Dude from Game Informer played through the DLC. He's seen it first hand. Not sure how it can get more official than that unless Bungie has changed how it works in the time since he played it.
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Destiny |OT11| It goes up to 11!
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Dude from Game Informer played through the DLC. He's seen it first hand. Not sure how it can get more official than that unless Bungie has changed how it works in the time since he played it.
Many design decisions will be based around the middle of the total curve rather than the average participant in this thread.
true.
I'll join you guys and we can do the 28 if that's alright with you. With the Burn active a 26 can contribute without any issue.Speaking of which, anyone free at ~4 PST today for a LV 26 run on the weekly heroic? I'm hoping one more will be free to join Geneijin and Nat. If no one can make it I bet they can pull it off between them...
She's near level 26 now and getting excited about the prospect of raiding.
Except this isn't an MMO and doesn't have near the content of one. It shouldn't be nearly as grindy as an MMO at all. Not even close.
figadapaura
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I said I was sorry! Was that not enough? What must I do for you to completely forgive me?
Squall ASF
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I want to say it has a cluster upgrade though so I wonder if the solar impact is simply another perk for DoT on the ground. If it can hit with multiple clusters AND leave the DoT, it could be better than Ballerhorn. I'm not sure if this is the case, however.
Game Informer isn't some random magazine nobody has heard of. There's a reason they got the invite to go and test stuff. They're owned by fucking Gamestop, the company who no doubt sold the most copies of Destiny. They even mention Exotic shards, which were just introduced two days ago.
This is how it's going to work.
gutter_trash
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Bungie needs to spice up the factions now that everyone is vying to exceed level 30 to level 32
the factions are rendered useless after a high level unless your pray to land a weapon from leveling up high levels in the faction, which is by chance because you can as a non member and then get a legendary weapon drop that does not belong to your faction.
Time to put for sale the hidden faction weapons and time to put up some special armor to justify sticking with a faction after reaching a high Light level
the factions are rendered useless after a high level unless your pray to land a weapon from leveling up high levels in the faction, which is by chance because you can as a non member and then get a legendary weapon drop that does not belong to your faction.
Time to put for sale the hidden faction weapons and time to put up some special armor to justify sticking with a faction after reaching a high Light level
Orthogonal
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My kid and I have zero exotics between us, but we're close to the point of earning them. This is one of the few times that being this far behind the pack is going to pay off. Woo! I guess?
It does seem like a more fair approach would be for the exchange to be a straight upgrade. Strange coins and glimmer for the exotic in the same state you handed it over - just with the new upgrades grafted on. Resetting seems needlessly cruel.
Speaking of which, anyone free at ~4 PST today for a LV 26 run on the weekly heroic? I'm hoping one more will be free to join Geneijin and Nat. If no one can make it I bet they can pull it off between them...
She's near level 26 now and getting excited about the prospect of raiding.
I have a lvl26 alt that needs to run it but I would need to go earlier than that.
You're crazy.
It would be game breaking. Everyone would always have the best of everything and people would stop playing content much sooner. It has to be highly restrictive so that players carefully consider what they're giving up to get what they really want.
I wish a mothafucka would refuse my refund.
#dead
Looking forward to friend Gr1m's reaction.
Gjallarhorn, Ice Breaker, Hawkmoon, P&T, Thunderlord, TLW, Plan C.....
others were nearly there
They take so many bounties to level up. I don't think I'll bother with reset unless it becomes a major problem in PVE.
People getting prematurely upset about what game informer has said about the DLC that they played like half a month a go. Mainly dealing with converting your old good exotics into even better exotics so as to not make them useless with the new content, which many believed would have been the case.
It's not binary, they could have designed the upgrade system in myriad ways that didn't require us to reset the weapon and straight out grind again.
I'd love to see the factions have a bit more utility beyond "hey I'm that guy that sometimes gives you missions on Patrol and occasionally sends you a package with a Mote of Light."
figadapaura
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I think you can guess.
She's almost 26 - still a level 25 Hunter. Would a three level span to 28 be too difficult for the weekly? I've done it on story missions solo, but it can be rough. (This morning I did the daily story at level 28 when I'm 26, but it took a lot of patience.)
Actually, crap. She'll have to run it tomorrow, I forgot she's at the dentist today. Nevermind!
HawksWinStanley
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Bingo.
I'm fine with updating my existing exotic but starting all over again? It's like they're begging me to play something else? And I just got Mordor so...
The Lamonster
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Damn, Bungie. Two steps forward, one step back.
Really hope vanilla legendaries aren't left in the dust. Let us upgrade those to the current level cap as well!
Really hope vanilla legendaries aren't left in the dust. Let us upgrade those to the current level cap as well!
Aside from content, it pretty much functions like an MMO. It falls into so many tropes by end game that it pretty much is one. Treating it as such makes a lot of their decisions make sense.
iRAWRasaurus
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If anymore articles are release by gameinformer, we will hit OT12 before the dlc is release.
Modern MMOs have gotten a lot better at making any grind feel less punishing than this. Having to re-level your exotics is antiquated in this type of product.
*gasp* The Sword of Crota?! NOOOOOO!! Anything but that!
Because we will upgrade our stuff all at once right? Nope.
Because having a whole week to gather 7000 glimmer must be some hardcore farming right? Nope.
The Lamonster
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Or at least let us do business with him via the companion app.
EmmaWatsonButt
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So glad we will be able to upgrade all of our exotic guns/armors
Phew
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Loot lust, is a real thing and once you get one item you'll want another thing and the game has new items every few months and since you can only have one exotic equipped people still would look for legendaries. If that's too nutty allow every month a market for people to sell/buy/trade gear.
Squall ASF
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I just got my Titan to 26 last night, want to run him through the 28 Weekly? :3 He has VoC to take advantage of the burn though it's not fully upgraded yet.
Johan Liebert
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At this rate we'll break the Beckenstein limit.
panama chief
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As someone who has every exotic I own (which is every one but mythoclast) at 300....this sucks. Will new bounties up the experience point given? Will they turn all 2500 point bounties into 5000 point bounties? Cause as much as I love the grind, I don't love it when the purpose is to redo what I've done already. I hope they add an extra perk on top of that attack power.
Don't worry, they'll be "reducing the difficulty" on that mission real soon.
MrAnderson
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I disagree with this argument that its not an mmo. They have a 10 year plan, 5 games one every 2 years I believe. They will sell dlc and expansions. Characters should carry over into the future games or what's the point of having a level system? They were going to have a player based economy, and other mmo elements.
Destiny may not have much content now, but it lives and breathes as an mmo in my eyes.
New or upgrade exotics will be starting at 302 attack.
This seems partially upgraded; the 2 perks ("Kills with this weapon grant bonus ammo, directly to the magazine" and The last round in the magazine grants bonus damage") aren't grayed out, suggesting the weapon's been upgraded to that node.
GalacticToast
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I'm preparing for the worst. Weapon wise, I'll probably just upgrade the two exotics that are most useful for PVE, my Icebreaker and Ballerhorn. I think those are the only two exotics I have maxed out anyway.
Not too excited about having to re-upgrade my armor though.
Not too excited about having to re-upgrade my armor though.
figadapaura
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mhmm
Dhruv_hanom
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Jinjo
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I'm fine with upgrading exotics, but the fact that Xur only offers a select few each week to upgrade is bullshit. Not looking forward to another voidfang vestments situation where each week it's the same few exotics. Gjallarhorn is probably gonna be ages before it's up for upgrade.
Should have kept most of my doubles dammit. Not gonna level my spare gjallababies anymore, saving them for the upgrade.
Should have kept most of my doubles dammit. Not gonna level my spare gjallababies anymore, saving them for the upgrade.
figadapaura
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Flying Toaster
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Very good post and true on all parts.
Comparing Destiny which is a brand new franchise to say WoW or Eve or any other older MMO is bad on all fronts.
It has MMO elements that will be explored and built upon as the game ages and more content is released.
Darryl M R
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So as someone who only has 2 maxed out exotics (Bladedancer and Gunslinger helmet) this update is good for me? Or for my ice breaker do I still need to fully upgrade it before I can even upgrade it a second time? (That grind would be ridiculous)
Toejam2501
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Plus is looks pretty rad.
gutterboy44
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There has to be something incorrect in the article.
To max a vanilla exotic and then max it to DLC exotic it costs,
~400K XP
3 Exotic Shards (including the one that allows the upgrade to DLC cap)
24,200 Glimmer
114 Weapons Parts
64 Planetary Materials
Mind you, this is all post patch. This doesn't count the ascendant materials many of us already burned on our exotics. If you get a vanilla exotic post DLC, it will only cost you,
~200K XP
2 Exotic Shards
9,300 Glimmer
57 Weapon Parts
32 Planetary Materials
By not playing the game at all, you would be in a much better position come DLC upgrade time. Something has to be wrong. This is the most counter-intuitive, "fuck you to our core players" system I could think of. Play more, get penalized more! Wooo!
To max a vanilla exotic and then max it to DLC exotic it costs,
~400K XP
3 Exotic Shards (including the one that allows the upgrade to DLC cap)
24,200 Glimmer
114 Weapons Parts
64 Planetary Materials
Mind you, this is all post patch. This doesn't count the ascendant materials many of us already burned on our exotics. If you get a vanilla exotic post DLC, it will only cost you,
~200K XP
2 Exotic Shards
9,300 Glimmer
57 Weapon Parts
32 Planetary Materials
By not playing the game at all, you would be in a much better position come DLC upgrade time. Something has to be wrong. This is the most counter-intuitive, "fuck you to our core players" system I could think of. Play more, get penalized more! Wooo!
This. And I still have exotics I was working on between my three characters.
Yah, I can understand being upset to redo the grind with weapons you've already upgraded. I'm just saying them adding more grinds isn't surprising.
Flying Toaster
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Fig making the sacrifice. The Destiny Gaffer we need.
scarletham
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Doesn't matter if it's fully upgraded or not.
So says the unofficial GameInformer article.
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