Faction Engrams (Criticism)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 20:32 (2290 days ago) @ Claude Errera

So, can I or can I not get the cool future war cult titan armor that showed up for y2 from this event?

Through completing the Ornaments, yes.

I really want the FWC helmet ornament, but to get it I have to have the full set. I either need to have a lot of luck on RNG, or grind out to rank 10 (200 tokens) and buy all the armor (25 tokens each). If a public event gives 5, I need to run 40 events to just rank up. Then 5 more for each piece of armor I don't receive along the way. That's somewhere between 40 and 65 public events, then run the nightfall.

I know I can get tokens from other sources, but I'm guessing public events are the fastest if they don't have the cooldown. Are reputation bundles resetting every day?

This is silly. I played for a couple of hours last night - a whole bunch of different things, with a friend. (A little crucible, a few strikes, running around Mercury to finish the Flashpoint - a standard night.)

I ended up with 137 tokens (and 3 of the 5 armor pieces).

I don't know how long 65 (or even 40) public events would take, but I'm DAMN sure it's more than a couple of hours.

Just play the game. You'll get what you need.

So, I just cashed in 8 engrams with New Monarchy. Those engrams dropped the following faction related items:

• titan but towel (which I unlocked anyway for turning IN engrams....)
  
• titan but towel ornament (twice)
  
• new monarchy shoulders
  
• new monarchy auto rifle
  
• new monarchy side arm

The rest were either NM shaders (not complaining) or unrelated weapons and armor.

I gotta say, I'm disappointed :/

Maybe RNG wasn't on my side, but I don't think that I should be getting NON-faction gear from these engrams....

The payout doesn't seem right, but that might just be in my head.

It is my first faction rally so I admit I wasn't already aware how it works.