Okay so im gonna open this by saying that todays announced changes are overall a big gain for the game, but they need a few more changes to really shine and not continue to tick players off, which are the following:
Perk and Blessing locking needs to go away: Nobody likes this mechanic, it just artificially boats the time it takes to get good weapons while only decreasing player agency, which goes against the devs stated goals in the recent post. I understand there needs to be SOME RNG and grind, but random base stats, the radnom blessed weapons in the armory and emps gifts, and gathering crafting mats already more than does that job, we need LESS RNG AND GRIND.
Increase docket and crafting mat returns from missions and share them between operative: Before the announced changes the amount of these we got from missions was already too low, but now with players able to spam buy grey weapons to try and get god rolled base stats (which is still a good change) means players will get frustrated and pissed off by constantly being broke and unable to progress, we NEED greater returns and a shared bank for this new better system to work.
Bring back blessing combining: While the old intended way for this to work would not function within the new system, it still needs to be around in a new form, spesificly when we surrender weapons to hardon and pick a blessing we already have unlocked, that should upgrade the tier of the already unlocked blessing. This gives weapons with blessings we already have an actual use along with adding a fun progression to get every blessing maxed out and thus be able to build the exact high tier weapons we want without it being super easy.
Let players pick what perks they want by spending crafting mats instead of rerolling Everyone hates the current system, you just sit there, often for over 30minutes, just spamming reroll, thats bad design, change this system to work like the new blessing unlock system where players can unlock and upgrade perks they will have unlimited access too to put on weapons. You still have to grind to unlock and upgrade perks, but now that system has an end goal to work towards and we dont have to spam a braindead slot machine.