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[Tawpgun]

So what exactly does invisibility do in PvE? I've been in situations where I was invisible and enemies still were tracking me.

 

[Afrocious]

Does the regular Vanguard class vendor sell them for Marks? I've only ever seen him selling armor pieces.

The vanguard weaponmaster is in the hangar. It's the robot.

 

[Tovarisc]

Nice to see that reddot of reddot sight really sticks to center of screen even if weapon really dips

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

This is the only thing I've found on it:

 

[MADGAME]

Ooh baby I like it rare. Yeah baby I like it raaaaare.

Shimmy shimmy yaw shimmy yam shimmy yay, give tha purp to the Cryptarch so he can take it away

 

[MidEvlDed]

I don't think any of the patrols or strikes I've done give you Vanguard Marks.

What level are you? You can't start earning marks until 18 maybe?

 

[Hawkian]

Hawkian, our resident Destiny Yoda/Mr.Miyagi.

us hawks gotta look out for each other

What level are you? You can't start earning marks until 18 maybe?

Correct fuuuck I should've mentioned that in the guide. Thank you!

 

[AmateurHour212]

I'm up for it but I don't tend to get online until about 9PM.

9pm in what time zone? I'll be on for a while tonight so, if you're on and still up for it, I'll hit you up.

 

[Respect]

Does the regular Vanguard class vendor sell them for Marks? I've only ever seen him selling armor pieces.

The robot in the hangar? I'm fairly certain he has weapons to sell, would guess you need to be rank 3 with the appropriate number of marks (150). You should be able to see them though, you don't need a higher rank to view his inventory.

Your class vendor also sells gear that require vanguard marks and your rank needs to be level 2, but they don't sell weapons.

 

[Union Carbine]

9pm in what time zone? I'll be on for a while tonight so, if you're on and still up for it, I'll hit you up.

Sorry, forgot the timezone: US Eastern.

 

[todahawk]

Glad you liked



Indeed.

Fucking Bra-VO.
This needs to be in OT4

 

[MidEvlDed]

I can't believe people keep getting these exotic bounties. The only one Iv gotten disappeared. Pissing me off.

I haven't gotten any either so you're not the only one. Seems like everyone is getting super lucky and I'm getting nothing, but that's just the perception. I've had my small share of luck with two legendaries, but no exotic bounties or exotics gifted to me randomly.

 

[Flo_Evans]

What are Xurs prices? I have 16 motes right now.

Think I should try and get something from him this weekend. Don't really like the class items from the speaker.

 

[Union Carbine]

I don't think any of the patrols or strikes I've done give you Vanguard Marks.

I don't think they earn marks at all but they earn reputation.

 

[Strider]

What are Xurs prices? I have 16 motes right now.

Think I should try and get something from him this weekend. Don't really like the class items from the speaker.

13 strange coins for class exotic. 23 motes for the engram.

 

[Hawkian]

What are Xurs prices? I have 16 motes right now.

Think I should try and get something from him this weekend. Don't really like the class items from the speaker.

23 motes for the exotic engram.

13 strange coins for armor, 23 strange coins for weppin

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Slow, boring day at work so far. The Thirst is Real™

 

[cpp_is_king]

I can't believe people keep getting these exotic bounties. The only one Iv gotten disappeared. Pissing me off.

I keep seeing people talking about them disappearing. Do you mean disappeared from the bounty giver, or you accepted it and it disappeared before you completed it?

 

[Respect]

What are Xurs prices? I have 16 motes right now.

Think I should try and get something from him this weekend. Don't really like the class items from the speaker.

You need 23 motes of light for an exotic engram. 13 coins for an exotic item I believe.

 

[Trace]

I haven't gotten any either so you're not the only one. Seems like everyone is getting super lucky and I'm getting nothing, but that's just the perception. I've had my small share of luck with two legendaries, but no exotic bounties or exotics gifted to me randomly.

No exotic bounties here either. You don't get them when u turn in a bunch of bounties either, I just turned in 5 and got nothing but rep.

 

[Nafai1123]

Noobie or question, sorry guys.
What's the best way to upload pics to here from a ps4? Can you do it direct?

To get the best quality, export the pic to a usb stick and upload them from your computer.

 

[Afrocious]

I think I might marathon the Strike Playlist to get the last 625 rep I need.

Actually fuck that. That's insane.

23 motes for the exotic engram.

13 strange coins for armor, 23 strange coins for weppin

And 23 for exotic weapon I think. That's how much Red Death was I think.

 

[Hawkian]

I don't think they earn marks at all but they earn reputation.

The Strike playlists are primarily for earning marks. The 24 playlist gets you 6 marks and 25 rep. Bounties are much better for rep (along with the Daily and Weekly Heroics).

For marks, to put in perspective, 11 strikes on the 24 playlist earns you a legendary gauntlets, boots, or chest- and that's if you haven't earned a single mark from anywhere else that week.

 

[MidEvlDed]

Questions: I've heard that up until 20 it's pointless decrypting the engrams I find. Is this true or have I been hoarding for no reason? I don't even understand how my level would affect its contents. Is it like a lottery everytime you visit the guy?

If you have green engrams, use them. They're 99% sure to be worthless to you later anyway unless you get insanely lucky and get a legendary out of it or something. When you hit 20 you'll want blues so you could save those if you really wanted.

 

[Arrrammis]

Noobie or question, sorry guys.
What's the best way to upload pics to here from a ps4? Can you do it direct?

You can upload directly to Twitter or Facebook, but that compresses the image and makes it look much worse. The best method I know of is to copy it from the PS4 onto a USB Drive, copy from the drive to your computer, and upload it from there to an image sharing site (Imgur.com is my favorite) then posting the image here.

 

[Ramirez]

The score during the Black Garden finale was fucking incredible. Marty will be missed sorely.

 

[bidguy]

do you guys use your ascendant shards/energy on your legendaries or do you wait till you get exotics ?

 

[TheCanisDirus]

Just a few random gameplay tips from harmless fun to clutch fireteam maneuvers.

Arc, Void, and Fire

Hawkian, great stuff as usual! I'd like to add a little lesser known tidbit to your weapons damage types.... Supers/abilities!

As you're probably aware (many likely arent) supers are directly tied to the various types of damages. Match the color to the foe's shield color like you would with weapons for best results. Make sure while in a 3 man fireteam one of each is represented.


The Bladedancer and Striker subclasses focus on Arc damage.
The Gunslinger and Sunsinger subclasses focus on Solar Damage.
The Defender and Voidwalker subclasses focus on Void damage.

 

[Obscura]

Suros Regime. I got the upgrade that reduces its rate of fire but ups its damage. It's an absolute beast in PVE but too slow in PVP :/

It's been working great in PvP for me. Rapid fire single shots absolutely maul people.

 

[PointBlank_V]

Yeah. Against my better efforts, both
www.destinylfg.net
and
www.destinylfg.com

have been fully adopted and are really active. I wish the community had stuck with one, but hey *shrug* They work.

Awesome linkage there. Makes me think though. One of the things I'd love to see implemented ( somehow ) would be some kind of bulletin board [the moment I saw the Board behind the mech that handles bounties in Alpha, I instinctively thought it'd be used like that in the final version], not an auto-matchmaking algorythm but a lobby-esque LFG tool. That way the community on each platform wouldn't be divided into so many sites, boards, forums.

 

[Hasney]

Shit, never seen that happen. Was farming Spinmetal when it said "the enemies are closing in on each other" then it all kicked off. Hive and Fallen sent out some pretty high level for the area captains and Knights and fucked shit up. Some poor level 5 got caught in the crossfire multiple times.

The hive must have won. The fallen in the area aren't spawning anymore.

 

[Respect]

Could someone refresh my memory...did Xur only have a weapon on one day and not the other (I remember the handgun on one day, but don't remember if there was another weapon available at some point)?

 

[AmateurHour212]

Sorry, forgot the timezone: US Eastern.

Word. I'm Central time zone so I'll try to be on around 8pm my time. If not, we'll link up some other time. I'll be on a bunch this weekend.

 

[Afrocious]

Could someone refresh my memory...did Xur only have a weapon on one day and not the other (I remember the handgun on one day, but don't remember if there was another weapon available at some point)?

He had the Red Death for 23 coins.

 

[Union Carbine]

The Strike playlists are primarily for earning marks. The 24 playlist gets you 6 marks and 25 rep. Bounties are much better for rep (along with the Daily and Weekly Heroics).

For marks, to put in perspective, 11 strikes on the 24 playlist earns you a legendary gauntlets, boots, or chest- and that's if you haven't earned a single mark from anywhere else that week.

Yeah, I need both reps and marks at the moment. Sitting midway between rank 1 and rank 2. I need to get serious with the strike playlist. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll make much headway until next week-- won't get to play much this weekend.

 

[AmateurHour212]

|OT4| Taming Cryptarch's Strange

Am I doing it right? South Park? Anyone?

OR

|OT4| Taming Xur's Strange

 

[Respect]

It's been working great in PvP for me. Rapid fire single shots absolutely maul people.

Think the upgrade to the slower rate of fire with more damage might have screwed it up for normalized pvp though.

 

[MADGAME]

Could someone refresh my memory...did Xur only have a weapon on one day and not the other (I remember the handgun on one day, but don't remember if there was another weapon available at some point)?

For me, he had the same stock for the duration of his stay.

 

[Sanke__]

Could someone refresh my memory...did Xur only have a weapon on one day and not the other (I remember the handgun on one day, but don't remember if there was another weapon available at some point)?

What handgun?

Only one i ever saw was the Red Death pulse rifle and i think it was there the whole time.

 

[LollipoPReapeR]

Anyone wanna farm cosmodrome for a wee bit?

 

[Flo_Evans]

13 strange coins for class exotic. 23 motes for the engram.

oh god, I hope he doesn't have gloves again... just bought the dead orbit ones.

might farm a bit more for the engram... its a weapon right?

 

[Hawkian]

You can upload directly to Twitter or Facebook, but that compresses the image and makes it look much worse. The best method I know of is to copy it from the PS4 onto a USB Drive, copy from the drive to your computer, and upload it from there to an image sharing site (Imgur.com is my favorite) then posting the image here.

So annoying (IMO). The twitter compression is asstastic, and finagling a USB drive just to move an image every so often is like 2005 stuff. Where's my "Upload to Imgur" feature Sony?!

Hawkian, great stuff as usual! I'd like to add a little lesser known tidbit to your weapons damage types.... Supers/abilities!

As you're probably aware (many likely arent) supers are directly tied to the various types of damages. Match the color to the foe's shield color like you would with weapons for best results. Make sure while in a 3 man fireteam one of each is represented.


The Bladedancer and Striker subclasses focus on Arc damage.
The Gunslinger and Sunsinger subclasses focus on Solar Damage.
The Defender and Voidwalker subclasses focus on Void damage.

You are entirely correct, I will add this! Makes a huge damage with the Element Burn modifiers too, but that's outside the scope of this first post. Thanks!

 

[J-Rzez]

After getting junk from the game since launch after a crucible match the game put a carrot on the end of the stick and gave me a "Thundergod" exotic machine gun.

 

[Union Carbine]

Think the upgrade to the slower rate of fire with more damage might have screwed it up for normalized pvp though.

Can't you just revert the upgrade for PvP if you don't like it?

 

[Respect]

Guess I'm just imagining things, was certainly sleep deprived by that point.

 

[MidEvlDed]

Couple of random questions:

2) What's the best way to get a blue or purple level 20 weapon? I'm going crazy, I'm level 24 and I have maxed out blues on everything else, and a purple Fusion Rifle, but I'm still using green Auto / Scout Rifles because I cannot get a blue one. I've checked every vendor restock, farmed engrams for 4 hours, done weeklies and dailies, everything.

At level 24 you should have blues dropping fairly regularly. If you're farming you should have one by now because I have many and it doesn't seem to be based on as much luck as getting legendaries does. But if you're playing the Strike playlist or Crucible you are guaranteed to be gifted a useful blue AR at the end of the round at some point. I have 3 Galahad-Es at this point, among others.

 

[todahawk]

23 motes for the exotic engram.

13 strange coins for armor, 23 strange coins for weppin

have you tried trading a motes for an engram and if so what did you get?
my faith in anything RNGesus is sketchy...

us hawks gotta look out for each other

most people just call me toda :|

 

[Astral]

I just got an exotic weapon bounty for the Thorn handcannon. I have to get 500 void kills. That's gonna take fucking forever as a hunter. The only weapon I even have that does void damage is a rocket launcher. Argh this fucking game. Is the Thorn even worth it?

 

[Doran902]

|OT4| Guardians of the Blue Planet

Also I wish I wasn't at work right now, thankfully neogaf and destiny app haha.

 

[GringoSuave89]

I just got an exotic weapon bounty for the Thorn handcannon. I have to get 500 void kills. That's gonna take fucking forever as a hunter. The only weapon I even have that does void damage is a rocket launcher. Argh this fucking game. Is the Thorn even worth it?

Yes.

Stock up on Heavy Weapon ammo from the Gunsmith.