I'd like to see various equipment affect the cooldowns of our various moves.
Bronze swords should cause chops cooldown to be like 20% less for example
Shield quality should affect the cooldown of shield up, and should arguably raise the cooldown on chop.
I'd like to see more variation in fighting styles. Right now the focus is on hitting your opponent with a chop powerful enough to one shot them. Would be neat if there was some kind of incentive to use other equipment.