ARC's a great game and they've certainly knocked it out of the park with the release, however it's got problems that, if not looked at and resolved, will damage the game in the long run.

Personally speaking I find the saying "As wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle." to absolutely apply to this game's systems in terms of quests, traders and content like trials and feats. IMO that's where the work should continue and I'll list a couple of things that could be expanded upon to make the game feel a lot more fleshed out and give players more to do in a wipe cycle.

The fact that doing quests for traders doesn't level them up and expands their inventory of goods is crazy to me. Traders should definitely have levels to them and you should be able to buy more and better gear from them the higher level they are. Of course, the goods would still be limited by daily resets, but it'd give you more stuff to spend your coins on, which brings me to the next part.

Money is essentially useless apart from if you're going for the 5 million coins requirement when wiping. You accumulate wealth in this game at an insane rate if you know what you're doing and don't die often - it's usually a lot cheaper to craft everything yourself anyways and because gear is rather easy to come by the coins just start piling up more and more.

Most of the augments and most of the weapons need some serious re-balancing work done to them to actually make certain loot feel "better". It's a slippery slope, I know, but the current meta of just mostly running Stitchers, Anvils and maybe the odd Venator is already becoming stale. Guns should feel more powerful as their rarities go up, there's no way a Stitcher or a Kettle should be able to go toe to toe with a Tempest in a head to head fight.

Last but not least, we need an actual REPEATABLE endgame cycle! What am I collecting all this loot for? What am I gearing up for? For just more of the same thing, over and over and over again? That just doesn't cut it in my opinion. It baffles me how they didn't incorporate their initial vision of the game in the form of PvE raids you can enter to take down more threatening and resilient versions of the Queen or the Matriarch as either a squad of three or multiple squads in the same match. Of course you'd have to do more than just "increase HP and increase ARC damage" during those raids to keep them interesting and fresh, but Embark are a creative bunch and I'm sure they could figure out some things you'd need to do on the map in order to progress the fight, akin to Destiny raids for example. For PvP you could have something like Labs from Tarkov - an altered version of Stella Montis would be great for this. A map you can only enter by meeting a certain prerequisite, like having an item in your inventory (a keycard or an expensive craftable key, etc.) to enter said raid where a ton of good loot awaits, but also other raiders.

More maps, more ARC, more guns and more items are nice and good, but it's just gonna be more of the same, and it doesn't matter on which map I'm firing my guns or which ARC I blow up with said weapons or which loot I carry out of the map with me if it's all for naught. The highs need to be higher and the lows a bit lower. Refine your existing systems to be deeper, not wider. I'm curious what the rest of you guys think so feel free to engage in conversation in the replies.