Is all you ever get from missions as a reward

[Viper]

Upgrading material. Do you ever get a special item. Its feels kind of grindy. Do a mission get some XP, some anima and some upgrade material. They all seem to be very samey. Nothing to get excited about.

[Silent Protagonist]

if you do a investigation or some puzzle missions for the first time you get a special item related to that mission like doing one of edgars you get a free pet

[Viper]

That will be nice. Do you ever get like a blue weapon or a higher one. Or are the only way you can get those are through the upgrade system.

[Snowskeeper]

Blue weapons sometimes drop from higher-leveled mission reward item bags. Dungeons frequently drop items with special effects attached to them.

[SwobyJ]

-missions usually drop green bags, and usually more bags of more types (weapon/talisman/glyph) as you progress. They do however drop blue items rarely (and extra-ordinaries even more rarely? unsure).

-investigations on first time completion reward cosmetics from a limited pool

-most main missions now have a chance of dropping an Agent, and the pool depends on what content you're doing and in what zone

-dungeons drop extraordinary items

-there's a chance that if the game goes far enough, they'll start introducing blue items regularly, or integrate previous cache items as more in-game attainable rewards, but this is just personal speculation


TLDR; no, its not just about getting green items of same basic appearance and relative uselessness

[SwobyJ]

Originally posted by Viper:

That will be nice. Do you ever get like a blue weapon or a higher one. Or are the only way you can get those are through the upgrade system.

I got blue items (drops, not upgrade) as early as a rare Kingsmouth drop. Green is essentially fodder (maxed greens can even act as cheaper fodder for upgrading other things - less anima shard cost), Blue is the functional basis, Purple is the endgame basis, Orange is the endgame grind, Red is the super grind and/or whale bait. Currently.

Everything DOES have its use. Its just that an un-upgraded (Lv 1) 1-2 pip ordinary green item is the least useful in itself. But you can upgrade it for various reasons, or else sell on the AH for minimal Marks (people WILL buy it for use of upgrading so they don't have to do content as much), or at least sell at the vendor for more anima shards.

[Viper]

Does the number of Pips ever change on an equipment. If not it seems like its better to take a 3 pip piece of equipmet all the way from green to purple than it is to take a 1 pip piece of equipment the same route. Although I heve never received any 3 pip green equipment yet.

[Dongly Q Dongson]

3 pip has 10% more stats than a 2 pip, which has 10% more stats than a 1 pip.

Barring exceptions, a 3pip talisman is preferable to even a 2 pip extraordinary talisman. Of course there are exceptions to this, but its only a very small number for which that isn't the rule.

[SwobyJ]

Talismans have better base stats depending on pip

Weapons have better suffix stats (not base) depending on pip.

1-pips are rather useless to focus on but you're not heavily penalized; and technically the special effect on an extraordinary piece of gear may still make up for it.

2-pips are still rather useful, and through $ or Marks or events you may come into possession of an item that lets you upgrade a rare 2-pip into the usually even more rare 3-pip.

3-pips are the ultimate goal though, yes. The most basic weapon upgrading is to take a 3-pip green item and fuse it with any other green item, then take that new 3-pip blue item and fuse it with a blue, etc, until you have any (ordinary or extraordinary) 3-pip red item. Which ultimately you could use as upgrade (or fusion?) fodder for more important 3-pip extraordinary.


Endgame players try to have 3-pips but its not a major strike against them if they have 2-pips of things, depending on what that is/how many there are.

[Jaq]

Your best move is to look for what you want at the Auction House and use your mission rewards to upgrade that. 3 pip standard items and 2 pip extraordinary items are very cheap, so don't bother waiting for those to drop naturally. Prices for 3 pip extraodinary items are enormously higher, and nothing you should bother with until you have level 25 blue items and have saved up lots of Marks. Or never bother with them at all, because the cheap stuff is plenty for all solo content and probably most group content, but if you want the best-of-the-best that's the route to go. The earlier stuff you upgraded isn't wasted because it's needed for fusion material regardless.

Also, special game-wide events sometimes award materials that can turn 2 pip extraordinary items into 3 pip extraordinary items, but they're pretty rare.

[Viper]

Thanks everybody for the information. I appreciate it. I understand it much better now.