Since the release of the Vanguard ROC strikes i’ve heard a lot of differing opinions on the frequency of legendary drops, so I thought i’d record my own drop history to compare.
Given most speed run the strikes nowadays, I have only recorded the final rewards received at the end of the strike. I did not speed run so I did also receive drops during the strikes (roughly 60 rare engrams). I have not included these in the summary stats below.
After 51 strikes I must admit that the Vanguard ROC really isn’t that great for farming legendaries. However, they are great for farming blue engrams for cryptarch points! The irony is that I received more legendaries from levelling up rewards from the cryptarch than I actually did from the Vanguard ROC strikes…..(e.g: http://youtu.be/X8cicz1CKag)
Another observation: why do so many people afk....I think perhaps 5% of the strikes I did were with 3 active players. Poor form folks..
Final Rewards Summary:
Rare Engrams: 70
Rare Weapon/Armour: 47
Legendaries: 3
Strange Coin: 4
Other: 7
The 3 legendaries were Aries Ascendant (Ship), Ticktock Inquisitor (Ship) and a Legendary Engram (Energies). I also had 3 of my blue engrams turn into legendary armour for other classes than the class I ran the strike on.
ROC 1: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 2: The Devil's Lair - 2 rare engrams, 1 rare weapon
ROC 3: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 4: Winter's Run - 2 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 5: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 2 rare armour
ROC 6: The Summoning Pits - 2 rare engrams, 1 rare weapon
ROC 7: The Nexus - 2 rare engrams
ROC 8: 2 rare weapons, 2 rare engram
ROC 9: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 10: The Nexus - 2 rare engram, 1 rare weapon
ROC 11: The Summoning Pits - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 12: Will of Crota - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 13: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 14: The Devil's Lair - 1 strange coin, 1 rare shader, 1 rare engram, 1 rare weapon
ROC 15: The Nexus - 1 strange coin, 1 rare weapon, 1 rare engram
ROC 16: The Devil's Lair - 2 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 17: Will of Crota - 1 rare weapon, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 18: The Nexus - 1 rare weapon, 2 rare engram
ROC 19: The Summoning Pits - 1 rare weapon, 1 rare shader, 1 rare engram
ROC 20: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 21: Winter's Run - Ticktock Inquisitor (Legendary Ship), 1 rare weapon, 2 rare engrams
ROC 22: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 23: The Nexus - 1 rare shader, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 24: The Nexus - 2 rare engrams
ROC 25: The Summoning Pits - 1 strange coin, 1 rare armour
ROC 26: The Nexus - 1 rare weapon, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 27: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 28: Cerberus Vae III - 2 rare engrams
ROC 29: Will of Crota - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 30: The Summoning Pits - 1 rare shader, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 31: Winter's Run - Aries Ascendant (Legendary Ship), 1 rare shader, 2 rare engrams
ROC 32: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare weapon, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 33: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 34: The Nexus - 1 strange coin, 2 rare engram
ROC 35: The Devil's Lair - 2 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 36: Will of Crota - 2 rare engram, 1 rare weapon
ROC 37: The Nexus - 1 rare engram, 1 rare weapon
ROC 38: The Summoning Pits - 2 rare engrams
ROC 39: The Devil's Lair - 2 rare engrams
ROC 40: The Nexus - 2 rare engrams, 1 rare weapon
ROC 41: Winter's Run - 2 rare engrams, 1 rare armour
ROC 42: Cerberus Vae III - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 43: Winter's Run - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 44: The Devil's Lair - 1 rare engram, 1 rare weapon
ROC 45: Winter's Run - 1 mote of light, 1 rare armour, 1 rare engram
ROC 46: The Devil's Lair - 2 rare engrams, 1 rare weapon
ROC 47: The Nexus - 2 rare engrams
ROC 48: The Summoning Pits - 1 rare shader, 2 rare engrams
ROC 49: The Summoning Pits - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
ROC 50: The Nexus - 1 Legendary Engram, 1 rare engram
ROC 51: Winter's Run - 1 rare engram, 1 rare armour
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My luck 50 rocs 1 legendary engram (useless item) hundreds of rare engrams (all useless) the only reason I play anymore is for marks
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What's your crytarch rank? I get a lot of legendary on my old character and nothing on my new character.
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These people who claim to have gotten 3/4 exotics are talking complete BS. Not to mention the legendary drops are not as often as people think. Sometime I get 3 strikes in a row of legendaries, then none for weeks. Id say his data is probably spot on for the average person minus the occassional exotic drop
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I ran probably 20 today and got 3 legendary drops and one of my teammates also got 3 legendary drops. One of his turned into red death... I was pretty disappointed with my energy
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Just finished up the 25 strikes for the Bad Juju bounty. Did not get a single legendary engram. Did get a legendary ship. And on the final ROC strike I got Mida Multi Tool. Rest was blue junk. Blue junk that seems to not ever turn into coins or motes anymore.
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I posted a similar thread about drop rate on ROC strikes. It's dropped dramatically since Christmas. When the DLC came out I got at least a purple everyday, now? Nothing decent. Further evidence (if we needed it) that Bungie speeds up and slows down progression rates to play favour with their DLCs.
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My results seem much higher than yours. Typically I'll run 20 strikes a day and receive 2 or 3 legendaries and 3 to 4 blues per round. This is rushing through. My shard to gear ratio is very close to 1/1.
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I got The Last Word recently. That was cool. Not exec the engram, straight up Last Word.
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The drop rates of legendaries and exotics are quite poor. I'd like to see them up the level to 30 with no modifiers so it would actually be a challenge (Roc at 26 is a joke) and have better drops!!! The weekly isn't enough cause that's about an hour of gameplay per character!
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Edited by Eshé: 1/10/2015 11:32:10 PMWhen was the last time someone saw an Exotic drop from Roc? Haven't seen anyone get one in about a week and a half, they used to be far more frequent. Edit: There was a time in Roc strikes when every second completion you'd see a bright purple glint on the side of your screen. Ever since the holiday season ended, it's been a flood of blues, only to see a Legendary swim by occasionally.
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There should be some kind of a mechanic that gives you a legendary if in x amount of strikes you haven't received any. Like if you've done 5 strikes and got nothing, on the 6th strike you're guaranteed of getting a random legendary engram. Makes no sense playing for three hours or more and get nothing else but rares, level up your crypatarch AND GET MORE BLUES AS A REWARD FROM POSTMASTER. Da f*ck is this bs system
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Almost every single engram has turned into mats sence the xpac. My ledgendarys come from blues decrypting or in the mail from criptarch.
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Edited by D2 is cancer: 1/10/2015 9:15:27 PMreward is garbage and i do em a lot. you do receive legendary engrams more often than what you were in Tiger strikes but when you spend enough time to do 10 strikes and get jackshieeet.... no bueno.
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When there's afk losers, I go to the final boss and get em down to a tic or two and just go hide and do stuff in the real world. You might say that doesn't get me anything, but I get a bunch of house stuff done and that stupid ass loser gets absolutely nothing for when they'd get shit for the hours they afk. I think they should have a faster auto kick going on.
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I've noticed a lot more legendary guns dropping for me lately
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How often did u die and your fire team die? Me and 2 buddies did it 12 times there were two exotic drops and 12 legendary. We didn't die once in those 12 strikes.
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You spelled Rockets McDickFace wrong.
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I got 5 legendary-tier items in a row from Roc
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Please add me SuRReaL_OG
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Just ran roc and for three consecutive strikes I had the same team and one guy got a legendary engram on the second strike and I got a legendary engram the third strike xD maybe the fourth time the other guy would've gotten a legendary as well xP
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I did 3 strikes yesterday 1. Legendary (primary) 2. Rares 3. Legendary ship and legendary helmet Then I just hopped off. My luck was good
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Another 30 done and no legendary drops lol!
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ran around 25 strikes this weekend picked up 3-4 legendary engrams 2-3 ships and a 331 hawkmoon so I can't complain, ROC Strikes are about all there is left to do in this game
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How do you check how much you've done
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Ok I rarely had issues with players afk. I noted the following loot results: 21 ROC strikes 5 legendary engrams 1 exotic - univeral remote