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its confusing and pointless. and there seems to be a tweak every patch to how often it drops and under what circumstances it will drop.

but it does not matter: 500gs gear and 490gs gear will roll identical stats 99% of the time.

so lets get rid of the dumb number that takes peoples attention away from their actual builds and stop putting resources into fixing a system built around a number that means nothing.

just replace the gs500 with WT5.
over 5 years ago - Ubi-RealDude - Direct link
I can understand your frustration from a social perspective, after a certain value it becomes meaningless and your build is what's more important... However with the loot-based climb of the endgame world tiers, I'm not so sure if it's entirely meaningless.

Even just breaking down WT5, if the GS partially helps in determining the min/max curve for rolls... yes you'd have a chance at getting a GS 500 equivalent god rolled item on your first steps into WT5... But you'd also have a chance at getting a GS400 equivalent garbage item even if everything else you have is of generally higher quality.

Feels like it would exacerbate a lot of the problems people already have with gear drops and RNG. What has Gear Score done to ruin or worsen your experience so far?