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[Silk04]

Can I bring in my Destiny disc without the steelbook? (To GameStop)

Haven't played the PS4 version since launch, but curious to jump back in on Xbox One.

Yep. I did.

 

[KevinG]

Yep. I did.

Shoot. Now I'm really tempted.

How long is the promotion good for?

 

[Mupod]

So someone explain what all the extra stuff in Destiny does now. motes of light, strange coins, vanguard and crucible commendations, and the ascendant energy/shards I have.

Beat the main TTK story last night, but am still not sure what to do with all this year one stuff...

Motes aren't currency for Xur anymore, they can be eaten to give a big pile of EXP to all your equipped gear or traded to vendors for a nice chunk of rep.

Strange coins are still for Xur, but he doesn't seem to sell weapons anymore. Right now people are using them on his Three of Coins which can be used to induce exotic engram drops from bosses.

Vanguard and crucible marks are gone and any in your inventory turned into commendations (50 for 1). Commendations are used to give yourself a big chunk of reputation towards vanguard or crucible (plus whatever faction you are pledged to).

Shards/energy can be turned in at the speaker for motes and glimmer. They are still used for upgrading old weapons but not much reason to do that now.

 

[Impulsor]

First exotic helmet engram I got, Graviton Forfeit get! Soooo coool. Thanks RNG GOD.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Motes aren't currency for Xur anymore, they can be eaten to give a big pile of EXP to all your equipped gear or traded to vendors for a nice chunk of rep.

Strange coins are still for Xur, but he doesn't seem to sell weapons anymore. Right now people are using them on his Three of Coins which can be used to induce exotic engram drops from bosses.

Vanguard and crucible marks are gone and any in your inventory turned into commendations (50 for 1). Commendations are used to give yourself a big chunk of reputation towards vanguard or crucible (plus whatever faction you are pledged to).

Shards/energy can be turned in at the speaker for motes and glimmer. They are still used for upgrading old weapons but not much reason to do that now.

So basically I can sell everything off except strange coins. I don't need any of it for upgrades anymore.

 

[KevinG]

Does GameStop sell the digital code (expansion only) in store?

 

[autotwilo]

First exotic helmet engram I got, Graviton Forfeit get! Soooo coool. Thanks RNG GOD.

I got Taikonaut, scooore

 

[Spades]

Any PS4 owners looking to buy a TTK code for cheap? I have EU codes. PM me!

 

[Dylan Sexbang]

Taikonaut get on first Engram. So good, thank you Xur

 

[LiK]

haha, TTK got so many people to play Destiny. they used to make fun of me, but now they're one of us. hahahahaah

 

[SenatorBot]

Just got Jade rabbit using the coin trick.

Thanks Xur!

 

[Future PhaZe]

what armor levels are the xur helmet engrams? 280?

as well are they year 2?

 

[Lakitu]

Really doesn't make sense to me that the digital versions of the first two DLCs are £35 under the expansion pass, then £40 for the Taken King. That's £75 altogether while the legendary edition ranges from £40-£55 effectively shutting me out and forcing me to buy something that contains the original Destiny.

 

[Geist-]

what armor levels are the xur helmet engrams? 280?

as well are they year 2?

Only year 1 helmets for me so far but others have gotten year 2 helmets.

290 armor rating though (I'm 260 light at the moment).

 

[Z3M0G]

Question: "How do I now gear up in TTK?"

Datto: "You just... go play!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTaSQoBm1lM

This video makes me so happy... now you don't do one specific thing to try to get gear that immediately brings you to max power. You now just play and you will constantly get better gear that gradually brings you up and up, but not too quickly.

BRAVO BUNGIE

The game is feeling much more like a loot game (Diablo III) than an MMO (WoW)

 

[Future PhaZe]

Only year 1 helmets for me so far but others have gotten year 2 helmets.

290 armor rating though (I'm 260 light at the moment).

so just to be clear, the helmet engram xur sells, could be either new year 2 armor, or year 2 versions of year 1 exotic helmets correct?

just dont want any old scrubby year 1 helmets

 

[void666]

what armor levels are the xur helmet engrams? 280?

as well are they year 2?

290 and of course year 2

so just to be clear, the helmet engram xur sells, could be either new year 2 armor, or year 2 versions of year 1 exotic helmets correct?

just dont want any old scrubby year 1 helmets

Only year 2 from engrams. My first one was a helmet of the saint 14.

I spent over 200 coins buying engrams... I have 20 left

 

[HBP]

Just got Jade rabbit using the coin trick.

Thanks Xur!

Can someone link me to the info for this coin trick? On mobile and search isn't helping.

 

[Vitanimus]

so what's the reason for field testing guns from the armsmith? are the rewards good for ranking up his reputation?

 

[Future PhaZe]

Question: "How do I now gear up in TTK?"

Datto: "You just... go play!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTaSQoBm1lM

This video makes me so happy... now you don't do one specific thing to try to get gear that immediately brings you to max power. You now just play and you will constantly get better gear that gradually brings you up and up, but not too quickly.

BRAVO BUNGIE

this is...true, but the downside is you can't worry about cosmetics or weapon or armor preference at all until you start getting a collection of max light stuff, otherwise you're hindering your own RNG progression

so its good in some ways, bad in others

 

[Impulsor]

I just got a year two thunderlord from a legendary engram lol.

Thunderlord + graviton forfeit. Man, today must be my day.

 

[DeathGlobe]

graviton forfeit is what I got for my hunter from xur

 

[Impulsor]

graviton forfeit is what I got for my hunter from xur

Shadestep + keen scout ftw

 

[Future PhaZe]

oh the weapon engrams are year 2 versions as well?

there's no reason to infuse exotics right

 

[Typhares]

As someone that jumped on the bandwagon last week with 2.0 and legendary edition I have to say I am really pleased with the game so far!
It fits perfectly my limited playtime. Only level 21, I feel I am making constant progress doing a mission here and there and the story is actually pleasant to follow.
The gameplay is of course solid and overall a lot of fun.

Well done bungie, I wasn't sold at launch but I'm hooked now.

 

[Future PhaZe]

I just got back to destiny after almost a year hiatus.

1) How do i get to participate in hard strike playlists? Right now im limited to lvl 20

2) should i just dismantle my old exotic and raid gear and weaponry?

only if you really really don't see yourself ever using it again or buy a year 2 version. the exotic shard youll get as a result is useful.

as far as #1, just keep playing, get your light level up. always equip highest light stuff no matter what. equip individual new decrypted items before going back to cryptarch as it affects RNG

 

[lionelhutz]

Is there a kiosk, or another way to obtain old class items? If not, for a hunter, is there any reason to keep old cloaks? With the class items having stats I'm wondering if I can dismantle the year one items to make extra room in the vault.

 

[Mupod]

this is...true, but the downside is you can't worry about cosmetics or weapon or armor preference at all until you start getting a collection of max light stuff, otherwise you're hindering your own RNG progression

so its good in some ways, bad in others

doesn't bug me too much. I have to constantly switch weapons which keeps it interesting.

Although good god handcannons suck in PVE now. So inaccurate that even shooting Phalanx hands is a pain in the ass. There had to be a way for them to fix them in PVP without making them annoying/unsatisfying to use.

 

[jediyoshi]

Got 2 exotic engrams from 10 3oc

Just want that Jade Rabbit

 

[Z3M0G]

How do you know a mob is an "Ultra" ?

 

[ocean]

Really doesn't make sense to me that the digital versions of the first two DLCs are £35 under the expansion pass, then £40 for the Taken King. That's £75 altogether while the legendary edition ranges from £40-£55 effectively shutting me out and forcing me to buy something that contains the original Destiny.

Think of it as TTK + the two old DLCs at a discount and then the base game for free if it makes you feel better about it.

 

[Future PhaZe]

When you pop that sunbreaker super in crucible

 

[Persona RS]

How do you know a mob is an "Ultra" ?

"Ultra" have name, like Zydron, Gate Lord.

 

[Jamiaro]

Yeah, I caved in and bought the Legendary Edition.

I think I might be in for a good ride. I played vanilla Destiny (I quit right before the Vault of Glass-patching) so I have not seen any of the changes game has had since then. Many of my friends play this and they seem to enjoy it (many of the quit Vanilla, like me), so why not... Wish me luck!

 

[lionelhutz]

Does anyone else have a Take King icon at the Tower that won't go away? I can't figure out who to speak to or which quest it's coming from?

 

[Kor of Memory]

The $60 package for what you get in the Legendary edition is what we should have gotten a year ago. Current Destiny is not a $120 game. All the QoL stuff you listed is what the game should have been from the start. I don't like paying to beta test.

Again, I can be critical of the game and still enjoy it.

Where specifically do you feel shorted on content?

It can't be missions.

After the base TTK missions, of which there are

Spoiler

8

There are at least another

Spoiler

16 missions

The base game shipped with 20.

I'm not including quests that involve you patrolling around looking for something, I'm talking about unique missions that can be selected on the director.

The Taken War specifically has 2-3 missions per planet and ends with an amazing

Spoiler

boss fight on Phobos.

Variks gives a quest to

Spoiler

hunt down the wolves of mars that has 3 unique missions on mars alone.

 

[ocean]

How do you know a mob is an "Ultra" ?

Skull next to their name. Basically Story/Strike big boss.

 

[Sanke__]

so what's the reason for field testing guns from the armsmith? are the rewards good for ranking up his reputation?

Yes
Very good

 

[Snkfanatic]

Tempted to delete the character I ran with early this year when I first tried Destiny and start all over again. I didn't get very far I believe so it would be nice to start from scratch.

 

[Jamiaro]

Well after the story is done there is a plethora of quests to go after. It becomes overwhelming even for people who have played both dlc (which I'm assuming you haven't)

There's armsday quests and bounties
Pvp specific bounties
And vanguard bounties, yes

But there's quests from almost every npc in the game in multiples

You could be doing random patrol quests
Or new side story driven quests
Weapon quests
The court of oryx public event quests
Exploring the dreadnaught
End game content:
New strikes
Remixed strikes
Weekly and nightfall
Pvp

And I still haven't even touched the surface on the sheer amount of content in the game. This expansion is literally as big as vanilla and the two dlc combined. What that poster said is straight up misinformation. It's understandable if you don't want to jump in because of no matchmaking, repeatativeness, but trust me when I say there's no shortage of things to do in th game right now.



Keep em of delete them

I hated Destiny when it first came out, got back into it because my son started to play and then had a blast raiding with GAF.

The story of the expansion is great, albeit not that long and they have made a lot of changes to the core game...work has been killing me a so I barely know what to do now that I hit 40 lol but that's part of the fun

Thank you for replying. I decided to jump on the hype-train and give Destiny another change. I think I´m in for a good ride.

 

[BraXzy]

EDIT: My science might be off, sorry folks, ignore this for now :/

 

[Jamiaro]

PSA: When doing the Three of Coin trick, DO NOT pick up engrams until you are entirely finished. Your ticking buff doesn't reset until you pick up the engram!

Thanks for this!

 

[Toa TAK]

Played some Taken King today, and I gotta say sticking with Destiny to get to this has been worth it so far. The quests and main story is a blast so far and with so much opened up now Destiny is where it should be I think.

 

[Mattdaddy]

Be careful buying that exotic heavy engram from Xur. I know it says legacy engram, but I thought it meant the year 2 version of a legacy exotic. Its the year 1 version though.

 

[GhaleonEB]

If I'm not equipped to offer an opinion on the game because I'm critical of it (while still playing it) then neither are you because you're so clearly invested in the game that you're not going to see nor admit to any faults. I absolutely feel the campaign missions are too little and too short for the asking price. There is virtually no build up to the menace of the big bad of the expansion. You see maybe two instances of him fucking factions up, there is no sense that he is this inexorable, crushing villain. Instead you wreck his shit in a handful of hours. A few more missions to highlight why he's a threat would have been nice. As it stands it's over in the blink of an eye. I remember the vanilla Destiny campaign being longer and that cost $60 compared to the $40 for this.

Yeah I'm likely going to get a bit more out of it because I enjoy the multiplayer versus with friends but going back to the grind doesn't interest nor seem like meaningful content to me. Post campaign content that asks me to go do crucible matches or run generic patrols isn't a meaningful continuation of the story. Quests that ask me to create orbs of light aren't meaningful content.

You said the campaign is 4 hours, which is factually incorrect. You are of course welcome to your opinion to dislike it, but the Taken War is the second half of the campaign and extends well beyond 4 hours. It's just straight up untrue that the campaign is that short.

 

[ocean]

PSA: When doing the Three of Coin trick, DO NOT pick up engrams until you are entirely finished. Your ticking buff doesn't reset until you pick up the engram!

Doesn't it go away whenever you kill an ultra, drop or no drop?

 

[Jamiaro]

Played some Taken King today, and I gotta say sticking with Destiny to get to this has been worth it so far. The quests and main story is a blast so far and with so much opened up now Destiny is where it should be I think.

This if why I decided to try again. So far not regretting it, gonna play the game on sunday.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

So the raid opens up in 4 hours?

 

[BraXzy]

Doesn't it go away whenever you kill an ultra, drop or no drop?

The buff goes away yes, until you pop a new coin, but you keep the enhanced chance of a drop due to not picking one up.

Basically if you pop one once, you have a 1X chance to get a drop, and that keeps going up each time till you get an engram. So 9 times later with no engrams earned, your chance is now 9X. This resets once you grab an engram (so you don't grab em).

It also seems like there's a cap to the chance increase, not 100% sure though.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

Bought my first exotic helmet engram from xur today. It was for a different class. I hate this fucking game.