The Perk-Distribution Bug has existed since at least Final Shape, 4 months ago. It just didn't happen on any popular perk combinations, so it flew under everyone's radar.

[u/Soft_Light]

https://x.com/mossy_max/status/1849246476041605224

"There's no reason that Moving Target + Threat Detector should be 17x more likely than MT + Repulsor Brace."

Truthteller was reissued when Final Shape came out. Notoriously, it was panned as a pretty shitty reissue, with no good rolls, no clearly defined god roll, and overall just everyone moved on and ignored it.

However, even on Truthteller, the perk distribution is night and day. This is the exact same bug that's on Chill Inhibitor.

It's just that nobody was crying they couldn't get "Harmony + Grave Robber" on the GL. Out of tens of thousands of drops, only 161 people got Danger Zone + Elemental Capacitor.

That is fractions of a percent.

This bug has existed for a while. It's only just now, just this season, just recently, that it's finally happened to a meta defining god roll trait combination.

How long as this been in the system?

[u/platonicgryphon]

How is light.gg getting it's drop data? Is the API providing read access to every guardians vault or only those who have connected to Light.gg allowing it access?

[u/jonijoniii → u/platonicgryphon]

If you check a weapon you can click learn more under "Popular Individual Perks".

Q: What do you mean by the "global Destiny population"?

A: As part of this feature, we are now tracking all active players using the Bungie API, not just those who have signed in on light.gg. The statistics displayed here are based on all players that have logged in over the past 2 weeks.

[u/platonicgryphon → u/jonijoniii]

Somehow missed that option looking at the site, but seeing this part of that Q and A:

Q: So this hits literally every player and every weapon they own?

A: Yes and no. Every player should be seen by our scraper. The process will compute stats on items seen in the vault / inventory of players who have granted access to their "non-equipped Inventory". However, the default Bungie.net permissions only allow us to see the full details on weapons that are equipped by each player's characters. 

So they are not actually getting every person's full vault, only those that connected and then just seeing those that had the weapon equipped. So that could cause issues with weapon drop data.

[u/jonijoniii → u/platonicgryphon]

If you think about it it should show way better rolls for each weapon. Why would people keep trash rolls in their inventory for a long duration? It is affecting data but towards god rolls not against it.

[u/ctaps148 → u/jonijoniii]

Why would people keep trash rolls in their inventory for a long duration?

1. Sentimentality

2. Forgetfulness

3. In hopes that the bad perks get buffed one day

[u/jonijoniii → u/ctaps148]

1.and 2 ok but it would not show up on the data so much. Not everyone will love the same niche combos.

3 Those are not your equipped ones. Those sit in the vault and would not show up unless you give permission to light.gg.