Loot Pool Dilution

As of version 2.4, the game includes the following equipment:

Type Free Equipment Premium Equipment
Weapons Plasma Cannon *
Blaster
Laser Rifle
Auto Handgun
Looper
Devastator
Nuclear Lasso
Smart MiniGun
Gemini Laser
Moneygrubbet
Scattergun
Elemental Infuser
Biotic Phaser
Seeker-Destroyer
Repeating Crossbow
Armor Body Armour
Ninja Garb
Heavy Armour
Tactical Suit
Necroshield Suit *
Combat Gloves
Tactical Armgaurds
Ninja Tabi
Tactical Sneakers
Blessed Suit
Emergency Shell
Elemental Armor
Tech Uniform
Colossus Shell
Titan Arms
Neurolink Gloves
Catchpocket Gloves
Boxing Gloves
Titan Legs
Grounding Boots
Data Sneakers
Winged Sandals
Gear Scope
Explosive Bullets
Iron Sights
Dum Dum Bullets
Camo Cloak
Sim Chip
Plaster
Metal Detector
Shield Generator
Radiation Field

Notes:

  • * The Plasma Cannon and Necrushield Suit used to be premium items (launched in Battlepass Season 4 and 2 respectively) that were later released to the Free pool
  • Premium equipment was initially launched as Exclusive rewards in the Battle Pass, but nowadays they can also be found in special crates (details on unlocking cost) and there’s always one premium item on offer at any given time. Each battle pass also comes with atleast 1, possibly 2 premium items as well as the final rewards for tge track you pick (with the option of taking a Epic Tinkering Kit / Epic Gun Kit instead).

If you haven’t unlocked any premium items, you have 13 items in your loot pool, and the chances of getting any particular item (or its upgrade material) are 1/13.

Now suppose you unlock a few Premium items - say, the Smart Minigun, Emergency Shell, and Plaster - you obviously want to upgrade them, but now the chance of getting any particular item has dropped to 1/16. Or, in other words, you would now need to do 16 runs to get the loot you previously got in 13.

And the more premium items you unlock, the harder it becomes to upgrade them.

It seems unlikely that the devs will address this issue (there are enough players willing to pay for premium equipment even with this drawback) so my recommendation would be to be mindful of this issue when deciding whether or not to unlock more premium equipment.