Really good news

• The Shopkeeper: Needed to be changed - Fully support playing a game to get loot and not logging out of a game to get gear - This should be the standard in all games :D
• Weighing enchants: Can't wait to see the changes. 
• Like the enchant idea per item quality, certainly gives a nicer emphasis to which gear is better. 
• Chained enchants: Like the idea of this provided it doesn't get too restrictive. A nice compromise. 
• Really glad to hear you are actively moving away from having meta builds and BIS items that end up being the sole focus of the game. This change really deserves a kiss. 
• Relic items Sounds great! 

After all that i'd like to propose another idea.....  Could an items "Power rating" be determined by the "Quality" of it's rolls - Meaning if you have rolls in the top 10% of damage and stats on the weapon, then the weapons attack rating should also be in the top 10% - This would help mitigate the issue of players being disgruntled by exchanging good items for bad ones just to progress in power level. At least they would be swapping good items for other good items. 

Very impressed with you guys...total opposites of the mickey mouse crew over at EC.

Great suggestion Hydra.

While I'm kind of surprised the reroll isn't intended (as it's a staple of ARPGs), I'm game with it if the enchant tables work out properly and crafting greens gives a predictably useful result.

For the love of the Emprah though, make sure there's a chance for DR to added to the chain after Deflect chance enchants! We need more survival! *beats the dead horse some more*

That said, once you get further in (CR3 content) the drop tone shifts, and about half of the Artificer gear I received last night was a genuine upgrade, not just an "upgrade" for the sake of a rating.

We'd like to comment (again) that often most equipment found is RARE, and normal and magic (whatever their name is, blue ones) become completely useless during early gameplay.

The way to overcome this and give first 2 item tiers some dignity, is to increase maximum affix value, to become greater than what's found on rares, or artficer's even.

As an example, during our many years of playing D2, we had one blue item for 7 consecutive years - what made it so valuable to us is lucky maximum rolls of 2 affixes crucial to our build. The replacement was never found, so veryvery endgame character relied on it. We think it could've been sold on the market for alot, as many lucky drops were.

The current situation is more or less what we had in VH, and what most aRPGs have and 'solve' with item filter - it's, of course, just wrong to have 1 item tier rendered useless, when it could be used with a chance to roll high values for a key affixes. 

This  was  not covered her but it does relate to items.  After crafting  item  sometimes you get a item   with  bonuses to the 3 and 4 abilities  as if it were a Rifle  or  2handed but you made a  pistol so these  bonuses are just a wash.

Not always a wash. They apply if you put two of the same type of pistol on, so you can stack, say, heal on hit and then buffs to the 1 or 2 keys and actually have them turn out useful. Take a pair of Autopistols and use the... I think it's 1 key ability, the debuff. Use that in a party, and then you'll see they're not useless ability buffs.

Edit: My bad grammar is bad and must be purged!