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7/19/2019 10:26:38 PM
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PSA: Do your Gunsmith bounties!

I see a lot of people still complaining about Enhancement Cores. Granted, I don't think they should be part of infusion either, but they are, so what can we do about that... GUNSMITH BOUNTIES. There's 60 days until Shadowkeep, the next big grindy adventure for us. The Gunsmith offers three daily bounties and two weeklies, per character. The daily bounties change every day, and are very simple. Get x amount of kills with x type of weapon/element. Extremely rewarding, and should be picked up every day. Each bounty rewards 1 enhancement core and 2 mod components. The first weekly is based on the flashpoint of the week. Easily paired with the daily bounties on Tuesday, this often requires precision kills on the flashpoint, offering bonus progress in lost sectors or during heroic adventures on that planet. Double dip, while you're double dipping. Start up a daily heroic adventure on the flashpoint, run over to a lost sector, finish your dailies and this weekly very quickly. This weekly rewards 1 enhancement core, 10 of the flashpoint planets mat, and a random weapon mod. The last weekly is kind of garbage unless you play all activities in the game, if you do play strikes and gambit on the reg though... pick them up for a passive grind throughout the week. This weekly rewards 1 enhancement core, 10 vanguard tokens, a random armor mod, some infamy and valor (no exact numbers on this because I never do this bounty). From this week on, you can earn 27 easy enhancement cores from the first weekly if you do it on all three characters. Another 27 from the shittier weekly bounty, again, if completed on all three characters. The dailies, however, are where the real money is. You have time to earn over 500 enhancement cores between now and Shadowkeep. These dailies take on average 5 minutes or less per character, up to 10 if you include all load and travel times, picking up the bounties, etc. So even if we go with the max time here, 30 minutes a day will get you over 500 enhancement cores. Players in clans also have great incentives to play. Each character that earns 5000 clan XP throughout the week in level 3 or higher clans, will receive 7 enhancement cores a week from Hawthorne. To earn the XP, you can do just about anything, including bounties that give large chunks of XP. More info can be found [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47978]here[/url]. That's just under 200 cores you can snag, just by playing each week for your clan. So to recap, you're looking at 54 cores from now until shadowkeep for weekly bounties. 540 cores for the daily bounties. 189 for your clan XP. All from 30 minutes (or so) a day. 783 enhancement cores out there for the taking. I infused almost every step of the way this season, even masterworked some gear and spent much less than that. Even if you're a weekend warrior with a limited amount of time, you can still earn somewhere around 300 enhancement cores, playing less than an hour on friday saturday and sunday. These bounties can be completed in essentially any activity you choose. Do yourself a favor and do your Gunsmith bounties!

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  • Cores are a rip off. They could at least make them drop from match completions in crucibles and strikes. They could also increase their drop rates from dismantling items.

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