Equipment Level

[Edgedemon]

is there a way to make your equipment LEVEL UP to you or do you have to replace it always?.
I am wondering this because there are weapons that look incredible, and even better have an actual backstory to them but the level disparity by zone makes then pretty much useless quite fast, i loved the blacksmith daughter sword, but by the time i found it it was essentially worthless, same with the frozen sword under the tree, i believe we could really use a system to level up your favorite weapon either by use, material grind, forging or at least leveling zones and loot to allow to get another copy with higher levels after.

[Jarlim]

most weapons can level up, to a limit. below the name of weapons if it says like 16>19 that means its currently lvl 16 and can go up to 19

[xitooner]

Weapon replacement is almost inevitable. Leaving aside the fact that weapons can be rare,epic,legendary, etc.... all weapons should tell you what level it is, and what its max-level can be (if you upgrade it via companion/money). The old max was level 30; looks like the new max is at least 37 (so far as I've seen/heard).

For the sheer power increase of higher levels alone, you will need to replace your weapons. And often you'll replace your weapon because one with even better stats comes along.

The backstories on weapons are cool; you should hang those favorite weapons in a display case because they have history... to you. But during the game you are advancing in power, and the childish weapon you had at the beginning is NOT going to take you to the end. You will have new weapons with new cool histories to put on your wall before you are done; dnot get attached.

[gadfly6363]

Maybe the better thing to do would be to allow weapons as cosmetics like the armor? Then any sword looks like your favorite one.

[Edgedemon]

The cosmetic option could work, but would likely be harder to implement, the smithy daughter sword description claims is his masterpiece and is like level 15.
A harder material grind to raise that max level would both give you more objectives to spend your time on and make using that time you invested so much on be more rewarding.
Maybe moving some legendary rewards to higher level zones to actually make them as powerful as their name or description implies would work too