KINGofCRA5H
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I think this is a bigger issue. I mean, what in the actual fuck. Their communication or lack thereof is head scratching.
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I think this is a bigger issue. I mean, what in the actual fuck. Their communication or lack thereof is head scratching.
You're speaking my language Ridli. It just seems so convoluted.
If the story stuff leads to armor upgrades to get me to 30, that will ease things a lot. But something tells me there's no level 30 helmet at the end of that rainbow.
Happy to admit if I'm wrong, though.
Sigh. I'm not talking about offering players what they want. You know what. Just forget it. I'm done.
Exactly what should have happened.
100%
Keep the same stupid dumb fucked up gating that they love to implement. Just add bubbles onto the end of the upgrade tree.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Yup. Two days later we find out. Wtf?
Exactly. It's really that simple.
Is hard CE raid really locked until January?
I've said this before and will say it again, Bungie doesn't value our time. Very sad to say because I obviously play this game a lot. Unlike in most games, we are punished for playing the game as we should. Bungie doesn't feel hungry about entrapping us in their game with cool features and items - they think we'll play no matter what they do. Might be their Achilles heel.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Still the same information we had, changes noting. Personally I give him respect
somewhat :/
Wait what?! Please tell me this is fake.
If true, the fuck is Bungie doing?!
Scousefury
Member
But if the weapons improve in power what the problem? Exotics start at 273 now and go to 300 when leveled costs you shard, Want to continue using that weapon on current content? fine upgrade it, weapon goes to 302 and max's at 323 or whatever. Seems fine to me, its your choice as the player to do this. having to level it again just seems part of the course.
Byron Bluth
Banned
Yes. Along with the only way to get primary raid weapons. 32 level confirmed.
I replied to you way back but it was the last post on one of the pages.
Johan Liebert
Member
Yup. And you can only get raid primaries from the hard raid.
It's completely clear that Bungie should have communicated this right when the last update hit. Instead, they updated how exotics are upgraded, let people dismantle their exotics to hit the last upgrade node, and a few days later tell everyone that was stupid and pointless.
This is my question to Deej and my ultimate problem with why I hate that everything will be reset.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=141495385&postcount=379
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=141495385&postcount=379
I was leveling Bad Juju, but that clearly makes no sense any more. I can get characters close to a Vanguard rank-up and hit my mark caps, but anything else will be a waste at the moment.
EmmaWatsonButt
Member
Yeah, hard mode CE is unlocked "sometime" in January. I'm going to guess they are going to sort out any potential cheeses/glitches in normal mode before making hard mode available.
Hahahaha!
Hahaha!
Ha!
Good jokes, guys. Good jokes.
Goddammit, Bungie!
MythicReclaimer
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Sword Of Doom
Member
Making sure you're still playing when the next DLC drops
Xamtheking
Member
And the funny thing is
This stupid change only affects the people who paid more than just the game's base cost
This stupid change only affects the people who paid more than just the game's base cost
Byron Bluth
Banned
Game informer said it will level up faster. How that works out in whatever equation they use I don't know the exact XP.
Likely less XP.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
I am now 100% convinced that no one at Bungie actually plays their game for any extended amount of time like most of us do.
Yeah! That's where the mistake is . A lot of people just fully upgraded some exotic because of the patch, and now it doesn't matter.
Just poor communication with the community.
Total crap. more false advertising. quit putting a weapon in your ads bungee it's not even gonna be available until January that you're going to have to get until March or April anyway
As of now I don't think it's safe to assume that. By "level up faster" they could easily just mean les overall materials since asc. materials are no longer required.
I for one hope it's a massive decrease in experience though that's for sure. I played an entire week with the monte carlo trying to get the experience to max that out.
After this ... it's pretty much confirmed.
I know what you meant. You're describing a scenario where someone is using Xur as a crutch to level up.
Xur sold Sunbreakers, Voidfang Vestments, and Armamentarium for weeks.
If they really cared about using Xur as a means to keep the playerbase around, they're doing a terrible job of it already. Adding DLC items would be par for the course.
EmmaWatsonButt
Member
Not sure if I should spend most of my motes of light this Friday if they are taking out exotic engrams when the DLC becomes available
Ofcourse we are going to need them for the Trials of Osiris event too
Ofcourse we are going to need them for the Trials of Osiris event too
Xamtheking
Member
Bungie is tampering with things that should not be tampered with
gutterboy44
Member
Yes, if you re-read the GI article, that is what they meant by "now level up faster" That you no longer need ascendant mats. There does not seem to be any indication of an XP boost or reduced XP amount required.
It makes perfect sense from their angle. They know their game is sparse on content, so they need to find other ways to make people keep playing. Their solution? Grind, grind grind. Grind rep, grind marks, grind ass mats, grind exotic shards, grind glimmer, grind the raid, grind strange coins, etc, etc.
If they allowed everyone to just upgrade an extra node on all of their current legendaries/exotics, then everyone would be at level 32 with 331 weapons within one week, tops.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Dude the hard raid is level 33. Do you think anybody is going to be level 32 in a month? And yes it's only a month away
Guys I really hope so. I do. But based on the information provided so far actively reinforces a policy of slowed individual progression. I certainly don't feel like rolling an alt now.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Okay, so here's my current exotic list:
That's 20 x 7,000 glimmer: 140,000 glimmer
That's 20 x Exotic Shards for 7 strange coins: 140 Strange Coins
That's a hell of a lot of currency to just get 23 extra attack power/ 2 light. Heaven help you if you don't have the coins to afford buying everything you want that week.
Not to mention, you can only level one exotic at a time. OR that you need another 140 strange coins to get them to max attack power/light level again. OR that Xur is guaran-BLAM-teed to sell duplicates and not offer what you want when you need it. People are talking about holding off on upgrading the first time something comes around like Gjallarhorn. Well, Gjallarhorn has only come up once from Xur. If you miss it one week, there's no guarantee it won't be back til March 2015.
That's 20 x 7,000 glimmer: 140,000 glimmer
That's 20 x Exotic Shards for 7 strange coins: 140 Strange Coins
That's a hell of a lot of currency to just get 23 extra attack power/ 2 light. Heaven help you if you don't have the coins to afford buying everything you want that week.
Not to mention, you can only level one exotic at a time. OR that you need another 140 strange coins to get them to max attack power/light level again. OR that Xur is guaran-BLAM-teed to sell duplicates and not offer what you want when you need it. People are talking about holding off on upgrading the first time something comes around like Gjallarhorn. Well, Gjallarhorn has only come up once from Xur. If you miss it one week, there's no guarantee it won't be back til March 2015.
Byron Bluth
Banned
Johan Liebert
Member
It wouldn't be as bad if the upgraded exotics/new exotics had less attack upgrade bubbles. Like removing the first upgrade bubble and the fourth last upgrade bubble for weapons. Only three attack upgrade bubbles would be more bearable.
Jest Chillin
Member
It's in the expansion so it's not false advertising. You should also be able to get secondaries and heavies from normal, so....
Byron Bluth
Banned
Almost 3 months now with no Vex...
Sword Of Doom
Member
Okay, so here's my current exotic list:
That's 20 x 7,000 glimmer: 140,000 glimmer
That's 20 x Exotic Shards for 7 strange coins: 140 Strange Coins
That's a hell of a lot of currency to just get 23 extra attack power/ 2 light. Heaven help you if you don't have the coins to afford buying everything you want that week.
Not to mention, you can only level one exotic at a time. OR that you need another 140 strange coins to get them to max attack power/light level again. OR that Xur is guaran-BLAM-teed to sell duplicates and not offer what you want when you need it. People are talking about holding off on upgrading the first time something comes around like Gjallarhorn. Well, Gjallarhorn has only come up once from Xur. If you miss it one week, there's no guarantee it won't be back til March 2015.
I don't fully level all of my exotics and I have all but one exotic weapon in the game (red death)
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Okay, so here's my current exotic list:
That's 20 x 7,000 glimmer: 140,000 glimmer
That's 20 x Exotic Shards for 7 strange coins: 140 Strange Coins
That's a hell of a lot of currency to just get 23 extra attack power/ 2 light. Heaven help you if you don't have the coins to afford buying everything you want that week.
Not to mention, you can only level one exotic at a time. OR that you need another 140 strange coins to get them to max attack power/light level again. OR that Xur is guaran-BLAM-teed to sell duplicates and not offer what you want when you need it. People are talking about holding off on upgrading the first time something comes around like Gjallarhorn. Well, Gjallarhorn has only come up once from Xur. If you miss it one week, there's no guarantee it won't be back til March 2015.
good fucking god.
Xamtheking
Member
I wonder if we'll be able to do the raid with Pre-DLC attack values
Jinjo
Member
I feel so special right now.
My option is to not play the game anymore. I am free.
DeeJ replied to one of my posts on the Gaming side thread
Personally, I never had an issue with using Ascendant materials for exotics. I thought it was fine as it was, though I'm fine with the addition of exotic shards. I don't see how resetting progress is "speeding up the path" to upgrading exotics though. If anything, it takes longer.
Personally, I never had an issue with using Ascendant materials for exotics. I thought it was fine as it was, though I'm fine with the addition of exotic shards. I don't see how resetting progress is "speeding up the path" to upgrading exotics though. If anything, it takes longer.
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