That's the first event I participate in. Just finished one of the objectives, claimed my commendation chest... and it was utterly unrewarding: potions, common weaponsn etc. nothing that I couldn't get simply from buying a chest.
I remember ME3 MP events, you always left with a nice shiny weapon or something, here I wonder why I even bothered and I wonder why I should bother completing the other objective and participate in future events.
It is always like this. And because it is random, some players may end up finding a Best-In-Class item, but for the majority it will be no more than junk.
It is a pathetic system, rewarding players in an uneven way based on randomness. I have said it before, but no one cares.
i have completed every challenge so far. Every box has had at least one level 15+ blue. I think that is supposed to be the reward. I have also found a lot of purples in them, mostly low level or runes. However, this weekend i finally got a longbow of the griffon. So yea. just say a prayer to RNGesus and cross your fingers. Its a higher chance of good loot than a large chest, but not by much.
I remember ME3 MP events, you always left with a nice shiny weapon or something, here I wonder why I even bothered and I wonder why I should bother completing the other objective and participate in future events.
Thats nostalgia for you, I remember people complaining about Eagle and Crusader. That said, at least those were unique and at the time you could not get them from other packs.
Thats nostalgia for you, I remember people complaining about Eagle and Crusader. That said, at least those were unique and at the time you could not get them from other packs.
That's exactly the idea. Back then you could say that you obtained a special item by participating in a weekend event, that was the only way to get it whether you chose to use it or not.
An event is supposed to be special, you are supposed to get something special out of it either way it defeats the purpose of an event. I didn't need this weekend to get a "free" large chest, I could have just run 3 operations during the week to have enough gold to buy it...
Heck just a title would be a start.
Heck just a title would be a start.
Was thinking the same thing - some ME3 operations awarded unique banners.
That's exactly the idea. Back then you could say that you obtained a special item by participating in a weekend event, that was the only way to get it whether you chose to use it or not.
They likely chose not to go that route because of how much people complained about imbalanced random rewards. You could get the Hurricane and melt your enemies or get stuck with something lesser, and unlike randomness in this game where you can just buy another chest to try and get something good, you had to wait months to acquire and upgrade a desired weapon.
Unique banners, Icons, and Titles would be cool though.
It is always like this. And because it is random, some players may end up finding a Best-In-Class item, but for the majority it will be no more than junk.
It is a pathetic system, rewarding players in an uneven way based on randomness. I have said it before, but no one cares.
How do you figure that? A lot of players care, but none of them can change it. That's up to the devs. There's no shortage of RNG rants around here, so I don't see why you'd come to the conclusion that no one cares....
Thats nostalgia for you, I remember people complaining about Eagle and Crusader. That said, at least those were unique and at the time you could not get them from other packs.
I love my Crusader X, I will also come to love DAMP uniques, once I have some more 
How do you figure that? A lot of players care, but none of them can change it. That's up to the devs. There's no shortage of RNG rants around here, so I don't see why you'd come to the conclusion that no one cares....
Maybe it is just my impression. But overall I don't see as many RNG rants here as we once saw during ME3 heydays.
Have to agree with this, the whole RNG system is terrible. Some people that come into multiplayer with no experience and get top tier gear straight away and others grind countless hours for either commons or the same low level unique bow over and over, seriously have the staff of stasis and farslayer about 6-7 over, sick of having to break it down over and over again.
In MEMP you had your N7 Manifest nagging away at you that you did not have your Cerberus Harrier at level X.
In DAMP, the weapons are less in your face and having the salvage ability is a good thing.
Sure, I don't have a Caliban unique sword, but I have a nice rare sword that's 90% of its damage, and that's fine for now.
Across my classes, my weapons are on average 85% of the best available, not having the uniques does not mean you can't play well.
RNG is by definition random.
Statistically it will probably deliver eventually and aside of a few lucky draws,
people who play more will have better stuff.
It is what it is, and there are more aggressively awful RNGs - I don't feel compelled to shell out Platinum, it's not 'pay to win'.
I have friends that haven't played as much as I have and have 2-3 of the top tier weapons and I still don't have one, grinding for a few weeks now trying to do challenges. My friends that also have the same bad luck have just given up playing, so I don't have many people to play with which his always a bummer.
This is tedious because without decent weapons its difficult to get the DPS for perilous games, other players don't want to play with you. I have semi-decent mage gear, but I don't want to play as a mage every time, its boring. It would just be nice to get slightly better reward chances for having a higher ranking. It would let unlucky players like me have a chance to catch up.
I have unlocked all the characters now and have made all the top tier armour for them (thanks to all the bad drops getting salvaged) but don't have decent weapons to use them as effectively because DAMP is so heavily dependant on the strength of your weapon.
There's nothing more soul destroying than grinding for a week, using all your gold from that week to find you have made little to no progression and have this happen to you week after week. I want to love DAMP because I love the gameplay but doing the same thing on the same maps with the same glitches with the same characters and making no progression is just painful.
You've probably heard this same moaning over and over again, these problems come with any game focused so much around RNG, I just want to add my opinion to the side that hates it.
I'd like this if games had more varied maps and events, not too bothered about enemies. More customisation never hurt anyone, would be nice if there was a few different top tier weapons for each class
I'm the opposite, I deleted the DLC last week because of the no key drops and enemies trapped on the other side of a wall glitches and have found a few more uniques, seems to be the same to me.
I'm the opposite, I deleted the DLC last week because of the no key drops and enemies trapped on the other side of a wall glitches and have found a few more uniques, seems to be the same to me.
What items are DLC ones? my weapons, armours, rings, belts and amulets are all still the same so I'd assume the answer is no
They say the chests have improved loot, so no, they aren't supposed to be crap. They still have the potential to be crap, though. I think what they might mean is there is an improved chance for better loot.
It's all in your head bros. RNG means you can go 3 chests 3 uniques, 30 chests and not a damn thing to show. Having a blip of good luck doesn't mean you did something to increase loot probability. It just means you got lucky.
My biggest problem is that I have no use for any gear below level 20. I wish there was a way to just remove certain unique crap weapons from coming out of chests. Nothing worse than getting a unique and seeing its a level 10 that I will immediately salvage.
You got that right. Saved all week and bought 50 boxes, and here is what I got AGAIN:
10 runes, only 2 of them Superb
3 Farslayers
2 Gifts of the Mountain Father
1 Critical chance ring
And the rest what total sh_t! After a month straight of this I've given up.... Playing with a POS weapon because I have no luck at getting any of the top tier items has made me quit MP all together....
commendation chests have better chances at higher lvl loot then a large chest. Better chances doesn't mean better results, just more possibility of good loot.
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