THAB 8.09.18 (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, August 09, 2018, 19:41 (2374 days ago) @ Harmanimus

I hope you all want to farm that spinmetal some more!

Destination materials will become the primary source of destination reputation, and destination materials will be a cost to infuse weapons and gear. (Seriously, fucking why?)

So, I have mixed feelings about this. I like streamlining the reputation currencies, and having something to use them for given that thus far the destination loot tables aren't changing (or at least not that I have heard?) so I'll continue to not have much use for those materials.

I'm not a fan of stuff like this generally, but it makes sense, I think. It will be needed for infusion, which is sort of an endgame thing to be concerned with. As I've said before, I think Destiny is at its best with lots of people out in the patrol zones doing activities, and making those world materials necessary will help keep those areas populated in the late game. The fact that those materials drop from chests and patrols and other Destination activities makes it bearable, too, rather than just literally having to run around the map to pick them up.

Gunsmith reputation engrams will increase in cost from 40 gunsmith materials to 100.

Gunsmith better have bounties that pay out reasonable volumes of parts, because the dev build from Tuesday was still outputting 3 parts per legendary.

I'm honestly hoping this hints that maybe Legendary drop rates will be at least slightly higher? I think it's to prevent the folks out there that undoubtedly have 10,000+ Legendary shards from just mass dumping them for tons and tons of engrams, at least to such a significant degree. But I also think with the reintroduction of random rolls, a higher drop rate from activities wouldn't be a bad thing, so we don't have to rely on the Gunsmith to get stuff.

The big one is that Tess is going to have bounties that reward Bright Dust.

Up to 150 Bright Dust for 6 notes, so it looks to be something to round out for when people are close already.

Picking up bounties requires a "bounty note," but they don't elaborate on what that is.

They replace mods dropping in Brightgrams.

Did they say that in the update and I just completely missed it like an idiot, or did they mention it somewhere else?