First off, thank you for all the feedback around loot drops, this is what we have heard:

• Many inscriptions are not useful to the item they are attached to
• Due to this, players need to get many masterworks of the same item to find a “good one”
• Players want the frequency of masterwork drops to increase to help with the above OR…
• They want us to change how masterwork inscriptions work so that they are more “useful”

There is more feedback, the above is a summary.

This is our plan for changes to go live on February 28th or March 1st (central US time)

• Inscriptions are now better for the items they are on
  • This applies to new items earned in Anthem (not existing ones in your Vault)
  • If an inscription applies only to the item it is on (gear icon), it will be useful to that item. Otherwise the inscription will provide a Javelin wide benefit
  • For example, an Assault Rifle will not have an item specific +pistol damage inscription. It may have a +electric damage suit wide inscription (cool for a lightning build)
  • Some more information below
• Removed uncommon (white) and common (green) items from level 30 drop tables
  • This was a highly requested change and we agree, so that’s that.
• We have reduced the crafting materials needed to craft a masterwork from 25 masterwork embers to 15 masterwork embers
  • As you salvage or harvest, you should be able to craft more masterwork items to get the inscriptions you are looking for
  • Now that inscriptions are more relevant to their item, this should yield better results for players

Additional inscription change details
Its hard to write a short version of this, but I’m going to try. If we need to add more information later we can do that…

• Current: There are a large pool of inscription options available to roll on items, the inscription pools are generic (e.g. Weapons)
  • Every masterwork item has 4 inscriptions – Major Primary, Minor Primary, Major Secondary, Minor Secondary
• Change: Each item type now has a specific set of inscription options for each of their inscription pools. The pools are smaller and are targeted to the specific item type
  • E.g. there used to be a Weapon pool, now there is an Assault Rifle pool and the assault rifle pool has 4 pools for each of the inscription types listed above
  • Primary inscriptions are focused on damage or survivability
    • Any item specific inscriptions (gear icon) will always benefit the item they are on
    • Javelin wide inscriptions (suit icon) will benefit damage or survivability across the whole Javelin
  • Secondary inscriptions focus on utility and can be targeted to the item (gear icon) or the entire javelin (suit icon)

There are likely a bunch of questions, we will read through the comments and if we need an additional post to clarify things, we can work on that.