Is it possible they are rigging the RNG?

[Lord of Cinder]

Ok, this may sound crazy, but hear me out.

While trying to craft the Gauss rep weapons during different periods of playing the game, certain prefixes were popping A LOT - Instigating, Troubleshooter, Mutant, Exterminator from time to time, often having some of those crafted literally back to back...

Junkie? Never, not even once. Bloodied? Nope, never. Furious? Once or twice and often on weapons which wouldn't benefit much from it at all. Stuff like Furious plasma caster are trash. And this is not a single case, I'm talking weeks of grinding and crafting.

Is it possible the game is rigged like a casino? Face it, once you acquire a legendary weapon with the desired prefix what is there to do in MMO like environment without any real end game? Farm events? Why? The players roll the machine over and over until their scrip is gone, they log, farm more scrip, buy stuff from the shop and the cycle continues.$$$$?

[Hefutoxin]

You have less than a 10% chance to get a specific prefix on each craft. You have about a 90% chance of getting a prefix you don't want. Low odds of crafting the same prefix several times in a row, but it does happen.

In these cases, you are far more likely to remember not getting what you want.

I think the main problem is people playing Fallout 76 like a Themepark instead of a Sandbox. If you are playing to min/max your DPS against Endgame bosses... well... it's probably going to be a short ride.

[Lord of Cinder]

Well, I am not looking a "perfect" weapon where all the stars align, but being unable to get the major effect you desire after dozens of tries even if every secondary effect is trash, feels like a trap.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Lord of Cinder:

Well, I am not looking a "perfect" weapon where all the stars align, but being unable to get the major effect you desire after dozens of tries even if every secondary effect is trash, feels like a trap.

You have less than a 10% chance each time you craft, no matter how many times you have done it in the past. That is JUST for getting either Junkies or Bloodied, regardless of any other affixes. If you've crafted over 200 weapons, it's still less than a 10% chance on the next one.

I would not focus on something so unsure as that. Think of it as more of a slot machine you pull once a day for the jackpot. It'd be nice to get, but not something you should expect.

[Fjolde]

How do you make stuff with prefixes?

[Lord of Cinder]

Buy a legendary mod from Purveyor.

[Fjolde]

I have those I just don't understand when to add it and from what I read you could only do it with certain plans.

[Lord of Cinder]

Only certain weapons can be used for crafting with a legendary effect. Most notable examples are the gauss minigun, gauss shotgun and the plasma caster. If you have the plans for any of those, you go to the crafting station and consume a legendary module + crafting materials to make one.

[Midnight Rider]

Well i assume they could silently lower the chances of most popular mods , but unless some data miner will poke around and flush the info we never gonna know for sure .Still tho for your own mental sanity better assume that chance of drop for bloodied equals to size of Todward penus which i bet is around 1 - 2 sm at most .

[Fjolde]

Oh okay, so it's not every weapon that they can be used for. So nothing ballistic then?

and sorry for hijacking this thread, I just had to ask.

[Lord of Cinder]

Gauss shotgun is ballistic for all intends and purposes, it is just labelled as energy.

[TheSuit]

The better the type the rarer its going to be.

[P e l l i]

Arent Bloodied and Junkie only from drop?