Basically only equip legendaries and leave all other slots empty. If you don't have a legendary yet, only equip masterworks. Never equip epics. What they are doesn't matter.
eh, i dont know about that. Epics can stack up with Masterwork components and give double the boost. i still havent been able to one of the gear recharge Masterworks to drop so i am still rocking the epic component. i pretty much need it for faster recharge of my storm abilities. i feel handicapped without.
i dont think Legendaries are that much better than MWs. for the same component, yes, pick legendary over its MW version, but if its just some universal component giving you more armor or ultimate damage? Nah, go with what works well for your build. there are a lot of MWs that give you 60% extra damage for using R1 or L1 abilities. then there are the 35% elemental damage, gear damage and blast damage components that should give you a massive damage boost.
I'm not entirely sure how loot should work but it seems so strange. Early loot is so pointless, you pretty much start getting blue and avoid everything else. By the time you get blue unlocks you're already trying to get purple gear. And by the time you get purple unlocks you've moved on to masterwork. I have endless embers for loot I'll never craft because its pointless. For almost the entire game you can ignore half the loot. Hoping they add a way to trade 100 green embers for mastwork embers or something. The whole purpose of this game is to get oranges and yellow loot and then what? Just get better stats? Why even have a purple drop at GM2 or higher? Should just all be all orange and yellow gear, embers and cosmetics at that point.
They definitely need some kind of trading system for embers. 15 MW embers for crafting a MW item is ridiculous. you get like 5 MW items in like 2-3 hours of play. so to craft one MW item, you have to play for 6 hours?
i had a pretty rough day yesterday in GM2 strongholds just a day after i got 18 MWs and 2 Legendaries from 3 GM2 strongholds just a day ago. Only 4 Total from 2 strongholds, all from last bosses. no enemy drops. first two chests didnt drop anything. Tyrant Mine actually had zero drops in the first area, no epics, no blues and i guess i shouldve stopped there because it was clearly bugged at that point but i was the best player on the team and was carrying them and didnt want to quit out on them. but still, a waste of 45 minutes. My luck was at around 140%, so i brought it down to under 90% for the next stronghold and same thing. i am pretty sure luck is bugged in this game. i had better luck with no luck.