In general this game is awesome. Thank you so much for your dedication. Never spent more than 160 hours on an early access game. Even after more than 120 hours I found new areas in the game. So the level design is top noche. But now a few things where I see room for improvement.
We need more sinks for our resources like gold, embers and plague ichor. In the end game you have just too many of them and no way to spend them. On the other hand there are some mechanics which lead people to “play” the game in an unsatisfying manner. For example I was in the game for more than 150 hours already and had only very few of the crafting recipies which are only sold by finnley. I was super strong but my characters look was very bad. So I changed the date of my computer very offen and checked finnley in my 4 realms. This was not fun. I imagine that rerolling the finnley shop with embers could be a solution. Then when I finally had the gear I thought looked cool I had to craft all modifiers on the gear I already had on my other gear. I would love some transmogification mode. For example that a Plaque ichor could be used to swap all modifiers of two items. Give us another lategame npc who can do that to not confuse beginners with too many possibilities. Also for crafting items some crucial options are missing in my opinion. If I finally find or craft my base item and entchant it, it is a high chance to be not a purple item and it is not perfect for min maxers like me. Then this item is scrap and you start over. Give us an option to cleanse an item completely to unenchanted. It can be expensive like one plague ichor or multiple embers. Lastly it seems a bit tidious to collect all sorts of items in your house just to have the base item in case you want to craft with it. I would love an option to order a base item at some npc. It can be level one, unenchanted and very expensive but we do not have to hoard like crazy.
These are the most important things I noticed. The game is in a good spot already, if you can improve on it it will become awesome.
PS ring of determination is op