PC Legendary part drop rate is through the floor again.

[CoolJ]

There is absolutely no point in the book system at all if it is impossible to craft legendary gear. I can buy blue stuff from the trader long before I can craft it. I am on day 42. I have looted so many clothing containers that I have 200 armor parts and 200 sewing kits in a box. I have sold at least as many over of both to the traders. In that time I have looted exactly FIVE legendary parts. I got a sixth from the trader as a T5 reward. I have been able to craft legendary gear for a while now. I have so many parts in a box, I could craft legendary stuff three times over. In 2.4, I easily had four times as many legendary parts by this stage of the game. No I still don't have the last wasteland book or whatever. I didn't in 2.4 either.

Something you have done has made these drops nearly extinct. I don't know if it was the extra clothing items added or what. Those seem prohibitively rare as well. Certainly for level 68 anyway. I'm playing with XP set to default. I'm about to fight the day 42 horde and I the amount of pure ammo I am using to get through a T5 like Grover High is obscene. The whole game is set to default settings and I am fighting nothing but hundreds of "spawn on top of me" green, blue, and orange bullet sponges with subpar gear. Fun.

 

[FenixMatariki]

And here i thought i wasn't getting any because of my 25% loot setting. I actually had to prioritize what to craft at tier 6 because i had so few until i started completing tier 6 quests.

If its a change they did deliberately then good on them. Legendary gear SHOULD be rare.

 

[Riamus]

It is definitely lower drop rates for them, but I seemed to have better drop rates when I looted higher biomes. It may be that rates relate to game stage, so you'll get more the further you get in the game and/or the higher the biome you go to. But it may also just be RNG that made it seem that way. In any case, we had enough parts to craft all Q6 armor for our two players, plus Q6 augers for both and Q6 weapons for both, so even though we're not swimming in them, we are still getting enough. It just happens that you might need to delay a little before crafting something.

The main downside to the low drops of legendary parts isn't how it affects vanilla since that seems acceptable to me, but it does have a significant impact on using Izayo's weapon mod since some of those require special repair kits that require legendary parts and some weapons require a LOT of legendary parts to craft. He may have to update the mod to also change drop rates.