In Destiny 2 there has been the dungeon “Guardian’s Pillar” since Season 19. Alongside a lot of Vex, playing in the Mars desert also brings real cowboy vibes. However, guardians have now discovered that an armor item from the activity has dropped almost less frequently than some raid exotics. Anyone wanting to visually become a gunslinger will need a lot of patience.
Which item is it? Currently, the guardians are farming the new Wild West dungeon “Guardian’s Pillar” in Season 19. Alongside the top loot, there are as always weapons and specific armor to earn.
- On one hand, there are western weapons with wooden inlays. These include the scout rifle “Long Arm”, the void grenade launcher “Wild Flight”, the machine gun “End Station Horizon”, and the pistol “Threshold Watch” as well as two old Seventh Seraph weapons
- Additionally, there is the first real cowboy outfit in worn leather style, which depending on class is called either “Moss-“, “Earps-“, or “Cockburns-” tailored suit
The most visually important piece of this tailored dungeon armor is definitely the cowboy hat and many guardians are on the hunt for it. However, the stylish western piece for the head is probably so hard to obtain that players are now suspecting intent from Bungie.
A mini-trailer for the dungeon shows how cool the new Wild West feeling in Destiny 2 looks:
Anyone wanting to be a true cowboy has to grind long
Rare drop rates leave players puzzled: The new dungeon “Guardian’s Pillar” has been in the game for almost three weeks now. Normally, it’s not a big problem for a guardian to get all items from the activity at least once within this time frame. This also includes the coveted cowboy hat.
But it simply doesn’t drop for many players and seems almost as rare as a raid exotic, for which you also have to grind for weeks.
Therefore, some players now believe that this is more than just bad luck and that Bungie has intentionally made the drop rates of the cowboy hats rare. That’s the only way to explain the extremely low drop rates.
On reddit, the player sunder_and_flame attempted to break down the exact numbers of the ominous cowboy hat drop rates. To do this, he referred to the statistics from light.gg and warmind.io.
- The chance of obtaining the armor pieces, such as leg and chest protection, is according to his numbers a reasonable 66 – 75 %.
- In contrast, however, the cowboy hat drops for all classes only with a probability of 20 – 25 % – almost 5x rarer than the other armor pieces.
- Comparing with the hunter reveals even: The drop of the cowboy hat is twice as rare as obtaining the exotic dungeon bow “Hierarchy of Demands”.
Thus, the new cowboy hat in Destiny 2 is a really rare item, even though it ultimately is just a simple legendary purple armor. Not a raid or dungeon exotic that deserves to be rare and justifies the grind.
The inquisitive guardian also emphasizes that, to his knowledge, this is not the case in any other dungeon for non-class items and that one has similarly rare drop rates there.
Clearly, cowboy hats are now also sought-after items in Destiny 2, making it reasonable for Bungie to make them a rare hunt as well. Similar to what we already know from the ridiculously low drop rates for pets in WoW.
This small statistic is not absolute proof that this is really the case and that Bungie has indeed made it harder for you. But it could at least explain why guardians in Destiny 2 have to wait so long for their own cowboy hat.
What about you? Have you already received the rare cowboy hat? Or are you still farming and affected by the extreme rarity of this item? And what do you think about Bungie apparently making the cowboy hat intentionally rare? Please tell us in the comments.
Further details on all available dungeons in Destiny 2 can be found here:
Destiny 2: All playable dungeons 2022 at a glance – This is how you master them
