Do enemy level affect drop rewards?

[maria.artemis]

Attempting to farm Plastids right now, and I could go for lvl 50 missions to farm it, but is that worth it over just playing on Gulliver?

[rawr1254]

First off if youre farming on Phobos Id recommend Zeugma survival instead. Its a dark sector mission with an increased resource drop chance. Also it being a survival instead of having a fixed enemy spawn rate each wave and having to wait each wave for more enemies theyll all just funnel in to where you are.

Then after that assuming you dont have steel path yet that would increase resource drop chance by +100%.

So now if you dont have steel path then your other option would be to bring a loot frame. These include:

-Nekros(if you bring him try to bring Ripkas amalgam mod. This will help gore the enemies causing him to be able to desecrate more body parts for even more increase loot chances. Or if you cant get that bring a weapon with a 50% or greater slash value)But also the gore thing is kinda niche dont go too out of your way to deal with it especially if it makes it harder to kill enemies for you

-Khora(with her augment)

-Hydroid(with his augment)

-Atlas(with his augment)

-Ivara(needs I believe high duration and decent range while maintaining I believe 100% str too for the pickpocket to be worth using over the others but is also kinda a pain to use as a looting ability)

 

Now after that there is the option to group up with someone to increase enemy spawn rate as well(dont know if this means more chances at loot or if it just spreads out the loot to the rate of enemy spawn while keeping the rate essentially the same)

If you dont have a loot frame then your other option is to bring a Chesa Kubrow. It isnt great but its something to reroll loot sometimes

You could also purchase a drop chance/resource booster for plat. But you could also hang out in the relay and hope/ask if some Legendary Mastery rank player could use a resource booster blessing for you.

If you have access to helminth you could also put Atlas's ability on any of these other frames and have a second chance at loot but iirc you need decent strength to even get to nekros's loot chance

[Numerounius]

42 minutes ago, rawr1254 said:

First off if youre farming on Phobos Id recommend Zeugma survival instead. Its a dark sector mission with an increased resource drop chance. Also it being a survival instead of having a fixed enemy spawn rate each wave and having to wait each wave for more enemies theyll all just funnel in to where you are.

Then after that assuming you dont have steel path yet that would increase resource drop chance by +100%.

So now if you dont have steel path then your other option would be to bring a loot frame. These include:

-Nekros(if you bring him try to bring Ripkas amalgam mod. This will help gore the enemies causing him to be able to desecrate more body parts for even more increase loot chances. Or if you cant get that bring a weapon with a 50% or greater slash value)But also the gore thing is kinda niche dont go too out of your way to deal with it especially if it makes it harder to kill enemies for you

-Khora(with her augment)

-Hydroid(with his augment)

-Atlas(with his augment)

-Ivara(needs I believe high duration and decent range while maintaining I believe 100% str too for the pickpocket to be worth using over the others but is also kinda a pain to use as a looting ability)

 

Now after that there is the option to group up with someone to increase enemy spawn rate as well(dont know if this means more chances at loot or if it just spreads out the loot to the rate of enemy spawn while keeping the rate essentially the same)

If you dont have a loot frame then your other option is to bring a Chesa Kubrow. It isnt great but its something to reroll loot sometimes

You could also purchase a drop chance/resource booster for plat. But you could also hang out in the relay and hope/ask if some Legendary Mastery rank player could use a resource booster blessing for you.

If you have access to helminth you could also put Atlas's ability on any of these other frames and have a second chance at loot but iirc you need decent strength to even get to nekros's loot chance

Yes, you can optimize looting to the extreme like this. But you failed to answer the basic question that is being asked of does leveling affect drop rewards?

Which I am 90% sure that enemy level does not impact loot because otherwise you would have a replication of Void Key farming where it is more profitable to stay in the mission for an extended period of time then to leave and if it did exist it would be common tip number one which leaves the conclusion that it just. . . doesn't exist.

Now, there might be some methods where staying in the mission for an extended period of time has been the basis of a farming method over time but that is not because of the enemy level naturally increasing as you stay in the mission, instead it is usually because of something else like an increased spawn rate or a timer resetting after exiting mission.

[Hexerin]

If you're farming specifically for plastids, then Oestrus on Eris is your friend. In my experience, significantly higher plastid rates compared to other sources.

[rawr1254]

1 hour ago, Numerounius said:

Yes, you can optimize looting to the extreme like this. But you failed to answer the basic question that is being asked of does leveling affect drop rewards?

Ok then heres your answer ill give to that:

so level of the enemy is not a factor. Also Im not saying he has to do ALL that. Im saying IF he wants to get more of the resource those are many of his options. 

[DakotaThrice]

Generally speaking enemy level has no bearing on drops but there are exceptions such as Riven Slivers which will only drop from 30+ Eximus units.

[maria.artemis]

Thank you all!