It's to keep you from exploiting the game and building up super heroes. This is a game of a thousand turns not 50.

 because your champion/sov has 10 15 20 STR and can get it higher and higher

I think instead of costing more money to balance getting to equipment could take your hero out of commission for a few turns of 'training time'

Man, I bought 2 legendary swords I had "found" for my sov and a champion at 6k each. Sadly my champion died shortly afterward... I wish we could recover equipment on the battlefield after a battle. Sell most of it for money or whatever.

It is no multiplier, it simply adds its value to the attack value of the champion.

Example:

My champion Rilis has 9 attack, i bought her mace for 270 gildars (+12 attac) and she has att 21

The same mace for a units cost 8g, 1 mats and 2 metals... For 60 gildars and some mats i can have group of 4 mace-men with att value of 52, same defense and higher hit points...

The price for the item should cover the value of the resources needed to produce it, but right now there is no corellation whatsoever.

The bottom line is: the equipment is virtually useless, as the same money may be spend waaaaaaay better somewhere else.

And once you champion die, you will never see yours equipment again, even if you eventually win the fight...

Have you guys bothered researching enchanted weapons yet? The prices get even more ridiculous in the opposite direction - Legendary plate greaves, cuirass, helm and shield costs just over 500 Gildar for the lot, and gives you near enough 40 defence before dexterity bonus, with no malus on combat speed. Though the enchanted sword is 6250, though once your defence is that high you can near enough punch trolls to death before they can grind you down.

i agree that the equitment is too expensive. and its not like they could compete with a stack of soldiers even if they had the same stuff. the only way chamions are better than regular units is by either finding quest weapons or by spells.

which reminds me that te magic armor and attack enchantment spells are quite uselss. i mean 2 attack and 2 defense might matter at the beginning of the game but later they are a waste of enchantment slots.

enchentmants (and summons) need to somehow scale with intelligence like the rest of the spells do.