I know this will proly change tomoro, but has anyone else had zero exotic drops this week? Are exotics going to be super rare again??!

Discussion

Not sure if this is good, or bad. But the changes to milestones, and the seemingly non-existent drop rates of exotic engrams, have made exotics really rare. Ever since we learned that exotic armor has perks on it, Ive been trying to get them to drop. My only exotic was purchased from Xur, and I’ve been playing a good amount. I also know that some drops are auto-decrypting, so engrams aren’t as common. Now that any exotic armor has a chance of being useful, even duplicates, I feel like I want them to drop more often. At the same time having rare exotics brings back some of that old d1 excitement when they do drop! I know once the full effect of the weekly activities are active, and we have the real setup of milestones and challenges, we will have a more direct idea of how to get these exotics. So this could change. But this is something that has me even more excited for tomoro. All drops having a chance of being useful, getting excited when seeing that yellow drop hit the screen, and looking for all the best possible chances to get more exotics each week is going to be great for the game. Add to that all the new exotics, the MW exotic Weapon grind, mods, etc. I can just feel the excitement growing.

How is everyone feeling about this? And has anyone found a good source of exotic drops pre-Forsaken?

Posted Sep 3, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

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disco__potato•

Zero out in the world but got 3 from 2 Clan XP engrams.

I'm hoping it was something they just did for the week and not intentional. Dozens on PEs, 10 or so strikes, 6 nightfalls, 9 adventures. No exotic.

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eroc504•

The Heroic Adventure's this week were dropping them at a decent rate, think I got 4 and I ran them 5/7 days x3. I've gotten 2 out of Crucible and 2/3 of the clan engrams gave me one as well.

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dgl343•

Got 1 from these. Was trying to get skull of dire ahamkara to drop because I’m an idiot and thought I had one in the vault before 2.0 dropped.

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null_root•

Got a drop from the non-gear chest in Spire last night.

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pridd27•

I got an exotic to drop from a random mob during an EP event today.

It looked like a legendary engram (purple) though which was weird. I ran over it and got an exotic...

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tckilla76•

Was just a legendary that would have upgraded during decryption :)

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bartex69•

I got this "fireplace" chest from public event.

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Jupiter67•

I got one, a new roll pair of Karnstein's Armlets. They're really great too, with AR reload, shotgun and rocket launcher reserve perks, a bow perk, and that perk the restores melee with grenade damage.

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cannibalssoup1•

Ohh nice. This confirms random rolls on exotics for me. Wasn't 100% sure since they didn't have the "This item cannot be reacquired from Collections" tag on them. This is totally different from my Karnstein Armlets. Nice.

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ZemirasLust•

I got 3 exotics this week. More than any other week.

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