These are all fantastic ideas - especially loving the idea of elites and faction bosses that move into areas they take over. Grim Dawn has a very cool faction system where the more you kill enemies in that faction, the more they hate you lol - eventually the enemy groupings start to increase, when you fight champions, they are no long single but groups of 3-5, finally a massive nemesis boss starts to hunt you down in certain locales. They are the pinnacle of difficulty and really awesome to fight.
I’m guessing here, but I think Moon will think very carefully before allowing you to do powerful things with Ichor, at least as long as too many people are simply creating new realms to farm Ichor. But the ideas sound good.
Ichor is in an odd spot.
*Once you hit end game, there are builds that let you speed run the Crucible in sub 10 mins. Some people bragging about 5 min runs.
Every run = 1x Ichor
*Much faster than creating a new realm.
After unlocking everything, I currently have 47x Ichor just collecting dust.
In truth, I asked Thomas (Lead Designer) if we could trade Ichor to the old man in the watch tower for Fallen Embers. As those are much more useful at end game for testing builds.
All that said, it’ll be interesting to see what they do for the upcoming Hotfix and Path #1.