I actually agree with all of that. (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Friday, October 30, 2015, 21:47 (3407 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Wow, you read a lot into his posts that I'm not seeing.

Instead of seeing it as that laziness-inspired last line of your post, how about "wow, there are so many different things to do that are undocumented - wouldn't it be nice if something told me which quests end at Exotics and which ones end at 220 Ghosts without my having to spend a week on the internet, researching?"

I mean, you could spend that week playing the game, doing those quests, and finding out for yourself. It's like he wants to know the answers before he even asks the questions.

I had no clue at all that ranking up with the Gunsmith was worth doing until someone told me it was. I'd been trained, over the course of a year, by Bungie themselves, that ranking up a vendor got me stuff I didn't really want (vendor-rolled weapons in year 1 were generally crap compared to what I was getting in the field; I can't remember a SINGLE GUN I used for any length of time that I got from a vendor). Now, TTK comes along, and completely changes that paradigm... but doesn't really tell me about it. (Doing quests for the Vanguard still gets me low-light-leveled stuff - I shard 95% of it.) How hard would it be for them to add, say, a line to one of the bot janitors to the effect of "hey, have you visited the gunsmith recently? He's got some good stuff these days!"

How exactly do you go about not ranking up your factions? You can't. Everything you do in this game increases your rep for one faction or another. For me the faction packages were always bonuses: free legendary with a chance for a godly roll! Maybe a shader! Possible spaceship! (full disclosure: I haven't gotten a spaceship yet). I actually got an emblem from the Gunsmith yesterday (rank 6 package, I got a green emblem. I think it's one eva lavonte sells normally though). At the very least you would know that you need to be rank 3 with the factions to buy their gear, or to buy the spaceship from the Queen's guard, and that gunsmith rank 1 lets you buy an armsday gun, so why do the bare minimum? Why not see what rank 2 gets you? It's fun to rep up anyway.

And that line of text you're asking for pretty much is in the game. If you go to your quests tab and mouse over a reputation, it says straight up to increase reputation to receive rewards.

my point is that there are already incentives in the game to do pretty much all of the stuff you need to do to get the quests for the majority of the guns he wants, with only those 3 "mystery" guns which actually are obscure enough that most people would have to look up how to get them (I know I did), only one of which is a really good gun. So they don't expressly say "this is how you get exotic X." So what? If you never did research, you'd never know exotic X existed in the first place, or at least wouldn't know that it was a quest reward and not a random drop from Nightfalls. Play the game and have fun. The loot will come.