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Just got done with Nightfall and goddamn was that intense (and we had a only two level 27s and a 26). Thanks to CrimsonCommie (enjoy your Exotic Monte Carlo) and Gotstrangepowers for stiking through the end and for Gotstrange powers for saving it on the Million Wizard Wave.

Hell yeah man that was tough! Strange saved us with that self revive. Now that I got that exotic Monte Carlo I think I'm almost ready to try the raid again once I level my gear up a little more.

Just leveled up my armor so I'm level 28 now! Gonna have 3 exotic weapons after I but 34 more special ammo things. I wish we could use more than one. I still need to get a legendary shotgun and rocket launcher.

I've probably already asked this but what's the easiest way to get ascendant shards and glimmer?
 
are scout rifles any good? Just got one from a legendary engram. Tried it out for a bit, but it seems counter productive considering I have the ice breaker sniper rifle.
 
Crouching is still picked up on the radar. It merely reduces the frequency of pings(otherwise you would never know someone was camping a corner with a shotgun lol). Cloaking removes you from the radar, though.
 
Do events, Patrol Missions and Bounties. Every Vanguard rank starting with 3 gives you a guaranteed Legendary.
Easiest and fastest is on earth. The patrol missions where you need to kill a specific enemy is the best. Those gets you +25 Vanguard points in a few minutes. The same as a Vanguard Strike I think.
Thanks for the reply. I maxed my Vanguard points for the week, hopefully the patrol missions level me up still (I have a pretty poor understanding of some basic features lol)
 
Do events, Patrol Missions and Bounties. Every Vanguard rank starting with 3 gives you a guaranteed Legendary.
Easiest and fastest is on earth. The patrol missions where you need to kill a specific enemy is the best. Those gets you +25 Vanguard points in a few minutes. The same as a Vanguard Strike I think.

Random Legendary? Or Faction Legendary?
And is there a cap to how much rep you can farm?
 
are scout rifles any good? Just got one from a legendary engram. Tried it out for a bit, but it seems counter productive considering I have the ice breaker sniper rifle.

i havent played any mode or mission where a scout rifle would be better than an autorifle or pulserifle :/
 
The worst pulse rifle imaginable: Bad JuJu. Don't grind yourself out over it, take it slow, the reward ain't worth it.

The only good thing about the bounty is that it is not hard.
25 strikes? Yeah that is gonna happen anyway eventually.
Ok the Crucible score sucks a bit since I don't play Crucible. But I was thinking about giving it another shot anyway.
But it is not something very specific like other bounties. And now that I have Midas Multitool the grinding for the Bad Juju has stopped.

It does take up bounty space though =/ Kinda wish Exotic Bounties had there own place in the inventory.
 
I just had a Skirmish match with team mates who got 0 and 1 kills.

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PvP would be awful without radar given the nature of the maps, fast kill times, and the mobility players have. you'd never know where anyone is until they're right behind you using their super.

no thanks. radar isn't even on the checklist when it comes to pvp issues
 
The worst pulse rifle imaginable: Bad JuJu. Don't grind yourself out over it, take it slow, the reward ain't worth it.

Damn, my first exotic weapon will be a pulse rifle I won't use, great. So the rewards aren't random from the exotic bounties. I should have looked it up before choosing between the 3 bounties.
 
And how long does it take to rep up a level for those legendary?
Is there a fool proof way of farming exotics..or just pray to RNGesus.


The Invective shotty is pretty fun.
And that was a pretty painless bounty set.
 
PvP would be awful without radar given the nature of the maps. you'd never know where anyone is until they're right behind you using their super.

no thanks. radar isn't even on the checklist when it comes to pvp issues
Yeah, I like no radar in Halo, but I'm not sure I'd want to go without it in Destiny.
 
Random Legendary? Or Faction Legendary?
And is there a cap to how much rep you can farm?

I have no idea if factions also give you legendaries each rank.
Random legendary I think. Though I feel like everyone gets a weapon at Rank 3. I then got a Chest Armor at Rank 4 anyway but it could just as well be random. Always legendary at least.

Nope no cap. Grind away! Just Vanguard Marks have a cap.
 
I met rngesus last night. 2 legendary drops from the daily and farming. One became the zombie legendary machine gun. The other turned into motes... Then the blue primary behind it turned into a fucking legendary hand gun. In one night.

As it is heaven...
 
Man, trying the weekly heroic strike at level 26 really makes me realize how not fun this game's difficulty scaling mechanics are.

The bullet sponging this game has got to be amongst the worst in any video game, ever. I really hope Bungie's designers can come up with something that is actually fun and not lazy as fuck. :/
 
Might as well break it down then

yup, the weapon balance is kind of off.

Autorifles, especially the Galahad-E and Shingen-E are amazing in all situations. Pulse rifles work well in PvE and Handguns can be fun to fool around with in both modes and they can deal great damage too (just make sure you have one that has over 6 shots).

Scout rifles are just not dealing enough damage fast enough to be useful.

Sniper rifles and Plasma rifles are great for taking down shields and hitting weakpoints on Strike bosses. Shotguns are only viable in PvP.

Both the rocket launchers and machineguns are good, even if the rockets are lame oneshot kills in PvP where everyone already has instakill supers :P
 
Crouching is still picked up on the radar. It merely reduces the frequency of pings(otherwise you would never know someone was camping a corner with a shotgun lol). Cloaking removes you from the radar, though.

cloaking actually functions nicely in this game. it has a visible and audible tell, but it still lets you drop from radar, which lets you move around undetected. enemies wont know you're there unless they're looking right at you. in pve the enemies usually don't see you, and they wont shoot at you if they do until you uncloak.
 
So this is the video of our last night's attempt at the weekly nightfall strike, where the final boss Phogoth simply vanished as we killed off most of the hive knights in the arena, and the mission was successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1_gDvm9MM
Fast forward to 4 minute mark.

No idea how and why this happened - it could be a one time glitch or there may be an exploit that if you take out all the knights and backtrack to the starting room, you don't have to kill the boss?

Anyway, our team was well geared and coordinated so we would have taken Phogoth down eventually, but this was a pleasant experience because are we sick of the moon striker or what?

Cheers to Dhruv_Hanom and X-Frame, looking forward to more nightfall strike pwnage and glitches in the coming days :P
 
They really need to fix the bugs in the Atheon fight.

We had, in no particular order:

One player at the back of the room NOT getting teleported. This generally caused a wipe.

Players stepping through the portals and NOT getting teleported, or teleporting back in immediately, also usually caused a wipe.

Several times having players NOT at the back of the room getting teleported.

One time we killed all the Oracles, came out and... had no Time's Vengeance buff.

Also minor, but Atheon's splash damage seems to penetrate the relic's shield, though I'm not sure if that is intended or not. Seems not, given it blocks his direct shots with no splash penetrating.

Once we got the fight down, we kept having clean attempts interrupted by those bugs, it sucked :(
 
Just hit level 27 on my Hunter. Got Dead Orbit to level 2 and finally bought a purple helmet. I'm gonna aim for FWC next. The Nightfall strike xp boost was a serious help (had no idea it worked on reputation). I'll probably do the next one as soon as it pops up.

If I park a fresh character next to the magic cave will they get a decent amount of xp?
 
I got my Titan to level 19 and I still can't get used to the jetpack. It's SO much worse than the Hunter's double jump.
 
So finally, me and some buddies attempted the raid. We left it at Atheon to tackle it tommorow. The experience has been one of the best gaming experiences I've had in recent memory. I really can't wait for what's in store in the upcoming expansion raids.
 
I think they stopped the cave farming exploit...Last night me and a bunch of guys were at the cave sitting and shooting when the door on the right opens up and throws in a massive horde of enemies, though they were Lv 7 the sheer number was astounding...All the Guardians (LV 18- LV 25) died taking all of them out...Anyone else have any similar experiences?
 
man today was my luckiest day on destiny....

1 exotic hand cannon called the last word
4 legendary weapons ( 2 scouts and 2 hand cannons )

i just need some purple gear
 
I think they stopped the cave farming exploit...Last night me and a bunch of guys were at the cave sitting and shooting when the door on the right opens up and throws in a massive horde of enemies, though they were Lv 7 the sheer number was astounding...All the Guardians (LV 18- LV 25) died taking all of them out...Anyone else have any similar experiences?

This happens on every planet. It says the enemies are going to war and a bunch of them come from out of nowhere. I don't think they've patched the cave yet.
 
I think they stopped the cave farming exploit...Last night me and a bunch of guys were at the cave sitting and shooting when the door on the right opens up and throws in a massive horde of enemies, though they were Lv 7 the sheer number was astounding...All the Guardians (LV 18- LV 25) died taking all of them out...Anyone else have any similar experiences?
That happens every once in a while. Its like a mini event. A huge war spawns, but the farm spot still exists.
 
They really need to fix the bugs in the Atheon fight.

We had, in no particular order:

One player at the back of the room NOT getting teleported. This generally caused a wipe.

Players stepping through the portals and NOT getting teleported, or teleporting back in immediately, also usually caused a wipe.

Several times having players NOT at the back of the room getting teleported.

One time we killed all the Oracles, came out and... had no Time's Vengeance buff.

Also minor, but Atheon's splash damage seems to penetrate the relic's shield, though I'm not sure if that is intended or not. Seems not, given it blocks his direct shots with no splash penetrating.

Once we got the fight down, we kept having clean attempts interrupted by those bugs, it sucked :(

were you in our raid a few hours ago? these glitches are indeed annoying. the boss was at 15% health at one point, but the next portal didn't spawn oracles at all when we entered it, and then suddenly they all spawned at the same time as if we hadn't been killing them. the fight isn't difficult once you get the strategy down, but you can't execute that when time-based events are spawning irregularly.
 
I think they stopped the cave farming exploit...Last night me and a bunch of guys were at the cave sitting and shooting when the door on the right opens up and throws in a massive horde of enemies, though they were Lv 7 the sheer number was astounding...All the Guardians (LV 18- LV 25) died taking all of them out...Anyone else have any similar experiences?
Yeah it happens every now and then. Pretty badass when it does. You know the amount of enemies is pretty ridiculous when they end up killing off 5 lvl 20+ guardians.
 
what a silly "bounty" you have to buy items? :D

It may be silly, but you'll be greatful that that's all it takes, at some point I'm going to have to ask people to carry me in a strike on my most hated strike (summoning pits) at level 26, while I'm a lowly level 24, purposefully taking on fucking wizards. All for a hand cannon... I can see the fun times ahead.
 
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