Random, unrelated ideas I had, because I’m bored.
#1: What if some dungeons, IF they have at least one troom, have a chance to drop a “2nd floor key” that can be used after defeating a troom to open up a second floor to the dungeon? This second floor would be one of two things. Either a new dungeon of similar design, but harder (kinda like a heroic dungeon) or the same dungeon of a higher tier. In the first case, it would drop a greater stat pot. This probably applies to just a few dungeons (probably snake, sprite, sew, pup, udl, and abby).
#2: What if invisibility made your hitbox smaller? It wouldn’t really change its utility when rushing, but it would make the rouge more usefull in situations other than rushing. I kinda like the idea of the rouge being a dodging/survivability/soloist class, and this fits nicely into that niche.
#3: Make only some specific shots give i-frames. I know i-frames have been brought up before, and most people (myself included) seem to dislike the idea, generally speaking. However, I don’t see any glaring issues with the idea of making only some particularly powerful or damaging shots give a few i-frames. I’m thinking shots that do 250-300 damage (although definitely not all of those) or shots that have a higher than normal chance of causing annoying insta-pop deaths (like megamoth jump phase).
#4: The Collector. I thought of this one as a possible solution to the problem(?) of the shatters being too long, although it could be applied to other dungeons. I, like many, feel like the shatters is annoyingly long, unless it’s done hyper efficiently, but I also like the idea of a full-length adventure of a dungeon. Simply increasing the loot dropped from the bosses doesn’t seem like a good idea, because then you are left with the problem of “I’ve been clearing this dungeon for 30 minutes and just had to nexus in the first boss fight.” So, what if there was an npc, the collector, in the shatters that you could trade “soul” to get loot, like stat pots, weak uts, blueprint fragments, improved chances of loot in the bosses, etc. Soul would be obtaned by killing enemies in the dungeon. When an enemy dies, it gives a certain amount of soul, depending on the difficulty of the enemy, distributed according to damage dealt.
That’s enough for now, opinions, criticism, and counter-ideas welcome.