While saving your cryptarch upgrade packages won't work, they're pre rolled, saving the ENGRAMS to upgrade him once TDB comes out will get new cryptarch packages that have a chance to drop good stuff.

Are the faction reward packages 'pre-rolled'? If not, couldn't you just keep getting them like you normally would now and use what you've already received and saved after the HoW download?

So far Bungie have a bit of a track record of Public Event rewards misbehaving after an update. Last time those with a full Postmaster managed to grab themselves a wealth of Radiant materials.

You should be saving them up anyway to make the most of telemetries, but if you wait 'til after the update you might get something extra special. Maybe.

Man, I've been doing it wrong. I'd open packages to see if there was anything I wanted to apply the telemetries to, and I assumed telemetries magnified turning in bounties and shooting stuff and that's it.

What I'm figuring out, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that any interaction in the tower gives you experience that can be magnified by the telemetries, right?

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I graduate from Grad school on the 22nd, so now I'll actually have time to play me some Destiny :).

Congrats! I know you played the beta and have been around for a while. Look forward to you joining in on some of the organized sessions.

I graduate from Grad school on the 22nd, so now I'll actually have time to play me some Destiny :).

Hey, congrats! I lost track of you after the Reach launch - will be nice to see you back. :)

But Bungie hasn't said one way or the other. I believe last time it worked this way though, engrams acquired before TDB did NOT give TDB gear.

However! daily reward packages and the like give mad experience. So hoarding them (regardless of their contents) is a good idea so that you will have a ton of XP at your disposal as soon as HoW drops.

I'm not sure that it's ever been mentioned by Bungie, but the word on the street (reddit st.) is that Cryptarch packages generate engrams when opened. So if you store them up you can get new gear immediately. Vanguard packages are supposedly different, and have pre-determined engrams inside. However, even if this is how it worked for TDB, that doesn't mean it'll work that way for HoW.

How do we know that the content of packages (or engrams) are predetermined before we open (or decrypt) them? Has Bungie said so?

If we don't know, and considering that the loot tables are about change, wouldn't it be prudent to not open or decrypt anything until after HoW drops if we care primarily about getting new stuff?

With specific regard to engrams- if you read the description very closely before you cash it in, you can tell what you will get, to some extent.

For example, you might come across a purple primary weapon engram in the wild. Read the description before you redeem it. The text can be different, and that will clue you into if you are actually going to get what was advertised (in this case, a primary weapon) or if you will just get mats.

As to your other questions, idk.

Save those Marks anyway though. The new vendor gear won't be stronger that existing stuff, but you'll be able to reroll it.

Btw, has it been said that only vendor-purchased gear can be rerolled? Or any HoW gear? Would certainly give an incentive to collect marks if its the former.