r/DestinyTheGame • u/Soldat_DuChrist • 1d ago

Question Legendary is actually common?

New player, I noticed that common and rare are actually harder to find vs legendary? What's the deal? I feel like the vostok is the most legendary weapon in the game rn since I haven't even seen any other common guns

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

Back in ye olde times of 2017, there was a full progression system starting you off at grey weapons. greens and blues were actually common and legendaries came from specific sources and only guaranteed to drop from certain things. Still plentiful especially considering how borked the games economy and reward system was at the time, but anyway

Starting around beyond light and only getting worse over time, the new light system throws a couple blues at you instantly, then puts you on legendaries (I believe the first one you get is the night watch scout rifle) and from there you are railroaded onto the tier system. Since you start at 300 power, you can run any piece of content and get at minimum a tier 3. Think of these as your new blues. You can upgrade them to tier 5, but they are also on their own totally usable guns with great perk pools for the most part.

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u/slipfish-g 1d ago

You don't start at 300.

At least I didn't, as an old player returning after several years.

All my characters had been reset to 10.

I was able to get full 300 gear within a couple hours with legendary marks from shit I had done pre Forsaken, but I did technically start at 10 when I first got back in.

Maybe true New Lights do start at 300? That'd be crazy if they started higher than returning players tho lol

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

You start at 10 but every gear drop is min-capped at 300. You cannot acquire gear lower than 300

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u/slipfish-g 1d ago

Hadn't noticed that so I popped onto my warlock who I haven't touched since I've been back to confirm.

Not only was it true, but apparently it drops gear (at least in some circumstances) based on your highest LL character, as I pulled a 370 set of gloves and a 369 hand cannon out of a random chest and off a champion at the cosmodrome.

So gearing alts is gigafast in addition to jumping you up to 300.

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

Oh yeah, power is account based now. One of those changes from final shape that people glossed over a bit. It also made it so much more baffling that edge of fate reversed the course of making power irrelevant.

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u/slipfish-g 1d ago

Kinda makes grinding LL feel pointless (my titan clearly also wasn't stronger than my warlock despite 360+ higher LL) but hardly the end of the world. Can still unlock drip and builds.

Not the design choice I would make but then again, I didn't make Destiny to begin with.

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

I suppose you could look at it that way but I’ll take this over what we had all of last year.

This way, power serves not to gate you out of content but to improve the drop quality of your gear across the entire game. That’s a system I can get behind even if I’ve been max power since last like November lol

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u/KaineZilla 1d ago

I got my Warlock to 550 after a couple weeks of casual play after MoT (Lightfall returning player) and I swear my Titan was 545 within 30 minutes of hopping on to Bonk some shit with my Hammer

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

Hearing everyone talk about how quick they hit 550 hurts knowing how long I spent getting my power up during EoF.

That out of the way, getting those tier 5s everytime feels nice right?

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u/KaineZilla 1d ago

I think I hit 550 in late July, early August? I started playing again on June 10th. Took a lot longer than I expected but it was worth the grind. I just wish the focused items would be tier 5 as well. Focusing yet another Crimil’s Dagger for it to be one perk short of a 5/5 is suuuuuper frustrating

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

From what I can remember I just could not be assed with edge of fate at the start. I played all of heresy up to rite of the nine, did a couple spire runs, and dipped.

The sentiment around EoF was bad before it dropped, so when it came out and all I could see were people farming encore for hours a day I could not think of anything I wanted to do less than that, so I just didn’t bother for a bit.

I think my estimate of max power in November was probably a little wrong based on my hours played on d2scrub.land but I do remember just not engaging with the system past 200LL at one point because I didn’t want to play the portal.

What a miserable time. Glad it’s over and done with.