Where is everyone getting their purple and orange gear from?

[GenNuttY]

I have only run across one orange weapon and 2 purples since day 1. I see all these people in the for sale/trade with SOOOO many orange and purple weapons in their inv. it makes me sick lol.

I keep buying the tier 3 lock box and have never gotten a purple or orange out of that. I am also trying the contract stuff so i can get some purples stuff from the special vendors. I usually have bad luck with drops in any video game tbh lol.

So just curious as to where everyone is getting their awesome weapons from!

[Rinkydink]

I've got about 5 or 6 purples, zero orange at ego 744. Just unlucky from lockboxes, keep trying, others have had worse luck too, it's not all seas of orange out there!

[dirtyklingon]

i tend to get 1-3 purple drops from mobs a night over about 1-3 hours of casual play doing mixed content mostly avoiding arkfalls(ie story and side missions mainly)

from t3 and 4 lockboxes i get a fairly high rate of orange items, but they're not weapon types i even wremotely want. alot of orange infectors and BMGs. i buy fewer adn fewer lockboxes lately because i have the worst luck getting weapon types i want at all from them. i'll get enough keys for a t3 every 1-2 nights depending on getting random keys.

most of the purples i get are pistols or shields, and sometimes grenades. i've also gotten orange grenadde drops but they were both flash nades.

[SonicBoom]

I keep buying the tier 3 lock box

To my experience, the tier 3 boxes are the worst. Tier 2 gives you a better chance at getting stuff simply by the amount of stuff you'll get, and tier 4 have a higher chance of getting good stuff. If you want purple or orange, tier 4 is the way to go. Also, keep in mind faction vendors sell purple stuff.

[GenNuttY]

Yea....I hope one of these days I can get me an orange or purple out of a lock box!

[Harnace]

I've gotten zero oranges and I'm at 1100 EGO rating. I've gotten quite a few purples though.

[Panacea]

There are great purples at vendors if you're lucky.

[Merlinus]

i cant find the link atm but someone posted awhole fact sheet on the lock boxes and chances at getting rare items and from what i've seen it looks about right. i've bought like 8-10 tier 4 boxes and only got 1 orange and that orange was actually from the free lock box from steam pre-order lol

anyway but what the % came out to if your solely trying to get orange gear your best bet is actually the tier 2 boxes right now. you use less keys but i think it costs abit more script but thats easy enough to get. 1 tier 4 = 4 loots at 64 keys and 2 tier 2 = 4 loots for 16 keys. is the percent lower to get an orange from a tier 2? yes but the amount of tier 2 boxes you can buy for the same price in keys for a tier 4 makes the tier 4 worthless at grinding out boxes for oranges. you get a better % of orange chance on more tier 2 then you do on the amount it would cost you for 1 tier 4 box

[KodiakX]

So technically per the amount of loot per key it works out T4 are the best box for Oranges. This is because each chest has a different drop rate % on gear. However in actual practice the difference in the amount of oranges you get will be minor if you bought T3 chests instead. This is talking huge pools of keyfrags, like 1000+. If you only compare a small amount like 75 keyfrags then yea T3s likely will work out better but that's unrealistic since you have a virtually infinite source of keys through game play. The math has been done to death on it. T2s can happen, but the difference in drop rate is significant enough that you're better off going for T4s.

Personally I stick with T3s because they have roughly the same loot %s as a T4 and I get a decent amount of purples and blues which at this stage are what I'm looking for. Since gear only improves with Ego rating, I'm not worried too much currently about the current level gear and rather get good ones to raise skill with (extra clip, extra damage, etc). I already have some greens that outpace some oranges I've seen at 1625+. The only ornages I have gotten however were out of the 20-30 T4s I bought at the start of the game through keyfrags (was saving up) and got around 5 of them that way (all garbage).

[Magrock]

i tend to get 1-3 purple drops from mobs a night over about 1-3 hours of casual play doing mixed content mostly avoiding arkfalls(ie story and side missions mainly)

Say what? I'm almost EGO rating 2000, and I have not seen a single purple drop.