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Edited by frogg626:
11/18/2014 1:17:04 PM
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I hate farming planet materials
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.
English
#Destiny
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I'm actually OK with the material farming in this game. What I hate is the weapon and armor farming. Whatever happened to earning things in games. I have played the raid 6 times and only received one piece of raid armor. It just bugs me that everyone else is getting cool stuff for doing the same thing that I am doing. There needs to be a guaranteed item when completing some of this stuff. If I get one more chatterwhite shader I am going to clay shoot my destiny disk.
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Multitask is the answer my friend...work farming in with public events and mob busting for wep xp.
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agree with op! let us buy them or make it so that the material find gives 5 of it's kind, and all chests give 10
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They need to be removed, full stop! They were NEVER going to be in the game in the first place. They were added at the end as a way to keep our playing hours up.
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I just kill everything while I do it. That usually makes it a little better, plus I get exp for gear and more glimmer.
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It boring. It's time consuming. It's nessesary. You have to share. It's lame
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4 RepliesI do not agree with this at all. It takes less than 5 hours at max to get materials to get to 30 if you have done your research and know the runs.
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10 RepliesI've had this idea for a while: Every Sunday, there's an area in the tower that sells materials (excluding ascendant) for either motes, coins, or glimmer. It's called the FARMER'S MARKET.
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Agreed. There is no skill or anything required; no teamwork. It is literally just mindless running around searching. I wouldn't mind if they made the amounts vastly more abundant.
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This is why Bungie needs to make new economies for materials to come soon or else I'm plain done running around in circles for awhile. It's just to boring and repetitive and like you said it takes way too long. Especially if you have multiple characters and a lot of legendary and exotic weapons you want to upgrade.
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If you want to rank up easy go play Call of Duty titanfall or halo
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3 RepliesIf you need relic iron, I could get more than your average in an hour. I used to think Relic Iron was tough. Not anymore.
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i agree i have 20,000+ glimmer just collecting dust in my "bank" so to speak but i have nothing to do with it and i am hating the idea that i have to go home and farm for helium filaments in order to upgrade my legendary helmet this sucks i would rather be playing the game than driving around and looking in caves to find out there isnt shit in there but some old mineless rocks and emptiness and sunday is a great day for it right after xur leaves and if bungie wants which they will probably do the guy doing this will appear in defferent places every week overall great idea we should repost this until bungie hears us out
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1 ReplyIn last weeks dev notes there was discussion of a new way to get materials. Maybe a vendor is coming to the tower?
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3 RepliesI don't mind farming spin metal, spirit blooms or helium filaments, quite relaxing actually. Relic iron however is a pain in the ass to farm.
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I had a dream about the update last night and that each time i picked up a piece of spinmetal it actually counted as 15
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7 RepliesThe only material I ever have a hard time finding is Spirit Blooms... Everything else is pretty abundant. I mean, I normally have about150 - 200 of any of the other ones on hand for upgrades. But never the damned spirit blooms
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1 Reply[quote]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 [/quote] contributes to the 10 years lifespan of the product.. =D
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1 ReplyPlay COD then
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2 RepliesEdited by Cntryman73: 10/28/2014 6:29:20 AMI found this great route for farming spirit blooms on Venus and I love it. In one hour I got about 5 decoherents, 1 strange coin, 3 motes of light and a -blam!- ton of plasteel...and about 110 blooms.
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1 ReplyI disagree - I find material farming relaxing when I am over PvP or the strike playlist. Sometimes I'll farm when I don't need it just because of the mood I'm in.
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1 ReplyI don't mind materials, you can get them when you patrol which is also an excuse to look for public events. What I hate, like you said are the sheer numbers. It shouldn't take 60-80 of ANYTHING you get 2 at a time of. Maybe 20-30 total. Bungie, you already get a lot of hours of my life. I feel like you are being greedy with this aspect of the game. Unless this is a way to force PvP players into the PvE world I don't understand your end game with such a tedious task. I have a few different sets of exotic gear that I like to switch out depending on what I'm doing (because they are built like that) and this only compounds this monotony. Surely you realized this was going to grate on people and eventually make them leave. How about reducing the needed materials from a ridiculous 12-16 per slot to 6-8 per slot? That seems reasonable.
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Wow you totally misunderstand the meaning of an MMO. Advice: Put some Mp3 on your USB-Stick, put it into the PS4 and enjoy music while playing -_-
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Never boring for me.. I grab as many bounties as I can. Get the patrol missions and my public event timer out.. And go...... When I have a fireteam member with me. It's that much better...
