Hated the gear degradation at first but.. When the game added degradation  I started playing Pixel Dungeon: Shattered instead  and while that was fun at first  it also became pretty easy quite quickly. Further  Shattered also felt a little bloated; I felt like rather than surviving the dungeon  I found myself farming and self-sustaining rather than the urgent need to finish the quest before my resources ran out. I went back to give the original Pixel Dungeon and found it so much more exciting and challenging. Though  degradation should be optional.
September 06 2015