Is kind of how I feel when I pick up another awesome gun or utterly sick exotic armor, another glistening jot studding my sparkling, extravagant inventory and as "new" fades into a comfortable "mine" all I can think about is "64 spirit bloom." "128 relic iron" Ah, my mistake, Young Ahamkara's Spine isn't relic iron, so.. "192 helium filaments" I don't really mind long sidequests. I fried 200+ folk in the Crucible with nothing but my Wizard 77 as a hunter for Thorn's void-damage bounty. Used the same gun when it came time for the Nightfall kills for Pocket Infinity (Angry, no-burn, cabal, remember that week?) I thought it was kind of fun to handicap myself and still be expected to perform. But just walking around to hold square intermittently?... There's no other way to do it. No way that involves guns or being a guardian. I am not without suggestions: - Blues gives 1-3 materials of their native type when scrapped, upgrading engrams from the "nothing" vs. "purple" players mentally file them into - Give them in small amounts as strike rewards - Perhaps a purchasing option, with marks as currency Strange Coins and Ascendant Shards are the most potent currencies in the game, yet even the most casual players accrues them in minute amounts over time in whatever mode they choose to play. I grind my teeth and roll my eyes when I see thread about the Nightfall didn't drop a Gjallarhorn. I shake my head when I see complaints about 'broken PvP.' Materials are the only part of this game I can't defend. A telling fact, since they're also the only part of the game where you aren't actually playing. There is no. possible. way. programmed into the game to upgrade your gear except by walking up to static objects and holding square. I think we need just one more.