stuck at power 200 items

[Ape]

Vermintide2 fandom wiki says:
"Item Power ranges from 5 to 300. Each time the player opens a chest or crafts an item, the power of the items they get is determined by the average power level of the most powerful items they have found in chests in every item slot. The power of that item will be between [-5 to +10] over/under that number."

But I have been stuck at power 200 and cannot get past that with any items, crafted nor boxed. One of my characters is past lvl 30 if that matters but if I understood correctly it should not matter. Wasted a lot of materials and boxes, and it does not go past 200.

What is the trick? thanks

[Ragey]

Increasing difficulty will yield better chests with higher power level items, that's written in-game when you select the difficulty I think (i.e. Legend goes up to 300)

[Ravenwild]

Everything except recruit goes up to 300, and recruit stops at 100 so if op really is stuck at 200 that's not the cause.

[ZZZZZ]

sometimes u need more and sometimes less chests to reach a higher level

[Runic Tunic]

Here's what ik/what you can do that might help:
-Like the wiki says, make sure you are equipping your highest level gear. Do it for all your careers/classes. Just wanted to throw that out there cus we all miss details sometimes.

-You may not be opening up enough chests or high tier chests. Could also just have poor RNG, which happens sometimes. Keep at it.

-Don't play as only one character/career. I guess lots of failed runs and only playing one character can cause bottlenecking at times, based on what others have said who experienced similar problems. Keep your chest opening for your favorite,

-Increase your difficulty if possible. This yields higher tier chests, which increases the chance of better gear/power levels. Apparently quality of gear matters as well.


EDIT: Also, I've read mixed results about this but try scrapping everything you don't want that's low tier/power if you aren't already. Some people claim it helps. At the very least it provides more resources for crafting.

[Ardariel]

Originally posted by Rage:

Increasing difficulty will yield better chests with higher power level items, that's written in-game when you select the difficulty I think (i.e. Legend goes up to 300)

it does not apply here, since he is stuck at 200, not 100.

[Ardariel]

Only thing that matters is power level of items that were equipped in corresponding slot. Keep crafting/open chests and each time you have higher PL - equip, until you ran out of materials. Then farm some more, repeat.

[Ape]

I have done veteran and champion missions. Maybe I have to try later to scrap everything I can and just use blueprint models. But no time right know.

[VisionofFire]

Originally posted by Ardariel:

Only thing that matters is power level of items that were equipped in corresponding slot.

Hi Ardariel,

Do you still have a link to a video or source about equipped items mattering for purposes of new loot power level calculation? I've been playing on an alt account to have a more appropriate power level to play on lower difficulties, and I don't think the equipped thing is a hard rule. After seeing one of your previous posts, I decided not to equip new gear to test. My currently equipped gear that I left on is about 120 power, with the lowest being trinket at 89, and the loot I'm currently opening is up to 170 power now. I could keep my equipped gear frozen to test further, but 170 should be well outside the -5 to +10 range that my currently equipped gear was at.

If you would like screenshots, or more information from my side, let me know.

[Ardariel]

Originally posted by Deadeye Flint:

Originally posted by Ardariel:

Only thing that matters is power level of items that were equipped in corresponding slot.

Hi Ardariel,

Do you still have a link to a video or source about equipped items mattering for purposes of new loot power level calculation? I've been playing on an alt account to have a more appropriate power level to play on lower difficulties, and I don't think the equipped thing is a hard rule. After seeing one of your previous posts, I decided not to equip new gear to test. My currently equipped gear that I left on is about 120 power, with the lowest being trinket at 89, and the loot I'm currently opening is up to 170 power now. I could keep my equipped gear frozen to test further, but 170 should be well outside the -5 to +10 range that my currently equipped gear was at.

If you would like screenshots, or more information from my side, let me know.

Nope, i dont. Can dig out though, i guess. It was years ago and it was guy who posted series of videos (with low view counts, cause he was just prooving something to someone) way after majority got their gear upped, smth like in 2019 or smth.

I`ll see if i can find it.

[Zoli]

Originally posted by Runic Tunic:

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Everything you said is wrong.

OP, after 200 the progress is reduced.
The game records the 5 highest level items. I guess these are the top from each category (melee, ranged, etc.).
Try to craft items for the category group with the lowest level item of these 5.
If the progress is really stopped, the only thing I can imagine is you open boxes mostly for a melee only class thus the ranged category remains at low level.

Originally posted by Ardariel:

Only thing that matters is power level of items that were equipped in corresponding slot. Keep crafting/open chests and each time you have higher PL - equip, until you ran out of materials. Then farm some more, repeat.

Fake.
No need to equip anything. Opening chests and crafting items is enough.

Originally posted by Ape:

Maybe I have to try later to scrap everything I can and just use blueprint models.

Why???

[765]

Any progress?

[Runic Tunic]

Originally posted by Zoli:

Originally posted by Runic Tunic:

...

Everything you said is wrong.

OP, after 200 the progress is reduced.
The game records the 5 highest level items. I guess these are the top from each category (melee, ranged, etc.).
Try to craft items for the category group with the lowest level item of these 5.
If the progress is really stopped, the only thing I can imagine is you open boxes mostly for a melee only class thus the ranged category remains at low level.

Originally posted by Ardariel:

Only thing that matters is power level of items that were equipped in corresponding slot. Keep crafting/open chests and each time you have higher PL - equip, until you ran out of materials. Then farm some more, repeat.

Fake.
No need to equip anything. Opening chests and crafting items is enough.

Originally posted by Ape:

Maybe I have to try later to scrap everything I can and just use blueprint models.

Why???

Well...not according to what I just looked up. And even where it is debateable, it's why I said "what i know/what MIGHT help" and used the words "apparently" and "supposedly" throughout my response.

Either way it's not ALL wrong. I specifically say that several things were according to what others have said, and the rest is from the wiki and some datamined stuff I looked up. You're welcome to provide a link that actually clarifies it so it can help OP. Probably would be more helpful for everyone here tbh.

[VisionofFire]

@Ardariel:
Honestly, if you can't find it quickly, there's no real reason to hunt for it.
It's entirely possible that what the video showed was true at the time, but it's probably quite old now.

From the observed behaviour on my own alt account, it seems likely that equipping the items is not necessary to increase the level of loot. I will continue to not change my equipment and see if I can get to a suitably high power, currently at 180 at the time of this writing. It's possible that maybe the rules change around power level 200 as Zoli suggested, but I'll need to stack up more chests to find out.

@Runic_Tunic:
I think that's what at issue here. It's entirely possible the issue was researched out and proven via video before, but it may not be true any longer. From my own observation as detailed in a previous post, it seems like it's possible to raise power of loot without equipping the new items.

[Ardariel]

Originally posted by Deadeye Flint:

@Ardariel:
Honestly, if you can't find it quickly, there's no real reason to hunt for it.
It's entirely possible that what the video showed was true at the time, but it's probably quite old now.

From the observed behaviour on my own alt account, it seems likely that equipping the items is not necessary to increase the level of loot. I will continue to not change my equipment and see if I can get to a suitably high power, currently at 180 at the time of this writing. It's possible that maybe the rules change around power level 200 as Zoli suggested, but I'll need to stack up more chests to find out.

@Runic_Tunic:
I think that's what at issue here. It's entirely possible the issue was researched out and proven via video before, but it may not be true any longer. From my own observation as detailed in a previous post, it seems like it's possible to raise power of loot without equipping the new items.

Make vid, lets pin and spread it. regardless what result you gonna get, it would be valuable for a new players, especially if you would do instructions on a way. Cause, lets face it, old players are not gonna get invested in this matter that much to research this topic again, so we cant count on crowd rsearch.

[Runic Tunic]

Originally posted by Deadeye Flint:

@Ardariel:
Honestly, if you can't find it quickly, there's no real reason to hunt for it.
It's entirely possible that what the video showed was true at the time, but it's probably quite old now.

From the observed behaviour on my own alt account, it seems likely that equipping the items is not necessary to increase the level of loot. I will continue to not change my equipment and see if I can get to a suitably high power, currently at 180 at the time of this writing. It's possible that maybe the rules change around power level 200 as Zoli suggested, but I'll need to stack up more chests to find out.

@Runic_Tunic:
I think that's what at issue here. It's entirely possible the issue was researched out and proven via video before, but it may not be true any longer. From my own observation as detailed in a previous post, it seems like it's possible to raise power of loot without equipping the new items.

Likely to be honest. I played this back when it first dropped and haven't needed to know how to increase power level in years. I was just going by what I understand and what I found from a quick search, so it's very likely things have changed.

Even in older threads it was debated a lot so the fact there's a bit of back and forth on this isn't really surprising.