What if some special themed prize boxes were added? For example, in a gremlin themed level, you might find gremlin prize boxes which give gremlin themed materials (and rarely equips).
Beast - Tier 1: Beast Scale, Monster Bone, Critter Carapace. Rare: Big Beast Basher. Tier 2: Monster Bone, Critter Carapace, Drake Scale. Rare: (Suggestions needed) Tier 3: Warp Dust, Chroma Tear, Dragon Scale. Rare: Hunting Blade.
Construct - Tier 1: Bronze Bolt, Scrap Metal, Spark Plug, Iron Gear. Rare: Rugged Robo Wrecker. Tier 2: Iron Gear, Force Dynamo, Rocket Sprocket. Rare: Deconstructor. Tier 3: Heavy Gear, Silver Coil, Sun Silver. Rare: Heavy Deconstructor.
Fiend -
Gremlin -
Jelly -
Undead -
(I'll add the rest of the drops later.)
I would like to know your thoughts and suggestions on this.
Well we do kind of have this level theme drop system, but i think we should have sort of both kinds of prize boxes where some types gives you only level theme materials, while the others give you random items from any level. This way, the whole run is not predictable.
It would also be cool if each prize box was graphically created to suit that level. The devs could create gremlin prize boxes to be made of a lock box gizmo, undead can be a pile of bones with mud encasing, beast can be some kind of bushes that has dirt surrounding it and so on.
It would also be cool if we could have special tool to get hidden prize boxes. A hidden prize box in the beast level could be buried treasure where we would need a shovel to dig and find it. Gremlin hidden prize box can be a sort of harden metal box that can only unlock by a rotating clockwork key , construct hidden prize box can be some kind of computer monitor that can only be unlock by a code breaker, etc. And all of these devices will require that we play a mini game in order to unlock or find the treasure.
Well, that is my idea of creating more monster theme items then just one color for prize box for every monster. This way we would search and adventure more, then just farm predictable laid right in the middle of the field prize box that is yelling take me. sigh..