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by unoudid , Somewhere over the rainbow, Monday, August 14, 2017, 11:08 (2742 days ago) @ BeardFade

First off. It's dumb that you can't just use silver/silver dust to buy any and all ornaments that you want. I would have gladly done this early on in the game for cosmetic only items. Unfortunately, I have come to accept that Bungie just wants to rely on RNG for everything in this game.

With that said, there is a strategy involved in getting what you want to drop from those treasure packages. use your any silver dust you get to buy items you are missing from the eververse kiosk. Those sparrows, emotes, ornaments, etc... all take up a chance in the loot pool for the treasure packages. By eliminating them from the loot pool you greatly increase the odds of getting something you want.

For example. I had pretty much everything available from eververse going into RoI with the exception of the emotes. I purchased a few here and there, but didn't spend a ton of money on them. In order to get the legendary emotes from the free packages I used my silver dust to purchase the blue level emotes which eliminated them from the loot pool. Once those were all gone, every emote I had drop was a legendary version.

You have to go back a long ways in THAB but they stated they were greatly favoring items that you did not have. using that theory, you start eliminating items from the loot pool and you'll be more likely to get what you want.