Anthem Drop Rates - are other players seeing similar results

I noticed the same drop problem. I recorded all aspects of five runs in a grandmaster level 2 stronghold, and by the time I finished the fifth stronghold I was so disgusted with the information I had that I just want to delete the darn game.

For information sake, I consider strongholds to be a consistent test of drops. Open play has differences in player interactivity and world events. However, the same mobs, chests, and events occur in a stronghold. 

Although, I have noticed since the last patch that there seems to be one person who rushes through the content now, which forces all others to join them at the next stage. Therefore, the people who want to kill everything, in an attempt to gain more drops and more chances at legendaries, are forced to jump ahead to where the person who rushed through is. Sure, they fixed an issue for those who had to wait for slowpokes to catch up, but they screwed the players who want to kill every mob. It seems the game needs a change to somewhere in the middle, where people who want to rush can and people who want to kill everything can, because the rushers are not going to be able to defeat the chest enounters alone.

"Here are my ideas for how to fix Anthem’s very, very obvious problem with Legendaries:



Obviously, drop rates in the wild need to be dramatically increased. I’m talking like, a 300-400% increase in drop rates for legendaries, which still might not even be enough.

Taking a page out of Destiny’s book with its powerful milestones, you could have it so there was a path to a guaranteed legendary each week. Your first Stronghold clear of the week gets you one legendary skill, your first Legendary contract gets you one legendary component. Your first Legendary mission gets you one Legendary weapon. So even if you have the worst luck in the history of time, you still can get three legendaries a week by continuing to play the game, which will help you continue to make progress and search for rolls.


Use all those damn crafting materials for something. Crafting is without question the most pointless system currently in Anthem, yet the game continues to dump materials on us like we need them to breathe. Allow players to craft legendaries after amassing enough of this crap. I’m just pulling these numbers off the top of my head, but say 200 Masterwork embers, 100 javelin parts, 300 chimeric compound/alloy and 400 Epic embers can craft you a random legendary. That way, even if all your drops are garbage, you are at least crawling toward a new legendary at all times.


There needs to be some sort of bad luck protection in place. In Destiny, you can predict that every fourth legendary drop is going to be a powerful Prime Engram. Every so often, you’ll get an exotic drop instead of a Prime Engram. In Anthem, if you’re on a particularly bad run, there should be some sort of system in place where every say, 20-30 Masterwork drops, your next one will be a Legendary, and this resets every time you get a “pity” drop or a wild one. Again, it would tell players that perseverance will pay off eventually."

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The bold part in particular is what I agree with. The Crafting system is an absolute joke, I've no idea why it even exists honestly. 

There are two possibilities here:
1. Bioware is really that clueless about how to make their game fun
2. This is a MTX ploy and things are this bad on purpose

Bottom line for me: Bioware under EA can go to hell now.

This tech is coming, no doubt. So it doesn't matter if Anthem was designed for it, or being used to test it or even not part of that yet. GaaS games are ALL predatory and made not fun on purpose to incite spending money. Sure, you CAN enjoy a GaaS game regardless. Not everybody will feel compelled to spend money. But they are designed to be tedious and insanely grindy. Some people don't mind it. But just by buying it, that person supports shit games.

Everybody should know by now what to expect when a game is sold as GaaS. If DA4, if even made, is more of this shit, Bioware is dead to me. They're kind of dead to me already. Leave EA and go make good games again. Please. Do yourselves and players a favor. I don't want to see another shit game from you.

I agree.

I firmly believe many of the reviews and other statements to the affect that Bioware developers did not play the game they were tauting. They may have flown around and made it the coolest mecha suit flying game on the market. However, the end game tasks or loot grind was not given a second thought. I feel as my data collection across 20 to 30 GM2 stronghold runs prior to this latest patch and 10 GM2 stronghold runs after the patch was more data collection performed in the game than all the Bioware developers together has done. 

In my opinion, there is no way I - an old gamer who would much rather be raiding content than collecting data- should be able to arrive at the conclusion the loot system is broken and be able to provide data explaining how it is broken. Yet, Bioware releases two patches to address the same loot problem and actually manages to take a step backward both times. 

I have seen several people on this thread and in these forums post ideas I believe might be better than what Bioware has provided its player base. 

Same here. Transporting to mission area is still one of the worst features (ever).