my proposed changes would not lead to super easily obtainable gear - I am level 140 and still use itemlevel 100 gear because I can not find any upgrades in the shop/pachinko. I should at least be able to upgrade my entire set every ~50 levels but with the current system there literally is no way to do it without either using a lot of ingame currency for normal pachinko that is a huge gold loss since HH 2.0 or use a lot of kobans (and even doing that, as I described in the main post, will net reliably give you upgrades)