Legendary gear - 80 materials
Exotic gear - 64 materials
It probably takes an hour to farm 70-100 materials, big whoop right?
But did I tell you it's going to be the most mind numbingly boring thing you've ever done?
Edit: Alternatives,
buy with glimmer or marks
buy with coins or motes
earn via missions; amount scales by difficulty
earn via crucible
Material bounties
Trade weapon parts or class materials for
Earn during patrols and public events
Edit2-update: You know it's boring when your ascendant materials out number your planet materials
451 ascendant materials
182 planet materials
I even have more strange coins than I do planet materials...
Edit3: Math
Will take you 21.76 hours to farm 1,632 materials if you're gathering 75 per hour on average.
To hit level 29 it will take 304 materials if you have one exotic piece.
To hit level 30 you will most likely replace those pieces with raid equipment. That's another 240
(304+240)3 = 1,632
1,632/75 = 21.76
21.76 very boring hours
This is not taking weapons into consideration.
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If you're not getting but 70-100 materials every hour, you're not farming the right spots/taking too long to kill the mobs in the area. I can get a good 150+ easy an hour. I have a chest run on every planet and 3 different runs on Earth. Although I never run chest for more than 30-45 minutes, I still get enough materials for what I need. If I have a free day where I've already done the raid and Nightfall for the week and finished my bounties for the day I might spend the rest of the day farming materials. Then the next day I forget and trade 50 for crucible marks/rep... Like five times lol.