I don’t know about everyone else, but Prime engrams could use a little bit of a rework itself.
Why aren’t they tied to the activity that you got them in?
Say you’re in the dreaming city and a prime engram drops, it could be tied in with the Dreaming City loot table.
Same thing with Gambit, Crucible, Raids and Strikes, kinda like how the old clan engrams used to work.
It would be a lot better than getting scatterhorn armor constantly. Or your 1,000th bad reputation.
Just a thought.
Edit: This would also help out with infusion, reducing the cost of cores. I.e. infusing a more powerful Prime engram rewarded bygones into a lower leveled better bygones wouldn’t take cores to infuse.
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That's what certain powerful gear drops are for. Go do Blind Well if you want Dreaming City gear. Forge your two powerful frames for Black Armory Forge gear. Not really seeing the issue here.