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[Alchemy]

I think there concern is then communicating what you can and cannot use for each merc and preventing certain combos that they deem to throw off balance. While in general it would reduce the luck based factors it would increase grind unless drops where much much more regular. I like the idea but I still think a system somewhere in the middle would be much better. Having completely random cards for each merc within set boundries and allowing the player to combine cards and shift over certain Augs and weapons from one card to the next (but destroying one of the cards) would be a better way in my opinion.

What about a crafting system to combine 2 card of the same rarity.

Pick 1 aug/weapon/skin to replace the same slot on the other card. Doing so consumes both cards to create card of higher rarity with the main card + the aug change.

Let’s you craft a card to your liking that also creates a money sink but also makes sure you can’t just use all the commons to build a super card(because doing this makes the rarity a tier higher so it ‘cost’ more and hard to fight those rares).