Where is everyone getting their purple and orange gear from?

[Blak]

My best luck with purples has honestly been from Vendors.
I had 1 night I just would tour the map and check all the SPECIALS on the vendor and randomly I would find 1.
Every so often the vendors also have purple synergy items just like the REP Vendors

My 1 Orange Hand Gun came from a T4 lock box.

My only issue atm with the Synergy stuff is that I can't remod the gun to have a different synergy type.
Nothing like getting an orange with a whack synergy set.

[Niurok]

Only epic gun I haven't seen from a actual faction vendor is the snipe rifle, seen semi-auto's but not the single bolt action. Unless its on some hidden vendor.

[Rakshasa]

My only orange ever so far was a (marginally useless) Pulser, which I got first thing from the pre-order (Amazon) lockbox on day 1.

Quite a few purples since then, mostly from Arkfall rewards (which tend to be shields or grenades for me), but occasionally from lucky vendor finds (which are almost exclusively weapons). Doing a quick road/fast travel check of the shops every so often can really pay off. Got Nolan's purple AR reward gun of course, and people mentioned the always-available purples from the faction-specific vendors.

Unless I just missed it or forgot, blue is the highest grade of actual ground-dropped loot I've ever gotten from any individual kills.

[Valethar]

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

That's interesting. With over 200 hours into the game post-release, I've never seen a purple drop from a mob, and with the exception of the Beta, never saw an orange in any lockbox.

Of course, with the loot boost active, the majority of drops are white shields and grenades. After the initial boost expired, I was seeing blues and greens on a fairly regular basis as drops, and a more or less even balance of weapons and shields/grenades. When they gave us the free boosts, that all went back out the window and now I get mostly white drops, and that's almost exclusively shields and grenades. It will be interesting to see what the drop rates look like in a couple of days when the free boosts expire again.

Oddly enough, the description text for the loot boosts says it increases the rarity of your drops, but all three times I've have one active (including the one I bought in Beta) it's actually decreased the rarity.

[Zeroexit]

I am also fairly certain that Purple WEAPONS do not drop, Yes you can get a bazillion purples from major arkfalls but theyre only nades and shields. And OJs are strictly lockboxed.

[Nallic]

All mine have come from tier 3 lockboxes (3 orange and a crapload of purples). Ego rating 1200 ish.

[Celke]

I have ego rating 350 (haven't had much time to play).

Loadout 1 I have Purple AR & Purple shotgun;
Loadout 2 I have Purple SMG and an Orange BMG;
Loadout 3 I have Purple Sniper & Purple Pistol.

I've alrdy dished 4 Purples and 1 Orange so far since they where not good anymore.
I been doing a lot of CO-UP's, Main & side missions (though ppl with higher rating have done more), about 5 times a tier 3 lockbox where I got good drops from and the 2 Oranges where random world drops if I am correct.

I had clan & self luck boost though.

Other then that I have been very lucky with drops it seems.

[Vletts]

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

I am sorry, you must have gotten my 'In-game Luck Card' by mistake. I am currently EGO rating 345 and Have 2 purple shields, a purple grenade of every type, 5-6 purple weapons, and 1 orange shotgun. I have only used keys to buy 1-lvl 2, 2-lvl 3, and 1 -lvl 4 box. Almost all of my stuff comes from ground loot (or the occasional Major Arkfall Loot).

[griefbot]

FIRST OF ALL- seeing people that have found legendary BMG's and/or infectors and discard them makes me very, extremely very sad because those are the 2 weapons that I want the very most, but I cant even find a decent blue protector or immunizer...

I am ego 1150ish and the only items I use in pvp or arkfalls are the only purple weapons I have found and they are: a 750 arc spanner I bought with paradise rep, a pistol I got from the main mission, an assault rifle I got from Nolan stealing my crystal rod in the episode 1 mission, and a burst LMG with cannoneer synergy I bought from the southern mod shop on special for 5000 scrip, and my newest sub machine gun that came in a T4 lock box. (I have found and melted almost all the purple grenades and shields I have found but no legendaries)

The most rare item I have found on the ground was Blue. The most rare weapon placed in my bags after an arkfall or co-op mission was Blue.

I have completed each co-op mission at least 5 times and have never found anything useful in any of them. I have my nomad outfit.

I have purchased around 20 x tier2s, 20x tier3s, 5x tier4s, I have never received a purple+ item except today I got a sub machine gun that I will probably never use. (I might have melted a purple northstar flare at some point)

I would really like to somehow find a cool bmg or infector some day....

As for the people that found purples or even the crazy oranges on the ground, I have 3 theories.
1) their tv is bad and they think that blue items are purple and green items are oranges or..
2) they MUST have the +chance % to find loot bonuses from clans, bits, and the other stuff, that are all stacking together for something like +250% chance to find loot. they are also probably stacking perks that give them +3% chance to find loot from explosive kills as well as the +3% chance to find loot from critical kills. they are probably critically-explosively-killing everything they see with a Ground Pounder or something.
3) tons and tons of Microsoft points

whatever the case may be, everyone would agree that it would be cool if we knew how to actually do the best thing to get legendary items.

ps- please do not discard any fancy legendary BMGs or Infectors please! I would really appreciate them!
GT orbitalcracker

[Whippersnapper]

I think they may have changed things to push the T4 boxes, or at least make them more in line with how things should be (considering the cost). I bought 5 T3 boxes and my results were disappointing. I swear a box gave me 2 items instead of 3, and no orange at all. Just regular and green. Not even a blue.