Unfair

Just do achievements

 

Yes. Epic and Lg items account up to ~80% of total items each battle.

 

At my infamy most people only have some epic tier 4's, so legendaries are still worth it (although I don't have one :'(

 

Man I felt unlucky before, but this thread definitely makes me feel better

 

*nod* that makes sense... Percentage wise that's about what the spreadsheets show. I hardly think that's going to win or lose you any matches though. You're talking 33 more damage or +2.75% damage. I'm still willing to call that negligible. You wouldn't call "within 3%" to be pretty much the same?

 

You're missing the point.. .it's not worth it. That legendary is 2.75% better than the epic. But the epic has an additional perk slot which, depending on the perk, can contribute quite a bit. The epic at 40 is better than the legendary at 10 even with a crappy common perk in it. That's why I'd be much more interested in getting my epic to 50 than whether or not I got a legendary. The only way a legendary is useful to me is right now I'm at rares. Depending on when I get the weapon achievement It may bridge that gap between rare and high-end epic. I think of it as giving me an instant E38-ish weapon.

 

But leveling up an epic to that level is really expensive... I run mostly rares, and I'd probably get a legendary (only need 2 more pieces) to get a leg. I don't even have any epic dupes :/

 

if you play a lot and have a lot of spare gold... buy weapons at the shop with gold and scrap them... the more you scrap the more chances you get of acquiring legendary pieces... the higher the rarity the higher the probability... i got several leg pieces this way.

 

Yeah but happens when they have legandary lvl 2 or 3 or 4.. and u only have epic or a lvl 1 legendary

 

I'm level 42, no Legendary. But let's be honest here, a Rare T5 is as strong as a Legendary L1, so there's really no advantage to getting one. Build your Rare T5's (guaranteed and easy), and move on to Epics, which are stronger than Legendary. If you are finding Captain 30's with Legendary, it's because they spent a LOT of money on the game. You can do that too.

 

Which item type, common, uncommon, rare? I've scrapped over 2000 commons without seeing a single legendary piece, even though others get them. RNG is no guarantee of anything.

 

any item type... i've probably gotten at least 4 leg pieces out of scrapping commons... probably 3M gold worth of common items bought from the shop but i'm mostly looking for red pieces so i just buy the red items most of the time.

 

That's why i said the t4 epic is better anyway. But i wouldn't call it the same, even if it differed a little bit.

 

Would buying/scrapping commons or uncommon be more worth it?

 

I wanted to point something out, it's sooooooo much cheaper to upgrade a legendary to level 10 than upgrading epic to level 40. And you get roughly similar results from both items.
It's a big plus to me, as someone who doesn't have a lot of time to play with limited resources.
I say if you happen to be lucky with rng and get a free legendary item. Go for it. It's worth it.
You can use your remaining precious resources to upgrade other items and training your crews.

 

When did you reach NM ? Before a long time ,right?

 

2 months ago, not so long I guess

 

if you play a lot and have excess gold then it's definitely worth it... you can get a lot of rare and epic pieces along the way... leg pieces are hard to come by in this method but if you do it regularly you will definitely get some.