Liked that thought, so decided to put it here as a feature suggestion. Would solve two problems at once: collecting Grims / Scriptures being almost pointless right now and perfect Curios/Weapons being RNG-walled.
- Extracting with Grims / Scriptures earns you “Ancient Knowledge Points” (AKPs) now. You get twice as much points for Grims as carrying them is more challenging. Grims also now only corrupt the player that carries them, but whole group still benefits from more players doing that as everybody will get more AKPs from the mission like that. Still, it allows you to control amount of extra challenge more precisely, what is good
- There will be several tiers of Grims / Scriptures, with higher tiers producing more AKPs - but only found in higher difficulties’ missions (including Havoc); higher tiers’ Grims will inflict more corruption on the player carrying them though
- AKPs are then used to upgrade base stats on your Curios, and also swap stats on your existing weapons, at Hadron; possibly in the future could be used to upgrade your weapons and curios to tiers higher than gold
- To prevent Melk and his quests, and also Brunt’s “casino” from becoming even less relevant, to do what listed in item 3 above you still will need to sacrifice curios and weapons of the same type and sufficiently high value; so, for example, to upgrade your 15% toughness Curios to 16% you would need to pay 1000 AKPs - but also donate 6 other 15% toughness Curios which you can get from Melk’s “casino” (or get as drops from missions); same for weapons, to swap stats on your 500lv bolt pistol you would need to pay 1000 AKPs - and donate a few other 350+lv boltpistols on top of that (with higher level weapons filling the “swap gauge” faster)