I'll take that as a compliment.
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Destiny |OT11| It goes up to 11!
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Grinds. Grinds everywhere.
iRAWRasaurus
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I second this notion.
I still don't get the ass mats change. Those of us who raid every week are drowning in them, I myself have over 400 ascendant shards, there's was no need to change the system, it was working perfectly fine due to the way the raid rewards were set up in favour of you getting ass mats.
You don't get XP faster.
What the article is refering to is that exotics are easier to upgrade because there's less bubbles and no need for ass mats.
That's my take-away. The article is just echoing the changes we've already received.
So we can only upgrade the exotics that Xur is currently allowing that week?
Watch the first weapon he allows is the ballerhorn and then he will actually sell it the following week. Only to never allow the upgrade again.
I'm also forseeing only allowing upgrades for Armamentarium, Void Fang Vestments and Sunbreakers.
Watch the first weapon he allows is the ballerhorn and then he will actually sell it the following week. Only to never allow the upgrade again.
I'm also forseeing only allowing upgrades for Armamentarium, Void Fang Vestments and Sunbreakers.
I think given alternatives, the option to bring Exotics up to level 32 seems nice to me. What options are people wanting here?
1) Exotics that are maxed to 300 are forever stuck at 300.
2) Exotics that are maxed to 300 get a free/nearly free bump to 320.
3) Only new Exotics can be maxed to 320.
Maybe I just haven't maxed out enough of my Exotics (1 of 6 - heh) to be enraged by this.
1) Exotics that are maxed to 300 are forever stuck at 300.
2) Exotics that are maxed to 300 get a free/nearly free bump to 320.
3) Only new Exotics can be maxed to 320.
Maybe I just haven't maxed out enough of my Exotics (1 of 6 - heh) to be enraged by this.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
My bounties and sanity is Ready!
Time to level up everything! all over again!
Let's Do This!
Time to level up everything! all over again!
Let's Do This!
Johan Liebert
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This sounds like a good idea. meaning it won't happen.
scarletham
Member
Wait, what?
I'm currently speaking to agent Cristian from Sony support chat, friend. I'm cutting these motherfuckers off for good.
gutterboy44
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Ok, I guess sitting on my vault full of zero XP exotics won't be such a bad thing. Hilarious how in the course of three days I went from, "eh fuck this, too much farming, no desire to play Destiny." to, "oh shit! Farming is dead, lets level up these fucking weapons, woooooooooooooo." to now, "fuck this, I am not playing Destiny for now, I don't want to double level everything."
One step forward, two steps back. Well done Bungie. It should only reset the last upgrade column, resetting the entire exotic is idiotic.
One step forward, two steps back. Well done Bungie. It should only reset the last upgrade column, resetting the entire exotic is idiotic.
The smartest and most logical option is to put another node on the existing exotic. Even if it took 200k XP, it'd be fine. No RNG involved, no wasting any time, no grind, no waiting on an NPC that only shows up once a week.
I don't consider retaining the time or effort already put into a gun, or the newly plopped down strange coins to purchase the upgrade, as free or nearly free.
MagnetoWasRight
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This pic shows the 4th Horseman starting at 302, though I don't know if it had any upgrades already: http://www.product-reviews.net/wp-content/uploads/destiny-4th-horseman-exotic-shotgun-stats.jpg
Why are people saying 320 when I think it's 331. Because the Mythoclast is 323?
LollipoPReapeR
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"Heres how it works. Upgrading exotic weapons and armor is completed by interacting with the weekend vendor, Xur. When he arrives every Friday morning, he will now have a new option to upgrade one of your equipped exotic items. Each week, hell offer some (but not all) exotic items as being available to upgrade."
Am I reading that wrong?
Most people would expect that as mentioned in the article if you turn in a 300 Ice Breaker, 7000 glimmer and an exotic shard that you get a 331 Ice Breaker back. Not a vanilla Ice Breaker without any upgrades.
scarletham
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Nope, I just wasn't reading it closely enough. Goddammit.
200k? That's almost the same exp we need to redo the whole thing. 50-75k is fair.
Or you only have 250 glimmer and need to get 14000 to reset the armor and weapon of the week.
I think I'm putting away this game for a few weeks. Did the hard raid for the second time and still got jack shit. Just ass materials and a sniper and sparrow I already had. Meanwhile others were getting Corrective Measure and raid helms. I even saw a dude get Hawkmoon. Huge waste of time.
Ya, so watch him only offer the upgrade to ice breaker or ballerhorn once ever. People will have to be on their game to not miss it.
It's even worse than normal RNG, because at least you can still have a chance at drops NOT sold by him. Now Xur really will have (ahem) the last word in regards to maxed out exotics.
scarletham
Member
Yep, spot on.
Would have been a much neater and fairer solution.
This is just convoluted and frustrating.
breakfuss
Member
...thanks for the non-descript side response. You should consider writing the weekly updates.
I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation to have, especially given how much XP it takes to upgrade exotic weapons.
EL CUCO
Member
Good catch. I hope that's the case in regards to re-upgraded exotics. It might not have the perks but atleast the starting attack value to handle level 30 mobs more effectively.
scarletham
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gutterboy44
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You don't even have to add a node. Just have it reset the last three nodes. So you turn in your 300 Ice breaker to xur, he hands it back, the last three nodes are reset, but your attack is still 300. Now you just earn the last nodes over again and get to 330. That is far simpler.
Edit:
The way I am reading this is that Xur will sell like the "helm exotic upgrade" or the "primary weapon exotic upgrade" each week. Not a specific upgrade item per weapon. Hopefully there are at least three different items per week. But knowing xur, it will be gauntlet upgrade item 4 weeks in a row.
Edit:
The way I am reading this is that Xur will sell like the "helm exotic upgrade" or the "primary weapon exotic upgrade" each week. Not a specific upgrade item per weapon. Hopefully there are at least three different items per week. But knowing xur, it will be gauntlet upgrade item 4 weeks in a row.
Flying Toaster
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Oh crap. This sucks.
EL CUCO
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And I would be fine with that. 7000 glimmer is painful, but hey, at least my weapons would be perfected again.
But resetting all upgrades? Throwing away those dozens of bounties, millions of XP, hundreds of materials, and making the I don't know how many hours I've spent on this a complete and utter waste of time? Fuck off.
scarletham
Member
Is it fair to say that we're basing a lot of this off of a GameInformer article written in early Nov and the game could've changed since then?
Scenarios like this one make me wonder if perhaps not all is as it seems.
Of course, I wouldn't put any of this past Bungie.
Scenarios like this one make me wonder if perhaps not all is as it seems.
Of course, I wouldn't put any of this past Bungie.
That's exactly what I had imagine.
This fucking luck of the draw reset is so stupid it didn't even enter my mind as a possibility.
No grind. 200k XP. there's a contradiction in that plan.
MrAnderson
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Maybe they should have just made all the old exotics worthless and moved on with new better stuff in the DLC.
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