Yes; I'd like to know as much as possible about the very old Spiral Knights Beta. If you are wondering about what version I'm talking about: It's the one that was from the beginning until they added CE system.(So, it's the old beta before the ce system got added, that beta where stats were shown as numbers).
This is what I know:
There was a water set that gave frost resistance and shock weakness(5 defense)
Angelic set which gave curse resistance and fire weakness(5 defense)
2 Helmets that only gave +1 defense but +30 Stun of +25 fire resistance
Old Skelly set that looked like the dust zombie enemies(i don't know the stats, please tell me if you do)
It was fairly different, from what I can tell. I wasn't there for it, of course. I joined during the steam release. If you're really interested, all of the old threads are still there, as are all of the old patch notes. You can also find videos of the tortodrone online- though tbh, we've got more new content than there ever was beta content. The only real difference was that at the time, the game was headed in a much better direction... well, its headed in a much better direction again, hopefully.
If the radiant issue doesn't get solved, and if the developers mess up the arcade redux, and all of that...... Well. Yeah. This isn't just a "the game is mildly unbalanced", this is a "the game is unplayable and works towards blocking out prospective 5* players" as well as a "the game is going to start losing 5* players". But I have faith that the developers might decide to allow us to craft gear again. I also have faith that they've messed up harder than this, and could very easily do it again.