Have you ever seen a purple or orange drop from a mob?

The thing is, we have dev confirming that they drop, and out of the thousands of forum posters, he is also the only one who has had one drop.

It's like, if I was the president of the Lotto Commission, and everyone is saying that NO ONE has won the lotto, so it might be broken. But somehow, against all odds, I won.

I did actually get a purple weapon (it was an infector, so I just sold it before I realised purples are almost as rare as oranges...) from the San Quentin hulker back in the early days, but since we are talking around day 4 or 5 it could just as easily have been a bugged drop...

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Originally Posted by Thr0nes

The thing is, we have dev confirming that they drop, and out of the thousands of forum posters, he is also the only one who has had one drop.

It's like, if I was the president of the Lotto Commission, and everyone is saying that NO ONE has won the lotto, so it might be broken. But somehow, against all odds, I won.

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Can you tell us what level they are? There seems to be a thought orange is more likely at a lower playing level?

NO.

This has been a big topic of debate in the 47th Legion but through 156 active members NO ONE has seen a mob drop a purple, orange, or a mod.

And anyone who claims otherwise is full of it, even Sledge. No one has ever provided a screenshot to prove it. NO ONE.

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Originally Posted by Shadestryke

I did actually get a purple weapon (it was an infector, so I just sold it before I realised purples are almost as rare as oranges...) from the San Quentin hulker back in the early days, but since we are talking around day 4 or 5 it could just as easily have been a bugged drop...

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Your the first I've learned of to ever get a purple froma drop, that's a little encouraging. If you read Sledgehammers quote he said there is a chance from all mobs to get an orange, I would imagine that goes for purple too?

so far ego 2500 and never had drop above blue. even with full group with both group and personal boosts during the loot weekend we barely even saw blues. tons of whites & greens so at least got like 400k in salvage.

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Originally Posted by Shadestryke

I did actually get a purple weapon (it was an infector, so I just sold it before I realised purples are almost as rare as oranges...) from the San Quentin hulker back in the early days, but since we are talking around day 4 or 5 it could just as easily have been a bugged drop...

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Oddly enough I can confirm this, my only immunizer find "purple also" came off the hulker at the docks. Was weapon leveling and accidentally killed him. My oranges have ALL come from T4 lock boxes. I've opened honestly maybe 18 total? Got 5 Legendaries, all my T3's have been utter ****, and I've opened hundreds of those.

I would imagine that if all mobs could potentially drop oranges then the same would hold true for purples, but since it was back in the very early days it could just as easily have been a bugged drop...

At the time I assumed (as I imagine most people did) that weapons would improve over time and since my inventory was severely limited back then I sold it for scrip (which I thought would be useful later!). Sadly, now that I am actually trying to level my infectors I realise that I should have kept hold of it. I seem to remember it being better than any of the infectors I have found since... :(

Loot drops from "miniboss" enemies (blacklung, biomen, etc) across the board were nerfed about a week(?) after release. Nobody has gotten an orange mob drop since then and even reports of purples are sketchy (guy who knows a guy).

Simply put, they used to drop from mobs--briefly--but don't anymore.

They don't drop.
FACT.