Can you get drops for gear sets that are below your level/rank?

tinythinker

Or do you have to trade for or purchase them from other players? I ask both as a general question and because of a specific interest. The general question is already stated, so here is the specific interest:

I have 3 pieces of the Soulshine set: the band, the greaves, and the pendant. I've heard that having the curiass and the ring as well allows a templar to get the benefits of this set while still doing a 5 light/2 heavy set-up. I've seen at least a couple of people mentioning it working really well for them. I know that this set drops more often than others that are VR only, and this set is limited strictly to VR6. Yet loot drops scale to your level/rank. So would someone of a higher VR ever see these in loot drops for major bosses like those in Craglorn, or would you need to do VR6 level dungeons or buy/trade them from other players? My impression is that the former wouldn't work (your rank is to high) and that you would need to try the latter.

(I would post this in the Loot/Boss Drops forum if there was one, but people seem to post a bit about loot vs. crafted gear here so this was the most appropriate forum I could find.)

chaosme

You can get drops below your level, though personally for pieces from the soulshine set, I've only gotten them from chests, boss loots and the chest from completing a dolmen. And you might have to be in your 2nd veteran alliance content to get it.

Woolenthreads

chaosme wrote: »

You can get drops below your level, though personally for pieces from the soulshine set, I've only gotten them from chests, boss loots and the chest from completing a dolmen. And you might have to be in your 2nd veteran alliance content to get it.

No, I'm pretty sure you just have to be in the correct "zone". There's a lot of levelled gear that's matched to zones so IMO you'd only be able to complete a set by hanging around in the zone near appropriately levelled critters, assuming that you'll get any drops from them.