What is the soft cap? Can't get umbral engrams to drop past 1011

[Neverside]

as the title says, I can't get drops past 1011, my light is 1015, weapons all 1011 and armor mixed above 1011, how do I break past 1011? what am i doing wrong? do umbral engrams not go past this?

[Komaki Tiger Drop Master]

Umbral engrams will not give you any higher power than what you are, do weekly challenges, raids, strikes, Nightfall and prime engrams, they all give you higher power ,good luck :)

[Neverside]

Originally posted by -VNM- Switch:

Umbral engrams will not give you any higher power than what you are, do weekly challenges, raids, strikes, Nightfall and prime engrams, they all give you higher power ,good luck :)

was it a glitch then? because umbral engrams for armor the last week were dropping a few levels above my current level

[..:: eeZee ::..]

I got a few nice power up's from Zavala (weapons/armor), last week, turning in enough Vanguard tokens gave me a Triumph for this season and a nice boost in power up's (used it to infuse, use or dismantle for legendary shards).

[..:: eeZee ::..]

Originally posted by Neverside:

Originally posted by -VNM- Switch:

Umbral engrams will not give you any higher power than what you are, do weekly challenges, raids, strikes, Nightfall and prime engrams, they all give you higher power ,good luck :)

was it a glitch then? because umbral engrams for armor the last week were dropping a few levels above my current level

Yeah, they nerfed that. We can't have nice things, you know.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Neverside:

was it a glitch then? because umbral engrams for armor the last week were dropping a few levels above my current level

I think so. From what I understand, they weren't supposed to do that. It still happened to me a couple of times after Tuesday's update/patch, though, so I'm not sure if they've fixed it... maybe it's just happening less now? Or maybe there was a quiet hotfix yesterday? The last few I opened weren't higher than my level.

In theory, the soft cap is 1000, and you need Powerful drops to get to 1050, and Pinnacle to get to 1060.

Umbral engrams have been sometimes acting like Powerful drops, though... so, I don't know.

[Neverside]

Originally posted by Elegant Caveman:

Originally posted by Neverside:

was it a glitch then? because umbral engrams for armor the last week were dropping a few levels above my current level

I think so. From what I understand, they weren't supposed to do that. It still happened to me a couple of times after Tuesday's update/patch, though, so I'm not sure if they've fixed it... maybe it's just happening less now? Or maybe there was a quiet hotfix yesterday? The last few I opened weren't higher than my level.

In theory, the soft cap is 1000, and you need Powerful drops to get to 1050, and Pinnacle to get to 1060.

Umbral engrams have been sometimes acting like Powerful drops, though... so, I don't know.

dang, yeah they must have patched it then, I think the first 3 umbral engrams each week after reset are powerful and after that they must just drop at current level, that sucks. :(

[PanVlk]

Yeah, they released a hotfix few hours ago, fixing it. Previously focused engrams were giving powerful gear, now they are just on the level of normal legendary drops.

[Johnny Pay]

it was a glitch, it got fixed, now just the first 3 for the week i believe are powerful.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Neverside:

dang, yeah they must have patched it then, I think the first 3 umbral engrams each week after reset are powerful and after that they must just drop at current level, that sucks. :(

Yeah, but I think it happened after my three, though I'm not 100% sure about that... I wasn't exactly paying attention.

I just have this feeling that I got more "high level rewards" than I was supposed to, even after Tuesday, but then it stopped and started behaving normally, so it did feel like they changed something yesterday. Just a guess, though.

[PanVlk]

As I mentioned, they fixed it earlier today.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by PanVlk:

As I mentioned, they fixed it earlier today.

Any idea what time? I was playing late last night/early this morning, so if it happened early enough, that might explain why I thought it was "yesterday" (whereas it would have actually been this morning really early).