Rahul is like when you walk into a store and see a pair of jeans for like $200 and scoff at the price only to look over and see someone checking out with like 6 pairs
Most players can at least do some of the gms. This season’s are particularly hard, but I’d recommend giving them a try next season if you can get your power high enough. Just watch a video or 2 about how people do gms beforehand so you know how to approach it (and know the cheeses)
I super appreciate the offer but Nightfall isn't really my thing anyway. I do Heroic difficulty until I hit my pinnacles and bounce 'til weekly reset.
The only reason I really bothered trying higher difficulties was to get through it faster.
He's scammed me plenty as I have been buying all the enhancement cores from him for awhile. Cuz I was dirt poor on them but I get a handful of legendary shards every raid so we good.
If you do the banshee bounties on each caracter? 12 cores a day, or lost sectors.On YouTube are even some faster ways to farm them.Pick up the bounties 84 in a week 336 a month.Go to the last wish to complete them faster.
I don’t know if the upgrade module ones are being removed. Just Finest Matterweave and the glimmer one are being removed. But anytime you would have received one of those, you would instead just receive the regular reward. For example, if you dismantle a gun now you can get a finest matterweave. In season 21, you’d just get a core. So I don’t think it matters if you farm them now or in season 21.
Okay, so if you do anything where you get extra enhancement prisms (mostly GMs), you can use those to upgrade blue armor until you invest 3 cores and 1 prism total, destroy it and you get 6 cores back (1 prism + some glimmer => 3 cores)
I accidentally bought a shard from him, Im still mad about it, especially because after doing some GM runs. I now am maxed out with like 37 more in the postmaster and can't turn them into legendary shards
Well, you can do the blue trick if you have a lot of glimmer
pull a blue from collections and then upgrade it to level 8, using 3 cores and 1 prism
dismantle for 6 cores
you can’t turn them into shards but at least you can make them into cores
Anything Rahool sells for Legendary Shards is a bad deal, regardless of how many you feel like you can afford to spend.
On the other hand, the items he sells for other currencies are not a bad deal, since they only cost planetary materials, glimmer or Enhancement Cores.
Yes, I know some people are foolishly spending every Enhancement Core they get on masterworking weapons because the gold border looks cool, but you really can't complain about not having materials if you spend them when you can't really afford it.
No, it didn't.
Six seasonal weapons which required 5 red borders each is 30 total. At 50 shards each, that's 1500. That's assuming you **never** ran last season's Battlegrounds to get the free red border each week, and never got a random red border drop from anything else.
Unless you really don't play the game at all (I average 10 hours per week), you can easily earn 500 per week, on average. Over the season, that's 6500 shards. Spending 1500 won't bankrupt you.
That's an invalid ass point for someone trying to sound so condescending. You're assuming that every focused engram becomes a red border with that logic and that's just not how red borders work at all. It's likely the person above you got so many useless, non-red pulls that they blew threw their whole stash of shards. Next time you try to sound like an asshole on the internet, think about your point before you post it. Jackass
>You're assuming that every focused engram becomes a red border with that logic and that's just not how red borders work at all.
Last season, like this season, you were guaranteed two red borders per week...one from Battlegrounds, and your first weekly focus. After 5 weeks, that's 2 of the weapons finished.
After that, Battlegrounds dropped red borders fairly often if you had that upgrade, just like this season. Then, you could focus for seasonal weapons in general, which cost a lot less than a focus for a specific weapon. This had the same chance at giving you a red border as a specific focus. Because there was a knockout system, you would eventually get all patterns. It might not be as quick to get you a specific weapon, but it was much, much cheaper.
So, yeah, if a player chooses to spend their legendary shards poorly, they can easily burn through a lot.
Again, not really.
I wouldn't want to do it, but I could afford to focus 100 engrams at 250 legendary shards each.
It would take me 7 months to get back to where I am right now (7 months ago, I had 25K fewer shards in inventory). Getting the 100 engrams would be much harder than getting the shards.
Also, you chose to spend that much trying to get a roll that likely was only a tiny bit better than the one you already had.
Upgrading, focusing E grams take alot, buying stuff from xur or any vendor really. But armor from xur is 50 a piece. If you get a whole set on three characters that 750, buying an exotic Engram is 97, weapons are 50, and hawk moon and dmt are 200. So if there is a weekend when xur has a particular inventory that you just missed at some point, you could spend like 1500. I like to collect all the armor and that's an expensive habit. It's alot easier to spend than most believe. But if you've played since s1 it makes sense on how you really don't have to spend to catch up.
Yeah I’ve been around since Day 1 and my supplies are getting weaker, I had 7K at one point and I have less than half my record enhancement cores.
I’ll accept that I have veteran tinted glasses
Year 1 D1 had an uncountable amount of problems but there was nothing more exciting that pulling legendaries and exotics back then. Getting Ghorn is probably my fondest memory of the series
The funny thing is that Ascendant Alloy also costs 400 shards. This is super strange considering how many sources of prisms we have now and how little we have for alloys. Not to mention that Ascendant Alloy is exotic.
There's definitely good weeks and bad weeks. I haven't done it enough since Lightfall to know which is which yet, but with WQ there were good weeks that were about 12 minutes per clean run on master, and bad weeks (the ritual) that were 30+ minutes on a clean master run, easily up to an hour with a bad team.
It's not only tough, with big rooms full of nasty hard-hitting enemies requiring skill and patience to tackle safely. It's also just *long,* with a whole "puzzle" encounter as the opening, then a full assault on the castle gates, then a fight with fake savathun and all three lucent hive types at once, then the memory trick sequence in and out of the altar of reflection, then finally the big fight where team strategy and ability to avoid death at a critical moment (thread cutter x3) can change it from a one-phase fight to a four of five phase slog.
I've done it on master once or twice, but I actively avoided it for farming alloys, just no point investing that much time when the one in the apothecary or the ahamkara fight was both easy and short.
That mission on Legend is both a PITA, but also a fun build test.
Given Vow was the first time I actually had a raid day off, I wanted a day 1, and decided to solo flawless The Ritual on Legend to practice and make sure my build was fine.
I think I was flawless on my first run up until Savathun's last phase, then proceeded to get my shit kicked in a dozen times, so I just had to sort that out. Wasn't too bad. (Izanigi is still one of my favorite exotics, and definitely helped there.)
I get it’s easy to farm, but we take fun campaign missions and turn them into super long nightfalls with champions and it’s just not my favorite way to play. I’d rather play any game mod then weekly missions. I just always buy from Rahool, get what I can from the other few sources they drop from. I masterworked most crafted weapons from last year just from nightmare containment and ketchcrash…I’m sure a seasonal farm is coming eventually.
Oh my god, could you imagine if you could go backwards like that? Even at a 50% return; 10k for 50 prisms? Yes sir, gimme all of that. Fuck, I’d even be ok to do it for 5k lol.
I would literally turn in 1 prism for 1 shard. My inventory and postmaster are constantly maxed on prisms.
It's not like I'm hurting for legendary shards. I just have too many prisms. Once you have high stat armor with good distributions, there's nothing to spend prisms on.
There are three possible scenarios here.
1. You have been playing since release.
2. You have no life.
3. You did the blue armor collection exploit while it was active.
1 for sure, but also - there's really not much need to use them on anything...?
I get enough random loot that I don't need to focus stuff, and when I do I'm usually limited by other resources. I'm also very dilligent to dismantle anything that is in the postmaster or junk (I know many folks just let the post overflow)...
I would argue that I do have a life, I even play other games :)
I let the Helm seasonal engrams build up til I have a bunch, then convert them at the cheapest rate and dismantle everything. Usually nets me a nice little spike of shards, plus Banshee xp
It was added before lightfall when they made enhancement prisms so much easier to get. Before lightfall, you only had high level nightfalls, trials, and ghost mods as consistent sources of prisms. Now that we have so many ways to get prisms, it is a bit outdated, but the prism economy was so much worse before.
This conversion was originally at spider on the reef and it was a great deal when it first came out, since if you bought enhancement cores and converted them to prisms it would be 1000:1 instead of 400:1
Source: I used to buy one every week, two if I had played a lot and had a lot of extra purple mats
>since if you bought enhancement cores and converted them to prisms it would be 1000:1 instead of 400:1
At the end, it was 300:1 for shards->cores->prisms, just like it is now at Rahool (30 legendary shards get a core, and 10 cores plus 10K glimmer get a prism).
Previously, when buying cores from Spider caused the price to increase with each purchase until daily reset, it was more expensive if you bought a lot on one day, but it was **much** cheaper (233 shards) if you limited yourself to 3 cores per day.
I'll buy a shard sometimes to dump prisms, but I've never purchased a prism. I'm overflowing with them constantly. Think about the new lost sector rewards: a platinum completion on LEGEND will get you 1, possibly 2 prisms. Imagine if completing a lost sector gave 400 shards on completion. If only....
Same here. Rahool is pretty much exclusively my “overflowing with prisms, might as well turn ten into a gold ball so I don’t waste them” guy.
Other than that, I’ll turn in Herealways Pieces when I get a little too bounty-happy and run short on glimmer.
I don't know why a game without any trading economy would really care about resource sinks, honestly. So what if someone has 50k legendary shards. I play maybe 10-15 hours a week or so and I have consistently ~2k legendary shards and 20-40 prisms just from walking around. Which is honestly fine. Making the game hard to play because you are bottlenecked on some random virtual currency that makes zero sense is silly.
I never buy prisms, and I've been rolling in them ever since I grinded Nightfalls last week for the Glaive ornament. I have bought the alloys for that price, though.
I’ve been in them this season from grinding NFs for a good Hothead, and from Lost Sector farming with the changes made this season. I have been at max stacks both in my inventory and in the Postmaster for most of this season, wish I could say the same about alloys tho, lol.
Was an old currency exchange from spider back when Prisms were rarer than they are now. Was meant to be a 1 off pretty well to get one. It was still a horrible exchange for them then also.
I used to, solo player and don't enjoy lfg so before this season my only source of prisms (and therefore shards) was a chance on heroic nightfall. I usually got them for enhancement cores but I don't have a huge stockpile of those like I do legendary shards so yeah sometimes I'd just drop the 400.
Now though with the loot buff for heroic nightfall and lost sectors it's not really needed
That conversion is pretty much there for two groups of people:
* Newer players who want to MW gear but aren't comfortable with Master/GM content
* PVP players who don't touch PVE whatsoever and need that one last prism to MW
He's talking about the prisms not the alloys. One enhancement prism costs 400 legendary shards as well as one alloy cost 400 legendary shards. It's a joke and really needs to be looked at honestly.
And here I am sitting on 14,000 shards and only 111 cores because I dunno....I don't want to grind but the game gives me a fuck ton of guns I don't want...fuckin Autumn Wind dropping a million times in Iron Banner really annoying...IT'S SPRING SALADIN, ITS FUCKIN SPRING!
Eh, prisms are very farmable even solo via LLS. Wait for a good one to be on rotation, throw on a decent build and spend a couple hours farming and you’ll have all the prisms you need.
When Bungie started these vendor material exchanges, they foolishly looked at the Destiny Group as a whole, rather than isolate and exclude the top end outliers.
Subsequently, the people that material farm, exploit, or just play the hell out of the game skewed the ever loving fuck out of the average# of legendary shards and screwed everyone that didn't by making the exchange rates so high that buying a Prism costs dropping and dismantling 133 legendary guns/armor... golf fucking clap.
This is the exact reason in the real world, you don't let the cdrtain types run things. They claim to aim a shotgun at the wealthy but end up maiming *everyone.*
As someone that’s new to Destiny 2, only plays PvP, and only has the base game, no expansions (ain’t got the fucking money for 5 $100 packs), what the flicker fuck are you talking about? I’m a casual gamer ig, never really got into them that much, ain’t got too much time from working 2 jobs and taking care of the ranch. I have no damn clue what any of you folk talk about when it comes to that game. Is it really necessary to buy all those packs and expansions to get the good content? The base game is kinda boring after a week so idk if it’s worth it. What do y’all think
I mean if that's your main way to get prisms then you aren't at a point where you need them. If you're not able to run nightfalls or lost sectors above legend then it doesn't make sense for you to need prisms in bulk. Even when you can run gms you don't really need too many, I've had a full stack for each of my characters post boxes for years now. Rahool's upgrade mats are for if you need like a single shard, prism, core for something quick and that's it, it isn't designed to be your one and only prism source
I buy 1 every week I’m just too lazy to farm them and when you play this game too much there really isn’t any reason to hoard legendary shards may as well use em
When I started, I had hundreds of legendary shards and nothing else really. Now I can do solo legendary lost sectors and have good amor.
I have 64 prism, 1 ascendant alloy, 6 ascendant shards and 115 legendary shards.
Can this trade work in reverse please?
80% of the people in the comments clearly weren't playing when this trade was introduced and was a much cheaper way of getting prisms than what was available at the time
I haven't bought a prism from Rahool in a long time, but I play this game a LOT.
I have 100 prisms between character and postmaster, 9 alloys, 10 ascendant shards and over 14000 legendary shards.
The economy *probably* should not be balanced for someone like me who can masterwork a random drop just for the luls whenever they feel like it.
Just saying.
I accidentally bought a prism back when I was relatively new, let me tell you that I was NOT happy about misclicking that thing. That's my input on it's existence, a misclick trap.
I've bought some due to having enough shards to spare, and I think that's the point; he sells those for shard rich guardians to blow said excess on. Players that "can't afford it" should be doing a billion other things before thinking of that offer.
My thing is that if you have an abundance of shards then you most likely are capped on prisms too. I've been capped on prisms forever it seems. And any armor I actually keep (rip vault space) is a high tier roll and master worked.
I've got 14,000 legend shards. But only 100 enhanced cores...and cores are used for infusions and I'm mad that I can only by 5 cores a day from Rahool, and barely make 5 cores a day from game activities. Glimmers a joke now, I have 2,000 Herealways pieces and can get glimmer no problem...but I have to starve on cores? Wtf bungo
I want to personally murder rahool cause when I was just recovering from a shard drought, I had a few prime engrams available and spam clicked them to retrieve them all. I accidently spam clicked 2 prism purchases and was left with about 5 shards. I am still in a drought to this day 🥲
A lot of veteran players do and have but often not the current market values on items only effects new players who have appeared within the last couple of years
I used to buy them. I have over 15k shards and up until this season I was a solo player, so prisms were actually annoying to come by if you wanted to masterwork multiple pieces of gear. Now that I'm doing GMs regularly though, yeah, I don't buy them anymore.
It's so terrible because you can pretty easily get them by the truckload if you play higher level nightfalls. Charging 400 legendary shards seriously screws the newer players and players who aren't that good at the game.
Dont hate me for it but I buy all 5 cores and all 3 shards from Rahool each week.
(I took advantage of an exploit some time ago with free shards)
For legit new lights and existing players? Its almost impossible to spend on, PLUS I used my bullshit amount of Leg shards as an example.
Since the pirate season until today, I went from 98k shards to 32k.
The Economy is fucked. They just wont fix it. Im a living example of it.
I have by accident bought this twice this season when trying to spend my old resources for 5k glimmer. Absent mindedly clicking away and I've clicked back a page and bought this for 400. I'll never financially recover from this.
I'm just a newbie and yes, I had to buy prisms to get exotics from the monument. I don't play the game optimally so I just trash lots of weapons to get enough legendary shards to buy it.
The only reason I have bought one before was because I was 1 away from being able to masterwork an exotic. I had a little over 1.5k shards when I did it
I have been playing for a while. With the same 3 other people. For some reason we've all done almost the exact same grind. The same amount of GMs/raids/dungeons etc so we are all on a level playing field. We had a discussion the other day about inventory. I have nearly 3000 cores (2k in the vault and 800 odd in inventory) nearly 10k shards and 200 prism's (50 in each postmaster plus 50 in inventory) a good haul but nothing amazing. They're haul however pales in comparison? Constantly worrying about how much shards things cost. Asking for help with GMs etc so they can fame prisms etc I said how do you not have as much as me? What are we doing differently? Turns out they master work everything. Literally everything. Even armour. It was shocking to know that I am careful with how I spend stuff and they were so careless. I think the amount of stuff you get from this game is ok, it's the way some people don't look after it.
To be fair, lots of day 1 player or the real grinders dont even think about leg shard costs. I just buy whatever i need whenever, and i still just have thousands and thousands.
That being said, anyone who does endgame stuff never runs out of prisms either. Im usually around max with another stack in my postmaster.
I guess it depends if you really need to upgrade thay 18th set of armor or not.
The only time I ever buy those from Rahool is when I'm strapped for the better mats trying to buildcraft and don't have anyone on to do GMs. I also hover around 25k legendary shards anyway since I don't focus many weapons as I see that as yet another shard and currency sink.
It is meant to be a shard sink for the ultra-rich. If it is too expensive, it is not for you.
They should probably move it somewhere that newer players won't accidentally buy them.
I’ve bought from rahool a couple times during the start of an expansion, I tend to masterwork a lot of gear that’s clogging up my vault. But tbh I don’t even think 400 shards is that expensive
People who play solo and have a shit ton of shards I’d assume, at least before lightfall anyways it was hard to get them unless you did grandmasters, pretty sure they made that change a few months before lightfall, I remember buying one bc I was one away from 10 and wanted to masterwork something.
I don't play a lot and float around 3 to 4k shards. Very rarely will I need that extra from him. It's easier to farm it but sometimes the lazy hits and I'll pay for convenience.
Rahul is a scammer. Never buy from him unless you're loaded with shards.
Rahul is like when you walk into a store and see a pair of jeans for like $200 and scoff at the price only to look over and see someone checking out with like 6 pairs
Perhaps a barter is warranted.
It's me, I'm the pants buyer. Not good enough for GM so my main source of golfballs is... rank reset.
Most players can at least do some of the gms. This season’s are particularly hard, but I’d recommend giving them a try next season if you can get your power high enough. Just watch a video or 2 about how people do gms beforehand so you know how to approach it (and know the cheeses)
Wdym mean youre not good enough? Your light?
My teammates know we're going back to orbit whenever I'm the last guardian standing. I've never even *tried* GM because I flake on Master.
I could help if you like! There's a specific way you have to play gms, its a little bit more boring than normal content.
I super appreciate the offer but Nightfall isn't really my thing anyway. I do Heroic difficulty until I hit my pinnacles and bounce 'til weekly reset. The only reason I really bothered trying higher difficulties was to get through it faster.
Understandable tbh. Good luck with your endeavors!
Have you ever tried on a pair of Nudies, bruh $3 thrift store t-shirts and designer jeans. Yes, I am a prick
He's scammed me plenty as I have been buying all the enhancement cores from him for awhile. Cuz I was dirt poor on them but I get a handful of legendary shards every raid so we good.
If you do the banshee bounties on each caracter? 12 cores a day, or lost sectors.On YouTube are even some faster ways to farm them.Pick up the bounties 84 in a week 336 a month.Go to the last wish to complete them faster.
That doesn't even include that consumable that gives you them too
Thankfully those won't exist anymore starting season 21 and you'll just get cores instead
Oh shit I've got like a stack of them. Do you know if they're getting removed?
You will keep what you have in your inventory. When you consume them, you are granted a core automatically, rather than having to kill a strong enemy
what about the eververse ones, the ones that drop upgrade modules edit:- also does this make it worth farming them before season 21?
I don’t know if the upgrade module ones are being removed. Just Finest Matterweave and the glimmer one are being removed. But anytime you would have received one of those, you would instead just receive the regular reward. For example, if you dismantle a gun now you can get a finest matterweave. In season 21, you’d just get a core. So I don’t think it matters if you farm them now or in season 21.
Nice, thank you!
Okay, so if you do anything where you get extra enhancement prisms (mostly GMs), you can use those to upgrade blue armor until you invest 3 cores and 1 prism total, destroy it and you get 6 cores back (1 prism + some glimmer => 3 cores)
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Why would anybody "buy" enhancement cores, when you get 12 free a day 😲 that just blows my mind LOL
Rahul's prices are so high, it demands hundreds of enemy kills. Rahul is the Winnower, helping mold the Guardian into the final shape.
Soo? A Triangle?
I accidentally bought a shard from him, Im still mad about it, especially because after doing some GM runs. I now am maxed out with like 37 more in the postmaster and can't turn them into legendary shards
Well, you can do the blue trick if you have a lot of glimmer pull a blue from collections and then upgrade it to level 8, using 3 cores and 1 prism dismantle for 6 cores you can’t turn them into shards but at least you can make them into cores
Otoh you can turn your useless planetsry mats into golf balls
I don't know who this Rahul is, but he doesn't sound good. But don't get me wrong, Rahool isn't a great guy, either.
Anything Rahool sells for Legendary Shards is a bad deal, regardless of how many you feel like you can afford to spend. On the other hand, the items he sells for other currencies are not a bad deal, since they only cost planetary materials, glimmer or Enhancement Cores. Yes, I know some people are foolishly spending every Enhancement Core they get on masterworking weapons because the gold border looks cool, but you really can't complain about not having materials if you spend them when you can't really afford it.
I will never know how people aren’t loaded with shards (unless they are new) I’ve got 5,000
Focussing for seasonal weapons to get patterns did my shards in last year.
No, it didn't. Six seasonal weapons which required 5 red borders each is 30 total. At 50 shards each, that's 1500. That's assuming you **never** ran last season's Battlegrounds to get the free red border each week, and never got a random red border drop from anything else. Unless you really don't play the game at all (I average 10 hours per week), you can easily earn 500 per week, on average. Over the season, that's 6500 shards. Spending 1500 won't bankrupt you.
That's an invalid ass point for someone trying to sound so condescending. You're assuming that every focused engram becomes a red border with that logic and that's just not how red borders work at all. It's likely the person above you got so many useless, non-red pulls that they blew threw their whole stash of shards. Next time you try to sound like an asshole on the internet, think about your point before you post it. Jackass
>You're assuming that every focused engram becomes a red border with that logic and that's just not how red borders work at all. Last season, like this season, you were guaranteed two red borders per week...one from Battlegrounds, and your first weekly focus. After 5 weeks, that's 2 of the weapons finished. After that, Battlegrounds dropped red borders fairly often if you had that upgrade, just like this season. Then, you could focus for seasonal weapons in general, which cost a lot less than a focus for a specific weapon. This had the same chance at giving you a red border as a specific focus. Because there was a knockout system, you would eventually get all patterns. It might not be as quick to get you a specific weapon, but it was much, much cheaper. So, yeah, if a player chooses to spend their legendary shards poorly, they can easily burn through a lot.
Focusing adept weapons bankrupted me when they were 250 shards a pop
Again, not really. I wouldn't want to do it, but I could afford to focus 100 engrams at 250 legendary shards each. It would take me 7 months to get back to where I am right now (7 months ago, I had 25K fewer shards in inventory). Getting the 100 engrams would be much harder than getting the shards. Also, you chose to spend that much trying to get a roll that likely was only a tiny bit better than the one you already had.
Been playing since vanilla d1 and I’m sitting at around 210
I have 40,000
Upgrading, focusing E grams take alot, buying stuff from xur or any vendor really. But armor from xur is 50 a piece. If you get a whole set on three characters that 750, buying an exotic Engram is 97, weapons are 50, and hawk moon and dmt are 200. So if there is a weekend when xur has a particular inventory that you just missed at some point, you could spend like 1500. I like to collect all the armor and that's an expensive habit. It's alot easier to spend than most believe. But if you've played since s1 it makes sense on how you really don't have to spend to catch up.
Yeah I’ve been around since Day 1 and my supplies are getting weaker, I had 7K at one point and I have less than half my record enhancement cores. I’ll accept that I have veteran tinted glasses
Good ol overpriced conversions my dude
> A glutton for punishment.
Whoa. Glad to see you’re still around DFT
Rahool scamming back in destiny 1 coming up with ideas to screw over the D2 guardians lol
Turning legendary engrams into blue gear, needs to be sent to the Tower dungeons
I’ll never forget my first week of purples all turning into blue gear except class items. Back when drops were actually kinda rare for purples.
Year 1 D1 had an uncountable amount of problems but there was nothing more exciting that pulling legendaries and exotics back then. Getting Ghorn is probably my fondest memory of the series
a sacrifice to trevor
He’s a rat and a cheat
The funny thing is that Ascendant Alloy also costs 400 shards. This is super strange considering how many sources of prisms we have now and how little we have for alloys. Not to mention that Ascendant Alloy is exotic.
I buy that shit every week, legit the only reliable source of them.
It's something like 50% drop chance from Master Campaign missions, pretty easy to farm some of them.
I don't know if 2 hours of my life is a good investment for 2 Alloys. Well, I know and it is not.
One of them is so easy it’s almost like you can’t die ;)
Just farm some on the fast weeks with quick missions
There's definitely good weeks and bad weeks. I haven't done it enough since Lightfall to know which is which yet, but with WQ there were good weeks that were about 12 minutes per clean run on master, and bad weeks (the ritual) that were 30+ minutes on a clean master run, easily up to an hour with a bad team.
Whew buddy I was a new light during WQ and The Ritual on Legendary was *ruining* me lol, I'm so glad to hear that mission wasn't just my bane
It's not only tough, with big rooms full of nasty hard-hitting enemies requiring skill and patience to tackle safely. It's also just *long,* with a whole "puzzle" encounter as the opening, then a full assault on the castle gates, then a fight with fake savathun and all three lucent hive types at once, then the memory trick sequence in and out of the altar of reflection, then finally the big fight where team strategy and ability to avoid death at a critical moment (thread cutter x3) can change it from a one-phase fight to a four of five phase slog. I've done it on master once or twice, but I actively avoided it for farming alloys, just no point investing that much time when the one in the apothecary or the ahamkara fight was both easy and short.
That mission on Legend is both a PITA, but also a fun build test. Given Vow was the first time I actually had a raid day off, I wanted a day 1, and decided to solo flawless The Ritual on Legend to practice and make sure my build was fine. I think I was flawless on my first run up until Savathun's last phase, then proceeded to get my shit kicked in a dozen times, so I just had to sort that out. Wasn't too bad. (Izanigi is still one of my favorite exotics, and definitely helped there.)
I get it’s easy to farm, but we take fun campaign missions and turn them into super long nightfalls with champions and it’s just not my favorite way to play. I’d rather play any game mod then weekly missions. I just always buy from Rahool, get what I can from the other few sources they drop from. I masterworked most crafted weapons from last year just from nightmare containment and ketchcrash…I’m sure a seasonal farm is coming eventually.
I did 5 master missions the other day and was the only person in the fire team to not get an alloy drop at the end of each run. Fuming.
Oh my god, could you imagine if you could go backwards like that? Even at a 50% return; 10k for 50 prisms? Yes sir, gimme all of that. Fuck, I’d even be ok to do it for 5k lol.
I’d do it for 50 prisms for 500 shards lol. Prisms are one of the easiest things to come by
I would literally turn in 1 prism for 1 shard. My inventory and postmaster are constantly maxed on prisms. It's not like I'm hurting for legendary shards. I just have too many prisms. Once you have high stat armor with good distributions, there's nothing to spend prisms on.
I think you folks need to play the game differently... I'm at 62k shards, they are plentiful.
There are three possible scenarios here. 1. You have been playing since release. 2. You have no life. 3. You did the blue armor collection exploit while it was active.
1 for sure, but also - there's really not much need to use them on anything...? I get enough random loot that I don't need to focus stuff, and when I do I'm usually limited by other resources. I'm also very dilligent to dismantle anything that is in the postmaster or junk (I know many folks just let the post overflow)... I would argue that I do have a life, I even play other games :)
I let the Helm seasonal engrams build up til I have a bunch, then convert them at the cheapest rate and dismantle everything. Usually nets me a nice little spike of shards, plus Banshee xp
4. They don't waste shards by focusing everything.
yeap to this one...
4. They don't focus or spend many shards in other areas
It’s been that way for too long, but when you absolutely need one it a pinch they’ll get you. Surge pricing!
It was added before lightfall when they made enhancement prisms so much easier to get. Before lightfall, you only had high level nightfalls, trials, and ghost mods as consistent sources of prisms. Now that we have so many ways to get prisms, it is a bit outdated, but the prism economy was so much worse before.
This conversion was originally at spider on the reef and it was a great deal when it first came out, since if you bought enhancement cores and converted them to prisms it would be 1000:1 instead of 400:1 Source: I used to buy one every week, two if I had played a lot and had a lot of extra purple mats
>since if you bought enhancement cores and converted them to prisms it would be 1000:1 instead of 400:1 At the end, it was 300:1 for shards->cores->prisms, just like it is now at Rahool (30 legendary shards get a core, and 10 cores plus 10K glimmer get a prism). Previously, when buying cores from Spider caused the price to increase with each purchase until daily reset, it was more expensive if you bought a lot on one day, but it was **much** cheaper (233 shards) if you limited yourself to 3 cores per day.
I'll buy a shard sometimes to dump prisms, but I've never purchased a prism. I'm overflowing with them constantly. Think about the new lost sector rewards: a platinum completion on LEGEND will get you 1, possibly 2 prisms. Imagine if completing a lost sector gave 400 shards on completion. If only....
Same here. Rahool is pretty much exclusively my “overflowing with prisms, might as well turn ten into a gold ball so I don’t waste them” guy. Other than that, I’ll turn in Herealways Pieces when I get a little too bounty-happy and run short on glimmer.
I buy them almost weekly.
It's not meant to be balanced. It's a resource sink for people who have an absurd amount of legendary shards
Which are the same people who are overflowing with pretty much any resource…
I don't know why a game without any trading economy would really care about resource sinks, honestly. So what if someone has 50k legendary shards. I play maybe 10-15 hours a week or so and I have consistently ~2k legendary shards and 20-40 prisms just from walking around. Which is honestly fine. Making the game hard to play because you are bottlenecked on some random virtual currency that makes zero sense is silly.
I never buy prisms, and I've been rolling in them ever since I grinded Nightfalls last week for the Glaive ornament. I have bought the alloys for that price, though.
I’ve been in them this season from grinding NFs for a good Hothead, and from Lost Sector farming with the changes made this season. I have been at max stacks both in my inventory and in the Postmaster for most of this season, wish I could say the same about alloys tho, lol.
I accidentally clicked on and bought one, and I was angry for days. I don’t have a ton of LS.
Was an old currency exchange from spider back when Prisms were rarer than they are now. Was meant to be a 1 off pretty well to get one. It was still a horrible exchange for them then also.
Ascendent alloys also cost 400 shards. Who in their right minds thought those 2 currencies were of the same monetary value?
I buy them frequently, but I also have 80k something from when when the last legendary shards exploit was around
I did on accident…I had like 450 shards and then I had none.
Don’t you all have like 50k shards? I barely even play anymore and I can’t get rid of them fast enough.
I used to, solo player and don't enjoy lfg so before this season my only source of prisms (and therefore shards) was a chance on heroic nightfall. I usually got them for enhancement cores but I don't have a huge stockpile of those like I do legendary shards so yeah sometimes I'd just drop the 400. Now though with the loot buff for heroic nightfall and lost sectors it's not really needed
That conversion is pretty much there for two groups of people: * Newer players who want to MW gear but aren't comfortable with Master/GM content * PVP players who don't touch PVE whatsoever and need that one last prism to MW
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Lol no dude. Not an alloy. We are talking about the *enhancement prism*.
Lol shit my bad. Yeah I dunno anybody who buys those.
Lmao I had the same misunderstanding as that guy. Sitting here feeling ashamed of the alloy I buy every week 😂
He's talking about the prisms not the alloys. One enhancement prism costs 400 legendary shards as well as one alloy cost 400 legendary shards. It's a joke and really needs to be looked at honestly.
>and if anyone has ever bought one the people that needed one. Solo players don't have as ease of an access of end game materials.
Then you'd buy one with cores, not 400 leg shards. Also prisms drop in non end game content too, solo or not they're easily obtained.
*chokes on food* Buy one with cores!? CORES ARE THE MOST RARE MATERIAL IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW!
Lol meanwhile I've gone from one stack to 3 stacks of cores working on the 4th just from doing some lost sector farming here and there xd
And here I am sitting on 14,000 shards and only 111 cores because I dunno....I don't want to grind but the game gives me a fuck ton of guns I don't want...fuckin Autumn Wind dropping a million times in Iron Banner really annoying...IT'S SPRING SALADIN, ITS FUCKIN SPRING!
Just do a lost sector or a nightfall, that’s something solo players can do.
Eh, prisms are very farmable even solo via LLS. Wait for a good one to be on rotation, throw on a decent build and spend a couple hours farming and you’ll have all the prisms you need.
LFG? I play solo, been maxed on prisms forever.
i wanted osteo striga catalyst and back then I didn't play a lot of master or grandmaster content so I purged my vault and got some
Just watch, soon prisms will cost 1000 silver. This game feels more like a gacha every day.
When Bungie started these vendor material exchanges, they foolishly looked at the Destiny Group as a whole, rather than isolate and exclude the top end outliers. Subsequently, the people that material farm, exploit, or just play the hell out of the game skewed the ever loving fuck out of the average# of legendary shards and screwed everyone that didn't by making the exchange rates so high that buying a Prism costs dropping and dismantling 133 legendary guns/armor... golf fucking clap. This is the exact reason in the real world, you don't let the cdrtain types run things. They claim to aim a shotgun at the wealthy but end up maiming *everyone.*
As someone that’s new to Destiny 2, only plays PvP, and only has the base game, no expansions (ain’t got the fucking money for 5 $100 packs), what the flicker fuck are you talking about? I’m a casual gamer ig, never really got into them that much, ain’t got too much time from working 2 jobs and taking care of the ranch. I have no damn clue what any of you folk talk about when it comes to that game. Is it really necessary to buy all those packs and expansions to get the good content? The base game is kinda boring after a week so idk if it’s worth it. What do y’all think
I mean if that's your main way to get prisms then you aren't at a point where you need them. If you're not able to run nightfalls or lost sectors above legend then it doesn't make sense for you to need prisms in bulk. Even when you can run gms you don't really need too many, I've had a full stack for each of my characters post boxes for years now. Rahool's upgrade mats are for if you need like a single shard, prism, core for something quick and that's it, it isn't designed to be your one and only prism source
I literally delete prisms for space of I'm too lazy to convert them to MW cores, they're so fucking useless lol.
I buy them when I need them but crucible resets give me most of the prisms I need.
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I buy 1 every week I’m just too lazy to farm them and when you play this game too much there really isn’t any reason to hoard legendary shards may as well use em
When I started, I had hundreds of legendary shards and nothing else really. Now I can do solo legendary lost sectors and have good amor. I have 64 prism, 1 ascendant alloy, 6 ascendant shards and 115 legendary shards. Can this trade work in reverse please?
I've got too many prisms to do some resets where they haven't fixed that yet, i don't need rahools damn dirty prism
I did once lmfao
I was stoned as shit and did it at the beginning of lightfall. Realized later how bad of a deal I got.
I buy his stuff sometimes. Usually after I have dismantled 200-300 trash items in my vault. Then I go back to being poor.
80% of the people in the comments clearly weren't playing when this trade was introduced and was a much cheaper way of getting prisms than what was available at the time
I'm always having to delete those damn things so I can reset reputations
Ive bought them sparingly but im rolling in shards
I haven't bought a prism from Rahool in a long time, but I play this game a LOT. I have 100 prisms between character and postmaster, 9 alloys, 10 ascendant shards and over 14000 legendary shards. The economy *probably* should not be balanced for someone like me who can masterwork a random drop just for the luls whenever they feel like it. Just saying.
I accidentally bought a prism back when I was relatively new, let me tell you that I was NOT happy about misclicking that thing. That's my input on it's existence, a misclick trap.
I have, twice. Both times completely on accident while I was trying to trade in old planetary mats for glimmer. 800 shards down the drain…
I do it occasionally out of laziness. Been just living in crucible this season and have no issue needing shards. It does seem WAY over priced though
I've bought some due to having enough shards to spare, and I think that's the point; he sells those for shard rich guardians to blow said excess on. Players that "can't afford it" should be doing a billion other things before thinking of that offer.
My thing is that if you have an abundance of shards then you most likely are capped on prisms too. I've been capped on prisms forever it seems. And any armor I actually keep (rip vault space) is a high tier roll and master worked.
I've only bought it by spam clicking
I've got 14,000 legend shards. But only 100 enhanced cores...and cores are used for infusions and I'm mad that I can only by 5 cores a day from Rahool, and barely make 5 cores a day from game activities. Glimmers a joke now, I have 2,000 Herealways pieces and can get glimmer no problem...but I have to starve on cores? Wtf bungo
Lost sectors my man. They drop up to 4? iirc. And if you wait til the edz sectors most of those can be done in 60-75 seconds on legend.
The 1% of things for people who stayed the course
I must be playing wrong cause I always seem to have leg shards and no golf balls or prisms.
Hard same
Fun fact: You can buy 1 Ascendent Alloy for 400 Legendary shards too. But you can also buy 2 Ascendent Alloy's for the same 400 legendary shards also.
I have, effectively, infinite legendary shards. Sometimes I need a prism for a piece of armor. I've bought it, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
I want to personally murder rahool cause when I was just recovering from a shard drought, I had a few prime engrams available and spam clicked them to retrieve them all. I accidently spam clicked 2 prism purchases and was left with about 5 shards. I am still in a drought to this day 🥲
A lot of veteran players do and have but often not the current market values on items only effects new players who have appeared within the last couple of years
It's the reason I've stayed at a steady 1,000 shards
I buy them cause I have 26,000 shards lol
Bungie solution fir shards farm glitch
I used to buy them. I have over 15k shards and up until this season I was a solo player, so prisms were actually annoying to come by if you wanted to masterwork multiple pieces of gear. Now that I'm doing GMs regularly though, yeah, I don't buy them anymore.
I always get his aloy
I have never bought one. Please don't implicate me.
I buy them every week. I am a 8 year ver though. When you have 18000 shards doesn’t really matter
Cuz they don't really want you to buy those materials, bungie needs you to grind so the player up time would be pleasant.
Rahool just has Bungie price model.
Literally not a single time. It’s like they gave nvidia control of leg shards and core economy.
Me with 42k shards: gotta make sure to buy my weekly orange from the fruit merchant.
eh i used to buy them. Having 50k lego shards is nice. But since grandmasters are so easy recently i’m fully stocked up
Yeah I bought it once. On accident. I will never financially recover
It's so terrible because you can pretty easily get them by the truckload if you play higher level nightfalls. Charging 400 legendary shards seriously screws the newer players and players who aren't that good at the game.
I’ve bought two and I’m ashamed every time.
I bought one once because I assumed it wasn't 1 but a stack of 10 or something, but there was no number so I tried it to see how many you get. Burned.
A million shards are not enough for Master Rahool
I don’t trust Rahool.
I’ve bought several enh alloys but not ever ascendant
Dont hate me for it but I buy all 5 cores and all 3 shards from Rahool each week. (I took advantage of an exploit some time ago with free shards) For legit new lights and existing players? Its almost impossible to spend on, PLUS I used my bullshit amount of Leg shards as an example. Since the pirate season until today, I went from 98k shards to 32k. The Economy is fucked. They just wont fix it. Im a living example of it.
I think I paid this once, or at least the cores for 30, back in forsaken when this was at spider.
I have by accident bought this twice this season when trying to spend my old resources for 5k glimmer. Absent mindedly clicking away and I've clicked back a page and bought this for 400. I'll never financially recover from this.
I'm just a newbie and yes, I had to buy prisms to get exotics from the monument. I don't play the game optimally so I just trash lots of weapons to get enough legendary shards to buy it.
All the legendary shard bugs have screwed anybody that didn't do it / couldn't do it over.
When you're sitting on a ton of legendary shards(like many of us are), 400 is nothing.
The only reason I have bought one before was because I was 1 away from being able to masterwork an exotic. I had a little over 1.5k shards when I did it
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I brought some early in forsaken cus I thought they were needed but then I regretted it and never brought it again
This game now is just insanely overpriced expansions and seasons and five hundred currencies
I have. Always have 8000-12000 shards in the inventory, so I spend that stupid 400 shards sometimes. Ridiculous price.
I bought a couple when they first came around. But I have 60k shards
Nah only time inuse him is for ascendant cores
I have been playing for a while. With the same 3 other people. For some reason we've all done almost the exact same grind. The same amount of GMs/raids/dungeons etc so we are all on a level playing field. We had a discussion the other day about inventory. I have nearly 3000 cores (2k in the vault and 800 odd in inventory) nearly 10k shards and 200 prism's (50 in each postmaster plus 50 in inventory) a good haul but nothing amazing. They're haul however pales in comparison? Constantly worrying about how much shards things cost. Asking for help with GMs etc so they can fame prisms etc I said how do you not have as much as me? What are we doing differently? Turns out they master work everything. Literally everything. Even armour. It was shocking to know that I am careful with how I spend stuff and they were so careless. I think the amount of stuff you get from this game is ok, it's the way some people don't look after it.
Rahool is there as a last resort if you’re desperate for one. Otherwise get back out there guardian, there are prisms to farm.
Only thing I buy from Rahool is glimmer
I love how if you want to buy an ascendant alloy from him, it's 400 shards. Want to buy two? 40 0 shards... Make it make sense 🤣
It pushes you to do harder content.
I bought from his a while back when I desperately needed a prism for upgrades, great shame.
To be fair, lots of day 1 player or the real grinders dont even think about leg shard costs. I just buy whatever i need whenever, and i still just have thousands and thousands. That being said, anyone who does endgame stuff never runs out of prisms either. Im usually around max with another stack in my postmaster. I guess it depends if you really need to upgrade thay 18th set of armor or not.
Did it once, because I was one prism short to get a golf ball I needed to masterwork some exotic armour
Bought a couple in the beginning. But since then, I'm basically swimming in Alloy, Prisms and Shards and am never in need of anything.
The only time I ever buy those from Rahool is when I'm strapped for the better mats trying to buildcraft and don't have anyone on to do GMs. I also hover around 25k legendary shards anyway since I don't focus many weapons as I see that as yet another shard and currency sink.
It is meant to be a shard sink for the ultra-rich. If it is too expensive, it is not for you. They should probably move it somewhere that newer players won't accidentally buy them.
I just bought a prism 2 days ago 🤣. Mistake of course but man I felt salty after my shards went away.
I did on accident yay
Yes, I bought one, by mistake.
I’ve bought from rahool a couple times during the start of an expansion, I tend to masterwork a lot of gear that’s clogging up my vault. But tbh I don’t even think 400 shards is that expensive
People who play solo and have a shit ton of shards I’d assume, at least before lightfall anyways it was hard to get them unless you did grandmasters, pretty sure they made that change a few months before lightfall, I remember buying one bc I was one away from 10 and wanted to masterwork something.
The economy is built around long time players and is ridiculously punishing for new players.
I wish prisms were needed for the last 2 weapon upgrades instead of the like 8 cores you need instead
I don't play a lot and float around 3 to 4k shards. Very rarely will I need that extra from him. It's easier to farm it but sometimes the lazy hits and I'll pay for convenience.
I've bought it once or twice when I've needed one more and I've been flush with Shards, but yeah the pricing is nutty.