All equipment (with few exceptions), when obtained, will roll for random stats. These random stats are dictated by Pips, indicated at the bottom right of the tooltip and at the bottom of the tool. These Pips represent the bonus stats of an item and what amount of the stat they grant.
All Pips are displayed in order of rarity, which is: Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary
Pips are rolled with stat diversity, requiring that at least two different stats are present, meaning equipment purely consisting of one stat are impossible (bugged or old equipment will be rerolled when equipped). This rule is only applied to equipment that has 3 or more pips.
Wiki extract also in deepwoken they are rerollable using glided and aroumur needles which are carftable in deep here are the links to wiki to the subject
People would quit, because it’s an idea completely stolen from another game who some people consider as competition that would give lots of backlash.
If there was magically no drama, then the game would be normal (albeit much more unbalanced)
Honestly im not sure we need to introduce any more new grind that we would need to go through to max out our gear, max jewelcrafting, modifiers and loot RNG is already enough, we dont need a hypothetical 4th thing
The game already has an incredibly hated path of grinding via professions, adding another system in the game that rivals said professions grind would not get further players, especially not when most people don’t even have professions at max.
Don’t even try and come up with reasons to add it, AO shouldn’t be an overly grindy game, professions were a mistake.
In my defence in deepwoken these are easily grindable in under 5 hours if you do saramand you get like egough resources to make 20 gliden needles which is what most people need for a build maximum most people have pre prepared gear in bank
So let’s use the most extreme example of this. Getting a guilded lost diplomat piece. A regular lost diplomat is 1/60 for a mythical chart. That’s not accounting for getting the mythical chart and completing it. To get it guilded is 1/3 ontop. So that’s all ready an annoying and tedious grind. Let’s say you get no pips on it you now need to grind a powerful boss, hope they drop an armorer needle and then do this 3 times just to get 3 pips. But you most likely didn’t get the pips you wanted so now you gotta keep grinding bosses till you finally get the pips you wanted. Did I mention that’s only for 1 piece of equipment
You unfortunate for ao. Deepwoken have dungeons that drop like 5-10 of these per completion and can be done in under 50 minutes run and we have bosses that consistently drop this stuff
And all of our bosses if you’re good enough can be done at power 5 and one’s like ferryman can be killed within 5 minutes by a p10