Does changing a mission's difficulty affect engram drop rate?
Basically does increasing the level difficulty and adding modifiers to a mission increase the volume of engram drops OR the quality of drops?
I know higher difficulties will spawn more enemies, so there are more kills and therefore more chances for drops, but is that the only benefit?
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In my experience the drop rate does not seem to be connected to mission difficulty although it does seem to be connected to your level. The higher level you are the more stuff you get is how I found it although maybe its just luck.
I have gotten legendary stuff from farming earth patrols while none of the legendary or rare engrams that I have recieved doing level 24 missions strikes etc have given me anything better than rare. Factors that might increase the drop rate are headshots or major / ultra enemies.
Ive also heard that your cryptarch rank influences the outcome of engrams that you do find although it hasn't had much of an affect with only 1 of the 12 or so legendary engrams turning out to the legendary. His rank is only level 5 though and maybe its just RNG.
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