Does anyone else think Grandmasters should drop Ascendant Alloy's?

[FluffyGunz]

I feel like grandmasters is a perfect completely perfect place to have Ascended Alloy's drop from. Its difficult, it can take alot of time, in gm's your going to be using the best of the best which usually calls for crafted weapons and you can fully upgrade a crafted weapon without enhancing it which calls for the alloy's which is where alloys dropping in gms comes into play.

I am open ears to anyone who has any other ideas or if someone can think of why them dropping in GM's wouldnt work.

[Mez Koo]

Yes I would like to have one activity drop both end game materials so I can play less of the game.

[N33MA]

While I don't disagree that Alloys being in GMs would make sense, I think it would be to the detriment to the overall game. Nightfalls already drop all the armor enhancement materials and their own set of nightfall rewards on top of being integrated into the vanguard reputation system. Running GMs gives you an ascendant shard, multiple enhancement prisms and cores, an adept nightfall weapon, nightfall ciphers, and the most amount of vanguard rep possible given it gives the highest point modifier.

Overall GMs being super rewarding is not the problem, it's a good thing, but if they dropped everything there would be no reason to run anything else. Acendant Alloy being a valuable material rewarded from other activities gives players a reason to do said other activities, but if they also dropped from GMs then no reasonable player would choose to do those activities over simply running a GM.

I think the overall sentiment really comes more from there being few activities that drop alloys reliably. If campaign missions had a GM mode or something of the sort that gave a 100% chance for an alloy plus a chance for an additional one like GMs do right now with shards, then I think a lot of this frustration over a lack of materials would go away.

[Kylito]

At least we are now able to put prisms into Alloys. No longer a "1 per week" thing.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by N33MA:

Running GMs gives you an ascendant shard, multiple enhancement prisms and cores, an adept nightfall weapon, nightfall ciphers, and the most amount of vanguard rep possible given it gives the highest point modifier.

And exotic armor!

[N33MA]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Originally posted by N33MA:

Running GMs gives you an ascendant shard, multiple enhancement prisms and cores, an adept nightfall weapon, nightfall ciphers, and the most amount of vanguard rep possible given it gives the highest point modifier.

And exotic armor!

True forgot about that. There's also the fact that all of those double during the rewards/rep week.

[FluffyGunz]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Yes I would like to have one activity drop both end game materials so I can play less of the game.

If someone stops playing the game because they have to many crafting materials that person shouldn't be playing destiny at all and that one activity are gm's we arent talking about a 1600 patrol zone. If you look at the GM achievement for PC only 6.9% of the player base has completed a GM thats NOT counting epic games or console but overall not a large percentage has completed GM's and most people that have completed GM's only do one or maybe two in their life. so yeah even after reading what you just said I still believe alloys should be in GM. I gave perfectly good and reasonable reasons why they should drop.

If I am correct, I could be wrong.. The only places you can get Alloys right now are the weekly campaign mission or the wellspring. Wellspring is slowly but surely losing its population if not already a large amount. Weekly campaign missions can be long and tedious for a very small chance for them to drop. We are not counting purchasing from master rahool because thats just, its buying them directly from a vendor.

I guess you can technically say they already do drop considering the materials you get now from GM's you can use to purchase Ascended Alloys. So I guess that would be the reason given for them not dropping.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by FluffyGunz:

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Yes I would like to have one activity drop both end game materials so I can play less of the game.

If someone stops playing the game because they have to many crafting materials that person shouldn't be playing destiny at all and that one activity are gm's we arent talking about a 1600 patrol zone

See N33MA's comment, I was being facetious about the fact that there doesn't need to be only one activity that gives out everything, GMs already give out so much that they are the most rewarding activity that makes others pointless outside of specific needs such as raid/dungeon/seasonal weapons. If we're going to give GMs allloys might as well give them artificer armor as well.

Ascendant Alloys are already way more accessible than they have been before being able to be purchased from Rahool and actually give a reason to replay master tier witch queen and lightfall activities.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by FluffyGunz:

I feel like grandmasters is a perfect completely perfect place to have Ascended Alloy's drop from.
if someone can think of why them dropping in GM's wouldnt work.

If you really want a reason why it wouldn't make sense to be earnable in GMs is because Witch Queen and Lightfall feature craftable weapons that actually use the alloys and so their master tier activities drop alloys while adept weapons from GMs do not use alloys so why bother dropping them.

[FluffyGunz]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Originally posted by FluffyGunz:

If someone stops playing the game because they have to many crafting materials that person shouldn't be playing destiny at all and that one activity are gm's we arent talking about a 1600 patrol zone

See N33MA's comment, I was being facetious about the fact that there doesn't need to be only one activity that gives out everything, GMs already give out so much that they are the most rewarding activity that makes others pointless outside of specific needs such as raid/dungeon/seasonal weapons. If we're going to give GMs allloys might as well give them artificer armor as well.

Ascendant Alloys are already way more accessible than they have been before being able to be purchased from Rahool and actually give a reason to replay master tier witch queen and lightfall activities.

We each give our good reasons to think what we think To each their own brother. I will say that yeah I suppose having alloys drop in GM's would be a bit much.

[N33MA]

I would also like to add that alloys drop from high level seasonal activities which gives them more of a place in the game over just running their easier counterparts.