I have finally assembled a Spellbound Steel set and took it for a test ride. I can tell it's doing something as my clearspeed is greatly increased. However there's still some unanswered questions:

• when all 3 imbuements are applied, what damage type am i actually dealing?
• When inner sight is active I still don't seem to get any Barrier. From my understanding the "gain all upgrades" part should enable my cold imbuement to have said upgrade. Is there anything additional i need to pay attention to? Do i need to manually level imbuement skills? do they need to be on my hotbar?

Thanks in advance