Just found something, did I get lucky?

I was in a level 1 Alpha forest planet, and one of the floran guards died because of one of the enemies.
She dropped a spear, and it has insane (I think) on-hit damage. Was it a good find?:

 

aint legendary, but the stats look nice.

 

That looks like that wepaon was not rebalanced in the last patch. Either that or it is some other bug

 

The guards are broken, they frequently drop things like that. those stats will one hit most things through the first few tiers.

 

Wait till you see X sector weapons, this game has a small problem where they increase numbers way to much between levels.

Both of my 1-handed level 10 weapons deal about 2100 dps each!
...and they still don't 1-hit level 10 creatures

I understand that the stats your showing are high for an alpha sector enemy, which is the opposite of the legendary drops which have really low dps. They usually hit many times per attack to make up for that though.

 

It's a terrible weapon because it's really meant for Tier 2 (levels 11-20). The loot tables for NPCs and Monsters are just messed up and (almost) everything likes to drop Tier 2 stuff instead of tier appropriate stuff.

 

Good look hitting anything with a spear, though.

 

Yeah, that's the only issue, spears are awful. I suppose if I made a corridor whenever I needed to use it it would be more effective.

 

Similar to what happened to me..

I went from 10 DPS to this out of no where... killed a random guard on my home planet Sector 1 lol.

 

That will one shot tiers 1-2 and still be pretty strong in tier 3, although it's slow. Spears may be seen as useless but they work really well vs humanoids. So in that sense it's a nice find but likely not intended!

 

I found a legendary sword last night just before versing the boss (Red 2H Sword with Eye on it, melee swing shoots red clouds) . The DPS was and average 12, Nicely balanced. The moment I had finished the UFO Boss I was able to craft a weapon with a DPS of 32. I don't see why a legendary should be replaced so quickly and be uneffective in the next tier of progression. I would suggest I should be able to use this legendary until I find another in the next teir. It makes the items more valuable. Please allow the ability to upgrade Legendary Items strength by using the Molten Core Anvil, make it super expensive ( A pixel/ resource sync). I would happily ine 100+ gold bars to be able to do that.

 

My brother has found a fire axe on a threat 9 planet in sector X last night that had over 1200dmg per swing (1400 dps)

 

110 dps is higher than anything i've found in tier IV. that needs rebalanced.

 

The best tip I can give for using spears: Get the Energy Dash tech, and attack right as you dash, I murder just about anything with my spear, groups of mobs, birds, giant robot boss (Do not try on a dragon though, it'll wreck you).

 

Wow I can't wait to find something with stats that high! That is very lucky for your home planet. Looks like I have some more exploring to do.

 

Spears work great. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They'll work even better once Omni gets it in that they thrust towards where the cursor clicked instead of straight forward.

 

I found a tier 2 uncommon 2 hander that I'm still using on threat 4 worlds. It does like 160 dps and dmg a hit and inflicts burning. I'm glad I've had it all this time, slightly imbalanced or not. All the crafted weapons seem too weak, having to whack every little critter many times to kill them can be a bit tedious at times. But that's all the luck I've gotten, I haven't found a single thing of particular interest other than 2 pulse jump techs. I've found one gun so far, and it's a grenade launcher. Sounds cool, but it doesn't seem to work well. The grenades it shoots take 10-15 seconds to explode with a very small area of effect, and don't blow up on contact with enemies so essentially useless since all the enemies are so jumpy and fast.

Oddly enough, every "legendary" (at least 5 or 6) I've gotten off the rare monsters has been complete garbage, doing worse damage and DPS than even tier 1-2 crafted weapons. The projectiles they sometimes emit don't even come close to making up the difference. Even a threat 4 rare monster that I killed today dropped a weapon that would have been immediately trashed after the first set of craftable weapons were available.

 

Had the same thing happen as well; random Floran guard died and dropped a tier 2 hammer. Although I've finally reached Ferozium tier so finally my crafted weapons finally do more damage than it.

 

These are the very first weapons I found on my tier 1 starting planet. Something aint right lol.

 

Yeah, I think there's some issue with guards and such dropping things they shouldn't be. I found a pair of 100-200 DPS weapons on my started planet that were dropped. And from the looks of it, those numbers are insane until you make it to X and most monsters in Alpha drop somewhere in the range of 10 DPS while Beta I've been finding 30 DPS. I still have the sword on me but I haven't been using it because I've been liking the balance with the items that drop in the 10-30 DPS range in beta.