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[scarletham]

Seriously regretting frivolously spending strange coins in the last few Xur visits

 

[Flying Toaster]

Everyone take a step back and slow down

Is it good we can update our gear to new levels? Yes.

Did this have to be a feature in the game? No.

Therefore in order to use our old gear at new levels and forgo using the new gear they added, players have to jump through hoops.

This seems like a decent system, not perfect, but is it the first implementation of it.

Remember the whole point of a gear based game is that you replace your gear over and over, people need to stop getting attached to their gear, or in reverse stop thinking that gear should come easy.

Very true, but at the same time it feels like a badly implemented concept. We won't know til l it is official though.

 

[zewone]

Well, what if you get one of the new exotics? You won't have to turn that into Xur.

It sort of sounds like they're trying to promote the use of the new exotics over old ones? I don't even know anymore

Hopefully old exotics that you get from random drops after Dec. 9th will be come as the upgraded version.

 

[Darryl M R]

Considering how glimmer has become so much more demanding with upgrades, they definitely should've increased the cap.

Can you help me understand how glimmer is now more needed? Is it 7k for upgrading one piece of item completely or 7k per upgrade for 1 item?

 

[LiK]

Until the next expansion adds 2 more levels, and you have to do it again.

Ya'll see where this shit is going, right?

seems like the longer we play the game, the more punishing it becomes for the grind.

 

[gutterboy44]

Everyone take a step back and slow down

Is it good we can update our gear to new levels? Yes.

Did this have to be a feature in the game? No.

Therefore in order to use our old gear at new levels and forgo using the new gear they added, players have to jump through hoops.

This seems like a decent system, not perfect, but is it the first implementation of it.

Remember the whole point of a gear based game is that you replace your gear over and over, people need to stop getting attached to their gear, or in reverse stop thinking that gear should come easy.

This is the part I keep seeing parroted by a few people here and I completely disagree with it on two fronts. One, they absolutely did have to include this option. Destiny is already so content starved on every front, to throw away all of the vanilla gear for DLC gear was never a viable option. And two, very basic concepts of good game design would have you conclude that you would want to make your game more diverse, not less diverse with expansions. This isn't some benevolent gift from Bungie. This is basic intuitive design. I don't owe Bungie shit for gratitude. I already paid them with my money.

 

[rNilla]

Maybe I'll just focus on the new weapons and gear and not worry too much about existing exotics. Even then it doesn't seem like there's enough new content in this DLC to support this amount of grind. Hopefully I'm wrong. I've been addicted this far...

 

[ComputerMKII]

I think i'm done after checking out the new Raid and PVP maps and Strikes. They don't even give you the new HM Primary drops until January.

Gonna play Dragon Age instead. Thanks Bungie.

You have good taste, LiK.

 

[Ourobolus]

Can you help me understand how glimmer is now more needed? Is it 7k for upgrading one piece of item completely or 7k per upgrade for 1 item?

They said they reset the progression, so I assume it's the same as now, + 7000 for the upgrade purchase from Xur.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Seriously regretting frivolously spending strange coins in the last few Xur visits

After seeing what happened with iron banner and motes of light/glimmer I had a feeling this would happen. Haven't spent coins on shit lately.

 

[Definity]

At this rate it will cost you three extoic shards each with specific reputation levels to even play the game for expansion #2.

 

[Byron Bluth]

"As always, we're listening."

"Comments have been closed."

Sums up everything perfectly.

 

[Johan Liebert]

Commendation being redeemed must mean you can only buy one new legendary weapon/armor until you rank up again. ugh

 

[LordofPwn]

What in the fuck. Why commendations? What's the point of that? -_-

So you can spend marks on mats and not have to worry bout RNG from packages

 

[nowai]

Can you help me understand how glimmer is now more needed? Is it 7k for upgrading one piece of item completely or 7k per upgrade for 1 item?

Each exotic item will require 7k glimmer.

So with a max of 25k, you'll be able to upgrade 3 exotics before having to grind again.

Seeing that Xur only lasts for 48 hours, weekends will be full of glimmer farming! To the Exclusion zone!

 

[ComputerMKII]

So, tell me. Bungie has NO clue about anything, right? They're building their game as things go along, right?

 

[hydruxo]

I just don't get the notion of penalizing someone for upgrading a weapon or armor piece. Why not just add an extra node or two that are more difficult to get and won't reset my progress?

 

[zewone]

Commendation being redeemed must mean you can only buy one new legendary weapon/armor until you rank up again. ugh

lol, and there's still a weekly mark cap.

 

[Matchew]

So our exotics are still ok for regular PvP right

 

[gutterboy44]

So you can spend marks on mats and not have to worry bout RNG from packages

You misread, "In addition to Crucible or Vanguard Marks, purchasing new Legendary items will require a Crucible or Vanguard Commendation" You still have to spend marks too.

 

[Johan Liebert]

Seeing that Xur only lasts for 48 hours, weekends will be full of glimmer farming! To the Exclusion zone!

Please no! My sanity can't take listening to the Cabal theme over and over.

 

[E92 M3]

Seriously regretting frivolously spending strange coins in the last few Xur visits

I anticipated strange coins being more valuable than initially presented. Thankfully been very frugal and selective with what I purchased from Xur.

 

[figadapaura]

"As always, we're listening."

"Comments have been closed."

:lol

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Everyone take a step back and slow down

Is it good we can update our gear to new levels? Yes.

Did this have to be a feature in the game? No.

Therefore in order to use our old gear at new levels and forgo using the new gear they added, players have to jump through hoops.

This seems like a decent system, not perfect, but is it the first implementation of it.

Remember the whole point of a gear based game is that you replace your gear over and over, people need to stop getting attached to their gear, or in reverse stop thinking that gear should come easy.

Yes and those ganes where you replace gear have much larger and more diverse loot tables. There aren't nearly enough new weapons in the expansion

 

[xplicitone]

Now I wish i did more weeklies the past few weeks. Dangit! At least weeklies will be more useful now. But Please dont get rid of Motes for Engrams, xur. And bring back heavy ammo synths!!! We're poor as heck, we need more glimmer resources.

 

[EmmaWatsonButt]

So you can spend marks on mats and not have to worry bout RNG from packages

But you need to spend the marks on the legendaries too...

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

Meh the regrind is very discouraging..Epsically now since I barely have time to play as much.

 

[nowai]

I just don't get the notion of penalizing someone for upgrading a weapon or armor piece. Why not just add an extra node or two that are more difficult to get and won't reset my progress?

I can't see them resetting the damage to below 300.

I would guess when you upgrade an exotic, it will start at 300, but not have the perks.

 

[The Lamonster]

HOW WILL I LEVEL THE HAWKMOON I DO NOT OWN?

haha I'm with you, man.

 

[MomoPufflet]

Has DeeJ been taking PR lessons from Adam Orth?

 

[Strider]

It's not about the materials to me. You can get those easily. It's about the time it takes to actually level stuff up... the experience required and the bounty grind that comes with it. It just takes too long :/

Unless I'm misinformed or things change, I can honestly say I'll be done with Destiny. At least playing it the way I am now. I do still want to see the story missions and do the raid once.

 

[LordofPwn]

You misread, "In addition to Crucible or Vanguard Marks, purchasing new Legendary items will require a Crucible or Vanguard Commendation" You still have to spend marks too.

My bad

 

[Byron Bluth]

lol, and there's still a weekly mark cap.

The fact they have added all this bullshit and have not upped the cap on marks and glimmer is a spit in the face.

 

[xplicitone]

Please no! My sanity can't take listening to the Cabal theme over and over.

I can't stand farming for glimmer anymore. Did too much during IB 2.0 (@ Exclusion Zone, can't stand that anymore either!). They need to give you glimmer when you turn in Bounties, IMO. That would make me want to do the bounties that are unrelated to the heroic weekly/Nightfall, again.

Also, each character should have its own glimmer bank, since you know, characters share NOTHING ELSE.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

You know how annoying it is that Xur never sells anything good already?

Imagine you fucking OWN the weapon already but you're just waiting for Xur to "allow" you to upgrade it.

This is what is going to happen.

 

[darkwing]

so Vex will always be at 323? because Xur

 

[StrongBlackVine]

I love it all. It seems like a fair way to keep exotics relevant. Makes Xur day more interesting. Looks like I'm maxing my Vex tonight and then waiting on the DLC.

Bungie really seems to be paying attention to the feedback they've gotten. Hype levels are higher for me than launch.

We must have read different info. This news sucks ass.

 

[Toejam2501]

At least Xur is selling Dragon's Breath....

 

[gutterboy44]

So new legendary gear will now require 3 different fucking "currencies?" You need marks, required rep, and then a commendation point? Wow. Optional factions better accept both kinds damn it. Glad I was able to get my Vanguard to lvl 8 so I can buy all that...I don't even know. Fingers crossed for retoractive commendations.

 

[HighOnPCP]

I just realized maxing out my Gjallarhorn now is a waste of time and resources basically...

 

[Zakalwe]

Need three more for normal raid.

Ready to go whenever we get 6.

 

[scarletham]

This is what is going to happen.

I will say that it looks like he's going to offer quite a few weapons to be upgraded at a time.

 

[ComputerMKII]

"As always, we're listening."

"Comments have been closed."

The irony

 

[HawksWinStanley]

Until the next expansion adds 2 more levels, and you have to do it again.

Ya'll see where this shit is going, right?

This is unbelievably lame.

Super convenient that this information pours out after everybody bought the season pass. Guess I deserve it.

 

[firehawk12]

So... no word of a vault space upgrade, I guess? lol

 

[EmmaWatsonButt]

At least Xur is selling Dragon's Breath....

Bad news for people who aren't buying the DLC? We will see Tuesday I guess

Also got rid of the exotic engram

 

[Sword Of Doom]

You know how annoying it is that Xur never sells anything good already?

Imagine you fucking OWN the weapon already but you're just waiting for Xur to "allow" you to upgrade it.

That's one way to nerf ice breaker and gjallarhorn

 

[nowai]

At least Xur is selling Dragon's Breath....

haha well done. Always appreciate looking on the bright side.

 

[Darryl M R]

But seriously can we get Deej to clear up how Monte Carlo, Hawkmoon, and Mytho will level up. .

 

[Hawkian]

I can't see them resetting the damage to below 300.

I would guess when you upgrade an exotic, it will start at 300, but not have the perks.

Apparently "new exotics" start at 302, so giving him an old one to upgrade will actually increase its attack... by 2. won't be worth it to lose the perks though. it's a longer-term option. Most of my exotics will stay as they are for the time being