How to get Legendary Weapons

[Tarzan]

I had a legendary ego ~1000 sniper rifle with level 4 Assassin synergy.

It went poof in the salvage matrix as I was adding a mod slot. (I have a support ticket for it)

But, it was badass, make no mistake. It was far better than any other sniper rifle I have seen... had like +9 mag, too.

Legendary items can be really good, as someone else said though, it's highly random.

[gavindor]

I have wasted keycodes and Real money bits on lockboxes numerous tier 4s tier 3s and tier 2 and HAVE never gotten a orange anything and rarelty any purple only 2 so far nothing I wanted my favorite guns are 2 purples I bought and rebought since stupid game froze and lost items 4 times from machines seriously if I use 50 real money dollars and dont get a purple which I did something isnt right really. I know people who are just lucky lol they have legendary shields and guns and never spent a penny. I dont want to be overpowered just want to not have to literally spend tons of money and tons of time to obtain my orange perk..... IDK I think a Tier 4 lockbox should give oranges 50 percent of time. 64 codes after they took away keycodes from events or 400 or so bits should give you something decent that literally 8-15 hours of playtime.

[Tgreen]

Legendary items can be really good, as someone else said though, it's highly random.

Yes, in most cases however a purple with favorable stats will be better than 80% of all oranges.
The difference between the different item rarities is as follows, noting the difference to the tier one lower:
White - no bonus outside of elemental effects.
Green - synergy & 1-2 generic boni.
Blue - 1 major generic bonus.
Purple - Refresh proc.
Orange - 1 major bonus or 1 type specific bonus.

The difference between purple and orange is the same as green and blue in most cases (numeric +mag size boni are type specific and can really make some weopons stand out though).
Also important to note is that these are the potential boni you can get, I've seen purples with nothing but a synergy on them making them worse than greens, although this might just be a bug.

Between all the different synergies and stat combinations there is a fair chance that your orange item will be utter and total ****.
Including the ones that are either always useless *cough* melee damage *cough* or just bad on the specific weapon type, like -recoil on detonators or the fact that two of the refresh procs are rather useless.

I took a look at the trading section and most of the orange items there made me wanting to do something between giggling and crying.

[captaincrunch]

i have gotten an orange shotgun but it had no slots to add mods. do they come pimped out or is there any with slots to add from synergy?

[Yenkin]

I have had nothing from any lock boxes at all, I think I have had one purple nothing else has dropped for me, I bought a lock box this morning the first item was a green gernade, man I get enough of those in Arkfalls, should be taken out of the lock box loot table.

[Zov]

My second lock box 4 I got a nice orange handgun with auto fire and rapid fire but I salvaged it since I have a purple wolfhound that I really like.

[Tgreen]

i have gotten an orange shotgun but it had no slots to add mods. do they come pimped out or is there any with slots to add from synergy?

You can add slots via salvage matrix. It costs buttloads of salvage and takes 10 min per slot.
Which one will be unlocked is entirely random.

[Crisco]

Most of the weapons I'm using are yellow ones (I assume they are the ones that everyone calls green), but a few of the purples I've got have decent bonuses. I only have one orange and it's a flash grenade, which is almost completely useless.

[smesmallins]

I got an orange Rhino IV shield at around 150, has 1700+ cap, but recharge is really slow. I wonder if I should change it out seeing as im over 400 now and my shield gets dropped to 0 in 1 or 2 shots now.

[reciprocate]

Only orange I got was a shield around 350. Vendored that thing since it wasn't a respark (I just prefer resparks). Haven't got an orange since then out of any lockboxes. I think I got that out of a T3 lockbox in the first week of launch.