About Xur's engrams.... (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Friday, March 20, 2015, 17:14 (3784 days ago) @ Dagoonite

Every time I've bought them I've noticed that I always get whatever he was selling anyway.

Example: The first time he had Saint-14 helmet, and an exotic helmet engram. I didn't want the Saint helmet at the time, so I decided to take a chance on an engram instead. Cash in my engram, and get the Saint helm anyway.

This seems to happen to me whenever I buy an engram from him, that it decodes into whatever he was selling for coins anyway (though sometimes the ones that decode have BETTER stats, so that is cool)

I'm wondering if the engrams aren't as random as they appear and are there as a sort of option for gamers who maybe want that helmet that xur is selling, but don't have enough coins for it, but they might have enough motes to roll the dice on an engram.

Oh, RNG,