As of now, Etheric Light is the most useless drop in the game. It has no purpose and does nothing for you; you can't even turn it in to the Speaker for Glimmer or Motes. But, what if it had a new purpose? I was thinking a while back about how nice some of the Rare armor sets in the game look, and how much it sucks that I can't wear them without handicapping myself. And then I thought about Etheric Light; purposeless and useless Etheric Light. But then it hit me; what if that oh so useless Material could be used to upgrade a Rare armor piece/weapon into a Legendary weapon? It would give Etheric Light a purpose and double if not triple Armor Customization. And just for balancing reasons, Etheric Light would only change gear from Rare to Legendary; and not affect Dmg/Dfns values. Upon upgrading the gear to Legendary, its Dmg/Dfns value would stay the same: so that 287 Rare helmet stays 287 upon upgrade, but now you can actually Infuse it to a higher value.
Come on, you ALL know you want to wear a Legendary Seraph I armor set.
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No, it should upgrade a year one legendary to year two status.
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The amount of work need to get this done would not be worth it at all. If you want legendary gear just buy it
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Etheric light should be deleted for faction rep or some shit lol
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Etheric Light needs a good, useful, and purposeful function. Bungie knows this, that's the worst part.
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[quote]As of now, Etheric Light is the most useless drop in the game. It has no purpose and does nothing for you; you can't even turn it in to the Speaker for Glimmer or Motes. But, what if it had a new purpose? I was thinking a while back about how nice some of the Rare armor sets in the game look, and how much it sucks that I can't wear them without handicapping myself. And then I thought about Etheric Light; purposeless and useless Etheric Light. But then it hit me; what if that oh so useless Material could be used to upgrade a Rare armor piece/weapon into a Legendary weapon? It would give Etheric Light a purpose and double if not triple Armor Customization. And just for balancing reasons, Etheric Light would only change gear from Rare to Legendary; and not affect Dmg/Dfns values. Upon upgrading the gear to Legendary, its Dmg/Dfns value would stay the same: so that 287 Rare helmet stays 287 upon upgrade, but now you can actually Infuse it to a higher value. Come on, you ALL know you want to wear a Legendary Seraph I armor set.[/quote]
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I think Etheric Light should only be used to buy passage coins or 5000 glimmer depending on which the player would prefer or at least some like that. I don't agree with your request above however
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Bump, awesome idea, it could work the same with weapons. Maybe you have a blue weapon thats cool and you want to keep it, if you turned it in to the gunsmith with etheric light and other materials you could turn it into a legendary.
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Edited by The Town Drunk: 11/1/2015 10:33:16 AMI get to many drops every time I play. I have no time appreciated how they look. Because they'll be beat out with higher defense in one minute of playing. This system is kinda dumb [spoiler]this was my first week of playing in 2 months. Just my first thoughts. Yes xurned all those exotics.[/spoiler]
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This is a good well thought out idea. Bump!
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Got about 50 ethric light upgrade 50 blues then dismantle em = 3 legendary marks each 150 legendary marks for free
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Edited by SgtRook: 11/1/2015 9:16:00 AMEtheric Light is a Y1 consumable, just delete it already. It doesn't deserve a place in Y2 activities considering Skolas is easy to solo with a sword. Etheric light is useless, just get over it already, it's old and meaningless. Everything doesn't deserve a purpose, it had its purpose, now it's over.
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Hell yes!
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They'd have to make a legendary version of every single Rare piece of armor that's currently in the game and future pieces of armor. They won't.
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Signed up
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Agreed! Bump this
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Signed. Want my Squid Pro Quo, Queen's arrow and Highest Squidder cloaks as legendaries
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This is actually a really good idea. It keeps the balance perspective in check and adds a bit of uniqueness
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Signed
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Sure why not
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Rare Hunter chest pieces are arguably better looking than their non raid legendary versions so I say a big YASSS to this.
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It should also be used to upgrade my Bae JuJu to max stats.
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It's useless....for now.
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Great idea! It's not unbalanced in any way! I personally want the corsair set for my hunter.