Exotic focusing was a system introduced to Destiny 2 with the release of season 21 to supply gamers a brand new avenue for chasing down higher rolls of particular Unique armor items. It’s an enormous quality-of-life improve in principle, however in follow, Bungie admitted the system’s steep costs had been turning away lots of gamers from interacting with it to any main diploma. That’s why an enormous change is on the way in which.
In a This Week in Destiny blog post launched at present, Bungie’s Financial system group introduced they’ll make Unique focusing quite a bit cheaper in an replace going reside on Oct. 17. These cutbacks in price embrace a whole elimination of the necessity to spend Unique Ciphers for tier two focusing, in addition to a discount within the quantity of Ascendant supplies gamers should use throughout the board.
“To make a protracted story quick, we noticed that, besides for folk who play Future 2 a complete heck of quite a bit, most weeks you all weren’t incomes quite a lot of Ascendant Shards per week, with gamers who solely have a number of hours to play perhaps incomes one,” the economic system group admitted within the submit. As of proper now, tier two Unique focusing requires three Ascendant Shards per armor piece, which by Bungie’s personal calculations, costs out nearly all of gamers from interacting with the system in any respect on a weekly foundation.
To treatment this, Bungie is instituting a three-pronged method to updating the costs. First is the aforementioned removing of Unique Ciphers as a part of the price for tier two focusing. Because the group put it, the “sluggish charge” with which gamers can earn Unique Ciphers actively works towards the system’s objective of being an simply accessible reward for gamers who “put within the work.”
Subsequent on the chopping block is the Ascendant Shards. Tier two focusing will now solely put gamers again two Ascendant Shards, and the tier one focusing possibility is eradicating its Ascendant Shard price solely primarily based on participant suggestions. “In all that information about supplies, we additionally realized that gamers don’t have sufficient locations to spend Enhancement Prisms in a significant approach, so we modified the price from one Shard to 10 Prisms,” they defined. “On the floor, the value hasn’t modified a lot—50,000 Glimmer—however now, for lower than it prices to get a Shard, you may get a semi-targeted Unique roll.”
This would be the value of Unique focusing any more as soon as the replace goes reside:
- Tier one focus
- Previous value: 30,000 Glimmer and one Ascendant Shard
- New value: 30,000 Glimmer and 10 Enhancement Prisms
- Tier two focus
- Previous value: 60,000 Glimmer, three Ascendant Shards and one Unique Cipher
- New value: 60,000 Glimmer and two Ascendant Shards
Each of those modifications drastically enhance the system, making it much more accessible for almost all of Future 2 gamers. Whereas the tier two focusing—which permits gamers to decrypt Unique Engrams into the precise armor piece they need—will nonetheless put you again considerably, the value is a way more sensible one if the tip objective is to have Guardians utilizing this decryption course of frequently.
This replace can be carried out into Future 2 on Oct. 17, almost certainly slated for a launch alongside the mid-season replace anticipated to drop later this month.
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