For weapons, he'll give you weapons from Vendors with (more than likely) different tech-tree rolls. Some of those weapons aren't even sold. Eg, I got a New Monarchy sniper rifle from a Special engram (the character this happened on is my "Dead Orbit" character too). So you don't even need to rely on faction rep level-up packages for a chance at such gear.

For armor, you'll get pieces with different stat modifier rolls. Eg, you could get a Crucible chest that has +Intellect and +Strength, where what is sold has +Discipline and +Strength (or a lower baseline stat modifier).

Raid gear, as far as weapons go, are not rings-to-rule-them-all. They may be pretty great gear, but they're not going to solve every problem you'll face in the game. So I really don't agree with the "the legendary gear you get from engrams is worse than the legendary gear you get from the raid".

In fact, I only recently (last week or so) started buying weapons using my Marks. Before, I was getting my legendaries from dropped engrams and the Nightfall reward. I always needed more Shards than Energy (because I don't fully level up gear which I strictly use in PvP) so I ended up using 65 Marks on armor to dismantle them. And with the talk about the new re-roll-weapons (it applies to ALL weapons right? not just Iron Banner weapons?) coming in the update, I stopped dismantling most legendary weapons in the event that I can get a better roll on them.

Also, save your Rare engrams for new/low level characters. Decrypt the engrams on that character's Cryptarch and you should get some Rare gear that is of the same level, or maybe a tad higher, than your character's level.

I don't know that I follow all you say, but I definitely don't understand why you would do this last bit. Wouldn't you want your high level characters to decrypt rare items, if that's how it works?

And I read their advice to ignore Rahool as don't depend on the loot stream. I don't, and during the few times when I have been hoping for something (like when I needed one more coin or something), it was very frustrating.

Depending on random miracles (or expecting them) seems like an exercise in frustration.

For weapons, he'll give you weapons from Vendors with (more than likely) different tech-tree rolls. Some of those weapons aren't even sold. Eg, I got a New Monarchy sniper rifle from a Special engram (the character this happened on is my "Dead Orbit" character too). So you don't even need to rely on faction rep level-up packages for a chance at such gear.

For armor, you'll get pieces with different stat modifier rolls. Eg, you could get a Crucible chest that has +Intellect and +Strength, where what is sold has +Discipline and +Strength (or a lower baseline stat modifier).

Raid gear, as far as weapons go, are not rings-to-rule-them-all. They may be pretty great gear, but they're not going to solve every problem you'll face in the game. So I really don't agree with the "the legendary gear you get from engrams is worse than the legendary gear you get from the raid".

In fact, I only recently (last week or so) started buying weapons using my Marks. Before, I was getting my legendaries from dropped engrams and the Nightfall reward. I always needed more Shards than Energy (because I don't fully level up gear which I strictly use in PvP) so I ended up using 65 Marks on armor to dismantle them. And with the talk about the new re-roll-weapons (it applies to ALL weapons right? not just Iron Banner weapons?) coming in the update, I stopped dismantling most legendary weapons in the event that I can get a better roll on them.

Also, save your Rare engrams for new/low level characters. Decrypt the engrams on that character's Cryptarch and you should get some Rare gear that is of the same level, or maybe a tad higher, than your character's level.

So yeah, don't completely ignore him.

I don't even understand what he means by ignore him. Just discard your engrams? He should have stated as "Don't expect to get legendaries from engrams, and shard ones that don't fit your playstyle."

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