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

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darkwing

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Can I ask an honest question regarding the Level 20 cap.

Once I hit the cap, I undestand I have to keep farming armour to get "Light". The more Light I have on my equipped armour, the more my level will increase beyond the 20th level.

So my question is - is this random? Does the game purposely monitor how many games, hours or my performance I've played and give me loot with light? Or is it random?

So basically my question is - from Levels 1 to 20, I'll get constant stream of experience to level up. After that......is it just luck as to which armour I'll get to get Light?

the answer is all RNG

RNG
 

Juraash

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Apart from The Speaker can the Motes of Life be spent anywhere else? Got 11 sitting in my vault. Already bought the Blessing of the Unmade emblem.

The weekend vendor had an exotic chest engram you could buy for...23 of them I believe. All his other items were bought with coins, but that one took motes iirc.
 

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned
God damn everyone and their Legend and Exotic gear.

The weekend vendor had an exotic chest engram you could buy for...23 of them I believe. All his other items were bought with coins, but that one took motes iirc.

Ok, should be able to hit 23 by weekend.
 

Victrix

*beard*
Can I ask an honest question regarding the Level 20 cap.

Once I hit the cap, I undestand I have to keep farming armour to get "Light". The more Light I have on my equipped armour, the more my level will increase beyond the 20th level.

So my question is - is this random? Does the game purposely monitor how many games, hours or my performance I've played and give me loot with light? Or is it random?

So basically my question is - from Levels 1 to 20, I'll get constant stream of experience to level up. After that......is it just luck as to which armour I'll get to get Light?

Loot is random, marks and faction are not, nor are strange coins or motes of light.

You can gear up in Exotics and Legendaries guaranteed from the weekly currencies and reputations, any loot drops/strike/pvp rewards are a bonus on top of that.

edit: Also Strike rewards are fixed level, once you can do the 24 strikes you'll get level 20 blues which will take you to Light level 24. One week of capped pvp/pve marks will get you three legendary armor pieces, or two if you want a helmet, that'll take you to 25/26. Add any Exotic piece from Xur and you'll be 26 guaranteed. You also get guaranteed legendary weapons from the factional rep rewards at rank 3, so you'll have one or more of those as well.
 

jeffc919

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Can I ask an honest question regarding the Level 20 cap.

Once I hit the cap, I undestand I have to keep farming armour to get "Light". The more Light I have on my equipped armour, the more my level will increase beyond the 20th level.

So my question is - is this random? Does the game purposely monitor how many games, hours or my performance I've played and give me loot with light? Or is it random?

So basically my question is - from Levels 1 to 20, I'll get constant stream of experience to level up. After that......is it just luck as to which armour I'll get to get Light?

Even if you are extremely unlucky and never get any good drops, you'll eventually be able to just buy high end gear if you play the game enough.
 
Is it weird that, I kind of enjoyed the story and thought it was enough for now?

/Ishouldgo

as far as a "story" goes ehh there really isn't one. Its just one big side quest.

its pretty much a primer to the world to get thing started. I really enjoy the lore behind everything though and think it could get really interesting.
 
Is it weird that, I kind of enjoyed the story and thought it was enough for now?

/Ishouldgo

Eventually the herd mentality begins to rule and everyone just piles onto the same opinions as everyone else.

The actual story was actually really intruiging, very mysterious, very high fantasy in the Sci Fi realm, etc. It was the writing that hurt it throughout and the lack of heavy cinematics and character interactions.

We'll see what the Expansions and Destiny 2 and such do about that situation.

I did not mind the story and have read pretty much every Grimoire card. The lore is pretty great to read about. And paying attention to the story, man .. can't wait for this War.

as far as a "story" goes ehh there really isn't one.

its pretty much a primer to the world to get thing started. I really enjoy the lore behind everything though and think it could get really interesting.

Yeah, there is a story actually. You spend 8-10 hours going through it.
 

Klyka

Banned
Can I ask an honest question regarding the Level 20 cap.

Once I hit the cap, I undestand I have to keep farming armour to get "Light". The more Light I have on my equipped armour, the more my level will increase beyond the 20th level.

So my question is - is this random? Does the game purposely monitor how many games, hours or my performance I've played and give me loot with light? Or is it random?

So basically my question is - from Levels 1 to 20, I'll get constant stream of experience to level up. After that......is it just luck as to which armour I'll get to get Light?

It is luck based. because of this, here is a tip from me:

Do not become one of the half broken farmers who spend hours in one spot farming for the chance of loot and burn themselves out. Instead, do your bounties for vanguard rep/crucible rep and get yourself vanguard/crucible marks, then buy your legendaries from there. You will DEFINITELY get blue items with light on them by just playing normally. If yu have 1 or 2 legendary items from vanguard/crucible + the random blues with light you will find, you should easily be lvl 24 and can do stuff like the weekly heroic strikes or the higher playlists. then just keep playing and get some more marks a week later and buy more legendaries to switch your blues out.

there is NO NEED TO RUSH tm
 

X-Frame

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Ready to raid now.

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Just got my helm and boots this morning.

Spec for Defender subclass. Focusing on getting ward up quickly for buffs and shield.

I love the Helmet. I'll be picking that up this week. Is it the Armada Type 2?
 
Agreed! I didn't like the Vanguard stuff, and I didn't want to do a whole lot of Crucible, so I ruled out leveling the rep on those two. I then proceeded to pick Dead Orbit thinking they didn't need a specific mark. Honestly, I thought they took glimmer, not marks since the cape was a glimmer purchase.

Leveled him up and find out that he only takes crucible marks...WTF! I've been doing Vanguard bounties the whole time.

Not that it will matter, but I posted it in the Bungie forum. To me it is a no brainier that the optional factions should take both marks for gear. 5 out of 7 vendors using Crucible marks is garbage. Shouldn't have to wait on expansions/DLC to change that.
 
Anyone doing the raids on xb1? Can't talk right now, daughters asleep, but i can listen. Level 26, rare guns and mostly legendary armor. Gt cito1109, send me a mssg.
 

JoeFenix

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We are IN the Vault of Glass near the end but we lost a player, is anyone up for the challenge?

You NEED a mic, level 26 and you need to be a team player, otherwise don't even bother.

PSN JoeFenix
 
Really worried about not being able to find enough time to do the raid. >.<

Dont have to.

When you quit the progress of the Raid is saved to the Fireteam Leader.

So if you are the leader and you leave, you can return to the spot you left. If you are a fireteam member and the leader leaves, just have to wait for him to start it back up again.
 

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned
I've stopped thinking about it and just bought my first purple for my lvl24

I want to do the same sick of waiting now, Atleast I know I can guarentee to get a Legendary item unlike the Engrams which could become Rare or a different class.

I need to do 9 bounties with a Vanguard rep 100 reward then I'll hit Level 2. Marks I'll have to do about 5 or 6 Strikes then I'll have enough to buy the Chest or Gauntlets.
 

Computer

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I was excited about the raid. After watching the streams it looks like wave after wave in the same room. I was hoping for something more exciting.
 
Dont have to.

When you quit the progress of the Raid is saved to the Fireteam Leader.

So if you are the leader and you leave, you can return to the spot you left. If you are a fireteam member and the leader leaves, just have to wait for him to start it back up again.

That makes it even harder; finding six people throughout the week to do this?

Yeah...
 

rugioh

Banned
Any interest in getting a public event farming fireteam on here? If so pm me or reply or whatever and I'll add you this afternoon and we can get these vanguard marks poppin.
 

Ramirez

Member
Loks like you bought most of your gear through the handler is leveling up to 3 faster than farming the cryptarch ?

The only piece I bought were the boots from Dead Orbit. Everything has else either been a drop from a strike, 2 PVP rewards, and the rest gifts from leveling the cryptarch.
 
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Deleted member 752119

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Not that it will matter, but I posted it in the Bungie forum. To me it is a no brainier that the optional factions should take both marks for gear. 5 out of 7 vendors using Crucible marks is garbage. Shouldn't have to wait on expansions/DLC to change that.

Definitely agree with that. At least there are bounties for just playing 5 matches of a mode etc. so I can still get some of those marks if I want. But I don't really enjoy it enough to spend much time getting them, so I may just stick with the vanguard stuff and hoping for good loot drops.
 
Don't know if this has been discussed, but I haven't gotten any purple/gold gear yet and I'm thinking of hoarding my marks for a couple weeks. My thinking is that I should eventually get lucky with the RNG and be able to fill in a couple of those slots with "free" gear, then I can use the marks to buy whatever else I need. If I buy stuff right away, the RNG might give me more of the same type of gear, and it will take longer to get all purple/gold gear.

I was thinking the same thing but then decided that I will just wait until Friday. See what exotic body peice Xur sells then just buy all the other legendaries asap. The way I see it, on Friday if I can jump a couple of ranks by buying as much as possible, then that means I will have better odds with the RNG even getting more stuff. If I focus on armour now then hopefully the crucible will deck my weapons out.

I also think the next step to ranking up after getting fully equiped in purple is actually levelling all that purple gear up. The sooner you buy stuff the sooner you can focus on grinding to rank it up.
 
Can I ask an honest question regarding the Level 20 cap.

Once I hit the cap, I undestand I have to keep farming armour to get "Light". The more Light I have on my equipped armour, the more my level will increase beyond the 20th level.

So my question is - is this random? Does the game purposely monitor how many games, hours or my performance I've played and give me loot with light? Or is it random?

So basically my question is - from Levels 1 to 20, I'll get constant stream of experience to level up. After that......is it just luck as to which armour I'll get to get Light?

Everyone here seems to focus on the RNG aspect and especially "farming" (likely because Diablo 3 and Borderlands both encourage this) but I'm pretty sure you can effectively influence the level of the gear that drops for you (in PvE at least) by playing Missions and Strikes at levels just slightly higher than what you currently are.

i.e. at Level 20, get a party together and play Level 22 Missions/Strikes. Drops will still be random, but the drops you do get are more likely to be lvl 18-20 and blue quality more often than at lower levels. Blue's in that level range definitely have Light and you'll find your level raise pretty quickly as you improve your gear.
 
I was excited about the raid. After watching the streams it looks like wave after wave in the same room. I was hoping for something more exciting.

There's a lot of variety, there's even a stealth section and a pickup shield that lets you defend and heal teammates. There's a lot more creativity in this one Raid than all of the strikes and story missions combined.
 
Is there any particularly good way to farm Motes of Light? My sanity depends on buying that Moctezuma-Polyphonic mark.

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Sooooooooo hippie trippy. I loves it.
 
i.e. at Level 20, get a party together and play Level 22 Missions/Strikes. Drops will still be random, but the drops you do get are more likely to be lvl 18-20 and blue quality more often than at lower levels. Blue's in that level range definitely have Light and you'll find your level raise pretty quickly as you improve your gear.

Is this true?
 
Some questions. The gear your class vendor sells has 2 sets of gear, and why does one have less stats on it on some pieces and cost the same? Is that something that changes when his stock refreshes?

Also do the bonuses on gear stack? Like melee attack speed increase. My helm has it and I can get gloves that have it, but don't know if it stacks. Want it to since I want to see if a full melee blademaster hunter is viable with enough str and the skill to reduce the cooldown on blink strike.
 

Respect

Member
WTB a cryparch faction. I know I can decrypt this stuff better than that guy. His greasy fingers are running these legendary engrams and turning them into greens/blues.

Is there a good route for farming Helium Filaments on the Moon?

There is, its on youtube, forgot the name. Just google helium filament farming route and it should come up. Takes about 5 minutes...got about 130 in roughly an hour yesterday.
 

Dave_6

Member
I have a great 5.1 surround setup but I'm going to have to buy one of the wireless Gold headsets so I can do the Raid at some point.
 

Definity

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They seriously have to get rid of handing folks legendary items for another class or at least make it an extremely low rate of drop.

I did finally get a legendary though from a blue drop of all things. Cryptarch don't make a bit of damn sense.

rng sucks
 
Playing the purple engram lottery is for chumps. I've bought 3 pieces of armor, will be able to buy weapons next week. Get that rep up, bros

My man. If it wasn't for 100 mark limit I would have legendary on each of my body parts and couple of legendary snipers. Fuck that purple lottery and fuck grinding same area over and over and over until you start hating the game and yourself.
 
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