Minor gear adjustments. (spoilers for quest rewards) just some thoughts after playing for awhile

[CiceroLelouch<3]

The T3 armor using iron doesnt feel super great, most enemies hit like trucks unless you use wards to gain the bonus'
the T3 ranged gear has 24/28/24
while both mage and melee gear have 30/24/23 and 23/24/30
The ranged armor should have a slight increase to its ranged defense to put in inline with the others.
The Granite Maul is awful.
66-99 two handed and very slow. not giving this weapon its iconic double swing as the special is such a miss. it further confuses me because you need to go to tier 4 areas or very difficult ones to get the resources to create this weapon (bloodblight swamp). by the time youll get around to this quest and do it, the weapon is worthless. Since its a mastercraft weapon like the whip, and light staff make it a T4 to let it shine.
The Crystal Bow is meh
Once again this bow is super cool and iconic but again is a T3 weapon with a confusing quest with no help (it was fun to figure out and felt rewarding for the bow) This should be raised to a T4 weapon to set it in line with the other strong weapons doing 3.45x puts it vastly behind the staghorn bow at 4.3 not to mention that bow adds a base 43 to the attack. it just feels very weak in comparison,

The whip feels fine, i enjoy it alot and it shreds the abyssal demons making them a joke. the staff of light is also fine.

I will mention of course since ranged and mage is not fully implemented into the game i understand it makes sense for them to feel very strong/ weak. but both feel very strong.

[Villainism]

I also had complaints about the maul and the crystal bow. Like why would they questlock iconic weapons and require you to fight through T4 areas just got get what equates to meme weapons at this point. I get balancing and all but like... iron weapons outperform the maul, and then like you said the stag bow outperforms the crystal bow.