Legendary weapons info

[Punished Yakuza Gear Solid]

So if i understand it right you get legendary weapons jist from the crystals? You cant find them laying around like in the trailer? If thats the case you always get a random legendary? And where can you find legendary gems, is it from chests or bosses?

[Invidious]

I've played for about 12 hours total and for me, I've found legendary gems from killing the "Bosses" or "mini bosses" or as my group calls them "big boys" (they're bigger and have a red accent color to them) way more often then in chests and barrels. Luck also plays a role in the spawning and even with my friend's luck 18 we still barely found that many. They really are rare because some of them are overpowered in the right hands. Hope this helps!

[Donoghu]

Legendary can drop from bosses, chests as well as simple containers being destroyed. You can also, rarely, get some from the Goblin merchant you find in a gold portal in the dungeon. (You take a crystal which cost a few thousands and it can be of any rarity, including legendary. The goblin store's random gem can be legendary, but not the random gem seller in town.)

With that said, the chances of a legendary seems to be a lot higher if you play with others.

First, all of the legendary I have found from barrels appears in a game where I was at least with 2 other players. Some times, I have found as much as 3 legendary in such barrel over the course of 5 to 8 floors.

Also, both the final chest of a floor and the chests from gold portals drop as many items as the number of player in the game. (Well, the final chest has 1-4 gems spawned and the gold portal has 1-4 chest with 1 gem each.) This means that a 4-player game have 4x more chance for a legendary than a 1-player game since you automatically has 4x more chance for a legendary. (In my first 4 player game, we found 2 legendary on the last chest of the FIRST floor.)

I noticed that even just having 2 players in a game seems to raise the quality of the reward-based gems. In solo, I usually find gold gems with barely any purple gems and with another player, I get around 3-5 purple gem per floor and, sometimes, 1 legendary. There might be a small difficulty adjustment + drop raise with more player in place. (This is an assumption that could only be confirmed by the dev.)

[RickyBerwicksOFs]

I just wanted to add that you can get a legendary from the merchant in the hub I got my first one from there when I was level one, but like you said I was playing with two friends so it might be because of that.

[NotTheBest]

I got a legendary helmet from the merchent from the city in my first hours

[Mishka]

Anything that drops an item crystal can drop a legendary. Normal enemies, Champions, The Butcher, the Black Market, even the end of level chests.