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First Crota chest gave me my third The Last Word. Thanks for the shard. Got raid gloves from lamps, and raid chest from the bridge. Still couldn't get that second chest 🙁
 
cmdrdredd said:
I haven't even bothered with CE yet. I am just not interested in it. I think it comes down to what happened with VoG. It was fun to do it the first few times. Then it became a chore to get gear. "OK its Tuesday. Better do a VoG run because I need boots." Crota's End substitutes shards and energy for gear though. So its the same thing, you will be hoping to get more shards. I am spending most of my time doing bounties and trying to level Eris rank which seems to take absurdly long. I'm just trying to put off the grind of CE as long as I can.
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Yep, I have some of the gear now, but barely any shards. Plenty of energy as usual though. Each raid piece takes 7 shards now, so that means a total of 21 shards to max each piece. Full suit of raid gear = 84 shards. Grindy McGrinderson lol. At least having an exotic piece will remove 21 shards from that amount.
 
I haven't done CE yet, but are raid pieces only found on certain bosses? Like you can only get chest piece from this boss, or leg piece from that boss?

Bungie should implement some kind of token system, similar to WoW, where a boss drops a token and you can turn it in for any raid piece you want. That way you aren't just getting repeats of pieces of you already have.

But that would speed up people getting full sets and it's clear now that Bugnie will do whatever it takes to prolong people's play time.
 
chimaxi83 said:
Yep, I have some of the gear now, but barely any shards. Plenty of energy as usual though. Each raid piece takes 7 shards now, so that means a total of 21 shards to max each piece. Full suit of raid gear = 84 shards. Grindy McGrinderson lol. At least having an exotic piece will remove 21 shards from that amount.
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Ill be real close to being 32 on my first toon by next week.
 
Schfifty Five said:
I haven't done CE yet, but are raid pieces only found on certain bosses? Like you can only get chest piece from this boss, or leg piece from that boss?

Bungie should implement some kind of token system, similar to WoW, where a boss drops a token and you can turn it in for any raid piece you want. That way you aren't just getting repeats of pieces of you already have.

But that would speed up people getting full sets and it's clear now that Bugnie will do whatever it takes to prolong people's play time.
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Full sets drop pretty easy in CE now.
 
Rage187 said:
well, since you can get shards from raid gear, it wouldnt take but a few trips through to level everything to 32.
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Maybe but I heard that everyone who got weapons from Crota ends up getting shards the next run and only shards. I think Bungie made it so you don't get duplicate stuff to break down.
 
Going to try and finish Crota tonight. I hope I can get more raid pieces. Only have the boots and I am 5 shards away from fully maxing them.

Also, Bungie has stated that loot in CE is supposed to work on a timer and last loot type of thing IIRC. So, if you continue to get shards / energies, your chances of getting a good item increases loot drop. How much, and how much of an effect that will be though, is likely unknown.
 
Finished Crota and got a crummy shotgun. =(

Only need arms now and I am fully raid geared. About half way through 31 without upgrading the chest I got tonight. Not bad.
 
Rage187 said:
Bungie employee AMA on Reddit. Good read: http://www.bungie.net/ga/Forum/Post/70895980/0/0

note, this was from september.
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All I read in this is "Whaaaa! We had a contract to deliver a game by a date and couldn't do it, so we had to cut a bunch of stuff. Blame everyone but us!" I mean, yeah it sucks they had to trim the game to the state it is in, but that isn't Activision's fault. Bungie said they could deliver their vision by a certain date and, after some internal problems, couldn't. Is Activision supposed to just be like "well, you couldn't originally finish what we agreed upon, despite our paying you, here is some more money and a longer timeline!" No. That is just bad business.

That AMA really points to bad project management within Bungie.
 
smackababy said:
All I read in this is "Whaaaa! We had a contract to deliver a game by a date and couldn't do it, so we had to cut a bunch of stuff. Blame everyone but us!" I mean, yeah it sucks they had to trim the game to the state it is in, but that isn't Activision's fault. Bungie said they could deliver their vision by a certain date and, after some internal problems, couldn't. Is Activision supposed to just be like "well, you couldn't originally finish what we agreed upon, despite our paying you, here is some more money and a longer timeline!" No. That is just bad business.

That AMA really points to bad project management within Bungie.
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Yes, bad project management and a product manager(s) who couldn't stand his ground.
 
smackababy said:
All I read in this is "Whaaaa! We had a contract to deliver a game by a date and couldn't do it, so we had to cut a bunch of stuff. Blame everyone but us!" I mean, yeah it sucks they had to trim the game to the state it is in, but that isn't Activision's fault. Bungie said they could deliver their vision by a certain date and, after some internal problems, couldn't. Is Activision supposed to just be like "well, you couldn't originally finish what we agreed upon, despite our paying you, here is some more money and a longer timeline!" No. That is just bad business.

That AMA really points to bad project management within Bungie.
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Plus the fact that they signed a contract knowing there were obligations on their end that, with a new game, might not be met. There had to have been some type of sign that design decisions were not working or that there was some disagreement on the team. They can't expect us to believe that in august they suddenly realized "oh damn, this ain't gonna work." and just threw something together.
 
I'm not salty about how the game has been managed. It could have certainly been better but oh well, it will keep me occupied until more games come out.
 
LOL...

You're gonna see people weilding these weapons with whatever crazy names the writers come up with and you're gonna know where they came from and what they went through to get there.

Oh really? You mean that guy who joined a strike at the last minute and got a Gjallarhorn while the rest of the team gets a blue engram? That really is a lot to go through to get that weapon. I want to punch them in the face for that line. RNG != going through a lot of trouble(i.e earning it) to get a weapon.
 
Come on. I spent a full 90 seconds locating Xur. And then, he took my coins. It was epic and I'm glad I got to share the story with you all.
 
Rage187 said:
Come on. I spent a full 90 seconds locating Xur. And then, he took my coins. It was epic and I'm glad I got to share the story with you all.
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Yeah well...well...uh...never mind. I got nothin.

It just seems like such a cheap way to give out stuff overall.
 
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