So, let me first say, Crafting is very much OP in this game (though let's be honest max rank everything is OP as all hell) But I do feel there's a problem with the upgrading segment of crafting. I picked up a good number of Iconic weapons and armour before I hit level 50 and I upgraded them to their max rarity before 50 as well because I was using them. However, with most of the Iconics, you eventually hit a wall where you can't upgrade rarity and have to just do normal upgrades. This is where the problem hits. For example, I picked up the Lizzie pistol pretty early, it's an amazing gun as such I upgraded it about halfway to level 50 to Purple. Now the only way for me to bring up its damage and stats is to upgrade. But upgrading seems to maybe grant you 10+ DPS per upgrade maybe a bit more and costs a lot of expensive resources. To get Lizzie to max stats like some of my other weapons... It'd take I think a couple hundred thousand eddies just for 1 gun and a lot of buying and waiting for resources to restock.
It just isn't feasible or worthwhile for me to sit for a long time doing the grinding to upgrade this great gun and that's really disappointing. It means there are several iconic guns I have but aren't really that great anymore due to being very underdeveloped. This definitely needs to be addressed IMO. It shouldn't take like 10-20 upgrades to a weapon or piece of clothing to max stats. 3-5 I think would be fair.
It just isn't feasible or worthwhile for me to sit for a long time doing the grinding to upgrade this great gun and that's really disappointing. It means there are several iconic guns I have but aren't really that great anymore due to being very underdeveloped. This definitely needs to be addressed IMO. It shouldn't take like 10-20 upgrades to a weapon or piece of clothing to max stats. 3-5 I think would be fair.