I don't think masterwork cores should be used for infusion unless Bungie was to make getting the cores easier. As of right now, our main source is Spider (In my opinion) which the price doubles after each purchase.

When are you removing the Masterwork cores from infusion? Just hot fix the game already and remove it. Stop delaying, this is stupid.

From a knee-jerk messaging standpoint, I agree; they're masterwork cores, they're for masterworking. But thinking about the way the new economy's likely to go, I don't know that this is really going to be an issue long term. You figure nothing needs to be infused until you're near the soft cap (other wise you're wasting resources doing it over again). And you figure, since all the Year 2 armor has perks, you can just scrap your legendary Year 1 armor, since it's objectively worse. Year 2 weapons have randomized perks, so odds are you'll end up finding new guns you like better than your old ones, meaning there's not likely to be a real pressing need to infuse anything but your favorite legendary guns. Really, I think we're only looking at needing to infuse exotics and a few of our very favorite legendary weapons one time each to the soft cap. After that we're infusing our way to the hard cap, but that's in the end game, where gear and resource drops are highest. And if it's true that infusing like into like is way cheaper, and same into same is ever cheaper than that, then could be we don't actually have THAT many things to infuse at massive expense. There's probably some room to adjust the economy here and there, and Bungie will probably make those changes in the next few weeks/months, but I'm not super apprehensive about how it is right now. Could be I'm wrong, but I get the impression a bunch of folk jumped to conclusions real quick on this issue, and they maybe didn't put very much thought into it ahead of time. Wouldn't exactly be unheard of here. : p

you can buy the cores from Spider with your shards. its not that big a deal really

Yeah.. uh no... play the game. Full masterwork gear should be difficult and coveted. Not everything is handed to you on a silver platter. Millennials....

Masterwork Cores for infusion was a bad call on Bungie, now no one will keep a masterworked weapon or armor piece because the need the cores. Plus no one is going to purposely masterwork a weapon or armor pieces costing what it costs now for cores. Masterwork cores will be coveted for infusion. they took what was "special" about masterworks and wrecked it imo, because they had to add something else for currency to the infusion process. The glimmer, shards and mats were good enough.

No matter what you crybabies say of how we are crying about not liking the new grinding system. Yet I am a D1 Y1 veteran, and this is really unacceptable material costs just to infuse my gear to a higher level. I'm supposed to around 501, but I'm 466, and since I'm nowhere near the amount of mats I need (not including Legendary shards and glimmer) and the only true way of getting mwcs(Masterwork cores) is buying them from the spider bro. Love the character, hate his prices, so I just don't bother. And even if they don't change this issue, which is exactly what I think, they should at least resolve it. How so??? Well if you remember D1 Y2 (glorious times ☺️), or heard of it. Or you didn't I'm gonna tell you. If you over leveled (Leveling up over the max, in order nowadays to obtain bright engrams without using the paid in-game currency, [i]silver[/i]) you would get 1 item of the sort called a [i]"Mote of Light"[/i] which (Since you had to level up your gear to actually use the perks of weapons, items and ghost shells, like [i]Dragonfly [/i] in D2, or in D1 terms, [I]Firefly[I/]). But, you could actually use the item for infusing as well just like mwcs! And you only had to use one of them per item no matter what it was. And [b]BAM!!![/i][/b] Instantly better, not expensive what so ever. I wasn't even interested in it, but I reached the max level in that game, had most of what I wanted to wear... Equiped! So... Why not do that for this situation if it isn't fixed, or changed? Everytime you level yourself up, you get a good 2-4 mwcs! (Bungie would choose 3 probably.) So you get some eververse loot for sum style 😎, and you can grind for some cores to level yourself up! Honestly just an idea I came up with, hopefully some people agree!

What I think is -blam!-ing bullshit is that we can't farm masterwork cores through raids anymore. That was the best part of knocking out a few raids each week, was getting the almost guaranteed cores when you break down the duplicate gear drops. Now the drop rate went from 50% to 10%. Thank God I have over 100 cores, but knowing I can't farm them anymore changes tactics up a bit. With that being said, I still have only infused about 4 weapons, and that wasn't until I hit 500. I'm not an idiot trying to upgrade my legendaries to 450 just to get a 460 blue drop 5 minutes later, lol.

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[spoiler]And by the way to people on the opposite side of this post..., there is a lot more us "complaining" about the infusion problem, then you guys saying "it's fine the way it is." Or "Just buy them from spider." Or, my personal favorite. "StOp CoMpLaInInG!" It's gettin old.[/spoiler]