After the recent preview, the whole forum's buzzing about the exotics upgrade controversy. So I'm not going to get into that, but rather the future of our current beloved legendary gear. I know I wasn't the only one that got a sour taste in their mouth at the thought of some of our favorite guns suddenly becoming obsolete. Finally finding that Fatebringer you've been working towards forever only to discover it'll be outclassed by every new legendary in less than a week. Or knowing that a new level cap based on raid gear just means everyone will be clones of each other in just a months time. Well I think I may have a solution to both these problems and I'd like to get some feedback on what everyone thinks about it.
The way it would work is after you finally hit the level 32 cap with a full set of the new raid gear, you return to Eris with it all equipped and a "Radiant Infusion Bounty" will be available for 10 Motes of Light. You can only buy one infusion bounty at time and it would bind with a fully upgraded piece of Legendary gear and make it unavailable until the completion of the bounty. The bounty would progress similiar to an exotic bounty, but with 5 randomized steps. At the end of the bounty, your piece of gear is returned with all previous upgrades intact and a new additional upgrade node that now requires radiant material. In the case of weapons, it would only apply to pre-DLC guns and would merely raise their max damage to the new DLC norm, allowing people to keep that favorite rifle of their's revelant. For armor, it would raise the piece to level 32 quality. This would allow people to customize their armor to their taste while maintaining their Light level, yet still requiring the multiple Raid attempts till all the raid gear is collected. In fact, it might motivate people to get all that raid gear even more just so they start upgrading their other gear.
So everyone gets to add some variation their armor, no more clones, vendor armor's suddenly worth buying, you get to bring new life to your old reliable weapons, the VoG stays relevant with it's gear no longer being left behind, DLC would still be required, you'd still have to work for raid gear to be able to do it, and people would be playing the game more just to obtain that perfect piece of armor to complete their build; actually using the different stats and perks to create the ultimate Guardian without worrying about being underleveled. Everbody's happy!
[b]Edit[/b]: Wow! It's not very often I see a thread so full of support and devoid of naysayers! Thanks everyone and keep it up! :D
Now it's been brought to my attention the 5 steps per bounty might be a it much if your going for a full set of armor. So maybe about 3 steps might be a bit less tedious. Also it occured to me that there might be technical issues regarding simply adding an additional upgrade node, seeing as Bungie wasn't too keen on that when it came to exotics. So perhaps it could be made so that the legendaries turn into a fresh upgraded version ([b]with their original perks intact[/b]) that requires radiant materials after the bounty's completion. Something more in line with the exotic's upgrade process so that it's easier to implement (plus legendaries upgrade fast anyways). As usual tell me what you think, and keep voicing your support so that Bungie takes notice.
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From what I have seen many of the new weapons have less impact so even with there higher damage modifier they dont seem to do more damage per shot.
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Bump.
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Make it so bungie
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Cool!!!!
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Bump, at the very least let us upgrade raid armour/weapons if not all legendaries.
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Love it. Great idea
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I use fatebringer during crotas end raid. It's still a beast and works perfectly for removing ads
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Bump. Great idea!
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That's a great idea. I was a bit upset when I found out that the only thing my fatebringer one shotted was thralls in the new raid.
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Bump! Edit added!
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I like this but I still have issue with everyone saying their gear will become obsolete. Weapons with 300 damage will be fine for everything level 30 and under. Basically, just the hard raid is where these weapons will struggle.
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old legendary weapon should include upgrade tasks handed out by gun smith. amour tasks should be handed out by your class mentor. this way the useless npc would have a meaning again. we definitely need some ways to upgrade our old legendaries. finally got all raid weapons last week which was so cool but now i'm disappointed.
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I wish.
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Sounds great I love my fatebringer!
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Except Bungie. They deliberately took out of our hands every favorite weapon ... Fatebringer, VoC, Shadow Price, TDYK ... I know we're supposed to replace them, but looking through the database there isn't really much I'm interested in.
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I am highly disappointed and the fact that Bungie has pretty much handed all new level twenties light level 31 prior to raiding in the vault of glass while many of us have had to grind week after week after week just to get level 30 I am very frustrated to the point that destiny is pretty much wasted three months of grinding to get to 30 so my gear being completely obsolete(post expansion) because of its light level..
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I like the idea. But I think pre dlc legendary armor should only be able to get you to level 31 like most legendaries before them. Other than that I think it's a great idea.
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Fatebringer works fine on the new stories awesome in the nightfall/weekly and definitely holds it's own in the raid with the swarms of enemies.
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I completely support this Idea. This ain't Halo 1, everyone doesn't need the same character model with different colors. These are OUR Guardians, and we will fight to keep them that way. Also, I am NOT ditching my Shadow Price. Too much sentimental value. That's the gun that first got me through VoG.
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My 248 dmg fatebringer with explosion with precision kills wrecks those thralls in crota's end
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I love this idea I fully support this completely
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Beats fists on desk... Please bungie do this!!
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I would agree with this, if you could do it with any armor. Say blues for example. Some of the blues look better than raid stuff, might have to upgrade it twice to get it up to snuff, but do that and I'm for it.