Topic.
First of all, I have weapons of all types, so no, I am not whining about being unable to use my weapons. I play exclusively T2 right now, and in the beginning my Striker loadout was Twisted Snarble Barb/Fireburst Brandish/Nightblade/Antigua and my Recon loadout was TSB/NB/Shadowtech Alchemer Mk II/Antigua. Soon my Recon became my Striker set as well, as I literally had no use for the Elemental sword. Heck, I barely even need Piercing. Nightblade tears through just about anything―Jellies, Wolvers, Gunslingers, and Cobolts are the most dominant armors in the metagame right now, and if I see the odd Shadow defense armor, I just pull out my TSB.
Making ONE good set of Shadow/Piercing (NO NORMAL DEFENSE) armor would counteract this and make Elemental and Normal weapons (almost) as viable. Please make it useable in all three tiers. This game is best when a variety of weapons are viable. That's just not the case in Lockdown right now, and I wish it were. Most swords are either pure Normal, or Normal/Elemental, and at the same time almost all armor is like that as well.
Thank you.
I can't speak to the metagame, but there is a Piercing/Shadow 5-star armor listed on the wiki. No corresponding helmet, though, and the damage bonus vs. undead is presumably not much use in Lockdown (at least at present).