In the MMO shooter Destiny, the next expansion “Darkness Lurks” could bring exotic weapons that start as gray items.
A few weeks ago, the new expansion of Destiny, the DLC “Darkness Lurks“, was presented in an interview. At that time, it was said that they wanted to come up with something new for the quests and revise the storytelling. The stories and quests in Destiny are supposed to focus more on items, much like the current bounties.
An “adventure” that ends with the Guardian standing there with a new weapon. In subsequent communications from Bungie, they spoke ambiguously about the further upgrading of weapons and new materials.
At that time, no one quite knew what to make of this statement. Further information came: A new vendor, Eris Morn, is said to be coming to the Tower. Some new upgrade materials were discovered in the database. But how does it all fit together?
Data miners from Planetdestiny now believe they have figured out how everything will be: With “Darkness Lurks” for a story quest at the new vendor Eris Morn (featured image), you will receive a “gray”, an ordinary, weapon. Over time and with your progress, you can further upgrade it until you end up with an exotic weapon in your hands that is supposed to hit as hard as the “Vex Mythoclast” before its nerf – and that was only available from the raid boss Atheon on the “hard” difficulty level.
Exotic Auto Rifle Necrochasm becomes stronger over time
It’s about the auto rifle “Necrochasm“, a new primary weapon with arc damage. It starts as a “normal”, gray weapon “Husk of the Pit“, before it will likely be promoted to “legendary” status after the first story quests. Then it is known as “Eidolon Ally“. To refine the weapon to “legendary”, the Guardians need specific items that they must collect. These are the “Black Wax Idols”, which are already available from the Swarm. It might be a good idea to hold onto them. Unless they change it in Destiny or these are just placeholders or only items dropped after the DLC count – all of that is possible, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to keep at least fifteen of these idols in reserve.
You then take ten of those to Eris Morn. In return, you receive a new item that turns the gray auto rifle into a legendary one.
The weapon then makes the next jump from “legendary” to “exotic” with a special legendary upgrade item that will likely be available in the new raid “Crota’s End” from the boss there.
In addition to these items, you must also level the weapons and invest EXP into a special perk: Cannibalism. The weapon “feeds” as it were and evolves.
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All variants of these weapons start with a maximum rate of fire of 100. They will surely be in high demand. Anyone who doesn’t understand why there is so much fuss about this weapon can check out the stats: Destinytracker has prepared them for you here. They already compare it with the Suros Regime or the Vex Mythoclast.
Even a legendary fusion rifle starts slow
But there is not only a new auto rifle, but also a fusion rifle. “Murmur” has a similar development path as the Necrochasm. It also starts off smaller. Initially, it is “rare”, so blue. However, it can be upgraded to legendary (purple) by Eris Morn. For this, you need 5 of the “Black Wax Idols.” The special twist about Murmur: The weapon apparently starts with arc damage, but with a later perk it can also unlock solar damage. This has not been available before. Here are the stats.
Planetdestiny also suspects that this trend will continue and could also take hold in the Crucible. Guardians would then initially receive new weapons as “rare” specimens and could later upgrade them to legendary and further enhance them.
Apart from these items, it is also speculated that current level 30 items could potentially be upgraded to level 32 with other upgrade materials.
As always with data miner results: These are not official. Someone found hints in the database that Bungie has already loaded onto the consoles for space-saving reasons, but nothing is set in stone yet.
