Conflicted Feelings... (Destiny)

by Harmanimus , Friday, August 10, 2018, 10:52 (2374 days ago) @ Morpheus

Each Bright Engram grants one bounty note in Season 4
These Notes can be exchanged for a three different tiers of weekly Eververse bounties
Tier 3:Costs 6 Eververse Bounty Notes, Rewards 150 Bright Dust

Everything that isn't an Emote or a Ghost Shell is thousands of Bright Dust.

If we are going based on current breakdown rates and relative Bright Dust costs:
- Breaking down a Shader or Transmat Effect will be: 10BD
- Breaking down a L!Ghost/L!Vehicle/L!Armor will be: 100BD
- Breaking down an E!Ghost or E!Vehicle will be: 500BD

So, in a week you need to get 6 Bounty Notes to do the 150BD Bounty you need 6 Bright Engrams. That means you're looking at a minimum of about 240BD (1 Transmat, 3 Shaders x 6 drops) if you aren't trying to use any of those for other things. In addition to that, you could obviously only pull Emotes and Ornaments and not get any BD. You could also pull 50, 250, or 500 Bright Dust assuming those "gifts" are still part of the pool.

So you can pull, more-or-less, 390-1890BD/wk if you are breaking everything down (now going into your collection - so if you aren't going to actively use those items). Some exotic ornaments are as low as 800BD and I think the highest BD cost (someone correct me if I'm wrong) item I've seen was ~2500BD.

You're also getting a bounty for 250 Glimmer to get a weekly "free pull" on the Prismatic Matrix outside of having to earn Brightgrams. And while I don't think my experience is necessarily common (I get a lot of duplicate Exotic Sparrows out of EV) even with only breaking down duplicates I have more Bright Dust in Season 3 than I know what to do with.

So, it definitely does feel kind of weak that you only get 150BD for the bounty, but it's just another booster not intended to replace the core Brightgram mechanic.