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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.

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CLBridges

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I see posts about people not having any legendary items. I know this game is a grind but, once you grind your Vanguard rank up to level 2 you should be able to use your vanguard points to buy something. Then, join either Future War Cult, Dead Orbit or New Monarchy and grind that up to 2 as well-then use crucible points for another legendary. Maybe some are saving up for the weapon first I guess, but that's what I'm doing currently.

I think I'm gonna have to slow down on my playtime, been going entirely too much on one game and don't wanna burn out. I tried the level 28 weekly yesterday with someone from my friend's list and you def. need three people. Then tried the Nightfall and got wrecked on first wave lol. If anyone is putting together a team for those or the Raid tomorrow, add me...PSN: GhostFaceDon. I'm gonna go grab my laptop later today so I can set my clan to GAF.
 
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CrimsonCommie said:
The maps and everything don't bother me that much except for that huge Mars map with the pikes. I meant all the one shot kills. I'm emptying a clip in a guys head he just runs up and stand me, or rubs up and shoots me with a shotgun, or one shots me with a purple grenade. It doesn't help that my shotgun and rocket launcher only work on at best every 1/4 direct hits.
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Yes, the only map I hate. Takes so long to finish a match, and sometimes times runs out.

Homeboyd said:
lol it's been mentioned many times in this thread... the moon farm w/ black wax idol Shrine of Oryx. Do level 12.

This area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jjfCCH6jM&feature=youtu.be

I got about 10k after 2 runs (10 min ea) with the wax idol drops.
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Thank you.
 
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Orthogonal

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Is it just me or are the Story Missions a ghost town. I haven't seen a random player in the last 6 or 7 missions I've played. I realize a large chunk of the player base is at endgame content since I am slow going here, but I would expect to see at least a few others. I know folks have proposed Bungie add public matchmaking for Story Missions, and I agree, but it's almost as if there is no one to do it with regardless.
 
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Steel said:
Sunsinger. Honestly, Titan's bubble shield is only good in pvp for turning capture points into a killzone, in pve the use is minimal. Sunsinger turns your guy into a walking tank and buffs everyone around you.
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I slightly disagree... Titans bubble comes in handy during nightfall strike. Sun singer is very good. But I feel much safer knowing I have a Titan with a bubble that can res.
 
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IAmRandom31

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BreezyLimbo said:
True dat. Might as well post it in the thread. Put it in spoilers if you have to!

Unless it's an exploit.
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Nah it is the same concept as that one YouTube video. But just a much smaller area with a death cliff near and 4 major enemies all together. Simple concept. 3 regular enemies, 4 majors, kill em all in 40 seconds or so, die and repeat.

Made. 8k pure glimmer and 3200 in codex items in 3 idol uses so 30 minutes
 
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Orthogonal said:
Is it just me or are the Story Missions a ghost town. I haven't seen a random player in the last 6 or 7 missions I've played. I realize a large chunk of the player base is at endgame content since I am slow going here, but I would expect to see at least a few others. I know folks have proposed Bungie add public matchmaking for Story Missions, and I agree, but it's almost as if there is no one to do it with regardless.
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Even if you did see people, they probably wouldn't group with you.

The social tools in this game just aren't quite up to par yet.
 
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CrovaxPSO said:
The game after 20 has been significantly less enjoyable for me than it was beforehand. Getting to 24 was kind of a pain, since a lot of the blue drops I got were duplicate armor slots or weapons, but it took about two days of solid playing to reach 24. I've barely reached 25 since then, thanks to the single legendary item I bought from faction reputation. I'll be able to get one more legendary today from Vanguard reputation, which hopefully will be enough to push me to 26 after some upgrades.

The raid is the thing I was most excited to try out in this game, but it seems unlikely now that I'll get to do it when it opens thanks to the terrible drop rates of legendary items. I have over 45 hours played, spent several hours every day playing crucible, ran dozens of strikes at 24, with not a single legendary drop to show for it. My Cryptarch is almost rank 9, I've given him probably 20 legendary engrams by now, again without a single legendary item received from them.

Meanwhile people with 1/5 the number of kills in a strike or the bottom of the PVP scoreboard get legendary items left and right it seems. I'm going to keep playing until the raid opens in the hope that my luck will change and I'll get a drop that gets me to 26 if the second reputation item doesn't. But if the raid opens and I'm still stuck at 25, I might be done with the game until they do something about the drop rates. Since I can't even earn marks anymore this week, it's just not worth my time to play with nothing to show for it.
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I feel the same way. Lvl 24 on my titan with dozens and dozens of hours in both PVE AND PVP(always in the the top 2) and I have jack shit really for gear. Grinding the nexus is boring as fuck. I think I'm done for a whole. There just isn't enough engaging content to keep my interest now. I can say for 100% certainty that I'll never get a Bungie game day 1 anymore.
 
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I was never this good in halo. I'm under the assumption that the include of stats and the confusion for people who don't normal deal with them and effectively managing abilities is factoring into why I'm doing way better than I ever did in halo.

I was mainly the sniping boy in that game though, which leads me to ask, why is this game so unfriendly to snipers? Most of the maps make it easy to hunt down the snipers and difficult for them to relocate after a kill. There's also the fact that you respawn almost immediately to track snipers down. Most of them can only resort to babying out a super move when caught.
 
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X-Frame

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I don't understand why people are falling off cliffs for glimmer when you can just Patrol on Earth, walk 50 feet to the bunker with the 3 Hive Ultra's, kill them for 25 glimmer each in 15 seconds and they drop codex's often, and to reset their spawn just walk out the room 20 feet, not even going back upstairs, and turn around they respawn.

I use this for the Kill 10 Hive Majors & Ultras bounty.

There are also chests down there and some Fallen. What is the difference compared to this moon farm?
 
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N° 2048

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MrWakes said:
So I joined up with the Future War's, was that a good idea? Or should I remain untethered to a group until I get my Vanguard and Crucible rank up higher?
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Someone here said it might be better to get to Vanguard Rank 2 so you can better things then start the Faction and rank that up.

I'm probably going to do that...remove the FWC cloak and grind for a higher Vanguard rank. Then back to FWC.
 
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Union Carbine said:
It'll be okay if you can't play the raid the second it comes out.

It will be okay.


It will be okay.
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There was a poster earlier who sounded like he was going to jump off a cliff if he wasn't level 26 by the time the poster came out. The combining of console FPS players with MMO style gameplay is a real eye opener in some ways.
 
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HaleStorm said:
I am wondering if they have a whole lot more planned for the story that has yet to be released.

We have areas that are "inaccessible" in game that when you glitch to are populated with enemies and seem fairly finished.

You also have
The queen telling you that she will be caling on you for special tasks
. That is a cutscene in a game that only had like 5 that I can remember, so I am really hoping it is important, especially when you look at ominous quotes like when
the stranger tells you that you should always take a side, even if it is the wrong side. There is also that fact that the Queen of the reef is definitely not clearly with the light or the dark.

On top of all that on the bungie web site
there is a special Queen of the reef event coming up. Bungie also said that there would be big new Community events coming that we have not seen. maybe they are related, maybe not.
.

Additionally when you go to
the reef area, it apears as though that map has a spot for something to select that you never get too. the only thing that you see is one icon off to the side that you only select twice. that is a whole lot of work for just two cutscenes

Here is hoping that bungie has story elements that have been held back, not for an expansion, but because they did not want the community blowing through them all in the first week. There are signs that it is possible that there is more to come, though none of them are definite.
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Take a look at the event list
http://db.destinytracker.com/activities

There is allot of stuff on there that yet needs to come out.
 
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Homeboyd

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Found the post from earlier re: glimmer/cryptarch farming. Yes it works. Also, this video is much better than the one I linked. Has a detailed description of exactly what to do:

Chief1690 said:
Here's a decent legendary farming method as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MM6wQNNPsM

Gets you 25000 glimmer in about an hour. You constantly buy the engrams from the Cryptarch. Each run gets you about half way on your cryptarch level. That's provided you also collect the codexes that the enemies drop so you can trade them in for more glimmer to continue purchasing engrams. Every time you level up your cryptarch you get a legendary engram from the post master.
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