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Edited by frogg626:
11/18/2014 1:17:04 PM
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I hate farming planet materials
Legendary gear - 80 materials
Exotic gear - 64 materials
It probably takes an hour to farm 70-100 materials, big whoop right?
But did I tell you it's going to be the most mind numbingly boring thing you've ever done?
Edit: Alternatives,
buy with glimmer or marks
buy with coins or motes
earn via missions; amount scales by difficulty
earn via crucible
Material bounties
Trade weapon parts or class materials for
Earn during patrols and public events
Edit2-update: You know it's boring when your ascendant materials out number your planet materials
451 ascendant materials
182 planet materials
I even have more strange coins than I do planet materials...
Edit3: Math
Will take you 21.76 hours to farm 1,632 materials if you're gathering 75 per hour on average.
To hit level 29 it will take 304 materials if you have one exotic piece.
To hit level 30 you will most likely replace those pieces with raid equipment. That's another 240
(304+240)3 = 1,632
1,632/75 = 21.76
21.76 very boring hours
This is not taking weapons into consideration.
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#Destiny
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Seriously. Fix it
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I hate farming materials
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It's like if you had to watch an hour of advertisements for every 2 hours of game play.
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Need a 160+ of each all the time. Hate materials more than anything ever.
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BUMP!!!!!!!
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1 ReplyBump bump bump
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8 RepliesI agree that more options need to be available to get the basic upgrade materials. It's by no means enjoyable. It's not bad doing missions and bounties and leveling one piece as u get it, but when you get a lot of drops at once on multiple characters it's a chore. Especially when u are trying to get them raid rdy.
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Edited by the old moloko: 10/24/2014 10:59:08 PMMaterial bounties would be a pretty cool idea! They could actually make the interesting like killing a certain type of enemy or some sort of treasure cage hunt
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I'd like to see mobs have a chance to drop some.
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Buying materials in bulk would be great idea for SC or MOL
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1 ReplyIf u only do it when you need it and only get as much as you need it's not so bad. Regardless it is the most mindless of all the activities in the game
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Worst thing in the game. Specially when you want to have special/heavy with different damage type.
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I agree. I hate it and its kinda boring. Try doing it with a friend. Talking shit while farming makes it almost enjoyable.
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Grab the 6 patrol mission bounty and 3 public events bounty, any other bounty you might be able to do like 100 precision kills and just farm and kill at the same time.
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Just think, originally you could earn materials by completing patrols once you completed enough VIP patrols. Guess Bungie figured that it was too hard to implement or that farmers might break their game.
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You know what? It does suck. But I just do my daily public event on the planet I want to farm and kill two birds with one stone. I usually get two missions, the public event and ~16 materials in 20-25 minutes when I first get on to warm up the aim. Then it's off to something that's not boring patrols.
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2 RepliesEdited by JHarv: 10/24/2014 6:20:55 AMSpirit bloom, spin metal, and relic iron all have cave chest loops. Helium coils are the only one that doesn't, really. Yeah there are lots of coil and chest locations within a somewhat dense vicinity, but it's not a nice loop. And when other people are doing it you're always all over the place screwing each other up with different paths.. Personally I like relic iron. I always run into a few other people doing it and when you get circling together it can be fun 😊
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3 RepliesYe agree. Don't see why we aren't able to exchange marks for materials since you can also exchange materials for marks.
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I agree chasing around for some materials is boring. Best advice i can give is know where the chests are and hopefully you pick up one with 9+ materials, blue engram and a green armor/weapon
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Me too man, me too!!! It's so boooooring!!
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Learn to google chest runs X map. don't be a selfish player if you see others there join fireteam. Personally there should've been others ways to get them. E.g. if you break down an item that use X material you can get said mat Bonus reward in pvp or from strikes/story missions.
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5 RepliesActually, I have a decent spot to get spirit blooms, Helium coils and to some degree Spinmetal. I can harvest about 80 in 30 min. I have a hard time with Relic iron. So It's not a big deal. I go, collect 3 upgrades worth of what I need and return later in the week if I need more...
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6 RepliesI rather farm these materials and buy marks, then play the messed up pvp...
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I have all the shards I need to get both of my characters 2 level 29 but I can't bring myself to farm another 60 for my warlock another hundred fifty for my Titan.
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I kind of enjoy farming. Me and my FT take the sparrows out for a ride and loot some rng chests. We conversate and just chill.
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Never seen an issue with it. Hop on my time breaker drive around pick up materials kill stuff. Public events. Bounties. Patrol missions. Doesn't bother me.
