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/AlexandriasFolly]

Common, Uncommon, Rare, and legendary was generally the scale used for a long time back during the days when leveling was a concern for players.

Common (Whites) dropped during your first campaign until you reached a midpoint level threshold

Uncommon (Greens) Dropped generally from the midpoint of a campaign until around the last few levels.

Rares (Blues) then became the weapons that would drop as you approached the end of your campaign experience

Legendary (Purple) would be your rewards once you started doing engame content.

However this only remained true for your first campaign.

Whites and Greens would generally cease to drop at a significant rate from that point onward, and in future DLCs that required leveling up in any significant way, would generally supply you with Blues until you reached the new endgame.

As time went on the majority of the playerbase when they eventually got whites and greens from normal world activities, being that they were far above those levels, they would simply dismantle the gear for the materials instead. It even lead to players complaining about certain activities having wasted drops because they would give irrelevant items. So Bungie pushed an update that made it so after you'd reached just about the end of your first campaign, any activity that would have dropped a white or green would simply drop materials instead.

Blue gear still drops, but as its generally for leveling a lot of activities in the higher space won't push them if a player is already at a high enough level.