At the very least the Gunsmith should actually be a gunsmith! And I don't mean in a re-roll perk way like the Iron Banner vendor. He should sell weapon parts like scopes, barrels, muzzles, and butt stocks. These weapon parts would affect range, accuracy, impact and stability. Maybe you could only change or add one or two custom parts to any randomly rolled weapon. Obviously exotics should not be customizable, but perhaps there could be some exotic weapon parts to possible give our legendary weapons a unique part like a cool scope like Suros or Pocket Infinity. Or maybe even have a very high end part or two for each elemental part to finally added 'burn' to our favorite weapons for NightFall. And by high end I mean something way over the glimmer cap. So my plan would be to remove weapons from the gunsmith stock permanently. We already have two Quartermasters that could carry those entry level weapons. Instead the gunsmith would only make modifications. Maybe his reputation could be build up by recycling all those weapon parts that we break down with and also become a useless currency. Also do away with marks and just use glimmer as currency for weapons and armor. We already have commendations which would still be needed to make purchases for the higher level armor and weapons. The outfitter could be changed similar to the gunsmith and add true customization to our armor, but visually: colors, artistic etching, materials. The speaker should have some type of influence over our light right? I mean he's our direct communication contact with the creator of our light. So maybe he should be the person to go see when we want to make stat adjustments to our armor. He should also sell exotic 'runes' that could add buffs to our legendary armor. Perhaps damage buffs for certain enemy races, like raid armor, or shield buffs against certain types of elemental damage. Everything should be scaled though, we should be able to create our own exotics, but our legendary gear should be personalized and more fun to use, making them even harder to scrap. Factions need a better role in the game and better gear that we can 'earn' through rep and glimmer. The shipwright and special procurement NPCs are completely useless. I thought for sure they were adding something to to special delivery window of the 'post office' when it was closed off and boarded up a couple of weeks ago, but nope, smh. The cryptarch can still be a dick, I don't care any more but at least give us an option to buy a rng engram for rare and legendary armor and weapons just like Zur does. No promise of the armor panning out to something for your class or the heavy weapon engram decoding into a great rocket launcher, instead of a weaker machine gun. Lastly, and going back to weapons, some need to be reclassified. A 50 caliber sniper rifle was designed for armored targets, not infantry, lol. Sniper rifles should move down to the heavy weapons slot. Face it IB packs one helluva punch on its own comparable to some rocket launchers if you as I me, shot for shot. Hand Cannons are side arms, meant to be back up weapons in modern warfare, they should move to the special weapons classification. Or maybe we should just have three slots to equip with any weapon of our choosing so long as we don't equip more than one exotic at a time. So if I want to play a real ranged type of character, I should be able to carry a scout rifle, hand cannon and sniper rifle all at the same time. And since character classes don't have drastic differences, we should also be able to wear less armor as a Titan, to increase our agility and play as a sniper; or increase our armor as a hunter to really become that CQC warrior, all shotguns and knives and able to take few more bullets. Okay, sorry for the long read. I said this was my last suggestion/idea three ideas ago, lol. And why can't our companion apps really be companions and become second screens? No more waiting for loading screens in the heat of battle to use that heavy ammo synth, do it right from your tablet with a tap of the screen. And don't get me started on online shopping we we can't be in the Destiny game world. Don't get started on this companion app! Argh!

The thing is this is an issue for a lot of people like me and you but it's not even close to an issue for just as many people. I notice this when raiding with randoms who are hoping for a particular ascendant material when opening VOG chest or saying they need more strange coins if Xur sells a primary etc. I'm like...I have 500+ ascendant materials and 200 some odd coins. I played with some guys not long ago and one was saying man I've got like 40 coins saved up Xur needs to sell something good soon. Me...oh I have 200. The whole team almost in unison WTF? From doing what?? Me...just playing the game...doing weeklies and stuff. So there's still plenty people out there who aren't in our situation. Us day one players who have had 3 characters for most of that time and raid every week have just pushed the game to its limit.

Solution. Double price on all xur inventory. Sell heavy synth for motes of light instead of strange coins. Buy vanguard/crucible/faction rep for acendent materials. Add raid bounty vendor that sells raid gear for radiant materials I think glimmer is fine as is.

The scary thing is what if Bungie really DOESN't learn and introduces "super-duper radiant shards/energy" for HoW? If there is yet another currency or currencies added it'll be a game changer. I think that'd be it for me. But, in May the weather here is perfect so i won't be logging many hours at all in destiny. Too much golf and building old cars out in my shop

Lol, you didn't even touch the mess that is commendations. After buying an armor and weapon or two, they then stack with no use at all, not even materials. They need some more avenues to swap currency out, especially with so many currently. But also need more worthwhile things to spend on, possibly new features, etc.

This is the only aspect of why I despise this game. I don't mind the grind until the grind becomes pointless and unrewarding. The only items left for me to grind for are black hammer, ghorn, and the crux drop. After having +1000 hours of the grind I still can not get these

I agree with OP more content needs to be added to the vendors. Variety is lacking and everyone looks the same in this game. I'm afraid they will make the currencies more difficult to obtain and leave it at that. There should be enough guns armor and gadgets to make it impossible to have a complete exotic collection. Bungie please use some imagination less variety to currencies more to actual stuff we can buy.

I think it'd be interesting to see some stats from Bungie of who the Destiny players are... Example: [i] 1 million active players (log in past month) 25% have more than 2 hours per day 10% have more than 100 coins/100 energies etc etc..[/i] While I fully agree with OP, I think it'd be great to know, how many hardcore, softcore, casuals, newbies are playing the game... How many [active] players does still need X coins/energies/shards or whatever per week? How many players are playing without any real reward awaiting (fully upgraded) and just awaiting next DLC. How many active players have finished VoG, or CE?

All currencies need to exist in a gold standard environment with trading/exchanging options across the board. The current system is like the original Disneyland ticketing system.