How to keep gear up with leveling?

[Ray]

So I have the pilgrim's set and some good legendary weapons I enjoy using but am only level 42 atm and was wondering how you guys keep up with leveling? It seems ridiculously expensive to upgrade the gear nonstop so I was wondering if you guys upgrade your gear every 5 levels or just use random gear you find.

[katzenkrimis]

I upgraded my gear every single level.

Yes, it's difficult for the first 30 levels. But by level 50 you'll have an abundance of resources.

The disappointing part of the game was, in order to upgrade every level I had to sell everything I found, and then fast travel from blacksmith to blacksmith buying up all the resources.

Every day I had to do this. Set aside time to blacksmith hop, which was very annoying and took me out of the game.

Levelling in this game is on steroids. It's hard to keep your gear up-to-date early on.

[Mujokan]

If you look at the increase in damage or protection from leveling gear, you will never actually notice one level making a difference in a fight.

Just upgrade stuff at the levels when the engravings go up.

Upgrading every single level is a waste of time unless you really love collecting resources. (And if you are dismantling every piece of gear for resources, you are bound to end up getting rid of something that would have turned out to be way more useful than some wood and iron.)

[CursedPanther]

Upgrading every 5 levels is like bare minimum for resource usage efficiency, that is if you can't stand doing it for every 10. Also getting ahead in the mercenary tiers will grant you upgrade cost reduction bonuses.

[Godsent]

I upgraded gear and or engravings every 5 levels or so on average. If I felt like I needed a bit of a boost to my DPS, I'd upgrade my primary weapon a little sooner. In the early game I didn't upgrade much at all. In the early game I found it was easier to find suitable replacements/upgrades to gear and weapons.

[Darth Wadewilson]

In the early levels you need every bit of advantage over your enemies. So you need to upgrade sooner. As you progress it will change. For most part till lvl 50 I upgraded around 5 levels each.

Right now I'm at lvl 79 with all my gear at 70. I've got zero issues with that. With the abilities and other buffs my character is quite powerful to offset the disadvantage of having lower level gear. I'm thinking of upgrading my main gear at 80.