I've farmed for exotics in the lost sectors enough at this point to know it's not simple "RNG" happening.
Every single time I decide to farm, the same thing happens: runs 1-5 I get 1-3 exotics. Runs 5-10 I get maybe 1 exotic. Then, I just won't get anymore.
This leads me to believe that there's a "loot lockout" mechanic at play, or some type of cool down period.
Before anyone calls me paranoid or whatever, Bungie has admittedly implemented loot lockouts and cooldowns in the past. They do it, get over it.
So my feedback is, either don't do this stupid crap, or warn players. It sucks to waste time.
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Reddit taken a huge amount of data and basically determined that legend is 20% drop rate and master is 33% drop rate for an exotic. That % gets smaller and smaller when you want a specific exotic armor piece and have a bunch of them unlocked, and then want specific stats The systems pretty awful, as is right now. It's RnG, I've spent an ungodly amount of time going for a calibans hand drop I appreciate the ability to target farm a slot, but I definitely want a way to farm a longer period of time for a specific armor piece or just more frequent exotic drops.