Imagine wondering around eterras whacking mobs with random things and finding dyes in the dropped loot?! Collect 10 of the same dyes and take the to the tattoo parlor and get a tattoo permenately raising your stats depending on the rarity of the dyes. Common dyes give +2 of a single stat. Magic gives +4. Rare +6 exalted +10 and legendaries gives +5 all stats.
I like the idea of a separate thing to buff your stats but with how far out the camera is (& the fact that you’ll be wearing gear), you’d only likely see it in town/zoomed in.
Perhaps you tattoo your piece of gear instead. So you can tattoo chest and helm and then it will be unique and viable of course cosmetics mtx will cover it up
yes and no, doesnt have to be stats, could be passive effects that you cant get anywhere else in game, a version of blessings, but you have to hunt for them in the wild.