Mini-guide to Power Rating and Optimal Power Rating ( and how to increase it ).

[Draccon149]

"but if you just want your PR boost for the day and are solo queuing you will have a considerably easier time with the lower tier."

In T3 you always get an epic, in T2 you could get rares, I assume, unless if your above 3k PR does it only drop epics?

You can get extra 50PR from epic versus a rare. T3 still seems like the better option unless I'm missing something.

[Floross]

If anything it's the other way around as the game calculates the drop using max potential enhancement and will drop blues 50 higher base.

P.S. I still get blues in tier 2. Can't give you a ratio due to low sample size, but so far 50/50 blues/epics with 1 OJ, albeit mod.

Forgot to mention in the guide, but there's an rng element to the PR boost ( can be as high as a 30PR difference ) of the gear, similar to open world and vendors.

[Draccon149]

Interesting, so it's actually better to go T2 for blue items because I save on 5 enhancement levels of salvage as an epic or rare will equal out to the same PR gain in the end.

[Floross]

To be fair, unless you buy keys, you don't run into a salvage problem. Going into tier 2 is more about whether you care about a higher ( comically ) chance of an OJ or a guaranteed purple. It just ain't worth the extra difficulty for me, not until I get close enough to 4k to reduce their skulls.

[Tesseract]

At least dev said in last stream that loot disappearing after sieges is a bug and then looking for way to change that.

I think what they said is that it was done as a temp fix for a bug. Something like the siege would not end (with the pop-up screens at the end) until everyone picked up their weapons so as a temp fix they made them all go away at the end of the siege. I could have misunderstood but that's what I got from the Twitch.

I also notice that at the end of sieges the regular scenario for that site is likely to start up right away once the siege ends. So before you can even drive away you are being attacked.

[Sorcerer21b]

Since this is the other side of the coin from my guide, and covers points I did not, such as the story and side missions. Where mine covers it just from the drop point side of things. It still need to been read by all.

Though, there is one thing from this and my guide, that still leave me wondering, and that's the variance. I'm still not sure if that works with the weapons rarity, or if it's the full 250 of prototype. If it is the full 250, it could explain some of the numbers people are seeing.

[Kevin Connors]

Alright so that answers that haha. I was toying around with removing a 2nd weapon to reduce my PR and seeing how the scaling works. I thought it was because they knew I was already over 2k PR.

I can totally relate. As is the case with most RPGs or Progression-based games in general, if the enemies or a boss is too tough, start a'grindin' that xp! It's the digital version of eating your spinach and training for a boxing match!

[Hanimichal]

There are no guaranteed purple in T3 or above
I am PR3500+ and running T3 and T5 and what I am taking is like 70% blue + 30% purple, orange I never seen anything

[neko_gunner]

There are no guaranteed purple in T3 or above
I am PR3500+ and running T3 and T5 and what I am taking is like 70% blue + 30% purple, orange I never seen anything

Are you talking about the loot on the ground or the chest? If you are talking about the ground, I agree. The chests on the other hand, I've seen nothing but purples and oranges in T4. I saw the occasional blue on chests in T3. But that seems to get lower based on my PR.

Players 4900+ in my clan are also still seeing blues on the ground in co-op maps and world.

[Hanimichal]

Are you talking about the loot on the ground or the chest? If you are talking about the ground, I agree. The chests on the other hand, I've seen nothing but purples and oranges in T4. I saw the occasional blue on chests in T3. But that seems to get lower based on my PR.

Players 4900+ in my clan are also still seeing blues on the ground in co-op maps and world.

I am talking about the golden chest in co-op after killing boss. Also I am running 1 or 2 co-op per day as I can have only 1 or 2 keys