Btw, has it been said that only vendor-purchased gear can be rerolled? Or any HoW gear? Would certainly give an incentive to collect marks if its the former.

Bungie has no "official documentation" yet, but all of the news articles that summarize the last Twitch stream claim you can reroll any new HoW weapon.

Btw, has it been said that only vendor-purchased gear can be rerolled? Or any HoW gear? Would certainly give an incentive to collect marks if its the former.

I graduate from Grad school on the 22nd, so now I'll actually have time to play me some Destiny :).

Congrats! I know you played the beta and have been around for a while. Look forward to you joining in on some of the organized sessions.

Thanks! Yea, that would be great! I've been lurking some, and the exploits of ya'll's raids make me a bit jelous.

I graduate from Grad school on the 22nd, so now I'll actually have time to play me some Destiny :).

Hey, congrats! I lost track of you after the Reach launch - will be nice to see you back. :)

I graduate from Grad school on the 22nd, so now I'll actually have time to play me some Destiny :).

Congrats! I know you played the beta and have been around for a while. Look forward to you joining in on some of the organized sessions.

Edit: Apparently Cyber also experienced this, & beat me to the punch.

Replied to cyber - you're right. It is accurate, but not precise. *Shrugs* I look at it like a weather forecast.

This is exactly how I've looked at it since finding out there were two different types of engrams. More often the not, the less potent one has only been shards. And the higher potency versions have yielded legendaries more often. I could just be crazy too.

With specific regard to engrams- if you read the description very closely before you cash it in, you can tell what you will get, to some extent.

For example, you might come across a purple primary weapon engram in the wild. Read the description before you redeem it. The text can be different, and that will clue you into if you are actually going to get what was advertised (in this case, a primary weapon) or if you will just get mats.

I'm not convinced this is always the case. I'm positive that I've had a "materials" description engram end up in a weapon. Now it may have a higher chance of being materials, but I'm pretty sure it's not 100%.

Edit: Apparently Cyber also experienced this, & beat me to the punch.

Replied to cyber - you're right. It is accurate, but not precise. *Shrugs* I look at it like a weather forecast.

*Gets Legendary engram*

"The Cryptarch in the Tower may be able to decrypt this object and reveal its contents."

"Oh great. More shards"

*Decrypts into LDR 5001*

"..."

Yeah it was never said that it's 100% effective (lol nothing in Destiny seems to be 100% except randomness and exceptions)but very accurate. Since reading about it, for me at least, it's been a pretty good indicator. Remember though, that when that wheel spins you could even get an exotic out of it, even if the engram indicates it's materials.

If there is one thing I can say about Destiny, it is in my opinion, consistently inconsistent :V

With specific regard to engrams- if you read the description very closely before you cash it in, you can tell what you will get, to some extent.

For example, you might come across a purple primary weapon engram in the wild. Read the description before you redeem it. The text can be different, and that will clue you into if you are actually going to get what was advertised (in this case, a primary weapon) or if you will just get mats.

I'm not convinced this is always the case. I'm positive that I've had a "materials" description engram end up in a weapon. Now it may have a higher chance of being materials, but I'm pretty sure it's not 100%.

Edit: Apparently Cyber also experienced this, & beat me to the punch.

"The Cryptarch in the Tower may be able to decrypt this object and reveal its contents."

"Oh great. More shards"

*Decrypts into LDR 5001*

"..."

How do we know that the content of packages (or engrams) are predetermined before we open (or decrypt) them? Has Bungie said so?

If we don't know, and considering that the loot tables are about change, wouldn't it be prudent to not open or decrypt anything until after HoW drops if we care primarily about getting new stuff?

With specific regard to engrams- if you read the description very closely before you cash it in, you can tell what you will get, to some extent.

For example, you might come across a purple primary weapon engram in the wild. Read the description before you redeem it. The text can be different, and that will clue you into if you are actually going to get what was advertised (in this case, a primary weapon) or if you will just get mats.

As to your other questions, idk.

So far Bungie have a bit of a track record of Public Event rewards misbehaving after an update. Last time those with a full Postmaster managed to grab themselves a wealth of Radiant materials.

You should be saving them up anyway to make the most of telemetries, but if you wait 'til after the update you might get something extra special. Maybe.

Man, I've been doing it wrong. I'd open packages to see if there was anything I wanted to apply the telemetries to, and I assumed telemetries magnified turning in bounties and shooting stuff and that's it.

What I'm figuring out, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that any interaction in the tower gives you experience that can be magnified by the telemetries, right?

However! daily reward packages and the like give mad experience. So hoarding them (regardless of their contents) is a good idea so that you will have a ton of XP at your disposal as soon as HoW drops.

If we don't know, and considering that the loot tables are about change, wouldn't it be prudent to not open or decrypt anything until after HoW drops if we care primarily about getting new stuff?

If you earn a cryptarch package prior to HoW dropping, that TDB package already contains TDB engrams, which in turn will decrypt into TDB gear.

TL;DR: It's impossible to "hoard" engrams and packages if you want to get HoW stuff out of them. Instead, you can hoard engrams and packages that you can decrpyt/open after HoW drops to give you REPUTATION, which goes towards ranking up and getting a new HoW package.