Since forsaken came out I haven’t gotten a single exotic from a purple engram or powerful engram. I’ve opened at least a thousand purple engrams and at least 100 powerful engrams since year two started and the only exotics I’ve gotten either came from raid chests, quests, or the three exotic engrams I’ve found. Previously in year 1 maybe one out of every fifty or so purple engrams gave me an exotic.
I don’t remember Bungie directly stating that they changed that, does anyone remember them saying that or am I just unlucky?
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only prime can be decrypted into exotics. all gear is determined on drop so purple will always be purple
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Gotten them from normal non powerful bounties so yes, yes they can.
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Exotics can be obtained from powerful rewards milestones and by random exotic engram drops. I want to say I've had an exotic drop from a prime engram but that I am not certain. I am certain you can get exotics from the legendary faction engrams for turning in planetary materials even in year 2. These do not drop at a powerful level and I've only ever gotten y1 exotics from these but that was before they adjusted the exotic duplicate protection recently.
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