What I'd like to see is something akin a 'Wandering Trader'. A separate shop sectiin in the store overview where you could buy legendaries in exchange for gold and essence. This trader could be on something like a bi-weekly rotation, having a set anount of legendaries up for sale, lets say 2 single hero locked ones, 3 non single hero locked legendaries. Similar to what we used to have with the upgrade roations. The cost would be its essence value + 1M gold for each essence you pay.
This would help:
1) against the frustration of being locked out of playing a specific legendary just because its not favoured by the loot system
2) gold wouldnt be worthless anymore
3) encourage the selling of surplus essence for gold to finance trader purchases, making essences more liquid in the market, thus preventing players from being locked out of upgrading when they dont loot
4) equalising the distribution of absurdly rare legendaries (eg. Byrllysg, Gothic Gauntlets)
5) random trader offerings boost player activity -> motivation to play so you can afford that item you really want when it comes up as available purchase.
Something like what Warframe had with its Void Traders sums it pretty much, i suppose.
This would help:
1) against the frustration of being locked out of playing a specific legendary just because its not favoured by the loot system
2) gold wouldnt be worthless anymore
3) encourage the selling of surplus essence for gold to finance trader purchases, making essences more liquid in the market, thus preventing players from being locked out of upgrading when they dont loot
4) equalising the distribution of absurdly rare legendaries (eg. Byrllysg, Gothic Gauntlets)
5) random trader offerings boost player activity -> motivation to play so you can afford that item you really want when it comes up as available purchase.
Something like what Warframe had with its Void Traders sums it pretty much, i suppose.