Level appropriate items

[Briggs]

The expansion is great, game is great, BUT! Would it be so bad to have item drops be level appropriate? I get that there’s a level requirement on legendaries. But pretty much everything that drops, no matter the rarity, is 2-4 levels higher than my character wich is really frustrating when you really need it to progress. Was ok through veteran and elite, but on ultimate it’s really unforgiving. Would it be so bad if you could equip an item when it dropped instead of a couple of hours later? I’m 89 on ultimate at the moment and still haven’t found an item i could just pick up and equip through my whole playthrough. Kinda takes away from the excitement of loot in my opinion.

[Boromonokli]

Rank up the Malmouth Resistance to revered, (even easier when you have mandates, still easy on elite when farming krieg set) use double XP potions and hunt down act 4 vanilla chthonic vanguards in loghorrean tomb

[USER_NAME_01]

The expansion is great, game is great, BUT! Would it be so bad to have item drops be level appropriate? I get that there’s a level requirement on legendaries. But pretty much everything that drops, no matter the rarity, is 2-4 levels higher than my character wich is really frustrating when you really need it to progress. Was ok through veteran and elite, but on ultimate it’s really unforgiving. Would it be so bad if you could equip an item when it dropped instead of a couple of hours later? I’m 89 on ultimate at the moment and still haven’t found an item i could just pick up and equip through my whole playthrough. Kinda takes away from the excitement of loot in my opinion.

I rather have higher level stronger items than lower level weaker items. Even 100 armor is a huge difference later on, in Ultimate. You can always buy a placeholder item in npc store. Iirc, 2 levels on ultimate is about 30 min - 1 hour of playing if you don’t use exp potions, but it’s quite fast anyway.

You said it takes away the excitement in your situation, but it actually doesn’t. You’re getting better items, stronger ones, so to me it just gives additional excitement and sets a new side-goal for me to play the game (to continue with this character).

[Briggs]

I rather have higher level stronger items than lower level weaker items. Even 100 armor is a huge difference later on, in Ultimate. You can always buy a placeholder item in npc store. Iirc, 2 levels on ultimate is about 30 min - 1 hour of playing if you don’t use exp potions, but it’s quite fast anyway.

You said it takes away the excitement in your situation, but it actually doesn’t. You’re getting better items, stronger ones, so to me it just gives additional excitement and sets a new side-goal for me to play the game (to continue with this character).

Actually no, items aren’t any stronger. The items have the exact same power as they would have if they dropped at the level where you can equip them, if item drops at lvl 40 are all lvl 46 they are useless until you hit 46, if the same items drops when you are lvl 46, it’s the exact same item you got at 40, but you can actually use it right away. Running around with an inventory full of potential upgrades is hardly as fun as picking up an item that you can equip as it drops.

Also, it’s not gamebreaking in any way. Just a little wierd game design in my opinion and seems to be a symptom of scaling mobs.

[Briggs]

Actually no, items aren’t any stronger. The items have the exact same power as they would have if they dropped at the level where you can equip them, if item drops at lvl 40 are all lvl 46 they are useless until you hit 46, if the same items drops when you are lvl 46, it’s the exact same item you got at 40, but you can actually use it right away. Running around with an inventory full of potential upgrades is hardly as fun as picking up an item that you can equip as it drops.

Also, it’s not gamebreaking in any way. Just a little wierd game design in my opinion and seems to be a symptom of scaling mobs.

Edit: On my second playthrough with the ultimate merit and xp pots i see the value of how the system is now and my is changed. Makes alot more sense now. And so does your point USER_NAME_01. I retract my first statement. Thanks for the xp pot tip Boromonokli.