The boring cave (Destiny)

by Monochron, Monday, September 22, 2014, 10:39 (3521 days ago) @ rliebherr

Grind rep and marks. That's how you get legendary gear. It's clear to me that the game was designed to prevent farming of engrams and promote playing patrols for rep and strikes for marks. You'll spend just about as much time grinding for the marks and the rep and buying the gear as you would hoping RNG drops you each piece of gear from the loot cave.

So far this isn't true. Have you invested serious time into both? Because I have and the cave gives a much higher drop/hour than reps/marks. Doing bounties very rarely provides any types of drops (it's dependent on the type of bounty obv.), and the loot cave provides about 4 or 5 every 10 minutes. Plus a huge bonus to your Cryptarch rank which pays out with 3+ engrams at every level.

The loot cave panders to the instant gratification and immediate disappointment of having the purple engram decrypted to a blue; however, the marks and rep grind is the long game that is ultimately more rewarding and efficient.

Haven't seen a single Purple engram from anything so . . .

To get extocis, replace marks and rep with Strange Coins in the previous paragraph. Grind the weekly nightfall and the weekly strike on higher difficulties.

Can't play those :/