One of the reasons why I rarely play Lockdown is because I'm not properly suited for the gametype. I mainly have to play as a Guardian just to increase my chances of survival, as I play with players with equipment I can only dream of. It is rather annoying how you can play a simple match with people within your tier, being unable to inspect their equipment until the end of the match... Only then, you suddenly have your mind blown away at the fact that you couldn't land a decent hit on them for what they have set with them. Unique variants are definitely play changers, as even the slightest bonus to any equipment will prove to have a drastic effect on the gameplay. I'm still shocked at how people get these powerful UVs, when all I seem to get are just low resistance bonuses or a low CTR on my Leviathan Blade.

I am in favor of having them be omitted from Lockdown, as that's one of the reasons why I mainly avoid the gamemode nowadays. I'm one of the people who has a variety of armor equipped, often being dubbed noobish, for instance, for wearing an Ash Tail Coat and a Mighty Cobalt Helm, but I only did that because I wanted a slight increase in protection, and the helm offered it, despite the lack of the low damage bonus. I played the game well, at times, but often got destroyed easily by those with the trinkets or heart pendents that make every move of their's a force to be reckoned with.

I would also be in favor of that the players in Lockdown are, by default, restricted to just two weapons. It does bother me that a single Striker can constantly stalk you with a variety of weapons that you generally lack the protection of, and toy with you the whole time. Normal, elemental, piercing, and shadow, all of which deal extreme damage on their own, and with the Striker's perks and the trinkets that might have... that's pretty much a guaranteed death sentence right there.

I hope my pointless 'speech' doesn't bore you guys. I'm not an aggressive Coliseum player. I just play the games for the fun of it, and to have a good time.

One more thing.

If we remove UVs from LD, there will likely be less crown sinks.

Players who spend money on Punch would use the money to buy UVs only for Lockdown. Punch has made a successful crown sink from other players that purchase UVs for LD.

If UVs are out from Lockdown, the economy would be ruined. Players might even quit LD and stop spending crowns on Punch.

I would at least like the OPTION of playing a UV-less LD, even though the people I have the most fun with will probbo stay with the unaltered version.

I think the OPTION to do so would be nice: all the chief tryhards of the "elite" jirclecerk can go play their horribly-broken game of throwing huge wads of cash at each other - they can keep buying and re-rollling to get the highest and most obscene UVs cr can buy to pander to their crippling insecurities and unwarranted self-importance while everyone else plays a ~slightly less~ horribly-broken game for actual fun.

See, we all win - now let's go sit by the fire and sing Kumbaya while eating cruelty-free granola!

[2 days later the entire forest burned down, leaving Smokey the Bear out of a job and all hopes of stopping the oncoming roaring rampage of revenge upon the lunatic who decided to start a camp fire with napalm]

with the idea deku

I agree with Juances. This should've been done since Day #1. As of now, this one update will really SPILL out a lot of players. Only then Three Rings will hope that more players will come and fill in the UVers' places.

Lockdown is unbalanced as hell, it's not about who has more skill, it's about who has the biggest sword.
The only proper way to balance lockdown:

Here is a better idea to balance lockdown: No UVs, No trinkets, No homemade weapons and armor. You can only have a calibur, blaster or blast bomb, and are always equipped with cobalt.
That way it is actually about skill and not about who has the biggest sword with the most power.

At the end of the day I think many people forget that this isn't a mmorpg where stats would normally dominate gameplay. This is an arcade and as such winning should ultimately be determined by skill and reflexes not stats.

I fully support a completely balanced pvp game however I really don't think such a change to the game would the right thing to do at this state of the game. Too many loyal players have already invested greatly into items and pvp. Making big changes would be tantamount to the game stabbing itself in the heart.