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It should be setup like Diablo where even when you get a rare, it's stat roll is still random... So just because you earned a rare weapon doesn't necessarily mean it will be the right one for your build or even that good at all... Forcing you to try for it again if you want the chance at a better roll

[url=http://www.gameinformer.com/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx?WeblogApp=features&y=2013&m=12&d=13&WeblogPostName=designing-the-rpg-elements-of-destiny&GroupKeys=]Tyson Green's Game Informer Interview[/url] gives a great comparison between Destiny and Borderlands. It really seems like the things going on behind the scenes try to make each drop meaningful to you. I'm not sure if this means you might never get a gun that's "below your level" but in theory it could. It seems as though they're putting a lot of effort into making everything the player gets meaningful. Not to say that Borderlands didn't. I went to a GDC talk that covered the humor in Borderlands and a theme I saw that kept coming up was that the writers kept wanting to have joke weapons - but they were always initially shot down because they didn't want any weapons that the player wouldn't possibly want to use. (For example no gun that has a ridiculously low damage of 1 or something) so they thought of other ways to make the guns serve as gags (the screaming gun that was fairly powerful). However, due to all the guns stats being randomly generated sometimes you end up with things that don't appeal to you as a player. The way Tyson Green talks about the loot drops could imply that the things going on behind the scenes could actually predict what a good drop for you is. Things like play style taken into account could perhaps determine if you really want a shotgun from this drop. For example maybe you've been using a sniper but you're build is all wrong for it. You've got a lot of things stacked so that you would really benefit from a close quarters play style or despite using the sniper maybe you still end up in a lot of fist fights with people. Or maybe they look at your "shopping habits" in the tower. You've been eyeing that pulse rifle for a week now checking the price so here you go take it from this encounter. These are obviously contrived examples but the words Tyson uses throughout that interview really speak to me as wanting to provide the player with meaningful rewards. I don't think you could just get any gun from any encounter. I'm sure encounters have loot tables with possible drops and such but I don't expect you'll be sitting on a pile of guns any time soon. There was also an excerpt from a weekly update earlier this year that relayed a story of a group of employees who took the game home and came back to discuss the possibly broken loot system because no one got an exotic gun. Except one guy who immediately became the talk of the studio. This also seems to point to the likelihood that weapon drops will be less like pinatas and more like birthday presents.

Rare guns are worth nothing if they are easy to get.

I want to get a piece of rare loot or elite gear and feel rewarded for getting it. By taking down a tough fallen captain or making my way into the deepest dungeon on a raid.

I just hope, above all, for some variety.

More Drops With More Marty

To me, loot drops shouldn't be things that happen in every skirmish. I think they should be rewards for overcoming something a little more challenging (think Rixis and the Spider Tank from the E3 demo). I would assume enemies would drop some kind of ammo after being killed, but I don't want to have to check my inventory every time I drop a Dreg to delete a common hand cannon that I will never use, like what ended up happening in Mass Effect 1. I also don't want to have even the slightest chance of picking up an exotic from putting down a Vex Goblin. I want to feel like everything I have was earned, not given to me by some quirk in the machine

If bungie is making all the weapons and not randomly generating them I feel like there won't be that many loot drops. I mean we have armor to find also but I can't see every enemy dropping something other than glimmer. I feel only really bosses might drop stuff. Do we know if things like chests are in game to just randomly find loot?

I think it should be Dark Souls style. Semi frequent drops of the normal variety, but your have to go through pain to get the special gear. But I don't want the normal drops to be worthless when fully leveled. Let them AT LEAST be worth something so you won't feel like a total loser when all your friends have cool gear and you're a have not.

More loot, even if it's not rare.

I'd hope that the Exotics would be in specific missions. Apart from that I hope gear will drop reasonably frequently.

I want the rare guns to be in hard to get loot. Though I wouldn't mind a lot of loot being equipment or gun parts.

We currently have six members and are openly recruiting for the beta of Destiny. i am also opening a youtube channel to record/stream me playing with the guild. My guild id called Gods of Conquest and we are welcome to have anyone of any playing style. Strength comes in numbers, and when we find a rare loot item, our group will make it public to all members in forums

It would be cool if there were drops unique to each boss.

My thoughts are, that what can you do if say you help out in the Old Russia mission and you get the Thunderlord drop and you allready have it from previous, can you then break it Down and use it for upgrade parts or are you allowed to sell it or will that imply the "Pay to win" aspect for other players or will it have different stats to it or something But I´m kinda stuck between less drops with rares and plenty of drops with all kinds of guns