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Question... So say I'm doing a strike and I activate the Three of Coins at the boss and then a yellow health enemy spawns... does that mean if I kill that enemy that it wastes the coin?

It only works on an "Ultra", so a random yellow health vandal won't trigger it.
 

Bladelaw

Member
Question... So say I'm doing a strike and I activate the Three of Coins at the boss and then a yellow health enemy spawns... does that mean if I kill that enemy that it wastes the coin?

It's supposed to only be "Ultras" which are the named enemies with the icon to the left of their name.
 
Spoiler for the last regular mission in TTK:

I cannot beat Oryx in this last mission. This game has been so easy so far, but this dude has killed me 7 times in a row now. I get to the second phase, and maintain for a bit, but eventually he just rushes in and kills me in one hit. Very frustrating. What am I missing? Just suck less?
 

Mengetsu

Member
So in farming i got 10 exotic engrams. Everyone of my friends who got there primary weapon engram turned into the jade rabbit lol. What a day so far.
 

THEF3AR

Member
Spoiler for the last regular missing in TTK:

I cannot beat Oryx in this last mission. This game has been so easy so far, but this dude has killed me 7 times in a row now. I get to the second phase, and maintain for a bit, but eventually he just rushes in and kills me in one hit. Very frustrating. What am I missing? Just suck less?

I just kept jumping up when he would come in for a swing.
 

GhaleonEB

Member
Which would be BS. It's an item designed to increase engram drops, did they honestly think people wouldn't figure out a way to farm within minutes?

Only patch that would make sense is making it for Strike/Raid bosses only.

It'll be patched such that the effect turns off on the first dropped engram, rather than when the engram is collected, as it is now. Enabling people to get the max stack effect and then cheese bosses for unlimited exotic engrams was obviously not the intent; I'm also surprised it wasn't identified as a possible exploit. It'll last one week, tops. Of course, the hardcore will have gotten all the exotics possible by then. What a mess.
Spoiler for the last regular mission in TTK:

I cannot beat Oryx in this last mission. This game has been so easy so far, but this dude has killed me 7 times in a row now. I get to the second phase, and maintain for a bit, but eventually he just rushes in and kills me in one hit. Very frustrating. What am I missing? Just suck less?

I died quite a few times there.
When he comes in with the blade, I'd run out of the way, jump and turn to fire on him when the swing lands. Didn't do a ton of damage, but after 5-6 cycles I took him down.
 
Three of coins needs a small cooldown to stop back to back uses in a short time, and it also need to be limited to major bosses IMO not just named ultras, that's if it stays as an exotic booster and not legendary if they were to change it.
 

Xaero Gravity

NEXT LEVEL lame™
So in farming i got 10 exotic engrams. Everyone of my friends who got there primary weapon engram turned into the jade rabbit lol. What a day so far.
At the end of it all, I ended up using about 20 Coins, and only got one Engram. It turned into the awful Daft Punk helm for Titan. I'm so fucking soured on Destiny after my luck with the coins and the exotic Engrams Xur sold.
 

Trace

Banned
Three of coins needs a small cooldown to stop back to back uses in a short time, and it also need to be limited to major bosses IMO not just named ultras, that's if it stays as an exotic booster and not legendary if they were to change it.

If it only worked on Heroic and above Strike+Raid bosses I'd be fine with it. Having it work on random farmable ultras is stupid.
 

owlbeak

Member
Hi DestinyGAF, I'm back into this game after not playing since January. Positive changes all around, so far.

Vanguard and Crucible commendations can only be used to gain respective Reputation, correct? No other reason to hang onto them?
 

BokehKing

Banned
Second farm run:

3 Engrams

Helm - Light Beyond Nemesis

Gloves - The Impossible Machines (I had a feeling this would happen and didn't buy from Xur)

Primary - Suros Regime

100% this thing gets patched before next week.
Hmm, if I can get an exotic weapon that would sure help me get to 290
 
So for the 3 of Coins, is it just a case of activating it, doing a mission with a named boss, and avoiding picking up any Engrams that drop? Then just repeating the mission to do it again?
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
So for the 3 of Coins, is it just a case of activating it, doing a mission with a named boss, and avoiding picking up any Engrams that drop? Then just repeating the mission to do it again?

Avoiding the engrams that drop doesn't do anything.
 

cLOUDo

Member
I stopped playing before the first Dlc (at level 27)
Now I bought the taken king and all my gear is useless
There is a way to use my exotic gear? Or just dismantle it?
 

Palmer_v1

Member
So for the 3 of Coins, is it just a case of activating it, doing a mission with a named boss, and avoiding picking up any Engrams that drop? Then just repeating the mission to do it again?

Right. You activate it to give yourself X% chance at a drop when you kill the boss. If it doesn't drop, you get a buff to your next 3 of coins, activate a new one, and repeat until you do get an exotic, then repeat from the beginning.

People have just found particularly fast ways to go through this process.
 

Dragun619

Member
So from my first run with 15 Three of Coins, I got two fucking Mask of the Third Man, and Young A. Spine gauntlets. smh.

For my second one,with 20 Three of Coins, I somewhat got better loot, hah. a 290 Monte Carlo, and the 290 Herafter sniper. Finally, a new exotic.

But man, I also got another fucking Mask of the Third man and a warlock gauntlet. Damn, man. Feels like they playing me with this shit. lol
 
Alright, I'm thoroughly confused.

I'm a fair weather Destiny player who only picked up TTK when the bundle was on sale digitally that came with the previous two expansions.

I was playing through Dark Below and House of Wolves with my level 32 Warlock before TTK dropped, and finding the missions were adequately challenging for my level.

Now, since TTK has released, when I go back and try to do my unfinished missions from those two expansions, they are rated at ridiculously lower levels than I am. Dark Below missions were at 14 and 16. The Crota's Will strike was only available on easy.

What the hell happened? I can see the "Impossible" difficulty but it's locked behind 240 Light. So my only choice is to play hilariously easy missions until I hit 240 Light, then play Impossible difficulty?

Can someone explain this to me? Bungie certainly doesn't seem willing to.
 

NCR Redslayer

NeoGAF's Vegeta
Alright, I'm thoroughly confused.

I'm a fair weather Destiny player who only picked up TTK when the bundle was on sale digitally that came with the previous two expansions.

I was playing through Dark Below and House of Wolves with my level 32 Warlock before TTK dropped, and finding the missions were adequately challenging for my level.

Now, since TTK has released, when I go back and try to do my unfinished missions from those two expansions, they are rated at ridiculously lower levels than I am. Dark Below missions were at 14 and 16. The Crota's Will strike was only available on easy.

What the hell happened? I can see the "Impossible" difficulty but it's locked behind 240 Light. So my only choice is to play hilariously easy missions until I hit 240 Light, then play Impossible difficulty?

Can someone explain this to me? Bungie certainly doesn't seem willing to.
Thats because before, old gear wasnt scaled down by half. Thats why a pre ttk exotic is 160 now instead of 320. They should still be challenging.
 
Second farm run:

3 Engrams

Helm - Light Beyond Nemesis

Gloves - The Impossible Machines (I had a feeling this would happen and didn't buy from Xur)

Primary - Suros Regime

100% this thing gets patched before next week.
Where'd you do it? I tried it at the Scourge of Winter and I only got one exotic engram out of 15 total coins. SMH. Does killing the Kells Guards count against the consumable?
 

Kalentan

Member
I swear the heroic and the vanguard 36 strike playlist have like... 4 strikes in them. I keep seeing the same ones over and over. Shield Brothers, Sunless Cell, Fallen SABER and Cerberus Vae III.
 
I thought the idea was that the buff didn't vanish unless you picked up the engram? At least the exploit in SoW?

That is missinformation. The buff disappears as soon as you kill a boss (ultra) It says so right on the ToC description and the buff icon disappears as soon as you kill the boss. Pop ToC, suicide kill boss, rinse repeat. Picking up engrams doesn't affect anything. You can make a giant pool of them on the ground for shits and giggles if you like, but grabbing them every drop doesn't change your odds.
 

Kalentan

Member
That is missinformation. The buff disappears as soon as you kill a boss (ultra) It says so right on the ToC description and the buff icon disappears as soon as you kill the boss. Pop ToC, suicide kill boss, rinse repeat. Picking up engrams doesn't affect anything.

Okay, I think I shall go back in. Somehow my rocket suicide didn't work and I lived.
 

jediyoshi

Member
I am still confused on how quests work. It seems like they are not tracked very well. Maybe I am missing something?

What's the issue specifically? You highlight and select them if you want to track a specific one. That way the next location you need to head to gets highlighted on the location select screen.
 

Zomba13

Member
So just learnt of the Exotic suicide run. 15 Three of Coins got me 3 Engrams. Not decoded yet.

Few questions on them, if I decode them on Warlock will they be Warlock exotics or random class? If I decode them before reaching lvl 40 will the be gimped or will they be lvl 40 Exotics?
 

-griffy-

Banned
I am still confused on how quests work. It seems like they are not tracked very well. Maybe I am missing something?

What specifically is confusing? You accept the quests, then they show up on the map with the Taken King logo. If you track them then the tracked ones have a little green target on the map screen.
 

The End

Member
So just learnt of the Exotic suicide run. 15 Three of Coins got me 3 Engrams. Not decoded yet.

Few questions on them, if I decode them on Warlock will they be Warlock exotics or random class? If I decode them before reaching lvl 40 will the be gimped or will they be lvl 40 Exotics?

They're all random class, level 40

Supposedly they've keyed exotic engram decoding to favor exotics you don't own already but people have been getting dupes so who knows
 

RoboPlato

I'd be in the dick
The new strikes are a huge impovement. More varied and have much more interesting strategies for bosses. Bosses actually move too!
 
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