I have ground my way through many, many bounties on the Vanguard before The Dark Below to get gear from the Vanguard. Recently I ranked up my Vanguard so I could buy the Legendary chest piece and now I have made it to 31.
Unfortunately, my housemate has a 28 hunter with 171 Crucible Marks, but is only Rank 1 in the Crucible. To buy the chest piece he needs, he first must grind through copious amounts of bounties to get to Rank 3, just to buy a Rank 2 chest piece.
With our connection, every Crucible match is one red bar and latency is through the roof. It's not Bungie's fault, but those Crucible bounties become exponentially harder.
He accidentally swapped out the Hunter exotic helmet (Achlyophage Symbiote - light 36) for a chest piece (Lucky Raspberry - light 30) and now doesn't have a spare Legendary chest piece to replace it with.
The current helmet only goes to 27, but he has Dark Below Gauntlets and Boots, so if he could get a new chest piece he would be equal to me once upgraded.
It is arbitrarily padding the gear and weapons from vendors so that it takes even longer than it should. You earn the marks by doing difficult strikes but that is just NOT GOOD ENOUGH, you also have to do the bounties to get a little trinket (Commendation) which is just a Golden Ticket that you need otherwise the gear and weapons can't be bought.
I know you only added two levels, but come on, it's really frustrating not being able to play the same thing as your friends because you have to wait for them to level up because there's another hoop they have to jump through even though they paid for the DLC and have the right number of marks.
The marks should speak for themselves, not the rank of your faction. Vanguard and Crucible should give you a commendation for the amount of BS you had to endure to earn the required amount of marks.
Just don't have the patience to be grinding even more on a second character the same way I did constantly on my main character. It is an extremely long and boring process made even more tedious by the addition of Commendations.
Guess I wait for Xur and buy an exotic shard, but still it doesn't change the fact that his helmet only goes to 27, so maybe he can make it to 30 but then what?.
I could understand if the Dark Below was free, but the fact that this is $20 DLC (AUD) simply means this arbitrary way of extending gameplay is inexcusable.
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Or he could just buy a faction mark and level s faction using vanguard bounties. Factions give crucible commendations.
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4 RepliesAnd to top it all off...there's no raid matchmaking
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1 ReplyI don't really mind the commendation give me a reason rank my faction which are all rank 5. I find it annoying at times but I lose interest in just play the game till bounty are refreshed the next day.