Regarding loot drops... (Destiny)

by slycrel , Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 16:06 (3286 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

...I'm sure this is intentional.

It's fun to get new crap. New crap more often is fun. This was their original intent, until the loot cave kinda exploited a loophole. So they backed off some. I'm glad they are upping it again.

Making some things actually rare in-game is good. Making too much out of reach is demoralizing. It's a fine line. I think they've tweaked their system in a good way to help more people get closer to what they want in general, while still keeping a bunch of things relatively out of reach.

Re-forging gives a sink to some of the materials they have. Disassembly gives out a mote and a few weapons parts -- basically enough to get a single re-roll of a weapon.

The real bottleneck appears to be etheric light. I saw one drop between 3 people for 3 nightfalls. Everything else converts to currency on top of the real goal -- a new chance to get what you really want.