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Edited by Niralithean: 10/25/2015 4:04:51 PM
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82 times, Bungie. 82 freaking times.

As the title reads, I've run the Shield Brothers strike 82 while chasing those damn unique gauntlets and 82 times I've come up NOTHING. What's even more discouraging is that I've read on threads here and other sites that people have run it in excess of 125 times and come up with nothing as well. Whether or not you think they're stylish, I personally like the look of them and therefore want my Titan to sport them. :) Now, before the masses decided to impart their "wisdom" know that one, this isn't a "screw you, Bungie!" post; I'm honestly just curious as to other peoples success rates, or lack thereof, when farming these items. Two, I KNOW, as you should know and/or learn now while reading, that these unique boss drops ARE NOT tied to the Legendary loot table of Strikes; they're on their own drop percentage so please don't say, "Do strikes for the buff to increase your chances!" because that is false. You should also know, as I recently found out, that you don't have to kill Big Red or Big Blue first/second. Again, I know it's all RNG but still. Anyhow, rant and rant alike, anyone else out there farming these gauntlets and coming up short? Flayer capes? Darkblade Helm? How many times did it take you to get yours and/or how many times have you run a certain Strike? *UPDATE #1* 115 times and still nothing. Tried running it on my hunter for a change of pace, though. It's at least a little more fun now. Do people even READ the post before commenting? Bungie really needs to add a penalty for bailing on a Strike. I lost count of how many times people flaked after getting the fragment.

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  • Edited by Brendinos: 10/23/2015 5:46:30 PM
    I know exactly where you're coming from and because I have all 3 different types of character I wanted to collect all specific strike armour and I did. The feeling is great my titan looks like a beast with the darkblade helm and the mau'aul gauntlets and I'm one of those people who got extremely lucky for both drops it took me about 50 strikes for the darkblade Helm and 50 strikes for the gauntlets. My warlock looks awesome with electricity flowing threw its face, again was lucky since I don't even like doing the SABER strike about 25 of them and I got it. Last but not least my Hunter, he looks amazing with the solar flayer mantle and because I'm a collector I wanted the other two the void and arc mantle. And let me tell you the grind was real I started to try and get void and let me tell you it took about 150 dust palace strikes, some of them heroic and this weeks nightfall (and nightfall does have increased chance for strikes specific loot) before the damn thing drop, the feeling was amazing and lucky enough I help my friend get the arc mantle and found an arc mantle in my post master. Soo i understand every bit of frustration you have. It feels like the thing you want most takes the longest. I got my taniks cloak at 75 strikes. Anyways all I have to say is keep at it don't stop you WILL get it eventually. And if you still don't get your gauntlets by the time the brother strikes becomes a nightfall then grind the nightfall it has in insane increased chance for specific strike loot to drop. Hope this helps Have a nice day : )

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