The New Way to Upgrade Exotics or How Xur is Now an Even More PITA

[Horrible_Hector 165]

Have you guys seen this? Turning in our old exotics for a shard and some glimmer just to get ~30 more attack points AFTER having to level up the exotic all over again. Yaaaaay /s

Xur will only have 5 or 6 upgrades available at a time, so there's that.

Also, it will probably happen for the next DLC. I just want to own all the exotics and fully level them, stop making it so hard BNG :/

[Horrible_Hector 165]

+what about the exclusives? Will they be forever 300? Who knows.

http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2o77m4/the_most_efficient_way_to_level_your_exotics/

That was on the front page of the subreddit. I chuckled.

[techno 3,507]

Someone in comments section made the point of asking if 300 attack legendaries will actually remain viable weapons when the nightfall goes to 30.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

It's not a huge deal imo. It still makes your old exotics relevant. If not the would be useless against higher lvl foes. I'm glad they are doing it. Ask WoW players about when a dlc comes out how most of their old stuff I'd basically trash

[TigerBurge 2,375]

I wish they would do something like this with legendary gear. I really like most of it better than exotics anyway.

Icebreaker may be the only one I care to upgrade honestly

[Diddums 4,346]

It's not a huge deal imo. It still makes your old exotics relevant. If not the would be useless against higher lvl foes. I'm glad they are doing it. Ask WoW players about when a dlc comes out how most of their old stuff I'd basically trash

 

 

Correct, but with WoW you get a billion more items to play with instead. Here, no.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

Correct, but with WoW you get a billion more items to play with instead. Here, no.

We really dont know exactly what we are getting. We know what some of the exotics and legendary items are. Has there been a confirmed list

[Stretch616 697]

I'm thinking about this in a bit of a different way. I'm all good with making exotics this difficult to upgrade. In my opinion getting a fully upgraded exotic should be an exception to the normal. As it stands everybody has a fully upgraded (insert exotic here) which means they are not actually exotic rarity. If the process is made harder then the "wow" factor comes back.

Having a full set of fully upgraded exotics is a great ambition, however i don't think that this is something that should happen overnight. This should be a long term goal that requires a substantial amount of game time. I think Bungie are trying to stretch out the game now and introducing something that should hopefully start setting apart charcaters rather than everyone using/being the same

[GazzaGarratt 11,035]

Correct, but with WoW you get a billion more items to play with instead. Here, no.

I can't comment on WoW as I've never played it. However, this jack of all trades, master of sweet FA game suits the majority for that reason. These upgrades will be a grind, hard work but in reach of most run of the mill good gamers.

And i think the extra attack points will make the difference in things like the raid just as one light level makes a huge difference.

[TigerBurge 2,375]

So when you upgrade with Xur the base attack will now be 300 with a exotic and go up fro there.

[Ryan Pedro 0]

you will have to wait for xur to offer the upgrade option for the particular exotic you want to upgrade, then pick it, then start all over leveling up the exotic... on average it will take around 40 bounties to level one up again...then get an exotic shard for the final upgrade... it would have been nice if they just added more upgrade damage circles to open, and just leave them as is, and let us actually just build off of them... prepare for the grind boys!!!

[TigerBurge 2,375]

you will have to wait for xur to offer the upgrade option for the particular exotic you want to upgrade, then pick it, then start all over leveling up the exotic... on average it will take around 40 bounties to level one up again...then get an exotic shard for the final upgrade... it would have been nice if they just added more upgrade damage circles to open, and just leave them as is, and let us actually just build off of them... prepare for the grind boys!!!

That's only six days worth of bounties. Not including XP from dailys

Plus I saw somewhere that he will be offering six at a time I think.

[Ryan Pedro 0]

That's only six days worth of bounties. Not including XP from dailys

 

no biggie right??? hopefully the telementries are still around...

[TigerBurge 2,375]

no biggie right??? hopefully the telementries are still around...

Not really,the way I'm looking at it is there's only a coupleI will won't upgraded quickly. Plus we don't know what goodies TDB will offer. Some may be much better than we have now. Also it's not mandatory to upgrade them. Only if you feel the need. Just my .02

It also gives me shit to do in the game. I'm in this for the long haul. I don't want to feel like I've completed everything that needs to be done and have to wait for the next dlc to come out.

[Ryan Pedro 0]

Not really,the way I'm looking at it is there's only a coupleI will won't upgraded quickly. Plus we don't know what goodies TDB will offer. Some may be much better than we have now. Also it's not mandatory to upgrade them. Only if you feel the need. Just my .02

It also gives me shit to do in the game. I'm in this for the long haul. I don't want to feel like I've completed everything that needs to be done and have to wait for the next dlc to come out.

 

agreed... having things to do is what makes me keep coming back...

[Jason 1,245]

I think if you had to have a max level weapon to turn it in for the upgrade I would be less irritated.

As it is now, you can just turn in any weapon for the upgraded version, whether it is all the way unlocked or 1/2 way or not at all.

So all the guns that I've been putting alot of time into upgrading, mida multitool, last word, truth, thorn, etc, can be traded in without me ever having to touch them for a whole 7 coins.

I'm sure I'm bitchin for no reason, but seems shady to me. If Bungie would have said, hey maybe don't waste your fucking time and materials, telemetrys and hundreds of bounties, I wouldn't have a problem.

Tl:Dr - if xur would only accept max level Exotics I'd be happy. Time spent upgrading would have ment something.

[Plumbers Crack 4,059]

Better start saving the 7K glimmer each boys!!

[techno 3,507]

Glimmer seems easy to come by these days. You'll defiantly have enough by time xur sells what you want.

[Ryan Pedro 0]

Glimmer seems easy to come by these days. You'll defiantly have enough by time xur sells what you want.

 

until they nerf the shit out of the drop rate/value on that as well...

[Horrible_Hector 165]

I'm not particularly upset about the whole exp thing, it'll keep me busy I guess. What I dislike is having wasted all the time farming for planetary mats before. It is literally wasted time at this point. Oh well.