The game is fine, that whole section is fine either way. It’s just not clear.

However, if you go talk to her and come back, you can get the normal bounties. I believe the text of the quest step only mentions bounties and doesn't specify WANTED bounties.

But the game literally gives you the tutorial about finding Ghost parts to turn in at that time, so let’s not pretend like it’s clear either.

In fact, MacAddict is actually right—it would not surprise me at all that the Wanted bounties are actually the intended way to progress and the fact that the free ones work is unintentional. Everything about the way that’s all presented points to doing Wanted bounties. Someone said it, and now I can’t remember, but the normal bounties might even be greyed out the first time you open that menu.

I don’t really mind, I’m not actually griping. Getting the ghost parts and doing five Wanted bounties took me an hour, and it was fun to do. Seems like a pretty natural way to handle that part of the game to me. Take out some minor dudes before you get to hit the Barons.

You’re not wrong. The way it’s presented in game does make it feel like you are required to do Wanted bounties.

While I won't tell you that you were wrong for being confused, I will note that when I personally got to the bounty page I had initial confusion but was able to ascertain within seconds that the free bounties were the ones to advance the story.

Really? I wasn’t aware it worked like that. I spawned in and the guy I needed was just hanging out in front of the church.

For me, it was a named servitor, and it took forever for him to spawn. He finally showed up while i was soloing a Heroic Public event. I thought maybe that the public event was the trigger, but then when i killed him, it dropped the High Value Target chest, so I guess it's just a random spawn.

He spawned out of the building to the left of the church, where there's usually a fallen captain High Value target.

I swear every time a cabal excavation starts on Io that a cloaked minotaur HVT spawns towards the end. For the servitor in Trostland I only went there when there was a public event because I thought that's how these would spawn and that's how I got it.

I didn’t even notice the “normal bounties,” so I did five Wanted bounties to gain his trust. Any bounty from him works.

I just grabbed the Wanted bounties, because I assumed that’s what was required. He literally talks about cleaning up after the prison break, so it felt pretty obvious. I just didn’t notice that the normal bounties below were different.

Good info! You are totally right that it makes sense with the dialogue given at the time, but i just checked the Milestone and figured I would snag them easy bounties. Glad to see both work though, history might tell us that they wouldn't.

You don't need to actually do any WANTED bounties to progress in the story. You can do the normal bounties for Tangled Shore that only cost glimmer, and I was able to knock out very quickly.

This was a little confusing to me too. You talk to Spider in story, then talk to him in game, and the normal bounties are grayed out with text that says something like "talk to Petra." Then you talk to Petra, then talk to Spider again, and the normal bounties are available.

You’re not wrong. The way it’s presented in game does make it feel like you are required to do Wanted bounties.

I bet it's a bug :D

I’m any case, those, i was speaking specifically to his character and the way that stuff is all presented. I just think we need more named, interesting characters with motivations. We’re in his lair, and he’s a crime boss—it makes sense that he’s always there, giving us bounties and orders basically. All the other vendors feel lifeless by comparison, just because their motivations for being where they are don’t really feel great. It feels weird for them to always just be standing in the same spot, and that’s not true for the Spider. It feels natural.

But more than that, his motivations feel real. He feels more like a real character in a good way, and not just menu flair like the rest of the vendors. It’s hard to articulate what I mean, I guess.

I just like seeing this sort of grittier side of the Destiny universe, and the knowledge that there are different factions out there with their own reasons for being, and it’s not necessarily just Guardians vs. the Universe.

I just grabbed the Wanted bounties, because I assumed that’s what was required. He literally talks about cleaning up after the prison break, so it felt pretty obvious. I just didn’t notice that the normal bounties below were different.

i wasn't so pleased with spider. My playtime is limited, and I just wanted to play through the story. But after a couple of missions, i now have to grind materials in order to buy bounties to hunt down enemies in the EDZ before i can progress further.

Spider offers six bounties that don't cost materials (which I learned too late have a stack limit of 10) and can be done in the Tangled Shore. I knocked these out pretty quickly to move on with the story, but bought the "Kill Wanted: X" bounties to knock out later (and to use those materials so I could collect more).

I you sure about that? Because when I played, I checked all of the bounties and the cheapest bounties cost 2 ghost shards a piece. It really wasn't that hard to get them, but I never saw any that were free.

They might have cost glimmer or any of the mats I already had a ton of, but they didn't cost Ghost Fragments. It was stuff like "Kill # Fallen in [part of Tangled Shore where Spider's Hideout is]," "Get 20 Super Kills," and "Kill # Hive in the Jetsum of Saturn." I've only collected a total of 10 fragments and bought three bounties that cost 3 fragments and one that cost 1 fragment. I've only completed two of the "Kill Wanted: X" bounties, but have moved on to the next part of the story.

-Disciple

Oh, those bounties. I thought you were talking about the "WANTED: bounties" where you have to kill the Prison of Elder escapees. Yeah, those bounties are free :D

Yes, and those are the ones that you need to complete to progress the story (Blacktiger ran into similar confusion last night... it wasn’t made as clear as it could have been in-game).

I assume the Wanted bounties will still work to meet Spider's requirements though, right? It's a lot more work, but if I wanted to go into hardcore roleplaying mode with one of my other Guardians and kill five escapees to show Spider I'm super-serious, it should still work since the requirement doesn't specify a type of bounty.

-Disciple

The 6 Bounties required to progress the story are the Adventures in the Tangled Shore. You just have to activate and complete each Adventure to complete it. They range from 390-440 Light I believe.

The only adventures I know of in the tangled shore are the barons. We are talking about the bounties (PoE escapees) you have to do to get Spider's trust that happens before you start taking out the barons.

OH! I understand. I did NOT have to do any WANTED Bounties to start hunting the Barons IIRC there are 2 types of Bounties.

The WANTED Bounties at the top of the Spiders List that cost the ghost fragments. You found these.

Below the WANTED Bounties are sets of regular Bounties (Create orbs of light, kill enemies, etc). These are the ones needed to gain his trust.

Really? Are you sure they aren't both? Because that would explain why I was at 80% when I started the WANTED bounties and after finishing them I was done.

i wasn't so pleased with spider. My playtime is limited, and I just wanted to play through the story. But after a couple of missions, i now have to grind materials in order to buy bounties to hunt down enemies in the EDZ before i can progress further.

Spider offers six bounties that don't cost materials (which I learned too late have a stack limit of 10) and can be done in the Tangled Shore. I knocked these out pretty quickly to move on with the story, but bought the "Kill Wanted: X" bounties to knock out later (and to use those materials so I could collect more).

I you sure about that? Because when I played, I checked all of the bounties and the cheapest bounties cost 2 ghost shards a piece. It really wasn't that hard to get them, but I never saw any that were free.

They might have cost glimmer or any of the mats I already had a ton of, but they didn't cost Ghost Fragments. It was stuff like "Kill # Fallen in [part of Tangled Shore where Spider's Hideout is]," "Get 20 Super Kills," and "Kill # Hive in the Jetsum of Saturn." I've only collected a total of 10 fragments and bought three bounties that cost 3 fragments and one that cost 1 fragment. I've only completed two of the "Kill Wanted: X" bounties, but have moved on to the next part of the story.

-Disciple

Oh, those bounties. I thought you were talking about the "WANTED: bounties" where you have to kill the Prison of Elder escapees. Yeah, those bounties are free :D

Yes, and those are the ones that you need to complete to progress the story (Blacktiger ran into similar confusion last night... it wasn’t made as clear as it could have been in-game).

Oh, those bounties. I thought you were talking about the "WANTED: bounties" where you have to kill the Prison of Elder escapees. Yeah, those bounties are free :D

Glad to hear I'm not losing my mind :p

-Disciple