They really should remove the level restriction on armor augments. It sucks being level 58 and being 1-2 shot by something solely because gear doesn’t have nearly enough resistances on them without it. It made sense before when you were pretty much always reaching ultimate by level 70 anyway before the merits were a thing. To me it takes all the fun out of leveling in ultimate when you reach that awkward resistance state.
The damage and health of mobs were fine I can slog it out for that extra challenge and reward. It’s just frustrating realizing I have 12 more levels of this shit before i can do something proactive about it. Or maybe bump the level down to 40 or 50 as that’s when the trouble really starts anyway. At least for me it did.
I disagree on removing the restriction. It’s called Ultimate for a reason, it should be hard for a low level character.
But I agree on lowering the requirements, at least a bit. I don’t level up in Ultimate (it’s such a chore, I gave up after kiting Reanimator for 10 minutes:rolleyes:) but I usually reach Elite around level 60 so lowering armor augment requirements from 70 to 60 would be nice, especially for new players or those who play 100% solo self found.
Can you start in Elite when you use those Merits? I would imagine so but i have not started a second build quite yet to see.
But if it does anyway wouldn’t it be more efficient in the long run to start in Elite just to get going with gear and res capping? Then jump to Ultimate? Pretty sure even when you recover your corpse you dont recover all exp lost so every death is a setback. Its either that or farm the piss out of A1 areas best you can till you get enough Greens to drop. Thats all i got…
Yes you can. In fact I always use the merits on every fresh character I’m starting. I only do this to make all shrines available on Elite, so I can get to 55 devotion points a lot quicker (this makes using Crucible tokens to buy devotion points obsolete :D) But I still level up in Veteran first. Hm maybe I’ll try Elite next time, Ultimate was a pita but Elite should be considerably easier with a level 1 char.
Elite is perfectly doable to level up.
I personally went veteran to level a faction I ultimately wouldn’t choose in Elite and Ultimate, but other than that, it works out fine.
Yep, Elite is perfectly fine. I took a character to Elite from level 20-25 (i had started playing that toon before FG) and that’s a self funded toon using mostly faction gear and occasional green stuff that just dropped. I died 7 times but 3 were testing the Shattered Realms (those can be brutal), one was me not noticing i was standing in damage pool and 2 trying to get a few more kills before my xp potion ran out :rolleyes: