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[Zakalwe]

Ahh fair enough. Its annoying enough to grind Vanguard or Crucible rep. Bleh.

It's not pointless. I chose Dead Orbit and vanguard for armour and I bought two incredibly useful pieces.

Levelling vanguard to 3 next for a couple of weapons.

Just look at te gear each one sells and choose the one you like the look of most.

Bear in mind that vanguard will only rank by vanguard rep, crucible only by crucible rank, whereas all the others will rank with both vanguard and crucible if you wear their cosmetic item. However, they will only accept crucible marks for payment.

 

[X-Frame]

There's barely any difference.
Just depends what stats you want.

I had this written on a scratch sheet:

New Monarchy
+Int
+Str

FWC
+Int
+Dis

Dead Orbit
+Dis
+Str

Vanguard
half is like FWC
half is like New Monarchy

Crucible
half is like FWC
half is like Dead Orbit

Weapons are another matter, but you'll likely the get weapons you need before you hit Rank 3 in any of them.

The one thing that bothered me is that the Vanguard Monitor types are all STR and INT except the boots. So I couldn't focus 100% on that. Not sure if that is an error on Bungie's part, but it made me abandon them for New Monarchy, even though I know now in the end with raid armor on the horizon that it doesn't matter.

 

[Killzig]

Know what this game needs? An Exotic Bow and Arrow of some sort. O_O

Void Bow Super for 3rd Hunter subclass DLC confirmed.

 

[CornDogg]

WHOA! WHOA WHOA!

The hell?

What are the doing to purples with the new update? Can someone please elaborate on this?

Don't just put this out there without explaining it to me! PLEASE!

Stored Legendary Engrams are going to turn blue.

 

[Wired All Wrong]

They give you engrams, I'm waiting until tomorrow just in case.

Thank you. Waiting it is then.

 

[TheTylerDurden]

Anyone doing the final boss on VoG tonight on PS4? I'd like to finish up tonight - 29 Titan, give me a shout. PS4: TheTylerDurden

 

[realcZk]

WHOA! WHOA WHOA!

The hell?

What are the doing to purples with the new update? Can someone please elaborate on this?

Don't just put this out there without explaining it to me! PLEASE!

http://www.bungie.net/7_102-Patch-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12202

The 1.0.2 patch will go live next week, and includes several changes to the Cryptarch and Engram experience. These changes guarantee that Engrams will always decode into items at or above the quality of an engram.

Only Engrams that drop after 1.0.2 are subject to this change.

Cryptarch Changes 
Cayde-6 took the Cryptarch aside and showed him a sack of doorknobs. He decoded that mystery pretty quickly.

• Legendary Engrams will always produce Legendary or better quality items, including Materials or Exotics
• Rare Engrams will always produce Rare or better quality items
• Rare engrams will have an increased chance to produce Legendary quality items

Activity Changes

• Daily Heroics, Weekly Heroics, and Vanguard: Tiger Playlist activities will include Rare and Legendary Engrams in addition to their existing rewards

Item Changes

• Ascendant materials have been promoted to Legendary to closer associate them with the gear they are used to upgrade
• Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest--even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already...

 

[Bold One]

Still amazed at how fast these threads move, and they're not slowing down at all.

We will be on OT7 by Destiny's 1 month anniversary.

According to GAF this is a terrible game that will be dead in a month and anyone who likes it is a deluded sycophant

 

[Kaiken]

Annoying. I can not get ONE exotic and see so many with multiples.

I've received four already and working on an exotic bounty for the second time. I've dismantled two of them for mats. Sadly the majority of these came from loot caves which I no longer need anymore with my Vangaurd up to rank 3 now.

 

[CorrisD]

What's with the Defeat 3 Fallen bounty? Do I really need to be the person to fire the last bullet onto the Walker for it to count?

God knows, it is a damn pain the ass that bounty. I got stuck on 2/3 destroyed fallen walkers and went through 4 more across patrols and devils lair before the last one actually decided to work. Almost everything else seems to count when anyone else around you does it in regards to these things, but for some reason with the walkers it doesn't, it is really rather annoying.

 

[cabletime]

It's the one I'm rocking now. I still want Gilgamesh though.

I just got Gilgamesh yesterday. Pretty awesome

 

[Hawkian]

Arg Hawk

I tried all weekend to get 1 lousy strange coin so I could by the Knucklehead. RNGsus left me with 12 all weekend

aww brutal man. you'll get it eventually!

 

[Homeboyd]

WHOA! WHOA WHOA!

The hell?

What are the doing to purples with the new update? Can someone please elaborate on this?

Don't just put this out there without explaining it to me! PLEASE!

Rogue_Ledr
what am I doin halp
(Today, 02:48 PM)

 

[commish]

According to GAF this is a terrible game that will be dead in a month and anyone who likes it is a deluded sycophant

In fairness, it wasn't just GAF railing on the game.

 

[Anton Sugar]

What's with the Defeat 3 Fallen bounty? Do I really need to be the person to fire the last bullet onto the Walker for it to count?

Bungie said that you can get the credit by being near the person who puts in the last bullet, via their proximity assist bonus. Otherwise, yeah, you have to deliver the kill shot.

 

[Definity]

It's crazy how fast this thread still moves. Go to lunch and come back to 3 - 4 pages!
Looking forward to the Rahool patch tomorrow!

 

[we.are.the.armada]

One of my favorite character cutscenes is when you've done enough missions and gained enough rank with Cayde-6 that he tells you the following story. It really adds depth to his character and in a way, shines some light on the cool demeanor of The Hunters:

Okay, okay, I'll tell the story about that one Fallen.

It didn't happen like that. We didn't, you know, do anything actively - no handshake, no icy stare of grudging mutual respect. I don't even know which hand you would shake. Do they shake hands? It must be complicated.

Anyway, it was like this. I was on the Moon. I cracked a Hive structure near Mare Imbrium, looking for a Shrine, and they just - swarmed. Ranks and ranks and ranks of Thrall, pouring out between the columns, but the columns were Knights, and all the shadows behind them rose up hissing sorcery.

Of course I ran.

I had a line of egress and while yes it was full of Thrall I had a backup too. I went upslope. Took cover in the shadow of a crashed Phaeton. Emptied my machine gun, ducked down to reload, and saw her at the other end of the hull, killing Thrall: a Fallen in Exile colors, bannered in the marks of a Baron, though the flags were claw-torn and stained with Hive ash. She was alone. I think she must have lost her crew.

I didn't really have time to shoot her and she didn't really have time to shoot me so we just went back to killing Hive. Knights pushed me out into the open and back up the range to a high stone saddle in the shadow of an old interferometry array. It was good ground so she came up there too.

For a while we just killed things which is hard to make interesting in a story so I'll pass it over.

At the end the Wizards came. I climbed the array to get an angle on them and she fell back to the base of the antennae where she broke her swords off in a Knight. I saw that happen and I don't know if I can tell you how I felt. She was another living thing with a mind I could understand and she hadn't howled at me or tried to eat my Ghost. I cheered when the Knight went down.

When I came down, empty on all guns, she was slumped against a bulkhead staring at me with all her tiny black eyes. Ether leaking out of her like smoke. The Knight hadn't died easily. Downslope the last Wizard moved like fire behind another line of Thrall.

I looked at her and wondered how many innocent human lives she'd ended on those broken blades.

She did the strangest thing then. Took the last shock pistol from her bandolier and threw it between us, as if to offer it. When I went to pick it up she tried to knife me, but she was slow, and when I broke her arms and opened her throat she didn't seem surprised.

To this day I wonder if she hated me, or wanted to make me kill her, or just felt she should spare me the choice.

I did kill a few Thrall with that pistol.

Yeah, I know. It's from a grimoire card. Cayde-6 doesn't do much of anything for his or your character development or certainly not the hunters. Nonetheless, I dig this. Read it in Fillion's voice in my mind too

 

[CrackaF3tt]

Purple envelopes from the Postmaster are different than engrams. Bungie never said anything about the engrams from envelopes reverting to the old loot system. Still a chance they turn to blue and Bungie already took it into account though.

What Im doing is holding onto all my blues then after patch tufn them in for the package. Not sure why people are saving the packages now. We don't know if if the engrams rarity is rolled on when the package arrived or when you accept it.

 

[Grewitch]

WHOA! WHOA WHOA!

The hell?

What are the doing to purples with the new update? Can someone please elaborate on this?

Don't just put this out there without explaining it to me! PLEASE!

It only affects stored purples. Purples you get after the update will give you legendary or higher, same with blues.

Just make sure to cash in any purples you've got before the update hits.

 

[Malalaw]

Edit: Full.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

WHOA! WHOA WHOA!

The hell?

What are the doing to purples with the new update? Can someone please elaborate on this?

Don't just put this out there without explaining it to me! PLEASE!

purples will be guaranteed to become legendaries or higher

if you have any purples that you don't decode before the patch they will be downgraded to blues

 

[Killzig]

What's with the Defeat 3 Fallen bounty? Do I really need to be the person to fire the last bullet onto the Walker for it to count?

You need to either strike the killing blow or be standing near enough to the person that does to have it register. I noticed this was happening to me so I just started taking position close to the other lvl 20+ dudes in The Divide.

Edit: beaten like a protestor.

 

[Deku Tree]

Can I raid at level 26? Or should I try to level up to 27 or 28 to Raid?

It seems pointless to have to do all this farming to get items to level up my gear,
and then just dump my gear and do more farming to level up my new Raid gear...

 

[Afrocious]

It only affects stored purples. Purples you get after the update will give you legendary or higher, same with blues.

Just make sure to cash in any purples you've got before the update hits.

I actually don't recommend this.

Keep every purple engram you have stored. It'll turn blue, but that doesn't matter.

Keep engrams until the patch. That way, you can level up the cryptarch, and he may give you legendary engrams as a prize.

I dunno if this will work, but I think it's worth a shot.

 

[Fedemgsuy]

Would anyone be interested in running the Nightfall and/or Raid tonight around 7:00pm Central on PS4?

Haven't tried out either of them and I just got my Hunter to level 27 this weekend so I feel I should be ready to take them on. I'll be able to play for like 5 or 6 hours tonight so hopefully that will be enough time to finish both. PSN is MrJellyBean.

Add me, id really like to do it, psn is fedeuy

 

[Hawkian]

I don't even like snipers but...

Ice Breaker
Kabr's Brazen Grips
Hard Light

NEED some exotic and or legendary hand cannons.

Good answers! and thanks for responding even though the question was buried

Ice Breaker, man, I hate sniper rifles and I don't want to be the one using it, but my motto is Every Fireteam Needs an Ice Breaker. Just wow all over. Hard light is one of the coolest-looking guns in the game IMO.

More answers! Post your 3 favorite items, see mine here!

 

[TheCanisDirus]

Can I raid at level 26? Or should I try to level up to 27 or 28 to Raid?

It seems pointless to have to do all this farming to get items to level up my gear,
and then just dump my gear and do more farming to level up my new Raid gear...

This is where i am as well. I dont want to grind to get to 27-28 with new armor or more shards when i'll likely redo the raid as many times as it takes to get a raid set which will make my previous set useless. I feel like 26 "should" be able to.

 

[Sykotik]

Pocket Infinity, I feel, is what Exotic weapons should feel like. This weapon can be insane. However, it's not omnipotent. It burns through ammo like it's nothing, and it can be difficult to control. The feeling of blasting out 8 fusion rifle shots in record time is bliss.

Ice Breaker. This sniper has a clip of 6, has insane zoom and range - and it also regenerates it's ammunition. This weapon can be a blessing in Juggler skulled missions. The drawback is that once it's out of ammo, there's no getting it back without waiting it out. Great for boss fights. It also sounds like a banshee while firing.

Sunbreakers. These gauntlets, in conjunction with the Pocket Infinity, are devastating. they increase the reload speed of all special weapons. They also make the Solar Grenades stay active longer. What's not to like?

 

[Juraash]

They give you engrams, I'm waiting until tomorrow just in case.

Cryptarch rank gives engrams, ranks from other factions at 3+ give you actual items.

 

[Pierate]

Rahool really likes giving me rocket launchers, but I'm a heavy machine gun kind of guy. He has given me 4 legendary launchers and one exotic and I don't know how to feel about this. Why can't he give me a nice legendary heavy machine gun to go with my thorn instead.

 

[breakfuss]

Well, the game had a nice run for me but I think I'm done for now. For some reason PvP's shotgunning and super-spam really got to me today, I can no longer enjoy it.

lol. Could just be having an off day? I did some salvage yesterday and it was the most fun I've had with PvP since launch. God, I wish that wasn't a revolving mode. I also tried skirmish for the time and it's easily the bottom rung of options. Just shitty all around. Played two matches where all but one of the other team quit. Won't be going back unless for a bounty.

 

[VE3TRO]

Some pics of my Titan. I go for different looks when Striking or Defending since the helmets do have unique perks for each sub class.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Got my fourth exotic bounty yesterday but abandoned it because I already had all the weapons offered. #FirstWorldProblems

Good Lord. We have a winner here.

 

[Korosenai]

My friend just got a legendary engram and it turned into a shitty blue weapon..... If only he would have gotten it tomorrow.

 

[commish]

NM

 

[The Lamonster]

So the patch hits tonight around 12am PDT, right?

 

[super-famicom]

Cryptarch rank gives engrams, ranks from other factions at 3+ give you actual items.

Hmm, I have a package from Dead Orbit for hitting rank 3 just sitting with the post master. I guess I'll just open it tomorrow, since I also have 2 packages from leveling up Cryptarch. It'll be more fun opening up more stuff at once!

 

[A_Gorilla]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

 

[Homeboyd]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

Devil's Lair, level 8. You can fly through that thing untouched.

Edit: Oh no deaths isn't a requirement? Yeah Nexus is a good one for this then.

 

[golem]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

Nexus.. You can run by most of the middle encounters

 

[Namikaze1]

So during my patrol, I somehow forgot legendary engram. I didn't know one drop till I check the postmaster. I don't know if I should leave it there or try my luck. I'm scared.

 

[keakster]

Some pics of my Titan. I go for different looks when Striking or Defending since the helmets do have unique perks for each sub class.

What are the stats on the exotic helmet in the top image?

 

[BananasWithGuns]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

When I had that bounty I did the Summoning Pits. You can run past the majority of enemies in there and as long as your teammates are competent then you'll burn through the three waves and Phogoth super fast.

 

[E92 M3]

I don't even like snipers but...

This solo'd the weekly nightfall.

I decided to max mine out yesterday. It's truly a fun weapon to use.

 

[Akai XIII]

Anyone willing to help with the Xyor section of the Thorn bounty? PS4: Akai_XIII, already at Phogoth, just need help doing the last bit.

 

[realcZk]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

I *think* it might be quickest to do heroic strikes. Level 22 counts as 2 for the bounty, the nightfall counts as 3 (I believe).

What I'd do is the current weekly heoric strike at level 22 (venus/kill the nexus). This one is super easy with a solar weapon. Kill the 3 servitors and literally run past everything else until the final boss. Once at the final boss, get up into the cheese spot as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5L5pb_STvU

 

[RiccochetJ]

Some pics of my Titan. I go for different looks when Striking or Defending since the helmets do have unique perks for each sub class.

Nice! I have the striker helmet, but I'm currently using the exotic arms for my defender at the moment. The quick reload proc and the extra time the arms give you allow me to unload a lot of heavy ordinance in a very short period of time. Haven't had the defender helm drop yet. Gambling on exotic engrams from Xur has given me two Warlock pieces of armor

 

[Hawkian]

Pocket Infinity, I feel, is what Exotic weapons should feel like. This weapon can be insane. However, it's not omnipotent. It burns through ammo like it's nothing, and it can be difficult to control. The feeling of blasting out 8 fusion rifle shots in record time is bliss.

Ice Breaker. This sniper has a clip of 6, has insane zoom and range - and it also regenerates it's ammunition. This weapon can be a blessing in Juggler skulled missions. The drawback is that once it's out of ammo, there's no getting it back without waiting it out. Great for boss fights. It also sounds like a banshee while firing.

Sunbreakers. These gauntlets, in conjunction with the Pocket Infinity, are devastating. they increase the reload speed of all special weapons. They also make the Solar Grenades stay active longer. What's not to like?

Hell yes. I agree with your descriptions of the drawbacks too, they're incredibly potent weapons but not completely flawless either. really well-designed and fun items.

bold, I didn't know that's what they did. Yikes. keep a stock of special ammo synthesis on you and PI will be your key to any door that unlocks via violence.

 

[Strider]

So I have to complete 25 strikes for my first exotic weapon bounty, someone please tell me which as the quickest????

Nexus. Once you kill the servitors you can bypass everything until the boss.

 

[LordofPwn]

Good Lord. We have a winner here.

I've had 5, had to abandon the last 2 because i've already done the 2 they offered.

I've done Thorn and Invectus, working on bad juju. Plus i still need to level up Gjallarhorn and Mida.