Kisses!

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I wanted to play some iron banner and maybe get and roll some good perks on weapons. I can;t anymore. Do you know why? BECAUSE XUR ISN'T SELLING HEAVY AMMO. I have 100 glimmer and no ammo packs. I was hoping to stock up for the Hard mode raid today with coins, then continue Iron Banner. NOPE.

Because glimmer is so fucking hard and boring to get, I now have to go get glimmer to buy ammo packs if I want to conceivably do the raid. No time for iron banner.

This is fucking bullshit, and this is the type of shit that makes this game so frustrating and awful.

I'm giving up Iron Banner too, but not for that reason. This befuddles me--why would people piss away valuable (and rare) Coins for that? I know you're getting five, but again--Rule of Three masturbation joke. All you have to do is activate a consumable right before you go into a strike, and bam--you've got a good 1,000-2,000 glimmer. Not to mention the Three Hive Lurkers on Earth. I haven't hit my roof in a while, since I keep upgrading my weapons and such, but I've been double-Exoting and racking up the G's. Literally.

But getting Rank 4 IB in a week requires 24/7 gameplay...and 25/8 winning! And the same 5--the exact same literally five--bounties every single day. No way in hell.

And if you worked out that you get x glimmer per shot and attack or impact didn't matter and you found that the highest rate of fire auto-rifle could do it in 2 minutes...

would you use it?

I told everyone Doctor Nope was best!

and five minutes of shooting it would give you the glimmer you need...

would you do it?

And if you worked out that you get x glimmer per shot and attack or impact didn't matter and you found that the highest rate of fire auto-rifle could do it in 2 minutes...

would you use it?

Maybe it's good I'll be unable to play for a week.

The longer you stay away from it the happier you will feel about the game.

The issue is that PREPARING IS SUPER FUCKING BORING. If preparing meant spending 20 seconds buying ammo with coins, then that would be fine.

This is exactly what preparing meant. Last week when you knew Xur had synth. Arent you always going on about how many coins you have?

I also know that one hour of mind-numbing farming will earn me as much glimmer as 3+ hours of similarly painful Roc Strikes. Then I can go do stuff I enjoy for the remaining 2 hours.

Because it's the truth. Cody has played a good bit more than me and yet he can't buy ammo synths and I can. Why? Because he spent his glimmer on other things. He knew at least a week ago, via weekly update, that the date of Crota's End Hard Mode would be announced along with the anti-cheese patch. He knew far in advance of that that Hard Mode would begin sometime around now and yet wasn't prepared. Even if the game's economy isn't the best he still had plenty of time to prepare... and didn't.

Look, just playing the game and not buying anything significant would have gotten him ~10,000 glimmer. I know this because that's excatly what I did... I was in the hundreds of glimmer a week ago and I didn't even play very much to get where I am now!

The issue is that PREPARING IS SUPER FUCKING BORING. If preparing meant spending 20 seconds buying ammo with coins, then that would be fine. But now preparing means glimmer farming.

Uh huh. And how do you get coins? By doing the things you say you are bored with. There is no way you can spend just 20 seconds to do what you want. It takes a lot of time to amass strange coins just like it takes time to amass glimmer. If you weren't out of Glimmer you would just find something else to complain about. You're almost vindictive about it at this point. 'Course the thing is I don't think you hate Destiny as much as you claim. You just like to complain. If you were half serious about all your complaints you'd have moved on to a new game by now!

So what am I supposed to do to prepare that isn't either too easy to be stimulating, or mind numbingly boring and repetitive?

Determin your weapon set well ahead of time and stop spending. Stock up on heavy weapon synths before the "last minute" appearance of Xur... You should have already have been ready! And, certainly don't upgrade weapons you don't need the week before the raid.

Except that you have. Remember when you said "It'll take three minutes!" On the bridge, and it became nearly 20, because I remember you stepping off the capture point for whatever reason. And then when you were dragging the bridge sequence forever, because you insisted that maybe we should do something else with the sword after we had long-since figured out the puzzle, causing another Gatekeeper to spawn, wiping us.

To defend yourself by saying "Your argument is invalid because I didn't wipe us on this one part." Isn't a convincing argument.

You realize that was the first time any of us did that raid? You can't expect perfect play when we are figuring it out. Failure is a part of experimentation.

Since you were nit-picky with your defense, acting as though you "never" caused a wipe there, I provided two examples. That one of them was the first time we did it is irrelevant; you have indeed wiped us there before. Checkmate.

Because it's the truth. Cody has played a good bit more than me and yet he can't buy ammo synths and I can. Why? Because he spent his glimmer on other things. He knew at least a week ago, via weekly update, that the date of Crota's End Hard Mode would be announced along with the anti-cheese patch. He knew far in advance of that that Hard Mode would begin sometime around now and yet wasn't prepared. Even if the game's economy isn't the best he still had plenty of time to prepare... and didn't.

Look, just playing the game and not buying anything significant would have gotten him ~10,000 glimmer. I know this because that's excatly what I did... I was in the hundreds of glimmer a week ago and I didn't even play very much to get where I am now!

The issue is that PREPARING IS SUPER FUCKING BORING. If preparing meant spending 20 seconds buying ammo with coins, then that would be fine. But now preparing means glimmer farming.

I'm bored with everything in the game but raids and nightfalls. The raid gives no glimmer. Nightfalls don't give a lot even with your consumables on. Crucible is notoriously poor in the rewards department.

So what am I supposed to do to prepare that isn't either too easy to be stimulating, or mind numbingly boring and repetitive?

Just bustin' chops! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoG27zqt0g

Seriously, though, wasn't trying to be a prick. just trying to point out that he was responsible for his situation, not Destiny.

The point has nothing to do with economics. The point is that Bungie designed a game, such that it is required to do stupid shit in order to do fun stuff.

I used Xur as an example, because it would have been an easy solution alleviating much frustration and mind numbing hours. He could have sold heavy ammo. But no.

Bungie is 100% responsible, for making glimmer a chore to acquire, and also making it so crucial.

Maybe it's good I'll be unable to play for a week.

Seriously, though, wasn't trying to be a prick. just trying to point out that he was responsible for his situation, not Destiny.

I'll try to read you more charitably going forward.

Except that you have. Remember when you said "It'll take three minutes!" On the bridge, and it became nearly 20, because I remember you stepping off the capture point for whatever reason. And then when you were dragging the bridge sequence forever, because you insisted that maybe we should do something else with the sword after we had long-since figured out the puzzle, causing another Gatekeeper to spawn, wiping us.

To defend yourself by saying "Your argument is invalid because I didn't wipe us on this one part." Isn't a convincing argument.

You realize that was the first time any of us did that raid? You can't expect perfect play when we are figuring it out. Failure is a part of experimentation.