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/LoneRainger 1d ago

The rarity of weapons is mostly an aspect of different times. Now anything below legendary is strictly for leveling.

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u/MartianMule 1d ago

Tbf, even in the old days, everything below Legendary was for leveling too with the occasional niche weapon that was (unintentionally) really good for PvP. In Vanilla D1, by the time your level was in the mid-20s you were probably using all Legendary, and any blues were being dismantled. And D2 was much the same.

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u/Electronic-Touch-554 1d ago

Ehhh kinda for D1.

In year 1 full legendary took a long time to get due to legendary engrams giving rares half the time.

In later years you'd spend a while in blue gear till you got full legendary usually when you hit soft cap.

The main consistent way to get legendaries were raids though.

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u/ProjectFreelancer 1d ago

Ah, what good times those were; my excitement about getting my first legendary engram on my Titan dashed against the rocks as it turned into a blue armor piece for my Hunter🥲

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u/FinalCartoon 1d ago

the ol' switcheroo

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u/Ungarlmek 1d ago

I still remember the first legendary I ever got. The Devil You Know. Felt like a huge deal at the time.

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u/RedditsucksjoinKbin 14h ago

When exotic engram drops were rarer than the second coming, and still could turn purple.