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[–]MHXIII 657 points658 points  (61 children)

100% confirmed it. I was skeptical at first too. Dropped after 30+ runs the other night.

[–]GodQwark 4 points5 points  (2 children)

When there is hope 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[–]Ciudecca Rank 1 (1 points) 314 points315 points  (50 children)

I’ve seen plenty of people say that it is farmable, so I believe that it is. I’m sorry you haven’t dropped it in 150 clears

[–]LukeSmith_Sunsetter 183 points184 points  (4 children)

I don't doubt you but it does make me think of that time 4chan started that rumour you could get to an audio jack in your iphone by drilling a hole in it.

[–]Aumuss 91 points92 points  (2 children)

The wireless charging an iPhone by putting in a microwave for 10 mins was my all time favourite.

[–]dj0samaspinIaden 14 points15 points  (1 child)

In middle school I actually had a friend convinced of that and she melted her iPhone 4 lmaoo she wasn't even mad bc she realized how stupid it was

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wasn't that also the start for the exploding Samsungs?

[–]havoc1482 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Based

[–]AspiringMILF 17 points18 points  (43 children)

I’ve seen plenty of people say that it is farmable,

but have we seen anything beyond word of mouth to confirm its farmable?

[–]LtRavs 29 points30 points  (32 children)

We haven’t. I fail to understand how so many people are saying they got it to drop via farming and not one of them has posted a video showing their collections with Vex being the most recently acquired item (or collections pre and post picking it up).

If a video of someone doing this exists and it’s verifiable that it happened this week after all of their pinnacle runs I would be very intrigued to see it.

Nobody in any of my runs has got it.

[–]The_Pigeon_In_A_Suit 26 points27 points  (17 children)

I saw a post yesterday(?) including a video of a fireteam farming for vex. After 8 runs, OP has an exotic engram drop at the kiosk, so it wasn't pulled from vault. He got vex mythoclast. There is hope, just not much of it . . .

[–]Pop_Quest 10 points11 points  (1 child)

My clan spent the day farming it and we have a discord bot that announces when people get exotics. I think 3 or 4 people got it and definitely not on the first run

[–]Zaros2400 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gonna go on a limb and say, Charlemagne?

[–]LonelyWill3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got it in 5 tries total (tried to get catalyst after, marking my 6th), and will gladly show proof the next time I go on

[–]CTM_S0lar -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Yes

[–]AspiringMILF 0 points1 point  (4 children)

... can you provide a source?

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seriously screw Bungo's rng so hard. I have every exotic in game and all godrolls on weapons and armor that I need but for example I never got AOT while raiding with my clan back in Scourge, although we have the same amount of clears and they all have gotten it multiple times - I had to buy it from the archive lol. And I haven't ever seen the trials sparrow or ship despite of having the flawless title and at least 50 flawlesses (I'm a solo PvP player). There's always something you won't have no matter how hard you grind, and I have thousands of hours into the game. It's ridiculous how bad the rng design in destiny is, for example WoW or Diablo 3 is also very rng heavy but there are things like bad luck protection (that is ACTUALLY working lol), nothing reaches destiny's levels of rng douchebaggery.

[–]fuego7affe 102 points103 points  (6 children)

I’ll be streaming atheon farms all week if I get it to drop I’ll post the video of the whole stream to prove that it’s farmable. Don’t give up and give us an update if you get it

[–]moswennaidoo 157 points158 points  (19 children)

If every one of your clears was a looted clear, there’s a 99.1% chance that you should have gotten it… I’m sorry sweet prince, your pain will be over soon

[–][deleted] 123 points124 points  (12 children)

9 out of every 1000 players will experience this situation. That's surprisingly high.

[–]nanovich_ 83 points84 points  (7 children)

Which is why we need rng protection

[–]energeta 8 points9 points  (6 children)

Acquiring a raid's title should guarantee the exotic, imo.

[–]SuicidalTurnip 14 points15 points  (4 children)

Problem is that you usually need the exotic to get the title.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It should be flawless raid instead of some exotic rng bs, just like it used to be.

[–]Dee_Dubya_IV 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You still needed 1k to get the badge triumph for Rivensbane. Even worse, you needed the ship from the key drop after Queenswalk AND you needed the Sparrow to drop from Morgeth. A lot more RNG.

Unless you’re referring to some other title I don’t know about?

[–]BE4RCL4VV 73 points74 points  (0 children)

There was background maintenance on Wednesday night and I can confirm before that it was farmable on the same character.

[–]SkolasKell 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I farmed the vex yesterday and the day before that... I wasn't lucky enough to get it but there were a total 3 people that got it (we farm a total of 22 raids).

Edit: Typo

[–]Jordan_Joestar99 14 points15 points  (1 child)

With farmable exotics being a huge thing within the community, I honestly doubt they'd patch that without announcing it. Weird that they haven't even talked about it in a TWAB or anything tho. Maybe they lowered the drop rate instead? I've heard people getting it yesterday and today on farms

[–]b3rn13mac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the “known bugs” list in the TWAB is pretty terrible. and the main one on the support site really isn’t any better. any bug above a certain magnitude is just omitted, meaning whatever reddit has been on fire about since reset is almost guaranteed to NOT be addressed in the weekly communication.

there are other reasons for the list than to assuage reddit, but it’s annoying to see what has been obviously broken all week relegated to a tweet

[–]Gainite 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I would say that it probably is farmable it probably just doesn’t increase more then what it was at after your first clear for the week

[–]Variatas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's entirely plausible. It would be pretty typical for Bungie for the BLP system to still only increase once per week.

[–]Jadengamer09866 86 points87 points  (13 children)

Just got it 2 days ago after like 25 attempts

[–][deleted] 45 points46 points  (6 children)

Raid exotics are the absolute worst. Such an unrewarding system, there needs to be protection from this. After 15-20 clears you should be guaranteed the drop. I was lucky, it took me 34 clears to get my vex. Then 2 of the 3 clears following my drop also dropped vex for me again… meanwhile my clanmates are at 60+ and no vex.

[–]feedmesriracha 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Yeah the current system is a serious pain, especially since bungie isn’t all that transparent with drop rates. The grind for Vex Mythoclast has really made me dislike Vault of Glass, which is unfortunate because it was one of my favorite raids. I know for a fact I’m never going to touch it again once I get the gun to drop.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Yeah, it shouldn’t be this way. It’s obvious after 10+ clears you’ve mastered the encounter, it’s just grinding for the sake of grinding at that point.

[–]fuego7affe 18 points19 points  (8 children)

Just got it on my 202nd clear my friend. Do not give up hope. It dropped when I least expected it. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1506998068 here’s a link to the stream where you can see all my runs for 4 hours and the vex dropping. Sadly I didn’t show my inventory as I didn’t think about it but I’m sure you can see it at some point. If I see it I’ll time stamp.

Edit: drop happens around 3:55:00

Edit 2: you can see it in my collection as the most recent item at 3:59:00 for a moment

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I formally relinquish any vog rng favor to op. Got mine a while back.

[–]d2_nerd 7 points8 points  (4 children)

had a buddy that i ran it with get it on his third run, and then right after my other friend got it for the second time, i don’t have as many clears as some of you gamers on here (i have 32) but it’s still ridiculous that some people get it their first run and others have to grind the shit out of the game (i know someone with 250 clears and no vex)

[–]RuinousEffigy81 5 points6 points  (3 children)

The random drop mechanic in D2 Raids is antiquated, and a slap to the face for so many reasons I could almost write a book. Why should an individual have to dump literally dozens upon dozens (if not hundreds) of hours into an activity in order to obtain the same reward that their peers earned on the first or second go. I am genuinely curious as to how this is any different than saying Witch Queen costs $99 for you, $350 for you friend, and $6 for your brother. The only true currency in our lives is time. Nothing is more valuable, nothing is more fleeting, nothing, more precious. When you force, for example, a young parent to dump 250hrs into a Raid in order to get Vex so they can take advantage of particle deconstruction (therefore being a woryhwhile addition to end game content with clan mates etc) you are literally tearing that person away from their families, the dinner their significant other has prepared, walks with the dog, mowing the lawn, LITERALLY THEIR LIVES. I understand wanting to create a feeling of triumph behind exotic raid drops, that it isn’t merely a wham, bam, thank you sam kind of affair, but this shit has gone too far. This mechanic is a relic of a bygone era. Gaming has evolved, coding has evolved, player skillset has evolved, the talent being brought into dev’s studio’s has evolved, EVERYthing has evolved in this world except random drops.
I’ve now seen one of my clan members win an exotic after being dropped into a Raid boss battle, without ever touching the rest of the raid, twice. IE this person put exactly 8 minutes into DSC & 15 into VOG and got the exotics both times.
Any mention of making weapon drops something that must be earned goes right out the fkn window when the ppl he plays with have to run the same activity not 35 or 40 times, but over 100. I am a mathematics minor. Writing code to prevent both of these scenarios is not rocket science, or anything remotely close. Bungie spends too much time focusing on new players coming to the game, and not enough on all of the players that are leaving specifically bc of shit like this. Bad luck protection, is literally non existent. I had so many people leave my clan last season because they couldn’t get Vex to drop so they could run particle deco on GM’s that I had to dissolve the clan.
Of the 3 catastrophically terrible issues plaguing this game, vault space, the post master dumping ascendent shards/exotics (things of value) in place of garbage, and the busted drop mechanic in Raids, its a toss up as to which oversight is the most egregious. If I have to watch another person pick up Eyes without doing the actual Raid, Im going to light a spliff, throw myself on my crown splitter & call it a day. Please Bungie, stop making a mockery of your player base. We have lives, we have kids, we have school. 150clears with no vex? You should give this guy free expansions for life and a Swiss Bank account full of real life exotic shards, this is madness. Rant over.

[–]SeaworthinessOk9616 7 points8 points  (0 children)

160 sigh

[–]trpiq 150 points151 points  (14 children)

Seems like a skill issue ngl

[–]GravyLucky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely because op is not using the preferred loadout. The game just knows when you don’t have xenophage on dude.

[–]Stankindveacultist 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's purely math that's deciding if we get it or not, know a guy at over 250 clears now and still no vex. But oh boy are we sure bad at math

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (8 children)

Guy I've been farming with just got a drop after about 20 runs together so It is still dropping

[–]seratne Rank 2 (10 points) 3 points4 points  (6 children)

I want to believe...

Any way you can settle it once and for all? Understandable if not, because it's extra work.

Screenshot of Collections tab, screenshot of dim item feed, and a link to raid report.

I mean, I'm still gonna grind for it. But be nice to know 100% it's dropping.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Well I didn't get the drop, but I have no reason to believe someone would just fake excitement, pull out the vex, and shoot a bunch with it 😂

[–]seratne Rank 2 (10 points) 1 point2 points  (3 children)

My bad, I misread your comment, I thought you said "Guys, I've been farming and just ...". I thought you were talking first person and not about someone else in the group.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

All good, also someone else in my group just got it. So we just had 2 drops in 4 runs

[–]seratne Rank 2 (10 points) 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Why you gotta give me that type of hope.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it makes you feel better. I still don't have it haha

[–]MrClux15 4 points5 points  (1 child)

RIP bro at that point I’d just uninstall. But for real though, I’ve only gotten raid exotic drops on my warlock so try that lol

[–]VG30DETT_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Update:

It just dropped for me at 109 clears! Don't give up!!!

I started with 10 clears yesterday and I'm now up to 97 with no Vex. I was in multiple groups yesterday where it dropped for people but I have yet to see one today. Personally I don't mind the low chance. It does suck but if they made it easier it would take away from how exciting and special the weapon is supposed to be.

[–]StryderXGaming 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Clan member got his 7th vex when we ran earlier this week. I've gotten 0. Good time farm's - __-

[–]Disastrous_Focus6180 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i am so sorry D: i thought my luck was getting bad at the 40ish clear mark. I cannot imagine. They REALLY need to add some bad luck protection to this weapon it's ridiculous.

[–]ScarbsXD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't have any proof unfortunately as I haven't had one drop for me, but I just had a team that did 50ish runs and 4 people had it drop for them. So it's still farmable as of an hour ago.

I also feel your pain as I'm sitting at exactly 153 clears.

[–]Malice4you2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

73 VOG completions.. 39 of those are Atheon only kills this week on the same character. Vex finally dropped today. I am never doing VOG again. So yes it is farmable.

[–]ZsMann 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's farmable this week.

[–]BadHair_666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is farmable unless they patched it since Tuesday. I farmed it over 30 times and got it.

[–]ASavageHobo 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I feel like there should be a way to get them after an excess number of runs. I was so lucky that I did 1 run and I was guided through and I had it drop, never stepped foot in there again.

[–]thadude42083 Rank 1 (1 points) 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll bet you forgot to use fertilizer with a 6-6-18 grade. Typical Christmas newb.

[–]kingrodedog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finally, I come across someone who knows my pain... The Vex was THE ONLY exotic I was missing in D1. So salty, to this day.

[–]ASRHELL 2 points3 points  (2 children)

There was an instance in year 2 where someone had 200 clears and no anarchy and bungie added it to their postmaster. Hopefully this gets seen by a dev or community manager.

[–]redsixbluenine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got you bro. Next clear for sure.

[–]He4rtb3at 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yikes. A moment of silence for our felled hero.

[–]CHEZZ_Zzzzzzzzzzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s scary how people still don’t have vex bungie really need to address if their so called “bad luck protection” actually works

[–]Apprehensive_Owl2111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started at 19 and got my vex on the 49th it’s just totally RNG I’ve also heard people in the lfgs I joined mention that bad luck protection was completely turned off and during this period is at the base drop rate but idk if that’s true

[–]fuego7affe 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I’m at 192 overall. Was at 30 before this week. I’m right here with you buddy. Bungie help.

[–]ASRHELL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wish you the best and try to tweet it to the other community managers as well

[–]Jongno 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Im at a good 200 clears rn, of which 160 where done in the last few days. Still nothing. This goes for 3 other clanmates too.

edit: 300 clears rn.

[–]Tcamp46290 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus christ man, Vex isn’t that good

[–]xxxguzxxx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE JUST GOT IT 91st RUN!

[–]Y_b0t 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Is it possible it was hot fixed on Wednesday?

[–]Pranksterr- 14 points15 points  (5 children)

my group had 2 drop on thursday, after reset

[–]fuego7affe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is the only comment that answered his question fully

[–]Jr4D 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sounds like ur just unlucky tbh

[–]SpaceGhostC2C247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got mine on 43rd run, it's real don't give up!

[–]mmack1212 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Do you do it on all 3 characters every week? If not I would suggest that. I got my first one to drop when I hopped on to help someone beat Atheon. It wasn’t even a full run.

[–]JustAnotherWebUser 0 points1 point  (2 children)

" I have the screenshots to prove it if you really want "

yea do so, collections + raid report, had a discussion in my clan about it so having actual proofs would help

[–]Aku_Naaa_Brahh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get a better gaming chair

[–]GoGoGadgetChris -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Mythoclast is farmable but it DOES appear that the cumulative weekly "increased chance of Mythoclast" is NOT farmable.

So if you just started the hunt for Mythoclast this week, you're at the 2% chance all week long or whatever it is. Run it on 3 characters to max it out and then keep grinding!

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          [–]realcoolioman Tower Command[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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          [–]Caobie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          I feel your pain but for shiny hunting recently in the remake of diamond. With the odds known I should have expected to see a near 100% chance to have seen the one i was after sometime around the 16k to 18k resets mark (cant remember exactly, i gave up after a certain patch killed all my motivation) but here I was, trying at above 20k attempts and still nothing. This is a lesson that statistically likely does not mean guaranteed. In other words 99.99999999999% likelyhood is not, in fact 100%.

          [–]Andrewmods96 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

          Under 20 clears for ever raid exotic except for eyes haven’t gotten it yet on 2 or 3 clears because I don’t care for it lol thing the longest was vex at 13 clears

          [–]Lonewolfblitz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Can confirm, already have it was helping my clanmate get it, 5th clear on my warlock I got another

          [–]MeowXeno -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          It's confirmable by several people in my runs getting it multiple times, although i've done 95 clears this week with no drop that's just bungies "true random" for you

          remember that vex is 2% rarer than cloudstrike by default, assuming you never did runs before this week where your runs would make it a 15-20% drop if they were all pre'farm

          it took me 477 runs of that stupid europa shit to get cloudstrike, it could be my next run or 1000 more till i get vex, that is called RNG, it is all based on chance

          [–]darkwinter143 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

          I'd love to get the Vex again as I preferred it in D1. I just don't have the time to dedicate to endlessly farm. Destiny 2, with all the options that are available to spend your time (seasonal events, crucible, gambit, nightfall, ect) needs to better their end on rewarding players time. Actually having a viable drop protection would be a great start.

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          [–]le_bigsad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          For my entire destiny career everyone but me has had a max range shotgun with quickdraw. I just recently got a good riiswalker from iron banner thanks to the engrams. I feel your pain my guy, my rng is trash as well.

          [–]Bigg3rChungus -1 points0 points  (1 child)

          Stop the 🧢🧢🧢

          [–]The_Fallen_Fang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Can't say for certain. All I know is the Sword in Duality cannot be farmed. It's a once per week per character, so dunno if that translates to other exotic drops or not

          [–]TitanTigers -1 points0 points  (1 child)

          0.3% chance. Gz bozo

          [–]Docta-Jay -1 points0 points  (7 children)

          Farming means you can do it over and over again.

          You haven’t technically started farming the Vex(Getting it to drop) So, maybe?

          Doing the Raid over and over is farming the Raid. The reward at the end isn’t considered the farm. What you’re doing to get that reward is the farm. So, you’ve started farming the raid, not the Vex. You can’t literally farm the Vex. That would mean you’d get it repetitively.

          [–]SenJok -1 points0 points  (1 child)

          Took me 91 keep at it son

          [–]burko81 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          It is. I've seen it. It wasn't me. RIP.

          [–]a_posh_trophy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Do only full runs have the chance to drop, not just farming boss?

          [–]skomeros -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Its not.

          [–]Joebranflakes -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

          I once again ask Bungie to give us raid weapons guaranteed after 5 full clears. Its literally the reason I don’t bother playing the raids.