Thank you very much. Grabbing the bounties every time I return to hub. Didn't know about the engram trick so will do that. What are the materials used for. The ones I get for de-constructing items I can see are used for upgrades, is there a crafting type system for the other materials?
Is there a good site or wiki that explains all this?
Yeah, i just used to decrypt them all in a pad bashing fashion and then check after..
If you break down un-needed weapons and armour you get weapon and armour materials that are required for upgrades/infusions of higher light level gear. Then you have the spin metal(Earth), spirit blooms(Venus), helium filaments(Moon), relic iron(Mars) and wormspore(Dreadnought) that are required to upgrade certain weapons/armour. i.e. to unlock strength boosts, throw grenades further etc etc.
Also, if you haven't already joined one of the factions do that too. That way you are getting another line of XP and possible rewards from the factions themselves. I'm aligned to the Dead Orbit guy near where you buy new spaceships in the hanger. (There are 2 others, one near the speaker and one just upstairs in the hanger. They just have faction specific weapons that you can only get from them.) So basically as an when you get Vanguard experience from this point you get experience with your chosen faction. You can also dump all your motes of light on them to increase your reputation without actually doing anything.
They give you purple drops every time you level up with them. (Although I've ended up with motes of light/strange coins on occasion...
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And one other thing i would say is invest time in Iron Banner when that comes along. I did the last one with about 240 light and although it was pretty tough to begin with i got a lot of decent drops and ended up in the 290's by then end of the week. along with some good weapons and gear.
Wiki wise i haven't got a clue, this is all just stuff I've picked up myself.