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Edited by Tingz0r: 3/3/2015 3:21:52 PM
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Problem with Loot

Hi. I'm at my wit's end. This problem has persisted for months now, and I'm finally at the point of asking for help. I've tried sucking it up and playing through it, but I just don't want to do it anymore. I just finished off Crota with three other players. Two of them got the raid helmets they wanted, one got a Monte Carlo, and I only got two Radiant Energy. I'm sure someone would agree that's a pretty mediocre reward for beating Crota. It doesn't even compare to the three Energy I got from the chest in the Abyss. This sort of thing has happened to me more times than I can keep track of. For example, I've killed Atheon at least 20 times, and I've never gotten a Vision of Confluence. In fact, he almost never drops gear at all. He's given me a Vex Mythoclast once, and another time he dropped two of the same helmet that I already had, and apart from that, I don't ever recall him dropping anything other than materials, Chatterwhite, ships, and Timebreaker. If he did, it was probably something I already had. This problem with undesirable drops applies to almost everything I do. Leveled up my Cryptarch - blue engrams. Leveled up my Cryptarch again and he was generous enough to give me purple engrams - both are Ascendant Energy. Leveled up my Vanguard - shader. Found a purple engram on a patrol - Ascendant Energy or a "why would anyone ever want to use this" weapon. Found a purple engram from a Strike Playlist - Ascendant Energy. Found a purple engram from the Weekly Heroic - Ascendant Energy. Finally finished the Nightfall - Ascendant Energy. Finished the Nightfall with two other people - they get exotics I don't have and I get Strange Coins. Finished a Public Event - Ascendant Energy...jk, nothing lol. Killed the Templar - Ascendant Energy. Killed the Templar on hard - Ascendant Energy. No Fatebringer, ever. Opened the chest right before the Gorgon Maze - Class Item. Opened the chest right before the Gorgon Maze with every character in a full fireteam - everyone eventually gets exotics that they wanted, except me; Ascendant Energy. Killed Atheon - it's never going to be Vision of Confluence. Give up. Killed Death Singer - Dragon's Breath for the 5th time. Killed Crota - Radiant Energy. Gave up and played Crucible - level 15 blue items. Dominated in Crucible - nothing. Got pooped on in Crucible - nothing. Carried the entire team in Crucible - the guy with a 0.08 KD/R gets a Legendary/Exotic, I get nothing. Played a whole bunch of Crucible - the same shaders over and over. Played even more Crucible - "Crucible-grade" items that are of no use whatsoever. You get the idea. I've been mad about this for so long, I'm exhausted. I kept going back to the game hoping it would get better, but it never did. Now, I firmly believe it never will. I feel utterly discouraged. I'm not even sure if there's anything that can be done about this, but I just felt the need to finally voice my problem here. I know I must sound like a whining little child, but I've put off posting about this for a very long time, and I've had all I can take. Sorry.

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  • I feel you. I went 36-14 in a control game with the vex and felwinters, and some guy on Te losing team with a 0.14 KD got a dragons breath. It pisses me off. I do raids every week, three characters, had this game before Christmas, I have 400 something hours, only have 7 exotics. I feel you. The odds are never in my favor.

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  • I've been living with the same problem but at the end it's just the rng system being cruel (I've gotten radiant materials from crota countless times now)

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  • Just beat Atheon nothing dropped, second time this week. Has anyone else been having this issue?

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    • Second time doing Crotas today and neither time did I get anything, not even shards. Is there something wrong?

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    • Just beat Crota, again, and he only dropped Energy. Again...

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    • Edited by skadoo_23: 3/4/2015 8:34:22 PM
      Rng my friend, the only way to beat the rng boss is to put the numbers in your favor kill as much and as many bosses as possible and do events to change up the mediocrity. Know your enemy and what they can drop (ie. know that if you want increased chances at exotics do normal mode raids and then hard bcuz some bosses yield double rewards if you do hard first, but that lessens your odds of getting a shiny new exotic in most cases)..imo do nightfall, gorgon chest then kill Atheon normal followed by weekly strike then if able do hard gorgon and Atheon then death singer and Crota on said difficulties. Knowing what you want and knowing where to get it is half the battle my friend. You can increase your odds by doing things like roc strikes, pvp, bounties etc. More effective play time equals more chances at rewards, hope that helps you.

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      • Yeah. It's RNG, but you know I wanted the "Atheon's Epilogue". I finished Atheon 60 times. Even hard, even normal. And I only got one when I deleted all of my VOG staff out. So it's cool for now: I dismantled 4 Atheon's Epilogue. Always

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      • I feel your pain. RNG in and of itself isn't a bad system, but the very small pool of loot available really puts the sting into not getting something you want/need. I've run the normal Crota raid numerous times and have yet to be blessed with any of the secondary weapons and only the Machine Gun of the Heavies. I was helping friends of a friend run the normal raid last week and watched multiple guns drop for folks doing the raid for the first or second time. I got more armor (I have MULTIPLES of each) and shards/energy. Makes me question how random the loot really is. So disappointing. The game is so fun to play, but the loot system is so aggravating. - Der

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        • This happens to me a lot too, last week I did a strike all the way through, then when we just about finish the strike, someone joined and did absolutely nothing, got The 4th horsemen, while I got blues, and the death singer never gives me anything, Crota, just the materials basically, and BH, and Word, and Atheon, pfffft not even any weapon, just the sparrow, and materials

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