So I've tried to take a deep breath over the news of exotic upgrades yesterday. Still after only 3 months, a hard reset of gear and forced upgrade of exotics is hard to swallow. I say forced because let's be honest, the reason the Vex attack was bumped on Exotic patch day was so you can raid Dark Below ASAP. If you want to be your very best heading into the new raid, don't expect invites if your other exotic weapons aren't maxed.
On to my calculations:
[b]Exotic Weapon or Gear Upgrade path[/b]
1) Determine if Xur has your exotic in his list of upgrades for that week
2) Give Xur 1 exotic shard and 7000 glimmer to initiate upgrade of your exotic
3) Buy another exotic shard for 7 strange coins to prepare for re-leveling of your reset exotic
4) Have 7600 glimmer(all bubbles leveled) ready to fully upgrade your reset Weapon exotic
4a) Have 5100 glimmer for Helm / Chest / Gauntlet exotics
5) Have all materials available (relic, spin, spirit, helium) for each bubble
[b]Totals[/b]
For weapon exotic - 2 exotic shards(14 strange coins), 14600 glimmer, time and materials
For gear exotic - 2 exotic shards(14 strange coins), 12100 glimmer, time and materials
[b]My totals[/b]
15 gear exotics - 30 exotic shards(210 strange coins), 219,000 glimmer, time and materials
15 weapon exotics - 30 exotic shards (210 strange coins), 181,500 glimmer, time and materials
[b]Grand total to upgrade all my exotics[/b]
60 exotic shards (420 strange coins), 400,500 glimmer, massive time and materials.
After only 3 months of the games life....
Yea, not sure it's worth it.
Hopefully I have all the figures right. Between the facts in the GI article on costs and the Dev Blog, think that's it.
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2 RepliesEdited by Exu: 12/6/2014 2:43:29 AMIf Xur is indeed going to be selling the upgraded versions of exotics from next week, as well as them being made drops, I'd rather just buy the upgraded versions and save myself an exotic shard (or two!) and 7k Glimmer. I do think that if they must go with this system then if you've already spent an exotic shard on the final node of an exotic then you shouldn't be asked to spend another. It shouldn't be two or three, it should be two.