Reminder: Xûr Engrams & Shards... (Destiny)
by Mid7night 
, Rocket BSCHSHCSHSHCCHGGH!!!!!!, Friday, May 22, 2015, 10:33 (3696 days ago)
Buy Exotic engrams first; decrypt and see if you get anything you already have; Free(ish) E.Shards!
Also; if you get anything you already have, but it has a better roll - Sharding your existing fully-upgraded Exotic will most likely dismantle into TWO E.Shards.
And if you need more motes, the Speaker will give you some for your Ascendent shards, if you happen to have an abundance of one and not the other. :)
Ah, 2014 advice. Long time, no see...
by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, May 22, 2015, 11:58 (3696 days ago) @ Mid7night
Buy Exotic engrams first; decrypt and see if you get anything you already have; Free(ish) E.Shards!
Also; if you get anything you already have, but it has a better roll - Sharding your existing fully-upgraded Exotic will most likely dismantle into TWO E.Shards.
And if you need more motes, the Speaker will give you some for your Ascendent shards, if you happen to have an abundance of one and not the other. :)
Also:
New exotics are already Ascended, saving you a shard, although I'm sure nobody's exactly short on coins to buy shards at the moment...
That's why it's called a REMINDER
by Mid7night , Rocket BSCHSHCSHSHCCHGGH!!!!!!, Friday, May 22, 2015, 14:28 (3696 days ago) @ Korny
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Reminder: Xûr Engrams & Shards...
by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Friday, May 22, 2015, 12:09 (3696 days ago) @ Mid7night
And if you need more motes, the Speaker will give you some for your Ascendent shards, if you happen to have an abundance of one and not the other. :)
I completely forgot about that! I just happen to have almost 900 of those suckers sitting in my vault :D
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12 helm engrams and not a single new helmet :(
by unoudid , Somewhere over the rainbow, Friday, May 22, 2015, 16:14 (3696 days ago) @ Mid7night
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Reminder: Xûr Engrams & Shards...
by Claude Errera , Friday, May 22, 2015, 19:16 (3695 days ago) @ Mid7night
Buy Exotic engrams first; decrypt and see if you get anything you already have; Free(ish) E.Shards!
Also; if you get anything you already have, but it has a better roll - Sharding your existing fully-upgraded Exotic will most likely dismantle into TWO E.Shards.
Heh... 'most likely'. Dismantled 4 fully-upgraded older Exotics, got a total of 5 shards. :(
Maybe Ascendancy factors in now?
by ZackDark , Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Friday, May 22, 2015, 20:48 (3695 days ago) @ Claude Errera
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Maybe Ascendancy factors in now?
by Claude Errera , Friday, May 22, 2015, 20:59 (3695 days ago) @ ZackDark
Not sure how you mean; Exotics didn't use to be able to be ascended, and I didn't break up any new, fully- ascended Exotics.
I broke up 4 fully-leveled exotics (they were yellow-rimmed before HoW dropped, and they had a green bar, denoting a lack of a second shard, after the drop). The first one gave me 2 shards - the other three gave me one each.
I don't think anything but RNGesus figures in here. I was simply questioning the 'most likely' part of Mid7night's instructions. :)
Maybe Ascendancy factors in now?
by ZackDark , Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Friday, May 22, 2015, 21:21 (3695 days ago) @ Claude Errera
What I meant is that, unless I'm mistaken, gold-rimmed Exotics used to give more than a single shard (maybe some other item instead of a shard, but a second item nonetheless). Since non-ascended Exotics are technically not fully leveled, maybe that's why you only got the second item through RNGesus.
Maybe Ascendancy factors in now?
by Mid7night , Rocket BSCHSHCSHSHCCHGGH!!!!!!, Saturday, May 23, 2015, 00:22 (3695 days ago) @ Claude Errera
I don't think anything but RNGesus figures in here. I was simply questioning the 'most likely' part of Mid7night's instructions. :)
Ok, how 'bout "more likely than a not-at-all-upgraded piece" ? ;)