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[Jinjo]

There were two that I found, the gorgon one is the last one.

Spoiler

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.

Thanks man. I even missed the first one then. So that one is even before the first boss? Well, guess I can start hunting tomorrow again. Didn't finish the raid this week too.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

The killed by random flying shit from halo is back.

http://youtu.be/95GzW7MzirY

I never knew this could happen.
Its still hilarious even if you die.

 

[Homeboyd]

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.

Wonder what that's like!!! Must be nice!

 

[JohnOfMars]

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.

Is there any evidence that they're really getting it sooner? I'm genuinely curious if these cave farmers are actually out-gearing me in the same amount of time.

I'm at light 27 and I've bought all my gear save one piece. It didn't take me that long either.

There's a reddit thread on the whole thing and it's awful. People in all caps shouting, "STOP MOVING WHEN YOU SHOOT AT THE CAVE" or "You don't even have to shoot to get loot." Or "I only do this because patrols and story missions are boring."

So let me get this straight, the rest of the game is too boring, so you've chosen a method of playing that involves standing still and pulling the right trigger? Does not compute.

Farm marks & rep, people, not engrams. You get a legendary weapon from factions every time you level them past 3. You can buy 2 legendaries a week minimum from the factions. You can buy exotics from Xur. For reasonable prices. These kind of options are not available in game like Diablo, so stop treating this game like Diablo where you care about drops.

If you want to farm the treasure cave, that's fine, but don't complain about a system that's not intended to be the primary way to gear.

 

[cpp_is_king]

Is there any evidence that they're really getting it sooner? I'm genuinely curious if these cave farmers are actually out-gearing me in the same amount of time.

I'm at light 27 and I've bought all my gear save one piece. It didn't take me that long either.

There's a reddit thread on the whole thing and it's awful. People in all caps shouting, "STOP MOVING WHEN YOU SHOOT AT THE CAVE" or "You don't even have to shoot to get loot." Or "I only do this because patrols and story missions are boring."

So let me get this straight, the rest of the game is too boring, so you've chosen a method of playing that involves standing still and pulling the right trigger? Does not compute.

Farm marks & rep, people, not engrams. You get a legendary weapon from factions every time you level them past 3. You can buy 2 legendaries a week minimum from the factions. You can buy exotics from Xur. For reasonable prices. These kind of options are not available in game like Diablo, so stop treating this game like Diablo where you care about drops.

If you want to farm the treasure cave, that's fine, but don't complain about a system that's not intended to be the primary way to gear.

I got from 20 to 24 in about 3 hours farming the cave. But whatever, I don't see why it's such a contentious thing. If people want to farm the cave let them.

 

[E92 M3]

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.

Spoiler

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.

We should play together, but I never see you on when I am.

 

[cpp_is_king]

There are two. One far right as you move foward, and one behind you completely hidden in a dark cave after you fall down.

Sounds like there might be 3 then, because the one I found does not fit either of those descriptions.

 

[Nafai1123]

I am one weekly strike away from getting my exotic shotgun! That 25 K/D bounty was a walk in the park. Finished it in two games.

 

[PrivateWHudson]

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.

that surprised me too. I'm in pve almost all of the time, but after a night of pvp bounties I'm mark maxed on pvp and still quite far from getting my level 2 vanguard rank. Not sure where I'm at with pvp rep since I don't have enough marks to buy anything, and also not sure where I'm at with pve marks since I don't have the rep to buy anything.

 

[taco543]

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

oh crap... :/ we ran it twice too

 

[commish]

Is there any evidence that they're really getting it sooner? I'm genuinely curious if these cave farmers are actually out-gearing me in the same amount of time.

I'm at light 27 and I've bought all my gear save one piece. It didn't take me that long either.

There's a reddit thread on the whole thing and it's awful. People in all caps shouting, "STOP MOVING WHEN YOU SHOOT AT THE CAVE" or "You don't even have to shoot to get loot." Or "I only do this because patrols and story missions are boring."

So let me get this straight, the rest of the game is too boring, so you've chosen a method of playing that involves standing still and pulling the right trigger? Does not compute.

Farm marks & rep, people, not engrams. You get a legendary weapon from factions every time you level them past 3. You can buy 2 legendaries a week minimum from the factions. You can buy exotics from Xur. For reasonable prices. These kind of options are not available in game like Diablo, so stop treating this game like Diablo where you care about drops.

If you want to farm the treasure cave, that's fine, but don't complain about a system that's not intended to be the primary way to gear.

I honestly have no idea how you get to light 27 simply through rep gains at this point in the game, and it not take that long.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Damn it died out of bounds on Mars when I was 300xp short of completing the 9k xp bounty

 

[figadapaura]

Wonder what that's like!!! Must be nice!

Pretty nice.

It was Thunderlord, which is great for PvP. They never see me coming.

 

[Mooreberg]

Last night when I was doing a bounty, I saw two people perched up on a large rock on Mars trying to farm a cave that Vex come out of. Nothing was happening though, at least not with the regularity that it does with the Old Russia cave. Cabal kept spawn out of the fortification post to the right, but the Vex spilling out of the cave seem to be a lot less frequent.

I've managed to get a legendary auto rifle, exotic rocket launcher, and legendary gear from Dead Orbit simply by playing the game the way I would anyway. I'll buy legendary gauntlets next and then leave the helmet to a strange coin purchase from Xur. I've gotten Zilch from legendary engrams, but if you build up faction loyalty, you gain access to what you want anyway. I won't say they provided enough new content for levels 20 - 26 (they didn't), but between bounties and multiplayer I'm almost at 26. Nothing I've been doing is what I'd describe as "grinding" or the like. I'm probably not touching Vault of Glass until much later on though.

 

[Strider]

What is Mote of Light for? Just to give to the masked dude and get a banner? What are those even for?

Used to buy items from the speaker and you can buy an exotic engram from Xur for 23 Motes.

 

[Homeboyd]

Pretty nice.

It was Thunderlord, which is great for PvP. They never see me coming.

I promise I'll come back here and let you know when it happens for me.

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[Victrix]

I honestly have no idea how you get to light 27 simply through rep gains at this point in the game, and it not take that long.

Because you can buy a full set of legendary gear in 8 days, regardless of which item slot Xur has as exotic.

Cap both marks one week, buy one exotic armor piece from xur that week, get ~20-30 of each mark on the reset day, buy legendaries.

Hey presto, you're now raid capable and can go all the way to 29 if you want to burn ascendant mats on non raid armor.

 

[PrivateWHudson]

Is there any evidence that they're really getting it sooner? I'm genuinely curious if these cave farmers are actually out-gearing me in the same amount of time.

I'm at light 27 and I've bought all my gear save one piece. It didn't take me that long either.

There's a reddit thread on the whole thing and it's awful. People in all caps shouting, "STOP MOVING WHEN YOU SHOOT AT THE CAVE" or "You don't even have to shoot to get loot." Or "I only do this because patrols and story missions are boring."

So let me get this straight, the rest of the game is too boring, so you've chosen a method of playing that involves standing still and pulling the right trigger? Does not compute.

Farm marks & rep, people, not engrams. You get a legendary weapon from factions every time you level them past 3. You can buy 2 legendaries a week minimum from the factions. You can buy exotics from Xur. For reasonable prices. These kind of options are not available in game like Diablo, so stop treating this game like Diablo where you care about drops.

If you want to farm the treasure cave, that's fine, but don't complain about a system that's not intended to be the primary way to gear.

I think it's just a different trigger for some people. Seeing that purple orb pop out is thrilling for some in a way that buying it isn't.

I should copy/paste what I wrote earlier today when people say to stop cave camping. tl/dr: drops should be a good way to get random legendary, buying should get you the specific item with the perk that fits your build and even the right color.

Right now, neither of those are true.

 

[MaGlock]

So Nobody online on X1 trying to help a lvl 21 out?

 

[super-famicom]

I farm the cave mostly for crafting materials (gun parts), and if I have some specific bounties to take care of (kill 20 enemies without taking damage or the 9000 XP without dying). Granted, I did get 2 legendary weapons from there, but the majority of my gear was purchased from vendors after reaching Rank 2 Vanguard/Dead Orbit. I did luck out in Crucible and got a Legendary Helm, which is one of the helmets the Crucible vendor sells. I'm not even Rank 2 in Crucible so I felt super lucky.

 

[bobbyrawlins]

After reading some posts in this thread, I'm sad I went for Thorn instead of Invective

 

[theSlacker]

I am one weekly strike away from getting my exotic shotgun! That 25 K/D bounty was a walk in the park. Finished it in two games.

I'm worried about it. I'm not that good at the pvp and while I have had a bunch of good games, my average is still under 1.0.

 

[todd360]

So a guy hit level 30 by getting all the raid gear and upgrading it for his hunter. How did he do this you ask? He made three hunters and leveled them all up and played the raid one time each per character. Gave all loot to his main hunter. This is the part where you lol and make jokes about him not having a life. Wait though. He's got a girlfriend who isn't mad about all this.

Pray to RNGesus that you don't meet this guy in the iron banner. He's gonna send us home crying 😭

 

[EmmaWatsonButt]

If y'all have room once it's time, I'll be getting back on. The other group didn't get fare too well.

Alright, I will be adding you guys within an hour.

 

[Nathan_Drake]

Just got this from a Legendary engram;

I already have the Suros Regime as my main exotic weapon though so it won't replace that but still handy to have.

I like this. My only exotic and fits well with my Legendary shotty, Justice. I am a peace keeper

 

[BraXzy]

We should play together, but I never see you on when I am.

Remind me what your GT is? What's your poison? Crucible? Strikes?

 

[super-famicom]

After reading some posts in this thread, I'm sad I went for Thorn instead of Invective

I'm trying not to be sad. I <3 hand cannons, so I'm glad to have Thorn, even if it isn't that great.

 

[The Librarian]

I'm trying not to be sad. I <3 hand cannons, so I'm glad to have Thorn, even if it isn't that great.

Let it out, Mr. Famicom, let it all out...

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

I honestly have no idea how you get to light 27 simply through rep gains at this point in the game, and it not take that long.

You'll end up with enough Strange Coins over that period to buy exotic gear. Once I have enough mats to level my stuff up, I'll be in the same boat.

 

[Conscience Falls]

Any X1 users up for the raid this evening? Level 26, almost 27 and have yet to touch it. If not the raid, I'm also up for nightfall.

 

[Atkison04]

I work on a little to do list while I'm at work for what I want to accomplish in the game during my limited weekday play time. For example: tonight I want to do the heroic daily mission (since it's on Venus), do the 200 pieces from Venus enemies bounty, public event and maybe farm the treasure cave for a couple rounds if time allows. I have about an hour to work with. Tomorrow I will dive into the Queens wrath stuff and probably grind that the majority of the next 2 weeks, minus attempting the weekly strike (really wish there was matchmaking there). I'm a level 24 and only have one piece of legendary gear and one legendary sniper rifle. I'm loving the game so far, just trying to gear up better before any raid attempt. Also need to find 4 other people for that...

 

[VE3TRO]

I take it you guys saw someone hit Level 30.

 

[Victrix]

After reading some posts in this thread, I'm sad I went for Thorn instead of Invective

Me too

(... I got Invective later )

If it makes you feel any better, Thorn looks and sounds amazing, and if they ever do buff it, you'll have a badass HC.

It has a few niche uses, but it's not a primary I use all the time sadly.

I'm now praying for Hawkmoon or Last Word.

 

[Flo_Evans]

So a guy hit level 30 by getting all the raid gear and upgrading it for his hunter. How did he do this you ask? He made three hunters and leveled them all up and played the raid one time each per character. Gave all loot to his main hunter. This is the part where you lol and make jokes about him not having a life. Wait though. He's got a girlfriend who isn't mad about all this.

Pray to RNGesus that you don't meet this guy in the iron banner. He's gonna send us home crying &#128557;

He's got a girlfriend, but does he have a job?

 

[commish]

Because you can buy a full set of legendary gear in 8 days, regardless of which item slot Xur has as exotic.

Cap both marks one week, buy one exotic armor piece from xur that week, get ~20-30 of each mark on the reset day, buy legendaries.

Hey presto, you're now raid capable and can go all the way to 29 if you want to burn ascendant mats on non raid armor.

I know but I guess I don't see this as "not taking a lot of time".

 

[Fixed1979]

i thought Xur took strange coins?

I'm so confused

Both...strange coins for specific items and motes for exotic engram.

 

[hydruxo]

So a guy hit level 30 by getting all the raid gear and upgrading it for his hunter. How did he do this you ask? He made three hunters and leveled them all up and played the raid one time each per character. Gave all loot to his main hunter. This is the part where you lol and make jokes about him not having a life. Wait though. He's got a girlfriend who isn't mad about all this.

Pray to RNGesus that you don't meet this guy in the iron banner. He's gonna send us home crying &#128557;

Haha more power to him for going through who knows how many hours for each character. Imagine the monotony of leveling up three Hunters to that level. I know I won't be going anywhere near Iron Banner unless I'm level 29-30.

 

[E92 M3]

So Nobody online on X1 trying to help a lvl 21 out?

I'd help, but at work now. What is your GT?

 

[Resident4t.]

The killed by random flying shit from halo is back.

http://youtu.be/95GzW7MzirY

A friend boosted into me with a sparrow as I jumped and it sent me towards a wall at a pretty ridiculous speed. The impact killed me somehow. Reminded me of the time I died in Halo by hitting my head against a palm tree.

 

[super-famicom]

Let it out, Mr. Famicom, let it all out...

It's ok. I still have a rare hand cannon with explosive rounds (which basically give me double damage) and good reload speed. And since you can only equip one exotic weapon at a time, I can use that and equip my exotic machine gun instead

 

[j_rocca42]

Anyone down for the weekly heroic strike? I need one more... ps4

 

[Florida_Man_5000]

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.

I find it works best in crucible free for all. Fools keep going to the place they died, probably for revenge. I wooped all five challengers a couple times. Gives you a brawler medal.

 

[figadapaura]

I promise I'll come back here and let you know when it happens for me.

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:lol I hope it's soon. &#128521;

 

[AbandonedTrolley]

Anyone down for the weekly heroic strike? I need one more... ps4

I'd be up for that I'm only 26 Warlock. AbandonedTrolley

 

[Crimson_Gold]

Anyone down to do the lvl 26 weekly?

Damn just missed a group

 

[zoukka]

How does one join a faction?

 

[backflip10019]

Sorry if I ignored your invite to play this weekend -- only had a short time period to play so didn't want to get sucked into anything too long.

 

[Homeboyd]

Any X1 users up for the raid this evening? Level 26, almost 27 and have yet to touch it. If not the raid, I'm also up for nightfall.

Add me, GT Homeboyd903

Almost 27 defender Titan

 

[super-famicom]

How does one join a faction?

But a class item from the faction you want to join. Equip it. Grats, you joined the faction!

 

[Flo_Evans]

LOL I just watched that angry joe review/rant. the funniest part is when he gets 11 ascendant mats and is pissed. Fuck I would kill for that right about now.

I have 8, enough to do one upgrade tier but I am holding onto them to use on raid gear.