I heavily agree on the dangerous recipes for 3 item types only is bad. Even after the nerfs to the recipe and nerfs to multipliers(which affects hammer greatly) I still literally only use hammer abilities to kill things. I have gear that is fully modded for battle chemistry and hammer but using bombs for damage is a waste of time when I can be using literally any hammer ability.

The gap between the 2 skills might be lower if I was using say sword/archery instead but still I imagine +300 damage is going to create a huge gap from any other ability.

I do quite like the dangerous recipes and disagree with Yaffy on the 'losing everything' part, there doesn't seem to be much reward in farming in gorgon since there are no rare drops or expensive things to use your money on(once you've uncapped and unlocked all your skills)