... I'm hoping to get something with 3 uvs on it. 3 useful UVs on it; not neccessarily tripple maxes, but perhaps some lows or otherwise in the important stats- namely poison, ice and elemental/normal. That way it would provide an alternative to seerus's mask on those levels. And would get a boost to elemental/normal.

@Luguiru

I never made mad bomber because most bombs don't benefit from damage... I never made volcanic demo suit because most of my bombs have ctr low uvs so that I can be a hybrid with them. Volcanic Demo Helm was good enough.

I'm making the bombastic since I already have a decent setup for CTR, and since I need more ice-resistant armors... and because there are some bombs that benefit from it.

I've always just used swiftstrike or barb when primarily gunning/swording, and then ancient while bombing. And CoA for devilites/fiends/undead on occasion. But then I ran out of weapons to craft, and started making random armors, helms and shields. So now I've got royal jelly shield, volcanic plate shield (because I loved ancient...) and then heater. Why would I choose heater over owlite? Well for one, people got angry at me for asking about it. They were all "This is Fehzor! Fehzor knows everything!" And I was like "But I have no elemental shield and am too lazy to use the crappy search function!" and then I think I graveyarded it. And then I used my deductive reasoning skills- Why do people use owlite? So as to take hits in FSC during vanaduke... but I just made a volcanic plate shield, and don't really need fire defenseses! I know, I will be a spiral hipster and make a heater shield, so that I can use it for gun puppy bullets and for icy constructs, should I encounter such a thing. That and it was my observation that there was absolutely no difference between royal jelly shield and barbarous shield, except that one gave my sword immensely powerful while the other looked nicer and actually fit in with most of the original art for the game. Needless to say, I use the jelly shield far more often.

I've always found skolver and vog to be kind of meh armors. They give such a low boost compared to swiftstrike buckler and chaos cloak and seerus's mask and deadshot.

Like, look at deadshot-

If most enemies are undead:
+4 to damage (guns+swords)
+1 ASI (guns)

And even more if I bring a damage bomb. Chaos is even more awesome, as CTR boosts are more valuable than ASI/Damage ones, and swiftstrike is borderline OP. And of course, if the situation allows for it, mercurial mail+mercurial helm+swiftstrike buckler can be amazing for taking things out.

@Bopp

I do use all bombs/swords/guns at times. I just feel so incredibly limited when I do, and boosting any one weapon type seems seriously pointless to me. And I'm going to make/get trinkets last, as that makes the most economic sense to me. I've got mask of seerus and now the damage bonus to guns hat as well as one piece of vog... so I can specialize better if I choose to. And I do specialize- I usually change my loadout entirely after every level so that I don't get too used to using any one load out. This is why I dislike doing FSC and other places where there is any one solution to them. Except for the toxic lichen+poisonous zombie levels. Those make me feel like I'm prepared, just because I've got radiant silvermail.

And it would be somewhat wasteful to go for all damage to swords- I've got several damage vs x UVs that I enjoy using, if only for the novelty of getting a damage vs x bonus.