User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Freedom Unite Armor Sets/@comment-969093-20120624095225/@comment-969093-20120624130858

The appeal of Lava X Gunner is the possibilities it has. Swap in Barrage Piercing alone and do some carefully gemming and it's a marvelous bow set.

But it depends on if you can appreciate a skillset or not. I probably look at it from a totally different perspective than you Loss. Lava X is a good armor for just gunning because it's a survival set. But efficiency wise I wouldn't recommend the thing.