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[Ourobolus]

Ohhh yeah, happy about this one.

 

[Strangelove77]

I think I prefer the warlock to the hunter. Voidwalker has so many options to heal which is good for a mostly solo player like me. They really buffed that class up. No self res, but whatever.

Anyone else play both and have a preference?

 

[Jblanks]

I really miss fun Crucible.

Every match is a sweat now. And better hope you don't start the match down 1, because nobody will get added. And it still takes like 20 minutes to end the game because of how rounds work in Survival.

Why, Bungie?

It was so much more more sweaty in D1. You had the titan skating shoulder charges, sliding shotguns, super spamming and blinkers with TLW for 90% of every match.

All the systems and everything are better in D2 except for the 4v4 which makes it too slow, and having to stick with your entire team in order to win all the time.

 

[blackflag]

So my Insanity Patrol Loop Final Results;

8.5 Hours total. 100,000 Total Glimmer Earned, 410 EDZ Tokens (Exactly 20 Rank Packages), 96 Dusk Light Shards, 12 Dusklight Shards (Rare), 250 Gunsmith Materials, 5 Legendary Engrams.

Went from Level 1 to 20, Power Level 10 to 265
All my Blue Gear us @263 cap, which is hella weird, I'm guessing my Warlock ring high is benefitting it.



I'm on Mission #3 of the campaign by the way. All sub-classes unlocked, now all that XP I'll earn in Campaign translates to free Bright Engrams...


Gonna do my Hunter same way. All those other Power Leveling guides are nice, but my method destroys those!
You earn so many different things and then when you do campaign it's really worth it for now that you're in the bonus for those Bright Engrams.

Get those 5 Legendary Engrams to decrypt and 20 packages to get and earn a fully Legendary set hopefully from Devrim. Hope some come with Legendary +5 mod bonuses installed.

Is there a specific route? You just do public events and adventures?

 

[SirMossyBloke]

I think I prefer the warlock to the hunter. Voidwalker has so many options to heal which is good for a mostly solo player like me. They really buffed that class up. No self res, but whatever.

Anyone else play both and have a preference?

Hunter is way more fun IMO, and doesn't have a shit jump. However I'm doing Hunter on my PS4 game and Warlock on PC. I still like them both.

 

[MythicReclaimer]

Ohhh yeah, happy about this one.

Good lord that was made for this week's Nightfall. First time I've been jealous of PS Exclusive.

 

[Ourobolus]

Good lord that was made for this week's Nightfall. First time I've been jealous of PS Exclusive.

That's what I figured. I'm still only PL236 so I have a little grinding to do

 

[mileS]

So are milestones account wide or what? Could level an alt even higher now that I know what to save and what not.

 

[ZeoVGM]

I really don't like how they changed infusion so that it has to be the same type of weapon.

Just let it be kinetic into kinetic, energy into energy, power into power.

I'm sitting on 269 with a 282 power exotic and a 280 kinetic exotic. If I could easily infuse one of those into a legendary, I would be above 269 because my highest legendary kinetic is 265 and my highest legendary power is 266.

But it has to be the exact same weapon type and I need a +5 legendary mod on the legendary I'm infusing it into.

A bit of a pain.

 

[GraveRobberX]

So glimmer is per character, not account? Thanks for this! This will be the way of my Hunter and Warlock!!! 🍻

No Glimmer is account based, so all 3 share the Glimmer

I've hit Cap 4 times already of 99,999+, been buying maps and mods

 

[lifeexpectancy]

The milestone stuff is only once per account? No matter if you're playing a different character class or not?

I see you clarified it a bit

So are milestones account wide or what? Could level an alt even higher now that I know what to save and what not.

So I think I have confirmed it is only because he tried to create two hunters and do the milestones again. So milestones are once per week per class, not once per week per account.

 

[MythicReclaimer]

Infusion scenario:

290 Sturm

155 Sunshot

(both have a 5 Weapon Attack Mod)

...I'm going to run the Sturm quest again on my Titan tomorrow which will give me an even higher PL Sturm but anyways it will be 1:1 right? So my Sunshot will be 290 PL after infusion?

 

[btkadams]

Are kinetic weapon mods really rare, or do you have to at least get them a certain way? I have a whole pile of weapon mods but none of them show up when i open up the details of my kinetic primary.

 

[UncleMeat]

Does anyone like the new crucible in this game? My thoughts:

1. I do not like how I can’t choose a specific game type (Clash, Control, etc.).
2. Every match goes too long.

Agree with both. I just want to play control sometimes.

 

[eizarus]

Does anyone like the new crucible in this game? My thoughts:

1. I do not like how I can’t choose a specific game type (Clash, Control, etc.).
2. Every match goes too long.

I'm hoping that's just temporary and we'll go back to having the match type selections from D1

 

[mileS]

So I think I have confirmed it is only because he tried to create two hunters and do the milestones again. So milestones are once per week per class, not once per week per account.

That makes sense then. Thank you. Appreciate the posts you made earlier.

It should be fairly easy to get an alt to 285 if I do the milestone turn ins perfectly.

 

[Dodecagon]

Are there setups to the strikes? I'm 270 and Haven't bumped into any way to pick one based on some sort of story setup... is it really just a random playlist?

 

[GraveRobberX]

Is there a specific route? You just do public events and adventures?

You go in a circle clockwuse around the map, starting EDZ area, Trostam

You loop the church, I've got a nice loop

I have the Ghost that shows them 30 meters, no scouting report really needed
Pro Tip, if you ADS the map pulls, so the 30 meters gets zoomed in, so you see them earlier

I showed fig, Phateon and Igor the loop, they thought it was really good

You don't do adventures or lost sectors

Only the PTE when it's up, High Value Targets (the Vandal or Servitor), and sometimes help out blueberries with the Enemies move against each other Event.

I kill most stuff, cause they drop Glimmer and chance at Engrams and or materials for the Gunsmith by dropping rare gear

Then trade it in, buy mods, deplete all my resources and repeat

PATROL, FARM, NO SLEEP, REPEAT

So yeah.

 

[Dynasty8]

Asking one more time...anyone know the max capacity for legendary shards?

 

[SomewhatGroovy]

So I ranked up with crucible gunsmith, he offered me a legendary engram. I stepped back accidentally, interacted with him again and the engram was gone

 

[UberLevi]

Just found Skyburner's Oath and immediately got an opportunity to test it out in the EDZ against that one big ass Cabal who spawns in The Sludge. Tore right through him, I'm really digging this thing.

 

[Megasoum]

I'm watching a random stream on Twitch and the guy has an item in the Power Weapon category that looks like some kind of golden honeycombs? What is that? Doesn't look like a gun at all.

 

[lifeexpectancy]

That makes sense then. Thank you. Appreciate the posts you made earlier.

It should be fairly easy to get an alt to 285 if I do the milestone turn ins perfectly.

Just make sure to save gear with +5 mods and transfer over all your high end weapons from your first toon. I know ppl say drops are based on your highest char's light but I still say dont trust RNGesus.

My thinking is it may factor jn your highest light, but it may weigh the drops more heavily on which equipment slot you get them for based on what you are currently wearing. I pretry consistetly got the things I needed that were laggimg behind with my reward turn ins, and I always had my best stuff equipped. Pretty sure my 2nd toon will make it to 290 easily, maybe 295, once I do all the milestones and hopefully get a few exotic engrams toward the end.

 

[Dreadnought]

I'm watching a random stream on Twitch and the guy has an item in the Power Weapon category that looks like some kind of golden honeycombs? What is that? Doesn't look like a gun at all.

It's an exotic quest

 

[Double Donut]

Heh, I like that subtle name change for Sunbreakers to Sunbracers, so that it no longer collides with the Titan subclass.

 

[lifeexpectancy]

Infusion scenario:

290 Sturm

155 Sunshot

(both have a 5 Weapon Attack Mod)

...I'm going to run the Sturm quest again on my Titan tomorrow which will give me an even higher PL Sturm but anyways it will be 1:1 right? So my Sunshot will be 290 PL after infusion?

In this instance since both weapons have the +5 mod, yes.

I posted a detailed explanation on how infusion works with the +5 mods previous page. I will requote it next page in the hopes of preventing repeat questions. Should be in OP tbh.

 

[Toli08]

This game is everything Destiny one should of been from the start. Such an amazing game.

Think I got my favorite Destiny weapon today. The Vigilance Wing. That Pulse Rifle melts people in the crucible and things in the world. Still can't believe that they created a 5 burst Pulse with a 50 bullet mag. Also the gun might have one of the best looks.

 

[LiK]

Doing that quest now, what's your opinion of the Sturm so far?

I like it. Good impact.

 

[Vanillalite]

The UI upgrade from a visual standpoint is redonkulous. It's crazy how much of a leap it is.

 

[border]

So I shouldn't finish any Exotic Quests until I am ~264 Light, correct?

 

[dcelw540]

So only being level 9 at the moment why does everybody love this game compared to destiny 1? Is it the end game stuff that's amazing because so far it's pretty much the same destiny. Same enemies, story is okay and only 4 planets again.

 

[THe_DeiCiDe]

Played thru the beginning attack...I like it better than vanilla D1 already. Also, the exo Cayde, is that Castle?

 

[BiGBoSSMk23]

So the region chests are marked on the map but don't spawn unless... what?

 

[blackflag]

You go in a circle clockwuse around the map, starting EDZ area, Trostam

You loop the church, I've got a nice loop

I have the Ghost that shows them 30 meters, no scouting report really needed
Pro Tip, if you ADS the map pulls, so the 30 meters gets zoomed in, so you see them earlier

I showed fig, Phateon and Igor the loop, they thought it was really good

You don't do adventures or lost sectors

Only the PTE when it's up, High Value Targets (the Vandal or Servitor), and sometimes help out blueberries with the Enemies move against each other Event.

I kill most stuff, cause they drop Glimmer and chance at Engrams and or materials for the Gunsmith by dropping rare gear

Then trade it in, buy mods, deplete all my resources and repeat

PATROL, FARM, NO SLEEP, REPEAT

So yeah.

Sweet then I'm assuming once I unlock patrols it unlocks for all characters. I got my hunter to 20 and got the mission from Cayde but haven't done it. Started titan tonight.

 

[Gr1mLock]

I've actually been getting exotic engrams on an ok frequency but Rahool keeps turning them into boots I already have.

 

[BondFancy]

What does the Dynasty quest line get you for IO?

 

[blackflag]

Played thru the beginning attack...I like it better than vanilla D1 already. Also, the exo Cayde, is that Castle?

Yep Nathan Fillion. He played Cayde in D1 as well but had much less speaking.

 

[Rexatality]

So I shouldn't finish any Exotic Quests until I am ~264 Light, correct?

265+ should be pretty fine. Though it's better if you go 270 or above as the Exotic weapons from the Quests goes 15 PL higher than your current PL

 

[Alucrid]

one character down

 

[THe_DeiCiDe]

Yep Nathan Fillion. He played Cayde in D1 as well but had much less speaking.

Nice, I thought that was him. Good show.

Tryin to get used to the controls after so much overwatch. Think I just need to up the sens.

 

[Dalek]

What does the Dynasty quest line get you for IO?

I believe that gives you a fusion rifle.

 

[border]

So only being level 9 at the moment why does everybody love this game compared to destiny 1? Is it the end game stuff that's amazing because so far it's pretty much the same destiny. Same enemies, story is okay and only 4 planets again.

Better campaign
Better post campaign content
Game isn't as greedy with Exotics and items that progress your character
Less monotonous grind
You can kinda just done what you want and still power up your character rather than being forced into the Strike playlist

 

[Rexatality]

I believe that gives you a fusion rifle.

Linear fusion rifle, mind you

 

[Jblanks]

With there only being like 18ish exotic weapons, fixed rolls on everything, and it being easier to get exotics/legendaries, I'm a little worried about replayability tbh, but we'll see.

 

[BondFancy]

I believe that gives you a fusion rifle.

Yuk, thanks!

 

[TheGentleman]

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Good point,

Spoiler

I didn't take them into account and that would render them pretty redundant, That's interesting. I wonder if that will be the content of a later dlc?

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Agreed, that would be a pretty disappointing outcome

 

[everyday math]

So two Hunter and Warlock over 270 and I think I'll do Titan today. Pretty happy where I'm sitting at for the raid.

 

[Hispanic! At the Disco]

My game just crashed and now its at the "installing destiny 2" screen and the bar is moving so slow I think its actually reinstalling...

 

[everyday math]

My game just crashed and now its at the "installing destiny 2" screen and the bar is moving so slow I think its actually reinstalling...

Wtf....first Iv heard of something like that.

 

[dcelw540]

Better campaign
Better post campaign content
Game isn't as greedy with Exotics and items that progress your character
Less monotonous grind
You can kinda just done what you want and still power up your character rather than being forced into the Strike playlist

Okay thanks for that. I guess destiny will never be my ideal game. The grind of the first is gone and reward but the gameplay I feel needs more variety which bums me out. Also does the story pick up? I just finished on titan (awful planet hate it) I'm so far finding it better but still dull and unexciting.