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 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