I feel you but at least you got something... I just did the nightfall, or tried to at least, and just as I was about to lay the final shots on Sepiks Destiny froze and died on me. The rest of my fireteam completed the strike but I didn't get cred or anything. Crota tonight didn't give me any armor or weapons, and completed VoG on Hard for the first time as well and the only thing that dropped for me was Weapons and boots that I already had. This game sometimes...

I hope Xur has something good this weekend.

Twice in one night

/bragging

Edit: That said, the drop rate on the old Ghorn seems to have gone up since the DLC. Only anecdotal evidence of course, but pre-dlc we had 1 Gjallarhorn in the clan. Since December we've had 8 more.

Course, the usual caveats apply -we have more high level characters running high level content than we used to. And RNG is R.

Weird though.

Given, I got those by dismantling a crappy Rocket Launcher and a Knucklehead Radar helmet that I already had (with better stats).

And no, it's not because he's my hero!

I got 7 Ascendant Energy(which hey, I'm still glad to have), but that completely defeats the purpose of Nightfall.

The Weekly Nightfall Strike is supposed to be one of the hardest and most error-costly challenges that you can ever face in Destiny(save for the Raids), and we're supposed to get untold rewards of the highest caliber that would make the endeavor worth it and make us want to come back. Ascendancy is good, but not for something as challenging as Nightfall.

Lemme tell you a story--one I might have told before.

I have an alarm set on my iPhone to go off at midnight every single night, that reminds me to load up Sonic Dash, Crazy Taxi:City Rush, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, and Sonic Jump Fever.

Shut up.

When I do that, I get a daily reward for coming back, which increases in amount and variety for each day. Each day, I get something different, sometimes new, but most importantly, more.

Now to my point. I love Destiny. I really do.(well, the single player/PvE.) But the only reason I keep coming back every single day, is because of Bounties, Daily Heroics and Public Events--specifically in that order. Since Bungie is....almost pretty much taking a page from those same mobile game mechanics, they should take another one, and increase Daily Heroic Rewards on a progressive, increasing incentive. 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 with a special engram, 85% Legendary, 15% Exotic. People would come fucking running.. And it doesn't have to be all the same thing. A randomizer would be almost perfect in a situation like that:

[*] 2 Energies
[*]2 Energies/2 Shards
[*]4 Shards/2 Energies
[*]5 Energies/3 Shards
[*]10 of either, or just any other "=10" combination.

How good would it feel if you did a Daily and got all that, plus a friggin' Plan C or a Dragon's Breath or (insert Exotic weapon you have a boner for)?

Now, in one of my games, Sonic Dash, if you got to Day 5 and kept going, they'd just keep you at Day 5 and you'd get the best rewards forever as long as you don't screw up and forget to come back. As they quickly realized themselves, doing that in Destiny would be an absolute disaster. So, after Day 5 the rewards reset. That would disharmonize a lot of people, sure. But how about this? After 20 consecutive days of Daily Heroics completed, you get a GUARANTEED EXOTIC!!

How's that!?

- No text -

Literally. Reward was a single engram, which decoded into energy.

First of all, why do engrams still decode to shards or energy? This is dumb, because if I wanted shards or energy I'd DISMANTLE THE ITEM. You only ruin someone's day.

Second of all, you shouldn't get engrams at all for nightfall, but an item read and decoded.

I think last week I ended up with shards on both of my runs. This week I rolled two legendary guns, and I think this is the strength of Nightfall's rewards: it offers a chance at a random roll. Most of the time I shard the guns because the roll isn't good, but that isn't the point.

The point is that this is one of highest odds-on for a random pull in the game: in a given week, a usually average at least one legendary item in the 2 attempts I play. In terms of rewards and not purchases, that's pretty good. The only other source that's close to that reliable is ranking vanguard/crucible/faction, and you get a healthy amount of experience to help you out there as well when you complete Nightfall.

Throw in the fact that nightfall usually offers an interesting and novel challenge, and I'm okay with not pulling down something great every week. The anticipation of a sweet roll is worth more than the reward itself to me anyway.

It's all about the sweet roll.