getting NEW dlc exotic armor

[Booneblaster]

i have the witch and beyond light dlcs,had them for a while now. but i have none of the exotic armor pieces from those. i go to rahool with exotic emgrams over and over and only get stuff i've gotten 1M times, usually destiny 1 stuff ("red war").
How do you get new exotic armor???

and please dont say rahool teir 3 decryption with cyphers. it's REALLY old info and it's all ppl ever talk about. heard it before, it's not a thing. And yes, i've reset my rank with rahool a looooong time ago.

By decrypting an exotic the normal way, it says you will get a pre-determined item, a NEW item you have NOT collected before if ANY remain to be collected. But no. I never do.

Anyone know what gives??

thank you very much

[Eriana]

Opening Exotics raw (just simply clicking them without selecting a specific option) will only drop exotics that can be obtained without any DLC (Pretty much anything that is from the Redwar days, weapons + Armor). If you want to get Exotics that are from DLCs, you will need to complete the DLCs campaign on Legendary difficulty which will award you with the choice to pick between 2 different Exotic Armors. When you pick an Exotic you can unlock the other through Rahools Tier 3 Focusing by using an Exotic Cypher. Some Exotics that are from DLCs do not drop from the Campaigns, and instead are only unlocked from Rahools Tier 3 Focusing.

[Booneblaster]

Originally posted by Eriana:

Opening Exotics raw (just simply clicking them without selecting a specific option) will only drop exotics that can be obtained without any DLC (Pretty much anything that is from the Redwar days, weapons + Armor). If you want to get Exotics that are from DLCs, you will need to complete the DLCs campaign on Legendary difficulty which will award you with the choice to pick between 2 different Exotic Armors. When you pick an Exotic you can unlock the other through Rahools Tier 3 Focusing by using an Exotic Cypher. Some Exotics that are from DLCs do not drop from the Campaigns, and instead are only unlocked from Rahools Tier 3 Focusing.

Ohhhhhhh, i seeeee. wow maybe they should write that somewhere.
Weirdly, i have the 3 exotics from shadowfall, though i do not remember doing that on legendary. maybe i did tho. or maybe that dlc works differently.

I know for certain i did the witch queen on legendary and i did get the exotic helmet for it's completion, tho all the other items say i must unlock them in collections in order to focus.
I did not do beyond light on legendary, so they are all locked.

Do i need to do the campaign twice? the second time, importantly, on legendary?
For the witch, i only did it once thru on legendary.

and thank you for the very coherent reply. rare these days.

[Booneblaster]

to add info here for those interested;
there is no Legendary Campaign for the Beyond Light DLC. there are only daily(?) rotational empire hunts on a higher difficulty(?) - could this be the prerequisite for dropping exotic armor??

[Kylito]

Originally posted by Booneblaster:

to add info here for those interested;
there is no Legendary Campaign for the Beyond Light DLC. there are only daily(?) rotational empire hunts on a higher difficulty(?) - could this be the prerequisite for dropping exotic armor??

New exotic armor post-beyond light are all through the 4th page of Rahool now. You need to get him to rank 17, reset, then it will open a 4th page in focusing called "Novel Decryption" which costs an engram and a cipher, and can be used to unlock new armor.

Doing the legend campaigns (WQ, Lightfall, Final Shape) only give 1 piece per character. The others still need Rahool Reset.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Booneblaster:

Ohhhhhhh, i seeeee. wow maybe they should write that somewhere.

I agree the wording on the base engram could be better but you can inspect it from your inventory screen to see what you can get and while in Rahool's advanced decryptiion screeen it shows what type of engram can drop stuff so you need to go to him and pick the specific expansion related option if you want new stuff.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Kylito:

New exotic armor post-beyond light are all through the 4th page of Rahool now. You need to get him to rank 17, reset, then it will open a 4th page in focusing called "Novel Decryption" which costs an engram and a cipher, and can be used to unlock new armor.

Isn't that only for armor going forward with Final Shape, and can't people select the expansion options on the second page for new random stuff? Either way joining the Vex Strike Force discord for alerts about incoming vex strike forces will be the best option for new exotics pre-final shape that don't require a rank reset or exotic cyphers.

[Booneblaster]

Originally posted by Kylito:

New exotic armor post-beyond light are all through the 4th page of Rahool now. You need to get him to rank 17, reset, then it will open a 4th page in focusing called "Novel Decryption" which costs an engram and a cipher, and can be used to unlock new armor.
Doing the legend campaigns (WQ, Lightfall, Final Shape) only give 1 piece per character. The others still need Rahool Reset.

ahhh, so i probably need two resets with rahool (at least). i think i'm on level 16 on his crypto circle or whatever it is. i was watching videos of this that were a little dated and i'm sure there appeared only 3 pages. i don't know, maybe a fourth page was added more recently and they stepped up the tiers. So basically, there is no collecting old exotic armor from past dlc without TONS OF GRINDING engrams. (exception: Eris/Moon dlc which only had 3 armor pieces/class)

thank you, i had been playing for a long time and finally noticed there was nothing new in the form of exotic drops and thus began my search and immediate confusion. They hide the exotics from you until you pour mega hours into an already grind-focused game! a low blow.

[Ged]

This franchise was so much better when you actually had to pull loot. Now they just give it to everyone for like, nothing. Now I just own everything and struggle to find a reason to play.

[Theblaze]

There used to be only three pages but they added a daily focus page similar to how lost sectors worked at a later time.

[Booneblaster]

Originally posted by Theblaze:

There used to be only three pages but they added a daily focus page similar to how lost sectors worked at a later time.

okay, that is where the mysterious 4th floor is coming from and some of the confusion between now and older info. helpful, thank you all. I just got to the final page last night and found the new gear.

Addendum: For those with older versions of Destiny in your heads, your new exotic armors from dlc probably has nothing to do with legendary campaigns and nothing to do with random drops. You must level your rep with rahool to lv 17 & a 4th tab will appear for focused decoding of Exotic engrams with 1 cypher. This 4th tab is being termed Tier 3, weirdly. Using tabs 1 - 3 will earn you more vendor rep than just letting rahool pop your engrams the old way. Receive your exotic cypher to RESET your rank at Lv 17 and now you have the full array of (bigger) dlc gear.