Guild Wars 2

I’m level 22 doing starter zones and getting level 1-4 items from jump puzzles, champion bosses, etc. I thought you were supposed to get items equal to your actual level..

Sprawl.3891:

I thought you were supposed to get items equal to your actual level..

Nope, only exp. you get is upgraded to be usefull for your “normal” level.

You can actually find items for you level. But they happen rarely.
I think everything higher than blue will be for your level, but don’t take my word for it.

Chests are giving area leveled loot I believe.
Drops from mobs tend to give more on-level item but might drop area-level items as well.

I’ve found items my level in starting zones before, but as stated above, it is rare. I’ve been lucky enough to find a rare or two once in a great while.

Me from GWG2forum

People need to understand that as you get more powerful you have a huge advantage in lower level areas. Where you can plow through monsters. But people constantly complain about the loot scaling, if the loot scaled to 80 all the time, why would people than go to orr anymore? if they can go to a level 1-5 area and plow through monsters 5x as fast with the same loot benefits. 80’s would crowd low level areas and it would be worse for actual 1-5 level players who are being pushed out because they can’t kill anything due to it dying so fast.

Equipment loot from mobs and some (boss) chests has like a 25 or 50% chance to be your level, but I don’t think mats and such are scaled up. Other chests only give out appropriate rewards for their zone.

Even if it is “working as intended”, it is not working as anet promised. They said prior to launch that drops would be up leveled to the players level in lower zones. The closest thing we get are mid lev 70’s drops at lev 80 once in awhile. Groonz, I hear what you say, but it isnt the player’s fault that anet doesnt have any foresight (exotics making players op at lower levels) and the game should work as promised. I know that things have to change once the game is launched, but this one is just plain lack of thinking things through by the dev team….. what a surprise eh?

It’s the same when you run dungeons. Half the loot is the level of the dungeon and the other half is 75-80

The problem wit leveling loot is that if you are farming for jute scraps and only get high level gear to salvage you will get silk instead.

The only reason to go to zones you missed is the “fun” of doing them or a 100% map completion. Steamrolling a lower level zone for crappy rewards isn’t fun for me. Rewards or challenge do not exist at all. Considering many people run alts and probably purposely level up in different zones, going back AGAIN, seems rather pointless. Again, if that achievement means all that much to you=)

Down scaling works, but if this is whats intended, they never shouldn’t bothered at all. Seems like a big waste of code.

The first time I went to a level 1-15 zone to complete it on my exotic geared level 80 (magic find mind you, not berserk) I twoshot the first veteran mob I met. I don’t think you should be rewarded with much better stuff for doing that.

lordkrall.7241:

Chests are giving area leveled loot I believe.
Drops from mobs tend to give more on-level item but might drop area-level items as well.

Chest will give you your level specific loot. Mobs will give you loot that is of their level. as an exp…go to AC as 80. Mobs give you 30-35 gear chest will give you 78-80.

Sprawl.3891:

I’m level 22 doing starter zones and getting level 1-4 items from jump puzzles, champion bosses, etc. I thought you were supposed to get items equal to your actual level..

that was advertised well before BWEs began. by the time gw2 was in public betas, that had long since been removed.

as it is even in wvw i often get much lower level items than my character level. which is the one place that is supposed to be still true.

Reevac.1748:

Chest will give you your level specific loot. Mobs will give you loot that is of their level. as an exp…go to AC as 80. Mobs give you 30-35 gear chest will give you 78-80.

Indeed. I am not talking about dungeons though, but about open world chests (from jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons. They tend to give area-level items.