I just read on the other thread that the higher an engram the more chance there is for it to be miserable loot. It is supposedly in the description of engrams? If this is the case then the cryptarch is not at fault at all but the game design. By the way the design leads will be in the crucible tonight. Retribution anyone? Yep the rarity of the engram is not connected tothe rarity of the decode. It is in the game design then. Source: destiny wiki engram. So are all the myriad of complaints coming out of stuff in a game design that we expect to be logical? Hmmm... it is what it is. to quote a friend.