You damn kids need to learn some patience.
It's a virtue, you know?

I shelved my Callahan for a Furious Flamberge. I love darting through packs of Devilites and Wolvers with it.

My Umbra Driver sees regular use as a sort of cure-all sidearm.

I've also been on some great runs with people that use the Radian Sun Shards. It can be really powerful in the same way an Alchemer is, just time things so that the monster is on top of the bomb when it detonates. Since it flings projectiles it can trigger dodge reactions.

Back to the arsenal expansion. These obviously aren't going to happen every month and I wouldn't expect another one soon. The Dev's have been mentioning that they have other things in mind for new content and probably have a rough outline for what they want to appear over the Summer.

Haven't got the chance to test Radiant, so idk if Radiant does knockdown or not

It knocks down quite well. A few people are quite good at locking enemies in repeat knockdowns with it.

But i think they should focus on monster/stage content first. Especially when you consider, they could open up unused weapons and armors by creating new monsters and stages.

they could find the 10 most unused/underused 5* equipment, and tailor the ingame content to be weak to those armors and weapons.

We don't need an arsenal expansion. So many weapons are in the data code of the game and can be given to us at any time ( such as the *5 troika line weapon ). I'd much rather they release equipment that has already been made than make completely new ones.

Well I'd love an elemental area pure damage bomb as well as an upgrade to the shard types, with the shards exploding when they fly in detonation range of enemies (detonation range could be like the radius of 2*-3* haze bomb types)
They'd even be useful for FSC.

More bosses/boss areas could help the limited choice of armor. (you really don't need anything but fire resist and normal/elemental defence; well it helps the most; soloing most of FSC while rarely getting hit isn't all that hard anyway, but tell that to someone who's new to FSC; free CTR (bombs) or free attack speed (swords) just seal the deal for most people)
edit: And of course some armor is just stupidly outclassed. (bombastic, chaos, some of the gun armors perhaps (never checked em out), single monster type damage armors perhaps, some of the magican themed stuff just doesnt offer offensive aspects in a game where dodging is mostly possible (at least they give nice status resists))

I was kinda disappointed with the last update.
The weapons were kinda cool, but they could've made them better.

Like the Furious Flamberge could've been the Phoenix Flamberge.
And the charge attack could've fired out a big Phoenix like a Falcon Punch.

The Rigadoon was kinda pointless, it just served to obsolete the Magus/Callahan.
I would have preferred it being a Shock type weapon, since Shock resembles more of a paralyzing attack.
This and it probably would have made it worth using.

Really, I'm not expecting there to be another Arsenal Update any time soon.
Too much other stuff they have to put in to the game besides more broken weapons.

Yeah, most of the weapons I named are quite good! I just... rarely and/or never see people using them. It's swords all the way down, most runs. If we could get more people using them, we wouldn't need another arsenal expansion right away.

I wonder if people get turned off from guns due to the fact that the Proto Gun and Blaster deal so much less damage than the equivalent-star "generic" swords. And the Proto Bomb's tiny disappointing blast radius might possibly maybe could be turning people off from bombs. (Seeing bombs in action, at least, dispels this illusion. Seeing someone else with a gun doesn't tell you how much damage he's dealing though.)

But rebalancing these weapons to make them more attractive yet not overpowered... is probably almost as much work as releasing whole new weapons from scratch anyway...

Guns can be good, but there aren't enough people using them over swords, is the problem.

Hmm. There are only five kinds of guns with 5* forms...
Alchemer series
Antigua series
Magnus series
Blaster line
Autogun series

And even fewer bombs:
Blast Bomb series
Haze Bomb series
Graviton Vortex
(Crystal Bomb series stops at 4*. Sadface.)

...Whereas before the Flourish and Brandish upgrades introduced in the previous expansion, there were only four 5* sword series.
Calibur series
Sealed Sword series
Fang of Vog
Cutter series

Hmm. I guess if they're gong to add more new kinds of weapons, they could start with bombs next expansion. Guns have an alright selection, though they're maybe a bit heavy on Piercing.

Whoa, Valiance was the first gun I got.

I'll add my own $0.02 to this:

I think your personal observations are quite different from what's actually going on. The most common guns I see in use are Alchemers of all sorts, be in my guild or with random players. After that are the Antigua variants, and while Silversix/Peacemaker tend to be more common due to use in FSC, I still see people with Blackhawk/Sentenza. If someone really did turn down a Cryotech (which is the version I use) in favor of a proto gun...well, some people are beyond help.

I've seen autoguns in use really only by newer players. They seem to like that they can hose enemies, but one they play long enough to realize that they can't move and make great targets while firing, then those guns tend to go away. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone using an autogun or magnus in T2.

As for bombs, my bomb of choice is the Ionized Salt Bomb. The shock damage is great on enemies that are resistant to piercing damage. I've managed to clear out robo arenas just by kiting with the ISB. The long range of the shards is also useful for hitting switches and distant enemies. When I'm with a larger group and I know we'll be hitting arenas, then I switch to the Shivermist Buster for crowd control.

In my opinion, the problem with the Flourish line is inherent in its design--the piercing damage. Jellies and constructs tend to be all over the place, and unless you enjoy switching weapons just to deal with those, the Flourish becomes a liability. The reason you see people using the same swords over and over is their utility. It's often better to have all-around usefulness (high normal damage) compared to something that will be great against one class of enemies but terrible against others. The Brandish line benefits from the expansion as there are now 5* versions that do both normal and elemental damage, but most people aren't familiar with them and have stuck with the Calibur and Sealed Sword lines.

I'd say that it's worth finishing some of the weapon series and adding 5* versions of those that end at 4*, such as the crystal bombs and the Khorovod. I don't think it's worth greatly expanding the arsenal again, as others have pointed out.

As for armor sets, people tend to go after a few different factors, leading to a lot of the same choices--damage/speed increases for either gun, sword, or bomb, with fire resistance important to those running FSC. If you want variability in equipment use, then there needs to be a wider range of cost/benefits for different sets.

I actually think things are reasonably balanced, but would like to see the firing mechanics and elemental qualities of certain guns revised. I'd like to see Autoguns get some kind of semi-auto firing option to give them a bit of survivability when needed. I'd like to see Sentenza have its firing range equalized with its lower-star version. I'd also like to see the Sentenza and Argent lines move to a 1/4th and 3/4th element model rather than half-and-half. Dual elements, when one isn't normal, tend to be sub-standard for PvE due to the fact that resistance beats weakness by a large margin.

I'd also really like to see all the 4star weapons get a 5star end point. Especially Khorovod.