I like the game and especially the updates overall, but there's really gotta be some way to change how equipment works in this game, I'm level 10 and I'm still using stuff I found back at level 2 because shields, halos, rings, and 1H swords aren't dropping. (Or, well, I just got a new ring, anyway.)
Could even have some quests that drop equipment, even if it's just one at lv8 or 10 or so, one of those "pick a reward" quests a lot of RPGs have where all the options are just one of each weapon type. I mostly just hate seeing all these 1s and 2s popping up when I'm attacking.
Maybe a "shop upgrade quest" where we're tasked to go run off somewhere to go get some trinket, and that upgrades the shop to have more (+better) equipment?