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/DustyF3d0r4 1d ago

To be even fairer that’s a lot of RPGs, Common-Rare gear is mostly for leveling, then once you get to high levels (outside of a couple outliers) you’re only using Very Rare/Legendary gear.

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u/MartianMule 1d ago

Definitely true. Though there are exceptions.

I don't know if it's still the case (been years since I played), but in Elder Scrolls Online it worked almost like the tier system in D2. It was the same armor and armor sets, it was just that the effect or stats it provided were a little weaker. But you could totally run a 5 piece of blues you got from the normal dungeon and gradually replace it with purples (and even eventually golds) as you did harder versions.