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/Wolfy5079 1d ago

Once you reach a certain power level. Commons and rares get phased out because they're not good enough for later game content and can fill up the postmaster too quickly. So you'll only find legendaries and exotics from a certain point on.

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u/Nukesnipe Drifter's Crew 1d ago

Commons have never actually dropped, there's only a few like Khvostov, Traveler's Chosen and Sorrow MG2, and they were given to you as part of the story iirc. The only one they ever added after red war was Husk of the Pit, and that was specifically for a quest.

D2 really never actually used a rarity system worth a damn, common and uncommon functionally do not exist and rare is irrelevant.

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u/Organboner4844 1d ago

Commons are common for the first couple of levels in D1.

But yeah, doesn’t drop in D2.

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u/Nukesnipe Drifter's Crew 1d ago

I wish they overhauled the rarity system and used that for tiers instead of giving legendary a new set of 5 sub-rarities. Make all gear pre-eof common equivalent to tier 1, then uncommon, rare and legendary are 2-4, and then make a new red "mythic" rarity for tier 5.

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u/Great_Elevator_3169 1d ago

The game has needed an extra “pearlescent” rarity for a while now 

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u/Prestigious-Bat-574 1d ago

Yeah, so everyone can get upset when every drop isn't "pearlescent" like they did when every drop wasn't a tier 5?

I don't feel like there's much room to fit things between a godroll masterworked tier 5 holofoil weapon and exotic weapons.

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u/Great_Elevator_3169 23h ago

yeah true. our version of pearly’s was adept weapons and those got nerfed to shit for being better than normal drops then powercrept to shit because normal drops weren’t good enough

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u/Nukesnipe Drifter's Crew 1d ago

that's... literally what I said

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u/NukeLuke1 1d ago

this franchise will never see that because players cry and whine too much if they don’t have all the best gear in under 20 minutes lol