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

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Juraash

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So I got my first legendary piece of armor. Of course it isn't even my class. Anything I can do with it besides scrap it?

Bank it for an alt since all your characters share the same vault? Otherwise the mats are pretty valuable for upgrades when you do get a legendary for your class.
 
Screw it. Who wants to do the weekly strike for Strange Coins?
Did you attempt the Weekly Nightfall Strike? I id it with two others last night and had to give up on Phogoth. Two 27s and a 26 and it was brutally tough. We just couldn't handle the adds in the big room at the end and got tired of wiping.
 

Bunta

Fujiwara Tofu Shop
Did you attempt the Weekly Nightfall Strike? I id it with two others last night and had to give up on Phogoth. Two 27s and a 26 and it was brutally tough. We just couldn't handle the adds in the big room at the end and got tired of wiping.

I tried it earlier with two 27s and a 26 and had the same result, lol. Summoning pits is the worst.
 

Daemul

Member
Guys, you cannot buy Vanguard gear for the two classes you aren't playing as. Go look at the class vendors and compare their inventory. Your own class vendor will have three sections in his/her store, Titan/Warlock/Hunter Armour, which if you're level 20+ will have green and blue armour ranging from level 14-18, Vanguard Armour and Emblems. Now take a look at the other class vendors, no Vanguard Armour section to be seen.

Unless the RNG gods go against you and give you armour pieces not for your class, you cannot buy top tier armour for other classes. You can share legendary weapons among classes though.
 

Insaniac

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holy cow, hit level 24 and tried the weekly strike with 2 other 24s and got our asses handed to us by phogoth.

They just throw ADS at you all the time, theres no downtime. Any tips? We tried two focusing on phogoth/surviving while one other eliminated the ADS, but like I said, it just gets too crazy, especially when they toss multiple wizards at you
 

E92 M3

Member
LOL

"Xbox, record that" if you do.

You have a challenger!

Bounties. Always bounties. If you've done all of them for the day already, Lvl 24 strikes are second-best (unless you've capped your marks for the week).

I actually try to do all of the bounties available for the day. It's rather odd - seems like my vanguard rank always just creeps along. Maybe I'm rank 2 already and haven't even realized.

Lol. When I finish playing I feel fairly satisfied with my progress, weapons and gear but after reading the thread it feels like I have nothing.

Ditto.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
They say the house always wins, but what else can you spend your motes on besides clothes from the Speaker?
A guaranteed exotic engram from Xur on Friday/Saturday.
I actually try to do all of the bounties available for the day. It's rather odd - seems like my vanguard rank always just creeps along. Maybe I'm rank 2 already and haven't even realized.
Really? I definitely have NOT done every one every day, and I'm halfway to 3. I've done a fair few strikes and patrols though.

You're deeeefinitely not wearing a Faction item right?
 

Acorn

Member
Open legendary engram....it's exotic hands called subreakers...lemme look at the sta...



WARLOCK ONLY


Motherfuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Wait, is there a difference between the weekly heroic strike and the nightfall strike I see people mentioning?

On the left side of my destination computer, there's a crucible playlist, a daily story and a heroic weekly strike. Where's this nightfall thing?
 

Tovarisc

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holy cow, hit level 24 and tried the weekly strike with 2 other 24s and got our asses handed to us by phogoth.

They just throw ADS at you all the time, theres no downtime. Any tips? We tried two focusing on phogoth/surviving while one other eliminated the ADS, but like I said, it just gets too crazy, especially when they toss multiple wizards at you

When adds spawn always take them down as a group, boss doesn't require any attention in a sense that he would come and kill you. Just stay in cover from his head beam and nuke adds down.

Fire based weapons are ace here because it takes wizard shields down so fast.

Boss itself is easy even if bulletspongy. Stick to cover and shoot to his weakspot [stomach].

Some say you can glitch add spawns out by not fully clearing initial adds from the room, e.g. just clear left side when entering chamber and leave right side be. Could be worth trying.

Wait, is there a difference between the weekly heroic strike and the nightfall strike I see people mentioning?

Nightfall is strike that has 5 different difficulty modifiers to it making it extremely hard to do. If you manage to creep / cheese your way through it you will be rewarded with awesome loots and XP booster that lasts until next reset [Tuesday].
 

Gazkapop

Member
Anyone else having trouble finding other players on control? I manage to find others instantly on the other three game types but it just constantly searches with control.
 

nib95

Banned
Entire clips of what? Auto rifles/machine guns are a bad choice for a rampaging arc blade because of their speed. You want a shotgun blast to the head, sniper rifle headshot if you're far away, fusion rifle, or rocket. Also most other supers are hard counters to arc blade.

Auto Rifle, with mostly head shots, and still barely a dent.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Wait, is there a difference between the weekly heroic strike and the nightfall strike I see people mentioning?

On the left side of my destination computer, there's a crucible playlist, a daily story and a heroic weekly strike. Where's this nightfall thing?
Huge difference. You're not high enough to see the nightfall strike yet. It's got a number of modifiers every week, but one thing never changes- if all three of you die, you get punted to orbit.

It has some of the best reward chances in the game too.
Auto Rifle, with mostly head shots, and still barely a dent.
well there's your problem right there. arc blade is my only respite from the onslaught of auto rifle carnage I face every game :3
 
Wait, is there a difference between the weekly heroic strike and the nightfall strike I see people mentioning?

On the left side of my destination computer, there's a crucible playlist, a daily story and a heroic weekly strike. Where's this nightfall thing?

You gain access to it at level 24,but it's intended for level 28. It's much much harder, has 5 skulls enabled, instead of just the 2 in the weekly, and if your team wipes you get sent back to orbit. Beat it though and you get a exp/reputation booster for the remainder of the week.
 

MADGAME

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A guaranteed exotic engram from Xur on Friday/Saturday.
That was my point from my previous post; who was going to gamble on an exotic from Xur. It's guaranteed to be an exotic, but could be for any class. Odds are not in the purchaser's favor.
Who's going to gamble and purchase exotic engrams from Xur this weekend?


I will! I want that exotic armour.
Let us know what you get!
 

HaleStorm

Member
Open legendary engram....it's exotic hands called subreakers...lemme look at the sta...



WARLOCK ONLY


Motherfuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Save those for a sunsinger.

Being able to revive yourself is a clutch move in Nightfall and all sorts of other tough spots.

It is also an excellent way to troll the enemy team. run into a point they are capping with 3-4 people, die in a corner. they all start reloading looking at doors. You go all pheonix fire godd on them with unlimited grenades and one hit melee attacks.

It is priceless.
 
holy cow, hit level 24 and tried the weekly strike with 2 other 24s and got our asses handed to us by phogoth.

They just throw ADS at you all the time, theres no downtime. Any tips? We tried two focusing on phogoth/surviving while one other eliminated the ADS, but like I said, it just gets too crazy, especially when they toss multiple wizards at you

Don't go all the way into Phogoth's chamber. Stay in the room that leads to it and deal damage to him through the doorway as you can. You'll have to deal with a shrieker that spawns in the room periodically. You can either kill him or just back up into the previous hallway to despawn him. Backing up will also despawn some of the adds that hang out in the doorway to Phogoth's chamber.

It'll take a little while, and you'll probably want to bring some spare ammo packs as you won't get many drops while hanging out in that room, but it works.
 

sploatee

formerly Oynox Slider
You gain access to it at level 24,but it's intended for level 28. It's much much harder, has 5 skulls enabled, instead of just the 2 in the weekly, and if your team wipes you get sent back to orbit. Beat it though and you get a exp/reputation booster for the remainder of the week.

I love the sound of that. Once I get to level 27/28, that is.
 
Destiny |OT4| Blue Balls

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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
That was my point from my previous post; who was going to gamble on an exotic from Xur. It's guaranteed to be an exotic, but could be for any class. Odds are not in the purchaser's favor.
Oh I see, sorry I misunderstood.

Could always dismantle it for parts if you don't want to save for another class. :>
 

minx

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Wow has my luck changed. Picked up a Legendary Engram from the weekly strike and it was a legendary shotgun. Then 20 min later a rare Engram turned into a Legendary Helmet. This is how it should be. Getting new shit like this is addicting.
 

Tovarisc

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It's guaranteed to be an exotic, but could be for any class.

Is it guaranteed exotic? When I moused over it during last weekend it showed that engram can give you item from Rare to Exotic or even just upgrade materials. So if what it states is true then it's insane gamble.

Spend 24 Motes of Light and get blue item, that would be so awesome :D
 

E92 M3

Member
A guaranteed exotic engram from Xur on Friday/Saturday.

Really? I definitely have NOT done every one every day, and I'm halfway to 3. I've done a fair few strikes and patrols though.

You're deeeefinitely not wearing a Faction item right?

Nope not wearing any faction items. I haven't done every single bounty, but about 80%. I will look at my actual rank today. I may have missed leveling up to 2.

Updated progress after landing a void shotty with full auto mod. My KD went from 0.30 to 0.59 but i'll get there eventually lol

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Lol, slide your way to victory.
 

Ramirez

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Is it guaranteed exotic? When I moused over it during last weekend it showed that engram can give you item from Rare to Exotic or even just upgrade materials. So if what it states is true then it's insane gamble.

Spend 24 Motes of Light and get blue item, that would be so awesome :D

I was told by a designer that it's always exotic.
 

patchday

Member
Easiest way is to hit them with a grenade and then shoot at them. I've taken down tons of arc blade users that way. Usually a point blank shotgun shell takes off half their health or so, so they just have double when in their super.

Ah coo will do. I need to switch back to Rocket Launchers for my Heavy weapon too. That'll do the job for sho'
 
The void kill thing for the Thorn bounty isn't all that bad. I'm using a void shotgun + machine gun with my Hunter getting maybe 20-50 points per game. I should be done in another 10 or so games at most.
 

Andrew.

Banned
I knocked out that weekly heroic last night and man, that shit lasted like two hours. Maybe more. The boss was a bitch until we all figured out the exploit a little beyond the entryway which makes the enemies disappear so you can focus on that big ol boss whos chained up.

When we finally got our rewards we thought we'd be able to knock it out again in half the time for another 150 Vanguard rep.

.....We were wrong. We knocked it out more quickly, sure. No rewards though =/

Lesson learned.
 

MADGAME

Member
Oh I see, sorry I misunderstood.

Could always dismantle it for parts if you don't want to save for another class. :>

Do you know what the possible rewards are for an exotic dismantle? I've dismantled several legendaries and received Sapphire Wraps and Ascendant Shards.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Do you know what the possible rewards are for an exotic dismantle? I've dismantled several legendaries and received Sapphire Wraps and Ascendant Shards.
I'd assume just larger quantities of those mats, but I'm not going to be doing research on that particular area o_o
 
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