I like the way you guys doing it because our mechanics are just not good at all, bows should be used against flying enemies and swords should be used against normal enemies (beast type). My suggestion is : improve the quality of skills and status information (agility, strength and charisma) to see the true effects instead of just adding but we dont know the value of it.

Another one is we should add another side quests like getting special equipment or cards that can be added on deck and also we should have deck changing system because we cant add or removed cards we have and it still far from useable.

Thats all I wanted to say about this game, its okay if you guys feel not really important but at least weapons and card decks should be reworked for sure.

will i have to start over?

Sounds great and looking forward to the update! I'm probably gonna restart my game if the mechanics are changed enough.