Quote Originally Posted by Apochrophage View Post
You are comparing a lvl 1 item, with a lvl 40 item, and a legendary at that. Even if you had 2 Geta items that were of the same rarity, the level will affect their stats.

Item levels are based, from what I can tell, exclusively on what level you are when you loot them.
*sigh*

I got the legendary item a pachinko and made a screen.
I went to my inventory and... made a screen of the same item.
I went to ms paint and used my legendary paint skills to make one image out of two.