Why is Bungie reintroducing old problems? (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Sunday, October 04, 2015, 22:08 (3120 days ago) @ Claude Errera

The problem is made worse from the fact that you can only get them from chests, unlike Wormspore. The collection rate is much lower, unless you actually spend significant amounts of time farming them. Was it really necessary to introduce TWO new planetary materials?

So I don't really 'farm' them, in the sense that I spend any real time looking for them... but whenever I go to the dreadnaught (which seems to be every day, at least), I do a round of the four commonest chest locations in the first area (Hull Breach). Adds maybe a minute to whatever I'm doing, gets me 3-4 flakes each time. I've used 50 so far (25 each for two swords), and still have about 150.

So yes, I'm doing something other than pure playing - but it's pretty trivial, and it gets me all I need.

If you're going to the dreadnaught on a regular basis, that's a great way to approach it. I have the same problem with Flakes that I do with the relic iron farming portion of the exotic quest, which is that I'm rarely doing activities that would let me acquire those resources naturally, so the only way for me to complete these quests is to set aside time and farm them. Farming the flakes wasn't so bad, but the relic iron farming was brutal.