Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

Basically,

A bunch of items whose level requirements would otherwise be much higher, almost all the store bought items and many of the unique named loot, have their level requirement reduced compared to what would actually be assigned based on its worth to a merchant.

Thus, if you finally reached the level requirement to wield an item, wait for three more levels before altering the appearance to avoid risking being unable to equip them.

If you are not sure whether the level req was altered or not, take a screenshot before levelling of the item, and if the requirements are changed then hopefully the DM can, using screenshot provided, replace the item with the original version in the creatot/as sold by the NPC.


Also do not change the appearance of items with scripts (Rapier of shielding f.ex) because it breaks the scripts due to how the app changer works ( it copies the properties of your current item onto another item with a different appearance, but fails to do the same with scripts)

Stickied.

Also note that if you're having your level reduced by a DM, unequip any items you had on that you'd nolonger meet the level requirements of.

This glitches your character and the server won't allow it to join. The fix then requires someone to go into the server vault and manually manipulate your character file. It's kind of a hassle.

this is basically irrelevant now.

Thanks for flagging it, NeOmega. Unstickied.