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    Scavenging base of 15%?

    After hearing all the varying reports of a broken Scavenging system, I wanted to remove that stat from my character. After unequipping all my Scavenging items, my Character still shows a 15% Scavenging score. How is this possible? Do we get a base of 15% when we hit level 30 now? Is this a bug or did the devs just failed to tell all of us, which wouldn't be surprising at all, considering the state of the game with all the bugs.
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    Might be a perk from one of the wings in BoO?
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    All upgrades in the security wing will give you the perk - Collector – Increases the player’s overall Scavenging by a total of 15%.
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    and how are the drops now ? I lowered mine and was seeing nothing but blue items from the DZ chest's it back up to about 80 ish now and I think its better


    cheers

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    hypothesis: if its 15% base scavenging the tooltip of scavenging is wrong and e.g. 200% scavenging
    leads to just 30% scavenging... seeing so many calcualtion bugs in this game due to probably the fact
    that the most part of their ingame logic is done via node-based operations instead of hardcoding
    by programmers it wouldnt surprise at all if my hypothesis was right.
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    Yesterday I made an experiment with a friend while roaming through the dark zone. I had my scavenging around 45-50% and his was over 200%. While the quality of the yellow drops did not improve for any of us, he was seeing way more dz funds/ammo/div tech drops from mobs than me. Also, while doing Lincoln Tunnel in challenging mode twice, he got two green gear set drops from the main boss back to back. This could have been luck, but who knows for sure...
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