The Raid exotic drop chance is one that I’m sure we’ve heard a lot of opinions on in the community. I’ll leave my opinion at the bottom, as that’s not really the point of my post. The point of my post is that this has been such a clear issue for the community for such a long time, and Bungie has been radio silent on the issue for YEARS. At least if Bungie came out and said concretely that “you need to do X every week to maximize your chances.” Or they’re going to take a look at exotic drop chances, or give us ANY kind of feedback regarding drop rates. The reason its infuriating is this is an issue that effects the most dedicated player base and it takes away from situations like now, where the new content is out, but people still have to keep going back to a raid they’ve mastered 10x over just for a fleeting chance to be done. Bungie, on behalf of the people in my boat, we simply want you to at least address the issue in a twab, or any other small piece of communication.
My personal example:
I’ve done 30 full looted clears (ALL from start to finish, no Rhulk CP joins) on VOTD. Since that comes out to 2.5 months of raiding on all 3 characters doing ALL of the encounters, and officially having every VOTD weapon crafted due to sheer looted encounters, Im just exhausted and bored of the raid. Starting today I did my first Rhulk cp join and that’s going to be my experience for an hour and some change each week, doing a chore with a very low percentage of it being worth it on 3 characters.
My quick opinion on the matter:
25th looted clear should guarantee the exotic. 24 clears is exactly 8 weeks (2 months) straight of raiding on 3 characters. The 25th should guarantee you get it, if you want better odds, we should find ways to make the triumphs increase it similar to Duality (BUT BUNGIE ACTUALLY GIVE US HARD NUMBERS SO WE KNOW IF ITS WORTH IT)
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25th clear sounds reasonable.