I've run this lost sector 64 times on legendary difficulty with all of them being full platinum clears while only getting 10 exotics to actually drop. The runs themselves were straightforward, only taking between 2-3 minutes per run. As I went I kept a tally of when I got exotics, what I got, and how many runs I got nothing between exotic drops. This looks alright on paper, but it's only a 15.6% drop rate compared to the roughly 25% it's meant to be.
From what I recorded, runs 1-20 had 8 exotic drops (40% drop rate) while runs 21-64 only had 2 exotics drop (a 4.5% drop rate)
Is this just once-in-a-lifetime bad RNG from runs 21-64 or are the drop rates falling off after a certain amount of runs?
Help would be appreciated.
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Bungie has not released the drop rates for any of these pieces of content, the 25% number comes solely from community based research and investigation into it. The nature of RNG is that it is, in fact, random. You get both hot and cold streaks. If you were to continue with runs you'd see this play out more.