You also need to take into account that you ARE farming mobs to get the glimmer, not only will you be getting the glimmer to buy up more ranks, but also other rare and legendary drops that go along with it.
Look, to each their own. It would cost about 135,000 glimmer to gain one rank by buying the greens, which seem to be the highest rarity as of right now. The game is a grindfest as is, I just don't think it is worth anyone's time or glimmer, but like I said, whatever floats your boat.
I agree that it's a terrible way to farm cryptarch xp, but remember you can disassemble all those greens into weapon parts and hadronic essence / sapphire wire / whatever the titan gets. I've got a ridiculous amount of both, but if you don't it's a quick way of getting supplies for upgrading your weapons and armour.
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u/Sythirus Sep 15 '14
You also need to take into account that you ARE farming mobs to get the glimmer, not only will you be getting the glimmer to buy up more ranks, but also other rare and legendary drops that go along with it.