I have a glintfiend armour lvl 9 that requires me to be lvl 21.
Every stat is worse than my lvl 12 Kindler’s Mantle that I found in the same area and it requires lvl 1.
It makes no sense. Lvl requirement should be tied to the level of the item or removed from the game. Connecting it to a basetype that is purely cosmetic makes no sense.
In its current state, it just arbitrarily makes some items useless and some overpowered, for a low level character. And for a lvl 21 character it makes no difference anyway. So it’s bad for balance or pointless.