The devs stated numerous times that those difficulties are supposed to drop better rolls. Well, after testing this they are not.
I’ve done around 100+ heroic missions and strongholds, 20+ legendary strongholds. Out of all those runs I got 1 upgrade. One. Out of 20 or so items per run, you do the math about the total item count from all the runs. If this is working as intended (I hope this is not intended) then it is completely pointless to bother doing heroics and especially legendaries, the second one taking roughly hour and half. The Big Horn is not even that good.
Those missions will probably give a higher chance to get maxed out items. Something like 0.8% for lower difficulty and 0.9% for others. So technically you will have more chance of better rolls. If you actually get them is a different question. But this aside I don't think players should only get best loot doing these missions. It should be a choice to play on hardest modes and not a requirement. And saying you should be rewarded more is irrelevant. If you need higher chance for better rolls play at lower difficulties and finish the missions quicker, giving you more items for total time spent. If people then say it isn't fun we are right back at the core, you choose to do these missions because you prefer to play them, not because you have to.
I find it works for everything but exotics. Typically on normal, your stats rolls are ****, and slowly get better up to legendary.Originally Posted by ctefanaki Go to original post
Now this doesn't mean you can't get a **** roll in legendary, but it is not worth time invested if you are playing glitchless in the current overtuned/bug/glitch state of the game.
Exotics though falls for me in 3 drops methods. Garbage stats, medium, or god rolled. For some reason exotics are very weirdly balanced vs difficulty.
I played mostly heroic and legendary, but I do a far bit of backup calls to help people and see all the bad rolls in the other difficulties.
Also those God rolls you are seeing are kinda separated from the above dicussion. I get maybe 2-4 a day if I'm farming heavy. The problem is you might be seeing some and they are not build viable or useless for you so you ignore them, but they are dropping.
I'm almost up to over 250 hours and I have only 3 god roll drops that were useable. Two of them came from caches not world/mission/raid drops.
Did everyone miss the part where the Devs said that legendaries was to test the skills of top players and doesn't contain better loot than heroics apart from one exotic that sucks anyways? Also if you can run 20+ legendaries surely your gear must be good already? I've only done about 4 and I got lots of max rolled gear and an almost full library. Heroics gives lots of max rolls too? Sounds like you got the bad luck RNG going there.Originally Posted by ctefanaki Go to original post
I farmed the two zones yesterday that had chest and backpack, heroic global with all the directives.
The loot was very good, 2 now god rolled backpacks after recalling one attribute, loads of very good chest pieces which are great without any recalibration, so will be better after. (Most had gunslinger talent which isnt great but works ok if you get a rhythm to your weapon swapping.
Plus lots of maxed out atts to put in library.
To me it seems adding directives is the way to go, well at least for me it has been the past few days.
can not will , ive done a lot less than you and ive got near max rolls in each area i dont get upgrades anymore either , as your gear gets better the amount that is an upgrade drops offOriginally Posted by ctefanaki Go to original post
we dont have the pure data but it seems like going to hard or challenge is a reasonable upgrade in hit rate, heroic and legendary much less they seem to increase rare drop chance a degree (more exotics etc) but of course with such a small increment on a base low % the sample size to draw any conclusion of averages will be in the 10-100 od thousands.
This does make a lot of sense the idea was never to lock good loot behind difficulty and this lets people gear up in hard/ challenging and heroic legendary are there for those that wish to have that challenge.
if good yellow drops be your goal then only go up the difficulties past challenge if it doesnt slow your drop rate down.