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Edited by iSP1ThotF1RE:
1/30/2015 11:34:03 PM
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Are Engrams really decided when it drops?
I have always thought that engrams were decided when they dropped, but I now have a new theory.
My Titan is always lacking plasteel plating from where he is a newer character and he went 20-32 really fast. I received a bunch of rare engrams doing the NFx3 and Weeklyx3 today, so I vaulted all of them to see if my Titan decoding them would provide titan armor. (My other 2 toons are warlock for those who don't want to check.) I got them out of the vault and to my surprise they [b][u]ALL[/u][/b] turned into Titan armor.
So my theory is this, engrams are pulled from the current pool of items on drop, but not decided until they are decrypted. So basically you can't hold onto them until a new expansion comes out and get new gear because their loot pool has already been decided, just not the specific item.
Hopefully this helps anyone who has a character that is class-materials poor like me and doesn't want to spend glimmer buying it
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2 RepliesEdited by slopat: 1/30/2015 11:30:22 PMNo. That's not how RNG works. It's all decided ahead of time. Google it if you want. Random Number Generator.
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I've found that the item seems to be predetermined but not class. So the weapon will be that weapon regardless of who opens it when, proven by myself and others who vaulted purples to decrypt post dlc. All became pre dlc weapons. However the blue armour engrams I'd saved became the items for the class decrypting. The legendaries were as random as ever but all pre dlc.
