This is not a suggestion - hell, I don't want this - but a question.
Why wouldn't they take the lockdown gear into the clockworks?
Does the spiral order order knights to have a defensive shield (guardian shield is defensive though)?
Does the gear require some sort of activation only found in the lockdown arenas? Say, they work on solar power (some lockdown maps are underground though)? Do the clockworks somehow DEACTIVATE this gear?
I thought there were missions where you see Spiral Knight Recon guys running around.