Did the entire line of Explosive Nova shields’ rarity get shifted down by one? As in, I’m led to believe that the Deadly Bloom is listed internally as legendary, where in practice, it’s purple. Two other instances of these shields seem out of context like this. In chests, for example, this white shield seems out of place here :
Occasionally, the Item of the Day will be of a lower rarity than the standard items when it’s this shield:
No, there’s still plenty of different explosive nova shields, from white to purple. RNG, yo!
Deadly bloom is a weird one, since it should technically be blue like the rest of the quest reward items, but it’s purple because, Gearbox reasons lol
Actually, it’s supposed to be an orange, like the Flame of the Firehawk! It just got hit with what I’m gonna assume is the same glitch in coding that hit the Penetrator in BL1. I believe that’s also why it can be found as a world drop.
Wasn’t fixed for TPS either, oh well.
yeah, forgot about the FotF… and yes, Deadly Bloom IS listed as a Legendary. Again, GBX secrets. Do not ask questions, or your drop rates will be nerfed.
But in the mission card shows it like it was a Purple one xD
Right, but I’m thinking that the particular issue that affects the Deadly Bloom (where it’s listed internally properly as a Legendary, but the game shows it one rarity level down) may have bumped all in-game explosive (not other element) nova shields down a notch in rarity as shown externally. Have you ever seen an item of the day (besides this shield type) that was actually of a lower rarity than the regular line items?
I don’t think we’d notice this with the green (blue internally) or blue (purple internally) because that level shield wouldn’t look out of place as an item of the day (for example) or in a chest with other mid- high-level gear.
