MidEvlDed
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I have. And I've only gotten 3 legendary engrams. 1 legendary chest piece, 1 legendary MG, 1 turned into a rare. Got super lucky, but also unlucky to have only found my first legendary engram on Monday after 30 hours of play.
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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.
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I have. And I've only gotten 3 legendary engrams. 1 legendary chest piece, 1 legendary MG, 1 turned into a rare. Got super lucky, but also unlucky to have only found my first legendary engram on Monday after 30 hours of play.
I never farmed for my legendary engrams and I have 3 exotic weapons, 1 exotic bounty (which will end up giving me an exotic weapon), a ton of strange coins, a purple hunter helmet I couldn't use, and a usable legendary chestpiece I DE'd because I bought one already.
Keyword: bought one. It's far better to go for marks and rep and not farm. You end up being able to buy crap if you want without having to rely on drops. Want some purple shoes? Go buy them for 65 marks instead of running around the Rocketyard opening chests for hours.
mixomatosys
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so judging by how many people are complaining about drops, i guess i should consider myself lucky that i got a drop of an exotic auto rifle when i first hit level 20 playing crucible.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I would argue that it is literally impossible to spoiler the plot of destiny due to it lacking the requisite components to spoiler.
Where are you getting that?
This is exactly what I want to happen. I'd be 100% cool with a lower drop rate that guarantees legendaries for my class since I'm still gonna be able to buy some each week with marks.
Darryl M R
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Which method did you use?
Ah, I see what you mean.
Your theory is that exotic drops will be guaranteed usable, whereas legendary are all up to the shit RNG?
I've spent time at nexus, "we've woken the hive" and skywatch. I think the first moon mission is the best simply because there are so many thralls and you can die so fast to respawn them.
I also did the oryx glimmer run for a few hours to farm about 100k glimmer and spent all the cash to level up my Cryptarch to 6. Not sure if that did anything or not, but he gave me nothing but blues on each level up.
Yep, you sound like me. I've gone back to bounties and then doing patrols and scrounging for materials and chests at the same time. It doesn't feel nearly as grindy as farming and I'm getting a lot more marks/reps and I have clear goals I'm chasing with the faction vendor.
The public events are a nice side benefit too. They're fun and you get the daily bonus.
SPACECADET
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i'm wondering this. i thought maybe if i bought them all they would restock with new ones but it's still the same 4 i've had in the shop since i hit 20 :'(
Anybody know where this farming spot is located?
http://www.twitch.tv/swiftor
I think this is ultra cheap, and hope it's patched.
http://www.twitch.tv/swiftor
I think this is ultra cheap, and hope it's patched.
That can't be, because I only have 11 public events completed (and not to mention the fact that I've only ever done ONE eliminate the target event).
It's on the Grimoire on B.net.
You're basically detailing exactly what the solution should be. Exactly the same number of actual legendary loot produced, but an engram guarantees that it yields at least the rarity of the engram itself. (as a result, yeah, you get less legendary engrams overall.)
I mean, you're right that there will always be people taking issue with the quantity of legendary drops, but that's no reason to not fix a silly thing like the way engram rarity works. How much legendary loot is dropping overall is a separate issue from the messaging problem created by the weird engram system.
The Librarian
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I can't wait for that robot lady to give me a gun.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Is there any specific way to unlock Ghost skins? Are they drops? Tied to finding the ghost fragments?
Just do the level 8 devil strike, that's what I did. You can still die (I did a few times) but it's probably the quickest, most reliable method.
Just do the level 8 devil strike, that's what I did. You can still die (I did a few times) but it's probably the quickest, most reliable method.
Devil's Lair on easy. Have fun and don't let that damn spider lazer you to death.
I think we missed it, reading through chat and still nothing.
MidEvlDed
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Yes. It's way too low. I think the level 24 playlist gives like 20 or 25 but that's still too low. The daily heroic gives at least 100 if not 150 and the base level is 22 for that.
Too easy
what level are you?
Devils Lair- just hang back for the Spider tank.. Keep in cover for the eye.
I never got my red dlc ghost
Interesting, thanks!
You can probably go do it yourself.
But yeah, let's nerf literally the only way to get enough Engrams to MAYBE get a decent upgrade.
(Or not. Unless Bungie makes it less likely to get rares out of purple Engrams, farming needs to stay in.)
I'm ok with the mark rewards, but wish the rep was a lot more.
ComputerMKII
Banned
When will the companion app for iPad come out? They said it would come out at launch.
look at my previous posts man.
I was stuck all weekend on 24 before switching my focus to doing bounties, patrol, chests and material scavenging.
Once you hit 50 of a material you can trade it in at the Vanguard or Crucible quartermaster for rep (i'm running FWC faction so it went there). Monday and Tuesday night I focused on doing all of that and getting my FWC to level up. This morning before work I had enough marks to buy a legendary chest piece and legendary boots. Plus I got to pick from a couple of options that suited which weapons I use most (more shotty & AR ammo).
give up on the farming. the farm is a lie.
Future PhaZe
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so in terms of the fastest way to just get enough marks to buy legendary items, is it just straight up crucible non stop?
something about PVE stuff seems slow
something about PVE stuff seems slow
I can't access it from work.
Maybe it's the Bounties asking you to eliminate a target for 25 rep?
One would HOPE that they would drop as extra items. (As in, if you didn't have that bonus, you wouldn't get anything at all in their place) If not, then that would indeed be hilarious.
So something similar to the mission on the moon right before that door where the dead gaurdian is.
Savantcore
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So yeah, doing a certain number of Strikes or games in the Crucible and new rewards unlock. Maybe those getting really good loot at the end of each game have simply played enough games to qualify for those rewards.
Kadin
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I'm level 25. So if I finish 4 with no deaths then die on the 5th run, does it reset?Too easy
what level are you?
Devils Lair- just hang back for the Spider tank.. Keep in cover for the eye.
I never got my red dlc ghost
AlwaysPlaying
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Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
nope, they don't need to be in a row.
Umm what about just buying stuff? I'm 99% sure accumulating Marks is faster and less frustrating than these crazy repetitive schemes.
Teasing_Pink
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Just putting out the warning. The end and plot were terrible, sure, but I know if I hadn't already finished the story, I'd have been irritated by seeing bits of the final cutscene ahead of time.
I like my disappointment unfettered and fresh!
rumble matches are fairly quick (3v3) but see my above post, when doing all that shit at once... bounties, patrols, materials, it goes pretty quick. I mix it up though, do crucible for a while and work on bounties then switch to pve.
But you guys are missing what I'm saying. The end result would probably be REALLY close to the same.
Say you get 100 engram drops. 60 of them are legendary. you get only 5 legendary items.
Bungie makes a change where legendary engrams have a high chance for a legendary, but also makes it where now, the engrams drop less.
So, now you have 100 engram drops, and only 5 are legendary and you get 4 legendary items. What's the point in making the change? Basically none. So now you have people complaining that LE's don't drop enough. Bungie isn't just going to make legendaries rain from the sky considering that's what is your gate keeper to certain content.
FloatingDivider
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This is what I'm working to get:
It's a Batman gun with poison bullets. I want it.
So yeah when you go for that final mission, send me an invite my name on psn is YzeNup, it's a lvl 26 strike on the moon where you don't have to kill phogoth you just have to kill his ads for a while. It's not matchmade though. In fact if anyone wants to do it add me on psn at YzeNup
Farm public events or do the Strike playlists.
ethomaz
Banned
I got my lvl 2 Vangard pretty fast just doing bounties... it is ~500 or more rep points per day for ~2 hours or less.
lyrick
Member
So we should just be happy that all the purples we found while paying the game "the way it was meant to be played" turned to crap?
Depends on the mode I guess?
If you get a good loop going with Public Events, it's probably about even as you also get benefits from them since you're killing creatures / looting chests and materials in-between them.
Vanguard marks versus Crucible, though, so.....
Seems to go indefinitely, like the Cryptarch. You get a purple every time you rank up.
It will, and even RNGesus won't be able to help you then.
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