Equipment degradation unbalances the game significantly. Scrolls of Upgrade are already a finite resource that must be strategically used. Now  regardless of early  late  or balanced usage they are worthless. Further  """"""""passive"""""""" items also degrade. A rogue's Ring of Shadows  for instance  is going to lose its bonus by level 4 unless you burn a scroll on it. Terrible change in mechanics without any balance consideration  unless there is some secret that I haven't found yet.""
January 20 2017