How long does it take to upgrade an exotic? (Destiny)

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Wednesday, December 03, 2014, 12:32 (3728 days ago) @ Beorn

Given the fact that A) we can now purchase destination materials (Spinmetal, etc.), and B) exotics do not require any Ascendant materials, the upgrade path is ridiculously streamlined. I'm not sure what the big hang up is. All this does is require that we make a conscious, committed decision to upgrade our gear.

well, it will cost you 7 strange coins (1 exotic shard) and 7,000 glimmer to buy the upgrade. Then it will cost you glimmer to get all the upgrade stages, and finally 7 more strange coins (exotic shard) to finish it off.

So each exotic you have will cost you 14 strange coins to upgrade. This severely eats into your ability to buy new items from Xur. It also eats into your glimmer. I mostly used glimmer for upgrades and heavy ammo synth. Under the best circumstances, you could get about 10,000 glimmer per hour farming, which is boring as hell, but faster than what you get through normal gameplay. But if xur has your upgrades on any particular weekend, you better get them, b/c you don't know when they'll come back around.

If you ran 3 characters through the weekly heroic you would get 27 strange coins, 1 short of what you need to fully upgrade two exotics. You will most likely get another here and there through engrams, but not many. So you could afford to fully upgrade 2 exotics a week (or buy resets for 2 a week, and upgrade them later).

It's just more unnecessary grinding. I would prefer that they add a couple more damage tiers that take a long time to complete, and leave all my unlocked perks alone.

I will probably upgrade the exotics that i have not started on yet, and worry about my maxed out ones later. Maybe i'll get some duplicates through drops, and then a can start sharding exotics for upgrades.