Item levels

[Teebs]

I thought as you progressed through the story they increased?

It has been a bit, but I thought by the time you reached The Underworld that you could be getting 70's?

[Kardinaal]

Yes in normal mode the level is max 67. Once you enter hard mode you get the option to manually choose the opponent level, and normal mode will have lvl 70 enemies too.

I don’t know if that affects drop rates, but since it doesn’t affect play time, running through normal once to unlock hard, then going back for the other 4 stars of every level with lvl 70 enemies seems like the smart thing to do. Worst case it doesn’t affect anything, best case you get slightly more gold, better drops, or both.

[papa jim]

I thought that was true until you completed normal story mode

[Arawn]

Is this right? I'm just running through story mode to get gems and I just noticed the drops are all level 66/67. I don't recall... Is this normal?