Killed the pyre of man and got a rusty gauntlet once. Loot tables do seem really random.

all i got was this rusty breastplate?  All the glitters is not gold.  jk.  seriously, i think some of the rewards just don't scale with the stage of the game you are in.  How many junky leather boots do I need?  (sorry Mrs Marcos!) I agree with ^^^

the questing portion of the game needs better rewards, one of the many reasons heroes are so weak now.

A bit unrelated to my first post but relevant to the general discussion.

A lot of weak weapons have insane level requirements (lvl 18 Druss Blade I am looking at you), when their 'precursors' like in this example Assassin's blade come with no level requirement at all and are arguably better or nearly as good (as most assassin's will be speccing into the armor ignore traits so they don't do pathetic damage anyways). I purposely picked a failing option during the second time I took this quest so that I could simply keep the Assassin's Blade instead. I wiped out everything on the map and spawned a ton of quests using maps and still never reached level 18 before I decided to put the AI out of its misery.

The general risk vs reward and level requirements for gear needs a second pass. There is a wildland where you can explore caves and you either get a freebie awesome piece of gear or a tough battle that gives you nothing. I guess this might sound cool as a concept but it basically means next time I see it I am going to suicide my Sov with no risk into it early game and get way better stuff than I could likely acquire after hundreds of turns. The dragons I spoke of in my first post gave me nothing as loot, I was hoping that the "dragon hoard full of countless treasures and rare magical artifacts" would at least toss me some gildar if not an infinity+1 sword (or spear, are there any good spears anymore?).

Slightly more off topic, I am kinda curious if anything weird happens when your Assassin has 75% armor ignore from traits + 66% armor ignore from Druss Blade or if it just caps out at 100% (making it something you would more likely give a non-assassin). I just gave up finding any good weapons and gave my Assassin's Void Swords since simple high damage weapons seemed far superior for them than even good assassin themed weapons like the Heartseeker that gives more crit chance and crit damage. This could be more of a meta issue with the current Assassin class or game balance though.

To answer Ratas question:

There is the Holthiarn Pike are something along those lines. It is pretty tough with 20 Damage and ignore armor (the usual spear thing) however it also increases impale by +50%

This Titan of Gold is on one my maps and seems crazy overpowered.   I have armies with 600+ points and he wipes them out with spell after spell after spell. 

I've tried using spellcasters of my own but my spells barely seem to touch him.   He can drop the health of every unit on the map in one turn. 

Everything should have a counter-tactic but I'm not seeing one for this yet.   

I've added some better loot to the Titan of Gold. That guy is a beast, beware.