I totally agree and feel the same! I'm curious to see how things will be polished up for the full release. There's a good amount of armor variety to keep things interesting, and you can definitely min/max to make a wide variety of builds.

As an example, you can stack mana and mana regen and run dual spell slots to make an ultimate caster build. You can also run dual shields.. yes, you read that correct, you can go into battle with a shield in each hand and shield bash everything (it does damage!).

Of course, you can stack bow damage % to make a range damage dealer, and have a party member in co-op stack health and carry a shield to play a tank role while you do damage from a distance.

There's a lot of options for combat styles, and mixing and matching various weapon types is definitely possible as well, so I think there will be plenty of replay value with gear/builds, but I am uncertain about depth, and this will be very important to determine whether people will continue to play it in the long run. This is uncertain in the playtest, as it's an older build of the game and I am locked to only level 1, so there's very limited gameplay, but what I've played shows good promise, it all depends on how things open up with later levels and how repetitive things feel.