Dear Dev: Lore vs Loot bonuses... why?

Battleborn Battleborn General Discussion
#1

For example, Orendi’s Variable Morpher has a skill damage boost of 6%, while the Lorrian Skill Spike & all lower quality skill boost gear, has a 7% max bonus.

Why do Character Limited Lore Legendaries have a lower primary bonus? With the 3rd tier bonus already limiting its overall usefulness, why gimp the primary bonuses on top of that?

I am not advocating further reductions in standard loot bonuses, I just personally think the lore bonuses should match all the other max stats on gear.

Unless of course there’s a reasonable explanation for the lower values.

#2

Lore legendaries used to have fluxuating stats, which was obviously problematic as you only get one, so their stats were averaged. Why not maxed I do not understand. I’d expect this to change in future as some legendaries, as you’ve mentioned, give poor stats by comparison to max rolls and thus are rarely used as only a handful are exceptional, like Benedicts.

Combine Benedict’s with Talon of the Hawk or Chrono Key, oh sh*t. But most are lesser variants of better gear and that shouldn’t be so, I want to use a good legendary after farming the lore challenges.

1 Like
#3

I agree and the only argument I can think of is, ‘If you’re that good with this character do you need any other advantages?’ but I’m not sure it is valid…

#4

Interestingly enough, Alani’s lore legendary actually has max stats for a med kit (14 heal power and 5.6 attack speed). Afaik, it’s the only lore legendary with max stats; not sure if it’s because she’s a DLC character or if they missed it.

#5

It may be that they will fix that in a future update, and the Alani legendary’states stats was just fixing something before they released it, as the rest is already released. Not much, but maybe a sign.