Gift of Hedone: Overdrive Gear/Weapon

Hello you lovely deviants,

As you may know, one aspect about the gear is that it is technically split into Tiers - which means gear caps. for example, Tier 1 caps at level 20.

But with that, I realised you may may reach that cap and feeling like your just stuck in a state of limbo until the next section. So my thought is to introduce the ability to "overdrive" gear, or maybe I will specifically leave it as something just for the weapon.

But Overdriving gear would essentially push the stats of the bit of gear beyond the cap. It wouldn't be leveling up, it would just be a bonus to the stats. And you would be able to overdrive multiple times. BUT, being able to overdrive gear would only become available once your player level hits the Tier cap. So if it Tier cap is level 20, in order for your player to be level 20, that means all your gear slots would have reached level 20. So you wouldn't be able to overdrive your weapon if your weapon was level 20, but your overall player level was 15.

Overdriving gear will also be costly, likely high monster essence, and requiring very rare materials. I also likely plan to make it a pretty consistence increase, so for example you could overdrive our weapon 10 times, increase the stats 2.5% each time up to a total of 25% extra.

This way, if you have managed to upgrade all your gear, but are possibly far off unlocking the ability to go to the next tier, there is still some progression options keeping things from getting stale.

But what do you think, do you like the idea?