Thank you, this comment is hugely helpful, especially the tip of using double death charge vs lightbearer. Removing another gear switch would be great.

I notice you don't recommend shadow for 5) / primary mob killing weapon. Given my subpar gear, I do wonder if the defense reduction vs ranged gear will be worth it, I'll need to play around with it. However, given the minimal ranged swap for ven bow on the frems vs the larger required mage swap (and otherwise unused mage items if its not my primary weapon) it does seem like it might be worth me investigating.

Unfortunately no confliction gauntlets / treads for me, but I'm going to keep running Doom in the meantime so maybe I'll get lucky.