@Cooky, this could easily be solved by making it so that your merged items only appear merged in-game, and not while in the room. So basically you'd still look like you had Metorium on while in the room, waiting to start, but you'd have the sexy merged appearance once the game started. Idk if this would be hard to implement or not, but I wouldn't think so. Or maybe implement a button that shows your oppenents stats? Lol xD
And btw, an alternative to merging might be to make it possible to wear two sets, but only receive stats from the first set. So you could wear an e set over a t3 set, similar to how wearing a coin head works (except that you would only get the stats for the first set equipped). This way, you could change your look, instead of permanently merging two (probably valuable) sets. Just a thought...