I'm surprised why not many look at the fact of why it was actually set up this way. The same thing happened with The Taken King in certain ways when it comes to slowing down progress. It's not just the cost that was changed in this game... They reduced the drop rate for cores They increased the RNG that some items will take as long as some did with D1 Y1 RNG They increased turning in gunsmith materials The duplicates haven't changed much from what I can see Gear and weapons drop way below your level majority of the time Random rolls are nowhere near like D1, and that alone changes things in this game to where the grind is not really worth it knowing it's set up like D1 Y1 RNG and It's just perks that are added that slightly improve your Guardian. In D1 the random rolls improved (everything about your Guardian.) If you didn't buy forsaken the gunsmith only has 2 mods to offer and there is no option to buy cores. Gamers were shut out of IB Even Ikora was shut down, not that she really had an inventory in the first place lol. There is no option to reach max level if I'm correct other then running the raid and knowing that was broken. No thanks... I'll wait until Bungie does something with forsaken. Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't you have to buy forsaken to play Gambit? Out of the blue yesterday, it opened up for me. Not that I can rank up or anything that I know of but I guess it's better than nothing. [spoiler]The overall on why things were changed again like usual IMO is because of the lack of content and the lack of events that are kept relevant. This game has so much potential yet it has always seemed to be limited. It's like this company doesn't want to explore that potential that only so much content will be created just to get them by. Look how huge just the tower is, yet it is so empty especially for gamers that didn't buy forsaken. Faction vendors being shut down and the way Bungie has gone about it in D2 was only just putting another unnecessary limit on this game. They were never shut down in D1 and you had more options even if you didn't buy the next expansion. There are a lot of opportunities that are not being used that could make a world of difference if this company would actually put in that effort into this game.[/spoiler]

While I agree that cores should be only for masterworking items, it’s clear it’s just a tactic by bungie to rid all the hardcore players of their great amounts of cores built up since CoO. Once their piles of cores are diminished then they will remove them from the infusion cost. They did the same things with strange coins, legendary shards, planet materials and motes of light all across d1. Nothing new here. #MC4MnotMC4i

This really didn’t bother me at first but, as I played more and received some weapons that I wanted to keep and level up with me it began to become frustrating. I’m only 522 and I have maybe 6 or 7 good weapons like I’d like to switch back and forth with and one that I masterworked (big mistake). Keeping them all up to date with my light level has left me low on cores to the point that I’m now just using any old trash I find anyway, regardless of rolls and whether I find it fun or not.

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Give masterwork cores for dismantling edge transit lul

Totally agree. We either need a lot more masterwork cores dropping or for them to be removed from the infusion. Yeah, keep them to masterwork your stuff (up to level 10) but at the minute I have a ton of cool new gear that I simply cant use as it drops my light level too low for whatever event im trying to do. Even though Id be better with the other gear as it has, say, two perks for linear fusions or pulse rifles etc. Basically, the way you have infusion for guns of the same type is fine, ie sans the masterwork cores. Even guns of different types, the infusion materials I can deal with as I constantly stock up on planet materials every time I go see Spider. And Ive been stuck with almost 100K glimmer as its only used, really, when infusing... which I CANT bloody do. It needs fixing. The rest of the game is freeking excellent now. The stories, the bounties, gambit, the powerful enemies, the anomalies, the mountain of strikes and heroic missions (I did 2 last night that Id never seen before). Bravo. But fix the masterworks dammit :P

Yup, it needs fixing. I like the grind, but not MORE grind after THE grind. This could limit my game time due to this, just too exhausting. Easy solution, reduce amt of resources required and you have got to do something about the cores!!