This is in reference to glowing embers specifically.
I tracked my glowing embers upgrades. Per the tooltip:
"imbuing armor with embers will increase its stats most of the time, but there is a small chance that it's Stat total will decrease"
This is in reference to the "small chance"
I have tracked 30 separate upgrades, out of these 30 Stat totals dropped in 22 of the upgrades, 3 stayed the same and 5 increased the total.
Granted this is a low sample size, but even with that over 66% of the time the stat total dropped. Personally I don't consider this a small chance.
The tooltips don't seem to match what is happening in practice in the game.
It would be nice to have some transparency on what is considered "small chance"
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1k: 7 runs Anarchy: 8 runs Vex: 34 runs Omni, Star Eaters, and 4 other Lost Sector Exotics: 1 run Heartshadow: 3 runs Lorely: 2 runs Looks pretty normal to me.
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Thats is exactly why i stopped playing it. All of my 20+ armor parts were lowered in stats on the last step... and not by 1-2 points but to a level where i scrap it. Tried buying from Eva with the more expensive armor parts, even those failed. RNG is against you in this game. 17 Duality runs, no exotic, done 30+ Raids before getting the 1k. It broke my spirit for even going into raids/dungeons for exotics. Hell i disliked raids because of it afterwards. It doesn't even feel like a victory to get it, it felt like an end to the pain. It's like we are punished for playing, the more you play, the lower your droprates seem. Players that play every now and then seem to have the better drop rates.
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4 Repliesbungie won’t give us the real numbers because it’s so clearly be geared against the players
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There should never be a chance it goes down. Why would you even program that option in? If you cared about your communities time investment, your stats should always improve when “upgrading” them. Why farm up all the materials needed to upgrade, only to go backwards?
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3 RepliesDoesn’t seem to add up either, I have a hunter with 0 recovery, but all 5 pieces have a +2 in that slot. Not sure what’s up with that
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This is matching my experience completely as well. I haven't tracked it, but I have been really frustrated with the grind of getting the leaves and ash only for virtually every piece coming out with a lower total than the focused armor I got weeks and weeks ago. I think I've gotten 3 out of at least 20 pieces that ended up with an unmodded total of 65 or 66. I haven't gotten any 67 or 68, and most of the time it is in the 60-63 range.
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No its not a small chance. Apparently Bungie only understands what "small chance" means when it comes to things like getting new exotic weapons like Mythoclast. I don't think I've had a single piece of gear that hasn't dropped in stats. I love this system, minus that factor. That factor is complete BS, and needs to be fixed, but it won't be, not for an event.
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For sure out of everything I've done so far I've got three pieces of gear that actually went up to 86 to 88 total which was cool but other than that everything else didn't Eclipse 74 but that's bungee it always has been, garbage plain garbage
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Why do you think I deleted the armor set they gave me. This is the first Soltice I decided to obstain. Not worth the effort.