So did anybody ever figure out how "Smart loot" works? (Destiny)

by slycrel , Saturday, April 04, 2015, 12:55 (3312 days ago) @ CyberKN

Not really.

I had thought that it was only for armor, not for weapons actually. Maybe it is for everything. Weapons seem incredibly random still.

In order for me to "take advantage" of that, I've kept one piece of raid armor in each slot, regardless of if I'm using it or not. The armor drops, while slower than expected, seemed to work fairly well in not getting (many) duplicates. I think I had 7 armor drops to get everything, plus one extra. Boots, legs, boots, chest, IB arms (oh yeah, not a drop, just a frustration purchase), arms (within 2 days! augh!), arms (yeah, so that happened), head, chest, head. That's out of enough crota runs on both normal and hard with ym warlock that I've lost count.

Compared to my VoG luck, that was much much better. I think I got 4-5 boots and one pair of legs over the course of ~2 months running VoG. Never did get my arm piece until after the expansion.