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4/5/2015 12:07:16 AM
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Loot/Drop System Trends? Anyone Noticing It?

I just solo'ed Crota's End three (3) times this past weekend and to any avail I get nothing but energies and shards besides two armor pieces and a ship between all three characters (Warlock | Titan | Hunter). This seems unacceptably off to me. Now I know and understand the raids are meant to be team based activities and they shouldn't be done by one person. My problem is the fact that I can honestly beat normal Crota's End with a Warlock, Titan, and Hunter by myself and receive no decent exotic/raid drops from Deathsinger or Crota seems quite absurd. I understand the chances of quality items are lower in this random drop looting system but this is just really sad. I've read constantly that many people seem to notice this lingering issue. Not just when they don't get the particular item they want but when they get nothing decent at all. Raids, Nightfalls, Crucible, etc. I should not be able to do a teams worth of work by myself and have to leave the raid with a sense of accomplishment and nothing to show for it. Bungie, I know you see these comments and rants about the loot dropping. What is your take on these situations? Very many players understand that the system is random but if you are adjusting the drop rate as time progresses please let the players know what to expect. First few weeks of the Crota's End release and everyone seemed to get something. Even if they already had it. Now I see far to many times on a team or by myself that shards and energies are prevailing far too much to make anyone want to spend time completing this thing. I'm not even that upset about missing out on drops and things of that nature. My experience with the RNG has been pretty positive to neutral. I have a lot of exotics (weapons & armor) roughly equally acquired through Xur or drops. So I'm not just complaining and acting like I haven't seen the light before. "I AM THE LIGHT" lol but seriously I just wonder sometimes even when you have it all I would like to see some reward for efforts like soloing a raid. So to end this, as I stated earlier, Bungie, what is your take on this loot/random drop system and does/how does it change as time progresses? To the community, all players who've had generally positive or negative loot experiences, what is your take on it? Do you all notice differences as time progresses (updates excluded)? Have you had a general trend you mentally keep track off? I'd like to hear from everyone! Always good to see what's the consensus. [WARNING]: Before you comment: "It's RNG get over it", "Pray to RNGesus", etc. I already understand that so please don't waste our time stating the obvious. I want to hear what people's takes on these supposed trends I'm noticing are.

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  • I've been playing since day one. Sure ive gotten many good exotic loot drops, but so do my friends. They get every peice of loot I have, and the ones I have that they don't, aren't very good. My friends , we ran them through vog for their first time on hard. Both of which got vex mythoclast. The second time we ran one of the same friends through vog, he gets fatebringer. Both are guns that I strive to get but not once have they dropped for me. I must have atleast 7 timebreaker sparrows by now. Also Gjallarhorn, I have tried and tried to get at least one of these. My brother gets his first on an omnigul nightfall back at the dark below launch and a friend gets his second from last weeks nightfall on mars. But I of course have never gotten one. Blackhammer as well I Finally got one yesterday, But my brother who didnt have a high enough lvl to do crota when it first came out got Blackhammer first try when he did get to do it. Every Blackhammer he gets now is deleted because he has 365 maxed ones on all 3 characters. The one thing that made me the most angry was when i used all my leftover materials from raids to trade for motes from vog and crota. Bought four exotic helm engrams. Ok I said to myself. I thought i must have a pretty decent chance to get the Celestial Nighthawk which I've been dying to try. NOPE, first two drops were apotheosis veil for the warlock which i already had. The third and fourth were for my titan the eternal warrior and helm of inmost light. Which i already had the helm of inmost. So my brother trys it. Uses all his strange coins to by enough motes to get one exotic engram. He goes to the cryptarch and gets... you guessed it Celestial Nighthawk first try and only engram. I immediately called bs but couldn't because it was right in front of my eyes. Oh yeah and while im talking trash about the loot system might as well tell you about my : 3 No land beyond's, 6 Icebreakers And 4 Universal Remotes. This games loot system doesnt seem as random as it is said to be.

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    • RNG is screwing players all over. I can only guess Bungie did it to again artifically extend grinding due to lack of content until HoW drops. Of course to stupid to see they are doing the opposite and running players off.

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      • Okay, here's what I think. I think it's based on time. I've noticed the day it reset my friends got suro while the next day I finished all my raids only to get materials on VOG, Crota, and one nlb from nightfall. I think it's all time based, and depending on your time you completed the raid. Depends on the outcome of your drop. That's my take.

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        • The loot from raids is strange. Some raids it's raining loot on me, others, nothing but material.

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