I was able to pick up 5 purple engrams in the last 2 days just playing patrol on various planets. Took them all to the Cryptarch thinking "this time it'll be different, this time I'm going to get a piece of gear I can use." I -blam!-ing kid you not, 4 of the 5 engrams turn into shards/energies and the last one turns into the helmet I already had. 5 purple engrams and they all turned to shit. It's really frustrating when the drop rate for purples is so low and the ones you get rarely turn into anything worthwhile. Are you all experiencing the same thing when finding purple engrams?
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When HOW dropped part of the update was that all legendary engrams will always decrypt to a legendary item only. The same thing happened to many players before the update. Me as well. Frustrating! But ever since, every purple engram has decrypted to a legendary item (not a good one) but a legendary. Read up on the it.