I have been looking for an interesting game for many years, a game which allows me to play for long with unpredictable outcomes and setups (and allow me to play offline). And I finally found it, Grim Dawn. Such a great game, I give much love and respect for the developers.
I am still at my first character, Druid lvl 85 in Ultimate mode, just open the Fort Ikon rift. I am currently at the 160th hour of gameplay, not so much compared to other dedicated gamers with thousands of gaming hours.
I’ve just give thought to a new NPC because I got frustrated of doing repetitive chore: going around to find what I have in mind but the game doesn’t know what I want. As a result, I have random legendary and epic items or repeated items while the only thing I want is just an epic shoulder. So I cheated, to get that epic shoulder, which made me a little sad because I don’t want to cheat and ruin the unexpected aspect of the game. But if I don’t do so, I don’t know when I can get what I want, a month or maybe even a year… while I have the transfer box already full of items that I intend to use them for my next characters.
A Witch: with magic power, clairvoyant and blessing ability.
He/She is an outcast, living outside in the forest. If you want something and you don’t know where to find it, you will come to see the Witch. You need to have at least one item of the set so that you know what you are looking for.
After showing the item to the Witch (and give her some money), he/she will show you the rest of the set. You will have 2 option: paying for the blessing on the item (better chance to get it) or use magic/clairvoyant to get it.
For the blessing, you just need to pay iron (5k up to 50k…). But for magic/clairvoyant, you need to submit organic things (tainted brain, ancient heart, manticore eye, blood or someone’s head,…) and/or part of your soul (skill point) and/or a lot of iron bits.
If you have asked for magic/clairvoyant on the wanted item, the Witch will tell you where to find it (and/or to kill certain bosses), it can be on the map or hidden places with treasure chests. Or the Witch will open a rift to some random small places that are not on the main map.
The Witch will either tell you the place the wanted item resides or he/she will tell you: “this item no longer exists in this world, but the blueprint of how to craft it still does exist. You need to come to [someplace] to kill [someone/something] to achieve it”.
After you achieve the blueprint, you would need to go around to find components and/or sub-items to craft what you want (and to collect things to sell for iron bits). And to get these sub-items, you maybe need to come back to the Witch to ask for them or their blueprints.
At default, the Witch always has information about relics’ blueprints (revealing to you according to your level), and you only need to spend money to acquire information about how to get those relics’ blueprints. And for items, as being said, you need to have one part of the set.
With this new NPC (a necessary role in the medieval world), you will have things to spend money on and have many side quests to complete without doing repetitive things and gaining nothing. And now you need to collect literally everything to sell for money, not just epic or legendary items.
About the current Grim Dawn, I have more than 2.5 million iron bits and have no place to spend on or gamble on for some random unidentified items with some smugglers. And I’m still missing a wanted transcendent relic blueprint with nowhere to find it but rely on the game mechanic: Chance. With this new NPC, I believe the game will be more enjoyable without making you spend less time on the game.
And one more thing, I would like to see the Witch with an esoteric ability: Reincarnation.
The leveling up process is fun and well when you still enjoy the game’s story (which is excellent in Grim Dawn). So after spending more than 100 hours with the first character to level up to max level and explore the story 3 times (normal, elite and ultimate), I don’t want to start a new character from scratch and spend another 100 hours just to get to lvl 75 to wear all the items I have collected from my first character.
So the Witch with Reincarnation ability will help you be able to reincarnate into another young man/woman who is currently dead, so you can restart a new life with lvl 75 with total attribute and skill points accordingly. And to reincarnate, you need to complete the main story on ultimate mode and have at least 5 million iron bits. From this new start, you won’t have to endure the boring leveling-up process but to explore more about creating and finishing your build, to go around finding random items for your next characters and achieve shrine’s points for another celestial system setup.
And the game will have a new window, called: “Reincarnation Tree”. It will display all your past lives with all the information and achievement, and it will look like your character window with all the items and animated character in the middle so that you can look upon and take pride in your effort.
If you take off all your items before Reincarnation, you will appear naked in the Reincarnation Tree. Why would you do that, right? Basically, the build you have for one character is fixed on that character, I wouldn’t like to take off some items and transfer them to another character.
That is all I have for now, I hope this is a good idea to share. 
