Guess we finally have a reason to play alts

[rReves]

Given the ark salvage cost of resetting weapon xp this feature is rather pointless for higher ego rating level weapons.

On the upside.. even somewhat decent (very) low ego rating level weapons will now be highly sought after as they will be virtually free to xp reset.
Since low level weapons with even only 1 or 2 nice bonuses and full level III mods will out-perform almost any high level weapon without mods, these are the future.

I'm also guessing we'll see a lot more preying on low level newbies for their weapons for this reason.

Big thumbs up for this cleverly balanced system.

[Sdric]

I agree.
This has been bugging me for quite a while.
My Ar from 1900 EGo is as good as the rifle I just found at 4030 EGo, with the slight difference that adding mod slots to this one is 4 times as expensive...
Bad balance.

[Omnifarious Xji]

You get punished for the longer you play their game. Yeahhh.

[xaosykotik]

Uhhhhhhh......Nope. The augments that come on the higher ego weapons are far superior than low level one's. Most people with a high ego.....smart ones anyway easily have 500k + salvage. Gimp yourself with low ego weapons if you want. As far as resetting xp on a weapon......Just get another and cap it....It's simple and cheap. Doesn't take much to get a weapon to 20 if you know what you're doing. After that the only thing that matters is what bonus the weapon gets when it caps out.

[greatdividers]

things cost more at higher levels in every game ever... why is it suddenly a surprise and terrible thing when defiance does it?

[Hiero Glyph]

You get punished for the longer you play their game. Yeahhh.

Isn't playing longer punishment enough?

[zion]

in consideration that your revenue stays pretty much the same, one would expect the cost curve of stuff to not be so, uhmm vertical?!

[Omnifarious Xji]

things cost more at higher levels in every game ever... why is it suddenly a surprise and terrible thing when defiance does it?

Because, you don't make any more money as a level 5,000, than you do as a level 1. Though you are charged an upwards of 300k for a single mod slot, on a weapon, that only has a 3% bonus over the level 1 gun, the level 1 gun costs like 250 salvage to upgrade.

[Hiero Glyph]

things cost more at higher levels in every game ever... why is it suddenly a surprise and terrible thing when defiance does it?

Because higher level items also inflate in selling price in those games; they do not in Defiance. So basically you are penalized for having a higher EGO item that is not significantly better. The salvage for a 5k EGO and a level 1 EGO are the same if they are the same color. The selling price is the same as well. The salvage cost is exponentially higher to add a mod slot, retrieve/remove mods, or to reset the item however.

[Combo Breaker]

I foresee a market coming for these lower EGO weapons. Lower EGO Legendary weapons will be worth much scrip.
I had a friend who was EGO 230 nice enough to give me 2 of his weapons to mod for my pursuits. I still needed 120k Arksalvage to finish and those 2 guns only took me 20k.