Introducing Class Combo Gears!

[The Roger]

Yes, but it wont ever become better at archery than sniper or better at magery than high wizard; it will stay below them always.
The point imho is that, playing stalker, you can mix a bit the two things, also if one wants to do it Dagger-style or pure B.Bash build, it can: those are at one stat-reset of distance, instead of a "i-need-to-train-a-completely-new-character-to-trans-99/70" distance.

LK, Pally... for them there was already a good base to start with and so their sets came out really nice and good.
Alchemist's set: we werent much committed but in the end it came out as a very desirable to be used set. I remember discussions on that set like "we have no idea on how to make the alchemist's set good."

But stalker mixed build did receive an upgrade. Instead, what imho turned out to be bad or not-desirable is the sinx DD set, Sapha. The problem with this is that in pre-re, for DD builds to be good, it need to be pumped sooo much that it will came out broken for sure. Also, sinx packs already so many powerful tricks that adding another one would simply outshine many other, ending into a centering around sinx only.
SinXs, SinXs everywhere.