A weekend with Xur (Destiny)

by unoudid , Somewhere over the rainbow, Monday, December 15, 2014, 14:08 (3444 days ago) @ Speedracer513

I really do not like the new exotic upgrade system. It's beyond crazy how much time is required to now upgrade weapons/armor that you had previously leveled.

Here's my weekend shopping in review:
- Ruin Wings (13 SC)
- Voidfang Vestments (13 SC) - (Better Roll, Sharded old version)
- Truth (17 SC) - Decided to buy new instead of upgrading (will upgrade my other when available)
- 4 Helmet Engrams (100 Motes of Light) - Received the following:

Achlyophage Symbiote (better roll, sharded old version)
The Glasshouse
Obsidian Mind (Sharded since I received a better one from Nightfall)
Apotheosis Veil (better roll, sharded old version)

- Urn of Sacrifice (1 SC) x2
- Exotic Shards? (I bought some but don't remember how many)
Upgrades (1 Exotic Shard, 7000 slimmer each)
- Suros x2
- Icebreaker x2
- The Last Word

Total bill from Xur:
- 80 Strange Coins (35 in the form of exotic shards)
- 100 Motes of Light
- 35,000 Glimmer

In order to get the glimmer needed for the exotic upgrades + weapon & armor upgrades to get to level 31 to raid I spent a good 3+ hours glimmer farming on the exclusion zone, ?? hours doing patrols.

It finally hit me this weekend how crazy the new exotic upgrade path has now become. It's a good thing my girlfriend was out of town this weekend so I could spend 20-30 hours in game trying to upgrade my previously fully leveled weapons and new vendor gear that is better than my older raid gear.

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Pretty scathing opinion piece on Polygon - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 10:23
- Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:34
  - Radiant Materials - EffortlessFury, 2014-12-15, 10:36
    - Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:40
      - Radiant Materials - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 10:57
        
        Radiant Materials - stabbim, 2014-12-15, 12:37
  - Radiant Materials - Blackt1g3r, 2014-12-15, 10:46
    - Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 10:48
      - Radiant Materials - petetheduck, 2014-12-15, 11:28
        
        I feel no attachment to my gear - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:33
        
        Radiant Materials - CruelLEGACEY, 2014-12-15, 12:07
        
        Radiant Materials - petetheduck, 2014-12-15, 12:45
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:49
      - Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:05
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:12
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:15
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:19
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:24
        
        Radiant Materials - stabbim, 2014-12-15, 12:42
        
        Radiant Materials - Ragashingo, 2014-12-15, 12:48
        
        Radiant Materials - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:58
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:03
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:59
        
        Radiant Materials - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:02
        
        Radiant Materials - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:04
        
        +1, tbh - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:07
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 12:49
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:53
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 13:15
        
        Either way, that's a lot - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:20
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:59
        
        Does psn track play time? That could corroborate with b.net - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 14:18
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - RC, 2014-12-15, 14:39
        
        Only 1 more than Levi - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:43
        
        Only 1 more than Levi - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:57
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 13:28
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - scarab, 2014-12-15, 13:34
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 13:52
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:55
        
        Echo Chamber, guys - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 13:57
        
        You never will understand because you don't listen - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:11
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - scarab, 2014-12-15, 14:08
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:31
        
        You've been asking that question for the last 3 months - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 14:38
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - scarab, 2014-12-15, 15:03
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:48
        
        Don't listen to him. - ckamp, 2014-12-19, 08:38
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:04
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - scarab, 2014-12-19, 10:21
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 10:51
        
        asking the same question repeatedly and apparently - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:56
        
        Exploring - Leviathan, 2014-12-19, 14:31
        
        That's a big post :-) - scarab, 2014-12-21, 02:22
        
        Exploring - scarab, 2014-12-21, 04:29
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:43
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:08
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:15
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:44
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:52
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:52
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 15:59
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 16:03
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 16:10
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 16:08
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:09
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:46
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 13:48
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 13:55
        
        I *actually* LOLd at this - Speedracer513, 2014-12-15, 13:57
        
        That's because you play as it was designed. - CruelLEGACEY, 2014-12-15, 13:56
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - scarab, 2014-12-15, 14:19
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:23
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:46
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:00
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 11:10
        
        games with investment systems are NOT designed to be - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:12
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - scarab, 2014-12-19, 11:00
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:07
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 11:12
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:26
        
        Doing things that you don't want to do in a game is a grind - dogcow, 2014-12-19, 12:30
  - Destiny has made me enjoy Dota more. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:17
    - Is this really a fair analogy? - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:20
      - Is this really a fair analogy? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:23
      - Is this really a fair analogy? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:28
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:32
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:46
        
        Hmm...you're on to something here. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:51
        
        I'm bumming myself out - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 12:04
        
        You bums - ZackDark, 2014-12-15, 13:06
- Eh, whatever. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 10:52
  - Eh, whatever. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:21
    - Eh, whatever. - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:27
    - Eh, whatever. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-15, 11:36
  - Eh, whatever. - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 13:17
    - You guys are happy-hardcore - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 13:54
      - I like that term! - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 14:59
- I honestly agree with this whole article. - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:12
  - I mean, I agree...I just don't really care, either :/ - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 11:14
- So we are all in agreement? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:29
  - Nah. - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 11:44
    - DBO: Taking a shard into the hellmouth - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:52
      - DBO: Taking a shard into the hellmouth - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 12:09
  - So we are all in agreement? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 11:50
    - So we are all in agreement? - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 11:56
      - So we are all in agreement? - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:09
        
        So we are all in agreement? - RaichuKFM, 2014-12-15, 12:10
        
        So we are all in agreement? - kidtsunami, 2014-12-15, 12:14
        
        So we are all in agreement? [img] - Spec ops Grunt, 2014-12-15, 12:15
  - So we are all in agreement? - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:15
    - We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 12:21
      - :p - Ragashingo, 2014-12-15, 12:26
      - We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:37
        
        We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 14:53
        
        We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 14:54
        
        We need to build a statue. - Leviathan, 2014-12-15, 15:02
        
        We need to build a statue. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 08:35
        
        We need to build a statue. - Cody Miller, 2014-12-19, 10:42
        
        We need to build a statue. - Claude Errera, 2014-12-19, 11:10
        
        The engineering talent isn't gone - scarab, 2014-12-15, 15:08
  - Investment team didn't decide to make a game with no content - scarab, 2014-12-15, 12:19
    - Investment team didn't decide to make a game with no content - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 12:29
      - I think they are being paid to be top of the charts - scarab, 2014-12-15, 13:24
- A weekend with Xur - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 14:08
  - A weekend with Xur - Durandal, 2014-12-15, 14:58
    - A weekend with Xur - Cody Miller, 2014-12-15, 15:00
      - A weekend with Xur - iconicbanana, 2014-12-15, 15:02
    - Broke for Iron Banner Now - unoudid, 2014-12-15, 15:01
      - Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - Kahzgul, 2014-12-15, 18:02
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - HavokBlue, 2014-12-15, 18:08
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 04:14
        
        Glimmer Grind is more boring than Mats Grind Was - HavokBlue, 2014-12-16, 04:56
        
        Kill counts will stop too sometimes. - Revenant1988, 2014-12-16, 05:51
        
        Yep - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 08:22
        
        Citadel on Venus - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 08:36
        
        Citadel on Venus - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 09:04
        
        Citadel on Venus - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 09:10
        
        You don't need 4 or 5 - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 09:11
        
        You don't need 4 or 5 - iconicbanana, 2014-12-16, 09:16
        
        Fair enough :) - ZackDark, 2014-12-16, 09:22
        
        Citadel on Venus - Schedonnardus, 2014-12-16, 14:08
- So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-15, 20:10
  - So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - Cody Miller, 2014-12-16, 03:44
    - So I take it Bungie patched out BXR and Sword Flying... *NM* - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-16, 21:32
      - Have you given up on gaming entirely? - scarab, 2014-12-17, 00:14
        
        Have you given up on gaming entirely? - HawaiianPig, 2014-12-18, 21:36
        
        If you are short on time then avoid Destiny - scarab, 2014-12-18, 23:42

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