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Edited by veggienuts:
10/13/2014 10:16:14 AM
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Gunsmith what's the point???? (UPDATED)
Once you get to say level 15 the gunsmith becomes well redundant. He never has anything of use to sell other than ammo refills.
Why bungie could you not have given him a random loot stream which involved exotics and legendary. I hate it when games make characters that have a 2 min role but never leave the game.
Just a thought give him a random loot stream and mix up the currency used, so many use them.
What does everyone else think?
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I realize I should have said Gaurdian outfitter as well, I have more emblems that I care for but shaders are in short supply. I guess I didnt mention her because I forgot she even existed. Don't get me wrong I don't want things handed to me I like the idea of earning things but why do people think that going out and collecting glimmer or other bits such as strange coins to purchase an exotic is not earning it, if you ask me it's far more earned than all the little turds out farming loot caves for engrams. I am not asking for there to be an exotic up for grabs every day just make him and her have some more value to the end gamers.
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Can we please stop posting the obvious now, we all know he sells ammo and has a small role in a bounty these two very small points do not make his role in the game anymore relevant. I would love to to see more interaction with all the NPC's, but I think the GUNSMITH should be one of the more relevant NPC's of a SHOOTER. Having him build guns or change perks simply would not work in this iteration of the game. Why? well that ability would render exotics redundant and pointless cause we could all just make one no need to find/earn/buy them.
I think the future games will have far more customization, but the best course of action for these NPC's I think would be to just give them random loot streams, also removal of glimmer cap. Setting exotic at say .9% chance of drop and legendary at say 2% rares 5% GIve other stuff to sell as well like energy for coins, weapon parts. And make the purchase of exotics require x amount of weapon parts and x amount of strange coin, this would make acquiring them a bit more tricky as one might not have the required parts at the time of the exotic drop. Also involve the gun smith in some new side mission, something this game is seriously missing side missions that is.
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Yeah, he is pretty useless at the moment.
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You should have to go back to him to upgrade weapons instead of magically upgrading them in the field (Ghost probably does it). I mean, we go back to the tower every once in a while anyway, and not being able to upgrade your own weapons makes sense.
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I speculate that it is all in the tank, one way or the other. Bungie has it already to go, the activison side is just releasing tid bits here and there to keep the carrot dangleling and fresh. (DLC's, etc.) all points of contact in the tower will be eventually expanded in due time. Ex. Tess, special orders. So vauge. but, very expandable in the near distant future.... Bungie flipped and hotfixed crypto pretty quick, hot fixed a few other things as well. Soon..... the more the community gripes, the more carrot the community gets
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Edited by Sgt Jesus Chris: 10/13/2014 1:28:42 PMIn my opinion, the best use of the gunsmith and the guardian outfitter would be the opportunity to change only a select few things with the weapons and armor. With weapons you would be able to change damage type (arc, solar, void) and scope. You could also customize appearance (change color and change parts only for cosmetic reasons) With armor you would be able to customize appearance (as with guns) and alter weapon-specific perks to your preferred weapon type (one example: "carry more ammo for pulse rifles" you could change to for example auto rifles or sniper rifles) This would make them useful again, it would help people to customize and personalize their appearance and last but not least this would not in any way nerf the exotics/legendaries. [b]Edit:[/b] The idea of customization does also apply to the shipwright.
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Actually, I think it would be cool if he could trade out the perks on a weapon if you don't like them. I got The Lord High Fixer from an engram, but I don't like any of the perks, so rather than scrapping it and buying it from the merchant, I could pay glimmer (and/or materials) to switch out the perks for others that could've been randomly assigned. Obviously stuff like Mark of the Devourer from Thorn, or String of Curses from Bad Juju wouldn't be available, but I'd much rather go for flared magwell, and perfect balance, than clown cartridge or the random extra damage bullet(s).
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10 year plan. he may eventually become a raid boss!
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He comes in handy when you get pocket infinity bounty
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So the voice actor doesn't go hungry
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34 RepliesActually I think selling exotics would be not so great ditto on legendaries. NOW on the other hand. I think it'd be great if we could use him to trade in a shit ton of our weapon parts and armor materials for stuff either ascendent materials OR the ability to swap out a weapon/armor trait. So lets say I have a scout rifle that has splodey rounds but I want that slot to have zen which is another possible (rng driven) trait that can go there. What if the gunsmith could mod these guns using like 100 weapon parts to have different traits? Sort of like enchanting I guess.
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Agreed. Also, why would they waste the great John DiMaggio's voice on someone as insignificant as the Gunsmith?
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U got to but those blue fusions for your pocket infinity bounty from somewhere
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Yes. Bump.
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I am lv 28 and i think the gunsmith it´s ok. When you are lv 20 and want to lvl up you will need to start lookinf for armor and by doing this, you indirectly will get weapons. Also, i still use him to buy ammo, specifically purple ammo.
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So people can buy guns at lower levels. And ammo packs.
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Once you reach 10, he is really only good to get items to break down for parts and ammo synthesis.
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True. He is pretty helpful until you reach level 18. After that, he basically becomes useless. All that is useful by then are the ammo synthesis he sells
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Ammo synthesis and exotic bounty.
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3 RepliesI found him handy doing the fusion rifle exotic bounty. One part is to break down 10 blue or higher fusion rifles. Waited till the day he was selling blue fusions and broke them down.
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His stuff is useful in Crucible since damage modifiers are leveled out. You need to talk to him for exotic bounties. And I've occasionally bought stuff from him just to break down into weapon parts. Other than that, he has no use for endgame players.
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He's the fruit vendor of Destiny. I just hope they give him a vendor nemesis across the courtyard. Then they could yell random insults at each other and everyone would be entertained!
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He also plays a role in some exotic bounties, but that's not a whole lot. See some good ideas in this thread from various people.
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Well I use the gunsmith to buy the instant recharges. It's cost a lot but I always full of lumen and shit so I buy one. Always handy when you need bullets while your kicking a bosses ass
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Yeah i think tbhere should be some place we could spend our money just remove the cap and sell exotics 2 million a pop or something.i have so many ammo synthesis that it makes no sense to buy more.
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I would like to buy Weapon Part's from the Gunsmith, instead of buying Weapon's off him or expect them in drop's. And, yes, a better selection of Weapon's would be nicely met.
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Why is everyone so afraid of other having exotics? Make no sense to me. I ain't afraid of no exotic.
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1 ReplyNo not exotics or legendaries but much more rares would be fair and equal
