TigerBurge 2,375 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 MENU POLYGON searchLOGIN Here's how Xur is changing in Destiny: The Taken King By Charlie Hall on Sep 17, 2015 at 5:09p @Charlie_L_Hall SHARE TWEET FOLLOW POLYGON NOW! × With the release of Destiny: The Taken King Bungie is mixing things up a bit. Not even the game's most popular merchant, the mysterious Xur, is immune to the changes in Year Two. Today, on the official Bungie blog, the team behind Destiny explained how his role is changing. Every Friday brings a flurry of activity as Destiny devotees try to find out what Xur will have in stock. That leads to players endlessly debating the value of what he's selling, including Polygon's own Jake Lear. But it appears his stock of hard goods will be more limited going forward. SUPPORTED BY Infiniti How Vanilla Became the Most Ubiquitous Flavor in the World How Vanilla Became the Most Ubiquitous Flavor in the World POWERED BYINFINITI "Xur was a community 'loot drop,'" said senior design lead Tyson Green. "A shared rallying point that everyone could cheer or curse. In Year Two, Xur’s offerings have been changed so that he will select either a specific Exotic Weapon or an Exotic Engram for sale every week. This change is due primarily to our desire to give players more direct paths to acquiring the Exotics they want through Quests and gameplay experiences, and to avoid repetition in his inventory." The change lines up with Bungie's earlier statement that they want to "breathe more life into the exotic game going forward" by making the acquisition of high-level gear the result of hard work, rather than sheer luck. "Xur will also sell a new consumable," Green said, "called the Three of Coins, which gives bosses a chance to drop Exotic Engrams, including Weapon Engrams. These consumables have a cumulative luck effect, so even if one doesn’t net you a drop, the next one has a higher chance to do so. "Lastly, Xur will also choose a Legacy Engram every week. These Engrams contain Year One Exotics (at Year One Attack and Defense levels) for players who want to finish up a Collection. They strongly bias towards Exotics not already in your Blueprint Collection, to help fill in the blank slots - excluding Mythoclast and Necrochasm, which are still only available from their Year One sources." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techno 3,496 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 So I'm right in thinking apart from 3 of coins Xur is pretty much useless? I'm perfectly happy to do quests for exotics rather than Xur selling them. Oh and I can use my motes for other shit. May take a while to get through my 650+ coins or whatever I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumbers Crack 4,055 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 May take a while to get through my 650+ coins or whatever I have. Skinflint! Thanks to Capn_Underpants for the artwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baabcat 1,646 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Burnt a load of strange coins with Xur today, as the changes are quite significant. He's selling a year one engram for collectors, but also the helment engram for year 2, 19 strange coins (not motes of light). I bought 6, got 4 different titan helmets (saint 14 is back), one for the hunter and one duplicate. Seemed to default to giving helmets for the character opening them (out of 6 I got 5 titan helmets) so may need to store some as well. Think I now have all the currently available titan exotic helmets. No gun though but getting St14 back was great, 290 light as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaGarratt 11,006 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Burnt a load of strange coins with Xur today, as the changes are quite significant. He's selling a year one engram for collectors, but also the helment engram for year 2, 19 strange coins (not motes of light). I bought 6, got 4 different titan helmets (saint 14 is back), one for the hunter and one duplicate. Seemed to default to giving helmets for the character opening them (out of 6 I got 5 titan helmets) so may need to store some as well. Think I now have all the currently available titan exotic helmets. No gun though but getting St14 back was great, 290 light as well Saint 14 will always be a game changer for PvE. Grats for dropping it Bob. Gonna try and get one shortly.Is everyone blasting away there strange coins or are people keeping some back? (Apart from Gary as I know he 600+ [emoji38]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BO7H B4RRELS 2,451 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I used all of mine except for 10 or so. I didn't have that many to use. I spent a lot of them just before we found out that all of our year one stuff would become obsolete. I need to get back to saving them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baabcat 1,646 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Tempted to spend a bunch more on more helmet engrams for other characters, got about 400 left. I can see it becoming a drought though until I get the other two levelled to nightfall and heroic strike level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn_Underpants 401 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I spent about 450 coins yesterday. Lol its crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerBurge 2,375 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Holy shit Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn_Underpants 401 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Holy shit Sam I still have some left over! But I wanted to make sure I had some of those three of coins for the week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techno 3,496 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I still have some left over! But I wanted to make sure I had some of those three of coins for the week! Lol I've done the same!I have just 300 left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerBurge 2,375 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Thought I was bad using 70 coins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The3rdWalker 1,268 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I spent around 200 coins. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk i7 7700k, 16GB RAM, GEFORCE 1080, 240GB SSHD, 2TB SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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