Hi!
Can someone kindly explain how gear/level progression works? I’ve read a bunch of things online but I’m still stuck. I have a Rogue in Nightmare Tier and really struggling from pretty much the late 50s to where I am now at 63.
I’ve been running Nightmare Tier 20 dungeons and I’m getting absolutely no new gear in over a week. Is that… normal? Every single thing that is dropping is ~100 levels lower than anything I already have.
What am I supposed to be doing at this level to get better gear and levelling so I can get through the capstone to get to the torment world tier?
Thank you!
Same here. Just hit 67…couldn’t tell you last time I saw any meaningful upgrade. I figure I probably won’t until WT4 if I can be bothered to get there at this point.
Once you get full sacred gear you won’t find any meaningful upgrades until you get to world tier 4.
If you’re struggling in world tier 3 with full sacred gear, your build might need some work. Reevaluate your skill/affix choices and the stat distribution on your gear. Upgrade everything to at least level 3.
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If you Item level is above 725, it is just RNG from there.
These are the breakpoints for gear.
1: 1-149
2: 150-339
3: 340-459
4: 460-624
5: 625-724
6: 725+
What Murderin said is also very necessary. Upgrade your gear. It is natural tendency to be cheap with materials but you can always get more.
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Thank you for the replies! Apologies, I meant “struggling” in terms of… I’m just supposed to go through dozens of dungeons and the same few things for… weeks for absolutely no hope of reward at all and just wait to ping 70 before I can actually get more gear and feel like there is progression somewhere? That just seems really odd to me. I’m fine in the Nightmare Tier 20 dungeons dependent on affixes and will probably keep pushing higher because… nothing else to do? It’s just weird.
And yes, of course I get the whole RNG thing but usually the game is actually dropping gear that might be useful instead of every single thing in dungeon after dungeon being so far below my level as to be laughable. I do have everything upgraded and gemmed 
This game reminds me of the last Tomb Raider movie. How can you possibly make an action movie that is somehow… boring? That seems almost impossible. How can you make an actiony grimdark kill everything game and have it be boring? Because the Blizzard team designed it like that. Oh well.
Thanks again for the replies!
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I had same issue. But when you reach 70, the level of the gear change suddenly and get muuuuch better loot.
So you need to grind more level.
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So got into T4 and doing level 30 nightmare dungeons and I am still getting the same old junk? One or two pieces in a week that are only slightly … very slightly … better than what I had since level 50? Is this really this broken? I’m in level 790+ gear and everything dropping (including from spending Obols by the way) are all lower level than what I have and in many cases significantly lower level than I have. Some of the weapons dropping are 1000+ damage less than what I have. Any advice besides “you’re done with the game unless you want to endlessly grind stuff from here on out for the .00001% chance you might get a drop you need?” Thank you!