TL;DR Playlist shaders never drop.
So I've honestly never used these forums before but there has been one thing that's really bothered me since the beginning of TTK. The crucible and strike playlist shaders don't really seem to drop like..... ever. Now I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, like maybe some extra hidden condition to get them to drop (maybe the crucible shaders only drop from weekly bounties?) But at this point I'm pretty certain that the playlist shaders have an impossibly low drop rate. I've put my fair share of hours into the crucible in TTK, at first I thought "maybe they are just rare and I need to play more to get them to drop." Then once I had gotten to my 3rd Iron Banner (I've only missed one since the game was in beta and it was rift) I still hadn't seen one single shader drop, for anyone, ever. I'd be lying if I said I put in much time to the heroic strike playlist once I got my hands on some raid gear, but it seems to be the same story in that playlist as well. Now I understand these are supposed to have a low-ish drop rate to serve as reward for sinking hours into these playlists but the original set of crucible shaders didn't take longer than a month to complete the whole set let alone 6 months just to even see 1.
So my question is this, Do these shaders drop at all? And if so why are they so seemingly impossible to get?
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I didn't bother to read the comments so I'll just say it. There's an actual help topic posted by Cozmo that lists all the shaders and emblems and ships that are unobtainable due to a glitch or a bug in the game. I'm on my phone right now so I can't copy the link to it but it's not just the crucible and strike shaders that aren't dropping and it is a known issue.
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I think they are either glitched or just are being saved for another update, like some of the year 2 exotics
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Agreed I only play PvP and I still don't have a single one.
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Saw a Titan with some blue shader called mercurial dawn or something, couldn't find it in the kiosk
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I got my very first TTK crucible one from Shaxx final weekly bounty of completing 5 of his regulars. I've been doing these as long as I can remember with multiple characters. Only gotten 1. My friends haven't gotten any. I guess there's just a suuuuuper low drop rate.
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Shaxx's bounties. They drop from there.
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I got the Kingspyre shader from a weekly crucible bounty. Thats the only ship/shader drop from crucible ive ever had though. Keep grindin.
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I have near 20 days of crucible play time and have never seen the ttk shaders drop post match.
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I have seen the strike playlist ones drop from cryptarch packages
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They are probably only with crucible packages
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They drop from the lord Shaxx bounty. Just like the ships
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95% of my play time is in the Crucible. I don't remember ever having a ship or shader drop to me. Never even seen a shader drop either. I do the weeklies on all 3 characters nearly every week. They're either broken or I have the worst RNG ever.
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For strike ive had burnt marshmallow, cyan star, and a third one drop, but that was at the beggining of the expansion. Since then nothings dropped from strikes or crucible. Absolutely nothing.
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The crucible ones are bugged and they are looking into those, but the strike ones come from the lvl 36 vanguard strikes
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Believe they dont.. havent seen a single drop
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Totally agree. I Cri Everytiem