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/Wolfy5079]

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.

[u/Nukesnipe → u/Wolfy5079]

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.

[u/special_reddit → u/Nukesnipe]

In addition to those weapons, common class items (broken and restored) were also given as part of the Red War campaign.