View current equipment while purchasing new equipment

First off, I like the elemental. Fun game, lots of bugs, great potential.  I have faith in Stardock to really improve this game, and it already has tons of feedback for great ideas.

I only have one suggestion that I have not yet seen on the forum.  But I also have not read every post so I may have overlooked it.  I also have not played 1.07 yet cause I'm kinda wore out on the game for now and want to wait for a few more patches.

When you are purchasing equipment for your hero you should be able to see what is equipped to compare to what you want to buy. Many games miss this very common convenient feature.

Do I want to buy that sword and shield? I do not know, let me look at what I already have.  Wait, I can't, I have to exit the store and pull up my character first, then remember the stats of the item in shop in make a decision.  What, the store has more than 1 item?  So now I have to write down the stats if each item I want to consider because my brain is not capable of remembering them all.  Oh, yeah, I have more than 1 hero.  In fact, I have about 10-20.  You mean I have to go through this over and over again?  Come on now.

Now currently, I do not have to do this because my heroes are just taxis for their minions who deal 10 true damage to everything and thus have no real need for equipment.  But I do believe that one day heroes will play an important role.  When this day comes, they will need equipment.

I hope you add this feature to one of the updates, because when heroes become important I do not want to have to spend 10 minutes buying equipment due to my poor memory skills.