I’m level 11 and as far as progress goes I’m at the point where I’m going through the sewers in the beginning area south west of Sacrament and at this point there’s a few things I have equipped that seem ridiculous.ly powerful. The biggest offender has to be a pair of purple rarity gloves that have health regeneration and all things considered they heal fast!
Also my electric claymore, it’s a purple and leveled three times and it feels extremely capable and generates focus like crazy thanks to it’s abilities. And I’ve been able to make soooo much of the food that gives you 50hp + 10 extra stamina, something like 28 of them with a full 20 stack of crab chowder as well to spare. Actually, I have a large amount of every consumable and don’t really feel like I have a reason to use them.
I’m just a dumb outsider player who doesn’t know what’s really best from a development perspective, and there’s a better solution surely but perhaps my take is useful:
Between this and the fact that dying has practically no repercussions, I’m starting to wonder if this game really shouldn’t just lift some things from the souls series. I think that if it was somehow harder to not very occasionally fall to your death, that maybe enemies should respawn on death/touching a whisper, and maybe food should have it’s own system where you can only take so many of a small combination of dishes with you that replenish from your home inventory at a whisper. As players it’s the things we don’t want, and situations we don’t enjoy that make overcoming then so much more awesome. I just want more risk, more on the line so my heart is pumping.