So, they actually made the engram situation worse? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, August 31, 2017, 18:01 (2693 days ago) @ petetheduck

I had to read it a few times to make sure. There is no way they actually thought this was better, right?

-Disciple

Can anyone think of a reason why engram power is not decided on decoding? What problem are they solving by having it set at creation?

Maybe if other aspects of the engram are determined by the enemy, area, or activity (what the item is), then it makes sense to roll those values at the time it drops. If that is the case, it is probably simpler to roll all values, including power, at that time instead of splitting them up.

That doesn't seem to be happening:

While Engrams do set their power at the time they drop, they don't roll what they contain until the moment you decrypt them.

There has to be a reason power level too isn't determined on roll.