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originally posted in:An Eternal Adventure
Edited by NatsuPodcaster: 9/26/2014 4:17:40 AM
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Today's patch from Bungie

So if you didn't know, today Bungie released a mandatory patch. Here is what changed. Beware, none of it was good. Summary In Hotfix 5, we made a few changes to reduce the effectiveness of a humbling number of economy exploits. Check out these Destiny Dev Notes to read a summary of our impressions since launch. Activities Missions Reduced drop rate of engrams following a hard wipe [fixed in 1.0.1.4] Queen's Wrath Event Material rewards for dismantling Queen's Wrath gear will no longer provide ascendant materials, but missions will continue to drop Legendary items World Destinations The Hive of the holy “Treasure Cave” have realized the futility of their endless assault on Skywatch and have retired to lick their wounds and plan their next attack. Respawn timers for monster caves in Skywatch have been normalized to 40 seconds (increased from 6) Respawn timers for monster caves in Forgotten Shore have been normalized to 40 seconds (increased from 10) Respawn timers for monster caves in Ember Caves have been normalized to 40 seconds (increased from 10) Respawn timers for monster caves in the Shattered Coast have been normalized to 40 seconds (increased from 10) Respawn timers for monster caves in the Barrens have been normalized to 40 seconds (increased from 20) Essentially they killed farming for engrams at caves, this was expected and we understand why. But taking away the ability to make Ascendant materials on Queen's Wrath missions?! There is now no reason to do any of the queen missions or bounties. Because the emissary doesn't have anything worth while for most characters after a certain level. Also you usually get the same armor over and over, after a certain point there is nothing you can do with it since they give you armor based on your class and you can't keep it in your vault for another character down the line. It's not like they were easy to get either the mission level may be 24, but the bonuses that the enemies get make even a level 29 play cautiously. So the rewards at the end were satisfying. taking away this ability to dismantle your legendary armor reward into ascendant shards was not necessary. And actually took the fun out of playing any of the Queen's Wrath or doing the bounties. Because in order to obtain the story missions, you had to complete the bounties. For every bounty you completed that's how many times you could do the story missions. But this is my personal gripe. I'm curious to know what everyone else thinks about this.

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  • I'm glad they did this. At the rate everyone was going, half the damn playerbase would have been level 29 by the end of the weekend.

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    • Good

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    • This patch is bull-sh*t. they are forcing player to play pvp. I hate pvp!! pve is what I got this game for and now there is almost no way to level my gear. they could of at least left 1 ascendant material on the queens missions!

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      • I notice Venus is absent from the list, so I imagine people will be migrating back there now that the loot caves have been "fixed". I honestly did more farming on Venus before I even knew the loot cave existed so, meh. People will just find the next best place to farm. Blizzard learned this years ago - Bungie is still in the learning phase. They'll figure out eventually that they can't change player behavior once Pandora's Box has been opened. The change for the Queen's Wrath legendaries is absolutely ridiculous though. For anyone above level 25, this removes just about any need for them to do any of the kill orders. At least doing them felt rewarding, and if they had simply removed the level 2 earth mission and reduced the number of shards down to 1, it would have still felt rewarding to anyone who outgeared them. Now, I'm just going to let all the Queen's Orders rot in my inventory after doing the bounties for rep.

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        • All this does is stop the farming. Want assendend materials ?? Do the daily and public events Also strikes are done quickly for us over level 26 and can be used do farm engrams in them

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          • I'm so pissed. I'm in the same boat, all the legendaries are crap from her, and I've been at work so I didn't get to exploit the ascendant materials much.

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            • Like I seriously don't even know why I should log on and play tonight. Like they just killed the fun that was in the game.

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            • So still no networking issues fixed yet ??? Classic.

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            • ...and now this is what we are reduced to. Does anyone have a telephone number to Bungie, somebody needs to get a verbal a@#wooping post haste

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              • I never even got to try it. Was gonna do that in 5 minutes then I saw the patch notes. -blam!-!!!

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              • This patch is bullshit and I hope they realize that quickly.

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