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[Tsaritsyn]

It bugged me for a while but I eventually came to like it.  Due to the loot scaling, at the end you start finding tier 5 and 6 items just laying around, which is a bit detrimental to suspension of disbelief.

Dragon Age has a system where character traits are considerably more important than their equipment.  Equipment matters on the margins, and the very best equipment is quite good, but you pay a whole lot more to get to that highest tier of equipment quality than you would if you just settled with the best stuff you find on things you kill, and the actual payoff is relatively slight - I suspect if I'd never bought a weapon or piece of armor in the entire game my group would be about 85-90% as effective as they ended up being anyway.

The very high cost of buying good items and the very low price you can get selling them back to Merchants makes it a big money loser to constantly be upgrading your equipment to the best available.  It's a bit like buying a brand new car every six months and paying in cash.  Depreciation is brutal.

The general rarity of items forces the player to make choices, and I think on balance that's desirable.  You can't have all the best stuff, all the time.  Lots of games eventually let you reach that point, so perhaps we players are a bit spoiled in that regard.  It may be possible for you to get enough coin over the course of the game to buy the very best items in each category to equip the entire group, but I think the best strategy for doing so would mean that you would basically save your money only to buy the very highest tier items, and given loot scaling that necessarily means you wouldn't be buying much until the last third of the game or so.  You can drop off grey iron daggers and elm shortbows at the Merchants all day long and still take forever be able to afford the tier 7 stuff.

What would I change?  I didn't feel like there was a lot of variety - I only found one clear best option for a dagger for my rogue, for example.  Maybe there's a competitor (or a match) for it somewhere but I didn't encounter it.  It was also a little anticlimactic that I bought it at a merchant rather than took it from the cold, dead hand of a bitter adversary.

I guess this is not directly related, but I'm a bit deranged on the issue of the Blood Dragon Armor.  It drives me crazy - I will not have a character wear armor, no matter how good it is, stat-wise, that has the game's logo on it.  Felt like he had sold ad space on his equipment for sponsors like a racecar.  Fortunately I can turn it off - just requires a little (ugh) self-denial.