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9/22/2025 5:36:49 PM
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Unstable Core Infusion | FRUSTRATING TO PLAY
This is insane. If I want to use any 200 power gear UP TO BELOW MY CURRENT POWER LEVEL, IT COSTS ~ 17,000 UNSTABLE CORES TO INFUSE. WHY? JUST WHY?! If it were up to CURRENT power level (490) it is closer to 20,000.
I'm TIRED of playing almost forcibly obligated with the featured gear, this is by design a bad system of coercion. Please, either SCRAP THIS FROM THE GAME ENTIRELY, or make it so that the cost for infusion is LOW and pulling stuff from collections to drop AT LEVEL POWER, not 200.
Bungie, you are making this game feel frustrating TO EVEN PLAY!
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Edited by Fett: 9/24/2025 4:01:50 AMThis 1000x this. I've pretty much just used 1 build now because of how insane the infusion costs are. Build diversity now has a barrier to entry because of infusion costs.
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Why is ANYTHING dropping at 200 in the first place? There is no good reason for gear to be dropping below any guardian's current light level unless they are at max light. Heck, even then it's not necessary. Why shouldn't a max light player get max light drops?
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Insult to injury: awarding 50 unstable cores on the seasonal pass. WTF am I supposed to do with that?
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1 ReplyTotally agree, Bungie are pulling our leg, Make Upgrade Modules Great Again 😁
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1 Reply[quote]This is insane. If I want to use any 200 power gear UP TO BELOW MY CURRENT POWER LEVEL, IT COSTS ~ 17,000 UNSTABLE CORES TO INFUSE. WHY? JUST WHY?! If it were up to CURRENT power level (490) it is closer to 20,000.[/quote] Agreed. And it's real frustrating for trying out different builds. If I want to upgrade an Exotic that I haven't used in a while, I first have to farm for the materials, which would be fine, except if I'm wanting to try out a new build it's an even bet that I'm getting tired of my old build. It's like walking ten miles in your old shoes before you can try on a new pair. Unstable cores are something we should be able to stock pile, and you can if you're using a single build on a single character, but it's too easy to blow through that stockpile and find yourself stuck. "Oh, my build didn't work, now I'm down to seven Unstable Cores and can't upgrade anything else." Either costs need to come down, or rewards need to go up. [quote]I'm TIRED of playing almost forcibly obligated with the featured gear, this is by design a bad system of coercion. Please, either SCRAP THIS FROM THE GAME ENTIRELY, or make it so that the cost for infusion is LOW and pulling stuff from collections to drop AT LEVEL POWER, not 200.[/quote] I [b]believe[/b] Featured Gear score bonuses are going away in Renegades, not the armor or damage bonuses, just the score bonuses, which is definitely a step in the right direction. I think Bungie sees Featured Gear as a solution to power creep; instead of making the new guns better than the old ones, just slap a temporary +10% damage bonus onto them... ...but that also makes old gear strictly inferior to the new stuff, which doesn't feel good. Soft sunsetting doesn't feel good. I know that's been said a lot, but it's true. A +10% bump for new gear is equivalent to a -10% loss for old gear (comparatively) which feels artificial. I want to use new weapons because they're genuinely better than what I had before, not because they get a +10% damage buff from The Architects.
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Don’t worry it will be useless in three months!!!!!! Just get a meta build each class, run same activity, multiple times. Delete everything, infuse highest at end of week. Rinse repeat. I realized I will not hit max and I am ok with that. Can’t wait to be rolling in tier fives at end of season just to be useless in a few weeks. Then throw them in vault to say hey remember when… Just like my vault I am currently deleting. How did I end up with 15 ahab chars? Or 220 secondary slot over all? Guess I will spend next hour not playing game, just to delete 100 or so in that slot. Just to make room to do it again next Monday! It would be a lot easier if I played more and had steady tier fives already, delete all below, but the rare t5 armor I get has 30 stat health and 25 stat class, with class adjusting stat! So glad to have received these t5’s!!!! I mean if I had 10 hours a day and made money while I played sure I would enjoy this game more.
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There is no point to the unstable core currency. They just made it because their currency team needed something to do or extend play time.
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You WILL use all the new mediocre legendary gear and you WILL enjoy it. Next season you WILL do it ALL again. Play our way. -bungie
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Edited by Motorhead England: 9/23/2025 12:18:06 PMThis is another crafty move to sunset everything we've ever earned over the past 8 years or so. I've just commented on another thread about this. I've got 400 plus good weapons in my vault sitting at 10 power level. I don't even know where they get the figures from, but it costs me (light level 415 atm) anything between 350 to almost 9000 unstable cores to infuse to somewhere round my light level, depending on the type of weapon. It used to cost [b][i]ONE[/i][/b] enhancement core to max out. All we have had so far is a few shotguns (which I do not use), a few rocket launchers (which are far inferior to the monsters of the past) and a few re-skins. I can't see much difference from tiered weapons and our old ones, apart from having more mods to choose from. And what's the point of weapon focusing at the vendors if Bungie are trying to phase them all out? Please Bungie, either do something to help us bring our bulging vaults up to date at a fair price, or just be honest and admit you have to do a U turn on the U turn you promised regarding sunsetting. Either way, you'll be losing even more players.
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19 RepliesI can't even infuse exotics just to test out a build I would rather go back to pre edge of fate at least we didn't have to deal with inflation. All it took was a upgrade module to infuse now I need 6k just to do a exotic this is actually so bad.
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[quote]This is insane. If I want to use any 200 power gear UP TO BELOW MY CURRENT POWER LEVEL, IT COSTS ~ 17,000 UNSTABLE CORES TO INFUSE. WHY? JUST WHY?! If it were up to CURRENT power level (490) it is closer to 20,000. I'm TIRED of playing almost forcibly obligated with the featured gear, this is by design a bad system of coercion. Please, either SCRAP THIS FROM THE GAME ENTIRELY, or make it so that the cost for infusion is LOW and pulling stuff from collections to drop AT LEVEL POWER, not 200. Bungie, you are making this game feel frustrating TO EVEN PLAY![/quote] I totally agree!! This makes no sense at all
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2 RepliesAfter one has been playing Destiny for a bit, certain toys become favoured toys, whether Exotics or Legendary toys. My vault is full of them. A raft of Exotics have been included on the Featured List; if I want to use anything else that isn’t ‘featured’ - it costs a ridiculous amount to bring it up to speed. This is deliberate. It’s not right. It feels BHQ is taking the pi$$! And they are, too! All it does is add another brick to the Wall of Indifference and Apathy. I can live with Legendary toys requiring some extra cost to bring up to speed…but Exotics?? Sunset 2.0 - another debacle… One would have thought they’d learned the error of their ways after the first Sunset debacle… Apparently, not. BHQ is tottering on the brink…Sony doesn’t appear to be much of a ‘white knight’ - after buying a billion dollar 🍋 Marathon? snickers! How are these people still in business?! 🧐 I’ll tell you: it’s because we loyal Guardians know and appreciate the, as yet, untapped potential of Destiny to be one of the true G.O.A.T. video games…and we LIVE IN HOPE that they (Sony / BHQ) will wake up and pull their finger out, and MDGA! You 🤡🤥🤑🤡 don’t deserve our support…not since Sunset 1.0 [i]Tick! Tock!…[/i] Winter’s coming…again. ❄️🥶❄️ That is all. Out / 🙄
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We had upgrade modules that work just fine but no, let's change it into extremely grindy cores that disappear after some time because we're not allowed to get off their hamster wheel for that "engagement"
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Legendary shards but worse and temporary....how is the development of the game going backwards....
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this needs to be talked about more, it's insane how untenable the unstable core economy is. i have like two builds because i can't afford to keep any more at light
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I had orpheus rig since before EoF. I've been upgrading it slowly. Yesterday, I got an exotic and turned out to be a 429 orpheus rig. great, I can finally upgrade it and bring it to 400+, it was at 338. Cool, just need 1000 glimmer. Nope, that shii was costing me a little over 8k! I thought infusing the same gear was supposed to only cost 1000 glimmer? Why the eff is it charging me that much
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5 RepliesInfusing the same piece of gear with a copy of itself only costs glimmer.
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Edited by Backlum Chaam: 9/22/2025 11:50:04 PMHate it. The cost is faaaar too high-just to use a weapon I’ve pulled from my vault. The ppl making these decisions are morons.
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This is what happens when all that’s left are the corporate shills who have never played that make all of the decisions.
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ΞsnΛχΞVibing 💯 - old
Have you already picked up the 25 cores from the season pass? They go a long way.
