Confused about boss levels, weapons, and scaling

[balldur]

The following is unclear to me, possibly because I'm not a very experienced player:

I'm battling an end boss in LotFB. My level is 72, boss' level is 72, my weapons/armour are all at 72. When I level up, I become 73, boss becomes 73 (even with light scaling), but weapons/armour stay at 72. So my weapons become LESS effective against the boss?? Why would I bother levelling up against him?

[ᑕYᗷEᖇᑕᗩT]

How do you play for well over 300hrs and not consider yourself an exp player of the game?

[Comsiama]

Upgrade your weapons at a smith when you want to.

[jack_of_tears]

If you can't handle something as simple as level scaling, then turn it off. The reason it exists is so you have a persistent challenge throughout the entire game.

As for items - item upgrades are what they are in every game with item upgrades: a resource sink. They exist because some gamers enjoy gathering resources while they run around and kill stuff. They like that they can break down enemy armour to improve their own, rather than just selling everything they can't wear.

You do not need to upgrade your equipment until you've outleveled it by 5 levels, on average. Then, if you don't have the resources, you can use a weapon/armour taken off of a foe until you can upgrade your preferred items.

I'm guessing you jumped ahead and didn't start the game at lvl 1, otherwise this would all be known to you.

[longjohn119]

Originally posted by balldur:

The following is unclear to me, possibly because I'm not a very experienced player:

I'm battling an end boss in LotFB. My level is 72, boss' level is 72, my weapons/armour are all at 72. When I level up, I become 73, boss becomes 73 (even with light scaling), but weapons/armour stay at 72. So my weapons become LESS effective against the boss?? Why would I bother levelling up against him?

Only slightly less effective maybe by 1 or 2% .... The really big jump happens when the decade number changes because that has an effect on engravings for instance going from level 70 to 71 raises the stars on your main (top) engraving from 7 to 8 stars. If the top engraving is Warrior then each piece you level up would go from 14% to 16% or a total of +10% for all five pieces.

[doomedSniper]

There is one advantage though! Increasing the level increases your damage, but the boss now can withstand that extra damage. Cool! But the thing that the boss can't fight against, is your abilities and mastery skills, This is your actual level up, with respect to that boss. Every time you level up, you get an ability point which you can use against the fool. This is the true purpose and meaning of leveling up.

Now maybe you'd say, why would I want to increase my level to get points, when I have other means to collect them, well yes. Try the new game plus, over and over and over and ...... Each time you collect ability points first(maybe from tombs and other sources) cuz leveling up the character will soon enough saturate, slow down, you'll need more and more points to level up(As starting the new game plus will not level you down). What I mean is, Points required(Level-5 to level-6) << Points required(level 99 to level-100). Maybe more and more missions. The information is true to the best of my knowledge. And you certainly don't need 2000hrs to master the game! Actually yes,, all that frigging 1700 mastery and ability points, which is gonna make you a "master of the universe".

Good luck!