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Might explain why you're not getting anything from that last chest. Pretty sure I had a dud or two this week as well.

-Disciple

The first treasure chest I opened this week contained nothing at all. Definitely not related to the cooldown bug (if that exists).

Pretty sure this is because they are now location locked. You have to complete them in the area they were picked up unless it is a "go here scan that" patrol.

I found today that this is not always the case. The kill things quest ("Take a bath" or "bathtime" - something like that) in the Cistern on Nessus, for example, says to kill enemies in the cistern, but killing any enemy in any area will count for the purposes of the patrol.

I know other patrols I've found are definitely zone locked, so I'm not sure if this particular one is open and this is a bug, or if all kill things type missions are open... still looking into it.

I pulled an Ascendant Artichoke out of one chest. Humorous flavor text.

Yeah, this gave some neat context to Eris's's Ascendant raisins... My favorite so far was CheapLEY's "Perfectly Normal Coin":

Speaking of the scouting report consumables, though, just like in D1, if you aim it adjusts what "range" you exist at. So if you aim a sniper near where chests spawn you can see the indicator even when you are really far away. So if you are trying to tag chests it is a good strategy.

Yeah, I was glad to see that it still works this way. Especially useful if you have a Ghost that points out chests/planetary materials.

Speaking of the scouting report consumables, though, just like in D1, if you aim it adjusts what "range" you exist at. So if you aim a sniper near where chests spawn you can see the indicator even when you are really far away. So if you are trying to tag chests it is a good strategy.

I've done both weeks of his chests and it seems to break down like this.

(in no order)
Chest 1: Purple Engram
Chest 2: Blue equipment
Chest 3: Cosmetic Wares
Chest 4: Redeemable artifact
Chest 5: Empty

Is this basically accurate for others?

I've gotten an exotic engram both weeks so far from his chests.

Does not seem to work on cayde's treasure chests or the gold region ones.

The regional chests are all marked on the map anyway with that cross w/dot in the center. I wondered for the longest time what those logos meant. It's those chests...but they are hidden pretty well sometimes.

it seems to me they might also contain various bits you can turn into Cayde. I'm not clear if you just get glimmer for them or something else to.

It sees you can only hold one letter fragment at a time but any you are forced to leave out in the field will show up at the postmaster. I've so far seen letter fragments and tin foil hats. One of the letter fragments was interesting as it seemed to be a diary entry from cayde lamenting that he was about to go from human to exo and lose all his memories and his love would not be able to find him in his new form when she returns.

You can purchase 5 weekly bounties from cayde but you can also purchase consumables for each world. these consumables will last for 4 hours once used and will mark in you HUD any plain chests or resources that get within x number of feet from you, I was finding stuff quite often when I tried it on nessus. May have to get more. Does not seem to work on cayde's treasure chests or the gold region ones.

Might explain why you're not getting anything from that last chest. Pretty sure I had a dud or two this week as well.

-Disciple

• Rare engram
  
• emblem
  
• Exotic and legendary engrams
  
• A little box
  
• A little journal entry

I've done both weeks of his chests and it seems to break down like this.

(in no order)
Chest 1: Purple Engram
Chest 2: Blue equipment
Chest 3: Cosmetic Wares
Chest 4: Redeemable artifact
Chest 5: Empty

Is this basically accurate for others?

Last week I got emblems from chests 1, 2, and 4. I also got non-redeemable "flavor items" from chests 1-3, and a redeemable one in chest 4. I don't remember a chest 5 at all. Weird.

(in no order)
Chest 1: Purple Engram
Chest 2: Blue equipment
Chest 3: Cosmetic Wares
Chest 4: Redeemable artifact
Chest 5: Empty

Is this basically accurate for others?

Just a few random thoughts.

-Grinding really seems to be gone, as far as power level is concerned. The clan rewards really help there. I logged on and immediately got three Powerful Engrams from clan stuff and jumped from 270 to 273. Cody, Korny, and I did the Nightfall, and then Korny and I did the Cayde's stash stuff, and I was at 277 when I logged off.

What are we supposed to do with Cayde's wares? Do they have any value or use? Why do I need black cubes and purple powder?

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