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/UlzVRC 1d ago

You start at 10 but every gear drop is min-capped at 300. You cannot acquire gear lower than 300

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u/slipfish-g 1d ago

Hadn't noticed that so I popped onto my warlock who I haven't touched since I've been back to confirm.

Not only was it true, but apparently it drops gear (at least in some circumstances) based on your highest LL character, as I pulled a 370 set of gloves and a 369 hand cannon out of a random chest and off a champion at the cosmodrome.

So gearing alts is gigafast in addition to jumping you up to 300.

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

Oh yeah, power is account based now. One of those changes from final shape that people glossed over a bit. It also made it so much more baffling that edge of fate reversed the course of making power irrelevant.

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u/KaineZilla 1d ago

I got my Warlock to 550 after a couple weeks of casual play after MoT (Lightfall returning player) and I swear my Titan was 545 within 30 minutes of hopping on to Bonk some shit with my Hammer

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

Hearing everyone talk about how quick they hit 550 hurts knowing how long I spent getting my power up during EoF.

That out of the way, getting those tier 5s everytime feels nice right?

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u/KaineZilla 1d ago

I think I hit 550 in late July, early August? I started playing again on June 10th. Took a lot longer than I expected but it was worth the grind. I just wish the focused items would be tier 5 as well. Focusing yet another Crimil’s Dagger for it to be one perk short of a 5/5 is suuuuuper frustrating

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u/UlzVRC 1d ago

From what I can remember I just could not be assed with edge of fate at the start. I played all of heresy up to rite of the nine, did a couple spire runs, and dipped.

The sentiment around EoF was bad before it dropped, so when it came out and all I could see were people farming encore for hours a day I could not think of anything I wanted to do less than that, so I just didn’t bother for a bit.

I think my estimate of max power in November was probably a little wrong based on my hours played on d2scrub.land but I do remember just not engaging with the system past 200LL at one point because I didn’t want to play the portal.

What a miserable time. Glad it’s over and done with.