I Got A Better One. (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, October 23, 2015, 05:32 (3415 days ago) @ Morpheus

Everyone on the internet says that your light level directly determines the level of the armor the Cryptarch decodes...

Turns out that's not true.

Doing my abandoned quests and the level 1 stuff, I equipped my guardian with the lowest stuff in the entire solar system--including a 12 pulse rifle and my 3 generalist shell. Light level 49, and I still got the same average 265 B.S. with all the other engrams I got--YES, before and after story missions.

Yes, my vault is full of 170's, but that still would mean my armor wouldn't round out that much--it's all lies.

It's weird. My Warlock is at 305, but most of my drops are at 260, but when I gave my Hunter at 170 Light a Sublime Engram, it decided into a 284 chest...

Who knows... That said, Sublime Engrams seem to play by their own rules, but most gear does seem to depend on your light level up to a certain point. I think the threshold is about 280...