If I still need a ton of weapons and gear from BOTH Raids, is it a good idea to try to run normal on all characters THEN hard on all characters for each raid?
CE and VoG handle their NM and HM drops differently.
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- Armor only drops on NM or on HM if you haven't run NM yet. The exception is the helmet from Scrota which can drop on NM and HM.
-Abyss: Gloves
-Bridge: Boots and Chest
-Death Singer: Class armor
-Scrota: Helmet
Weapons have unique drop spots so you'd need to double up some encounters. Primaries from HM CE, all others from NM.
-NM Scrota: All secondary and heavy weapons (e.g. BHammer, Hungry Scrota)
-HM Abyss: Pulse rifle Oversoul Edict
-HM Bridge: Auto rifle Abyss Defiant
-Deathsinger: lol wut
-HM Scrota: Hand cannon Wordy Scrota, scout rifle Fang of No Loot, Crux of Scrota
Since the secondary and heavy weapons can
only drop from NM Scrota, you have to do this before HM or you'll lose their weekly drop chance completely. Primary weapons only drop from HM so it doesn't matter if you've already done NM.
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- NM weapon drops are:
-NM Oracles and Templar: Shotgun Found Verdict and sniper Praedyth's Revenge
-NM Gatekeeper: Machine gun Corrective Measure and rocket launcher Heaven Vengeance
-NM Atheon: Auto rifle Atheon's Epilogue and scout rifle Vision of Confluence
All the weapons that drop on NM can also drop on HM, but some weapons are HM only:
-HM Oracles: Fusion rifle Praetorian Foil
-HM Templar: Hand cannon Fate Bringer
-HM Gate Keepers: Pulse rifle Praedyth's Timepiece
-HM Atheon: Primary exotic fusion rifle Vex Mythoclast
For armor, the helmet can only drop on HM Atheon but the other 3 pieces can drop on NM or HM Oracles, Templar and Gate Keepers. Not sure exactly which ones are where.
Doing only HM means you get two loot drop chances that both pull from the HM loot table. This is why people can get two Fate Bringers from HM Templar or two helmets from HM Atheon. If you get all the HM-only drops then you can just run NM since it won't dilute the table with things you don't want.
TL;DR
My recommendation for raid drops-
Do NM and HM CE since it's fast and has NM exclusives, only do HM VoG since it's longer but has everything
