Originally Posted by
Go4Seven
The drop rate always has been about 1 gun per 1000 energy used. A job requiring 100 energy has a 10% drop rate. A job requiring 300 energy has a 30% drop rate, etc. I don't know the exact percentages, but it seems to even out like this in the long run.
This is why buying Uzis isn't completely horrible. Instead of 1 Uzi per 20 gold, you get 4 Uzi per 20 gold. You should never spend gold to farm Uzis, unless you are completing an LTQ. Otherwise you are spending 4x more gold than simply buying the guns.
Completing an LTQ is a nice way to get Uzis because you also gain stats. When buying Uzis with gold, you don't get the stats but you don't get the XP either.
If a syndicate of 50 members each spends 750 gold for 150 Uzis, they can complete the event all the way. Most LTQ cost 4x that much, and provide less raw stats and fewer/no modifiers.
I know we all feel like Uzis should be free. And they are. Just not in the quantities we would like. Why do we expect to complete Elite mode of Raid Boss without gold, when we don't expect to complete Elite mode of LTQ without gold?
If you think of buying Uzis as an alternative to buying energy refills, they start to look like the lesser of two evils. And it's only necessary if you want to complete Elite mode, which you don't have to.