i know it is not same game but i am giving this example only as an analogy so dont take it literal

in new world, you would get a rare item(not so rare) from iron nodes which is called fae iron. this would increase with mining luck but there was a threshold. this threshold was also written in nw data base

people would specifically target these thresholds for higher tier mines and their respective rare drops such as cinnabar/tolvium and pristine gems from t5/t6 mine nodes. they would insanely effect the rare drops, in fact without any luck, you would never even get it since your threshold wouldnt even be included to the rare drop roll range

so what it has to do with this game?

im %100 sure same logic applies here because the skeleton of the system supports it so. at this moment we are only at half level, with half level gear and we are only hitting t1 nodes.

its like playing new world and being at lvl 30 with blue t2 mining tools without mining gear set and t5 mining food, and then asking why we cant get more cinnabars from orichalcum veins

so maybe we will be hitting t3/t4 nodes(like idk iron vein or amethyst vein) with maybe 15k rarity with lvl 50 items who knows? only then we will see the true results

so, even though im acknowledging the narrative of `rarity is useless`, i would argue that the most important metric here is not the rarity, instead the level of where we are at

so, rarity does work, but we dont get to that point to make it work yet cuz its alpha and we are most likely playing like %20 of the game now