You can get ascendant shards from hitting max rank with most, if not all the upgraded vendors with rank rewards. Another thing I do is put the greater core harvest mod on my ghost for whatever core playlist I like to play the most. That way over time I'm building up stacks of prisms to exchange for an ascendant shard. I also don't buy enhancement prisms in order to exchange them for ascendant shards it cost too much legendary shards.

Dude, we've just come off a 26 week season that had Lake and Servitor as GM's. All you play is PVE, even if you'd taken 25 weeks to crawl to the pinnacle cap Lake was the final GM of the season, playing 3 GM's a day for a week would have filled your inventory and postmaster. It's literally harder to fail Lake than it is to complete it. I hate it when other people say this but this is a you problem bro, plan your game time more efficiently, the rewards are there for the taking.

Homie did NOT find the resounding support he thought he would by posting this here. Just a bunch of people telling him that maybe he should try actually playing the game 😂

Does a casual player need a masterworked exotic? No.

In ten years we all complain about loot not getting automaticly unlocked after login.

Unfortunately they created a very unstaggered and uneven ecosystem. Players who do GMs have literally been SWIMMING in AS meanwhile those who either don't enjoy NFs - remembering these are only glorified Strikes not some premium content as they're spun to be - or -blam!- on doing the hardest available matchmade activities have little to none. It's far too steep a discrepancy. It's the same with droprates for NF weapons: 100% guaranteed droprates Adept versions Vs non-Adept barely dropping (probably around 10% for a single drop). It'll also be the same for the new Ascendant currency for upgrading enhanced perks. It barely drops for matchmaking - again probably ~10% yet for those with a few premade teams these too will be almost guaranteed. It's close to an everything (and then they complain as to wanting more rewards) or nothing ecosystem. The debates are typically myopic to this however because it isn't a problem for certain players therefore in their minds it isn't a fundamental problem - they genuinely can't see past their noses. And of course with ever increasing numbers of mods and a whole range of harder content as well as PvP you absolutely can well use those 10 little energy slots - don't be fooled by the 'yOu DoNt nE3d MoR3' - thinking is hard after all I guess. But this indeed is the problem of companies following, changing and and catering the game to an UNREPRESENTATIVE small group of Streamer-YouTubers.

Dude, you can buy legit Ascendant Shards at Rahool now once per week if I remember right. It is easier than before. Stop asking for "hand outs". If you dislike grinding, don't play a game ABOUT grinding.

I find it incredibly fitting that the person complaining about this is named "PVP SUX" Play endgame content and you will get endgame materials.

Most of the replies are going to be dismissive "lol spam low tier nightfalls all season" or "lmao l2p" or "rofl quit masterworking exotics problem solved." I agree they make it too expensive and I play pretty much daily. It's tedious having to spam boring pve stuff just to have choices on what you want to wear and still get the boosted stats.

I am casual. Yet i have 70% of my exotic armors masterworked. Because since season 8 we got 3-4 of those golf balls per season pass. And GM and master NF gives them out a lot.

just farm grandmaster, master dungeon, you don't need to masterwork

If you're not doing the hardest endgame content then you literally don't need it MW'd Just leave it at 9. I'm a filthy casual and I have tons of MW'd exotics.. Just do what I do and wait for easy GMs and farm the crap out of them 😁