How to get Legendary weapons(PATCHED)

As of update 1.4.2 chances of getting 400+ dmg legendary weapons from these encounters were lowered significantly. There's chance you get nothing and chances of a 300+ dmg artifact weapon are higher. This cant be farmed anymore unless its changed in a future patch. Thanks to everyone who liked and favorited while this was a thing.

Getting started

First of all i recommend a good supply of at least 10 toughness or regeneration boosters, immunity boosters and some UV bars.
If you're short on materials dont worry, just get a whole lot of arrows and/or bolts.
Toughness boosters considerably reduce the amount of physical damage you take, making you basically immortal unless you get hit with poison, fire or an electric box

Finding random encounters (at night)

Just go out at night, try not to get chased and find the orange Bolter Icon.
The enemy can be a Charger, Goon, Demolisher or Volatile.



Here's the waypoint on the location of this encounter:




These encounters dont always spawn on the same place, most of them are found running around the map.

Getting your weapons

Just kill the Infected with the mark using your melee or ranged weapons, if you start a chase just throw flares near you so the virals go away.



When looting the body you will get a guaranteed legendary or artifact weapon:



Here I got a legendary Shoelace machete :



At level 9 you are guaranteed a weapon with 400+ damage and 3 mod sockets. With max level weapon mods you can make 500+ damage weapons.



Highest damage weapon I've ever gotten is 491 and the lowest is 403.

Important: Weapons can be of artifact or legendary quality, the only difference is the color of the icon.

Before you go

Before you start remember this was in a Normal difficulty game, results may vary in hard difficulty.
I really recommend toughness or regeneration boosters to make this easier.
None of the items i showed you were modded into the game

Good night and good hunting Nightrunners.

[VenomOfSouls]

highest i have gotten is 498 as well Vilaisin i dont know if it goes higher then that maybe with the legendary weapons you can buy from the vendor guy with tokens

[elyoma]

Sorry everyone, this was changed :(

[Vilaisin]

498 is highest i got (without mods)

[Alipqace]

ty

[Darth_Revan101]

Highest 1 hand weapon i found is a legendary hacker axe 633 damage fully modded but since i sided with the peacekeepers in new game plus i got the sweet pk crossbow with 994 damage while i'am using ranger gear giving me 78.5% extra ranged damage which equals to 1774 damage per bolt shot

[elyoma]

Yeah but i found killing the infected with these icons has given me legendary weapon drops more consistently than other night quests and thats why i shared it.

[Smoki [♤] 🦊]

This weapon can be dropped from any monster that is marked as a night quest. Tt's just a matter of luck - any weapon can drop and not always of legendary quality.
Anyway, to get a very good weapon, you have to farm it. of course, it is not necessary to do this exactly in the indicated place, but in any yards on map. But anyway it's a good idea.

[Kuba_Sliva]

ty

[Krarus]

the strongest weapon I found is a Barbarian at 620 dmg (fully modded)

[Krarus]

you can also find legend/artifact gear by hunting the green renegade encounters during the day
they have both weapons and armor drops
useful if you want the highest quality armor instead of weapons