Miggytronz
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Destiny 2 |OT| Here We Go Again
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Ovech-King
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edit: can only add to my own clan so;
I started a clan with a work colleague but we are 2 ... so if you want me to add you just send me a message
I started a clan with a work colleague but we are 2 ... so if you want me to add you just send me a message
cpp_is_king
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Ugh, completed every lost sector and regional chest on eart, not even a trophy :-/
Not really. Got the first Exotic Quest reward for the second planet and the Exotic Armor reward was 105 defense. I had damn greens on that were in the 130's or 140's.
Am I fucking myself by doing all of the Region Chests and Adventures that I can too early? If I'd waited until later would I be having a chance to get good high level Exotics and Legendaries out of them?
cpp_is_king
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If I remember correctly I should wait until 265 to turn in tokens to the regional vendors, right?
panama chief
Member
I meant damage. Given rewards (From story progress) have specific light levels.
Region chests are mainly for tokens with a chance of gear(no exotics)
toastyToast
Member
So is there a more substantial way to boost your light after finishing the story? I've been running around doing stuff and only going up incrementally by 3-4 in each slot and I'm now sitting at 212. I don't think I have the patience for this.
Talking about the planet tokens? They give up to max 265 so the guide I saw said to do it from 259 - 264.
Edit. https://m.imgur.com/a/h3uPL
Have you looked at the trophies? There's only 13.
260 Actually which is the softcap on Blue's. Legendaries will then drop up to 265 except if they drop pre-modded with a legendary mod (or you put one in yourself) Then they will drop at 270. After that it's Powerful Gear Engrams and Exotic quests which I'm still trying to figure out the order of doing/claiming out for maximum power gains.
Admiral Woofington
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No?
You can turn them in to get equipment up to level 265. Vendor items and regular legendary engram drops only go to 265. To go above that you need to get exotic engrams, and special legendary item/engram rewards from special and weekly missions.
What you want to wait until level 265 is to possibly unlock some of exotic weapons that require you to do objectives and turn it in later. These level up depending on your current power level.
For what it's worth, blue softcap is level 260 until you're above 270, at which point they go up and trail behind you like 6-7 levels.
Beat the game. The last two missions were pretty dang good.
So hear me out. Destiny 2 has a strong beginning and a strong closing but the middle was just...ok? Really it only boiled down to two missions or so per planet and outside of one setpiece (
) I feel like none of them were all that unique.
The sequel is better in regards to the campaign of the first but it still falls short of what I was expecting. Maybe my expectations were too big when previews first started coming out and journalists were talking about quest givers and more npc presence in missions. I suppose I was imagining something more akin to towns combined with the areas we have now.
Maybe you just can't do that type of game with Destiny's structure, I dunno.
I do feel like sticking around though which is a lot better than me just not even bothering to finish the last campaign mission of D1 (left shortly after the loot cave incident). So kudos Bungie.
Pretty neat though (ending spoiler) that the
. Although I kind of miss
, lol.
So hear me out. Destiny 2 has a strong beginning and a strong closing but the middle was just...ok? Really it only boiled down to two missions or so per planet and outside of one setpiece (
an escape in a vehicle where you can't fire back
The sequel is better in regards to the campaign of the first but it still falls short of what I was expecting. Maybe my expectations were too big when previews first started coming out and journalists were talking about quest givers and more npc presence in missions. I suppose I was imagining something more akin to towns combined with the areas we have now.
Maybe you just can't do that type of game with Destiny's structure, I dunno.
I do feel like sticking around though which is a lot better than me just not even bothering to finish the last campaign mission of D1 (left shortly after the loot cave incident). So kudos Bungie.
Pretty neat though (ending spoiler) that the
tower comes back and you're in a whole new area
the farm and now I can't go back
Congrats man.
Never played the first one. Loving it so far but the guides and YouTube are so confusing.
I beat campaign but then do I redeem engrams now or later? It's like no one can give a noob like me instructions on what to do. I've been hoarding everything. Don't even sell stuff just hoard everything. Engrams, weapons, shards it's like I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Halp?
I beat campaign but then do I redeem engrams now or later? It's like no one can give a noob like me instructions on what to do. I've been hoarding everything. Don't even sell stuff just hoard everything. Engrams, weapons, shards it's like I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Halp?
panama chief
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Thank you sir!
Yeah I'm around 270 and have Hardlight so should be useful, mbesnard on PSN if you're on PS4.
tearsintherain
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If you are worried about the nightfall I really wouldn't be, cleared it today 3 times with a http://destinylfg.net group and not much problems. We were trying to do it with 5 mins left for rat king quest but never quite got there, best we did was 4:30 left but we did die a lot in the last room and could never quite get the "10 second everyone super" strat down, I'm sure a few more times and we'd have it but I had to jet out for dinner. We were all light 270-275, I imagine as long as you are 260+ and have comms so you can communicate who is using what burn weapons it should be reasonably ok. I imagine the 300 level prestige one is gonna be super hard though.
Nothing really super special rewards wise, I did get 11 vanguard tokens every time I cleared it which was nice but the weekly quest for it gives the nice ++ light level rewards, so worth it at least for that.
Nothing really super special rewards wise, I did get 11 vanguard tokens every time I cleared it which was nice but the weekly quest for it gives the nice ++ light level rewards, so worth it at least for that.
Ah, ok. I must have missed it. Thanks!
My friend's following this guide and he's still in the 240s while I'm 264. Just play the game. Get tokens and rep. Turn in. Do patrols, challenges, blah blah blah get tokens, turn in, repeat.
perineumlick
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Anyone down for the Rat King nightfall? Need one more. PSN is perineumlick join up!
Yeah I followed the guide and got to 269. The RNG gods weren't kind to me.
You haven't been able to finish or another alt?
mhayze
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I played the PC beta and messed around with all the options. I have a feeling more options will be forthcoming in the final version, almost certainly. However, it's good enough in the beta for me to be satisfied if it launched in that exact state for PC launch. Decent key bindings, direct support for controllers (PS4 / XBO / X360), FOV slider, good mouse options (i.e. no acceleration or other BS).
The graphics options definitely warrant some time and effort, especially if you have a > 60hz monitor, or G-Sync. - here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2EcxHaDknk
Yeah turn them in, everything will be 265.
It's the damn worst. I have 3 Sweet Businesses. Give me something else game, please.
5 straight pairs of Lucky Pants before my Orpheus Rigs dropped. RNG is the worst mechanic.
This isn't entirely accurate. The preview function does work, but I did get items that weren't in the preview today.
Side note, that Nightfall is pissing me off.
benicillin
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Loving Destiny 2 but not feeling Crucible AT ALL. Like wow, it's an entirely different feeling multiplayer now. Way too slow for my taste.
Beat the NightFall first try and with over 5 minutes remaining. Too bad I didn't have the exotic quest active. None of us knew what we were doing, but somehow we did it. Now to make an alt, looks like 276 is where my lock will be staying till Tuesday.
Question: On an alt do you have to beat the campign to get access to everything again (all locations, strikes, etc.)?
Question: On an alt do you have to beat the campign to get access to everything again (all locations, strikes, etc.)?
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
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Hmmm, I love it.... but I also love halo!
For sure, this is constantly happening for me. Even doing the trick where you preview the exotic rewards until you get a cycle that has the exotic you want and still it gives me duplicates,
Wait, this is a thing?
I'm still playing it and having some fun but they do need to make some changes. I like getting the rewards from it.
Literally no reason to hang on to these anymore right? I haven't dismantled mine yet
Worse, the duplicate was of one where I was offered a choice of two from a vendor :/
dragonflys545
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All I've been playing is Crucible (up to Lvl 13)... Maybe I should do some campaign missions lol, are they going to be too easy for me now?
Twilight Gap
Member
Story spoilers:
anyone else bothered by how easy it was to find the Vanguard? Zavala sends out a rally transmission for Guardians, which makes sense because you simply happen upon it....but then you just randomly get Cayde's signal and then he just happens to know Ikora is on Io...and you find her literally in the first cutscene. Maybe the story isn't about finding them so much as it is going to them and bringing them back. But I was under the impression that the Vanguard leaving Earth and going about the solar system would be a big deal - big enough to warrant a degree of searching for the sake of the narrative, and not just for the sake of getting players to another planet. It's pretty much the exact same thing that happened in the first game, only this time the Vanguard is the reason you go to a new place instead of "well, it's time to fight a new enemy race!"
lifeexpectancy
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Gonna just repost my guide again. For tokens it reallt depends on how many you have stockpiled. I started dumping them at 250 and got over 260 before I ran out. More below.
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.
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....
repost...........
The only important milestone is the final one in the chain, the one with 'POWERFUL GEAR' as the reward.
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).
Wish I could be enjoying this with the rest of everyone. First Bungie game since Halo, when I starting playing their games, where I don't find it fun to play (for reasons I outlined in the beta thread and earlier). I keep trying and it's pretty clear that despite my love for the first game, that's not going to carry over here. I'm kind of gutted and deeply confused at the praise.
It's the opposite of Destiny 1, where they nailed the gameplay but the content needed work (which it got). Here the content is clearly a huge step up, but the game is just flat and un-engaging (poor audio, visual feedback on weapons and enemies, movement feels sluggish). I didn't have a plan B game lined up for the fall, so I'm not sure what else to look for. :\
It's the opposite of Destiny 1, where they nailed the gameplay but the content needed work (which it got). Here the content is clearly a huge step up, but the game is just flat and un-engaging (poor audio, visual feedback on weapons and enemies, movement feels sluggish). I didn't have a plan B game lined up for the fall, so I'm not sure what else to look for. :\
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