I got confused

[Little Alien]

To me, Epic is the best and Pristine just means good but not "Epic". So I've been replacing Pristine with Epic. Am I the only dumb dumb doing this.

I'm just used to games with Epic and Legendary in D&D type games. To come to a game like this which I also like is confusing when it comes to the quality of items. Is it me or has the Devs confused us ?.

[Pierric Bross]

The game does have a few other indicators to help:
- # of shapes on the plaque for the exhibit go from 0->3 with 3 being pristine.
- As an expedition is survey'd on the map, the quality unlock moves from epic -> pristine.
- Typically purple is the 'next-best' colour behind gold/orange. Epic is purple and pristine is gold.

I still get the confusion. They used pristine instead of 'legendary' because it's ultimately a museum exhibit. They could have changed 'epic' as well and then there would have been zero confusion. I do think they tried their best to highlight that pristine is best.

[Jaggid Edje]

Pristine in this game is the same as Legendary in RPG and aRPG games which have color coded item rarity. The common standard in games is that Epic is purple quality, Legendary is gold quality. Pristine in this game is gold quality, so Pristine = Legendary.

This game also gives each quality on the exhibit itself an increasing number of "dots", with Average (white/grey) being 0 dots, rare (blue) being 1 dot, Epic (purple) being 2 dots, and pristine (gold) being 3 dots.

The colors used combined with the number of dots increasing like that made it pretty obvious to me what the tier ranking is. Not really confusing at all.

Additional guidance on realizing that is also in the game. As you do expeditions, the quality rating of those expeditions increases as shown on the "Survey Level" of the expedition overview. Pristine is the highest level unlock. To me that is an indicator that Pristine is the best one.

TLDR; I didn't think it was confusing at all. Even the word "Pristine" implies it is in the best possible condition. That's what the word means.

[Little Alien]

Originally posted by Pierric Bross:

The game does have a few other indicators to help:
- # of shapes on the plaque for the exhibit go from 0->3 with 3 being pristine.
- As an expedition is survey'd on the map, the quality unlock moves from epic -> pristine.
- Typically purple is the 'next-best' colour behind gold/orange. Epic is purple and pristine is gold.

I still get the confusion. They used pristine instead of 'legendary' because it's ultimately a museum exhibit. They could have changed 'epic' as well and then there would have been zero confusion. I do think they tried their best to highlight that pristine is best.

Yeah, I've been playing for quite a bit and it only just dawned on me that I've been doing it wrong. I got to the aquarium and was replacing pristine fish with epic. Then not until I got to the map in the top of the trees, did I notice the epic items only have two upgrade slots and the pristine ones have 3 slots.

I'm like oh no I've been doing it wrong all this time. Now I know but my brain has been used to it being done differently. It's quite weird to have to re-think how quality of items go in this game.

[Little Alien]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Pristine in this game is the same as Legendary in RPG and aRPG games which have color coded item rarity. The common standard in games is that Epic is purple quality, Legendary is gold quality. Pristine in this game is gold quality, so Pristine = Legendary.

This game also gives each quality on the exhibit itself an increasing number of "dots", with Average (white/grey) being 0 dots, rare (blue) being 1 dot, Epic (purple) being 2 dots, and pristine (gold) being 3 dots.

The colors used combined with the number of dots increasing like that made it pretty obvious to me what the tier ranking is. Not really confusing at all.

Additional guidance on realizing that is also in the game. As you do expeditions, the quality rating of those expeditions increases as shown on the "Survey Level" of the expedition overview. Pristine is the highest level unlock. To me that is an indicator that Pristine is the best one.

TLDR; I didn't think it was confusing at all. Even the word "Pristine" implies it is in the best possible condition. That's what the word means.

Now you mention it and explain it that way, it makes sense. Might just be me getting old...haha.

[hekele]

I was confused by this as well. Epic seems the most... epic. But Average, Great, Epic fit and Pristine didn't so I was a bit puzzled by it - enough that I just looked it up here to see. That and the color was a hint, but not enough for me to be sure about it. Good to know Pristine is the best.

[Biggles]

On a side note - the shapes on the plaque light up for each perk you install up to the maximum per class.