Where is everyone getting their purple and orange gear from?

Take a look here.

http://forums.defiance.com/showthrea...ection-Project

Personally I've been getting the teir 4 boxes and have been lucky in getting an orange on average of 1 for every 2 boxes I get.

Good Luck.

For reference I'm EGO 1650 and have never looted a single purple or orange item from a mob encounter (e.g. you kill it and pick up the spoils). Blue is the best I've ever picked up. My kill count in the combat section of Pursuits shows 27k kills.

I have however gotten one orange item out of a tier 3 lockbox (I've opened approximately 100 boxes). A ton of purples from vendor sales, and a few purple grenades and shields from Arkfalls.

Generally vendor sales are my best source of useable loot. Tons of vehicles, blue weapon mods, purple weapons.

Things I've never seen in a vendor sale...

Purple Shields
Purple LMG
Purple Grenades
Any Orange Item

I think it sux that you got to have luck to get the "good" gear. Like even if you get a orange it got to suit you, wepon type, synargy typ and then the "sub class" of the weapon. go i guess the chans to get a weapon that just you want is slim

Never got an orange drop, have 1 character around 450 and another 150 and only purple I got from t4's or random drops is that damn sawed off shotgun, 3 times. Other than that can't complain about drops in general it's been fun checking out the different types, love the 3d modeler. Graphic weapon artist did an outstanding job, sometimes I find myself just checking them out in the viewer. Great game!

from lockboxes

No Orange drops here, and only 1 purple drop in a lock box. So those who are getting orange and purples have good luck. Unfortuntely it is not like vegas slots where eventually you get a pay out.

Interesting to read this thread. I have been wondering if it is even possible to get a purple or orange item as loot off a mob, not as an arkfall reward or from a lockbox. I find checking merchants tedious and opening lockboxes a boring way to get loot. I'd much rather find something after finishing a hard encounter or killing a tough mob.

Oh and I see purples as specials at vendors from time to time. I've got 3 oranges from lockboxes I think. Nothing I really like though. A rocket launcher, berzerker shotgun, and a pyro grenade. I do use the grenade I guess. It makes a huge fireball so it looks neat, but the damage isn't great. It is fun to use on bandits though. They run around waving their arms when they are on fire.

I did do a major arkfall once and someone said they got an orange shield. I don't even see many purples from them though.

Purples = Vendors
Oranges = lockboxes (i only by T4)

How many of you have been running co-op with 4 players? It would be nice if playing an MMO with others was the optimal way to get loot.

I run co-op's all the time, I think they are actually a lot of fun (except you explosions 101, if fallen through the ****ing floor too many times with you!)

But I actually had a laugh at this thread, everyone chasing oranges like they are really that much better than purples or blues.
I personally use blues that the secret vendors always have and still get near top damage in arkfalls and co-ops. So those with orange weapons really are not getting an amazing advantage if any. As I'm sure anyone else who has made it to the 1000 ego club can tell you.

The only orange weapon I've ever had was a BMG, wasn't that great.