I do chest farm route on Venus in area that is right next Explore landing area, when heading to left from start. It's zone that leads into cave that takes you into Winter's Run strike.
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I do chest farm route on Venus in area that is right next Explore landing area, when heading to left from start. It's zone that leads into cave that takes you into Winter's Run strike.
It's a blocking tool. It allows you to create defensive positions much easier. It allows you to fight enemies in an otherwise open area and not be subjected to fire from the enemies further away. You can put a shield down and then instead of standing inside it, stand behind the shiled,positioning it between you and enemies and use it as proper cover, shooting past it.
The shield is absolutely fantastic.
Kor of Memory
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If you ever see a teammate doing this, go run way behind B and C and just stand there. You will shift the spawn weight to that side still. Or rather, you will keep the enemy team from spawning back there and officially making the switch. Instead they'll spawn near A again, and hopefully take it out a desperation. You can actually do this from the other side as well, I do it all the time when playing with randoms. If we only own A on Blind Watch, I'll run to the other side of the map, to the area behind B and C in the far back of the map, and I'll just stand there. It takes about 20-30 seconds, but before too long, my teammates will start spawning back there with me. It's not guaranteed to work, as it depends on how close the enemy is to that location as well, but I've shifted and thus won quite a few matches with this tactic.
Starting multiple toons for a guaranteed drop once a day is the worst option.
Grinding public events in hopes of getting a drop is the second worst option.
Doing the weekly Nightfall and the raid on are the best. I got 5 last night.
cpp_is_king
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So maybe i found a 3rd? Lol
NaturalHigh
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So I have had very limited next gen experience until this weekend when I played through and beat the story on my buddys warlock. I loved it so much I went and bought an Xbone today.
I am here next gen! So pumped.
Anyways are there other options for leveling besides story missions? I do not care to grind at all. This game is right up my alley as far as end game and the addiction of RNG. So tell me GAF can I skip all those long mostly boring story missions and level another way? Is pvp worth the time?
I am here next gen! So pumped.
Anyways are there other options for leveling besides story missions? I do not care to grind at all. This game is right up my alley as far as end game and the addiction of RNG. So tell me GAF can I skip all those long mostly boring story missions and level another way? Is pvp worth the time?
Evil Beaver
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So I noticed a third subclass slot for your guardian. At least that's what it looks like since there's an empty square next to your two subclasses.
Hopefully they're released in the upcoming expansion.
Hopefully they're released in the upcoming expansion.
IMACOMPUTA
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Its not that its difficult, its completely broken with the time it takes for hit registration. It doesn't make any sense how they thought this was okay. Its hardly playable and totally game breaking.
Highly doubt we get that in the first expansion, but maybe the 2nd...
I'm actually expecting a 3rd and final expansion that is larger than the first 2 and will include new subclasses.
does not compute
Bounties level you way faster than missions. pvp or pve, take your pick. Both are super effective.
If it makes you feel any better, my hit reg is currently almost perfect...
Make sure one of your araehole roommates isn't draining your bandwidth.
Strikes, Patrol missions, etc
Bounties are the quickest.
You could also do 35 bounties or run the Tiger strike playlist for 24 rep a pop.
Don't need 35 necessarily, VIP patrols give 25 rep.
Material turn ins give 25.
Split farming patrols is the way to go though.
Speaking of leveling, another fun thing about material farming - you can trade the materials in your vault to a new character and power level them with the turn ins.
barneystuta83
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Do Patrol missions, if you can, in a FireTeam of 3.
You will need to do anywhere between 15-25 of them and each team member can spread out across a map to do them individually. While you are unable to do individual ones at the same time, it stops the time from going from one side of the map to the other.
The ones with a 'Star' in are killing a single target, usually relatively easy, and are worth 25 each. They are much quicker than doing a higher level strike and is the quickest way to get ranked up (without bounties).
assassination patrol missions give 25 rep and normal missions give 10.
go from planet to planet and do patrol and only do those two missions and you'll be there in no time.
AmateurHour212
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Well said dude
Said it before and I'll say it again. These cave farmers spend $60, I repeat SIXTY DOLLARS, to go shoot into a virtual cave for hours. For what? So you could get that legendary loot sooner than everyone else? Sorry, but that's just ridiculous to me.
Was gonna say, I see this complaint a lot but, outside of the odd god-tier lagger teleporting all over the shop, I've had no problems with hit detection.
Ah right forgot the VIP gives 25. Good looking out.
The mats turn in is not worth it at all IMO because you'll need those mats for upgrading gear.
I'm getting deja vu
You can gear to lv 26 just playing the game normally with zero luck on drops. Just play crucible/strikes on hard.
If anything its too fast and too easy.
Evil Beaver
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I do this in between Vanguard and Crucible rep farming to help get my Rahool level up.
joecanada
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hey warlocks just wanted to have a discussion around the sunspells alternate skill tree. I started levelling this for fun but I just don't see the end goal there or it being as powerful as voidwalker... especially in pvp which I play quite a bit of.
Novabomb is pretty hard to beat I suppose but the flame punch would be cool, but I watch it on replay and its literally never killed anyone postmortem.... I see them on the replay and their health goes down about a 1/4 inch after I'[m dead and that's it... Also the grenade doesn't even seem as strong even though it looks cool... maybe its because I haven't leveled enough yet??
Anyone love sunseeker (forget the name) for pvp?
Novabomb is pretty hard to beat I suppose but the flame punch would be cool, but I watch it on replay and its literally never killed anyone postmortem.... I see them on the replay and their health goes down about a 1/4 inch after I'[m dead and that's it... Also the grenade doesn't even seem as strong even though it looks cool... maybe its because I haven't leveled enough yet??
Anyone love sunseeker (forget the name) for pvp?
I maxed out marks for the week, finished all the pve bounties, and hate pvp so I spent an hour shooting into the cave and got a couple ledengaries and an exotic. Worked well for me.
😁
Florida_Man_5000
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Think of it as your melee house of pain. Set the modifier for orbs from melee. The defender class can generate ridiculous amount of orbs.
Brolic Gaoler
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29 actually, though your gate will be ascendant materials (and even that can be cheesed a bit with three characters for dailies if you care enough)
Yaaaaaa. If it was 10 or so mats, I could see it being viable. 50 though is crazy time for 5 marks and that amount of rep
CouchMaster
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100 more points till Crucible lvl 3, can't believe my MP vendor leveled up way faster than PVE vendor since I generally avoid PVP in most games.
Almost 4 days of gametime helps, I need to put the game down :|
In all fairness, I only recently started getting any luck. I've turned in hundreds of engrams.
There were two that I found, the gorgon one is the last one.
The other one I got is just before there, after jumping down the cliff to where you respawn on maze failure, there are rock favces to your left, up to your top left there is a hole in the wall that is really hard to notice. Going through the opening and following the path round gets you a second. The first one is right after you open the gate at the start. You head right down a path and twist and turn through a cramped area till you find a third (technically first) chest.
AmateurHour212
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If it's the "last" thing you do while you're waiting for resets and whatever, that's one thing. I'm more referring to those that come in and complain that they "shot into the cave for four hours" and got nothing out of it. So you spent $60, shot into a virtual cave, and then you complain you got nothing? Um, yeah... here's the thing...
figadapaura
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Lol no. Same thing happened to me. Yesterday all my blues turned into greens as well. Cryptarch is fucking with me after giving me an exotic from a legendary.
Also he said just after, "Can't stop now, need more coffee." That bastard is up to something.
KnightHart
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The first time I saw someone use it in PvP I thought the game was lagging with it's shit tickrate and possibly crappy P2P matchmaking. Then I found out it was an ability and laughed about how bad PvP is...
Speaking of PvP doing the dailies for it is the fucking absolute worst. But the rewards are sort of worth it? I don't even have to do well so it doesn't matter. Thing is I lost 3 games in a row cause a guy joined and went AFK... And then he got a random legendary engram. Fuck this game.
If y'all have room once it's time, I'll be getting back on. The other group didn't get fare too well.
Haha yes. While I vastly prefer the flashbang grenade for PvP, the bubble with reduced damage while inside is godlike.
Whenever I pop it and someone runs in I yell at my TV "you do not come in my bubble!" while I shotgun and melee them in the face.
Now if I happen to loot the helm that blinds people inside the bubble.... Ohhh my, yes!
Gamer @ Heart
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There are two. One far right as you move foward, and one behind you completely hidden in a dark cave after you fall down.
Fixed1979
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Shit, I'm struggling to get to rank 2. Some of the bounties I get are ridiculous (for me). Earn 5 badges for a badge I've never even received once before. I'm going to have so many crucible marks by the time I actually get a chance to spend them.
There is no reward screen for the raid. You should just get the rewards right after you finish the boss. I heard it glitched on a couple groups so you may have just gotten really unlucky
It's entirely viable, you can farm 50+ mats in 10-15 minutes. Probably less, I haven't timed it, but I've turned in hundreds of materials just from farming chests while running patrols with friends.
Compare that to the length of time for 6 marks from a strike, and you're getting xp/rep for the turn in, and you're getting other loot from the chests.
Public events are probably the fastest mark farm, patrols are the fastest rep farm, materials are a bonus that gives rep and marks, a lot of xp and a little glimmer, and all three can be done simultaneously.
Strikes give ok marks for time (once you're geared), some rep, and a tiny chance at good loot.
Doing a combination of all of them guarantees capping marks, earning lots of rep, and helps to avoid burning out doing any one thing too often.
If there's anything that needs improvement in rewards, it's the vanguard strike playlist, the daily/weeklies and the patrols are all fine.
I hav not touched the raid or even nightfall gotten zero purps from engram's or crucible and am at 26 like you said needing those mats. Full purple armor.
Just bounties heroic dailies, crucible, and high level strikes.
Evil Beaver
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I like to immediately start dancing while my back is turned to enemies when I pop the shield. Then start karate-chopping when fools come steppin' in my house.
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