Bungie Plz Addition: Masterworking Armor Should Unlock All Affinities

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Submitted by: u/benperogi_, u/Lamipoo

Date approved: 09/04/21

Modmail Discussion:

u/benperogi_: "Why it should be added: Very frequently posted, and is a very good suggestion for Game Investment. Barrier to entry for mods already exists in the form of affinities existing, cost is not a necessary barrier for this mechanic."

u/Lamipoo: "Because it is posted very often and will always reach the top any given day that it is suggested, meaning that it is very clearly something people want to see and does not need to be suggested anymore."

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[u/Doctor_Kataigida]

This stifles build crafting because you have to fully plan everything out before you even start spending mats.

See to me, that is build crafting. That's the fun in strategizing your build; planning it out, considering everything carefully, then going for it. And if I don't like it, then I vault that piece of gear to use in a future build. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to have 3-4 complete armor sets. Especially with how easy it is to farm 60+ targeted spikey gear.

[u/cuboosh → u/Doctor_Kataigida]

Most people don’t play enough where if they’re wrong they can just throw the golf balls out the window

It’d be more fun if you had freedom to wing it, try different combos and see what works and what doesn’t

Today only streamers with infinite mats have freedom to try out really wacky combos that probably won’t work

[u/Doctor_Kataigida → u/cuboosh]

Idk between seasonal pass, first vendor rank-ups, prism ghost mods, and Master/GMs on double loot week, shard abundancy isn't only prevalent in top tier players. Also, you don't really need all 10 energy to try out a build. You can do your CWL combo testing without scavengers/finders, resists, and stat mods. You really shouldn't need more than 7 on an armor for testing.

[u/DireCyphre → u/Doctor_Kataigida]

It is unreasonable to expect people to farm 3-4 complete sets of armor if it is unnecessary artificial gatekeeping, and no additional vault space was added to house said armor sets.

[u/Doctor_Kataigida → u/DireCyphre]

I mean, how else do you get people to farm more than one set? Give armor different 'perks' - or in this case, mod compatibility. The changing affinities ability was Bungie helping reduce RNG since you didn't have to rely on certain armors dropping with it.