How Do You Guys Feel About the Way of Upgrading Old Exotics And Acquiring New Legendary's

[BIG COUNTRY]

Here's the article posted yesterday about what's going to happen to our old exotics and how we will acquire new legendary's what do you guys think.

http://www.bungie.net/7_The-Dark-Bel...News?aid=12442

[CAG TheKid]

Feel like the removal of shards from exotics now is kinda annoying... I mean, how many shards did I spend upgrading my exotic helmet before the update? All those shards mean nothing now and I could have upgraded my other gear now with the ones I lost :/

[xPARCHx]

I think it should actually be harder to upgrade the exotics to a higher tier. They did it this way because they want people to play the strikes and make additional characters. When dlc comes out everyone will have the ability to be a 30 with armor that will be available in the tower, even the people that don't get dlc.

[Kujeaux]

I was preparing a long analysis but found myself with more questions than answers. Most of this reeks of poor planning, poor game design, from the shifting and adding of currencies to the level manipulations all over the place. It’s beyond any attempt to balance the game. Add that to the raid glitches which cause you to waste significant time due to no fault of your own, this game is on a short leash for me.

Not in the article, I also heard that Ascendent Materials will no longer be given for the first public event of the day.

[BIG COUNTRY]

I was preparing a long analysis but found myself with more questions than answers. Most of this reeks of poor planning, poor game design, from the shifting and adding of currencies to the level manipulations all over the place. It’s beyond any attempt to balance the game. Add that to the raid glitches which cause you to waste significant time due to no fault of your own, this game is on a short leash for me.

Not in the article, I also heard that Ascendent Materials will no longer be given for the first public event of the day.

Maybe we can talk Friday ?

[Kujeaux]

So here's how I understand the Exotic changes that have come / will come ...

- Any Exotic obtained before the DLC update (presumably this upcoming Tuesday) will have the old 300 max possible attack
- Any Exotic obtained after the DLC update (...) will have the new 320 max possible attack
- Any Exotic that you already had fully upgraded (before this past Tuesday's update), stays fully upgraded at the 300 attack
- Any Exotic that you had not upgraded or was partially upgraded retains the things that were already upgraded and the ones that weren't get switched to the "new" way of upgrading (no Ascendent materials but Exotic Shard)
- If you want a pre-update (300 max) Exotic upgraded to a post-update (320 max) Exotic, you will need to (1) wait for Xur to offer the upgrade for that weapon, (2) Pay Xur 7000 glimmer, and (3) Pay Xur 1 Exotic Shard {costs 7 strange coins or the destruction of a different Exotic}. Doing so RESETS ALL UNLOCK PROGRESS FOR THE GUN.


To put it another way, you should either get used to the fact that your current Exotics will only have 300 max attack, wait to get news ones after Tuesday then upgrade them all over again to replace the 300 max attack gun with a 320 max attack gun (1 exotic shard, all the XP/glimmer/planetmaterials to unlock everything), or perform a costly resetting of your gun (2 exotic shards, 7000 glimmer, all the XP/glimmer/planetmaterials to unlock everything). Any way that you slice it, it's a big eff you. All of that XP, glimmer, planet materials, ascendent materials, is pretty much thrown away unless you can live with a 300 max Exotic.

How much time did it take to get all of that XP, mostly from bounties, 21 ascendent materials, and farming those planet materials?