Orochinagis
Member
Asceding gear was a lazy move to justify the lack of new gear in every DLC.
I wanted to see leveling gear too but the level cap raise was just two levels in each dlc to use them and it was actually designed for new players.
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Destiny |OT28| Nolan Beyond
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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Asceding gear was a lazy move to justify the lack of new gear in every DLC.
I wanted to see leveling gear too but the level cap raise was just two levels in each dlc to use them and it was actually designed for new players.
saveweyard
Banned
I didn't think about that. It would be an interesting trade off if ghosts increase your drop rate for loot at the expense of not having an exotic weapon/armor equipped.
Edit: Also for other situations. Grinding PvP? Better equip that Artifact that boosts Crucible gains but that means no Thorn/TLW (or equivalent).
The currency itself is good, and the fact that you can earn an unlimited amount in a given week is good too. But the 200 account-wide cap is arbitrary & punitive. We know it isn't some kind of memory constraint. Hell, I'd be happy w/ 600 (half of what is is now.) There are going to be so many times that I forget to go to the tower and !purge, so that'll be a lot of marks I'll miss out on.
Mass Appeal
Member
Anyone guess what Xur will be selling tomorrow? What will Xur follow up after selling the Ghallajorn.
I predict Red Death
I predict Red Death
DrROBschiz
Member
Well its not like legendary weapons arent good enough to forgo an exotic slot
Dude the new system will encourage you to purge and spend constantly
Marks went from obsolete to being the most valuable currency in TTK
Not at all. I'll be on tomorrow night, and probably a good bit at night this weekend. Mostly run trials but I still run raids and whatever else.
figadapaura
Member
Thank you, gentlemen
Happy Birthday, Trance! 🍰👌
TheTylerDurden
Member
It has been ordained by the Unstable One that it will be Plan C.
saveweyard
Banned
No Land Beyond
Robdraggoo
Member
well I for one do not like playing crucible with my titan, so I can now earn marks by just palying crucible with my hunter or warlock. so thats a bonus I guess. your doing that exact same amount of work it seems, just now you dont have to wait till reset to by the gear you want, you can just buy one peice, go out get more marks and buy another piece. game launches on a tuesday. I can guarantee players (me included) will be maxed level and maxed light level by thursday or friday. and if the mark-commendation exchange is 1:1 (which I doubt) ill be max level with level 40 light gear in an hour or 2.
didnt hey say that packages guarantee legendary
400 marks per character= 400 commendations
400 commendations =80,000 rep
80,000 rep= 26 packages x2 with an allegiance package
hot damn!
Orochinagis
Member
Imagine brother vance selling un elemental weapons for marks
Robdraggoo
Member
if my nighfall runs have anything to say about it, it will be hard Light
TheTylerDurden
Member
How many commendations fit onto a stack? I see people wanting to load their postmaster with PE event completions. How much space would you need to ensure is available?
....aaaaaand...what happens if you do a nightfall before cashing in the commendations and also pop a red bull xp booster?
Hard Light. That freaking thing dropped for two of us in the same Nightfall run. That was after having Glasshouse drop for two of us in the previous Nightfall run.
mehrmantrout
Member
I wish, it will be 50 marks for a commendation at best, imo
Only new weapons delete into marks
DrROBschiz
Member
Only year two legendaries turn to marks
And youll want to think twice about about burning them up willy nilly
Robdraggoo
Member
the most I had was 40. so its either 100, 200, or infinite
Not year 1 legendaries. They'll still dismantle into weapon/armor parts & motes.
Ok when you put it like that it makes me positively dirty!
Dr_LawyerCop
Member
There's so much to spend it on now, upgrading exotics, new gear, etc. I think it's fine, we should all be spending marks constantly.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Added you guys on XBL and put my GT down on the doc list.
Seems we were already friends.
Haven't really visited Bungie.net recently but I'll check it out.
Seems we were already friends.
Haven't really visited Bungie.net recently but I'll check it out.
Goodacre0081
Member
I didn't look at the armor upgrade paths very closely. are the ascendant mats pretty much gone now? if they are then they might have upped the required planetary mats considerably.
saveweyard
Banned
You can (Year 2 weapons) but it'll take a little while to have a stash of those. Plus you might want them to do infusing stuff.
You are out of your goddamn mind if you think you're going to get 312 rep for 1 Vanguard/Crucible mark.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Yeah, I enjoyed being able to use all the VoG gear again after shelving it for TDB but you're right about it covering up the lack of new stuff. I understand why they did it, and I think it worked well for this piece of the game's history. It was good PR to say "Fatebringer 365!" But I'm also glad they're ready to meaningfully replace so much Year 1 stuff instead of having too little (TDB) or driving us back to old favorites (HoW).
I do feel bad for people that never got certain beloved items until really late in Year 1. I was fortunate to have plenty of time with all the good Yr1 stuff but I understand why others might be more reluctant to move on.
Spooky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AUQDwKcak
When did ads between long youtube videos become a thing?
When did ads between long youtube videos become a thing?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Yeah, the real culprit here is the Digital CE costing $80. Some could argue it should have been lower, but it's clear that it's a price point some are okay with so here we are.
Spoiler: I am okay with it.
TheTylerDurden
Member
So...
If legendary weapons now don't convert or break down into anything different when TTK drops, does it really make sense to hoard them? I don't quite get why they told us to hang onto them.
If legendary weapons now don't convert or break down into anything different when TTK drops, does it really make sense to hoard them? I don't quite get why they told us to hang onto them.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Ascendant mats are gone from any new stuff. You can still use them if you want to upgrade obsolete gear for some reason, and you can still exchange them for other currencies at the Speaker.
The Year 2 Legendary gear they showed on stream still only needed 5 planetary mats per node. I doubt they'll be increasing that, I think they learned that lesson from vanilla Destiny. I wouldn't mind collecting mats on patrol, I always kinda enjoyed it. The problem was the scaling was insanely out of whack and became a huge bottleneck for maxing new gear.
Its funny how we've gone full circle. We used to be able to trade in planetary mats for vanguard/crucible rep and they took it out to actually buy planetary mats for vanguard/crucible marks and now we're back to buying rep with mats.
TL;DR people have a lot of shit laying around in their vaults
TL;DR people have a lot of shit laying around in their vaults
Seth Enosh
Member
Yep, it's "bad to the Xbone" on bungie.net. The group chat can also be accessed through the official destiny companion app on Android/iOS.
I'm not sharding a thing until TTK. The messaging has been muddy.
I'll probably keep one Hopscotch--maybe both, my mini-moon Fulcrum, a Her Benevolence that I like, a good BTRD roll, Radeghast, raid weapons, and my old Prudence II.
I realize that year one weapons won't convert to marks per Like Smith, but Bungie has been insistent that we hang on to things for now.
I assume that's because they're afraid people will shard emblems, shaders, and other items that will need to be alive on your account in order to be added to collections.
I'll probably keep one Hopscotch--maybe both, my mini-moon Fulcrum, a Her Benevolence that I like, a good BTRD roll, Radeghast, raid weapons, and my old Prudence II.
I realize that year one weapons won't convert to marks per Like Smith, but Bungie has been insistent that we hang on to things for now.
I assume that's because they're afraid people will shard emblems, shaders, and other items that will need to be alive on your account in order to be added to collections.
Robdraggoo
Member
I did say I DOUBT
I was also calculating 200 rep per commendation. which is what it was before.
xVaalbarAx
Member
I'm going to get rid of all of my Shards/Energies. Unless they'll be useful when leveling up a faction?
DrDrizzay101
Member
They'll be useful for leveling up factions. You can exchange all this stuff, shards to motes to faction rep.
DrROBschiz
Member
At least trade them to the speaker when TTK hits
Darknyss09
Member
Across all 3 characters & vault...
Spirit Bloom: 2320
Relic Iron: 1185
Spinmetal: 1104
Helium: 967
Um, yeah... I spent way too much time farming Ether chests =P
I for one will welcome the commendations for marks. Especially since the reward packages will be better.
Spirit Bloom: 2320
Relic Iron: 1185
Spinmetal: 1104
Helium: 967
Um, yeah... I spent way too much time farming Ether chests =P
I for one will welcome the commendations for marks. Especially since the reward packages will be better.
mehrmantrout
Member
Save them for glimmer, they can still be traded in. Im rebuilding my bank after laying waste to the 1000+ of each I had
We don't know. Presumably they'll still have a use, seeing as how in the test build yesterday DeeJ had 9999999 of them. (Radiant, not Ascendant)
I'd just vault them or hold on to them until we know more.
I'm saving them so I can trade them in for Glimmer or Motes, whatever I need at the time. I'm guessing everyone is going to be Glimmer limited. Mats, marks, and everything else seem to come pretty freely but Glimmer is probably staying the same (minus the ghost shells that increase glimmer on killing certain enemy types)
At this point it's best to just hang on to them, but yeah, so far I don't see a reason to not break them down yet.
I actually had to break down a number of things myself last night to make room to re-roll my Warlock. I like to live dangerously.