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    Awarded an exotic for a normal activity???

    I just did a standard open world activity (stopped an execution). Something I've done hundreds of times and you're always rewarded a weapon and some piece of gear, both usually trash. This time the orange in the lower-left corner caught my eye and I was shocked to see it was a Bullet King (only my second one ever). !?!

    Are they tweaking RNG to make exotics more widespread? In my 700+ hours I have never, ever seen an exotic awarded for a normal open-world activity like this.
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    xcel30's Avatar Senior Member
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    well yeah, my first pestlience was doing that, same for my first drop of ridgeway pride (i said drop not craft)
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    Originally Posted by xcel30 Go to original post
    well yeah, my first pestlience was doing that, same for my first drop of ridgeway pride (i said drop not craft)
    Interesting. Perhaps my complete "unluckiness" is why I am so surprised. In 1.5 years it never, ever happened for me, so I assumed exotics were only in the loot pool for higher-risk activities.

    I have had them [very] rarely drop from NPCs during normal activities (usually Heroic and up), but never saw them awarded for same.
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    Don't they have a percentage for exotic drops, it's very low but it does happen. In Division One I got Barret's Chest Piece for killing a boss in the open world on normal.
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    I did GW Hotel and got a Backfire yesterday, I had NEVER seen an exotic as a mission reward not a random one.
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    Originally Posted by UMUSTBBORNAGAIN Go to original post
    I did GW Hotel and got a Backfire yesterday, I had NEVER seen an exotic as a mission reward not a random one.
    By chance did you hit Seasons level 55 during that mission?
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    Originally Posted by Aced_100 Go to original post
    Don't they have a percentage for exotic drops, it's very low but it does happen. In Division One I got Barret's Chest Piece for killing a boss in the open world on normal.
    Apparently so, though (as you note) the actual possibility must be insanely remote for me to not have ever seen it before in over 700+ hours of play.
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    Originally Posted by Sock_Monkey Go to original post
    By chance did you hit Seasons level 55 during that mission?
    Oh ya I had already hit 100, i've just never seen a random exotic as a MISSION Reward.

    I've also gotten the Bullet King on Hard mode twice on Wall Street. I mean i've only got it once on Heroic and I run Heroic 95% of the time on that mission.
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    Originally Posted by Aced_100 Go to original post
    Don't they have a percentage for exotic drops, it's very low but it does happen. In Division One I got Barret's Chest Piece for killing a boss in the open world on normal.
    Ha ha ha yeah i did Lexington about 250 to 300 times never got a Barrets chest, i eventually got mine from a Proficiency cache.

    Hence why i never repeat Missions in this game done them once or twice, not going through that crap again.
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    Did a random named boss wander in to the fight? I get that a lot. I plan it sometimes. If an enemy convoy is close to a control point and I can kite a boss in between them, I can trigger a full scale war. Get a loot-splosion at the end. lol
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