Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 3)

Chapter 496 - Twinked Gear

For ordinary players, excluding the powerful skills from Sub Legendary and Legendary-grade equipment, the most sought after properties were attack power, magic power, lifesteal, skill levels, and level requirement reduction.

One could imagine how enticing a piece of Level 50 equipment with its level requirement reduced by 10 would be to a Level 40 player. This was a full two tiers of gear higher! Killing equal level mobs and levelling would become a piece of cake.

However, for a Level 50 player, a piece of Level 50 equipment with its level requirement reduced by 10 had no meaning.

So, for the players at the very top, it was difficult for them to find a use for the level requirement reduction property. For example, at the current stage of the game, there were only a handful of decent Level 65 equipment for sale in the marketplace. As for Level 70 equipment, other than some White and Bronze-grade gear, there was nothing. So, with it being next to impossible to obtain quality Level 70 equipment, most players were better off grinding dungeons for a full set of Level 65 Dark Gold-grade equipment.

Only the players catching up from behind could truly make use of twinked gear. The top experts generally had no use for level requirement reduction gems. As such, the marketplace had quite a few of them.

But unlike other players, Nie Yan was in possession of a large pile of Level 100+ equipment. Similar to Level 50, Level 100 also represented a major milestone. The stats of Level 100 White-grade equipment was equivalent to that of Level 90 Gold-grade equipment. Before Level 100, weapons with more than 1,000 attack were almost nonexistent. Even Zennarde's Sword only had a little over 800. However, after Level 100, weapons with more than 1,000 attack power could be found everywhere. The difference was clear as day.

If not for Nie Yan opening all those chests, obtaining such a large amount of Level 100+ equipment would've been impossible.

Nie Yan had great expectations of socketing these pieces of Level 100 Dark Gold-grade equipment with level requirement reduction gems. A Level 90 player in such gear could easily crush any equal level player.

It was extremely difficult for Level 60-70 players to obtain Level 100 equipment at this stage of the game. They were absolutely no match for Level 100 monsters. Even Level 90 players would have to form teams to take on Level 100 monsters. Not to mention the drop rate for Level 100+ equipment was pitifully low. For example, in the previous timeline, players would be over the moon if a single piece of Level 100 equipment dropped in a week's worth of grinding. Treasure hunting for good equipment in the wilderness wasn't all that either. Each map only contained a couple dozen chest spawns. With players camping them day and night, there weren't nearly enough to go around. Only when exploring a map for the first time were there ample Gold and Dark Gold-grade chests. Those who were late to the party, would be lucky to find even a single ordinary chest.

Before long, batch after batch of level requirement reduction gems were sent Nie Yan's way.

Nie Yan gathered everything together. Most of the level requirement reduction gems in his bag reduced the level requirement by five or less. He only had 20 gems that reduced level requirement by more than five. These gems were found by him in Level 100+ maps. All the gems collected by the players of Asskickers United only reduced level requirement by a maximum of five.

As for gems that reduced level requirement by 10, those were extremely rare. Nie Yan had only obtained three so far. Gems that reduced level requirement by more than 10 were basically impossible to find. Perhaps only Sub Legendary or Legendary-grade gems would contain such an overpowered property.

Nie Yan brought four bags worth of gems, along with more than 50 pieces of Level 100 equipment to Master Jewelcrafter Paget's workshop.

After exchanging some small talk with Paget, Nie Yan got down to business.