So I've read a ton of threads about how people who use Xur aren't earning their weapons but RNG is earning. I'm going to use my personal Destiny experience to debunk this notion. I can't share every story about me doing better than every player in my game and getting the worst drops so I'll just use one from last night. Doing the Nightfall(Phogoth) with 3 guys and we beat it. I died 5 times, my friend died 18. I finished with 96 kills and he finished with 8. Get to the drop screen and he gets a -blam!-ing Gjallahorn for dying more often than he killed things and I get…a legendary engram for gauntlets! Someone explain how my friend “earned” the best Heavy in the game while I only “earned" what ended up being 2 Ascendant energy?
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He was rewarded for an achievement (finishing it with you) so he earned it. Just what he earned was random. That is the only place luck comes in. Sorry he had better luck then you with that reward he earned.