I'm hammering out the details on my plans for 5* gear, but am having a little trouble. What I'm trying to do is come up with a hybrid (guns and swords), with max CTR and ASI, without negative status resists (so chaos is out). What I'm thinking of doing is wearing nameless hat, vogue cub coat, CTR sword and gin trinkets, and then using UVs and sprite perks to close the gap. How viable would that set be and if there's an easier way to reach my goal?

Regarding what shield to use, I've heard that using a shield with matching damage resistance is the wisest move (so use GOS when fighting constructs but swap out for COA when battling undead), so I'm not factoring in the ASI from snarlbox shield into my plans for endgame armor. Is the thing about matching shield damage true?