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    Looking into gs drops

    I got them to reply on the stream today about gear score drops. They said the team is looking into gearscore drops when you're at gs 500 and getting 494. Just letting yall know.
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    It was confirmed already that it's intended not to always get 500 gear but I think the pressure of playerbase is making them look into changing it. He was vague it was end of the stream when he commented on it
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    Originally Posted by Dragonmaster083 Go to original post
    My guess is that it was originally intended to be harder to get 500 drops then when compared to the WT4 level of 450. Mainly because really the cap for WT1-4 wasn't really achieved since you'd be going into the stronghold long before you capped out the WT level. They probably wanted to extend the loot grind to 500 since there is nothing else above that. I think more of the problem is that GS 490and 500 gear can be flat out weaker then the 450 drops.

    But I do think that the non-500 was indended and we only thought that max GS would drop due to being stuck at WT4 for so long when in fact normally you wouldn't have really seen 450 drops in WT4 and woudln't notice the drops all being 450 at max level but since we got stuck there, we assumed that it would be the same for WT5.
    Don't disagree with you, but the amount of 500s that drop compared to non-500s when you're 500 or over is a bit absurd. Having been 500+ since Saturday and putting in a lot of hours since playing missions hard and challenging, LZ open world stuff, strongholds, and DZ I'd put the non-500 drops at around 95%, if not higher. Definitely higher if I don't include proficiency caches.

    I'm specifically looking for some Badger items to get the armor on kill back but Badger seems to drop so infrequently that getting that final drop and its got crappy rolls and stats is bad enough, but then it's a 492? Ouch.
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    Just a question cause i missed it.
    Did they said anything to the looting system today on the stream?
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    Originally Posted by Dragonmaster083 Go to original post
    Ya, I would rather them fix it to where GS on an item actually matters besides just the armor roll. Right now the Arrmor roll makes up most of the GS allocation The stats make up actually very little of a GS value and keep the non-max gear drops.
    Indeed, the GS 500 won't matter much as long as they consistently roll worse than GS 450.
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    I'm glad it's not just me then, my GS is 509 but it seems that the only time i get a 500 weapon drop is from "Proficiency Cache" or maybe to odd random gear drop but I've noticed there are a lot more "Specialised" weapon drops around 474
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    Originally Posted by ShadowDancer.. Go to original post
    I'm glad it's not just me then, my GS is 509 but it seems that the only time i get a 500 weapon drop is from "Proficiency Cache" or maybe to odd random gear drop but I've noticed there are a lot more "Specialised" weapon drops around 474
    I get specialized ammo drops more often than 500 GS drops
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