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[Poodlestrike]

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.

The point is that getting a blue drop is a lot better than getting a purple drop and watching it turn blue.

 

[Anoregon]

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.

I'm pretty sure the next stage of the legendary I'm on after my current (do the weekly) is 25 strikes, so that should come in handy towards getting me to 50.

 

[Kadin]

nope, they don't need to be in a row.

Ah okay then this should be no prob getting done. I'm more concerned with having to get a 25 kill spread in Crucible as I'm terrible but with time... it'll happen.

It will, and even RNGesus won't be able to help you then.

uhhh...

 

[E92 M3]

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.

Mhmmm.....

 

[R0ckman]

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

Can I add you for the weekly?

 

[Afrocious]

everyone should read this. Stop playing the purple engram lottery

Quoting so I can read this post when I get off work.

 

[jkanownik]

I dont get it.

I have a newborn, so I'm super tired. Normally loot games have a fail safe to make sure you don't do something stupid like that. Destiny does not. It doesn't even have a slower timer.

 

[anddo0]

I'm level 25. So if I finish 4 with no deaths then die on the 5th run, does it reset?

I did this at lvl 23, you're good.

It's okay to die, it doesn't restart.

I know this Exotic mission path.. You're next mission is PVP based. If you're decent it shouldn't be too tough. It involves getting 25 more kills than deaths (total, not in one game)

 

[Aces&Eights]

Last night we had one person drop off at the last boss for the weekly heroic strike on the moon. We had to improvise and found a real easy method of killing the boss, by exploiting the room. It just takes some repetitive grinding to bring boss down, but effective nonetheless.

Just do damage at him from the room you start the last boss encounter in. Eventually the room will spawn a chandelier (shire?) with some wizards...etc. When that happens run towards the back of the room where you first started and exit it. Hang around just outside of it, waiting till the enemies and the chandelier thing disappears. Once they do, just rush back to the entrance of the section and give everything you got on the boss. Rinse and repeat until the boss is dead, which will finish the mission.

Lmao. That's what we call the ceiling thing, too. One guy stays back and shouts, "chandelier!" when it comes up. Then the two at the door run back.

Every 45 seconds, CHANDELIER!

 

[shungokusatsu]

Lets do a little experiment.

Post your level, your grimoire score, and how many legendary items and/or engrams you've gotten.

I have a feeling the higher the grimoire the more legendary drops you get.

I'm 1355, Level 24 and I've only ever gotten ONE legendary engram. Haven't seen anything purple before or after

Level: 25
Grimoire: 1645

I don't recall the total number of legendary engrams I've picked up, but I've only received 1 legendary weapon and 1 exotic chest plate. all content obtained from drops, nothing purchased.

 

[Squall ASF]

So if you never play PvP, there's no need to buy the Vanguard faction rep equipment, right? I'll just get Vanguard credit for everything so long as I don't join another faction/equip their rep gear?

 

[Poodlestrike]

everyone should read this. Stop playing the purple engram lottery

I gotta say, a loot game where the only decent way to get top-tier loot is by buying it is... kinda weak.

 

[Afrocious]

I did this at lvl 23, you're good.

It's okay to die, it doesn't restart.

I know this Exotic mission path.. You're next mission is PVP based. If you're decent it shouldn't be too tough. It involves getting 25 more kills than deaths (total, not in one game)

Wow, it doesn't reset? I know that 9000 XP bounty resets if you die.

Also, 25 more kills than deaths? You mean, say if I went 10-9 in a match for 25 matches, I'd finish the mission?

 

[HaleStorm]

I'll take that. Right now the legendary emgram is just basically a rare engram with a different coat of color most of the time.

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.

I think that the Exotics still have a chance to roll for another class. maybe that is just the ones you buy though. I guess I have been lucky and have never seen a drop for anything but my current character.

As for the farming of glimmer, I have found that it is far more valuable at first to just use that to buy heavy and special ammo synthesis. It makes challenges with juggle and all the high level stuff way easier and way faster. This increases your marks per hour out put and reputation farming much faster in the vanguard playlist.

 

[Socat]

Destiny isn't Diablo. Loot from grinding and drops isn't the only/main way to get gear. Here's a guide for:

100% Guaranteed Full Legendary + Exotic Armor, no RNG

Every Level after 3 with a Faction will earn you Legendary Faction Gear

So stop complaining about drops.

Christ people, the game's been out 8 days! Just enjoy the game and not worry about being full legendary by playing until your eyes bleed. I havent even got one legendary or exotic since I started playing and it's the most fun ive had with a shooter in years.

 

[EL CUCO]

Lmao. That's what we call the ceiling thing, too. One guy stays back and shouts, "chandelier!" when it comes up. Then the two at the door run back.

Every 45 seconds, CHANDELIER!

Lol!! Exactly!! ;-)

 

[FloatingDivider]

Can I add you for the weekly?

I finished it earlier I'm sorry. You can always add me for the next weekly though.

Edit: Are you doing it at lvl 26 because I'm down to do it at lvl 26.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Wow, it doesn't reset? I know that 9000 XP bounty resets if you die.

Also, 25 more kills than deaths? You mean, say if I went 10-9 in a match for 25 matches, I'd finish the mission?

yup!

Its actually pretty easy, I got it in about 2 games.

 

[Afrocious]

I gotta say, a loot game where the only decent way to get top-tier loot is by buying it is... kinda weak.

How so? Considering drops are random, you may as well do actual quests and kill things along the way and get whatever drops as opposed to blasting a bunch of enemies running through a door and dying to do it over again.

 

[zma1013]

Im pretty sure that riding around on a pike wrecking all enemies in sight is pretty much the most fun thing in this game. I love it.

 

[Flo_Evans]

Christ people, the game's been out 8 days! Just enjoy the game and not worry about being full legendary by playing until your eyes bleed. I havent even got one legendary or exotic since I started playing and it's the most fun ive had with a shooter in years.

become... uncommon.

 

[GavinUK86]

Does anyone know how you get the PS4 exclusive armor and guns? It's just occurred to me I haven't seen them yet.

 

[Kadin]

I did this at lvl 23, you're good.

It's okay to die, it doesn't restart.

I know this Exotic mission path.. You're next mission is PVP based. If you're decent it shouldn't be too tough. It involves getting 25 more kills than deaths (total, not in one game)

Okay great, more good news. I'm lucky if I get out with a k/d over 2 so yeah this will just need to be another slow grind, but doable. Doing it in one game would have been damn near impossible for me.

 

[Xater]

I really need 2 guys for the weekly heroic. I want to get my exotic shotgun. It sucks that this doesn't have matchmaking....

 

[Anoregon]

So apparently after I do the weekly strike, I only need to buy 50 special ammo things from the vendor and I'll have the Invective. How much do those cost, again? I've never bought one, will 50 packs take a full 25,000 glimmer? I'm only at like 9k.

 

[Orca]

Accidentally dismantled my autorifle...just a blue but that hurt. Thought I had another in the bank but I guess not. Have to run scout rifle until I can find a replacement.

 

[Hawkian]

Skyrocketing toward OT4.

Again,

people are playing the shit out of this game.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Ugh, Ascendant Shards are so hard to get, I still need one more to level up my armor once, and 13 more if I want to get it to full. Gonna take a loong time.

 

[todahawk]

Umm what about just buying stuff? I'm 99% sure accumulating Marks is faster and less frustrating than these crazy repetitive schemes.

YES. We need to put that shit in the OP.
With marks and reps you have clear goals you're chasing. Frustration for me is gone at this point.

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?

Not the op but no. I'm still pissed at the design decision that purples give shit 99% of the time especially considering your early game experience...

Look at the way green and blues work, you generally get that color/class of item. With purple legendary I got one actual legendary item and it was for a class I'm not playing. I've had about 10 legendaries that have given shit blues and greens. It was infuriating. It still pisses me off.

But after a bunch of reading on here and reddit I went the faction/rep/marks route. I'm still annoyed that the game didn't better explain what the hell was going. The level 24 plateau is real and it really is poor design that what worked for leveling up for your entire experience of the game suddenly stops working at level 24.

 

[anddo0]

Wow, it doesn't reset? I know that 9000 XP bounty resets if you die.

Also, 25 more kills than deaths? You mean, say if I went 10-9 in a match for 25 matches, I'd finish the mission?

Correct, you're allowed to die.

I died on a Mars strike when my "team" abandoned the game. I was at 4 strikes with no deaths at that point. I then did Devils Lair one more time and got it.

You could go 10-9 over 25, yes.. As long as your total eventually reach's 25 over.

 

[ColEx]

Has anyone seen this in the tower before? I've seen it happen twice so far, both times from a hunters cloak.

 

[ComputerBlue]

I think I'm done with this game. I'm still enjoying it but I've put in about 15-20 hours since I hit level 24 and since then I haven't gotten a thing. Yes, I can just buy the items by earning vanguard and crucible marks and ranks, but then what's the point of the loot system?

I've never been much into grind fest experiences and as much as I like the game, the grind is a major turn off, sad to say I think I'm better off selling it while it still holds some decent value.

 

[Brazil]

Skyrocketing toward OT4.

Again,

people are playing the shit out of this game.

I've been trying to play the shit out of this game but it won't budge.



I kid on some level.

 

[The Librarian]

Skyrocketing toward OT4.

Again,

people are playing the shit out of this game.

but it was reviewed badly

Has anyone seen this in the tower before? I've seen it happen twice so far, and its always from an hunters cloak.

Gah! They weren't able to fix that glitch?

 

[rbanke]

Did my first daily heroic story and on the left of the map its still there and I didn't get any items or messages or anything that looked different than finishing a regular mission, is that normal?

 

[Spaaaaaaaaace]

Anyone want to do the weekly heroic? I gotta save up those coins.

 

[Flo_Evans]

Skyrocketing toward OT4.

Again,

people are playing the shit out of this game.

but metacritic told me it sucked.

 

[Einbroch]

Skyrocketing toward OT4.

Again,

people are playing the shit out of this game.

But it's a 7/10.

 

[Palocca]

What's the most efficient way to gather Vanguard marks? Strike playlists?

 

[X-Frame]

It's really cool knowing that you get a Legendary package every time you level up their Reputation.

I was wondering what point there was to keep going with New Monarchy past Rank 3.

 

[ColEx]

Gah! They weren't able to fix that glitch?

So its a Destiny thing?

 

[Xater]

Anyone want to do the weekly heroic? I gotta save up those coins.

YES HERE!

PSN: Xater

 

[bobs...onGaf]

So apparently after I do the weekly strike, I only need to buy 50 special ammo things from the vendor and I'll have the Invective. How much do those cost, again? I've never bought one, will 50 packs take a full 25,000 glimmer? I'm only at like 9k.

I think it cost about 12,500. If you equip the stuff that gives you more glimmer per enemy kill you should get it insanely quick.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

What are some of the rewards for getting Gold on a public event? Are the rewards random? I think I'm gonna start farming some of these events for a change.

 

[Gr1mLock]

Whats the fastest way to level up the PvE portions of the factions?

 

[Spaaaaaaaaace]

YES HERE!

What's your psn name?


Sent. Mine is too long. Anyone else?

 

[Blue Ninja]

Did the Daily Heroic by myself, felt like doing a Halo mission on the Legendary. I like it.

 

[Anoregon]

I think it cost about 12,500. If you equip the stuff that gives you more glimmer per enemy kill you should get it insanely quick.

Yeah I have a few of those, it shouldn't take me too long to make the missing few thousand glimmer.

 

[E92 M3]

I really need 2 guys for the weekly heroic. I want to get my exotic shotgun. It sucks that this doesn't have matchmaking....

Yes it is rather frustrating.

Accidentally dismantled my autorifle...just a blue but that hurt. Thought I had another in the bank but I guess not. Have to run scout rifle until I can find a replacement.

Don't worry the next purple engram will take care of you.

 

[Nathan_Drake]

Is that matchmaking thread not active in the gaming community section? Trying to do a strike or something with some Gaffers. Put it on the Clan forum too. PS4 Nick_or_Dawood level 21 warlock
3:15ish would be great