Timeline for What is the difference between Powerful Gear and Legendary Gear rewards?
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| Oct 2, 2017 at 19:07 | history | edited | Zodack | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cutting out parts of the answer that refer to other answers; some have been deleted and those snippets aren't quite relevant to this accepted answer after all
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 14:01 | history | edited | Zodack | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a few more facts about Luminous and Legendary Engrams. Thanks PeteWifi!
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| Sep 22, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Zodack | @PeteWiFi Both of these are things I have been encountering as well! The -10 scaling for legendary engrams I experienced a bit after answering this question, and I did totally gloss over that luminous engrams don't scale. Good catch. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | PeteWiFi | You missed probably the most important point :-) A Legendary engram is level locked at the point it drops! A Luminous engram is NOT! You can hold off on cashing in a Luminous and it's potential power will continue to grow as your level does. This is particularly useful <265 but I wouldn't let it roll over the weekly reset. Useful tip: This is also the case for the Mida & Sturm rewards. | |
| Sep 22, 2017 at 13:31 | comment | added | PeteWiFi | I've been tracking this closely across my 3 characters, which are now all 300ish. From my experience at 275 onward the base level of a Powerful/Luminous will be stick close to or a little above your maximum possible level (max 300) where a Legendary (or Rare!) will slow to 10 levels below (+-1). When you add on a +5 Legendary mod then the drop level is equivalent to Max-5 for Legendary and Max+5 for Luminous. e.g. @ 302 I get 292 Rare/Legendary engrams but my last Luminous contained a 299 and a 300. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 3:45 | vote | accept | DeputyDylDog | ||
| Sep 13, 2017 at 16:17 | comment | added | Zodack | Luminous Engrams are a bit of a special case since they are a reward from a vendor, and not an engram you receive as a drop in the game world -- unlike Legendary and Exotic engrams. They have a much, much higher chance of giving you an exotic than a regular Legendary engram, and as mentioned their power level is going to be much higher as Legendary engrams (and even Exotics) will cap at a certain Power once you get high enough. They will also never drop in the game world, and are milestone rewards only. So you shouldn't treat them quite like a normal Legendary engram. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 15:26 | comment | added | n_plum | No they are most certainly Luminous Engrams both in name on the milestone and when you pick them up from the correct person. They are significantly higher in level, and grant two items, both legendary but with one as a high exotic chance. They're specifically named that as they're important for leveling, while they may grant legendary gear, they are not the same as a legendary engram. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 15:19 | comment | added | Timmy Jim♦ | I read about the Luminous Engrams, but I think that's just a naming convention for the engram. It's still considered Legendary in terms of rarity from what I've gathered, hence the purple icon still in the screenshot in the question. | |
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 13:25 | history | answered | Zodack | CC BY-SA 3.0 |