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Edited by Talia Sendua:
6/21/2023 6:07:37 PM
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I miss the time when exotics were actually a rare myth and not a general loot drop...
I have 8/10 engrams in my inventory. Almost all of them exotics. All of them sitting there because I couldn't care less about decoding them, because they are such generic loot by now that all the mystery and exoticness of them is gone.
Back in Destiny 1 seeing someone with an exotic was a super special thing for the most time. In Destiny 2 it just feels like Tuesday.
I really wish we would have a bit more rare loot drops when it comes to exotics (and maybe lower drops for legendaries too, with options of focusing). Because at this point they are dropping like candy from a halloween bag with a leak.
Edit: Just as a reminder, Legendary items used to be quite rare in Destiny 1. Exotics even more rare than that. But in Destiny 2 Legendaries are the "green stuff" now, blue (rare) items are common stuff now and exotics are on the level of D1 legendary engram drop rates. We are massively inflated with loot and most people don't even realize.
They don't realize how de-valuated the loot in Destiny 2 has become. We get an exotic every season pass on track level 1, several exotic engrams later in it. We also can farm for them solo in legendary lost sectors, have them drop with a chance from every enemy and nightfall. And now we can also just do weeklies for them.
Back then in D1, we could get exotics only from post match rewards in strikes, nightfalls and pvp, from boss and chest drops in raids and flawless trials. And at easiest from the "Three of coins" consumable that you had to buy from Xûr, the exotic vendor.
The loot in World of Warcraft and ESO feels more achieving and valuable at this point than Destiny 2 loot does. And that is kinda sad, considering Destiny 2 is meant to be a "loot shooter with a ton of loot that feels valuable", not a "loot shooter with a ton of stuff you have to dismantle because you will never use it".
[b]Edit: Now, don't get me wrong. More loot is of course better than D1 vanilla. But I think loot chances like we had back in D1 TTK would make loot drops much more interesting again and prevent this "legendary crap roll = insta shard" fatigue.[/b]
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1 ReplyWith how detrimental exotics are to almost any "serious" build these days - I don't want exotics to go back to being a "bragging right" for the players that need something else to flaunt over other players to feel good about themselves.
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1 ReplyStill remember spending time popping three of coins, landing into the dreadnaught, going through the hole above the gate inside the cabal ship and getting to the boss knight in the back end, killing it, hoping for an exotic, if not, run out of the instanced area of the patrol, pop another three of coins, rinse repeat. Good times when I was looking for an exotic that I didn't have yet on one of my other classes that I never really played at the time. But I kinda get how you feel about how exotics feel lackluster when they drop now. My main goal when I want to farm them though is the stat distribution. So my attention in it has shifted more so to looking for those specially rolled exotics that suit the stats that I want to make a build for what ever exotic I am farming. Priorities in expected drops change? *Shrug*
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15 RepliesI don't. One of the absolutely worst things about D1 year 1 was how stingy loot was.
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This game does seem to throw exotics and weapons in general at you but it's really hard to think of how they'd make things more special without it coming across as just less. A lot of that is probably because of the different amounts of time people spend in the game. Exotics really should feel more special than they do sometimes though. A lot of the ones in endgame stuff are already pretty rare as well. Where do you think they could be removed from and have the right kind of impact?
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1 ReplyWhile I agree (excitement) I disagree because of the the RNG for the grind. Took me three years to get helm of saint 14 that wasn’t bad, but it still wasn’t really worth masterworking. When RNG hits you like that, you will just hate the game. And it is really just even worse with so many exotics now in the game, hoping to get usefull roll that doesn’t have 17 mobility and 21 strength…
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Same destiny has become a check list
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1 ReplyWait…people were complaining about lost sector drop rates, now they’re dropping like candy and you’re complaining?🤷♀️
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HimHmm... - old
"Exotics never drop for me" "Exotics drop too often for me" When will it end -
4 RepliesEdited by jhermannITJ: 6/23/2023 7:49:45 PMNone of this is remotely accurate... Did you play D1? Seriously, none of it... including the reference to WoW and ESO... have you played those games, or even talk to any regular players of 'retail' WoW and ESO? Finally, do you understand logistics? Or, let me ask you this? Are you asking for a wipe? Not just from our characters, from the game... this, what I'm alluding to is the logistical conundrum you're mischaracterizing in a hate post masquerading as a D1 nostalgia post. How many weapons were in the loot pool... armor exotics existed? Logistics in development, over time as a game grows and evolves... as this game has over the last 10 yrs. Of course, they were rarer, there were just a handful of exotic armor pieces... the loot pool, in comparison was less than 1/100th what is now. There is more loot in this game than D1 by a factor of x100. And talk about a grind fest... everything was timegated back then. Does anyone remember Swords... running around the dreadnaught for hrs hoping for calcified fragments to spawn in. I had a map... that for hrs on end, I just ran in a circle... still took forever. There was very little content in D1... there was no drip, nothing at all... for months on end. This topic is absolutely ridiculous. You're entitled to your opinion... but if you actually played D1, something happened where you lost your memory Guardian?
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If you saw the massive overload of complaints about why people aren't getting exotic drops. You see it every day even now about people who don't get them in the Legend LS, or raids. I've heard horror stories about D1 that made the hardcores appreciate the game, and got tired of Bungie giving things away when D2 launched. I've heard of the mind-freak that the Outbreak Prime was, whereas a simple jumping puzzle they call a mission could net you the Perfected version. I dabbled with D1 and remember how rare Public Events were...now you can't land on a planet without running across one.
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For me, the engram dropping sound is also part of the problem.
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Agree, some what. I miss the day when you'd get an exotic drop & it was exciting &/or could get excited for Xur's inventory each week.
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1 ReplyDelete all your exotics Only way to recapture that magic of getting a new exotic for the first time ✌️😜
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Edited by JazzyPaladin477: 6/21/2023 11:24:56 AMYup. I really miss those moments of having super rare exotics drop in the world or at the end of crucible matches. People used to go crazy! Getting exotics on the season pass track or as a pre order bonus, or from xur just really devalues them. Don’t get me started on grinding lost sectors.
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1 ReplyI wish things would be more rare too Like every exotic they make today you can pretty much get within an hour of its release. But everytime i take a look at this forum everyone wants every single bit of farm and grind gone, its insane. And when you say something should be rare or locked behind some challenge they call you a gatekeeper.
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Especially raid loot, which is basically supposed to be so rare its almost non-existent. But all the damn crybabies always wanna complain when they cant get loot which is supposed to be THE RAREST loot in the ENITRE game....
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4 RepliesBungie should introduce a new tier of gear. Orange. Call it whatever, but make it super rare, super powerful, and not usable in PvP. Make weapon and armor combos that synergize to become even more powerful. You know, like Diablo 4. Ohh too soon? I mean we had pinnacles which were all way more exciting than exotics, but Bungie couldn't manage them, so probably won't happen.
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1 ReplyThe real rare drops is the world loot from lightfall. have only found 2 harsh language since the new DLC. Not a single drop of the new 120 HC either.
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Same I have 5 or 6 exotic engrams just sitting there ….I delete a lot of engrams now . What’s the point of having them now 🤷🏼♂️
