I never realized how ridiculous this was. I didnt even know that you needed an exotic cipher for EVERY weapon...thats frankly insane. The spoils is honestly the most frustrating grind too, ive been playing a lot for a while and I've only ever gotten to around 90~ spoils at most, and honestly most weeks I'm going negative on spoils because it costs 20 spoils a week to get a redborder gun from a raid, and the amount you get from completing a whole raid is just barely under that, and so now I'm back down to 40 after months of doing vow. Its so ridiculous that only the most recent raid drops spoils on repeat runs, so you're forced to farm an encounter that gives you no loot past the first run other than spoils to get any of the old raid exotics, where you can farm old raids over and over for loot but only get spoils for one completion. Its so frustrating and its the reason I still don't have tarraba, thank God I got every other raid exotic or else I will literally never finish my exotic collection lol.
The ascendant shard grind is honestly one of the easiest part, the banshee bounties is probably the least efficient way possible to get ascendant shards, doing hero or legend nightfall would even be better since those give ascendant prisms which are worth 10 cores and are not hard at all
As someone who doesn't really engage with endgame content, it feels like I get locked out of the said content because of my lack of the "best" exotics. I've maybe only purchased from the monument about maybe 2 times. And with limited free time, it makes it feel like bungie punishing players whose sole game isn't destiny
Honestly, as a new light that just plays for like what, 3 hours at max hours per day and not even every day since the last mouth of Season of the Lost, its not a big deal at all. Sure, it's annoying that you can't hold more than one cipher at a time, but the grind for them is so simple and easy, glimer and legendary shards comes in huge stacks anywhere and half those exotics are not even that viable compared with what we have nowadays, the only boring part is the ascend shards if you're a casual player that dosen't do GMs, if you are, those flood your inventory too. This kind of farm comes naturally if you play a lot of the game, hell, it keeps you playing if have nothing to do outside of PvP, I'm already bored asf waiting for Lightfall
At least they are adding the exotic mission rotator which should remove Dead Messenger, Revision Zero, possible DMT with Pressage and later a few like Zero Hour or The Whisper
The thing im mostly annoyed by is that like you can only hold ONE CYPHER AT A TIME!
Yes bro, the dumbest shit ever
I never realized how ridiculous this was. I didnt even know that you needed an exotic cipher for EVERY weapon...thats frankly insane. The spoils is honestly the most frustrating grind too, ive been playing a lot for a while and I've only ever gotten to around 90~ spoils at most, and honestly most weeks I'm going negative on spoils because it costs 20 spoils a week to get a redborder gun from a raid, and the amount you get from completing a whole raid is just barely under that, and so now I'm back down to 40 after months of doing vow. Its so ridiculous that only the most recent raid drops spoils on repeat runs, so you're forced to farm an encounter that gives you no loot past the first run other than spoils to get any of the old raid exotics, where you can farm old raids over and over for loot but only get spoils for one completion. Its so frustrating and its the reason I still don't have tarraba, thank God I got every other raid exotic or else I will literally never finish my exotic collection lol.
The ascendant shard grind is honestly one of the easiest part, the banshee bounties is probably the least efficient way possible to get ascendant shards, doing hero or legend nightfall would even be better since those give ascendant prisms which are worth 10 cores and are not hard at all
As someone who doesn't really engage with endgame content, it feels like I get locked out of the said content because of my lack of the "best" exotics. I've maybe only purchased from the monument about maybe 2 times. And with limited free time, it makes it feel like bungie punishing players whose sole game isn't destiny
Honestly, as a new light that just plays for like what, 3 hours at max hours per day and not even every day since the last mouth of Season of the Lost, its not a big deal at all. Sure, it's annoying that you can't hold more than one cipher at a time, but the grind for them is so simple and easy, glimer and legendary shards comes in huge stacks anywhere and half those exotics are not even that viable compared with what we have nowadays, the only boring part is the ascend shards if you're a casual player that dosen't do GMs, if you are, those flood your inventory too. This kind of farm comes naturally if you play a lot of the game, hell, it keeps you playing if have nothing to do outside of PvP, I'm already bored asf waiting for Lightfall
At least they are adding the exotic mission rotator which should remove Dead Messenger, Revision Zero, possible DMT with Pressage and later a few like Zero Hour or The Whisper
Also if u gotta grind xenology then stop charging me 2 exotic currencies
Yeah let’s casual game even more lol
Imo the cost of the exotic should meet the difficulty of the original drop source was to get, or move the non raid exotics to exotic engrams