TLDR I don't think they should be nerfed. Or to better up it. If it does get nerfed don't reduce how much it helps. either slap a cool down on it and or give us less in each pack we buy but increase how effective they are. this gets rid of the story mission farming but allows them to be worth the money invested and be used properly in end game content.
ANYWAY I have results from 3 different people. myself and 2 friends.
MY RESULTS: I made 3 runs. first run i spent arpox 30-35 third coins. second was 30. and last was 25. I spent a grand total 107 strange coins. (my other 100 some were spent last night on helmet engrams alone. I'm basically broke.)
1st run I got 6 exotics. 2 of them were brand new. telesto and sky burner. But I already had sky burner from last night. rest were duplicates.
2nd run I only got 4 engrams and the only new one was sky burner. rest were duplicates.
3rd run I got 6 exotics. I got the sealed grasps and the 4th horsman. those new to me. got sky burner again. rest were duplicates.
FRIEND 1: did one run with 15 third coins and got 2 engrams. hawkmoon and montecarlo. he already had both.
FRIEND 2: also only did one run with 15 third coins. he got 2 engrams. the stag and invective. he already had both.
So yeah in total a prox 106 3rd coins were spent among us 3. 6 were brand new exotics. and in there we had duplicates of said new ones both in the fact that it gave us the same ones and we had them already. We didn't consume more then one for each boss we killed. So these don't need their effeciveness nerfed.
Everyone i've seen so far whos managed to get a lot of taken king exclusive exotics stacked because they could afford to. Which sounds justifiable to me. On top of the fact that most cool or amazing exotic weapons require you to do a quest to get. So I don't understand bungies logic. The people drowning in strange coins don't deserve to get punished because they earned the coins. and the people like me and my friends who were not rich shouldn't get punished even harder. This honestly seems like bungie is trying to cover up it's shit still for how bad year 1 was structured in the reward system.
So I plead, bungie please do not destroy the effectiveness of these items. balance it if you must. but be smart about it.
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They weren't nerfed. Only if you were killing bosses in rapid succession, use 1 per strike