I still havenāt seen a single legendary come out of any kind of pack, ever.
Iāve opened 60 faction packs to date, most of em Jennerit for that nifty Solar Sustainer, and nada. Nothing. Not a single one.
I know, I know, RNG, but jeezā¦its annoying that all the legendaries I ever wanted were either nerfed or are in faction packs.
I got a legendary from a faction pack today. Useless, but a legendary none the less.
RNG is a cruel thing 
The pack chance was only increased for rare and epic packs (chance for the rarity to be one step higher was increased), in addition to the 25%(?) cost reduction. For faction packs, they basically doubled the drops from those packs by reducing their price by half (more than half actually; theyāre 800 now and are normally 1900, which is a 58% reduction).
Iām definitely getting less, not that I mind, and all of the people Iām playing PvE advanced with are saying the same.
But, several of us did get new taunts in faction packs. I got War Face for Galilea and thatās cool, so Happy I am. 
Thereās definitely something up because they said the drop rate was going to be āthrough the roofā and it seems to be āon par or slightly worseā. Pretty much the only thing that seems to be working properly is the loot pack cost reduction (but, from what I hear, not the increased legendaries).
Clearly there is something wrong. After they upped the drop a couple of weeks ago, I started getting like 3 Legendaries out of 4 runs on Advanced. Today it looks like the old āabysmalā rates have return.
ā¦Yup, just gave up for today, several teams for the past 9 hours, we got no legendaries. (PvE Advanced only)
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Been running for about 4 hours here and have been averaging roughly 1 per mission, or thereabouts, which is pretty much what I was getting before. It feels like less though; not sure if itās because Iām expecting it to be better or if itās actually worse.
YEAh, as stated above only Rare and Epic packs had their rarity chance upped.
I opened roughly around 30 faction packs today and got about 5 Legendaries and a crapload of skins/taunts.
Funnily enough getting those ābonus coinā stuff, if itās 1000 or more, is totally good now since itās enough to buy another loot pack 
Opened 3 Epic Packs and only got 1 Legendary, a pretty bad one at thatā¦was disappoint.
I did get 2 Legendaries from 1 LLC Pack though, it felt niceā¦both new (didnāt have 'em) but one was bad with bad stats, the other is kinda sexy.
So I just got three legendaries from the sentinel story mission. I think they fixed the problem.
My working theory is they left the legendary drop rate roughly the same (perhaps slightly higher) than the increase from last time. So that when the event ends they they will drop it closer to the original rate and blame the perceived drop reduction as a side effect of the āhigherā rates from lootpocolypse.
Weāll see what happens when the event ends.
ā¦You may have nailed it.
I havenāt gotten a single legendary. I had been rolling in legendaries before this event. I know perfectly well how probability and confirmation bias work, but comparing todayās runs (not a single leg) with the runs Iād had for the last week (one leg per run on avg.), I have a really hard time believing some numbers didnāt get turned around and decreased the legendary drop rate. Even there being no change at all seems unlikely.
Oh well. More data points tomorrow.
ā¦Looks like the number of Epic loot did go up, most of it junk of course.
That being said, the numbers washed the chance for Legendary loot.
Hard to believe honestly, even as a fan of this game, that the Epic loot is mostly trash.
Hi all. I wanted to follow up. I did about a dozen more runs last night (no more Heliophage) and got 3 legendaries and 6 epics. Not all great, of course, but thatās fine and to be expected. I donāt know what the drop rate is supposed to be, but a 25% legendary drop per stage, if itās around there, is fine, and certainly Lootpocalypse-ish enough for me.
My complaint was mainly with Advanced Heliophage. It takes twice as long as other stages, and has a very significant chance of your team dying in the last few minutes before killing Rendain, as the toughest part is when the warp anchors get called down. Even with pickup groups, itās super rare when my team canāt complete one of the first 1-7 stages. Unless you end up with 4 Benedictsā¦ as I did last night on Advanced Void - but the hilarity was worth the loss 
Has anyone ever gotten a legendary from a megachest? Iām not sure if thereās a technical term for them - the three large chests per stage, sometimes hidden, that contain a guaranteed item drop of some quality. Iāve never seen a legendary from them - Iām curious if others have.
Because if not, and if none of the six bosses before Rendain can drop a legendary as a poster above said, then frankly, Heliophage is broken. Rendain has good drops, surely, but if its the longest, most dangerous mission, with the only drop chance coming from the final boss, and that final boss has the chance to drop a green during Lootpocalypse, then I believe itās broken, because thatās the only chance youāre going to get after an hour of play. That reward is absolutely not commensurate with risk or time cost. Renegade and Sentinel have great drops, Algorithm has three dropping bosses, and you can get guaranteed greens and whites from 3-minute solo runs on Experiment.
By the by - you can glitch the final boss on the Sentinel map if you destroy the shard trees before he lands on the islands to recharge. Please donāt do that. Happened to me last night on one of my runs.
At the end, though - I do want to reiterate that I love Battleborn. Thatās the reason Iām posting this. The polish is freakinā incredible. All the nuance is incredible. If you go on YouTube, you can listen to all of the voice acting - there is a ridiculous amount, and I guarantee, no matter which character youāve played for 100 hours, you havenāt heard all of their possible sayings. The dialog and story are lighthearted and comical, of course, but it still reminds me of the quality youād get from a storyline-driven game like a Final Fantasy title. Itās not Planescape: Torment, but geez, for a shooter - itās pretty frickinā great.
Also, kudos for getting the chick that did Cricket in Fallout 4 to do Orendi. I love her voice.
Edit: Why am I not on FIRE right now?!
Before the Lootpocalypse, the going rate was about 50% chance per stage to get at least 1 legendary, and often at least 2, which is why a lot of people are complaining about it feeling lower than it was before.
This is a very common complaint (and one youāll hear me voice as well): Helio Adv is long and is really easy to fail yet has probably the worst loot chance in the game. Either Rendain should be a guaranteed legendary drop each time or all 6 of the boss rush bosses should drop their full loot tables as well.
I generally call them 6 chests (because they have 6 things in them; pretty sure Iāve seen a dev call it this as well) and, no, they canāt drop legendaries afaik. Only bosses can do that.
It happens whenever theyāre destroyed while heās in the air. It confuses the script because it tells him to jump off while heās jumping on.
Not sure about Cricket, but sheās also the same VA that did Tiny Tina (and is the sister of the writer for BL2).
I played the ever-loving crap out of Fallout 4 - 300-ish hours. Cricket is one of a half-dozen or so wandering merchants, so I probably sold to her a good 100 times or so. She was far and away the most interesting and entertaining merchant. When I heard Orendiās voice for the first time, I was like āomg, thatās Cricketā and then looked it up to confirm I wasnāt just going crazy - itās the same voice
You can see/listen to some of her dialog here -
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