OP's numbers are for a FULL set, part A. Part B, he's broken it down into equivalent materials. Your simply one of Bungie's lemmings, coming to support them for a predatory maneuver that doesn't have any justification what-so-ever. The ability to change affinity (better said "the ability to bypass Bungies UI deficiencies that offer nothing to the game") should come at zero cost to the player. Not this very significant cost which is a simple and transparent (to anyone with any intelligence) ploy to artificially inflate player statistics. This only benefits very low energy drops and disregards the time invested into building sets over the past several months. It's not stupid. But your statement truly is.

There's nothing equivalent about it. Think about how much time it would take to farm 10 cores, then think about the 20 minutes it takes to run a 980 nightfall. Savathun takes 20 minutes, and you get 2, 3, or 4 prisms and a chance at an acendant shard. The OP is trying to make it sound like it's so crazy, " YOU NEED 1700 CORES " and blah blah blah. Fact is you dont. Armor next season is going to be better that what we have now since it can hold all season mods. most of us have 3 different sets now anyways. So at the worst you are having to change one or two pieces. You are still going to need the three different armor sets for each of the different mods. Just because banshee sells them for 10 cores doesn't mean they are worth 10 cores, that option is for the people who are too lazy or too weak to run master nightfalls. His point about having to run hundreds of master nightmare hunts, again, he picks hunts cause they don't drop nearly as much as a nightfall. You can run a tree of probabilitys nightfall master in 10 minutes and have all the shards and prisms you need.

What you're saying is RNG dependent. OP is illustrating the only [u]reliable[/u] path to ascendant shards. Whether you grind mats to buy them from Banshee, or grind NF's with an average player's rng (which means you're not getting shards every run, or EVER if you're me), you are still having to grind in order to overcome the deficiency that exists in bungies UI. Nothing of the affinity system has anything to do with the core game design, it serves zero benefit to the players or the game. Bungie has stated this. So if they are only just now (which is ridiculous its taken this long) going to allow affinity to be changed, which is the work around solution to their UI inadequacy, there is no reason at all that you can't change it to your heart's content, save bungie's intention to artificially increase usage statistics. Changing affinity depending on activity should be a zero cost decision that a player can make in order to utilize different mods (which will be costing them anyways in order to apply them). Why is it so difficult for people to see this? Bungie is using a limitation of their back-end to drive player usage and expecting an attaboy. And fanboys are in here defending it, talking about running NF's to grind out more mats on bungie's behalf. Of course, the REAL answer would be to update the UI such that the affinity system could be abandoned which has been what the player base has been asking for since it was first introduced. It's ridiculous.

No the most reliable way to farm acendant shards is to run the 980 nightfall. You will occasionally get one dropped for completing it and you will get 2 + prisms a run. It's a Farm, a GRIND. It's not supposed to be done in a couple runs. Run the pit on all 3 characters each week and do a nightfall. Break down the pit gear X3 = 18 prisms and then the nightfall puts you over 20. That's 2 ACENDANT SHARDS for an hour of playing. And again. If you have to rework your entire gear set at this point 1 - you screwed up. And 2 - you would be better off taking the seasonal gear from next season ( cause season pass gear drops WAY better than anything else ) and masterwork one of those drops instead.

You really are not getting the point. First off, I don't have a full set that needs changing, not that this would mean I'd screwd up. Shit rng trying to get the right rolls and finally settling having no ability to know that Bungie was ever going to correct their discrepancy is not a fault of the player. That's completely beside the point though. The point is simple: affinity exists as a bandaid to a bungie UI issue. The solution to their inadequacy has no justification to be financed by the players who've already been negatively impacted. It shouldn't cost ANYTHING. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

Too bad you actually have to play in order to get things. You have played enough lately to get what ? 9 artifact levels? What's your season rank? Theres TONS of armor that drops from there. You complain about NEVER getting a shard from master nightfalls, well Gee, I wonder if that is cause you have ONLY ever done 5 master nightfalls. The righteous armor for this season drops with crazy high rolls. Did you even claim all your free armor from the season pass? Yeah, keep crying about not getting what you want handed to you in the first 5 trys and maybe actually play the game a little. Haven't even logged in the last week🙄

Your funny. The stats on this season's armor are garbage. And unlike you, I have better things to do than grind mind numbing strikes. And, most importantly, you still don't get it. I'm done trying to explain this to you.