Future 2 has taken away one important forex within the recreation for The Closing Form, and elevated the prominence of one other. Legendary Shards are gone, however now Unique Ciphers have been elevated to new prominence, and getting them is totally exhausting.
Unique Ciphers are actually required for the first time you get new unique armor, that means in The Closing Form that’s six ciphers or simply one piece of latest armor on every class. Then you must spend two Ascendant Shards at a time to get additional rolls.
However the true situation now’s that Unique Ciphers are actually required to unlock a brand new Artiface slot for exotics, the place beforehand its incapacity to be Artifice armor felt fallacious for all builds. For each piece of unique armor you wish to Artifice, it requires an Unique Cipher on prime of Masterworking it with three Ascendant Shards.
The principle situation is that Bungie has not allowed for something approaching an inexpensive solution to farm Unique Ciphers, including one new approach that can also be unhealthy.
- The primary approach is Xur’s previous quest, Xenology, which might get you one every week. However as u/solehsunreal factors out, the necessities to finish which can be absurd. 22 strikes or a 50% win fee on 40 crucible video games or gambit matches. For one. Per week.
- The second approach is new, and it’s resetting Rahool’s rank however delivering or focusing engrams. However it takes an extended, very long time to reset his rank by simply delivering exotics or Prime engrams. Focusing particular exotics takes two Ascendant Shards per focus, and though that can enhance you quicker, that’s an insanely excessive value to make use of that as a farm. And once more, that is only for a single Cipher. I consider you possibly can reset Xur’s rank too, however that takes even longer with Unusual Coin bottlenecks.
I’m not even going to depend the ultimate solution to get them as a “farm,” which is the now 200 rank season go which provides three whole, and two are timegated behind the brand new episode act system.
That is simply goofy. The Rahool and Xenology grind is approach too lengthy and approach too boring and that’s…it. These are your solely actual choices, and it’s the worst. These ought to have the ability to be farmed both in a extra enjoyable, extra environment friendly approach, or they need to have the ability to drop as precise loot someplace. This present system has not saved up with the relevance that Unique Ciphers now have, and one thing wants to alter in brief order right here.
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