

Instead, I would restrict coin use only to

With the kinds of checkpoints those missions have and zero difficulty restrictions, this is the main problem. My suggestion? Disallow it on any story mission. Any method that allows people to farm this much good gear this quickly is game-breaking, and needs to be fixed. But I really don’t think Bungie can let this stand. Yes, players can choose to spread out their coins and use them on bigger bosses which would, I would argue, make it a lot more fun. Granted, that's a theoretical example way on one side of the line, but I would argue that farming easy mission bosses for exotics is a similar problem and needs to be addressed all the same considering how out of control it's getting in such a short amount of time. If level two dregs had a 50% exotic drop rate, that would break the game. The counter-argument to this is "well it's a farming game and people can do it or not do it since it only affects them, who cares?" While that's true, you have to have limits from a game design perspective. It’s barely even noon on day one and people are talking about the dozens of engrams they’ve farmed already. With this method, ton of coins and a bit of luck could probably net you 90% of all drop-able exotics by the end of the weekend. This? It’s something that has the potential to ruin the exotic hunt for the duration of the expansion. That was an amusing, dull way of farming, but doing it you were never going to get some of the best gear in the game. Doing it solo, you can still net yourself a dozen exotics or so in just a few hours using these farming tricks. I’m hearing stories of groups doing this getting 30 or so exotic engrams over very, very short periods of time. There are a few places to do this, all of which are ridiculously efficient. Tactics include reloading checkpoints over and over that are seconds away from boss spawns, and then blowing yourself up with a rocket to reset the instance.


Right now, if you have enough Strange Coins to buy Three of Coins stacks, you can farm the easiest bosses in the story missions on repeat.
