Beta: Upping the grind (Destiny)

by TTL Demag0gue , Within the shadow of the Traveler, Saturday, July 19, 2014, 06:22 (3791 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Compared to the Alpha, you acquire glimmer MUCH more slowly than before. Your resource trade ins are worth much less than before, and there's way less spin metal. Getting 40 to trade in takes way longer than in the Alpha, and when you do you only get 25 Vanguard points. Really?! Might as well just do two missions.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I'm not going to get too wound about it yet, though, until I see what they do in the final release.

The gun situation is similarly borked. I got a ton of Blue Items in the Alpha, and vendors occasionally sold blue engrams. In the Beta, I haven't had a single Blue drop yet, nor have I seen anything blue for sale.

I found one Rare item in the Alpha, and I've found one so far in the Beta. I get the sense they're fiddling around with availability of loot behind the scenes.