Are you kidding me? *Minor quest spoiler* (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Saturday, September 26, 2015, 15:57 (3442 days ago)

So, I'm working on the "Reforging the Sword" quest, and there's a step called "essentials". You need to collect 10 of a rare shard that can be found inside planetary materials while on patrol. The material I was tasked with finding hides inside Relic Iron, so I went to Mars. "I only need 10..." I thought to myself. "...How long could this possibly take?"

I'll give you an idea. When I landed on Mars, I had 13 relic iron in my inventory. By the time I found my 10th shard, I had 230 relic iron. I went from having 4000 glimmer to maxing out my wallet, simply due to all the chests I opened. It took 2.5 hours. 150 minutes of going back and forth between patrol zones, picking up relic iron.

Now, I could have gone a bit faster if I was doing nothing but searching for relic iron, but collecting these shards is only 1/2 of the quest item. You are also tasked with getting an insane number of ability kills (void, I'm my case). As a nightstalker, the only ability kills that count are my primary grenade, or killing an enemy with a direct hit from my bow. After 90 minutes of splitting my time between ability kills and finding shards, I was only at 20% of the required void kills, and 3/10 on the shards, so I have up on the kills and focused on the shards.

Bungie, I love you. And I love Taken King. But this... This is not a good quest. The is the absolute worst kind of MMO grind. Just throwing my 2 cents out there: I hope we never see a quest like this in Destiny ever again.

<3

ps

I'll take every word of this back if I've missed something obvious or simple that speeds up the process. I'll even eat a sock ;)