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4/21/2016 9:02:05 PM
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Can we get rid of Exotic shards from infusion?
This is something that really bothers me about the Exotics in this game. For example, I have a Suros Regime at 294 LL that I want to infuse for 1 point. To do that, I need to burn 1 whole piece of Armour or Weapon just to get 1 point higher LL.
Every time I get a new Exotic I get a little bit excited then I just sigh because any kind of infusion requires burning a whole other Exotic just to get it higher. Whether it's 1 point or 20, it chews up another potentially useful piece of gear just for what?, to provide an extra grind?.
There's little to no incentives on these Exotics. Every one of them doesn't do anything better and in most cases is so situational you may as well just go find some Legendary gear because it's almost guaranteed to be better.
I think it would be fair to make every Exotic a guaranteed drop at a minimum of 300. I've dismantled every kind of blue from 250-300 trying to get Exotics higher, but at the end of the day it's about compromise which is a really crappy and dishonest way of treating what is supposed to be THE BEST gear in the game. It's a joke really.
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Edited by StartedFriend42: 4/23/2016 4:03:36 AMIf you buy a heavy exotic for 1 exotic shard and 2500 glimmer and level it up(15motes) then dismantle it you get 2 shards 5 weapon parts 5 and 5 motes they r still easy as pie
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1 ReplyEdited by TRDoug: 4/22/2016 1:03:27 PMWhat I don't like is using an exotic to infuse a legendary also takes an exotic shard....... If dismantling and exotic to upgrade a legendary, which don't take exotic shards, I should GET a shard not loose one!
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1 ReplyExotic shards definitely became more difficult to acquire ever since Xur stopped selling them. Now everyone's strange coins just stack up
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1 ReplyXur should sell shards for about 15 coins i guess. That would be fair enough.
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Yeah it's shitty I had amassed 67 or so shards year one easy but year two you seriously do not get enough it's a scam
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1 ReplyI got hundreds of shards because of all the year one exotics dropping 2 shards and duplicates, are you a year two? If you are, that's how it was when shards were first introduced, everyone didn't have enough but over time they will stack up.
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4 RepliesYup it sucks. A pretty good work around is to spend a shard on an exotic heavy you already have at the kiosk. Then put motes of light into it until it's maxed (takes 5-7 I think), or just use it until it is maxed. Dismantle and now you have two shards. Do it again and you have 3. Etc
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Agreed
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Amen.
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I had ~30+ pre-Update and now I'm down to ~20 week two. The problem is that the game doesn't drop Exotics much anymore (except when exchanging materials for Three of Coins, which is an exhaustive economy,) let alone Xur not selling them either.
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Edited by GoofballPath53: 4/22/2016 12:36:11 PMExactly! I had 18 Exotic Shards before the April Update an now I have 8! I'm really pissed too because they could do what they did in Year 1 and that's have Xur sell Exotic Shards! (It was only 9 sc I believe back then) But nooooo, Bungie just wants to make it a little more "grindier," which in his case it just makes me even more angry at Bungie. I swear they never learn. After the lies, the terrible campaigns, Bungie is already on thin ice but they're to stupid to realize how pissed the community is getting at them. And this right here is one reason the community is pissed
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1 Replythe only thing they should change is requiring a shard to update an exotic with another exotic. i understand them for other reasons. it used to suck back pre april update but now its 1:1 so its nbd anymore for normal infuse but exotic to exotic should be normal infusion
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Agreed that it seems excessive. Best strategy is to just hold off upgrading exotics till you hit max light level. And as mentioned below, you can grind for more exotic shards or basically spend motes of light to buy more.
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Yes, when the April Update came, I had 27 shards. Now I have 10
