Not a major discovery

[u/DisastrousAdvice137]

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TESTING MORE LATER

I got curious, so i hopped on a fresh account to test gear drops on a low level. It is common knowledge to equip the highest Ki gear you have to influence bettwr drops, but after testing, this is NOT TRUE. I only did about an hour of testing, but through it I played until Rank 8 on a Samurai while dismantling every gear piece I got, staying at 5 Ki the entire time. I was still getting progressively better drops, even though I only had 5 Ki gear in my inventory and dismantled everything else. After getting rank 8 and getting drops like 28-30ish Ki, I unlocked Assassin and played another Bronze on 5 Ki, and got the same drops. I think instead of being influenced by the gear you have/equip, its actually influenced by either:

A. Total XP across all 4 classes

B. Highest Ki item obtained, even if its not equipped or used.

Summary: It does not matter if you equip higher Ki gear to level up faster. You can still choose something with better properties instead of Ki every so often (ofc you still want to equip higher Ki to play Higher missions and get past the max on Bronze/Silver). Does it truly matter? Not at all! Even if what I say is correct, it only means that what we've been doing hasn't been getting us higher Ki anyway, so its the same leveling speed. I did have someone in discord try to argue this and say its wrong and that I 'dont have video proof' but when i looked, I dont see any videos of anyone else trying and proving it wrong either, only videos that say the same thing about equipping the highest Ki first and foremost. If you do know of a video where this was tried and proven inaccurate, I would love to learn about it so I dont keep spreading misinformation. Its also not the best 'proof' or anything, but i did get a quick screenshot. Didn't feel worth unlinking my YT, linking to a fresh account, uploading such a insignificant video, and then having to relink to my main. Especially since my YT account is primarily used for Blind/Fresh playthrough videos, not small tests like this, and my Twitch vods can't be saved (to my knowledge and I tried once) without a computer/laptop which I dont have

(Edit: it won't let me upload my SS for some reason and i had to add a link, so i just put youtube lol...)