# Dropped equipment scales up stat requirements vs. manually upgraded keep the same value

**URL:** <https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/dropped-equipment-scales-up-stat-requirements-vs-manually-upgraded-keep-the-same-value/15696>\
**Category:** Wicked Bug Reporting\
**Tags:** weapons\
**Created:** [May 3, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/dropped-equipment-scales-up-stat-requirements-vs-manually-upgraded-keep-the-same-value/15696 "2025-05-03T22:24:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![msoltyspl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.norestforthewicked.com/msoltyspl/32/5646_2.png) [@msoltyspl](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/u/msoltyspl)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.norestforthewicked.com/t/dropped-equipment-scales-up-stat-requirements-vs-manually-upgraded-keep-the-same-value/15696/1 "2025-05-03T22:24:25Z")

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Manually upgraded items keep their starting stat requirements, but dropped ones scale to some crazy values (e.g. STR 53). I assume this is a bug, as otherwise it just makes no sense whatsoever.

Example below:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/uploads/wickedforum/original/2X/4/439371ffb057e993a31da5633f3ab80109b2e854.jpeg)