Maybe make it player-optional.  I like the idea of items I can't use immediately, even if I take a big chance to get them.  On the other hand, I can see where somebody else might figure they risked it, they deserve to profit at once from that risk.

I've had a similar experience - killed a really hard mob, got a reward I couldn't use for 5-6 levels, seems kind of lame.

Well, that would be equally silly.

I'm all for random loot but you should get stuff you can use now or a reasonable amount of time, and you should not be able to get some weapon of mass descrution for doing nothing at a low level.

You know i got a druss blade at level 6 and um silly or not, It'sa giant paper weight if you can't use it. 

Champion armor and weaponry -needs- to improve with level. It's currently a crapshoot to win or lose with a hero-style victory. Did your enemy get the shadow broadsword and the toxic dagger while you got a boar spear? Too bad!

I've mentioned this before, but it would make considerably more sense if:

• A: Champions used weapons differently than regular units. That is to say that a champion with a short sword attacks x times based on his level  and your research. This would prevent the requirement for broken weaponry that is not researchable because regular units would destroy everything.
• Or B: Research should provide access to those broken weapons much earlier for champion use only.

Despite A requiring more work, I would prefer this as it keep armor balanced without the need for rediculous attack values to have any effect. Either way, rolling the dice to determine success or failure by such a large degree is akin to the level of strategy proposed by Risk.

The second thing that I would like to see (though probably won't happen) Is that champions have armor and weapons based on their character type that they can upgrade with each level and/or found 'upgrade component' in the wilds. You can still have randomness with three accessories and sheilds, but you only need 1 piece of armor and one weapon. Mages could actually upgrade their robes to give -spell cost and +spell damage instead of crossing their fingers they find an archmage robe. That is so much fun!! >.>

All of the above, plus intrinsic initiative modifiers on weapons being removed, are important changes to make pre-release.

That sounds really like how I would want it, create it if I had to create it myself, and what I prefer choosing if there are any options I can take, so I would really favour this, Mostly because random super item drop = game becomes rather easy for me, running around cleaving stuff, not caring, just batting.

Sometimes Im thinking I should save ur email or something after release, and get a hold of all dem mods , but for beta testing, ill keep to the original game

Sincerely
~ Kongdej