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Destiny 2 |OT| Here We Go Again

catspit said:
When people are saying the wait to finish the milestones.. Does this go for the ones you get at the very start? (Like 2 pvp matches etc) or some other kind of milestones? (Someone was talking about weekly ones). Confused here
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I think you need to save the 4 that give “powerful rewards” because those can drop an exotic that scales past 265. It’s like the nightfall, crucible, flashpoint, and one other.
 
catspit said:
When people are saying the wait to finish the milestones.. Does this go for the ones you get at the very start? (Like 2 pvp matches etc) or some other kind of milestones? (Someone was talking about weekly ones). Confused here
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The milestones are a chain. Like the 2pvp matches is the START of that chain.. When you look at your milestones, it is fine to do them up until you reach the part where the REWARDS says "POWERFUL GEAR". That is the step that you dont want to turn in until 265+. You can DO it whenever, just dont turn it in until 265+. This is in my Power Level guide post I keep reposting.

Is there a good compiled guide somewhere for how to get your LL up on your first character? I found this guide and following suggestions in the thread, but I feel like I'm missing things (like when to turn/when not to turn tokens in).
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The post linked in the OP is wrong (not the ideal way). It tells you to use token rewards early on and start your final stuff at 260. Better to save tokens and use them to go from 250 to 265 fast and THEN do the final stuff. See my posts below. Reposting yet again....

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The only important milestone is the final one in the chain, the one with 'POWERFUL GEAR' as the reward.

lifeexpectancy said:
Got my first character to 284 nearly 285 in about 30 hours of play time. Here's my method:

Always decrypt legendary and exotic engrams right away. They dont increase in power level when you do so if you dont use them they become worthless for power level gain. This does NOT include the engrams that are REWARDS feom quest chains/milestones. Those scale, so save them for the end. Mainly referring to the guaranteed exotic from the main story for this.

DO NOT do milestones until you are over 265. They are the best way apart from Nightfall to get gear over 270.

1. Once you are level 20, get to around 250 Power from blue drops from public events and any engrams you get along the way. Stockpile all the faction rewards turnins during this time. Lost sectors are good too for blue farming up to 250, and quick/easy. Strikes are fine but not time efficient.

2. 250-265 - Use your faction rewards turnins one at a time (tokens on planets, weapons parts to Shaxx). Check the gear you get against your current gear and wear it if its higher. If your current gear DOES have a +5 mod on it and the new gear DOES NOT, infuse the new gear into the current gear to get the highest light possible. This should get you to 265-267 easily if you stockpiled faction rewards. Try to make sure your energy weapon and power weapon arent exotic due to next step. If you got any +5 purple weapon/armor mods while turning in faction rewards, put them on any gear slots that dont have one if possible. SEE MY OTHER INFO BELOW THIS LIGHT GUIDE FOR AN EXPLANATION ON MAXIMIZING +5 MODS FOR LIGHT GAIN.

3. Once 265-267, claim the exotic from beating the campaign, then do your first exotic primary weapon quest.That will bump you to 267-269 assuming you have a few 270 pieces already (265 gear with a +5 mod).


4. NOW do 1-2 milestones. Again, only turn in one at a time and check the rewards against your current gear, making sure to maximize based on any pieces that have the +5 mods. Make sure to join a clan for the clan milestone.

5. Do a 2nd exotic weapon quest after 1-2 milestones if you didnt get a higher light primary than the 1st exotic. SAVE your favorite exotic quest for last. There are four, one from each planet, but the final one requires the raid to finish. I waited to get my mida muti tool (my 3rd exotic quest) until I hit 283 light and it dropped at 293. That is what brought me to the upper half of 284 (and allows me to USE my trusty mida).

6. Finish off your milestones and claim them, again one at a time to maximize gains. This includes the nightfall, which drops high gear once a week per class in addition to being the end of a milestone path as well.

7. Do your 3rd and final (for now) exotic primary quest. Ideally you saved your favorite for last. See step 5. I saved my MIDA quest for this step.

Doing this I was able to get to 284, two points shy of 285, on my first character without creating alts to re-do nightfall and whatnot.
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Draper said:
I'm at 265 now, can someone explain to me the whole exotic infusing progression tip I keep reading about?

I don't fully understand what to do.
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INFUSION EXPLANATION TO MAXIMIZE GAINS-

First off it doesnt matter if its exotic or not. Any legendary can have the +5 mod too. Exotics are just guaranteed to have one.

Lets say I have two scout rifles. Both are 265 light. One has a +5 mod on it (purple mod on the item detail screen with a 5 on it). The one with the +5 mod is ACTUALLY only a 260 light scout rifle. The item's true light level is whatever it would be without the +5. So a 273 with a +5 is actually a 268.

So, if my scout rifle with NO +5 mod is 265, I can infuse that into the other 265 scout rifle that HAS the +5. That will make it a true 265 rifle, and the +5 mod will bump it up to 270.

This is why its so important to look at every legendary gear you get and keep the ones with +5 mods, and maximize which items you are infusing into others as you go along. Theoretically you could get every gear slot to 270 before ever touching milestones and exotic quests, although that is unlikely.

Once you get to 280 light you can create +5 mods at the weapon vendor.

ALSO make sure if you max out 99,999 glimmer, UNLOAD it all at the weapon vendor by buying the 'random' blue mods for 2500 each so that you stockpile them to create loads of +5 mods when you hit 280 light.


The only thing about exotics is they always have a +5 mod on them, so their true light level is always 5 below what you see on them. I learned that the hard way when I tried to infuse a exotic INTO a legendary and got zero increase from it.


What happens when your first character is done? Here is how to maximize gains on your 2nd/3rd chars assuming you make one of each class (milestones are once per week PER CLASS, so making 3 hunters means only one set of milestones per week).

lifeexpectancy said:
Also a note about 2nd characters:

You will get higher power level drops to go up faster than your first character. However once you hit 265, you WILL NOT receive rewards based on your "highest character's" power level. I know this because me titan is 284 and gets 275 power level faction rewards, yet when I turn in faction rewards on my warlock at 265 the faction rewards werent 275. Once I moved my three weapons over and bumped my warlock up over 270, my faction rewards packages increased.

Faction rewards max out at 9 power levels below your current max on that character. So if you are 275, you will get 266 faction rewards. That would seem useless, but sometimes you can use it to catch up a piece of gear lagging behind your current power level. And of course they are always good to dismantle for shards or to hope for a specific weapon/armor drop you want.

This being said, that shows it is highly important to transfer your highest power level weapons over to your alt once you hit level 20 and can use them. I am 277 on my 2nd char already amd havent touched a single milestone or exotic quest yet. I will do milestones first, then my exotic quests once my power level increases in order to get an even higher power level primary weapon. My 2nd toon should easily hit 290.
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Dodecagon said:
Anyone willing to help/guide me with the nightfall? 271 titan. I think I read a guide that said if everyone went in wielding arc you could kill the boss quick if you drop the towers and then everyone ulti
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Reposting since it was literally bottom of page for me

Mr.Monitor said:
Regarding the story, did anyone else really hope that
Ghaul would realize the error of his ways and redeem himself? I actually found myself sympathizing with him most of the campaign; I would be pissed too if the traveler arbitrarily chose a bunch of other species to help but just left mine in the dust. Given his past, his justification for his actions made a lot of sense. I was hoping he would end up turning on his former mentor and allying with the guardians in a genuine act of self sacrifice, and in the process come to understand what the speaker was telling him all along.
To me that would have been a really satisfying arc and payoff, but I get why things played out the way they did.
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That would have been sweet and if there's one weird constant in destiny's lore they could explore more it's the unfairness. Guardians vs humans etc...
 
Pinko Marx said:
Alright PL270. All milestones done. What are my options for going forward? A second character? Anything else?
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If you did all milestones, the nightfall, and the three exotic weapon quests then youre done..

Also a note aboit 2nd characters:

You will get higher power level drops to go up faster than your first character. However once you hit 265, you WILL NOT receive rewards based on your "highest character's" power level. I know this because me titan is 284 and gets 275 power level faction rewards, yet when I turn in faction rewards on my warlock at 265 the faction rewards werent 275. Once I moved my three weapons over and bumped my warlock up over 270, my faction rewards packages increased.

Faction rewards max out at 9 power levels below your current max on that character. So if you are 275, you will get 266 faction rewards. That would seem useless, but sometimes you can use it to catch up a piece of gear lagging behind your current power level. And of course they are always good to dismantle for shards or to hope for a specific weapon/armor drop you want.

This being said, that shows it is highly important to transfer your highest power level weapons over to your alt once you hit level 20 and can use them. I am 277 on my 2nd char already amd havent touched a single milestone or exotic quest yet. I will do milestones first, then my exotic quests once my power level increases in order to get an even higher power level primary weapon. My 2nd toon should easily hit 290.
 
Got 280, finished the NF but with 2.5 or 3 mins remaining.

Got fucked on the tank section, and one of my friends dying within seconds of popping super at the boss. So we only managed to take off half or so at the start.
 
What level is infusing unlocked at? Stuck in a super long grind just trying to get to that magic 265 mark and grab my exotic and wanted to speed it up with infusing but no luck at 250 :/
 
UpDownLeftRight said:
What level is infusing unlocked at? Stuck in a super long grind just trying to get to that magic 265 mark and grab my exotic and wanted to speed it up with infusing but no luck at 250 :/
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Infusing is unlocked as soon as you get legendaries IIRC. I was infusing through the 250s/260s for sure. I dunno if it is tied to story progression though. You have to have legendary shards from breaking down other legendaries/exotics for it, though.
 
They sure make it easy to buy things with legendary shards, huh? Accidentally purchased a second Drang from Tyra Kahn, now just purchased a second Kill Tracker ghost from Shaxx like a dumb-dumb - for 10 legendary shards each. 20 legendary down the drain (well, 17 after getting 3 back for dismantled the second Drang). They're easy enough to come by, but yeah, crap.
 
lifeexpectancy said:
Infusing is unlocked as soon as you get legendaries IIRC. I was infusing through the 250s/260s for sure. I dunno if it is tied to story progression though. You have to have legendary shards from breaking down other legendaries/exotics for it, though.
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What classes have you made so far?
 
Anybody else notice Titan seems to be the place to grind heroic events? They're more tightly grouped together and it's really easy to get the heroic conditions met with the weapon trade event. In EDZ I keep getting people who don't know how to trigger heroic and just complete the event as fast as possible.
 
Do adventures scale? Like if I'm 240 and it says 'suggested power 100' and shows a green item a suggested reward, should I bother doing it?
 
Finally got my Titan to 270. Followed some of the guides and didn't have any luck turning in my milestones. Got stuck at 269 for the longest. I only have the NF left to do.

Also I got a weapon ornament called Jade countenance for the fighting lion. Looks pretty dope but I'm guessing it's a one time use?

Also doing call to arm reassured my hate for the changes Bungie did to the crucible. Going after streamers and esports ruined it.
 
Anyone know where I can buy a digital code of this for Xbox One? Want to grab a copy for my buddy. Not sure if the Microsoft store links it to your Xbox account or what.
 
Olengie said:
270 (Solar Titan Solar/Void), 272 (me, Void Warlock Arc/Void), 277 (Arc Hunter - Arc/Void). One of us had the Coil Rocket Launcher if that counts. Once we got the hang of it, we've just been doing Nightfall instead of Strikes.



I would. But Im done for the day. Been playing for a while. lol.
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What can you get from repeated nightfalls?
 
I feel like they need to buff strikes.

It seems like if you're going for exotics and legendaries, farming heroic public events is faster and more efficient.

I get that you get tokens to give Zavala but still...
 
lifeexpectancy said:
Infusing is unlocked as soon as you get legendaries IIRC. I was infusing through the 250s/260s for sure. I dunno if it is tied to story progression though. You have to have legendary shards from breaking down other legendaries/exotics for it, though.
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I wonder if it's gating me due to not having grabbed that exotic at the very end then. If beaten the story but left that item specifically. Guess I'll have to stick to the slow grind.
 
I think I'm totally playing this wrong, haha. I'm playing Destiny 2 like I would most open World games - do all of the shit I can in one specific area before moving on - Lost Sectors/Region Chests/Adventures/Public Events if they cross my path, then I continue on with the Campaign. And I am Way too high for the recommended Power Level of stuff. On the way to the 3rd planet now and am Level 15, LL 153. Is my patient playing fucking me up GAF?
 
Finished the campaign. Thought it was pretty meh overall. It was improved in storytelling, but there weren't any memorable encounters or bosses. Cabal are really boring to fight
 
Jetman said:
I think I'm totally playing this wrong, haha. I'm playing Destiny 2 like I would most open World games - do all of the shit I can in one specific area before moving on - Lost Sectors/Region Chests/Adventures/Public Events if they cross my path, then I continue on with the Campaign. And I am Way too high for the recommended Power Level of stuff. On the way to the 3rd planet now and am Level 15, LL 153. Is my patient playing fucking me up GAF?
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It all scales if I understand correctly.
 
Guys I'm currently sitting at 269 PL and I still haven't claimed any Powerful gear rewards (except one) And also didn't do any of the Exotic quests. So should I first claim all those Powerful Gear engrams and then do the exotic quests or vice versa?

I think I've heard that it'd be more benefitial to do it Powerful gear first and then Exo quests.
Just trying to squeeze out as much PL as I can here lol. Thanks for any help.
 
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