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[PhatSaqs]

Daily Heroic gives "cryptarch engram" wat?

Doesnt say what color.....

 

[Lakitu]

Fuck you Rahool. Got a bunch of mediocre blue stuff along with the odd strange coin and mote of light.

 

[ethomaz]

Im begging at this point. I need two people to help complete the strikes on the highest difficulty tonight so I can get the full allotment of strange coins.

Xbox One. Tag is DX

It is being funny this generation on GAF.

Xbox One's requests: hard to find somebody replying
PS4's requests: you hit post and already 10 requests on PSN

 

[Marvel]

NOOOOOO!

I just found a Legendary Engram, but had to download the patch before being able to get to the tower...

Now it's a Blue... ;-(

Oh no!

 

[Kor of Memory]

I'm doing this too, yes. I'm very curious to find out if it'll work, could you please quote me with the answer since I'm about to attend a meeting and your response will otherwise be buried by the time I get back ;P Thanks!

For those curious.

I had 4 Cryptarch levels saved up in the bank, it looks like they were adjusted properly as well.

Of the 4 messages I had I pulled

11 blues and 1 purple out of them. The 1 purple turned into 2 shards.

The put me over into the next cryptarch level as well, which gave me another 3 blues.

 

[TetraGenesis]

Another title change! Hahaha. Is this gonna be a new trend on Gaf?

 

[E92 M3]

I think it's pretty obvious what happened here lol. They upgraded ascendant materials to legendary status so they could make legendary engrams turn into them more often. This way your legendary engrams are still turning into legendary items. N'est-ce pas?

The Cryptarch always has the last laugh.

 

[bobbyrawlins]

Was is still a legendary engram after the patch?

Oops, meant to say rare engram. I had saved them to level up the Cryptarch and get a legendary mail package.

 

[pringles]

Woo, Rahool decrypted my purple engram into a purple item!

..it was the wrong class..

But still! Today is a great day!

 

[MechDX]

Too bad you jumped up to Xbone, DX. We could've relived the PSO glory days.

I have been actually. Had a couple friends from the PSO days hit me up on Destiny. Who are you?

 

[Brazil]

Thank the heavens for new thread title.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

Daily Heroic gives "cryptarch engram" wat?

Well that's actually the best thing in this update for me. I'm feeling content hungry at the end game and at least this gives me a reason to do this mission daily now.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

In all honesty the only use for bladedancer over gunslinger I've ever found is for cloaked rezzing lol

Put on Hungering Blade and Mask Of The Third Man then you can tank the tougher minions. Also Showstopper/Vanish to to take less hits.

 

[Tawpgun]

So my postmaster reward for levelling cryptarch is gonna be blue now? aw man

 

[Lakitu]

So my postmaster reward for levelling cryptarch is gonna be blue now? aw man

Yeah, it's straight up bullshit.

 

[Hawkian]

lmao if you think this will happen

It was specifically identified.

Since launch we've tracked down an issue which has made Strikes more challenging than originally designed by both increasing damage taken by players and decreasing the damage inflicted by players on the boss. Expect to see this addressed soon, and for Strikes to become a little less grindy as a result

it just wasn't in this patch and was never stated to be.

I don't understand the balance of the bounties. Some are super quick and can be knocked out in Patrol in five minutes like "melee kill 30 enemies without dying" or "Kill 20 enemies without taking damage from them" while some like "Kill 2 enemies at once with a Fusion Rifle, 20 times." or "kill 3 enemies with a single super use, 20 times" take forever unless you engineer a specific situation (ie "We've awokent the hive!"). But they're all worth the same amount in the end (only the Strike ones are worth more, unless I'm misremembering).

I guess it is all fine when you consider the day's available Vanguard bounties as a package deal for X rep, but if you're just picking a few to do but don't want to grind them all out it is bizarre that there is such high variance between them.

Nah you've pretty much hit the nail on the head here. if you can only do a few a day there are the quick ones always available, to really max out your daily rep gain you have to do a trickier or longer couple of them.

 

[Pop]

Is it just me or did they just make ascendant materials more rare by putting them in legendary engrams only?

Nah

people are already getting materials from blues

 

[TheCanisDirus]

WTF @ the new thread title.

 

[EL CUCO]

I got about 20 blues to decrypt today.

PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU, RAHOOL...let me have a Legendary Sniper.

This Rare 242 damage Sniper just isn't making the cut anymore

 

[ethomaz]

I think the class part if fair.

You need only 33% of lucky instead 0.01%.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

I heard they were playing and wondered if you were gonna be watching later. You can multitask, right?

Yeah I mean I don't have a choice! It's really fucking hard to not play Destiny right now. But at the same time the Giants' season is on the line tonight! It's win or go home! Major butt-puckerage incoming. Having your emotions invested into a sports team has it's ups and downs.

 

[Nathan_Drake]

Looking for a couple PS4 users for Daily Strike. Confirm this engram nonsense

Nick_or_Dawood Lvl 28 Warlock

 

[Revolutionary]

Bah, got a single legendary Engram from the 3 mail I had waiting (one for each character). It did turn into a legendary chest though, so there's that.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

It is being funny this generation on GAF.

Xbox One's requests: hard to find somebody replying
PS4's requests: you hit post and already 10 requests on PSN

I think six people replied just now in like ten minutes.

 

[Slammin_Hammon]

The patch made bastion less common! That might be as good as the engram fix.

 

[MADGAME]

I think the class part if fair.

You need only 33% of lucky instead 0.01%.

I think you need to be 66% lucky

 

[Anton Sugar]

WTF @ the new thread title.

Hahahaha, it's amazing.

 

[Hawkian]

Woo, Rahool decrypted my purple engram into a purple item!

..it was the wrong class..

But still! Today is a great day!

That's still shards/energies.

The best aspect of this patch isn't that you'll get more legendary items, it's that that the worst thing a purple engram on the ground can turn into is now strange coins/mote of light.

 

[Nameless]

Yesterday, before the patch obviously, I've got from the Cryptarch the Cryptic Dragon, what do you guys think about it?

Also I've got an exotic heavy weapon (lol wat), the Gjallarhorn, what do you guys think?

btw, I just hit level 25, I need to farm spinmetals ._., any good video for that?

If you're willing to take the time to upgrade it the Gjallarhorn is one of the most destructive weapons in the game. I still have three damage perks left to go and I'm literally scared to max it out given the damage it already does. It'll be occupying my exotic weapon slot for a very very long time.

 

[EmmaWatsonButt]

Rahool is still a gigantic asshole.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Wow at title change.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Oh, I accidentally did the Heroic Story without realizing it was the Heroic Story. Here I was, hoping every mission would give out Ascendant Shards now.

 

[ethomaz]

I think six people replied just now in like ten minutes.

That what I said.

It is just hard... not impossible.

 

[darkwing]

oh my the Vanguard strike just gave me The Last Word XD

 

[MechDX]

It is being funny this generation on GAF.

Xbox One's requests: hard to find somebody replying
PS4's requests: you hit post and already 10 requests on PSN

I think six people replied just now in like ten minutes.

I just feel LIVE players have sub groups they run with since the community is nearly 15 years old now. I have a full friends list but only a handful play this game and most of them are lower levels.

 

[Ardenyal]

two and a half levels worth of blues decrypted got me one legendary. No legendary engrams out of the three cryptarch packages i opened.

 

[blackflag]

I did daily heroic but I didn't get anything. Yeah I know it's RNG just ading my results to the pool.

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Just downloaded an 820kb patch. Rahool you sexy bastard, come here...

 

[Son of Sam]

It is being funny this generation on GAF.

Xbox One's requests: hard to find somebody replying
PS4's requests: you hit post and already 10 requests on PSN

Destiny isn't as popular on Xone. Everyone i know on xone doesn't actually think it's any good.

 

[Deku Tree]

Should not have done the daily strike this morning…

 

[E92 M3]

I don't get the title, but I am sure it's funny.

 

[kabel]

I don't know if this is fake or not but at the german keyshop mmoga you can buy Destiny for PC. It says march 2015.
http://www.mmoga.de/Steam-Games/Destiny.html?ref=2349&affiliate_subid=25425


Don't really know if I belive them.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Doing high level missions gives ascendant materials now? Goddamn.

Daily story missions already did that or are you speaking of something else?

 

[Hawkian]

Rahool is still a gigantic asshole.

The Traveler is pleased.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Yeah, it's straight up bullshit.

I had a feeling this would happen. It was too good to be true to hoard engrams for the purpose of leveling him up.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Might just be luck, but engrams appear to be dropping more.

 

[Chamber]

I think it's pretty obvious what happened here lol. They upgraded ascendant materials to legendary status so they could make legendary engrams turn into them more often. This way your legendary engrams are still turning into legendary items. N'est-ce pas?

The ultimate swerve.

 

[LkPr]

I don't get the title, but I am sure it's funny.

Titanic

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

two and a half levels worth of blues decrypted got me one legendary. No legendary engrams out of the three cryptarch packages i opened.

 

[Lord of Castamere]

Just finished daily. Said I found legendary in the feed at the end, but gave me nothing.