Exactly! The combination of condescension and stupidity from so many posters was absolutely ridiculous...and how hilarious to revisit. I have 20 exotic engrams ready to decrypt that I've been saving for the past month.

Enjoy your Crest of Alpha Lupis

I have been collecting legendary marks. I currently have 425 marks saved up. (Save your trials bounties that give you marks) so I can buy a three off the wall day one. Also saving stuff to infuse them up.

I'm saving them, but not going out of my way to collect them. If it works, great. I'll have a head start on the grind. If it doesn't, oh well. Same infusion fodder than if I decrypted them now. Either way, I can't lose. I'll either win or break even. The engrams from different eras (vanilla, Dark Below, etc) are coded differently. They appear the same from a players perspective (same name and sprite) but have a different code. While it's confirmed they do this with each era, its not confirmed if they do this for each patch. While I'm not holding my breath, it is still very possible that this strategy will pay off. As for the people saying engrams are determined when you pick them up, this have been proven false. An example is players (myself included) picking up exotic engrams while under 300, and waiting to decrypt them after breaking 300. If this claim were true, all of the saved exotics would have been 290, but those who saved saw a mix of 310s and 290s. Now all of this doesn't mean Bungie won't do something to prevent those who saved from getting new exotics, but there's also no proof that it's already been done. Only time will tell. And like I already said, if all we get is "old" exotics, then its the same infusion fodder that I'd get now.

They're gonna wind up doing what they always do and lock engrams to this patch. Why don't people get this yet?

I'm 309 light and dropped a 290 Hawkmoon from an engram last night, there are no guarantees my friend

NOOOOOOOOOOB!!!! that type of thing doesn't work, they will only decrypt into something that's available at the engram's time of drop

Got 72 legendary and exotic engrams in the vault

I was gonna decrypt a Primary Exotic Engram and someone in my raid team pointed out to save it for the update. Now I'm deciding if I should decrypt it or not.

You've Summoned Me

This has been happening for every release. Engrams acquired pre release of new exotics will not contain these new exotics.

Items are locked in with their rng code when picked up- light level is to be determined when turning the item in based on where you're at on the scale. You'll have better chances when you're already well above 300-310 to land more 310's. But when it comes what it is- it's picked from the available data base at the time. So all your new stuff isn't going to magically change what you already picked up because those new exotics weren't in the loot pool at that time.

This won't work.