Hi! just bored here…waiting for s4 and throwing some ideas out there
What if there isn’t and armor/wep drop in the game? We start with white quality gear which is also available in vendor shops. We can also buy affixes(recipes) we want in vendors to put it in gear.
white gear = 1 space for affix (you can upgrade affix till you hit the cap)
you can upgrade white to blue to get another space for additional affix…then you can upgrade gear to yellow purple gold (whatever) to increase # of room for affixes and the cap set on affixes upgrade
Mats to upgrade affixes and gear drops from monsters…uber bosses can drop items that increase the cap set on affixes in your gear? (you can also attach aspects to your gear but that wouldn’t change the gear quality (white blue yellow etc)
you need to grind for the mats or/and trade for it (trading will go huge in the game…so will the crafting) we wont need to sift through endless pile of trash drops anymore…we will only need a good currency tab and some space for gear we done to upgrade
this is the brief sketch of an idea…wha-da-ya think?