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E92 M3

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OMG got a new Shader called Bloodpact and it's one I wanted lol.

Where from?

Yo have I mentioned how much I hate this game. I've dedicated a fucking week of my life to this shit, every moment I can spare, and because of the RNG being so random I'm now officially behind a dude who's played half as much as I have.

I know those feels - eventually the RNG will give you candy. I know it.

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Also, guys please if you're doing raid tonight EST on Xbox let me know. I'd love to try.
 

LtOrange

Member
Do the the faction vendors get different inventory once you get past Rank 2? I am leveling New Monarchy and want to know the point of leveling the faction once I can get the legendary items they offer.
 

Jito

Banned
Played a ton of this last night up to level 10. Really enjoying the game so far but holy shit is the loading ridiculous! Spent forever on load screens all night, going to the tower, going to orbit, going through a wormhole to get to the moon?! Hope they can fix this, it's insane.
 
Played a ton of this last night up to level 10. Really enjoying the game so far but holy shit is the loading ridiculous! Spent forever on load screens all night, going to the tower, going to orbit, going through a wormhole to get to the moon?! Hope they can fix this, it's insane.

It's worth noting that while yes, the loading screens are long, once you're on a planet it's pretty seamless.
 
Gathering a group together for a raid is a mess. What was Bungie even thinking? Clans don't mean anything in regards to this. The only thing that matters is does a person have enough players on their friends list to make it happen.

At least give us t he tools to coordinate raids via the clan system!
 

Gritesh

Member
Yeah I've been straight up farming for 20 hours or so and have yet to even see a legendary engram.

Kinda getting burned out on this, annoying to see people with full legendary gear and I cant even get one piece..
 

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned
Where from?

Tiger Strike on Venus. Level 24 Hard. Since I was trying to download the Forza Horizon 2 demo I didn't get many kills yet I got the best rewards compared to the other guys.

oirick.jpg


Ahhhhhhhh. So you are trying to stack as much light as possible through armor and such?

The armour will also have options to upgrade. When you do the Light ups a little so doing this across all 4 pieces of armour should be able to push your light level to the next number.
 
Has no one at Bungie played D3 and then the resulting update/expansion due to the backlash, Reaper of Souls? This is deja vu from those threads.

Super obvious thing in loot driven games 101 - You have to make higher difficulties and challenges consistently reward better loot than lower level or easier ones. How have they not figured this shit out? You always should have some true RNG where you can just get stupid lucky, legendary drops from opening a chest, killing a random mob, etc. But if you are going to be doing raids and heroic level shit, it needs to reward better.

It was pretty obvious the loot system was flawed based on all the posts here and elsewhere, but it became readily apparent, when yesterday I did my first Rocket Yards chest farming runs, and I had more fun with the game than any of the missions. Finally getting some glimmer to buy fun stuff like ships and emblems, greens in all my slots while I am level 17! That is ridic, just getting decent uncommons in all your slots, 3 levels from the level cap. So fucking dumb.

Bungie, everyone is obsessed with farming because your mission/raid/strike rewards are shit.
 

Ken

Member
Ahhhhhhhh. So you are trying to stack as much light as possible through armor and such?

Yeah just armor though. Fully upgraded level 20 blues caps you at level 24 I think. To get past that you'll need vendor legendaries or be blessed by RNG.

Tiger Strike on Venus. Level 24 Hard. Since I was trying to download the Forza Horizon 2 demo I didn't get many kills yet I got the best rewards compared to the other guys.

Titans look so cool. I should have just trusted my inner child and rolled Titan.
 
Yeah I've been straight up farming for 20 hours or so and have yet to even see a legendary engram.

Kinda getting burned out on this, annoying to see people with full legendary gear and I cant even get one piece..
What level are you?

Edit: at below, the credits are in the galaxy map corner.
 
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Deleted member 752119

Unconfirmed Member
Finished the story for the first time with my friend last night. Definitely underwhelming story overall, didn't even feel like a last mission, no credits or trophy etc.

Oh well, we're still loving the game and both commented in how damn addictive it is despite the lacking story and respective missions. The shooting and powers are satisfying to use, the worlds and art are gorgeous and we both get addicted to loot games so we're having a blast.

I'm looking forward to doing the daily and weekly stuff now that I'm at 20, grinding vanguard marks and trying more Crucible--though I suck balls at it. At least there Re bounties for just completing five rounds etc. :)

I also haven't done the Venus or Mars strikes yet, and want to replay most of the Venus and Mars story missions as I did several of them on Vita while watching football this weekend. Also haven't done much patrolling on Venus or Mars, and I don't think I found all five chests on the moon yet.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Capped on marks and yeah I'm earning rep I suppose. I mean, I figured that RNG wouldn't be kind to me so the option was either cap marks and stop playing till next week or cap marks and play anyways hoping for a nice upgrade before having to rely on vendor legendaries but it didn't pan out.
wait

You have 200 marks already? Both Vanguard and Crucible/Faction? How did you do that- and wait, how did you do that without hitting Rank 2 in either along the way? o_O
 

Tovarisc

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Gathering a group together for a raid is a mess. What was Bungie even thinking? Clans don't mean anything in regards to this. The only thing that matters is does a person have enough players on their friends list to make it happen.

At least give us t he tools to coordinate raids via the clan system!

Just before launch they commented on this on Twitter. It was pretty much; "We have given you tools to organize, it's Bungie.net forums".
 
Huh? I thought the mats like Spinmetal, Helium Filaments, and Spirit Bloom were just collectibles that were only used to exchange when you get 50 of each. I have never seen them used for weapons. All my other materials I keep for upgrades. You get a decent chunk of XP with each 50/50 exchange, not to mention rep, glimmer, and marks.

Legendary / Exotic gear leveling requires materials as well.
 

E92 M3

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Gathering a group together for a raid is a mess. What was Bungie even thinking? Clans don't mean anything in regards to this. The only thing that matters is does a person have enough players on their friends list to make it happen.

At least give us t he tools to coordinate raids via the clan system!

Tell me about it. Especially for someone introverted like me - interacting with people is draining and GAF is the few places where I'm pretty chill. It's still very difficult to find people to do a raid at exact time you're on with the console and also have the time commitment. I don't understand what Bungie were thinking. They could've even put in a disclaimer that MM wouldn't be as efficient, but at least have it.

Tiger Strike on Venus. Level 24 Hard. Since I was trying to download the Forza Horizon 2 demo I didn't get many kills yet I got the best rewards compared to the other guys.

oirick.jpg




The armour will also have options to upgrade. When you do the Light ups a little so doing this across all 4 pieces of armour should be able to push your light level to the next number.

Awesome - can't wait to get that one. Love the colors.
 
wait

You have 200 marks already? Both Vanguard and Crucible/Faction? How did you do that- and wait, how did you do that without hitting Rank 2 in either along the way? o_O

it's kind of easy, you get more marks for high difficulty strikes, you also get marks for turning in excess materials - reaching the mark limit is easy, the ranking takes more effort.
 

darkwing

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Gathering a group together for a raid is a mess. What was Bungie even thinking? Clans don't mean anything in regards to this. The only thing that matters is does a person have enough players on their friends list to make it happen.

At least give us t he tools to coordinate raids via the clan system!

Clans? What is this concept
 

X-Frame

Member
Do the the faction vendors get different inventory once you get past Rank 2? I am leveling New Monarchy and want to know the point of leveling the faction once I can get the legendary items they offer.

Their inventory is static, for now at least. Once you get to Rank 2 or 3 if you want their weapons, you should either remove their class item or buy another faction's class item. Eventually you probably want to be able to purchase gear from any and all the vendors this way.

I'm 125 rep away from Rank 3 with New Monarchy, then I plan on removing their item and regaining rep with the Vanguard and Crucible vendors.
 

op_ivy

Fallen Xbot (cannot continue gaining levels in this class)
How do you level up the Cryptic? I am almost a 21 and am level 2...

decoding engrams. lots of them. i'm not sure the farming methods are great at providing legendary equipment but they are good for leveling, glimmer, and getting a shit ton of crap engrams for the cryptarch
 

Loomba

Member
is it the one with
the guy who has a heavy machine gun and stands in one corner of the room, and then every few minutes he'll slowly walk to the other side of the room?

yea, that was an anti-climatic fight. at least let us destroy the floor and knock him into lava or wield a giant rocket launcher to hit him with.

Me and a friend got to him with a random on the vanguard playlist, then the random decides he didn't want to play anymore and just stood there. Took us ages to kill him.

Then at the end the random got 2 pieces of the playstation exclusive gear, while me and my friend got jack shit.

I was seething.
 

Ken

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Tell me about it. Especially for someone introverted like me - interacting with people is draining and GAF is the few places where I'm pretty chill. It's still very difficult to find people to do a raid at exact time you're on with the console and also have the time commitment. I don't understand what Bungie were thinking. They could've even put in a disclaimer that MM wouldn't be as efficient, but at least have it.

If they added actual social facilities common to MMOs then it'd be fine even without matchmaking. Other than that, everything you listed are pretty common staples of raiding and this game won't change that.
 

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned
How do you level up the Cryptic? I am almost a 21 and am level 2...

Engram items, everything time they are decrypted the level moves slightly. It ups every 3000.

If you have loads of cash buy loads of engram items then discard them. It moves you to the next level pretty quick but you need lots of Glimmer.
 
What level are you?

Edit: at below, the credits are in the galaxy map corner.

I'm not the OP, but I've been farming for about 10 hours, and I don't have a single piece of Legendary gear. I'm debating on three strategies:
1. Start farming for marks instead of engrams to buy what I need. (basically starting over)
2. Make a Titan since I already have two Legendary pieces for this character that doesn't exist yet. (basically starting over)
3. Quit until they change something. Drops can still be random, but higher level Activities and Cryptarch should be weighted with better ratios.

BTW...Level 24 for the last four days.
 

SledgeGBay

Neo Member
Not surprising - people get shit done quickly these days. Sucks all the cool loot will be spoiled soon :(

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With that said, anyone on Xbox One want to attempt the raid around 7PM EST. I will play all night if we have to.

Me and my friend are both willing to give it a go. Gunslinger hunter and Defender titan both level 26.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Also worth noting that even during loading, you cal still access your menu.
*nod* Continuously get into the habit of, after you finish something, immediately choose your next destination. Handle your inventory and check immediate goals on the way. all the loading sucks, but you can get into a decent rhythm
You mean week 1 or week 2 (this new week)?
I mean it just reset 5 hours ago or so, so you can't be at cap yet, right?
 
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