Wait what? green rarity is better than blue?

[TotallynotaBot]

Why? just whyyyyyyyyyyy? Took me ages to notice this.

[Grim@FU_BARRACUDA]

xD

[SteT]

Yeah that was a weird design decision.

[red13seto]

found a guy on reddit when i asked what was the first game to use the colour system and he said
Poolboy24
8 years ago
Yea not sure, just came to say I can't stand how Guild Wars reverses blue and green, threw me off.
guess this game is not the only one

[n00borama]

Yeah this has been the reverse in every game I've played. Not too hard to adapt to but I don't understand the decision.

[reptiliane]

In god eater, purple is lower than blue

[eGregious]

Yeah not even just because it's different than expected, but because green - blue - purple has some kind of sense to it in terms of progressing through colour hues.

[[BC|(666)Player]]

Diablo 2 used blue for simple magic items and green for set items. IMO set items are superior to magic items, so Martyr isn't the first game to pull this trick.

[MasonMarxx]

i'm so glad i'm not the only one XD

[Avalon Cherazer]

people not reading the tutorial....its grim dark, thats why

[TotallynotaBot]

Just to clarify this wasn't a serious complaint thread.I more found it funny that I was binning greens till lvl20 .My brain was just totally blind to the fact that the greens very clearly had more and better stats than blues just due to being used to green,blue purple,orange policy of every other game I played.

[General Titmouse]

Always throws me for a loop when games use a color system used by many looters and then decided to deviate from the order in which most other games do it. Some games do have green being higher up the totem pole, but I can think of a few that have them near the bottom.

[Woolsheep]

Originally posted by Avalon Cherazer:

people not reading the tutorial....its grim dark, thats why

I looked for it......and i still did not find it.....WHERE ?

[Imperat0r]

LOL...
Ye i didnt know that either...

[icardias]

Originally posted by Woolsheep:

Originally posted by Avalon Cherazer:

people not reading the tutorial....its grim dark, thats why

I looked for it......and i still did not find it.....WHERE ?

i guess the name is itemization or something like that

[🐈 CAT HUGGER 🐈]

Originally posted by Avalon Cherazer:

people not reading the tutorial....its grim dark, thats why

Nothing to do with the tutorial. By this point it is a well established design trope in ARPG's - one that is deeply engrained. Imagine TF2 but the heavy is now using the silhouette of a scout - everyone would expect the scout to be the most vulnerable in terms of hp because it is something we as gamer have been conditioned toward.The fact that game designers didn't realise this is baffling to say the least and points to one of two explanations,
A: It was a unconscious decision by (probably) inexperienced game designers.
B: The game designers consciously went against a well established trope for whatever mad reason.

A I can understand B I can not fathom.