Final edit: This is regarding having a chance of getting no drops from hard mode. A lot of people, including myself, have gotten very frustrated with this to the point where we just don't want to play anymore.
PROOF THIS IS NOT A GLITCH AND SOMETHING WHICH IS INTENDED BY BUNGIE:
https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/169504792/0/0
It's not easy with a LFG team and after you spend a while fighting the boss, you get nothing or just normal mode loot. What's the point of doing it on Hard if you won't get loot anyway?
I've seen it all. Vault of Glass normal and hard, Crota's End normal and Hard, along with Prison of Elders. I've been through forever 29 but never complained about the rewards but this time I am as every other encounter gave you something every time.
Below is my original post.
Don't I just love it when I spend 20 min on a encounter only to get nothing? Last week it was nothing from sisters. This week, it was nothing from Golgoroth and I was the one who had the gaze. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to remove drops completely is a dumbass who deserves a slap to the face.
GIVE US GUARANTEED DROPS ON EVERY ENCOUNTER!
Just to clarify one thing, I'm not asking for straight 320 drops with perfect rolls. I'm just asking for drops. Now, with the variety of things you can get, you won't be done immediately. You get a drop, then it needs to be 320 and it needs desirable rolls.
For those of you saying "It has always been like this", it hasn't. I've been here since week one (Sign of Founders on my Hunter) and I'll tell you why. Before you got shards and / or energies. You could use those to upgrade your initial gear and make it more powerful. You got something out of it if you remembered correctly. Now, since you don't need ascendant materials to upgrade anymore, the equivalent could be seen as weapons or gear. You use high light stuff and upgrade your initial gear and make it more powerful.
If you do a normal raid and complete it, then do a hard raid, or just do a hard raid straight then you have the chance of getting nothing which has 310+ light until Oryx. What was the point of doing the previous encounters then if they don't guarantee you items? And it's not like this is infrequent. I didn't get anything from 3/5 encounters last week and 2/5 encounters this week. How is that fair?
Also, those of you calling me "entitled", I am entitled. I finished the activity therefore I earned the rewards. If you disagree with that then why not just remove loot completely from every activity?
Edit: 250+ replies. Let's keep going until Bungie sees this
Gecko 77 made a very good point:
[quote]Players should always feel like they are progressing. They should come out of the raid atleast one light level higher than when they started.[/quote]
triplearod also made another very good point:
[quote] The main difference in VoG and Crota's End is all weapons were exactly the same so you had to only get them once, low drop rate is fine in that instance. Armor may have different stat roll but the maximum light was always the same
Now were not only rolling against the chance it drops, but its Atk/Def values, and its perks. Im fine with the variance as it makes the raid more replayable, but something should drop even if it is a 310 hallowed pieces of gear. Maybe that gear will have stats & perks I like and is worth infusing up.[/quote]
Edit: RIP my notifications tbh
Edit: 500+ replies
Edit 750+ replies. When we get to 1000, I'll edit this to #Feedback so this has a more likely chance of getting noticed.
Edit: 1000+ replies. Will edit this into #Feedback soon
Edit 1500+ replies. Bungie, we're waiting on you
Edit 1750+ replies. Two updates later and no mention of this in any update... Really Bungie?
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Signed. This is horrible. The "hard" raid is not hard on top of the HORRIBLE rewards (if any) given!
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Yes, each encounter should give you something for the first time each week per character (just like the other raids).
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For once i would like to complete the raid and feel like i didnt get drugged and -blam!- by bungie in my sleep. I spent 6hrs on my first go thru on hard raid....I got a BOND...a BOND. Oryx should be dropping weapons no matter what. That is clearly too much to ask though so i will settle for guaranteed drops, and stop giving me shards in hard mode since they are worthless. If you going to give me nothing then do it, give me nothing, don't tease me whit purple drop on a boss only to pick them up and find out I just wasted 30 minutes of my life.
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Totally agree... I got nothing from the priest, golgoroth, and sisters yesterday and I never did normal.
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Edited by emmag_22: 10/29/2015 5:22:32 PMI agree. My time as a guardian is slowly decreasing. I used to rush home from work to get on and see what there was to do. Now I'm starting not to care because light lvl is such a pain. I don't enjoy the weapons or compromises that I have to make in order to be a higher light lvl. This crappy attempt to boost moral with the Festival of Lights is stupid. Bump you people that say I must suck at this game. I don't think I suck I just don't have hours upon hours to grind and then get crap.
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Edited by z_cryptix_z: 10/29/2015 5:05:14 PMI agree with you. Unfortunately I don't think bungie will ever do anything since the way it is now increases play hours and makes thier game numbers look better. Our clan member hadn't done any normal or hard run threws last week and got nothing from hard witches part.
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This entire post is based on how little you understand of the loot system
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Signed!
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Bumpedy bump bump BUMP! Seriously, I have ran the raid (not hard, but normal(if anyone wants to do hard over the weekend I'm down)) and gotten no heavy weapons from Oryx and Warpriest, and I did them about 5x on my Titan and 3x on my Hunter AND STILL NOTHING. I feel as if I have been cursed to never get Heavies again, even though it would bring me up 1-3 light. Grrrr, etc.
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Bump. Very frustrating considering the effort you put in to receive..NOTHING. This needs to change Bungie. You are just artificially increasing the amount of gaming time as people will play repeatedly to get loot/increase light level. Considering the mediocre drop rate of the items ( and how random they drop at light levels) the grind is much worse than year 1. Yes the loot system is indeed working the way Bungie wants..for us to grind and grind till the next DLC comes out!!
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Agreed. It's a terrible system that leaves little to no incentive or reward. It's slow, clunky, impractical, and time consuming. The rewards for a game such as this are so limited as well, not to mention not really impactful. They think that it was a problem the raid rewards were too powerful in Y1 but the edge you gain if any from raid weapons Y2 is so marginal that it's not worth doing the raid for rewards. The biggest reward is ten possibility of light increases but as started is so slow that unless you are a rampant player with ungodly amounts of play time available you won't reach max light by the time 4 months rolls around and you can just grab some blue stuff and be higher level and light or other new level system they change to.
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Edited by x-MISANTHROPIC-x: 10/29/2015 4:19:30 PM1000 replies and no post from Bungie, assholes probably feel it's "working as intended" BULLSHIT!
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This is my friend's and my theory. So, bungie what actually want is that higher level people can help lower people through the raid, why is this? Well, my friend and I, decided to run hard mode first on one character, we got nothing but sh*t, then on another character we run it normal mode, and after completing normal mode we run it hard on that same character and guess what? We got better gear than what we could ever imagine. I know, it is so dumb to run the raid 6x a week, but, in my opinion, I think it's worth it. Next time, setup your fireteam, finish normal mode and then go to hard mode. I hope this helps you and you can get better gear from hard mode.
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Got 0 drops from totems and war priest in same raid yesterday felt like I wasted that time however my buddy got a 320 quelims so atleast I got to help him get a sweet drop.
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Signed. It shouldn't be RNG^3. Having RNG to even get a piece of gear to drop, RNG on what piece of gear that would be, and then RNG on what light level the piece of gear is going to be.
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Signed. Kings fall is the most difficult and team focused raid yet and what do we get for spending a hour on the jumping puzzle(because of scrubs), shards...shards...and more -blam!-ing shards!
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Edited by x-MISANTHROPIC-x: 10/29/2015 4:16:25 PMFix the -blam!-ing hard raid drops, sick of this shit.
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Signed again, Keep us posted!!!
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Destiny´s loot system is crap