Item levels 6+

[Myradiel]

Idk why but I'm at level 8 and still looting lvl 6 items all the time for like 3rd day already.
Is 6 item level a max?

I've done main quest till Epilogue and most of the side quests.
Shops also don't offer level 6+ items.

[Agarillobob]

nah I have seen lvl 7 in shops but rare and gotten lvl 9 in sunken chests in the sunken part but mostly from the city and stuff I only get elvel 6
I´m infront of the epilouge finsihing side missions and activites atm

[LunarGatta]

You need to go the sunken city and loot there.

[MrWitz]

Once you finish the epilogue, the loot will drop at your level.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by MrWitz:

Once you finish the epilogue, the loot will drop at your level.

oh you can play after the epilouge? it doesnt look you out ?

[Goosetave]

Aye, sunken city, even if it's still flooded. Loot respawns every 20mn. Also another tip i'd give for stuff to do in between loot runs is keeping a low level metro station and never finishing it : it'll give you plenty of low level virals and even 3 volatiles for trophies. They don't scale unlike those in GRE buildings, and they respawn quickly. There's one near the PK HQ.

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

Originally posted by MrWitz:

Once you finish the epilogue, the loot will drop at your level.

oh you can play after the epilouge? it doesnt look you out ?

Just continue game, it'll scale stuff up to you, it's fine.

Story will be completed.

[Goosetave]

Originally posted by MrWitz:

Once you finish the epilogue, the loot will drop at your level.

Incorrect, even in post-game only sunken city drops and orange icon bandit and infected events give you lvl7+ gear. That and shops but only up to unique, no artifacts.

[randomguy01542]

Originally posted by MrWitz:

Once you finish the epilogue, the loot will drop at your level.

nah bruh, epilogue gives you loot past your lv unless you managed to max out already, I was getting rank 8 stuff before I finished the game.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

can confirm, as far as I can tell the only rank 9 gear I've seen in the game thus far was from the sunken drops in the lake.

PSA: the devs forgot to add bows over rank 6 to the loot tables for shops so you can't buy any bow that's past tier 6 unless you get a mod that fixes it.

[Kenpachi219]

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Guy:

can confirm, as far as I can tell the only rank 9 gear I've seen in the game thus far was from the sunken drops in the lake.

PSA: the devs forgot to add bows over rank 6 to the loot tables for shops so you can't buy any bow that's past tier 6 unless you get a mod that fixes it.

Aside from the crossbow you mean? seems like the crossbow scales with your lvl by itself.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Guy:

can confirm, as far as I can tell the only rank 9 gear I've seen in the game thus far was from the sunken drops in the lake.

PSA: the devs forgot to add bows over rank 6 to the loot tables for shops so you can't buy any bow that's past tier 6 unless you get a mod that fixes it.

Aside from the crossbow you mean? seems like the crossbow scales with your lvl by itself.

Yes aside from the crossbow. It scales automatically.

[LotusX2]

Same situation for me, I don't see any loots beyond lvl 6 except for the sunken drops. I don't even see the special encounters that have a very hard chest that some have mentioned.

[Dystharia[Ger]]

9 is max Rank.
After you finish the game you get orange bandit/infected spawns, they variate between 7 and 9 from the loot.
I farmed each spec lvl 9 artifact gear from that, so it is possible.

Before you finish the story you need to farm sunken drops, but that's not very effectiv, but the only actuall way.

[ShootaBoy]

Don't listen to what they say. You need to be level 9 max in order to get level 7, 8 and 9 drops. It doesn't matter whether you've finished the game or not, you need to be level 9 to stop getting loot from level 6 and below. I made a thread about this because I was also wondering WTF is the problem.

Shops don't offer you rare loot. Forget about it. Only 3 chests in the Sunken City give you level 9 artifact loot which is utterly stupid. The other thing that gives you artifact loot is the orange marked zombies during the night and renegades during the day.

[Huillam]

Originally posted by ShootaBoy:

Don't listen to what they say. You need to be level 9 max in order to get level 7, 8 and 9 drops.

I got rank 9 gear from post-story special encounters while being rank 8 so obviously no.