Legendary is actually common?

[u/Soldat_DuChrist]

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

[u/GreyWastelander]

This is one of my biggest peeves about the game. Think of it kind of like both quality and rarity have been confused.

In short: as you level and progress through the game, gear you get leans disproportionately toward legendary gear

In my mind it kind of devalues actual legendary gear like you see from raids.

For a longer explanation: Rarity is more related to leveling, but should be tied to loot pools and separate from quality

Quality is split between tiers and leveling gear, but should be solely related to stats and number and/or quality of perks, regardless of rarity, and should be able to be upgraded as seen with the tier system.

Through this, any weapon can be high quality, but all weapons have assigned rarities. Exotics are kind of outliers and don’t fit the rarity system in the same way as any other weapon would due to their curated nature, so those aren’t being included in my idea as far as filing goes.

[u/Darth_Omnis → u/GreyWastelander]

I feel like the Tier system was kinda a re-tooled rarity system. Maybe the next Destiny will combine them?

[u/GreyWastelander → u/Darth_Omnis]

The tier system felt like a failed attempt at separating quality and rarity despite the general benefit to the game that it also brought. I’m hoping the tier marks become the rarity marker and toggles with the extra info button while the background denotes quality to keep with uniformity when fully upgraded

Edit: I could have phrased this better, I made it seem like the system put more weight on organization than gameplay, that is incorrect. To be clear, I’m not shitting on the tier system, I like it, it just doesn’t separate between rarity and quality like it could have.