Why? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, October 25, 2018, 16:52 (2060 days ago) @ stabbim

Well, previously if you got a duplicate drop, it was possible to use that to infuse your old one, and it would only cost 5K glimmer. Now, you won't be getting dupes of these particular items, so anything you can use to infuse them is guaranteed to need "enhancement cores" as they're apparently called now. It's not the most critical scenario IMO, but it's a thing.

I don't think you ever needed masterwork cores on exotics anyway… or maybe that was just if you infuse an exotic into something else.