Shout of to Infa1987 for bringing to my attention that Legendary contracts are in fact the purple ones, which do give a masterwork at the end. So I guess you don't need reputation after all!. It's also reported that these will be component drops. To add to that, I am hearing reports that the Stronghold boss masterwork drops are class abilities. And one step further, HARD mode freeplay will drop from a limited pool of weapons only, whereas GM1 will expand the loot table entirely. Having said that, if you are a fresh level 30, you could quickly hit up hard mode freeplay for some quick but limited guns. Then move over to strongholds and contracts for your components and abilities. A great variety giving you complete coverage!
legendary contracts are only once a day aswell. all 3 legendary missions will be available to pick up once a day however you can join a random one with quickplay also in freeplay the enemies are just the same in health and dmg as on the strongholds, the main difference are the elite enemies which strongholds are full of while in freeplay the elite enemies are much more rare
@@williamkaizen4479 they say that I got my first masterwork at 21 and have gotten 6 since and just level 24 atm so they state that but they still drop before and their item level 38 aswell at level 21
@@Zackaryel You are right, u have to finish the 6 quests in each faction and after that u unlock legendary contract. Legendaries contracts always got a boss at the end.
Considering game's only been out for a week, these stats are fine. However when you say endgame is "broken" and getting masterworks is too easy, you need to realize just having masterworks means almost nothing. BioWare's intention is not to make us bend over backwards for masterworks, it's to farm for masterworks with good/perfect rolls (which is the actual time consuming part). Masterworks isnt endgame, the inscriptions are.
super unrewarding when it's like back in the old Diablo 3 days having a masterwork with shotgun ammo, lmg dmg and pistolmagazin on there. Like this you won't se any change of gameplay in weeks. Couldn't get more boring.
Jesse Mordred --GTAOnline has longevity 😆 but it's so dynamic. I think this games suffers the same thing The Division suffers from with less loot & places to go (map/foes don't change much) but yea. Only one "good mission to grind". That ain't kool IMO
Purple contracts are legendary... those are the ones that were giving you higher loot drops and the surprise masterwork at the end. That's what they do. They can also be shared with the party, so rotations are extremely lucrative.
The purple contracts are the legendary contracts and they reward a guaranteed mw at completion hence why it sometimes just shows up for for you at the end
You unlocked them when you finished the story arc. Finished it yesterday, and one of the unlocks said "legendary contracts". And i am only lvl 28 and just under 3k freelancer rep
@@Infa1987 Okay thanks for clarifying. Somewhere I read you we're supposed to unlock the contacts by completing the faction loyalty first, which is why I was confused. But knowing this now it makes a lot more sense when looking at the results of my first 5 runs. Appreciate the clarification! :)
Dude, you have way a lot more time then most of us... I don't have 11 hrs a day to play Anthem so I think you have to keep in mind that because you have time to play that long per day and go thru the game so quick does not mean the end game and reward system needs adjustment..... you got to remember we don't all play game for a living...... so I think the loot system is fine and don't want it to be adjusted for any less of drop rate...
I completely agree I work upwards of 70 hrs a week and dont have time to grind out 11 hours of video games a day honestly that's about 4 days og grinding for me
One of the few Anthem videos on RUclips that isn't gleefully negative. I have found getting loot pretty easy. I agree contracts seem the best. The legendary ones always give a masterwork and take no time. Hopefully they iron out all the bugs, decrease the downtime between missions, and drop twice the amount of content soon so it doesn't turn into an abandoned wasteland.
this is the exact same way to farm in diablo 3. If you're killing everything too fast, to where the run time between each loot spot is longer than the killing, then you up the difficulty. Haven't played freeplay enough yet to find out where the events spawn though. Would be interesting to see the paths to farm both chests and events.
There are many chest farm routes posted on Reddit. Sadly all of that work was done the first few days of Early Access(feb15th-18th~) and since the game officially launched on the 22nd they gutted chest spawnpoints and chests themselves. You used to have guaranteed spots where it was 50%chest, 25%corpse/data thingy, 25% nothing and on GM 3 MW dropped out of them reliably. Now the spots are like 50%nothing, 40%corpse/data thingy, 10% chest. I used to do a 4 chest quick run that would give me 2-3 chests every time. Same route rarely even gives me 1 chest now.
just type " anthem map - or anthem map collectables" on google;should find pictures of game maps including anthem with treasure chest,world events and titan locations.try "imgur.com anthem "
That's just grasping straws and you know it.... Different people different strokes, some people only have finite time to play and "rushing" the endgame farm helps them catchup to those who can no life it. Hell, people who are deemed to rush the game have invested over 30+ hours to the game to begin with so they're not rushing on top of having to deal with possible bad rng.
@@justevil100 yet there is hardly a point to grind that hard for inscriptions since they are pretty lackluster. Masterworks only giving 18% increased damage? Kind of lame and doesn't seem worth trying to get the "perfect role" since there really isn't even a point when there are 0 raids and only 3 strongholds to do.
I’m literally only rolling augments (Chaos, Storm, Elemental Attunement) Masterworks. At first I was extremely frustrated but then I started seeing my Q and E abilities dishing out 120% damage. Kept me alive in Gm1 solo
That video was really interesting. Thanks for your efforts. What i actually really appreciate s that you end the video with a smart and productive "so what". Awesome content here.
It's the same before your able to go to gm1 its better to just farm on normal for small masterwork loot pool and all your epics then when fully spiced with two masterwork weapons go to gm1 start getting components and abilities much easier
I think this might be different. My gear score won't go up by 100 so I can one hit everything on GM2. I think grandmaster was made so you can't overpower it with gear. They talk about team synergy and coordinating attacks. GG matchmaking.
@@BasedTitanG you have not beat the game.....smh you have beaten the story thats been released to date......theres a lot more coming including javelins and more story
99% chance of being nearly unusable due to the way inscriptions *used* to work. Yesteday's patch updated the way inscriptions are generated on loot and are now guaranteed that Gear-specific inscriptions apply for that gear. Support non-specific inscriptions still work the same, for obvious reasons.
This was an excellent made video. Thank for all the great info. I’m new to Anthem and I’m getting hooked!!! Its growing on me! But like any other game I love, I need to have the best gear!
Just to clarify something about contracts. You get a guaranteed masterwork at the end of a Legendary (purple) Contract. Regular (yellow) contracts do not yield a guaranteed masterwork upon completion. the Legendary contracts are given out daily from each NPC (Matti, Yarro, Brin) and you can only get one from each per day. The regular contracts are repeatable.
Temple of the scar final boss is a nightmare to fight. The second you step out from behind a rock you have every rocket at the game coming for your neck
Purple are legendary contracts you can only do once per day and you're guaranteed a masterwork component at least after the contract. It resets at 6 am central.
Regardless if this guy managed to get all masterwork it doesn't really matter if the rolls on them are crap. The drop rates are fine considering you don't get good rolls on your items often. So whoever is worried that this is causing the game to be shorter, it doesn't. It does help gearing up to make GM1 a faster run and may prepare you for GM2 but this does not, IN ANY WAY, make the game shorter. Looter genre has always been a grind to get best gear stat
On hard you only get a very limited lootable of masterworks. And they´re only weapons. Thats why we play grandmaster 1, to get the FULL lootable. Legendary contracts on gm1 also guarantee a mw component. Something i start with to gear out a new javelin.
Legendary Contracts (purple ones) give a guaranteed component every time. People should rush to do these because components are some of the greatest gear upgrades. Especially for Colossus. You can also share them with your friends since you only get 3 per day. Also, you can get lucky and quickplay into one.
Love the interceptor. I really enjoy Freeplay mode more than anything. Lately I have been using the MW Venom Bomb(melee weapon defeats increase acid dmg 100%) and MW Venom Spray(700% Ult charge on enemy hit). My Ult charged up so fast and it’s so much fun. My build will most likely change when I get different (masterwork) components.
To unlock legendary contracts you just need to complete the entire questline for each of the three agents, you dont need reputation of 3000. Additionally, they are limited to one per faction per day
Love the video man great ways to level up how ever i jave seen some items that increase roll chance and item rarity would love to some videos testing that gear with higher teir loot chance and there names lol
I did a GM2 contract this morning and got 3 masterworks. I just did Tyrant Mine on GM2 and got 4 masterworks. GM2 puts a physical strain on you and I can't do them back to back. GM1 contracts are probably the way to go.
My "opinion" is that either they make masterworks harder to posses or add like a "ancient masterwork" a more scarce rarity that next to impossible to posses
Pro tips Stack support luck gear for more drops. Start out easy mode freeplay you get just as many chances at MW drops as from HM with the weapons pool. GM1 opens up the entire loot pool. Also for GM1 tyrant mine farm you can stack luck gear and make out like a bandit. I managed to get 50 MW in a 3 hour session when I first hit lvl 30 by using that. I spent today doing contracts in GW1 and managed to snag 5 legendaries and about 25 MW in an hour and a half. Legendary contracts are the best and award a MW drop.
The day one patch unintentionally increased drop rates significantly. BioWare ended up nerfing it back down to the intended rate (IMO a good thing, slowly upping your gear is half the fun) so maxing our won’t be this fast now.
NotgreatBOB! The nerf was a terrible thing, at the rate they have it now, no one will be able to effectively farm gm3 until months and months of continuously grinding, it’ll kill the game if they keep it because progress will seem like it’s at a standstill which it technically is
TheAgentAssassin Rare and hard to get aren’t the adjectives I’d use, for example the Redrix’s broadsword in d2 is rare and hard to get, loot in Anthem is treated completely different, in order to get a god tier roll you have to go through 7 stages of rng, the rarity, the weapon, the 4 inscriptions and then a high roll on those inscriptions, getting 1-2 masterworks per stronghold is not going to be enough to make people wanna stay, I understand wanting to make end game worthwhile but at the rate it’s at, nobody is gonna stick around to play the game, hardcore players will leave because it’s not rewarding enough and casual players will leave because there will be almost no progression so they’ll end up leaving
The nerf was to world chest and it happened before this video. The only nerf its received is to exploiting dungeons. The rolls are also better now. Plus I dknt see how people complain so much when you can craft them endlessly if you just stop to do their challenge. Meaning all you need is to get mats for perfect rolls. The hard part is just getting 1 of each to drop.
@@Idle_Timer Actually is was a world nerf. Ben I tweeted about it. Said for 11 to 12 hours masterworks dropped at double amount and that wasn't supposed to happen so they nerfed it and now it's slow as balls.
@@michiel2316 check your challenges home boy. Pretty sure the only thing you cant craft is components, which I could be wrong about those, which you're guaranteed 3 a day if you do your leg contracts. Which I rarely seem to get components as drops with how large the loot pool is, though I cant remember if I've gotten one not on contract so I'm not sure on that one. I assume their in the standard loot pool.
So, when crafting you will get Random bonuses to the gear you are crafting. That will be the ultimate go to for end game. Get the kills, get the ranks on each gear and then craft, craft, craft. What would be the best bonuses for each type of weapon and each bumper ability and each upgrade? That’s the real focus on end game and of the Hardest difficulty setting gives you the material for crafting legendary gear and maybe an object to adjust or Choose what bonus you want ( like 1 of the 4) or maybe raise a % by 1 point at a time or so on, that would be amazing!
You don't need rep for legendary contracts, all you need to do is the 2 quest lines per faction to unlock their legendary contracts. You can only do one legendary contract a day per faction for a total of 3 a day.
Concerning the Contracts: as I've seen it you get rewarded a MW Item upon completion but only for the purple contracts.. after doing a purple contract you get a yellow one. Than you get a purple again, so on so on.. Also could you explain if you have been in playing during the 11h loot paradise which has been stated bei Bioware was happening after the patch was rolled out. This would compromise your data. Thanks for the video and I'm looking forward to some more Anthem videos ;-)
I have a 496 Colossus, the Reson your getting them is because they are masterwork contracts you get 1 at the end you have only 3 of these missions a day, normal contracts don't give good loot. GM 2 used to say extra loot chance of around 400% after some of the patches it vanished and I still have yet to get better loot from gm2 vs gm1.
Ancient rarity I'm down for, that would make sense based on how the enemies are. Elite is like masterwork, legendary is legends, and ancient would just be the best.
They need to add a system of rerolling undesirable stats on masterworks and legendaries that take a long time to farm, or a system of reinforcing said equipment to make them better that also takes time. The option of set effects is also viable, making it so if you have these 3 masterworks/ legendaries u get a bonus set effect. While all of these options are viable if implement they needed to take a long period of time to do to keep players logging in. Events can always be added to reduce the grind if need be.
I haven't quite hit level 30 yet (28) and have just had my first masterwork, but not from any methods noted here. Mine came from the quickplay option (I think that's what it's called, where you jump in to fill up someone's on going mission). It's supposed to offer good rewards to encourage people to use it.
Hey you, yeah you! Channel5! I like this shit. Love to hear someone taking the time to get some raw numbers for the playerbase and explaining things clearly for everyone to understand. You got a new subber today, brother!
Crazy about this game is how challenging it is. You really need to coordinate combos and weaknesses. GM1 was challenging, I had to semi communicate. GM2 it's crazy. Nearly, communication need to be flawless. PS I love this game. I can't wait for March release date
The temple of scar end boss is actually pretty easy on GM1. Don't stand under the pylons, clear the adds in every wave before destroying the pylons and shoot at the boss's legs from behind cover.
I am at the part of needing 50k of each loyalty to unlock all masterworks crafts for aigments. What a doozy! Up to 1k+ on one of them.. but man oh man what a grind.
I'm currently 460 power on my interceptor. I can consistently farm tyrant mine over and over with randoms. That's my favourite method. I got a crucial component for my build the masterwork ice glaive we all know ice is king for damage.🤗
Ice might be king but love the sparkdash n detonating strike build u can close gaps super fast and then just nuke hordes of enemies my favorite build, 406 right now , lvl 29
Do your times also include loading time? It looks like Contracts in GM1 nets the best results, but if each contract requires 3-4 loading screens, then 9 contracts means 27-36 loading screens.
Did you have any luck modifiers? I have a +200 luck build, which equals no offensive power haha. anyways it's too early to tell because i only ran one stronghold so far. I only received 1 end-hold MW...do you have a video on the effects of luck. I have noticed a difference but just slightly
Just one thing, you didn't test running Temple of Scar 2 chest run. It takes 15 minutes and you can do it 2-3 times solo. Thats my favourite route to run.
About the contracts. I was getting masterworks and legendaries like the group in mass. Then it just stopped and cut off. I then proceeded to swap javelins and boom. The drops came back. I’m thinking it’s linked to the javelin or some daily limit. Not too sure.
Legendary contracts guaranteed masterwork component specific to your javelin on gm1, also on gm1 stronghold run guaranteed at least 1 masterwork per run, any type but specific to your javelin
Have you considered running lower difficulty (to the point of oneshotting)? There is lower chance but if you run 5 times as fast maybe that makes up for it
No mention of luck gear? I've got a nasty luck gear set. Nearly ever piece of gear has luck on it and I am getting much much more better loot than you show in this video. I get at least 3 masterworks every stronghold I do. I free roamed on GM1 for 30mins and got 10 masterworks and 1 legendary
Very nice video and it's informative. Now I know what I need to do to farm effectively, but it's a dick move to "raise awareness" after you've geared up which might simply ruin good loot for other people.
My issue is out of the 40+ masterworks I got 70% of them are the same 6 things. Elemental Rage, gambit, Last Argument, unending whatever etc. I'm upset lol
At the end these power level numbers actually means nothing at all. It's all about the additional stats your equipment comes with. I have a 494 storm and my fren who is 460 can take on GM 2 easily because of how op his weapons and it's perks are and I can't even handle GM 2 because it's difficult to kill even trash mobs thanks to my shitty additional stats. Legendaries should have a minimum standard I have a weapon with + 13 DMG and my friend has the same weapon with + 100 DMG. This is just a broken system.
I agree 100%. My gear score is the same as yours and I do much more damage in another set that’s 440 ish power level. It’s really all about +luck. I have a +284 luck build that drops 5-8 masterworks a stronghold. When I open the chest and someone else does, big difference.
@@wartome3196 do you still have have that many masterwork in a stronghold ? Because just a day ago I would always get a masterwork in a stronghold either from the chest or enemies now it seems like they nerfed masterwork drop rate.
Drangleic Lord I am thinking so too, it’s like 2-3 max now when it was a lot more. It’s distracting not having a solid loot system as a driving force. We did masters2 today and didn’t get a MW from the first chest and called it quits.
@@wartome3196 Yep I knew it. I'm telling you man before today even with 60 luck or lower I can get an average of 2-4 per stronghold. Now I with like 130+ luck I barely get any and have to rely on the boss drop and obviously the fat spider is the easiest to kill for that .
Drangleic Lord I just got 3 in one legendary (purple) mission so we might of just hit a back streak. I have seen others saying it’s normal whole some saying nerf. Either way Gear is fucked currently. If you don’t get a +100% dmg roll it’s worthless.
I ran through your method and I’m only getting 1 masterwork every few hours in freeplay. I never got a legendary and the only masterwork I get is 1 per strong hold so I’m curious as to how you’re getting so much masterwork?
They could always do insane cosmetic challenges like defeat all grandmasters 3 strongholds with a gear score of 100 to 200 to get the legendary armor set "unbreakable legionnaire", I dont think end game comes from being maxed out in masterworks, plus inscriptions are far more important . But players will keep coming back to do challenges to get gear, why I told ppl from time iam hype for this game yess it needs work but theres just so much they can do with the set up they put in place.
If you get a mw but never picked it up Enemies can drop them you may not notice them or see them but the game will still give them to you at the end of the mission. I tested this out by actively avoid mw drops in some strongholds counting I got 2 rando drops and one from the boss only picking up the one from the boss yet I still had 3 at the end of the mission so keep that in mind
Just saying for those who didn’t know it doesn’t matter what difficulty u have it on certain mobs lvl to your lvl so even if u have a lot of defense those certain mobs will still destroy your hp bar
This is nonsense. We should be getting 10 MW a run on GM1. It should be most of the drops you get. Why? Because getting MW isn't that hard, getting MW without shit inscriptions is. Inscriptions are RNG on top of RNG. You have RNG to get the right inscriptions and then RNG to get high rolls on those inscriptions. You could get 100 MW in a day and still end up breaking them all for mats because the inscriptions are crap. I broke about 30 yesterday alone, kept 1 that i might use because of 1 stat.
Yeah but you were meant to craft the perfect roll as well. I can only speculate as to how much they intended the player to craft but it is there, so you were meant to get the item, use to unlock the pattern and make a bunch yourself for a better/best version of that item. Sure you can get lucky and get a great roll out of the gate, or it could be a dud and an immediate breakdown for parts. The good news is they are patching the inscriptions to have more meaningful drops hopefully no more Colossus gear with machine pistol inscriptions or machine pistols with Colossus buffs!! Happy Gaming
Shout of to Infa1987 for bringing to my attention that Legendary contracts are in fact the purple ones, which do give a masterwork at the end. So I guess you don't need reputation after all!. It's also reported that these will be component drops.
To add to that, I am hearing reports that the Stronghold boss masterwork drops are class abilities.
And one step further, HARD mode freeplay will drop from a limited pool of weapons only, whereas GM1 will expand the loot table entirely. Having said that, if you are a fresh level 30, you could quickly hit up hard mode freeplay for some quick but limited guns. Then move over to strongholds and contracts for your components and abilities. A great variety giving you complete coverage!
if u notice they say Masterwork unlock after lv 25 at hard mode , very small chance tho
legendary contracts are only once a day aswell. all 3 legendary missions will be available to pick up once a day however you can join a random one with quickplay
also in freeplay the enemies are just the same in health and dmg as on the strongholds, the main difference are the elite enemies which strongholds are full of while in freeplay the elite enemies are much more rare
@@williamkaizen4479 they say that I got my first masterwork at 21 and have gotten 6 since and just level 24 atm so they state that but they still drop before and their item level 38 aswell at level 21
My guess is you unlock Legendary contracts when you finish each faction main questline, regardless of the current reputation you have with them
@@Zackaryel You are right, u have to finish the 6 quests in each faction and after that u unlock legendary contract. Legendaries contracts always got a boss at the end.
Considering game's only been out for a week, these stats are fine. However when you say endgame is "broken" and getting masterworks is too easy, you need to realize just having masterworks means almost nothing. BioWare's intention is not to make us bend over backwards for masterworks, it's to farm for masterworks with good/perfect rolls (which is the actual time consuming part). Masterworks isnt endgame, the inscriptions are.
I was thinking this whilst watching it
Yeah and also masterworks aren't the top tier items legendaries are. I have a question is it possible to get decked out in all legendary parts.?🤗
Was thinking the same thing...
@@davidneraas750 so far i've only seen legendary weapons except for the legendary ability you get in the legion of dawn edition
super unrewarding when it's like back in the old Diablo 3 days having a masterwork with shotgun ammo, lmg dmg and pistolmagazin on there. Like this you won't se any change of gameplay in weeks. Couldn't get more boring.
People: The game doesn't last long enough!
Same people: *Checking how to make the game even shorter*
Games shouldn't rely on the player to not try and find the fastest way possible to reach max level. That's really dumb lmao
It seems getting ban for playing the game seems to work very well for a short game
Um no, that's not what's happening. What's happening is you do the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Jesse Mordred --GTAOnline has longevity 😆 but it's so dynamic. I think this games suffers the same thing The Division suffers from with less loot & places to go (map/foes don't change much) but yea. Only one "good mission to grind". That ain't kool IMO
Gamers should know how to pace themselves. No-lifing content is also really dumb.
Purple contracts are legendary... those are the ones that were giving you higher loot drops and the surprise masterwork at the end. That's what they do. They can also be shared with the party, so rotations are extremely lucrative.
The purple contracts are the legendary contracts and they reward a guaranteed mw at completion hence why it sometimes just shows up for for you at the end
but i havnt unlocked legendary contracts yet?
You unlocked them when you finished the story arc. Finished it yesterday, and one of the unlocks said "legendary contracts". And i am only lvl 28 and just under 3k freelancer rep
Yeah the legendary contracts are the purple ones you unlock them after the story arc
You get 3 of them per day if you’re done with the quest chains for each faction. They drop guaranteed components on GM difficulty.
@@Infa1987 Okay thanks for clarifying. Somewhere I read you we're supposed to unlock the contacts by completing the faction loyalty first, which is why I was confused. But knowing this now it makes a lot more sense when looking at the results of my first 5 runs. Appreciate the clarification! :)
legendary contracts unlock after you finish each story line.
Dude, you have way a lot more time then most of us... I don't have 11 hrs a day to play Anthem so I think you have to keep in mind that because you have time to play that long per day and go thru the game so quick does not mean the end game and reward system needs adjustment..... you got to remember we don't all play game for a living...... so I think the loot system is fine and don't want it to be adjusted for any less of drop rate...
I completely agree I work upwards of 70 hrs a week and dont have time to grind out 11 hours of video games a day honestly that's about 4 days og grinding for me
It's not even legal to work 70 hours a week, wtf
@@vsoundelend when it's family it's legal
Hmm, maybe.
@@vsoundelend it's a family owned business and I need the extra hours wherever I can get'em
One of the few Anthem videos on RUclips that isn't gleefully negative. I have found getting loot pretty easy. I agree contracts seem the best. The legendary ones always give a masterwork and take no time. Hopefully they iron out all the bugs, decrease the downtime between missions, and drop twice the amount of content soon so it doesn't turn into an abandoned wasteland.
This aged like milk
This video got you at least one new subscriber. I'm a huge fan of actual testing. Kudos!
this is the exact same way to farm in diablo 3. If you're killing everything too fast, to where the run time between each loot spot is longer than the killing, then you up the difficulty. Haven't played freeplay enough yet to find out where the events spawn though. Would be interesting to see the paths to farm both chests and events.
There are many chest farm routes posted on Reddit. Sadly all of that work was done the first few days of Early Access(feb15th-18th~) and since the game officially launched on the 22nd they gutted chest spawnpoints and chests themselves. You used to have guaranteed spots where it was 50%chest, 25%corpse/data thingy, 25% nothing and on GM 3 MW dropped out of them reliably. Now the spots are like 50%nothing, 40%corpse/data thingy, 10% chest. I used to do a 4 chest quick run that would give me 2-3 chests every time. Same route rarely even gives me 1 chest now.
just type " anthem map - or anthem map collectables" on google;should find pictures of game maps including anthem with treasure chest,world events and titan locations.try "imgur.com anthem "
Why max out in one day? It is so fun progressing slowly and immersing in the game.
That's just grasping straws and you know it....
Different people different strokes, some people only have finite time to play and "rushing" the endgame farm helps them catchup to those who can no life it.
Hell, people who are deemed to rush the game have invested over 30+ hours to the game to begin with so they're not rushing on top of having to deal with possible bad rng.
Gear score isn't everything. You need to get the perfect inscriptions on all of your gear is the path to max power.
@@justevil100 yet there is hardly a point to grind that hard for inscriptions since they are pretty lackluster. Masterworks only giving 18% increased damage? Kind of lame and doesn't seem worth trying to get the "perfect role" since there really isn't even a point when there are 0 raids and only 3 strongholds to do.
some ppl do not have a life thatshwy
lol K 18% with the new update I got a 1% damage increase for a level 30 item 😂
I’m literally only rolling augments (Chaos, Storm, Elemental Attunement) Masterworks. At first I was extremely frustrated but then I started seeing my Q and E abilities dishing out 120% damage. Kept me alive in Gm1 solo
Last night I got 4 master works and one legendary in one stronghold
That video was really interesting. Thanks for your efforts. What i actually really appreciate s that you end the video with a smart and productive "so what".
Awesome content here.
I have 488 Gear score. GM2 is too stressful for the reward. No way I'm playing the Legendary lottery. I beat the game lol.
True. I farmed like 8 MWs in 5 hours of Strongholds in GM2. Gm1 I got 14 MWs and 1 legendary in 2 hours lol
It's the same before your able to go to gm1 its better to just farm on normal for small masterwork loot pool and all your epics then when fully spiced with two masterwork weapons go to gm1 start getting components and abilities much easier
I think this might be different. My gear score won't go up by 100 so I can one hit everything on GM2. I think grandmaster was made so you can't overpower it with gear. They talk about team synergy and coordinating attacks. GG matchmaking.
I like a challenge.
GM2 forces you to really know your strengths and weaknesses.
@@BasedTitanG you have not beat the game.....smh you have beaten the story thats been released to date......theres a lot more coming including javelins and more story
You farmed a ton of masterworks. My question is.. how many of those masterworks had terrible/good/amazing rolls on them for the random perks?
99% chance of being nearly unusable due to the way inscriptions *used* to work. Yesteday's patch updated the way inscriptions are generated on loot and are now guaranteed that Gear-specific inscriptions apply for that gear. Support non-specific inscriptions still work the same, for obvious reasons.
If you go into the game, open your challenge screen, you'll see the "purple contacts" are listed as "Legendary Contracts"
ah thanks for that! :)
Purple contracts are considered like a stronghold u will get a guaranteed masterworks at the end. When u finish it it says stronghold completed.
most useful anthem video so far, tysm
This was an excellent made video. Thank for all the great info. I’m new to Anthem and I’m getting hooked!!! Its growing on me! But like any other game I love, I need to have the best gear!
WOW - Epic stuff boss! Great data here. Gotta get to 30 and rerun those contracts and strongholds!
I got too 490 in like 20 hours played with couple legendary items imo take your time enjoy the game the scenery is amazing
True but wouldnt it ve smarter playing throu it getting max stats ans stuff to unlock all areas to see all beautifull sceneries?
Just to clarify something about contracts. You get a guaranteed masterwork at the end of a Legendary (purple) Contract. Regular (yellow) contracts do not yield a guaranteed masterwork upon completion. the Legendary contracts are given out daily from each NPC (Matti, Yarro, Brin) and you can only get one from each per day. The regular contracts are repeatable.
a short tipp for those Contracts: violet contracts are Legendary contracts with a guaranteed Masterwork as reward.
That's one fine lookin interceptor, and not the build but the actual color scheme. I like it
The purple contacts give a masterwork when u finish
Super helpful. Nice video man 🤙
Thanks for that massive effort!
Temple of the scar final boss is a nightmare to fight. The second you step out from behind a rock you have every rocket at the game coming for your neck
Purple are legendary contracts you can only do once per day and you're guaranteed a masterwork component at least after the contract. It resets at 6 am central.
Thanks for taking one for the team your my hero ❤️
The Purple Contracts should give you 100% 1 Masterwork, but only Components. and its a Quest reward so even when there is no drop you get it.
Regardless if this guy managed to get all masterwork it doesn't really matter if the rolls on them are crap. The drop rates are fine considering you don't get good rolls on your items often. So whoever is worried that this is causing the game to be shorter, it doesn't. It does help gearing up to make GM1 a faster run and may prepare you for GM2 but this does not, IN ANY WAY, make the game shorter. Looter genre has always been a grind to get best gear stat
I've been spamming contracts on hard and all I find for masterworks are weapons, I found 6 in one contract yesterday and 3 were the same weapon
On hard you only get a very limited lootable of masterworks. And they´re only weapons. Thats why we play grandmaster 1, to get the FULL lootable. Legendary contracts on gm1 also guarantee a mw component. Something i start with to gear out a new javelin.
Great video! Lots of good info thanks.
Legendary Contracts (purple ones) give a guaranteed component every time. People should rush to do these because components are some of the greatest gear upgrades. Especially for Colossus. You can also share them with your friends since you only get 3 per day. Also, you can get lucky and quickplay into one.
Awesome research, thanks !
Love the interceptor. I really enjoy Freeplay mode more than anything. Lately I have been using the MW Venom Bomb(melee weapon defeats increase acid dmg 100%) and MW Venom Spray(700% Ult charge on enemy hit). My Ult charged up so fast and it’s so much fun. My build will most likely change when I get different (masterwork) components.
This is great info. Thanks very much.
great video,thanks bro,saved me a lot of time
To unlock legendary contracts you just need to complete the entire questline for each of the three agents, you dont need reputation of 3000. Additionally, they are limited to one per faction per day
Love the video man great ways to level up how ever i jave seen some items that increase roll chance and item rarity would love to some videos testing that gear with higher teir loot chance and there names lol
Dope Video! Sending blessing your way, Keep inspiring!🎒🙌🏻
I did a GM2 contract this morning and got 3 masterworks. I just did Tyrant Mine on GM2 and got 4 masterworks. GM2 puts a physical strain on you and I can't do them back to back. GM1 contracts are probably the way to go.
My "opinion" is that either they make masterworks harder to posses or add like a "ancient masterwork" a more scarce rarity that next to impossible to posses
Pro tips
Stack support luck gear for more drops. Start out easy mode freeplay you get just as many chances at MW drops as from HM with the weapons pool. GM1 opens up the entire loot pool. Also for GM1 tyrant mine farm you can stack luck gear and make out like a bandit. I managed to get 50 MW in a 3 hour session when I first hit lvl 30 by using that. I spent today doing contracts in GW1 and managed to snag 5 legendaries and about 25 MW in an hour and a half. Legendary contracts are the best and award a MW drop.
2:32 what mode is it guaranteed on because I did it in hard and didn’t get a masterwork at all from doing a tyrant mine
The day one patch unintentionally increased drop rates significantly. BioWare ended up nerfing it back down to the intended rate (IMO a good thing, slowly upping your gear is half the fun) so maxing our won’t be this fast now.
and some destiny 1 players still don't have the Icebreaker
NotgreatBOB! The nerf was a terrible thing, at the rate they have it now, no one will be able to effectively farm gm3 until months and months of continuously grinding, it’ll kill the game if they keep it because progress will seem like it’s at a standstill which it technically is
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High end gear should be rare and hard to get.
TheAgentAssassin Rare and hard to get aren’t the adjectives I’d use, for example the Redrix’s broadsword in d2 is rare and hard to get, loot in Anthem is treated completely different, in order to get a god tier roll you have to go through 7 stages of rng, the rarity, the weapon, the 4 inscriptions and then a high roll on those inscriptions, getting 1-2 masterworks per stronghold is not going to be enough to make people wanna stay, I understand wanting to make end game worthwhile but at the rate it’s at, nobody is gonna stick around to play the game, hardcore players will leave because it’s not rewarding enough and casual players will leave because there will be almost no progression so they’ll end up leaving
Masterwork drops have been patched since this video came out. MW drops have been nerfed so expect this timing to expand out greatly.
The nerf was to world chest and it happened before this video. The only nerf its received is to exploiting dungeons. The rolls are also better now. Plus I dknt see how people complain so much when you can craft them endlessly if you just stop to do their challenge. Meaning all you need is to get mats for perfect rolls. The hard part is just getting 1 of each to drop.
@@Idle_Timer Actually is was a world nerf. Ben I tweeted about it. Said for 11 to 12 hours masterworks dropped at double amount and that wasn't supposed to happen so they nerfed it and now it's slow as balls.
@@Topher2k4 you mean they corrected an unintended buff. That's not exactly a nerf. That's a correction, it was never intended to be that high.
@@Idle_Timer u can only craft weapons not other stuff like shields or buffs.
@@michiel2316 check your challenges home boy. Pretty sure the only thing you cant craft is components, which I could be wrong about those, which you're guaranteed 3 a day if you do your leg contracts. Which I rarely seem to get components as drops with how large the loot pool is, though I cant remember if I've gotten one not on contract so I'm not sure on that one. I assume their in the standard loot pool.
So, when crafting you will get Random bonuses to the gear you are crafting. That will be the ultimate go to for end game. Get the kills, get the ranks on each gear and then craft, craft, craft. What would be the best bonuses for each type of weapon and each bumper ability and each upgrade? That’s the real focus on end game and of the Hardest difficulty setting gives you the material for crafting legendary gear and maybe an object to adjust or Choose what bonus you want ( like 1 of the 4) or maybe raise a % by 1 point at a time or so on, that would be amazing!
You don't need rep for legendary contracts, all you need to do is the 2 quest lines per faction to unlock their legendary contracts. You can only do one legendary contract a day per faction for a total of 3 a day.
Concerning the Contracts: as I've seen it you get rewarded a MW Item upon completion but only for the purple contracts.. after doing a purple contract you get a yellow one. Than you get a purple again, so on so on.. Also could you explain if you have been in playing during the 11h loot paradise which has been stated bei Bioware was happening after the patch was rolled out. This would compromise your data. Thanks for the video and I'm looking forward to some more Anthem videos ;-)
Pretty sure from what I've been playing, any event "purple" played at GM difficulty grants a Masterwork upon completion that isn't a "drop".
I have a 496 Colossus, the Reson your getting them is because they are masterwork contracts you get 1 at the end you have only 3 of these missions a day, normal contracts don't give good loot. GM 2 used to say extra loot chance of around 400% after some of the patches it vanished and I still have yet to get better loot from gm2 vs gm1.
Ancient rarity I'm down for, that would make sense based on how the enemies are. Elite is like masterwork, legendary is legends, and ancient would just be the best.
They need to add a system of rerolling undesirable stats on masterworks and legendaries that take a long time to farm, or a system of reinforcing said equipment to make them better that also takes time. The option of set effects is also viable, making it so if you have these 3 masterworks/ legendaries u get a bonus set effect. While all of these options are viable if implement they needed to take a long period of time to do to keep players logging in. Events can always be added to reduce the grind if need be.
sir purple ones are legendary contracts which give a guaranteed masterwork thats what you got at the end screen even though nothing dropped ingame
I haven't quite hit level 30 yet (28) and have just had my first masterwork, but not from any methods noted here. Mine came from the quickplay option (I think that's what it's called, where you jump in to fill up someone's on going mission). It's supposed to offer good rewards to encourage people to use it.
purple contracts are legendary and give a GUARANTEED masterwork component
I mean gear up as fast as you want, new content will be in March-May so if you do it quick enough you’ll just get bored faster lol
Hey you, yeah you! Channel5! I like this shit. Love to hear someone taking the time to get some raw numbers for the playerbase and explaining things clearly for everyone to understand. You got a new subber today, brother!
👋 hello, did you test with perk and without : support+??%luck
Crazy about this game is how challenging it is. You really need to coordinate combos and weaknesses. GM1 was challenging, I had to semi communicate. GM2 it's crazy. Nearly, communication need to be flawless. PS I love this game. I can't wait for March release date
The temple of scar end boss is actually pretty easy on GM1.
Don't stand under the pylons, clear the adds in every wave before destroying the pylons and shoot at the boss's legs from behind cover.
Tyran Mine is just quicker, you snipe it, it dies, gg
Zía triple sniper sigil whirlwind or devastator with sniper and Crit damage build
I am at the part of needing 50k of each loyalty to unlock all masterworks crafts for aigments. What a doozy! Up to 1k+ on one of them.. but man oh man what a grind.
I did the same for 2 days, only getting to 470.
You were lucky, plain and simple.
Good video, loving the game and having a blast.
Great video thank you
I'm currently 460 power on my interceptor. I can consistently farm tyrant mine over and over with randoms. That's my favourite method. I got a crucial component for my build the masterwork ice glaive we all know ice is king for damage.🤗
Ice might be king but love the sparkdash n detonating strike build u can close gaps super fast and then just nuke hordes of enemies my favorite build, 406 right now , lvl 29
David Neraas the repetitiveness is not bad I love the game. It just receives so much hate
Do your times also include loading time? It looks like Contracts in GM1 nets the best results, but if each contract requires 3-4 loading screens, then 9 contracts means 27-36 loading screens.
Did you have any luck modifiers? I have a +200 luck build, which equals no offensive power haha. anyways it's too early to tell because i only ran one stronghold so far. I only received 1 end-hold MW...do you have a video on the effects of luck. I have noticed a difference but just slightly
Just one thing, you didn't test running Temple of Scar 2 chest run. It takes 15 minutes and you can do it 2-3 times solo. Thats my favourite route to run.
About the contracts. I was getting masterworks and legendaries like the group in mass. Then it just stopped and cut off. I then proceeded to swap javelins and boom. The drops came back. I’m thinking it’s linked to the javelin or some daily limit. Not too sure.
i wonder if Channel5 tried the same thing now with the Intended droprate of item how much emptier that list he had would be atm just saying
But some good info here, thanks for the video!
Awesome guide mate
Good job breaking it down.. Thanks!
Guaranteed Masterwork from the boss? My friend did Tyrant Mine with me on GM1 and didn’t get a Masterwork drop
It's guarenteed
You need to be level 30 first for that guaranteed item tho
Legendary contracts guaranteed masterwork component specific to your javelin on gm1, also on gm1 stronghold run guaranteed at least 1 masterwork per run, any type but specific to your javelin
Have you considered running lower difficulty (to the point of oneshotting)? There is lower chance but if you run 5 times as fast maybe that makes up for it
The legendary you got in the contracts you didn't pick up n got were in the purple ones. The purple contracts give a guaranteed master.
Great info!
Thanks for the vids. One question though, how do you unlock the temple of scar? I'm level 30 and I don't have that strong hold unlocked. :/
Just a question. Did you find out of the modifyer "Luck " does affect the masterwork loot drop chance?
No mention of luck gear? I've got a nasty luck gear set. Nearly ever piece of gear has luck on it and I am getting much much more better loot than you show in this video. I get at least 3 masterworks every stronghold I do. I free roamed on GM1 for 30mins and got 10 masterworks and 1 legendary
Dude, you should make a video on your farming methods
Yeah devs said luck doesnt apply to mw so you are lying.
@@oOoJeeoOo Worked for me?
@@oOoJeeoOo alrighty then. I'm literally in free play right now and have only been in for 30 mins and I have already got 4 MW?
www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/arnja8/luck_stat_data_gathering/
Very nice video and it's informative. Now I know what I need to do to farm effectively, but it's a dick move to "raise awareness" after you've geared up which might simply ruin good loot for other people.
This is nice but can you also explain the luck bonus in a bit of detail also
My issue is out of the 40+ masterworks I got 70% of them are the same 6 things. Elemental Rage, gambit, Last Argument, unending whatever etc. I'm upset lol
That's probably cuz u played at hard mode I guess which drops like 8 weapons only
@@UchihaItachi-lj1gq I run Grandmaster 1 Tryrant mine most of the time, rarely the other strongholds though. Maybe that's why idk.
Tyrant at GM1 drops at least 1 MW skill at the end
At the end these power level numbers actually means nothing at all. It's all about the additional stats your equipment comes with. I have a 494 storm and my fren who is 460 can take on GM 2 easily because of how op his weapons and it's perks are and I can't even handle GM 2 because it's difficult to kill even trash mobs thanks to my shitty additional stats. Legendaries should have a minimum standard I have a weapon with + 13 DMG and my friend has the same weapon with + 100 DMG. This is just a broken system.
I agree 100%. My gear score is the same as yours and I do much more damage in another set that’s 440 ish power level.
It’s really all about +luck. I have a +284 luck build that drops 5-8 masterworks a stronghold. When I open the chest and someone else does, big difference.
@@wartome3196 do you still have have that many masterwork in a stronghold ? Because just a day ago I would always get a masterwork in a stronghold either from the chest or enemies now it seems like they nerfed masterwork drop rate.
Drangleic Lord I am thinking so too, it’s like 2-3 max now when it was a lot more. It’s distracting not having a solid loot system as a driving force. We did masters2 today and didn’t get a MW from the first chest and called it quits.
@@wartome3196 Yep I knew it. I'm telling you man before today even with 60 luck or lower I can get an average of 2-4 per stronghold. Now I with like 130+ luck I barely get any and have to rely on the boss drop and obviously the fat spider is the easiest to kill for that .
Drangleic Lord I just got 3 in one legendary (purple) mission so we might of just hit a back streak. I have seen others saying it’s normal whole some saying nerf.
Either way Gear is fucked currently. If you don’t get a +100% dmg roll it’s worthless.
Yup Strongholds on GM1 are the way to go. Every run, 2 masterworks dropped for me. 425 power now ;-)
So free play in a group is the best option and contracts?
I ran through your method and I’m only getting 1 masterwork every few hours in freeplay. I never got a legendary and the only masterwork I get is 1 per strong hold so I’m curious as to how you’re getting so much masterwork?
They could always do insane cosmetic challenges like defeat all grandmasters 3 strongholds with a gear score of 100 to 200 to get the legendary armor set "unbreakable legionnaire", I dont think end game comes from being maxed out in masterworks, plus inscriptions are far more important . But players will keep coming back to do challenges to get gear, why I told ppl from time iam hype for this game yess it needs work but theres just so much they can do with the set up they put in place.
This video is amazing! 5/5
If you get a mw but never picked it up
Enemies can drop them you may not notice them or see them but the game will still give them to you at the end of the mission. I tested this out by actively avoid mw drops in some strongholds counting I got 2 rando drops and one from the boss only picking up the one from the boss yet I still had 3 at the end of the mission so keep that in mind
Just saying for those who didn’t know it doesn’t matter what difficulty u have it on certain mobs lvl to your lvl so even if u have a lot of defense those certain mobs will still destroy your hp bar
Any correlation between longest playtime on tyrant mine and the 1 legendary? Or is it a coincidence
Could you do a comparison between the quality of loot between G1-G2. I've got masterworks that are far superior to my legendaries.
Hey man what is that armour is it available to each of these classes or do you only get it for one class ?
This is nonsense. We should be getting 10 MW a run on GM1. It should be most of the drops you get. Why? Because getting MW isn't that hard, getting MW without shit inscriptions is. Inscriptions are RNG on top of RNG. You have RNG to get the right inscriptions and then RNG to get high rolls on those inscriptions. You could get 100 MW in a day and still end up breaking them all for mats because the inscriptions are crap. I broke about 30 yesterday alone, kept 1 that i might use because of 1 stat.
N F exactly the only good masterworks I got were a 150%+ elemental damage flamethrower and a 150%+ best defense siege cannon
Yeah but you were meant to craft the perfect roll as well. I can only speculate as to how much they intended the player to craft but it is there, so you were meant to get the item, use to unlock the pattern and make a bunch yourself for a better/best version of that item. Sure you can get lucky and get a great roll out of the gate, or it could be a dud and an immediate breakdown for parts. The good news is they are patching the inscriptions to have more meaningful drops hopefully no more Colossus gear with machine pistol inscriptions or machine pistols with Colossus buffs!!
Happy Gaming
I wonder how many devastators I will have to get before I get one with a 40% crit damage and a 150%+ weapon damage buff, and also a legendary. . .