The system for how loot drops.

Atm there are some items that is the best that's NOT lev 40, and that you only can get through boring farming either by staying on a certain level and hunt only chests, or by using the skirmish hall iirc. This is not a good system.

Items can be so you can find them i.e between lev 23-26, and that means you'll find them when you are 3 levels higher, hence lev 26-29. So if you want the best scout armor then you need to stay on lev 29, because when you get lev 30 you become to skilled to be able to find such crap. Such crap that's the best thing in the game. This is wierd.

It's fine that it works with a limit to when you can FIRST find them, and then in lower levels. It's also fine that you can find them at limited level depending on your level. But it's wierd that when you get a level to much that item is forever lost for you to find. It would rather be easier than harder one could think.

My suggestion is that ALL items should continue to be able to drop at their max level, even if you are many levels above.

As it is now there are many items only farmers find for all their civs, and you can't just enjoy the game and wait for the day when you find it - you now have to manipulate the game mechanics with boring farming or forget that item completely unless someone sell it at a decent price. At the moment such items I talk about is almost never sold (and I've been online ALOT and watch the trade channel MANY hours each day), and if it is it's to a price that's only the very rich can afford.

 

I think the simplest sollution is the one I mentioned, that makes farming on a lower level a needed but boring and broken approach taken away. I much rather just do quest and hope to find it than keep a civ on a level to farm for an item to each civ - which you now pretty much must do.

Some items, I bet there is more:
Homer's Vest of Foresight - Lev 7 (Base 23.8%) (Max 25%) (better LOS for Norse scouts)
Thracian Thrusting Xiphos - Lev 12-16 (Base 10.8%) (Max 11,3) (better LOS for most scouts)
Sun-Runed Gorget - Lev 22-26 (Base 37.7%) (Max 39,6%) (better LOS for most scouts)
Iron Wall Joints - Lev 27-31 (Base 11.8%) (Max 12,1%) (cheaper buildings)
Athena's Blessed Javelin - Lev 28-31 (Base 19.9%) (Max 20,9%) (better LOS for Egypt scouts)

As I said earlier, it's weird that you get better and better on finding an item, until you get one level to high and after that it becomes impossible for you. If anything it would be easier looking at it from logic, not that I mean it should, but it should remain possible.

 

First, you seem to misunderstood my suggestion. Second, your sollution is also good, maybe better.

However, what I suggested was NOT a level 40 Thracian Thrusting Xiphos, but that the level 26 version of same sword will not cease to exist in possible drop just because you are one level (or more) above level 26/29. Instead it will be among the things that still drop on IT'S max level (which should remain lev 26), but it could drop to a lev 40 or lev 37 civ also (but then at lev 26) - which at the moment is impossible.

 

That was not the suggestion, the current max level was supposed to remain the same, I said:

"My suggestion is that ALL items should continue to be able to drop at their max level, even if you are many levels above."

You cannot be "many levels above lev 40", hence it's obvious I meant that the current max level would remain the same (i.e Lev 26 would still be the best Thracian Thrusting Xiphos to drop, but you could still get that even if you are level 40 in a chest. THAT was my suggestion). Otherwise you more or less MUST stay on a level and farm to get one such item, especially now when the market is really slow compared to during the live version.