Store bought gear

[gymbeau]

Is the store bought gear of lesser quality than the gear you find out in the wild? I am level 30. I have a level 28 legendary cloak, fully upgraded. I went to the clothing store and bought a level 30 legendary cloak. I fully upgraded it and noticed that my offense was 2 less than the cloak I was wearing. Is this just a fluke or is store bought equipment that much weaker?

[ForteDS]

Well, the way I understood it is that gear has an offense and a defense stat. By default, every piece provides one of the two, depending on the type of gear, and every level falls in a range of viable modifiers when the item is generated. This starting number doesn't change.

The opposite value that the piece of gear doesn't start with is what can be upgraded, and that number on legendaries start at 0 for 0 upgrades, 6 for lv. 1, 18 for lv. 2, and 36 for lv. 3, if I'm not mistaken. These values are fixed (Maybe I got the exact numbers wrong, but it's around there), and will be the same for all legendary gear.

If your offense is 2 less than what you were wearing two levels ago, it might be an offense modifying piece, and it just happened to have a lower roll in the range when it generated versus the high roll in the range from two levels ago.

[Cold_Blade]

No idea what the guy above was trying to say, but its RNG on the value you get i'd say

[PocketYoda]

No for me store bought gear is the best.. better than 80% of what i find..

[Maelstrom]

Originally posted by gymbeau:

Is the store bought gear of lesser quality than the gear you find out in the wild?

As near as I can tell the store gear is the same as all the other gear. Upgrading gear upgrades the secondary stat, not the primary one. So if you have an item who's main stat is offense that's all the offense it's ever going to have and upgrading it will improve it's defense stat.