An Idea to fix an old archaic design of a loot system

[Feilina]

LotrO tried a similar system with its legendary weapons system.
Well the first implementation was kind of legendary with some flaws but got pretty quick eaten by the community and its whishes. Not to grind so much, not being able to choose the boosts, RNG and so on.
They even considered to widen it to the gear itself. Got axed because of the costs.

In my oppinion the less arcaic system would be a system with vanity gear and a kind of skill system where you are getting better by using a tool/weapon/gear.

Reintroducing of significant decisions could/should be one way to get rid of the "mainstream". (And we had it with 1.0 by some point)

[Nahara]

Doing something the same way it's been done since 1999, yeah I call that archaic.

Just because something is old doesn't mean it should be done away with simply because it's old. The current system of gear does exactly what the developers want it to do, and they're extremely unlikely to change that.

In other words, if it's not broken, it doesn't need fixing.