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    Does Difficulty Matter for Loot Crates?

    I think I know the answer to this but I would like to hear from the more experienced players. Does global difficulty have anything to do with getting better loot from crates? So far, everything I find in the world, no matter the difficulty setting, seems to be ****. Which means you absolutely have to do missions to get good loot, yeah?
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    Crates will have a mostly purple theme, but you can certainly get better stuff from them.
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    Very much doubt it.

    Only really good pieces I have got from any chest other than level 4 CP have been from fraction key chests This is on heroic global but cant see it being any better chance of a great piece from these whatever the level
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    Originally Posted by JerryAtricks1 Go to original post
    I think I know the answer to this but I would like to hear from the more experienced players. Does global difficulty have anything to do with getting better loot from crates? So far, everything I find in the world, no matter the difficulty setting, seems to be ****. Which means you absolutely have to do missions to get good loot, yeah?
    If U are talking about faction key crate that is drop same as challenge difficulty.no matter what mission u r doing or global difficulty setting
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    Harder the enemy, the better the loot. Not better by much of a chance, the chance is supposed to be better. As for crates, they are suppose to have the exact same regardless of difficulty.
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    I picked up a fully God Rolled SMG from a random crate in the open world on challenging. It may have a higher chance to drop but you still do get purples even on heroic
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    I get better rolls the higher the global difficulty I use..
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    enemy drops are dependent on difficulty, eg. challangging and heroic enemy will not drop purple gear
    boxes(yellow cp box excluded) will always be scaled to normal difficulty even in legendary difficulty you will find 20%- rolls on purple gear
    yellow cp box is scaled by the difficulty of the cp and can be up to heroic, in cp4

    and if you modify your world to be challangeing or heroic you will get better drops by enemys, not boxes though
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    Originally Posted by Joonnnyy Go to original post
    enemy drops are dependent on difficulty, eg. challangging and heroic enemy will not drop purple gear
    boxes(yellow cp box excluded) will always be scaled to normal difficulty even in legendary difficulty you will find 20%- rolls on purple gear
    yellow cp box is scaled by the difficulty of the cp and can be up to heroic, in cp4

    and if you modify your world to be challangeing or heroic you will get better drops by enemys, not boxes though
    Lots of misinformation in this thread, but this is the correct answer. The devs have explained multiple times how this works, and this is how.
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  10. #10
    I wish i had a link for you, but THEY stated that crates in the world are not affected by difficulty level. The only exception i have noticed could be the yellow control point crates in the supply room.
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