I think they got lucky (Destiny)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:03 (3396 days ago) @ ZackDark
edited by Schedonnardus, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:31

I think the buff is tied to the Tarot card. Before the linked thread, there was another one on reddit about the tarot card "Three of Coins".

When i googled "three of coins tarot" i got results for "Three of pentacles," with a pentacle being a medallion (coin). The card references a trinity working together (master, apprentice, and something else).

The description for 3oC says that it is stackable, but it doesn't say in what way. I'm guessing that it is stackable as a fireteam, and not stackable as an individual (as evidenced by people burning several at once and not getting anything).

My only circumstantial evidence is that every time i've participated in King's fall, and someone says "don't forget your 3oC" at the war priest or golgoroth i've gotten an exotic engram. I guess that is b/c many (if not all) of the folks in the fireteam used a 3oC.

I also wonder if it's more likely to drop an exotic engram from an Ultra that already has engrams in it's loot pool. Most Ultras drop house banners, axiomatic beads, or silken codex (if anything). The War Priest, Golgoroth, and the new strike bosses have engrams in their loot pools. It's possible that the 3oC works better on these, b/c they have a higher chance of dropping an engram (any engram), which in turn increases the chances of it being exotic.

EDIT: i think that they "got lucky" by getting Ultras that have engrams in their loot table.

So TLDR: i thinkt 3oC is stackable as a fireteam, and probably works best in King's Fall and new strikes. It will work less frequently on Ultras that do not normally drop engrams.