This new way of getting weapons makes me feel lost (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Friday, October 30, 2015, 13:55 (3548 days ago) @ Monochron

The quests are dramatically better than RNG drops imo.

Also:

ToM is only good for the final two fights of the raid. That's it.

Black Spindle is the only "needed research and is awesome" weapon I can think of.

No Time to Explain is cool, but not gamebreaking and I'll probably never use it in a raid or PvP scenario. Gimmick right now.

Boolean Gemini is great and the quests are available to anyone with House of Wolves. Requires absolutely no research whatsoever. Also you only need to be level 30 to use it, so mail it to your alts!

None of the gunsmith exotics require research. First Curse is poorly worded in terms of what you need to do, but no research needed.

I guess you could say it required research to learn that you get a quest when you imbue your sword up to 280, but you almost certainly would have done that anyone. So the exotic swords require no research.

Sleeper Simulant actually didn't require any research either. It shows up to anyone who got the 4 dvalin drops and logged in at the right time. The passcode bit is tricky, but so obviously a puzzle that you could have figured it out on your own. Also the gun is mostly only good for killing old raid and mission bosses, but not so much for current content.

Did I miss any? I'd say only ToM, Black Spindle, and NTtE actually required research at all. Did research help with getting some of the others? Sure it did, but it wasn't required and you'd have found them eventually.