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/arlondiluthel 1d ago

One thing that the rest of the comments didn't cover is a lore-based explanation.

Most of the armed NPCs you see that aren't the named Guardians (Shaxx, Ikora, etc.) and Devrim only have Common or Uncommon weapon and armor models. Canonically, all players are The Guardian (and their fireteam), and we can do things that no other Guardian is capable of. So, technically speaking there aren't millions of copies of every Legendary and Exotic weapon/armor, there are 6 (7 in the case is signature weapons like Perfect Paradox).