I’ll need numbers to support this b/c I’ve seen the exact opposite.
In a lot of my strikes I’ll be top for kills only to see the others get a purple or exotic. And vice versa - I’ve gotten the best stuff when I didn’t perform all that well.
I truly think it’s just random.
Im not talking about end game rewards. I’m talking about actual purple drops, the more you kill the more chances you have at getting something whether it be green, blue or purple. You’re correct, it is random, BUT you can’t get drops if nothing gets killed. If the chance at getting a purp is 1% then killing 100 enemies has a higher chance at you getting that purple than killing 1 enemy.
I think he’s referring to the fact that every enemy you kill has a chance to drop a legendary engram, independent of strike rewards. Therefore, the more enemies you kill, the better your chances for immediately scooping up an engram. I can support this claim through my own experience. There have been numerous times when I’ve had a purple drop from adds during the strike, and I only received blues as rewards for that strike. It actually just happened last night.
I’ve also noticed that all of my purples have come from lower end enemies (dregs and thrall).
well yeah thats just general in context yes you get a chance at drops if you kill things if you dont kill things no drops
the thing generated from that drop and the quality is still random if at all
your CHANCE to get stuff in a effort sense increases
ive seen exotic engrams drop from level 5 dregs
but you can still go 0-40 in killing enemies
but in the end… so many parameters and you have to get a lucky roll it least the weapons you get from vendors or raids you know what they are and how good they are
i truly do think the coding for RNG during nightfalls have gotten worse
you could fix this by the simple concept of addition by subtraction based on a persons level
if im past a certain point or i dont have a certain character then the drops shouldnt include stuff for that character or outdated stuff like ascendant shards
Yes it is still random, but you increase your odds. That’s point of killing everything during a strike or mission. I think all of the complaints about never seeing a purple makes no sense if you literally run through everything, which is what the majority of people do during strikes. The way the game is now I can’t see people changing there behavior. I’ve only run into a handful of people that understand this, most of the time I’m left alone during strikes killing enemies while my fireteam is about to start the boss encounter lol.
But anyways, iron banner. The HC this time around is underwhelming. I got it 2 IB’s ago and it has the explosive rounds perk. Wish they had an updated Peruns Fire this time around. I was able to get when I got the HC and it has grenade regen perk which is great for PvP sunsinger.
lately the weekly has been more appetizing then the nightfall, you can do a whole lot more with 9 strange coins then some random shitty legendary auto rifle or 11 ascendant energies 
There are currently two good auto rifles that I’ve seen so far, the vanquisher iii (new monarchy legendary) and the black adm Suros (rare), they both have the suros archetype but don’t have the health regen perk and slightly lower stability/impact. But yea the nightfall awards have been lacking lately.
Speaking of Auto Rifles. I’ve noticed they have phased out the higher impact/ mid RoF AR’s and added a lot more low impact/ high RoF ones. My guess, this is their way of leveling the playing field among the weapon classes.
It’s also why I haven’t dismantled my old Shadow Price. It still does more damage than the new 331 AR’s. I also keep leveling in New Monarchy in hopes of getting a Vanquisher with good perks as a rank up reward.
Finally something good, i got the Gallahorn on the singer, now i only need the fucking helmet, since this week i didn’t get the goddamn gloves
Doing Nightfall and Weekly between my Hunter and Titan I collected No Land Beyond, Unwilling Soul 09 (Hip Fire, Perfact Balance and Crowd Control), and TFWPKY 1969 (Performance Bonus, Third Eye and Field Scout).
Not a big fan of auto rifles anymore since they gone the low impact/high RoF route. Only AR I nowadays is Suros Regime. Kinda excited about TFWPKY though. Been loving Hand Cannons lately.
Anyone want to do nightfalls/weekly? i need to do them on my characters. Ill be on later tonight
I got a Legendary Engram, 10 coins, and Voidfang Vestments from my 3 nightfalls. I never upgraded my old vestments, so it’s not too bad. I have not seen an Exotic weapon from a nightfall in a long time.
9 coins from nightfall last night. Fucking hell
I have been there, but at least the coins are useful to get stuff from xur (if he brings something useful thats it), the real insult is to get shards or energy, that is the stuff that makes me rage 
Yea I’ve noticed that as well…the new rare Suros is good and you can still get some of the older ARs, but they probably won’t work too well for iron banner or the new raid because they don’t have the updated damage values. They’re only good for normal crucible.
I am down. I also need someone to run me VoG. I’ve only done it twice a while back. I need a refresher.
Got Ice breaker from Crota…funny that my ice breaker is what helped down Crota… Got a plan-C from Roc strike…yaaay?
This was maybe my 2nd exotic from a strike since ive started destiny which upsets me since A) I was using my plan-C in the damn strike!! and B) odds are I wont be getting another exotic item from a strike for a very VERY long time.
really hoping that Xur is selling Seuros/Gallajorn or upgrade to voidfang vestments…but we all know he wont be… 
Hard Mode Crota’s End drops Wednesday Jan 21st
http://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update---01152015/en/News/News?aid=12493
Got a ghjallahorn and titan boots from the raid last night… did the raid previously and it seem the game rewards 1 player with all the exotics after beating crota. Twice i’ve seen this happen… one kid got ghorn/icebreaker, shards and the ship… another person got red death/ice breaker and shards. The rest of the team got either shards or crota fusion riffle/black hammer.