I love the game as I spent over 200 hours in early access and this is what bugging me.
The game artstyle is great, weapons, armors, runes are awesome and collecting them is a nice challenge but
Imho, there are too many random things happening:
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Gears and weapons are dropped randomly.
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Infuse gems are dropped randomly and infused stats are randomized within a range.
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Enchantments and enchanted stats are random.
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Rerolling enchanted stats is random using a randomly dropped resource.
I mean it takes forever to even just collect a full armor set. And that is just the first step. Next is enchanting and gambling with fallen embers, exalting the items. Oh, and now I have to exalt every single rng enchanted and infused stat.
I hope in the future, items and other drops can only be found in certain areas by certain kinds of enemy and not fully randomized (like current bears and wolves). I want to know where I need to go and which enemies I need to farm to get the items I need. At least I hope they can make boss drops fixed. It doesn’t even need to be item drop, It can be armor or weapon diagrams that can only be crafted later into the game.
As far as I know, right now there are two bosses with full armor sets that can be collected: Echo Knight and Darak. Collecting echo knight sets takes some time but is kinda OK. I can’t say the same for Darak as now you will need to create new realms to fight him without any guarantee that you can get even a single piece from his item sets.