It's true. I can't do the 3 characters thing.
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It's true. I can't do the 3 characters thing.
Flying Toaster
Member
This will blow over. Just have fun with the game.
NeOak
Member
What people seem to want is to just trade in the old exotic and get a fully leveled one instantly. That's the instant gratification.
And I do know how much it takes to level exotics. Fuck, I have 8 maxed and 3 more with full exp that i haven't bothered to level due to the old Ascendant mats requirement. And that is just for the Hunter.
If you can spare the coins, indeed.
Bungie calls this an expansion. This is more comparable to a patch from WoW. You know, the ones that were released every 3 months and gave new gear from the newer raid instances. No need to upgrade those though. TERA did have this bullshit which meant a bit higher heal/dps/defense but you still had to remasterwork and reenchant the stuff. How many people do it?
Just weapon DPS? What about the perks? Those count and as far as i remember, newer weapons could be shit due to bad perks. Happened in TERA.
Had Bungie said that the old exotics would be non upgradeable and you would have to get them again from Xur at full price, people would have bitched anyway. Given an option, people bitch anyway.
What I do agree on is that the price for upgrading is too much. 7 coins plus the old gear plus 7k? Fuck no.
Jest Chillin
Member
If the last IB is any indication, the system allows you to work towards Raid Level gear within IB. It will be hard going against those with the higher gear, but you should be able to earn gear through it eventually. However does that work with people who haven't bought the expansion or not?
Just make another character of the same class and swap gear. I have 2 Titans and a low level Warlock. I think I'm going to scrap the Warlock and roll with 3 Titans for the expansion at first.
Nah that's not true. At least not in My case. But I don't want the process to be as long as the first time either. There needs to be a good balance.
Holy shit @ that one guy saying he has 1200 hours. 50 days.
I don't think I can go through those story missions again, or play crucible until I hit level 20 with two more characters. I play games to have fun.
Jinjo
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The ones Xur sell will be the upgraded versions already (Deej confirmed on twitter). Nobody knows for sure about the ones that drop. But I'd imagine they'd be the upgraded ones too.
I'm drowning in coins, I don't have to farm for them anymore, unlike glimmer. If Xur is selling the new version of an exotic I'm buying it instead, fuck spending 7k glimmer.
It would seem that only currently held Exotics will need this new nuttiness. At least that's what I got from the Gi article.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Has to be, no way he manage to literally play 50 non stop days since early September.
Jest Chillin
Member
Wait til next week since upgrading it will reset any progress you make in the meantime.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Don't bother until next week, unless you want to spend time leveling it up from scratch again.
It sounds like every Exotic will have two versions, standard and elite.
You can roll with standard and be perfectly happy.
Or you can pay Xur for the elite edition.
Xamtheking
Member
So it's a perfect parallel of Destiny and the Season Pass
Thanks!
Also... So does the nightfall next week go to level 30? If so that stinks for all you #Forever29's... Bungie should at least let it wait a week...
So I guess we can expect this kind of a treadmill reset button with every new expansion? Bungie really doesn't know how to do an massive online shooter RPG...
Ah, yeah it's a bit of a chore but you can easily get a character up to 20 in about 6 hours
I just got flashbacks from thinking about masterworking gear...... It's like a cheesy Vietnam war film... "You don't know man... You weren't there!"
Exotics I'm OK with TBH after going through TERA, it's the new commendation system to slow the accumulation of legendaries I'm pissed with. I was already a little salty with the public event random timing changes which means I get far less marks per week than I used to.
Ridiculous that I have to worry about this along with all the other items I've put a ton of time and mats into. I can't stop playing though... I'm unhappily in love with this game.
Yeah. It's just a shame that one character isn't enough. It proves this system is faulty.
I think Bungie is holding back the hard raid until all the cheese comes out. Thy realize that they stink at finding cheese strate themselves so they let the normal raid out of the bag for 3-7 weeks and watch YouTube for all the latest cheese strategies and then they remove them before the hard raid comes out. Hard CE raid will be lactose intolerant.
SockyJohnson
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What is wrong with adding an extra couple of nodes to level up the damage?
Waiting for Xur + more RNG is gonna suck.
Waiting for Xur + more RNG is gonna suck.
grimlock33
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NeOak
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Funny how before it was shards and energy. Now it's glimmer ;-;
People don't want instant gratification and an instantly fully leveled exotic. They want to do the exotic upgrade and have the tree progress continue from where they left off, whether fully or partially upgraded.
lionelhutz
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I have an Atheon check point in HM on PS4. I'm only a mid-level 29 so it'd be nice to complete the raid with some 30's.
Finally got to Vanguard Rank 2, bought my second Legendary item and am now up to 24. Awesome! I have escaped the shitty 21/22 black hole of leveling!
Only 1 Vanguard mark left.
Too bad that now when I'm getting back into the game they introduce this bullshit commendation system even further limiting leveling and creating a grind... and for what purpose?
Pretty damn annoyed about that but at least I will soon be able to play with my higher leveled friends.
Only 1 Vanguard mark left.
Too bad that now when I'm getting back into the game they introduce this bullshit commendation system even further limiting leveling and creating a grind... and for what purpose?
Pretty damn annoyed about that but at least I will soon be able to play with my higher leveled friends.
(silly rant incoming)
A column of bubbles. That's all they needed.
(in a meeting somewhere in Bungie's bowels)
"Hey, so what do we do with the old exotics? Should we let players upgrade them? What would that take?"
"We could code in another column of bubbles. Then they could just upgrade them for level 30+ and max damage."
"Yeah, but then they won't want the new exotics."
"True, but we could make the new exotics with better perks. Then they will want them instead."
"Yeah, do that. Make the new exotics with new perks. Nah, scrap that. Leave the perks the same. Who cares. The skins are different, at least."
"What about the old exotics?"
"Who cares? Erase all their progress! Make them grind all over again! They'll do it anyway! Mwahahahahaha!"
"But Alderaan is a peaceful planet!"
(cue up the Death Star)
A column of bubbles. That's all they needed.
(in a meeting somewhere in Bungie's bowels)
"Hey, so what do we do with the old exotics? Should we let players upgrade them? What would that take?"
"We could code in another column of bubbles. Then they could just upgrade them for level 30+ and max damage."
"Yeah, but then they won't want the new exotics."
"True, but we could make the new exotics with better perks. Then they will want them instead."
"Yeah, do that. Make the new exotics with new perks. Nah, scrap that. Leave the perks the same. Who cares. The skins are different, at least."
"What about the old exotics?"
"Who cares? Erase all their progress! Make them grind all over again! They'll do it anyway! Mwahahahahaha!"
"But Alderaan is a peaceful planet!"
(cue up the Death Star)
I'm down. I have 2 30's. I could level up my lock, but with this whole Bungie shitfest, I dont want to waste materials or marks.
Sword Of Doom
Member
That's the key right there. Shit don't make any sense until you look at it from that perspective. 3 story missions, a strike and a raid is not enough to keep people playing for a couple of months until their next "expansion" is released so they have to make what appear to be stupid design choices to keep people locked in a cycle of constant grinding
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
I don't think that't the case. Pretty sure they said that the gear costs marks, AND you have to have a commendation. This gates us from banking marks this week and getting too much sick loot too quickly.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Correct. My FWC vendor glitched and said I needed 1 Commendation and the regular amount of marks to buy the helmet and the torso
lionelhutz
Member
PSN ID?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
what about my raid weapons
fatebringer can't be left behind! Plus I dislike the designs of the new raid weapons..illiniguy05
Member
I've got a few exotic bounties to complete, I'm hoping if I hold off on the final step of turning them in until next week I get a non-gimped exotic version.
Maybe there will be a new step in the exotic bounties to get the upgraded exotic version, like lukems comes to my house and spits in my face and I give him 5 bucks.
Maybe there will be a new step in the exotic bounties to get the upgraded exotic version, like lukems comes to my house and spits in my face and I give him 5 bucks.
Sword Of Doom
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I got one last night and I hate having to wait to level it up. And what if Xur doesn't have whatever is needed to level it past 300? I might just say fuck it and level it anyways
Byron Bluth
Banned
Seems about right. Why pay for play testing anymore?
Just got on, but you can count me in.
Even though ascendant materials will be able to upgrade new non-raid and vendor legendaries with better stats, I won't be dismantling any of my favorites, and that includes fatebringer even though I don't have it yet :Xwhat about my raid weapons
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