Yeah, I’d say that this is a great setup for a gamemode. I personally am not a fan of permanent items, but if the group system works out it would probably work just fine. I’d say that at this point, there’s probably not a whole lot more we could add; it’s probably time to let the devs do what they want with it.
The only thing imo is the fact that hack n slash dungeon crawlers have permenant items and it’s something i like being able to get a completely randomized item with the random stats and rarity ect and then being able to kill things slightly easier because i have this more powerful thing, making items not permenant make it so that it seems a bit pointless to put it in a hack n slash setting.