Okay, you win, I give up. Anyone know of a brick wall I can argue with next?

Sure. If you can give me any suggestions on how to explain the concept of "blue" to a colorblind man who thinks that the notion that "blue" and "green" are different colors is a sign of mental illness? Like so many self-absorbed people you make the mistake of assuming that anyone who doesn't see the things the way you do, simply doesn't UNDERSTAND the situation. I *understand* the situation quite clearly. I just have a situation that is different than yours. I play the game differently than you do...and I have the perspective to understand that the game needs to meet the needs of a WIDE VARIETY of players. Not just yours.

Okay retard, if you can get the materials from dismantling the items why would you prefer just the materials. Lets say I get a legendary primary engram, my current primary is Dr nope and the engram gives me Dr nope but with better perks than the one I have, what do I do? Well, I equip the better version and dismantle the old one for ascendant energy. Now, lets say it gives me something entirely different but still better, what do I do? I equip the better weapon and dismantle the old one for ascendant energy. Now, lets say it gives me something worse, what do I do? Well, I dismantle the new albeit worse weapon for, you guessed it, ascendant energy. Now, lets say the first legendary engram I have found in days turns into JUST ascendant energy, what do I do? You guessed it, wish it gave me a better weapon but, even if it didn't I can always dismantle it into..................ASCENDANT ENERGY........................

Okay...last time. I'll try to put the dots *really* close together for you. 1. I play primarily solo....as a Warlock. 2. So---at level 27----The Daily and Weekly Challenge activities are too hard to do by myself, and I don't have a consistent group of players to help me. 3. So I come accross Legendary engrams VERY RARELY. So when I get them I want the WEAPONS and ARMOR themselves..not the shards. I've only "sharded" three legendary or better items....and only did so because I didn't want them. 4. (Now pay attention) Getting Shards and energy frequently for activities that I can easily do as a solo player (eg Public Events) and for levelling up rank with the Vanguard and Cryptarch is of FAR more value to me as a player than getting more legendary gear at significantly less frequent intervals for the activities that I have ready access to. IOW, I don't want my access to AS/AE determined by my access to Legendary engrams. Because the game is simply NEVER going hand out LEs for the actiivities that----for now---are my most reliable sources of AS/AE. So you can keep calling me all the nasty names you want. It won't change the basic fact that I have a very clear understanding of what serves my own interests in the game....and the only reason why you are flummoxed by my perspective on this is because you cannot see past your own.

You say you want the armour/weapons from engrams, okay me too. You say some people want ascendant materials from legendary engrams, okay cool. You then turn around and say getting just the weapon/armour is bad even though you could if you wanted to break it down for the ascendant materials. How exactly is just getting the item not the best of both worlds, its the mats if you need them OR the item if you need it.

Because Bungie---as they demonstrated in stamping out the "Loot Cave" and the Temple of Crota/Nexus strik exploits----is always going to keep a tight rein on the number of legendary items you will encounter out in the game world. As a solo player, my access to those game activities that will award you with them directly is very limited. So I don't want my "income streams" of Legendary gear and AS/AE to MIX. Because Bungie is NEVER going to start handing out Purple engrams for completing public events. Until I've completed my arsenal, the lengendary gear that I get from levelling up my Vanguard rank and Cryptarch will be going to EQUIP my characters, and not broken down for shards. So until I can some how find a way to start raiding, my current source of shards is BY FAR my most reliable means of acquiring them...and I don't want that slowed becauuse Bungie doesn't want the game awash in legendary gear or the shards that come from breaking them down

I Apologize for the name calling. By giving you either ascendant materials OR legendary items it doesn't really stop the flow of either, most people I run into do exactly what I do, if the legendary they just got isn't that great they just dismantle it for the materials, but whatever I'm out of vault space for weapons anyway. If you are on 360 my friends and I will gladly run through the daily, weeklies and raid with you, we only have 5 regulars for the raid, takes us 2 hours to beat the raid each week, 1h 15m searching for a "decent" random and 45m of actual raiding (no glitches) so you'd be more then welcome.

Ps4, sorry. I'll break down uneeded gear as well. My point is that I'd rather have a steady, slow supply of shards than have to spin the roulette wheel in trying to got more legendary drops. I want those upgrade materials and strange coins coming for PEs and from the Cryptarch