How about you just give all items higher durability? Or make weapons do a lot more damage?
Weapon degradation in this game is horribly debilitating.
it's annoying having to carry around a dozen weapons just to burn through them all in just five enemies.
Picking up other weapons and continuing the fight is doable, but not if you're a dex build dagger oriented class. You'll do no damage at all.
Even worse is your bow breaking in the middle of a battle with a bunch of enemies still coming for you.
So far Orc Berserkers and Fallen knights, are the only classes that i had better success with.
That means you might be a little too biased in play testing.