The farming of upgrade materials in Destiny such as Helium Filaments, Relic Iron, Ghost Flower, and Spinmetal is supposed to change, likely becoming more action-oriented.
It must have been a bit like shouting your frustration about the world into the forest, and then someone answers: “You’re right, I’ll take care of it.” In the Destiny subreddit, a user explained their issues with the game: they can no longer see any chests. That would be the only thing that could still advance them in the game.
User complains on Reddit about the monotonous farming of materials in Destiny
Every day, PolygonMan wrote on Reddit, they log in less frequently. They have weapons, they also have the ascendant materials, they have XP, they have everything that they can usually achieve in the game through shooting: “The only thing I need now can only be obtained by running in circles for hours and opening chests.”
Investing hours into the same monotonous task is not fundamentally a problem. They have nothing against grinding, but the chest farming is so mind-numbingly boring that they can’t bring themselves to do it anymore. And all of this just for these materials? Who even thought of this! Running in circles forever in a shooter without shooting. For such a sacrilege, heads should roll.
The community on Reddit shared their frustration. It’s also not really clear what the purpose of farming the materials is. In every other part of Destiny, the gunplay, the shooting, comes to life; during material farming, though, there’s just endless running. Farming planetary materials (Spinmetal, Helium Filaments, Ghost Flower, and Relic Iron) remains a necessary evil, if you want to upgrade your items and progress further in the endgame.
More hunting, less gathering – will the boxes soon face the axe?
Well, that wouldn’t be anything special. Everywhere on the internet, there are long discussions and reasonable complaints about weaknesses in the game mechanics. But then came the surprise. The complaints from the community were heard. Bungie’s community manager DeeJ floated into the thread and said: “We will have you hunt more than gather in the future.” They listened to the thread starter and people who think like him and heard their complaints.
Apparently, Bungie realized that the pacifistic farming of upgrade materials in Destiny was somehow the wrong idea and is now steering against it. One can only guess what Destiny is planning exactly; perhaps we can soon say goodbye to the chests, and then the upgrade materials will drop – like everything else – from enemies. That upgrading is supposed to become “more interesting” was already stated in the last Weekly Update.
By the way, there’s a bunch of videos on the best “farm runs” to the chests, we’ve compiled a few:
Helium Filaments on the Moon
http://youtu.be/PCpa0IcShF0
Spinmetal on Earth:
http://youtu.be/zEdiV7gRRF8
Ghost Flowers can be found on Venus:
http://youtu.be/O2KF2-zjMlQ
And the Relic Iron then from Mars:
http://youtu.be/YGOL6TNLVhY
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