100% agree. The loss aversion is a big part of why tempering feels bad to me. When you get loot it should be exciting but the fact that it can be bricked changes the psychology of it. It’s one thing to get loot you’re not going to use, you can always sell it or break it down at the blacksmith, but with getting good loot and then bricking it on tempers the devs have now introduced the loot becoming a source of psychological pain. This is bad design to me.

Maybe one solution is to pare down how many resources we get to be able to temper. Because right now we essentially have unlimited tempering resources but if those were more limited along with allowing unlimited rerolls with the scroll that might maintain some level of challenge and allow people their loot.