Have they increased orange drop rates from lockboxes?

[Krauser]

Got one tier 3, all crappy blues, all went to ark salvage.

I think I'll go back to collecting synergy mods.

[Miffy]

i am over 2000 EGO , never got ORANGE item >..< almost 60 weapons was use to exchange to ark salvage.

[MaxSterling]

It's possible that the loot boost weekend also increases your chances for "better" loot. As for whether the chances have changed... same old, same old for me.

[JaskaJii]

Dat Tachmag Pulser... I would love a gun like that (so far my most cherished gun has been a green Tachmag Pulser with Syphon nano, absolutely a blast to spray around with ) I wish I got oranges I'd actually want to use. So far the weapons I least like are Pistols, Shotguns and LMGs. I've gotten 3 legendaries; two pistols and one shotgun.

But I've also been wondering about the drop rate. People here say they've never gotten a legendary gun, yet I've received 3 in about 80 hours of playtime, from about 10-15 Tier 4 lockboxes.

[PurePlayinSerb]

One thing I've always stuck to is that I never buy a lockbox at the same location I just bought a bunch of keycodes...AND I usually buy lockboxes at "out of the way" locations. I'm sure it doesn't matter, but I have my superstitions. lol

i bought 3 tier 4's at the same location and got a nice purple in everyone, got a orange in the first and another orange in the third one

[Alexri]

I have noticed more oranges lately, so maybe. Started buying only tier 2 boxes though, so wasn't sure if that was the reason. Have pretty much gotten one legendary every day lately.

Btw, no, those are not the two best SMGs in the game. They're ok, but nothing special. The tachmag has semi-decent non-crit DPS, but poor crit dps, making it best for PVP - for which it lacks syphon. The VBI SMG is fairly good, but would still be beaten by dual crit+cannoneer, which is possible to get on green weapons.

i am over 2000 EGO , never got ORANGE item >..< almost 60 weapons was use to exchange to ark salvage.

Hope you mean "today"

[PurePlayinSerb]

i bought 3 tier 4's at the same location and got a nice purple in everyone, got a orange in the first and another orange in the third one

bought another got shtako, and on my 5th got another orange... i swear i listened to these forums started buying tier 3's for a month got nothing, listened to these forums started buying tier 2's for a week, got nothing, stop listening to these forums and go back to the tier that got me my first legendary, and get 3 legendary's out of 5 tries... it may not work for any of you but it sure as hell works for me

[RealHoosier07]

bought another got shtako, and on my 5th got another orange... i swear i listened to these forums started buying tier 3's for a month got nothing, listened to these forums started buying tier 2's for a week, got nothing, stop listening to these forums and go back to the tier that got me my first legendary, and get 3 legendary's out of 5 tries... it may not work for any of you but it sure as hell works for me

I do think those 2 are the best smg's. I personally don't like burst guns, so the other smg's just aren't that good to me. The FRC Sub-Carbine is good, but I'm just not a fan of burst fire weapons. The FRC Heavy Assault Carbine is the only one I like with burst +3 mod, because it's glitched and acts like full auto when you rapidly tap the trigger. That gun is a volge killer, especially with Syphon or Radiation.

Also, to the other poster, that's why I said the Tachmag Pulser I have is the 2nd highest fire rate, because the only one higher is tachmag pulser with cannoneer.

EDIT: oops it responded to the wrong poster. sorry

[theLimper]

I've noticed an increase in my opinion though a decrease in purples vastly.
1st orange ego 50
2nd orange ego 150s
3rd orange ego 600s
4th - 9th orange all in ego 1100s in three days time.

[RealHoosier07]

I have noticed more oranges lately, so maybe. Started buying only tier 2 boxes though, so wasn't sure if that was the reason. Have pretty much gotten one legendary every day lately.

Btw, no, those are not the two best SMGs in the game. They're ok, but nothing special. The tachmag has semi-decent non-crit DPS, but poor crit dps, making it best for PVP - for which it lacks syphon. The VBI SMG is fairly good, but would still be beaten by dual crit+cannoneer, which is possible to get on green weapons.



Hope you mean "today"

You are right about the numbers when you talk about double crit plus cannoneer. What you're missing is that green weapons can't get "10% ego recharge on full reload", which is an amazing bonus to have. When I use that gun, my ego power recharges in no time, in an arkfall I trigger my overcharge twice as much as I used to with my blue VBI SMG without that 10% ego recharge on full reload. Also, what I and many others have seemed to notice is that nano effects trigger more as the rarity of the weapon goes up. Whites don't seem to trigger much at all, whereas my oranges seem to trigger constantly. lol Greens and blues are good guns, but they don't get other bonuses that really help your sustained DPS.

Besides, using the Crit as the basis of measurement isn't really accurate, because not every bullet hits crit and there are lots of enemies that have crit spots that only come out once a while and are small. When measuring DPS, you have to measure on the base DPS, because most of you bullets are going to be hitting non crit spots on most enemies.

But anyway, I only meant that the VBI SMG and TachMag are what most consider the best smg's in the game. I didn't imply that I had the 2 best oranges in the game with the best bonuses, I was just mentioning that they had very high fire rates. I disagree about my Tachmag's crit DPS, I have a x1.07 damage mod and it has a fire rate of 28.3(damage is 135)..thats a crit dps of 6,509...I think thats pretty darn high actually.