HOW MANY items do you have at that level? That's the question. My highest level item (before I got my exotic sword last night) was 299. But I have close to half dozen legendary weapons (at similar levels) in EVERY gear slot. The only way someone is not hemorrhaging weapon parts in this new economy is if they are level up VERY few weapons. Great for them if they want to play the game that way. I DON"T. I want to try as many as possible, and USE the weapons I feel are best suited for the fight I'm going into. In previous versions of fhe game I could easily do that. But the changes with 2.0 have turned the availability of weapon parts into a HUGE chokepoint.