[u]And no, im not so much talking about just weapons, as i am the whole of the vanilla sets.
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In an interview about the taken king a while back, Deej was asked about vanilla gear, and immediately jumped (to) the gun and talked about shadow price. As much as im sure everyone wants a shadow price, it seems like they are stepping back, stat wise, to those ideas of higher impact auto rifles. However i think a lot of players are more concerned about gear as far as armor goes.
Vanilla gear from the Vanguard and Crucible (which by far was probably the coolest in most peoples opinions) is extremely hard, if not impossible to obtain despite its lower light level, barely even standing up against VoG gear. Ive heard rumors that they can drop in engrams received in tiger strikes, but i can't confirm and i'm afraid to deny it. However i understand that the armor is regarded as a sort of trophy of being a veteran to have anything from those vanilla days, but hear me out.
As much of a trophy as it is, after the Great Dismantling, many people ditched their old gear sets because of the lack of space, and because raid gear was so much better, and then when dark below came around with new vanguard gear, we realized we would never be able to get those armor sets again.
All im saying is there should be some way to get these sets , and while it should be a bit harder if they are treasures or trophies or marks of being a veteran, people want these, and plenty of people didnt get a chance to get them. (all i have left is my Ghost Angel and Dustwalker cloaks)
[b]tldr; We didnt get a warning about vanilla gear leaving, and we should be able to still get it somehow[/b].
Ive had a few ideas, though id like to hear if the community has anything, and as a rule i suppose, you get them in their base stats (300 damage or whatever defense)
1) a vendor in the tower akin to Xur, who sells them for motes/coins/marks once a month (just less often than xur) who comes and sells random pieces of armor, maybe One weapon and two armor pieces, a random piece of armor from any one of the four sets.
2) make Tiger poop out rewards more often, or perhaps leave them in the legendary pool, so turning in a legendary engram will pop with a vanilla piece of gear every so often, or maybe even more often than other legendaries due to their sparsity otherwise.
3) have the vanguard and shaxx sell one legendary engram that guarantees a random vanilla piece of armor, again at original base stats, and each engram is worth 20 motes, or maybe some strange coins, or maybe 100 marks (more than armor, less than a helmet)
Any other ideas? please comment!
Edit: huh, this got some attention I didn't expect. Share this around! Id like to see what everyone thinks, and maybe get some more opinions.
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Edited by MiltyPig: 8/2/2015 12:26:26 PMIt be cool if they wove a story into bringing back vanilla gear to sell. A story about the great dismantling. Which was the rush to acquire better weaponery to iradicate Crota before the darkness consumed the guardians. A vendor of some sort "junk man" which would come monthly or only available to vanilla players, to keep them the trophies of the original players. That would be a sick way to bring vanilla gear back.
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Maybe they could add costumes into the game so you couod wear old gear and look cool but still be light level 34?
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Vanguard should sell Vanilla gear again. It looked like a beast. I agree with you and I think there should be another vendor with Vanilla gear. Not chocolate gear. ------- hairflip
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Agreed
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I just want the awesome ghost angel armor set ;(
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The Reef Cryptarch gave me an Armada chest piece from a Legendary Engram, so it can happen. It would be really fun if there was a 'travelling junk man' that came to the Tower every now and then selling older stuff, or maybe the Vanguard has a fire sale from over-stocked, older items that they want to get rid of. Something fun.
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Shadow Price master race
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I have all my Hunter Dustwalker armour and cloak and most of my vanilla weapons. I have ascended it so I am level 34 with original Vanilla gear. I also ascended Shadow Price.
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I was thinking about this today. I would love to see this gear come back. I havent played since vanilla, I started a few months ago. But after see pictures of this old gear I was really impressed. Just seems like a waste to never see or rarely see this gear anywhere.
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I read this from someone, but there should be a weekly thing where the vendors sell vanilla gear, TDB and House of wolves gear. Or an agent of the nine, come once a day to sell these prestigious artefacts.
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will they ever respond to this, I really want dustwalker gear back for my Hunter!!!!
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Edited by MrTinyGoats: 7/27/2015 5:16:40 AMThe Vanguard and Crucible inventories should be on a weekly reset so it could sell Vanilla, TDB, and HoW armor and guns.
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Bump, its retarded to phase out old gear completely if you're going to keep it in data files, you're literally reducing number of available items in game with every dlc pack. Though I suppose its less significant now, I'm sure take king will bring crapload of gear.