Best way to determine how many of which tier pieces the player is wearing

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Originally Posted by Kanegasi No. It's the same item, Blizzard uses an upgrade system to adjust item levels and the green text under the name. That's what all the numbers mean in the itemString past the itemID. More info here: https://wow.gamepedia.com/ItemString

This is what I was thinking !!

The reason that I asked this is because of the example here. If you see d87's usage example code, he has different tier id sets for each difficulties. Would that be only for old tiers?