Can I get Rare Gear (blue engrams) in the current game to finish my Collections?

[BondageSpider]

I only want Rare Gear for the sake of filling out my Collections, and maybe making armor ornaments out of them. I finished Gumshoe Gumption, but I'm missing a few pieces from the Midnight Oil and Inspector sets, since I started Titan and Warlock long after my Hunter and shortly before that update.

Supposedly they stop dropping now once you reach the soft power cap of 1750, which I'm way past on all my characters. I tried buying blue gear from my Collections and equipping it to lower my power level to a little over 1600, but after a bit of adventuring in the Cosmodrome I still hadn't found any blue drops. I don't want to delete a character and start over just for a chance at these drops, so I was wondering if there's anything I can do?

[Kylito]

If you want to force a lower power level, the power level of drops is based off the highest gear in your inventory. If you put on all 1600s and put your normal gear in the vault, you should start seeing blues. Dismantle any higher drops you see to stay at 1600 forever, and profit.

[BondageSpider]

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

[Selphea]

I get quite a few from Terminal Overload and EDZ Lost Sectors.

[Nibbie]

Originally posted by Kylito:

If you want to force a lower power level, the power level of drops is based off the highest gear in your inventory. If you put on all 1600s and put your normal gear in the vault, you should start seeing blues. Dismantle any higher drops you see to stay at 1600 forever, and profit.

This is not true at all. Drops are based on the highest equippable gear for each slot that exists anywhere on your account. This is super obvious when you log into a second unlevelled character after levelling your first, their power will skyrocket because the weapons on your first character count for them. Unless you are so committed to obtaining these blues that you delete every high level piece of equipment your account owns, your drops won't go back down.

Anyway, if I remember correctly (and I could be wrong, they've changed this a few times), blues only stop dropping from playlist activities after soft cap; you should still be able to get them from other sources, like open world activities.

[Kylito]

Originally posted by Nibbie:

Originally posted by Kylito:

If you want to force a lower power level, the power level of drops is based off the highest gear in your inventory. If you put on all 1600s and put your normal gear in the vault, you should start seeing blues. Dismantle any higher drops you see to stay at 1600 forever, and profit.

This is not true at all. Drops are based on the highest equippable gear for each slot that exists anywhere on your account. This is super obvious when you log into a second unlevelled character after levelling your first, their power will skyrocket because the weapons on your first character count for them. Unless you are so committed to obtaining these blues that you delete every high level piece of equipment your account owns, your drops won't go back down.

Anyway, if I remember correctly (and I could be wrong, they've changed this a few times), blues only stop dropping from playlist activities after soft cap; you should still be able to get them from other sources, like open world activities.

Blues full stop after reaching soft.

[Dark, House of Luck]

You can still get blue items from looting Terminal Overload chests on Neomuna

[BondageSpider]

Thanks for everyone who responded.

Yeah, i tried the first method for a bit, but no luck. I've seen one or two blues from Terminal Overload chests but that was a while ago, I don't know if that still works, but when I tried it a couple times today I got no blues from them. I think maybe I'll just let it go for now, maybe at some point in the future they'll add some way to get these again for whoever wants them.

[BondageSpider]

OK, turns out the Lost Sectors in the EDZ, Nessus, and a few other places can still have blue gear in the boss chest. I just spend a few hours blazing through lost sectors, and got some of the armor I was looking for, just not the pieces I needed, but at least I know it's possible.

Thanks again everyone.

[FourtySeven]

how did you finish the gumshoe gumption set? i really want that cloak for my hunter

[BondageSpider]

Originally posted by Fourty Seven:

how did you finish the gumshoe gumption set? i really want that cloak for my hunter

That was back when the game was still dropping blue engrams very frequently, which was why they changed the system: Since you can only carry nine items for each slot plus the one you have equipped in that slot, it would fill up quickly if you weren't constantly dismantling duplicate items, then stuff would start getting sent to the Postmaster (basically a lost & found desk in the Tower) and you'd have to dismantle most of that too...

I've since mostly given up on finishing the sets I was talking about, I really only wanted them for ornaments and completionism, and it's just not worth the effort of deleting a character slot to farm them with a new character or doing Terminal Overload forever. Lost Sectors only seem to potentially give a blue engram when you discover them, repeating one just gives Glimmer. I still appreciate all the help people gave here, maybe someday they'll add a better way to back farm these kinds of items for people who missed them.

[longshotbob]

I can't say anything for all blue armor, but I got the blue WQ armor from completing the LF legendary campaign on each of my characters.