Granted, I only have a few hours in the game (level 13), and I’ve found many items of different qualities and enchantments, but I’ve never found a non-white, enchanted tool, or a tool with gem slots.
Tools should be treated the same as, give them gems, enchants, rarity, etc.
Examples of tools gems:
Increases size of critical range.
Adds a second, earlier critical range (maybe smaller).
I love this. Maybe even temporary buffs on perfect hits. Plenty of areas in the game have nodes you can mine, imagine juggling a perfect node hit to gain extra crit chance or a heal during combat?
And in general the idea of resource gathering having some more to it with the timing is neat, it’s just one dimensional. Once you learn the timing it becomes more of a chore