I'm running strikes, nightfalls, spending tons of time on the Leviathan, playing Gambit, and finished my Iron Lord title, and yet I still have not had enough red border weapons drop to craft anything.
It's not even close. The most progress I have on any of them is two for Austringer and two for Beloved. Every other weapon has zero except one for Drang.
So is this a bug or just bad RNG? But if I get more Austringers or Drangs drop without any chance to extract their pattern I'm going to lose it. What's the point of having a crafting system if people who play the game on a regular basis can't actually get what they need to use it?
Even leveling up the season artifact to guarantee some will drop at least once per week is painfully inadequate. Or is there a microtransaction coming to let us buy a weapon pattern as you can do for transmog materials? I wonder. Driving people to the Eververse is getting more obvious as the game ages.
Anyways the drop rates for weapons that can have their patterns extracted are abysmal and need to be addressed.
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I have four for Beloved and that's the highest one for me. There are ways to grind and get better odds but I don't enjoy this game that much.
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It kinda depends on what weapons you want and then you have to do activities they drop in. I’m not saying you don’t play those activities I’m just going off what you said in your comment but playing a ton of strikes crucible and gambit won’t drop the weapons that are available for crafting. For example the opulent weapons you can only get them from either focusing umbral engrams at the helm or opening the opulent chests on the leviathan of you has an opulent key to open them in the first place. Like I said I’m not saying you not competent but maybe you using your energy in strikes and gambit and iron banner which don’t help with that.