Diablo 4 item power breakpoints and how they work

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The Diablo 4 item power breakpoints are a strange and secretive system that determines how good a piece of dropped gear really is. If you're used to playing games with item power, you may assume that you can just keep equipping stronger items as you find them in the game, and that's certainly true when you're playing through the campaign.