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Post by wings on Jan 23, 2015 11:20:12 GMT -5
Just buy the pack. Think about it. The price you pay ($20?), ...good lord, look at the time that will be spent on it. Legit fun time and all the wasted hours we slave away being addicted at this game. The $ per hour you will get out of that, is ridiculously freaking cheap compared to EVERYTHING else a person does in life. Take your wife to a movie, with a snack. You are spending $10 an hour. Destiny? You are probably spending 7 to 10 cents an hour for the DLC. Where the hell can you buy amusement like that? No where. I have the DLC. It cost me $53 (that is the exchange rate for £35 for the Expansion Pass). It is the principle behind telling vanilla players to essentially go elsewhere. I am happy to pay more per hour for a decent film if the quality is there and I realise computer games offer better value for their money per time spent than films. I just find it a bit odd that more isn't made of this but players freak out when microtransactions are introduced into Call of Duty even if they are for only cosmetic purposes.
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Post by iw5000 on Jan 23, 2015 11:22:20 GMT -5
Bungie doesn't care, because they know Destiny players are mostly addicted at this point (which is why there is no groundswell of anger forming)
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 11:51:25 GMT -5
Being able to double up would be pretty sweet... but I don't think Bungie wants to offer TDB players double the guaranteed strange coin income and all the other extras. It would throw off the economy, especially when you consider we have another DLC coming. Do you then offer up to 3 missions or just have vanilla mission and expansion mission and the expansion can be either DLC? Still... I don't think they'd go for it.
What I do think they could do is offer us the choice. In other words every week you get the vanilla strikes in rotation and sometimes you also get a DLC strike as an option. If you have the DLC you can do either one and you'll get your weekly rewards. You can still only get the weekly rewards once a week, but you have more choices. I think it would probably be best if both strikes had the same modifiers too, but they could have different ones. I think if they have different modifiers, especially different burns, then it becomes a bit OP by allowing players to choose their own modifiers. It's meant to be more of a weekly challenge so they should be the same. You're already potentially offering to let them pick the easier/faster strike.
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Post by markopolo on Jan 23, 2015 11:54:57 GMT -5
I'm sorry.
If you don't want to pay the 20 bucks, you get what you get and you shouldn't get upset.
It's not that much, and if you're going to get nice things, you should have to pay for them.
Sorry.... but just like if you don't buy a lottery ticket, you can't win the lottery... if you don't buy the DLC/expansion/extra/whatever it's called... you shouldn't be able to get exotics from expansion packs you don't own..
Unless I'm misreading/misunderstanding the outrage?
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 12:06:34 GMT -5
Well to be fair the issue is that they are taking something away from vanilla players that they had access to prior to the DLC release. But, to play Devil's advocate here, vanilla players also got a lot in return, because they actually have access to a whole host of new items rather than having all of the DLC items locked away from them. And the addition of the blades to the patrol areas actually does count as new content.
So vanilla players lost some noncontent rehash missions and thus miss out on some rewards, but do benefit from new content that's a little short on rewards. It's a perception problem. We're all so addicted to the loot treadmill that we equate reward with content... but it isn't.
Personally I don't think it's that big a deal, and here's why. Vanilla players have already had plenty of opportunity to damn near max out non expansion stuff. Let's face it. Who needs to max out their 300 attack weapons or their 30 light gear anymore? Nobody... Everybody is working on 33/36 light armors and 330+ attack weapons. All that stuff is TDB. If you're a vanilla player you're getting part of the expansion for free by getting any of those items. You're welcome...
So if you miss a weekly here and there, so what? Do you really need the coins when Xur sells DLC only items more than half the time? Sorry if you haven't had a chance to get all the preDLC exotics you wanted, but there are more exotics now, so it's gonna happen. Xur has never been remotely fair in his offerings.
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 12:15:03 GMT -5
I'm sorry. If you don't want to pay the 20 bucks, you get what you get and you shouldn't get upset. It's not that much, and if you're going to get nice things, you should have to pay for them. Sorry.... but just like if you don't buy a lottery ticket, you can't win the lottery... if you don't buy the DLC/expansion/extra/whatever it's called... you shouldn't be able to get exotics from expansion packs you don't own.. Unless I'm misreading/misunderstanding the outrage? I think you're misunderstanding somewhat. It's not really about expansion items, though Xur selling only DLC items factors into that too I guess to a lesser extent because he at least has non-DLC upgrades available for purchase. The outrage is that when a DLC mission or strike is picked as the daily story, Nightfall, or weekly heroic, "vanilla" players are totally locked out of those activities -- activities that were part of the game they paid $60 for, they no longer have access to (seemingly every other day for daily missions, and I think 2 of 6 weekly strikes since the DLC release). It'd be the equivalent of CoD saying "hey, all playlists are DLC maps only this week, but if you don't have them, well you can still do the single player!" and expecting that to fly. Basically they're getting less content now than when they bought the game, and especially considering the extremely limited number of activities available anyway, that just isn't fair. mannon also makes some good points in that "vanilla" players have received some new content for free. I don't think some new weapons or armor here or there makes up for losing much of what little endgame content is available for "vanilla" players though. Those 331 weapons and 33/36 light armors don't really help much when all you have access to some weeks is the VoG.
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Post by markopolo on Jan 23, 2015 12:26:21 GMT -5
I guess... thanks for spelling it out for me....
I didn't know they were getting their nightfalls or weeklies removed if it wasn't TDB content.
But Mannon's points of getting stuff for free does balance that out, imho
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Post by markopolo on Jan 23, 2015 12:30:59 GMT -5
BTW.... Xur made some mad coin this past week
From Bungie's weekly report:
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 13:07:41 GMT -5
I still object to characterising the daily/weekly/nightfall missions "content". I suppose there's a grain of "content" there, since you don't get those modifiers otherwise, but I don't really consider same old missions + modifiers + a few rewards to be "content". It just isn't. It's an excuse to replay missions we've all done a 100 times, and we gobble it up. The only thing you're missing out on is occasionally missing an opportunity for some loot, and missing a potential challenge. That's it.
The CoD analogy isn't right. For the CoD analogy to be correct it would be more like there being 3 bonus playlists, that have a few special rules and offer extra XP, and then those bonus playlists sometimes play DLC only maps... but you could still play the regular playlists. That's my point. People act like if they can't do the weekly missions they have nothing to do in Destiny... I'm sorry but if you have nothing to do in Destiny but the weeklies then sell your game and move on, you're done. There are other things...
Does it suck... yeah. Is it a little unfair... mmm... a bit yeah. Is Bungie stealing away some huge portion of end game "content"... LAWL... no.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Jan 23, 2015 13:48:57 GMT -5
I think that we all (kinda) agree in principle on one thing: it sucks for vanilla players. Clear cut, no debate there. The contention is: how bad? While agreeing with the above, my counter argument is that it is not very bad logically speaking. The bad feelings of vanilla players are mostly an emotional response because they feel ignored (and in general, the player community like to complain about DLC any chance we get ) Because vanilla players don't have the DLC content to play with, I don't see necessity to 1) buy/revamp exotic items from Xur every week, because none are critical to battle level 30 or below enemies. For collectors (I can argue that none of the vanilla players are collectors by definition, but let's say there are some), they have the equal chance to get the vanilla items just like DLC buyers. 2) play weekly every week to earn coins, because of 1); 3) play Nightfall for exotic items and/or coins every week, the 2 most interesting types rewards, because of 1 & 2; Ascendant materials (AM) from daily is useful to vanilla players, but not able to play daily every X days is not really a big deal. People may argue that Nightfall can also drops AM, but honestly speaking how many players out there play Nightfall for AM?
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 14:03:41 GMT -5
The CoD analogy isn't right. For the CoD analogy to be correct it would be more like there being 3 bonus playlists, that have a few special rules and offer extra XP, and then those bonus playlists sometimes play DLC only maps... but you could still play the regular playlists. That's my point. People act like if they can't do the weekly missions they have nothing to do in Destiny... I'm sorry but if you have nothing to do in Destiny but the weeklies then sell your game and move on, you're done. There are other things... Does it suck... yeah. Is it a little unfair... mmm... a bit yeah. Is Bungie stealing away some huge portion of end game "content"... LAWL... no. Yeah...no. I'm sorry, but the CoD analogy is exactly right because Nightfall/Weekly/Daily aren't bonus activities (playlists in CoD terms). They've been there since day 1 and they were there for everyone, and now they're gone at least part of the time if you don't own the DLC. If there were extra Nightfall/Weekly/Daily missions available for DLC owners only, in addition to the regular Nightfall/Weekly/Daily rotation that everyone could access, then your example would be correct, but that's not what's happening. I guess you're trying to argue these are bonus activities because you could theoretically go in and play them anytime at level 3 difficulty for no reward? The whole point of doing anything in this game for most people is the reward, so I don't think that argument works. People act like if they can't do the weekly missions they have nothing to do in Destiny...because Nightfall/Weekly/Daily and Raids are the only endgame activities available, regardless of if you want to call them "content" or not. So yeah...Bungie taking away 2/3 of those activities is a big deal for those people. Try getting 3 characters to max level and then having 2/3 of activities in the game that are still relevant for you taken away, and see how you feel then. Telling people to sell the game if weekly activities are the only thing they have left to do is the equivalent of telling people to sell CoD if they hit max prestige and only have some camos to unlock. It doesn't even make sense for reasons that should be obvious.
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Post by wings on Jan 23, 2015 14:37:41 GMT -5
Well to be fair the issue is that they are taking something away from vanilla players that they had access to prior to the DLC release. But, to play Devil's advocate here, vanilla players also got a lot in return, because they actually have access to a whole host of new items rather than having all of the DLC items locked away from them. And the addition of the blades to the patrol areas actually does count as new content. So vanilla players lost some noncontent rehash missions and thus miss out on some rewards, but do benefit from new content that's a little short on rewards. It's a perception problem. We're all so addicted to the loot treadmill that we equate reward with content... but it isn't. Personally I don't think it's that big a deal, and here's why. Vanilla players have already had plenty of opportunity to gosh darn golly gee whiz near max out non expansion stuff. Let's face it. Who needs to max out their 300 attack weapons or their 30 light gear anymore? Nobody... Everybody is working on 33/36 light armors and 330+ attack weapons. All that stuff is TDB. If you're a vanilla player you're getting part of the expansion for free by getting any of those items. You're welcome... So if you miss a weekly here and there, so what? Do you really need the coins when Xur sells DLC only items more than half the time? Sorry if you haven't had a chance to get all the preDLC exotics you wanted, but there are more exotics now, so it's gonna happen. Xur has never been remotely fair in his offerings. And what if someone misses out on an Ice Breaker because they couldn't get enough Strange Coins because DLC was in rotation for the Weekly Heroic? Strange Coins are priceless to those who have a small amount of them. I nearly approached 300 because I usually help out friends with the Weekly Heroic so sometimes a bonus engram decrypting to something I will use will be better since reforging weapons is out of the window. This is still better than doing a few extra bounties for yet another vendor just to level up your guns with. Even if you get a Husk of the Pit to drop, it's worthless to use unless you have TDB so you can get it upgraded. It's just an advertising tool since Bungie could have easily made Blades of Crota only spawn in the DLC areas, and you could get them to spawn in your own game rather than in Patrol fight over the kills just to rank up. Not sure how this competes with the lack of Weekly Heroic and Nightfall strikes though. There's no trading in place so I don't see a reason why having too many Strange Coins is an issue. It's not like Xur sells a bucket load of gear so if people are worried about others getting all the gear and losing interest then that is not an issue. Even if people have a lot of gear so what? I have all the optimal gear, and sub-optimal gear when I wanted to use them, in Borderlands 2 and I carried on playing because the skill trees and the weaponry allowed for a variety of builds. Xur could easily sell four vanilla items and four DLC items. The fact that he doesn't is a big "fu ck you for not buying the DLC" from Bungie. The daily story missions have actually been more than a few here and there from what I remember. This stops people being able to rank up by having fewer Ascendant Materials to earn each day. If they were given as rewards for bounties, like Eris Morn does with Major/Ultra kills in Nightfall for 3 Motes of Light, then I see it as less of an issue. Also some 300 attack weapons are still being used. I use the Shadow Price and Grim Citizen III because the ARs on sale by the Vanguard Quartermaster are peashooters. The only standout weapon she sells is the LDR-5001 and, even then, the one I got from an engram has better upgrades. My issue with Xur is that it is a symptom of a bad loot system. If you've played Nightfall and the Raid and not gotten much over a large amount of times then something is wrong. It's the same with Iron Banner helping people get their elusive piece of armour to the next level. You could just have a bank NPC and trade surplus Raid gear for the one you are missing or something. But the limitations are there purely to get you to do surplus grinding. I'm not too bothered by the exotic system since there is the one-equip rule. If there was no rule, Titans would be awesome - Helm of Saint-14, Ruin Wings and the Armamentarium?! This just means developers have wasted their time when they haven't made a stellar item because it is immediately outclassed by something else. I'm not going to use sub-optimal exotics in Destiny because of the time investment into upgrading them, only for that to be reset at a high cost when a new level cap comes in, which will be very soon by computer game's standards. The only item I would buy if Xur sells it is the Gjallahorn (I had the Strange Coins to buy it in week 2), but even then that will have minimal use from me because I like my 60 round void Swarm for the Raid saving me the exotic slot for the Ice Breaker and I don't have to worry about ammo too much because my LMG has Field Scout and the Ice Breaker regenerates ammo so I don't need to enter the menu screen to activate a synthesis pack usually. If Bungie allowed the D-pad to execute a synthesis pack and fix the ammo bug I might be swayed to use a legendary sniper rifle instead. It could be handy having ~24 rounds against the Oracles (e.g. sniper rifle with Field Scout, plus armour buffs to special weapon ammo).
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Post by markopolo on Jan 23, 2015 14:39:24 GMT -5
People act like if they can't do the weekly missions they have nothing to do in Destiny...because Nightfall/Weekly/Daily and Raids are the only endgame activities available, regardless of if you want to call them "content" or not. So yeah...Bungie taking away 2/3 of those activities is a big deal for those people. Try getting 3 characters to max level and then having 2/3 of activities in the game that are still relevant for you taken away, and see how you feel then. Telling people to sell the game if weekly activities are the only thing they have left to do is the equivalent of telling people to sell CoD if they hit max prestige and only have some camos to unlock. It doesn't even make sense for reasons that should be obvious. I don't buy it. If you are trying to get 3 characters to max, you are buying the DLC. No one should reasonably expect to be able to have end-game gear and weapons without paying for the newest DLC. No one. Sorry... if you want to be ahead of the game and be maxed out, you shell out to do so. Power gamers pay to play. If you are one of those people, this doesn't apply.
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 15:00:04 GMT -5
I never said the CoD "bonus" playlists were added. Perhaps bonus isn't the best word. Let's just all them playlist X and playlist Y. Playlist Y has more (hence bonus) XP, and a couple of modifiers but is otherwise exactly the same as playlist X. Now if playlist Y is sometimes DLC only, then that is exactly what I was talking about. In other words you do lose something, if you don't have the DLC those weeks... yes... but there are other things you can do.
In Destiny even without the Daily/Weekly/NF missions you can still do patrol missions, vanguard bounties, public events, crucible, events like IB, Vault of Glass, and strike playlists. Is a lot of that repetitive... well yeah. Everything at this point is, including the raids and the daily/weekly stuff.
So what exactly do vanilla players lose out on for those days/weeks when DLC content is featured? Some rewards, and a little variety. As for the rewards there are other ways to get rep, marks, shards, XP, and items which are pretty close to equivalent. Missing out on the NF XP/Rep buff does set you back, but then it's only XP and rep. The buff really isn't that big a deal. So ultimately the biggest cost is coins. On the other hand those same players also have less need for coins due to Xur's inventory sometimes featuring DLC only items. That offsets the coins issue but introduces a limitation on Xur's inventory as an issue. Personally I think Xur offers non DLC stuff often enough, especially now that the engrams are back, and Xur's offerings have never been remotely fair or balanced so why start now?
Basically if you don't get the DLC you're asking for the game to slowly wind down. You're inviting it. You are going to run out of things to do. So if you live for the daily/weekly/NF missions then you've already exhausted the game, so yes... sell it... or buy the DLC. That's what it's for. To add more stuff to the game. I acknowledge that something had been taken from vanilla and agree that a way should be found to give it back to them while still offering up the DLC to be so featured for the rest of us. I just disagree with the perceived severity of it.
People have always made too much of the daily/weekly/NF missions. Truth be told I RAREly run them at all. I've never done a nightfall. I've done a handful of daily and weekly missions, maybe one weekly a month or so. Hell I've done fewer dailies than weeklies. They aren't ALL THAT. The missions have some nice rewards and they are a challenge. That can be fun. But I haven't needed them. I'm level 30, nearly 31, have 4 exotic armors, several legendary and exotic weapons... and I've played these less than somebody who is vanilla would be limited to.
It sucks and it's unfair, but it's not "content" and it's not necessary. It's a few rewards and a little variety. This is a perception problem.
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 15:11:15 GMT -5
People act like if they can't do the weekly missions they have nothing to do in Destiny...because Nightfall/Weekly/Daily and Raids are the only endgame activities available, regardless of if you want to call them "content" or not. So yeah...Bungie taking away 2/3 of those activities is a big deal for those people. Try getting 3 characters to max level and then having 2/3 of activities in the game that are still relevant for you taken away, and see how you feel then. Telling people to sell the game if weekly activities are the only thing they have left to do is the equivalent of telling people to sell CoD if they hit max prestige and only have some camos to unlock. It doesn't even make sense for reasons that should be obvious. I don't buy it. If you are trying to get 3 characters to max, you are buying the DLC. No one should reasonably expect to be able to have end-game gear and weapons without paying for the newest DLC. No one. Sorry... if you want to be ahead of the game and be maxed out, you shell out to do so. Power gamers pay to play. If you are one of those people, this doesn't apply. Question: Have you bought every DLC for every game you've ever played? Probably not, and you probably had a reason for that. I'm sure plenty of people have their own reasons for not buying this DLC. I don't see how that means they should be locked out of activities that have been available since the game shipped. Anyone that didn't buy the DLC already has access to endgame quality gear and weapons from the Vanguard or other factions without any regard to Nightfall/Weekly/Daily missions. So I don't know what your point is there. The complaints don't have anything to do with gear quality. The complaints are because people have access to fewer activities on a regular basis than they did on release day. I thought the point of DLC was to add to the content of the game for those that choose to buy it, not actively take away content for those that choose not to. All that being said, yeah, if you're playing Destiny and you're not getting the DLCs/expansion/comet/whatever, you're doing it wrong. But still, you should expect that whatever your $60 got you will always be available, at least until the game dies and servers are taken offline years down the road.
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 15:18:36 GMT -5
Basically if you don't get the DLC you're asking for the game to slowly wind down. You're inviting it. You are going to run out of things to do. So if you live for the daily/weekly/NF missions then you've already exhausted the game, so yes... sell it... or buy the DLC. That's what it's for. To add more stuff to the game. I acknowledge that something had been taken from vanilla and agree that a way should be found to give it back to them while still offering up the DLC to be so featured for the rest of us. I just disagree with the perceived severity of it. People have always made too much of the daily/weekly/NF missions. Truth be told I RAREly run them at all. I've never done a nightfall. I've done a handful of daily and weekly missions, maybe one weekly a month or so. Hell I've done fewer dailies than weeklies. They aren't ALL THAT. The missions have some nice rewards and they are a challenge. That can be fun. But I haven't needed them. I'm level 30, nearly 31, have 4 exotic armors, several legendary and exotic weapons... and I've played these less than somebody who is vanilla would be limited to. It sucks and it's unfair, but it's not "content" and it's not necessary. It's a few rewards and a little variety. This is a perception problem. All that I agree with, and it is mostly a perception problem, the severity of which we'll all have our own opinions on. This whole deal has no impact on me personally, but I have a big issue with any part of a retail game being taken away and gated off if you don't buy the DLC, and I'm afraid it's something we're going to start seeing more and more of when most people's response is "so just go and buy the DLC then," or, "well you're not really having THAT much taken away," or some similar sentiment.
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Post by malgato on Jan 23, 2015 15:33:01 GMT -5
Well, I am still annoyed Xbox doesn't have the same content as PSN even though I paid the same price.
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 15:45:21 GMT -5
Well, I am still annoyed Xbox doesn't have the same content as PSN even though I paid the same price. Ugh...don't remind me LOL.
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 16:04:22 GMT -5
I'll cop to both those sentiments. Gating off any amount of a released game and witholding it for DLC... sucks. I don't think that's right. I understand why they would want to feature the DLC content in those daily, and weekly challenges, but they should have found a way to do it that wouldn't leave vanilla players out in the cold.
I also agree that exclusives suck. I'm personally on the "winning" side of this exclusive, but what do I win? The exclusive doesn't benefit me, it just punishes XBros. I don't think it even really benefits Bungie. It's a publisher/vendor thing. It's all business, and chit, and business is business, but that sort of thing is actively anti-consumer.
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 16:21:46 GMT -5
Is it weird that part of me wants to buy No Land Beyond? >,> I'm not going to, because I'm really short on coins and I need exotic shards, but still. (Though I should compare the starfire offered to the one I have... it could be better.)
But still... part of me wants it just because it's so notorious. Maybe if I were skilled enough I could pwn people with it to humiliate them. ;3 (Or humiliate myself trying... heh)
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Post by hebbnh on Jan 23, 2015 16:56:03 GMT -5
Woohoo! Pulled a Witty and got a Saint-14 on my 4th helmet engram! Finally I'll be able to punch defenseless blind enemies to my heart's content! 124 intellect stat roll too -- pretty dang solid.
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Post by iw5000 on Jan 23, 2015 16:57:33 GMT -5
Keep this in mind, in regards to humiliation. What do you play the most?
PvE
And no AI bot has ever been humiliated in the history of game developing.
I would suggest buying the gun. Use it for thirty minutes to see what it's about, and then I'm pretty sure you will get bored and then put it on the shelf, never to be used again.
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Post by mannon on Jan 23, 2015 17:55:16 GMT -5
Maybe someday... today I need exotic shards too much to bother. I've got one armor piece ready to be maxed out, one with full XP and just needs mats, one more that still needs XP, but that part's easy. Plus I have my shiny new Ice Breaker that will need a shard eventually, and an old Plan C to exchange, and after the exchanges I'll still need two more shards to max out Plan C and Invective so that's a total of 8 exotic shards I need just for the gear I have now... and I'm almost certainly buying an exotic engram if I have the motes for it. (I spent a few on IB so I'm not sure I do.)
I can see exotic shards becoming a real nuisance in my near future. heh
Oh yeah I also have the Bad Juju and Pocket Infinity bounties so I'll have two more exotics soon...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Jan 24, 2015 10:58:32 GMT -5
Woohoo! Pulled a Witty and got a Saint-14 on my 4th helmet engram! Finally I'll be able to punch defenseless blind enemies to my heart's content! 124 intellect stat roll too -- pretty dang solid. Great! That's better stats roll than the one I got.
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Post by TheHawkNY on Jan 29, 2015 13:31:25 GMT -5
Anyone else hold onto their completed bounties on Thursdays with the hope you'll purchase something you want to level up quickly on Friday from Xur?
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Post by wittyscorpion on Jan 29, 2015 13:42:58 GMT -5
Anyone else hold onto their completed bounties on Thursdays with the hope you'll purchase something you want to level up quickly on Friday from Xur? I am sure some bros do, although probably more for the CE hard mode drop than Xur. I no longer expect Xur to drop things I want (i.e.: Gjallarhorn, Heart of Praxic Fire). I would be happy if he sells Universal Remote, or even heavy ammo synthesis.
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Post by markopolo on Jan 29, 2015 14:07:07 GMT -5
Anyone else hold onto their completed bounties on Thursdays with the hope you'll purchase something you want to level up quickly on Friday from Xur? Nah.... plenty to sink it into now. Unless he drops a hawkmoon or gjal..... or even a suros. But it will make me want to run a weekly to get the 9 coins (I think I have 11, so yea....) Besides... his efforts 2 weeks ago: His best efforts in recent memory.
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Post by mannon on Jan 29, 2015 14:29:50 GMT -5
I'm definitely planning to run the Weekly. Should be a piece of cake compared to NF... Then again I think it's arc burn and no solar, so that's not great, but the solar really only helped against the shards and wizards.
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Post by markopolo on Jan 29, 2015 15:53:30 GMT -5
I'm definitely planning to run the Weekly. Should be a piece of cake compared to NF... Then again I think it's arc burn and no solar, so that's not great, but the solar really only helped against the shards and wizards. TBH..... because a lot have Arc shields and it's solar burn, it might actually be harder. I was absolutely murdering the Fallen captains with Arc burn and the final part when I was just standing there headshotting Omni with P&T, I was doing a disgusting amount of damage per clip. But if you're up for it, so am I. Hell, let's break bradman's cherry and do it with him. 24 is 3 coins, 26 is 6... s9 for 30.... does that mean we can 18 coins doing it 3 times? That doesn't seem right... and I'm always confused about this sorta thing EDIT: since we're at it, let's redo the nightfall since we both need the bounty... hell, there are 9 bounties we can do no sweat in time for Xur tomorrow
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Post by iw5000 on Jan 29, 2015 15:57:18 GMT -5
You can only get a max of 9 coins per character per week. That's it.
If you do the level 26, for six coins, that means you can only get 3 more coins in the Weekly. You go do the Lv30...you don't get nine coins, you only get three.
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