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Destiny 2 |OT| Here We Go Again

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3/4 in my fireteam have had no issues all night and we all hoped on at different times throughout the evening. A 4th has been trying all night. Finally gave up and just went to play something else online. Guess I got lucky.
 
I cannot believe I couldn't finish the campaign in an evening. Lots of content although some of the sidequests are glorified patrols from D1. But I do like all the dialogue and banter from them. Makes such a difference to enjoying them.
 
Could the lock out have something to do with other apps? Logged in to other consoles/phone? It seems to only be affecting certain people.
 
They have multiple (IMO better) things replacing them.

Agreed. I really like
Ikora's challenges.

All in all the PvE progression is just better thought out, since everything gives you tokens which can then be turned into high level engrams. I'm at ~225 light and I've only done the two strikes for the milestone.
 
The great thing is there's Reward Loops for each subset activities

Yes grinding and doing same activities will get tiring, but the Loot aspect is now more rewarding cause each feeds into the other

Earn tokens and destination materials, use for Rep Rank Up packages through Lost Sectors, PTE, HVT, Adventures Raid, Strikes, Crucible

Use Legendary Dupes as Legendary Shards for upgrades and Xur Currency

While all that's happening ever level up after 20 earn a free cosmetic Engram that you can earn more rewards


So grinding pays off, casual still can catch up cause the cycle isn't vicious at holding multiple currencies and materials


Hardcore get more out of it in the long run, but casuals don't feel "left behind"
 
All these people not activating the extra objectives in the public events breaks my heart ):

Worst is those for Glimmer Extraction PTE, such a simple, shoot that small Generator, destroy each on one on each of the 3 waves, walk away with chunk of Glimmer and good Loot

I forget about all the enemies, I burn all my resources to trigger that one over and over


Easiest so far is the Cabal Extraction, Destroy Red Ship, it does roughly 2 passbys, destroy it, get Golden Fatty to appear

Worst for me is the Wizard one, can't trigger the Heroic cause people kill the witch from the portal not realizing, we have to stay on the sacred ground not only once to drop the shield's of the subordinate wizards, but when killing all those thralls, the meter rising up, you concentrate fire on the 2 lamps above the ritual site, destroy those and the Real Huge Ass Knight with a Huge Ass Sword as Heroic Boss appears

Stupidest one that gets fucked is Devil Walker hands down
 
Just finished the campaign, level 20, 224 power, about 17 hours..... I'm exhausted. Bungie thank you, I haven't even experienced what made me fall in love with your game and I'm already elated.
 
I got to credits.

Destiny story
is still terrible

edit: i'll estimate it took me 13 hours in case anyone's wondering, started last level at level 18, light 170~, right before credits i noticed I was level 19
 
Spoilers for Leveling Up!

Work in Progress, my TheoryCrafting, anyone else can chime in, adjust my talking points
Here We Go!

First foremost,Enjoy the FUCKIBG STORY!
DONT WIRRY ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.

Do whatever activities, collect whatever, just finish campaign. Funny how I'm level 20 Power Level 221 on the 6tg of the 17th mission lol.

Cause I grinded away getting information for you all!
*Eagle Tear*

So your best option is to finish campaign.
Then hopefully along the way you dabbled in activities.

Now your main source of Loot is packages from the Vendor's that take in materials
Like Gunsmith with the Weapons and Armor, while each World has their own personal vendor with itbrequiringbyou tobtradecTokens in sets of 10' to fill up the bar


Sooner or later you will need to farm a little, to keep edging your Gear

It's [Bold]PARAMOUNT NOT TO TRADE IN MATERIALS FIRVREP RANK UPS UNTIL BLUE START BECOMINF SCARCE AT POWER LEVEL VALUE INCREASE!
Keep abusing the Blues until 260 PL Cap if possible.

Why? Cause by then you'll have a small stockpile to earn many Rep Rank Up packages to earn Legendary Loot for equipping and dismantling purposes

THERE'S A REASON IM FARMING UP TOKENS LIKE A MAD MAN.
More Packages, more Loot, more progression


Then once you surpass the 260 Hump, Crucible and Strikes take center stage until Raid with Rep packages being the back end backup.


So FINISH CAMPAIGN > EARN BLUES, Keep slotting better # gear, dismantle older blue gear
Save all purple Gear! > Then farm blues through PTE Heroics, repeat the same 3-4 Lost Sectors in a zone, the first area in EDZ is a FUCKING GOLDMINE!
2 High Value Targets, Chests Galore, 3 Lost Sectors, 1 PTE, 1 Enemy Forces move against each other Event
I can do a full cycle in 15 minutes, net me 10-15 Tokens, 4-6 Blue+ Gear, and As you have seen Glimmer Capped beyond belief.

Then spend those tokens once you are 260+, enjoy package Ranks Ups, loot in Legendary firm and be Raid Ready come Tuesday/Wednesday

You can get all 3 Guardians Raid Ready, just get 1 Guardian to be your Accelerant.
Just pump levels into him and feed old Legendary busted Gear into the newer Classes.

There You Go!

For new page!

Thanks for all the info and very jealous of your sniper rifle... Can you do a video on your farming route?
 
I wanna play Destiny 2 sooo bad! Damn Sony!
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Yo, I broke down and rented this for Xbox One from a Redbox kiosk not even a thousand feet from my apartment and it felt surreal to have a vending machine pop out a copy of Destiny 2 at 1am in a Walgreen's parking lot.

Hopping in for real when PC version comes out, but I had to get my fix of more Destiny so I can join in the discussion with you fellas.

Edit: Damn, been so long since I've used a physical disc that I forgot they still need to install onto the hard drive before play.
 
Restoring licenses worked for me after several failed login attempts. But playing in Asia right now so could be that servers here are more forgiving?

Sorry. :(
 
Restoring licenses worked for me after several failed login attempts. But playing in Asia right now so could be that servers here are more forgiving?

Sorry. :(

Friends can sign in. I guess rest mode saved them somehow. Lesson learned, I should use rest mode in the future.
 
Got it for a bit cheaper and happy with the buy, entertained enough to enjoy playing through, not obssesed enough because it has just enough familiarity that I can say "I'm stopping my play session here." And nothing will likely keep me extending my play time for the night
 
Survival is a really really fun mode, so many close matches tonight and it really gets intense when its down to 2v2 or 1v1. Love it.

They've gotten what they were going for in Competitive mode. 4v4 is the perfect squad size and the short matches to best of 9 allow for a lot of reworking of strategies, etc. It's really really good stuff, I love it.
 
Man, I like it a lot better than the first game. I think I actually may hold off on playing it until the HDR patch is released, though.
 
Weird stuff happening on Xbox. In a public game, but director map is not there, my gun is ether and there is massive lag in inventory. Never had a game take two minutes to open inventory before and then take another minute to show stats.
 
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