"I had found random drops of Chain Mail that were better than that first Larian Armour.
We want quest rewards to be worth it!"
actually i find the randomness as a plus (although i do agree it should be more "intelligent") and i appreciate when there is NOT some ultimate armor/weapon which would take hunting/hoping for special drops/purchases completely out of the equation (EDIT: although they should be sufficiently powerful that a random drop of a more powerful armor/weapon would be quite rare - just not impossible)... ESPECIALLY SO when there's a difference in appearance between armors, even if it's simply a difference of shade, coloration or tinge of hue (on the appearance thing, diablo 2 was special because almost every armor looked slightly different from the next either because one was made "shinier", another is colored differently or another glimmers with a hint of a different color... the next generation of that idea would be "pattern shaders" (borrowing shader term from 3d games) where instead of simply applying a different tinge or base hue for a weapon/armor a different pattern could appear so an engraved or painted platemail could look as such... the same technology could also facilitate a glowing or flaming affect)...
