Being able to convert spectral equipment to soulbound or simply combining spectrals is incredibly broken. Higher levels are getting to a point where all hits one shot any hero (I'm doing an average of 50000'S' + dps). I have so much crit damage and leech % that I'm getting 8-9 digit leech values pop up because there is no damage notation higher than 'S'. It's pointless to go for health or shields of any kind because damage and crit damage scale so high that hp would never be able to keep up.
Honestly, you should remove equipment dropping from killed heroes and replace it with extra bonus shards to modify your existing gear. You'd have to wipe existing characters, but who cares, because at high levels now it's an absolute joke.
To put it into perspective: my warrior has 20Qi health, 1.87S Damage, max ias and ms, 100% crit and 1 million% crit damage.
Also, another tip: get to ascension level 10 as soon as possible. Don't waste time grinding on lower levels if you can progress. The ability to combine spectral items is insanely powerful.
Pro tip: At higher levels (once you're ascension 10+), unequip everything from one person except -movespeed gear so that they're as slow as possible. That way, if you run into an invasion that are much stronger than you, you can keep rezzing heroes to beat them down (unless they just always one shot you). It's netted me a serious amount of extra high level gear.
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