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[Owlowiscious]

alt'ed again for the free exotic. took 1h10m this time. feels like the 2nd free exotic is the same among all classes? so it wouldn't be worth going all the way for that one.

 

[Marvel]

How do you get Flashpoints?

 

[Frillen]

Finish the main campaign, clear all the blue quests in EDZ and you'll get the Mida Mini Tool and starts you on the quest for the exotic scout rifle, you'll need 5 rare or higher, so save those if you find them.

5 rare or higher Scout Rifles? Does it matter if they're Energy or Kinetic?

 

[LiK]

I hope Xur does one weekend and then he gets murdered and replaced by someone else.

 

[Bizazedo]

I bet it'll take a week or more for more people to understand infusing and mods that add power levels to weapons and armor. I really like the system, though.

In fact, I have to eat crow so far overall. Bungie did good.

Mean joke that I don't mean in spoilers.

Spoiler

Clearly, Blizzard's influence.

 

[DNAbro]

How do you get Flashpoints?

beat campaign, set up patrols, talk to Cayde

 

[Lizzy]

So, I have a few questions about this:

Do we know what Flashpoints are? What about Guided Games? I'm assuming things such as "prism" and "timewarp" for Nightfalls are gameplay modifiers.

 

[RedRaider]

How do you get Flashpoints?

Press L2 in your director when you're in orbit (or LT on Xbox) and it should be under milestones. It's a weekly activity that gives rewards.

 

[DNAbro]

So, I have a few questions about this:


Do we know what Flashpoints are? What about Guided Games? I'm assuming things such as "prism" and "timewarp" for Nightfalls are gameplay modifiers.

Flashpoints are the dedicated patrol for the week. If you do public events there you get a nightfall tier reward after completing it. There are also treasure maps for that location too.

 

[Marvel]

beat campaign, set up patrols, talk to Cayde

Righto. Done the campaign and one patrol mission.

 

[MaximusPayne]

Is there any way to make the exotic armor/weapon power level higher? I got the exotic arms in the campaign(titan) and they are lower power level than my current gear.

 

[VaughnDescen]

Just got my first exotic and it's not in my inventory 😒

If it was from a bright engram it was probably a different skin for an exotic. (Cant recall the name of them off hand.) Check your mod area.

 

[Bucca]

Is there any way to make the exotic armor/weapon power level higher? I got the exotic arms in the campaign(titan) and they are lower power level than my current gear.

Infuse a higher power of the same type of armor or weapon into it

 

[Namikaze1]

lol fair enough. but is there a smart way to go about things to make it easier?

Rule of thumb:

Finish the story. You level pretty consistently to 200 power just that way. Then:

If the rewards are blue engrams, do it right away.
If the rewards are tokens, do it right away.
If the rewards are legendary, wait until you hit 260 power.​

Slightly longer:

Public events and world events (like Scavengers and High Value Targets) are great ways to get XP and blue engrams as rewards.
Lost Sectors can be done once per week (not sure on frequency) and are great way to get blue engrams after you beat the story.
Zone Chests can only be done once ever, but the rewards are tokens. Do whenever.
Adventures scale to your power, good post story content.
World Quests typically give legendary or exotic rewards, wait til 260.
Challenges can give legendary rewards, wait til 260.
Milestones give legendary rewards, wait til 260.
Cayde-6's treasure maps give legendary or exotic rewards, wait til 260.​

I think that's everything.

Edit: I should note that this is mostly for power leveling after the campaign. Like John said, you can get to around 200 from the story alone.

Adding on to what John wrote, this is what I personally did to reach 282:
-farm EDZ's public events for tokens.
-Kill any/all high valued targets in the area.
-Open every chest you find and collect the dusklight you may come across.
-You're gonna get a lot of blues. Replace whatever low power level gear you have with the new one and dismantle those old ones.
-I personally did not wait till 230 like some recommend to start ranking up folks like Devrim and Banshee. I visited Banshee a lot due to dismantling old.
-Save NF, the Flashpoint, the Weekly Crucible, and the blue crown quests on each planet till you hit 260-265 (I waited till I was 265 before doing any of them).

That's pretty much what I did from 215 to 265.

If you're lucky, you can get exotics off from ranking up with folks. Got Sweet Business off of Banshee and the Sunbreaker exotic chest off of Devrim while grinding. That helped up bump up my power level.

I started infusing stuff around 260. Held off on legendary mods I got from Bright engrams till 270ish (mostly because I had no idea what weapon I'll be using a lot over the coming days.)
Edit2: forgot to say you can also get lucky and get legendary mods from Banshee rank ups.

Max Power Level loadout

For the Leviathan Raid loadout

 

[Fettbacke]

Is it random when/how you get the class relics?

 

[MaximusPayne]

Infuse a higher power of the same type of armor or weapon into it

Ok, at a glance I didn't see infuse like in D1. I'll check back tonight. Thanks!

 

[The Hobo]

I finished the campaign.

Spoiler

So, is the Speaker dead/presumed dead? Doesn't seem to be in the Tower.

 

[tgraham]

Are you going to be able to do raids with randoms in this game? I know usually in MMO type games the high end raids are pretty much impossible with randoms but there is usually light raid type content that is more casual as well.

 

[Foxxsoxx]

I finished the campaign.

Spoiler

So, is the Speaker dead/presumed dead? Doesn't seem to be in the Tower.

Find out in 3 years I bet...

 

[void666]

He's busy. Next Friday.

Next Friday. Save up until then.

OK. Thank you.
I'll have time to farm whatever currency he wants this time.

 

[kambaybolongo]

Can someone help me with infusion? Is it work infusing something for the early exotic armor piece you are given? If so how do I go about that?

Asking because I finally found an uncommon chest armor that has higher stats.

 

[Glendemonium]

D1 titan to D2 titan. you can't merge the appearance with a new class.

strikes still have matchmaking

not sure. haven't really done any co-op yet. still working on the campaign.

Aww... thanks for answering, wanted to roll a Warlock this time since I stayed away from that class in D1, wanted the additional stuff.

At least I can do strikes until I'm needed for a NF, or try and go all Esoterikk and solo like a boss.

 

[ChazGW7]

snip

This is beautiful. Thank you. Will be using this when PC version is out.

 

[Bucca]

What currency is Xur taking this go around and where can I get it?

 

[DNAbro]

Adding on to what John wrote, this is what I personally did to reach 282:
-farm EDZ's public events for tokens.
-Kill any/all high valued targets in the area.
-Open every chest you find and collect the dusklight you may come across.
-You're gonna get a lot of blues. Replace whatever low power level gear you have with the new one and dismantle those old ones.
-I personally did not wait till 230 like some recommend to start ranking up folks like Devrim and Banshee. I visited Banshee a lot due to dismantling old.
-Save NF, the Flashpoint, the Weekly Crucible, and the blue crown quests on each planet till you hit 260-265 (I waited till I was 265 before doing any of them).

That's pretty much what I did from 215 to 265.

If you're lucky, you can get exotics off from ranking up with folks. Got Sweet Business off of Banshee and the Sunbreaker exotic chest off of Devrim while grinding. That helped up bump up my power level.

I started infusing stuff around 260. Held off on legendary mods I got from Bright engrams till 270ish (mostly because I had no idea what weapon I'll be using a lot over the coming days.)

Max Power Level loadout



For the Leviathan Raid loadout

damn that level, still wondering what the raid requirement is going to be.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

What currency is Xur taking this go around and where can I get it?

legendary shards by dismantling i think

 

[Caim]

Is it random when/how you get the class relics?

As you level up you'll eventually get them randomly from chests.

I got my 2nd class at level 7 and and last one at 15.

 

[J-Skee]

Max Power Level loadout



For the Leviathan Raid loadout

Now I wonder why there aren't custom loadout slots so we choose what we want for specific situations rather than swapping each individual item.

 

[Lizzy]

Flashpoints are the dedicated patrol for the week. If you do public events there you get a nightfall tier reward after completing it. There are also treasure maps for that location too.

Thanks!

 

[Fakeknowledge]

If it was from a bright engram it was probably a different skin for an exotic. (Cant recall the name of them off hand.) Check your mod area.

Ahh yeah, found it. Right you are, it's a skin for a gun.

Thanks.

 

[Lizzy]

For the Leviathan Raid loadout

What scout rifle is that?

 

[Truant]

Does anyone have a name for the Thomas Newman-ish track that plays in EDZ? I can't find it in the soundtrack, but it's by far the best piece of music in the game. It changes keys a lot every few bars, has kinda fast 16th note string trills, marchy tempo.

 

[grimmiq]

5 rare or higher Scout Rifles? Does it matter if they're Energy or Kinetic?

Don't think so, pretty sure 1 of mine was energy while the rest were Kinetic.

 

[Namikaze1]

What scout rifle is that?

The good old Mida Multi Tool

5 rare or higher Scout Rifles? Does it matter if they're Energy or Kinetic?

It does not. Just need any 5 rare/legendary scouts.

 

[Lizzy]

The good old Mida Multi Tool

Dang I wanna get that.

 

[Strangelove77]

God I love all the inventory space.

 

[ElyrionX]

Bought two days ago and I thought it was installed. Just logged on ans got hit with a transferring game content screen with a massive 14GN download. Wtf?

Does this even automatically download in rest mode?

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

What scout rifle is that?

Looks like MIDA Multi-Tool (paired with a MIDA Mini-Tool) to me.

 

[Deku Tree]

Kinda sucks that it requires a kinetic sub machine gun to infuse into another kinetic sub machine gun etc. Also kinda sucks that you can't infuse warlock armor into titan armor etc. Makes me feel like only running one character TBH.

Hopefully they reduce the grind a little in future patches/expansions.

 

[Revolutionary]

Nightstalker smoke invis + lightweight sword = Space Ninja

 

[Darryl M R]

Kinda sucks that it requires a kinetic sub machine gun to infuse into another kinetic sub machine gun etc. Also kinda sucks that you can't infuse warlock armor into titan armor etc. Makes me feel like only running one character TBH.

Hopefully they reduce the grind a little in future patches/expansions.

Wait you can't infuse armor from one class into armor for another? Why?

 

[Auctopus]

Rule of thumb:

Finish the story. You level pretty consistently to 200 power just that way. Then:

snip.​

Thanks for this.​

 

[Deku Tree]

Wait you can't infuse armor from one class into armor for another? Why?

That's what other people have posted... because Bungle.

 

[Lizzy]

Looks like MIDA Multi-Tool (paired with a MIDA Mini-Tool) to me.

What do you mean paired?

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

Kinda sucks that it requires a kinetic sub machine gun to infuse into another kinetic sub machine gun etc. Also kinda sucks that you can't infuse warlock armor into titan armor etc. Makes me feel like only running one character TBH.

Hopefully they reduce the grind a little in future patches/expansions.

Oh I didn't know about that for armor infusions. Good thing im saving my alts for playing with people who are getting the game later or it would be a pain.

What do you mean paired?

They have a set bonus for increased stats.

Sturm and Drang also are a set in that their perks affect each other.

 

[ShemhazaiX]

That's what other people have posted... because Bungle.

Can you give me an example of an online game that gave you free gear boosts for alt characters to make them as strong as, if not stronger than your main?

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I remember with Taken King, there was an option to kind of upgrade and buy the CE digital items separately. Is there something like that here as well?

 

[gdt]

This wait for the PC version is killing me. For real.



Just gotta hold fast. Plenty to play.

 

[CannonFodder52]

So I'm about to head out on the first real mission after getting my super back.

Are there daily challenges I can pick up in the farm, like in Destiny 1?

 

[Caim]

So I'm about to head out on the first real mission after getting my super back.

Are there daily challenges I can pick up in the farm, like in Destiny 1?

Nope they are already active in each planet.

You can see the challenges for the one you are on when you bring up your ghost on the right side of the screen.

They reset daily at around 5AM EST.