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ihatepwe735
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Every now and then there is a sale for a pack of 20 Keys and an "Ultimate Upgrade" that upgrades an item to max level and max quality.
I buy these when I have the Zen available.
Well, I used to. Because if a expansion is going to invalidate them by making me have to upgrade my items again, what the hell!? I don't think that ultimate upgrades should be the kind of item you have to worry about using "too soon".
Right now I am working on re-upgrading my supposedly "max" level items rather than upgrading items I needed/wanted to try other builds and its very annoying and making me somewhat disinclined to spend Zen on keys again.
I buy these when I have the Zen available.
Well, I used to. Because if a expansion is going to invalidate them by making me have to upgrade my items again, what the hell!? I don't think that ultimate upgrades should be the kind of item you have to worry about using "too soon".
Right now I am working on re-upgrading my supposedly "max" level items rather than upgrading items I needed/wanted to try other builds and its very annoying and making me somewhat disinclined to spend Zen on keys again.
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An ultimate upgrades an item to Mark XV Epic, this upgrade is permanent.
You cannot use an Ultimate 'too soon' and the upgrade does not just go away. The item is permanently upgraded and cannot be upgraded further.
I believe there are one or two items that only go to Mark XIV, I don't know if that has been fixed, but the most you would ever have to do is go up one rank.
Had you, perhaps, upgraded that item a bit before applying the ultimate upgrade? The ultimate upgrades seems to apply exactly enough points to take an item from its base to the existing max, so any extra points you had accumulated from upgrades act as an invisible pool.
At least, most of my items are exactly XIV, but a few of the earlier items I 'think' I had started upgrading are partially on the way to XV.
I think the OP means, that, while 'the upgrade does not just go away,' the item will stay at its current upgraded level (presumably, Mk XIV, in the OP's case). So, came Mk XV, he/she had to upgrade it once again.
His/her position isn't all that reasonable, though. An Ultimate does exactly what it says it does: it will upgrade an item to the current ultimate rank and rarity. It doesn't come with a 'And all future Mark increases included' guarantee. As pointed out in this thread already, though, you're often dealing with a (massive) TP overflow on an Epic item to begin with (especially on a crit); and, in fact, many items, upon slotting them for upgrade, went immediately to Mk XV, back when, as a result.
Yeah, this is a far more eloquent way of explaining my point.
I get it, it's a bummer because there is a new max, but it's just not a battle worth fighting. It takes a few kits to get it to the new max and the item is still Epic. Should the maximum rank ever increase past Mark XV (let's hope it doesn't) we're all going to have to do it again.