That’s a good point.

Not worth your time. Shitty rng and waste of resources.

The point of focusing is NOT to unlock new exotics, it’s to get a better of an already unlocked exotic. Do lost sectors and blitz events to unlock all exotics (and never do them again) then use focusing to get better rolls. This new system is better than nothing but bungie really should have just brought back glass needles instead.

You're misunderstanding the currency cost and the purpose of exotic focusing. The green numbers are what you have in your inventory, meaning you currently have two exotic engrams. The white number is the cost, which is 1 exotic engram. The Witch Queen engram you are hovering over does narrow down the pool of exotics you can get. You can also tab over to another page on the focusing screen to pick the exact exotic you want to focus that you have obtained before. The reason you wouldn't just leave it up completely to RNG is because you would be randomly getting an exotic from all five years of Destiny as opposed to focusing a Witch Queen engram with 5 exotics. Did that make sense?

Hmm. I thought it was for the new lights, so they can get exotics too. But now that you told me that you first have to unlock them: it's pointless. Unless lets say you want a certain exotic with good stats. Normally you have to wait till it drops, but world drops and sectors also dropped other exotics. So you had to wait untill that certain exotic dropped and also had to hope for good stats. Now you can choose that one, so you have a faster chance for good stats. That is: if the engrams give higher stat ones. Which i dont know.

Well, I have pretty garbage luck with exotics from random drops. Not only did it take me MONTHS to get a SECOND contraverse hold, but BOTH of them had trash stats. High mobility? High resil?? When I'm literally running Discipline Armorer on my ghost?? So like, being able to save up exotic engrams (especially with the increased drop rate now!) and focus into Contraverse Holds, it's super nice to me cause I don't have to worry about sectors dropping every other type of gauntlet, AND I don't have to wait for sectors to BE gauntlets, on top of the fact that if I don't like the roll I get, it's no big deal to me cause again, exotic engrams have been dropping like candy lately. It's really just for the sake of focusing for stat farming, and for people like me who have such trash luck in getting what we want, it's a godsend. We only need to get it once, then we can just farm engrams to play slots with them until we get the roll we want.