[i]Since my response to a post raging about Xur got a lot of positive feedback, I would like to make it a separate discussion.[/i] In regards to Xur and the loot system. The overall loot system has little to do with patience and "earning" your gear, it has to do with luck. People say it takes patience for raid gear. I'm proof it doesnt. I had the entire raid set by my 3rd raid. ( 2 on normal 1 on hard ). While it's taken some of my team 15+ raids I earned the [b]chance[/b] to obtain gear by raiding and got a lucky dice roll. I did not earn the gear, I just earned the chance to obtain it. Xur is what brings even a little consistency to the game by offering actual gear for your time played. So no matter how many bad luck rolls you get, your time will eventually be worth something in the game. Exotics are about prioritizing that equipment slot, one exotic above another in order to optimize your overall performance, not flaunting that you got lucky while others did not. By others having access to the same gear you do, it levels the playing field to be measured by skill and choice instead of being measured by who got lucky and who did not. Unless the item system got completely reworked, [i]which I would hope to see happen no matter how unlikely[/i], then Xur is necessary to maintain a somewhat healthy game state for everyone rather than the lucky few. Xur selling exotics that happen to drop in the raid doesn't make the raid pointless, especially since an engram from a level 7 Dreg can have the same results as a chest in the vault in terms of exotic items; all raid gear still remains exclusive to the raid. Let's hear your thoughts.