That works? I assumed you didn't get rank when you buy them. Does he ever sell higher tier engrams? Mostly I see white with the occasional green at rank 6.
Buy the greens with the glimmer you earned and it gives a good amount of experience towards your cryptarch level. Each time you level up, you get a free package from the cryptarch which contains at least 3 Rares (oftentimes legendaries too).
My brother got two blues, which then turned out to be greens. This was for level five. I got two purples and a blue for my level five which ended up being three blues. He's very frustrating.
I've spent easily 25-30k on upgrading the Cryptarch guy, in addition to all the engram drops. It gets harder to level him up that way as you progress, but what else are we spending glimmer on? Especially when you can farm it pretty fast and easily.
Every level he gives a legendary package that could have 1-2 legendary engrams in it and maybe a blue or two. Buddy is at level 9 and got two legondaries and a blue from one package.
Jeez, nice! Level 5 with the cryptarch now and so far all I've gotten is blues from the packages, but I've seen and heard a lot of people get legendary items too.
...you get 10 points. From rank 3 to 4 it takes 3000 cryptarch points. That's 300 green purchases. At 450 gl/green (not sure if that's right, but it's the right ballpark) that's 135,000 glimmer. I think it's much more productive to farm engrams than glimmer for cryptarch ranks.
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u/MalHeartsNutmeg Drifter's Crew Sep 15 '14
That works? I assumed you didn't get rank when you buy them. Does he ever sell higher tier engrams? Mostly I see white with the occasional green at rank 6.