Yes, awakening should get buffs. Simply the buff awakened simply don’t follow any logic (i.e. crit staff). Nobody would like to spend 30mins+ fighting at least a dozen or so waves to fight out the stat they unlocked is totally useless. Awaken takes a lot more effort relative to the other types of permanent buffs (slotting/upgrading/etc), but crazy low returns. It’s kinda sad too because awakening and opus (currently no new info about this skill) were two things i had high hopes in experiencing/seeing from alchs (even though i’m going pardoner myself).
1)I thought awakened buffs were permanent
2)If awakening stays the same as it is now, then its fair that people get some minor exp in return. Only argument against this i could think of is people trying to exploit the item world as a leveling spot rather then a means to upgrade equip.
3) Stats that make sense would be nice. Also, it would be cool to be able to choose the stat from a set of possible stats or preview the stat we’re getting before committing in the time and effort. Nobody wants to spend 30mins+ fighting lvl 200+ monsters inside their rare staff to find out that that staff will only give crit+.


