In the luxury MMO Destiny, a group of fans on reddit has now set out to investigate the probability of which quality level comes from which type of Engram.
Engrams are somewhat like malicious surprise eggs in Destiny. They come in different colors, and while there is tension when opening them, it’s not always fun, and even when everything seems right, you might get the chocolate in the wrong flavor.
What’s inside the Engrams? What role does the quality level of the Engrams play in the quality of the gear?
What happens when you open 590 Engrams in Destiny?
A group of four fans has presented results on reddit. In a post, they explain what happens when you decode 500 Engrams. It seems that, although some unlucky ones may not believe it, the quality of the Engrams does indeed play a crucial role.
However, the color of the Engrams in Destiny only increases the likelihood of a hit; it cannot guarantee it.
Interestingly, while green and blue Engrams usually yield items of the same color, the legendary, purple Engrams do not. They tend to drop blue items more frequently than purple ones.
Of the 290 opened green Engrams, the majority were “green” – almost 70% of unusual quality. A little weaker and only white were 23%, slightly stronger and blue 7% of the received items.
For the 250 decoded blue Engrams, the situation is quite similar, just one level better: 74% blue, 21% green, and 4% purple were dropped.
In Destiny, is there a legendary item in only every third legendary Engram?
It gets tricky with the legendary Engrams, the purple ones. They are also rarer in Destiny. Therefore, in the presented experiment, the reference number is lower with only 55 decoded items, but the distribution seems to change significantly here.
Because from the legendary Engrams, instead of 70% items with the same quality level as the others, only about 35% purple drops come out. The majority is 60% blue. There were even green items (3%). And among the 55 opened legendary Engrams, there was only a single gold one. There was one lonely exotic item among them, with a probability of just under 2%.
This data is not absolutely valid and indisputable due to the small quantity. However, a trend seems to be emerging. The results of the group of four are being hotly debated on reddit.
However, when opening, the enjoyment factor does not depend only on the quality of the item but also on whether it is intended for your class and whether it matches your playstyle, how the stats distribute, and so on. And how likely that is remains another question.
As for what the legendary Engrams think about having such a strange drop pattern, they regularly tweet that.
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