Damage types and status effects officially revealed +others!

sweet, i hope most of the backers go for the backer tier cause upgradeable weapons means you get more playtime out of them, one question i have is there any way to go back and swap your fully upgraded weapon for a weaker version of it (like your weapon vendor lists all the steps youve previously completed and you can swap for any step in the chain) because you want to try a themed run or ng+ has options on what carries over so that you can go through and relive those extra things without starting from a totally new file (wishful thinking but would be cool)

Excellent.

Though it's interesting to see that Maces are classified as "slash" weapons (because of flanges, I expect) and the Runic Forgers can't choose Hammer ("Blunt") weapons or a "Wind" Elemental attribute. I wonder if Whips and Kicking weapons will have Neutral damage instead of being classified with a specific "Blunt" or "Whip" Attribute. To be fair, though, I'm just basing this on what we've seen in the Demo of the Galleon Minerva stage.

I'm actually curious if we would have a dark element whip as the anti-thesis of the Vampire Killer.

What if divine beings noticed what was going on and sent forces to counteract. We could have a 3 way situation where it is Miriam vs Castle/Demonic vs Divine

There is something interesting about all this:

ABOUT NOT HAVING WIND ELEMENT

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Galamoth said about wind attribute, and i saw you posted a picture wondering what the swirl icon in the menu could be.
That's really strange. Maybe the elements are what we saw in that post. Why they would block the backers to create wind-based attribute? It is not like wind is anything super special... At least, that's what i think.
If you analyse the Demo's menu, you will see that it has more icons than attributes and effects combined (8/9 Attributes and status effects VS 13 icons). Maybe some of the icons there were just placeholder / brainstorming ideas and they decided about the attributes and status effects just now. Those icons are probably going to be changed in the final product. For instance, there is a watch there. What that watch would be?
But they could, in fact, be blocking some elements and options from backers because they have higher plans for them. That is a possibility. Maybe they are enemy-exclusive?
So, considering all that, we have three options:
1) There is no wind element. The attributes and status/effects are just what the backers will use to create their weapons. The icons in the Demo's menu were placeholder / brainstorming ideas that will be dropped.
2) There IS a wind element (and other things) that they forbid backers to use to create their weapons for some hidden reason.
3) There IS a wind element (and other things) and those things are enemy-exclusive.

ABOUT HOLY-THEMED ENEMIES

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Castlevania had angels as enemies too (who remembers Alamaric Sniper up there?). A theme that i like to think on those fantasy games / stories is that "Hell" and "Heaven" are one and the same. There is no real difference between angels and demons, besides their sides. They are all supernatural monsters with their personal agendas, fightning for their own personal purpose. Magic can be considered in many cultures to be the manipulation of the fabric of creation or reality. Considering that, someone with a huge magical power (such as Gebel) is doing nothing more than manipulating supernatural creatures to do his bidding. 

So, the game could, for sure, have both demons and angels, both darkness and light.
That could surely work for both Heaven and Hell sides. Of course, that's a huge speculation / fun thought of mine.

In any case, out of all of those options for Runic Forgers, there are quite a few combinations that I'd love to see.

For Kicking weapons ("Shoes"), I'd like to see one imbued with Lightning (so it will effectively damage an enemy twice with every hit; as per the convention of lightning weapons/spells in Igavania games).

Since Maces will now be classified as [one-handed] "slashing" weapons, I'd like to see one particular Mace in this game to NOT have an added Element, but give it the Curse special effect (status ailment) instead.

Anyone else up for an Ice-imbued Whip?

Hi Pure Miriam.  Just a small update on this topic.  On 1/25/17 Igarashi emailed a correction to the Runic Forger update.  Nothing major to report, just a small clarification regarding guns. It turns out the elemental effects are assigned to the bullets instead of the guns themselves. So you could hypothetically have the same gun firing a variety of bullets with different attributes.  Igarashi's correction has been added to the original post on the Content Contributor thread.