So I have bricked my 66 necros helm with a seemingly mundane midroll 20% defense for 5 sec aspect because it was from my rogue who was lvl 90.
There is no glaring visual (aside from the wee level 90 in bottom right corner) but in my mind the aspect itself should AT LEAST (lazy way out) have red haze over it as over my characters level… saying something CANNOT USE in red etc. And of course attempting to re-aspect it with a lower level one like a random lvl 50 or a codex one doesn’t lower the level… I now have a useless helm at lvl 90 that just has to be broken down/sold.
I am super confused as to the ‘level req’ on items as it is. A ilvl 699 junk rare found on my lvl 90 rogue is lvl 90. Why do we even have a shared bank? If aspects… items… etc are going to be dropped at character level no matter how crappy or low ilvl it is… why even have a chance for this confusion. Coming from D3 and having a ton of tabs and space to this nonsense is hard enough to keep track of multiple characters.
IDEAS:
BEST – Simply make rarity the level cap.
Normal Rares and Legendary etc available to any level
SACRED rare/legendary available to any 50+
ANCENSTRAL rare/legendary available to any 60+
UNIQUES follow the above versions of if they are normal/sacred/ancestral
Maybe the SUPER RARES you have released (Shako … Grandfather etc) at lvl 70 or something if you want.
DECENT – make the ilvl first number the deciding factor.
Ilvl 400 = lvl 40+
Ilvl 600 = lvl 60+
Ilvl 800 = lvl 80+
WORST – Make all loot dropped at high lvls appear red to a lower char who might scroll over it in the bank. Including Aspects/wearable gear/potions etc. I should not even be able to USE an over leveled aspect on my lower gear while under the level to even use said aspect.
Yes, for most aspects this seems like a pointless and annoying restriction for them to have the same level requirement as the item they came from.
Some aspects do get stronger depending on level but those are the only ones this sort of makes sense for, and even for those ones what they should do is gate keep aspects for that particular tier of strength for that particular level that that tier becomes available, but most shouldn’t have a level requirement at all.
Aspects having varying level restriction is counter intuitive IMO and needlessly clunky. They should be like gems - broad tier level restrictions.
They already are a nightmare to manage in inventory, they don’t stack, there are dozens for each class. I don’t want to also keep tabs on which have a level 30 requirement or a level 44 or some other random arbitrary number.
That means all Normal aspects get no restriction, Sacred get level 50 restriction, Ancestral get level 70 restriction. Or something like your example relating to ilvl. Outside that, they should be free-to-use. And aspects that have numeric scaling would just level-up each level.
A perfectly rolled “shield fo 1000” should just level with the player, it’s not as if the player can use it on multiple items (unlike gems).
As it is Aspects are just unbelievably tiring to manage, I don’t need arbitrary pointless generally RNG and illogical level restrictions.
I like this example, simple and very easy to understand and makes sense! I hate that I find an item on my 82 sorc and if i rip off the aspect of said item the aspect is level 82 required (even though its very close to a level 28 aspect)
dont cut yourself on that edge. I already admitted i didnt see the lvl req … was talking about how it doesnt make much sense… demanding nothing… personal thoughts and some seem to agree… but keep adding the wonderful commentary that ‘helps’ It was just a helm and easily replaced. The system just didnt make a whole lotta sense to me