Because more base levels would likely indicate new abilites for the old subclasses.
Why would you not care about that?
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Destiny |OT24| Dances with Wolves
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Because more base levels would likely indicate new abilites for the old subclasses.
Why would you not care about that?
Runner..carry bonus? is there some sort of new CTF type game mode?!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Also Warlocks are unequivocally the best class in the game.
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Green poop worked. I'll add Carl tomorrow.Yo Lnkn, get my man Carl on the GLord list
Quoted for greenness. Greenness catches the eye.
ToVenusAndBack
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Anything on more vault space?
It's called Rift.
It's the closest thing to CTF we have seen for destiny so far.
PedroLumpy
Member
Does it really matter? You're just going to wear Dead Orbit for the shader/ship to drop anyway.
I do hope they actually do something about this. Be nice if the divorced your faction from the class armor you're wearing.
But you wrote the guides on light leveling! Also on exotics: check the last paragraph you cited me on
we are on the same page regarding exotics.Kor of Memory
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It's like Neutral Bomb from halo.
I just need to do Poe twice and finish this bounty for dreg's promise. After that, I'm putting all my time towards Witcher. Need to beat that soon since batman is just a few days away.woops, fixed it haha.
Not sure when I should do it though, power leveling through the story will take me 6 hours with some help, then getting him geared and leveling both subclasses is going to take... a long time.
I really want to catch up to my backlog, but if I'm leveling a new class.... I'll never get to play Witcher or Batman
brianjones
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lol i feel the same way
don't really care about any games other than destiny tbh
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
On the topic of base level increasing:
Here we can see an XP gain upon a kill filling up the bar (26 XP; 1:52 in the video)
Furthermore, here we can see a Level 45 Guardian where it is indicated that his base level is 30. Also, look at the text feed, the icon for electrocution kills is badass.
However, here's a level 49 Guardian at base level 20:
Weird. We may yet have some things to learn about Light levels with The Taken King. Seems conclusive, however, that base level will in fact increase to 30.
Fascinating.
It should be noted that you're gaining XP while still in light, if I'm reading that icon correctly. So it could be that if you're above 30, you'll still only increase top level through gear, BUT you'll simultaneously be increasing your base level, setting you up, ostensibly, for Destiny 2.
It would explain why all the monitor banks were at 20, since they might be outfitted with the swankest gear, but they would have never played any of the game and thus been given no XP to raise their base level.
AM I THE FIRST TO THIS THEORY, GAF?????
Wat. You aren't even able to max out your subclass abilities before you reach the current level cap, why would they add more?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I don't agree with his theory either, but keep in mind we'll need to now max out a new subclass.
Kor of Memory
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Depends on how well the grenades are going to work with it.
MagnetoWasRight
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Doing one more nightfall. Join on Macello.
Players under level 20 wouldn't be able to equip Legendaries anyways. And storing XP for Destiny 2 seems like a long shot. To be fair, we still gain XP right now even though we don't level up. We gain a Mote of Light for every 80k XP we gain on each character, there's just no level increase. It would be strange if that bar were there despite being at the level cap. It would make the HUD busier for something that's pretty useless.
I'm fairly convinced that one of two things is happening:
- This footage is from a raw testing environment where they're manipulating the levels manually to test stuff, or
- The way we gain Light levels will be fundamentally changed
That's totally how I rationalized the $80, haha.
Why would they increase the base level if not to add more?
What other purpose would it serve?
I'm going to guess that the level discrepancy probably has to do with people who have, and have not unlocked the 3rd subclass for their character.
I welcome new varieties of death that aren't Thorn or shotguns.
JohnOfMars
Banned
They're exotic?
Does it really matter? You're just going to wear Dead Orbit for the shader/ship to drop anyway.
hey, I'm not DeeJ.
I rep the Vanguard or Vault of Glass (Kabr, I will never forget you!)
The exotic class items also have XP buffs too, if that does it for you.
It's so crappy that the exotic class items are locked behind buying editions of the game that I already own (for $80 freakin' dollars).
The Titan one has the double-aquila from Gjallarhorn, for heaven's sake! WANT.
Uhm. Is that hammer part of the class item. ... ? Cause if so...
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
ooooh i like this one
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
So, if I already have the base game and both current DLCs, if I buy the collector's edition of The Taken King do I miss out on the sparrow, shader and emblem for the digital edition they are offering?
It'll still be mostly Thorn and shotguns though
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
what if you change cosmetically depending on your subclass!!!!!!!
SlenderBeans
Member
Thanks for the run GSPEC!
You still get it.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Yes, this works. Already exported a good 400 GB onto a 2 TB external, and the ol' PS4 HD is filling up again... I remember I had to reformat the external drive somehow so that PS4 would recognize it as a USB storage device, but then I could easily move stuff from the PS4-->external-->Windows laptop. I'm not terribly computer literate and forget exactly what I did but I'm sure you can figure it out if I managed too
I know... ;__;
Holy. The power of an exotic class item.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
literally just a pair of shoes and a cloud of dust like panel four of an old timey comic strip
xplicitone
Member
Things I've wanted that have been answered!
Things I want that we don't know yet
Overall, I'm stoked. I've been waiting for the 1st set for a long time.
Also, I'm weapon part broke like never before. Not sure how to fix that haha. I'll trade Strange Coins / Etheric Light for Weapon Parts!
- New Subclass
- New 6-man Raid
- PvP CTF Mode
- PvP Mayhem Mode
Things I want that we don't know yet
- New Subclass = new exotics = NEED MORE INVENTORY SPACE, both vault and character.
- New level cap and more gear to purchase (new exotics of each element?) = Glimmer Cap Increase
- Matchmaking needs to be improved. Smart Vote/kick system. More PvP maps = vote system also but that's less important than idlers.
- Need the ability to re-enter Trials when you've been dropped
- Need some kind of PoE checkpoint system
- Take out the idle - kick to orbit on private games such as PoE.
Overall, I'm stoked. I've been waiting for the 1st set for a long time.
Also, I'm weapon part broke like never before. Not sure how to fix that haha. I'll trade Strange Coins / Etheric Light for Weapon Parts!
illiniguy05
Member
Looking to run a gaggle of POEs before my lady gets home, who wants in?
Kor of Memory
Member
Probably another new exotic considering the very fancy reload animation:
Liquidsnake
Banned
How is 34 and 35 this week?
Actually I wanna come back to this image because it's the strangest IMO:
S7-vostuk_bng killed us. As expected, the top banner tells us who this was. He is identified as a Light level 49 Guardian, with base level 20. However, this very same Guardian is visible in the frame. And we can see that he's not visible as a level 49 but rather as a level 20. This is strange because right now, we appear to each other as level 34s in the Crucible despite being at base level 20.
Same thing happens with the Warlock:
Notice how he is seen as a level 30 (hovering over his head), despite his Light level being listed as 45 at the top.
This begs two different questions:
S7-vostuk_bng killed us. As expected, the top banner tells us who this was. He is identified as a Light level 49 Guardian, with base level 20. However, this very same Guardian is visible in the frame. And we can see that he's not visible as a level 49 but rather as a level 20. This is strange because right now, we appear to each other as level 34s in the Crucible despite being at base level 20.
Same thing happens with the Warlock:
Notice how he is seen as a level 30 (hovering over his head), despite his Light level being listed as 45 at the top.
This begs two different questions:
- How can a Guardian be level 49 while his base level is 20? (pic 1)
- Why are Guardians seeing each other at their base level instead of their Light level in the Crucible?
Probably another new exotic considering the very fancy reload animation:
I need this now. Exactly what I thought of when I saw it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Probably another new exotic considering the very fancy reload animation:
Yup another solar exotic shotgun
bungie where the hell is the exotic void shotgun
jesus christ bungie get your shit together
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brianjones
Member
Probably another new exotic considering the very fancy reload animation:
yessssss
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
what is super friendly mode?
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