Remove the blood shard cap. Put a 10000 blood shard item on Kadala that allows you to choose which leg/set piece you want and what stats. All stats will be perfect. People will line up to farm that shit until they have every piece they want. It will make running and rerunning rifts have a useful point.
Until the next season when the best gear changes. Or you want to try a different build. Yeah.
I would argue that's a clunky solution. At the very least, enabling trading is not a small change.
Or continue having items 'bind to account' when they drop but have a recipe/mat requirement to unbind them for trading. You can use Kadala for this also. This way it isn't full open trading, it'll limit trading to some degree.
Because making people play grinding games with 0 payoff is such a great model? That's why the game goes mostly into the dustbin after the shiny of expansions and big patches wears off. At least with a guaranteed payoff after grinding an unholy amount of shards people could leave feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment instead of feeling fucked over. This isn't WOW, where they make more money the longer people keep playing.
Sounds like a great business model to me.
The entire game is carrot and stick. That's how they keep people playing. Your idea effectively says "if you chase the carrot long enough without catching it, here have the carrot anyways."
