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enzo_gt

tagged by Blackace
I feel like none of you guys play Marvel Puzzle Quest, lol

Welcome to the future.
Honestly, MPQ has been more forgiving drop-wise than this. At least they know how to handle rarity better in terms of presenting guarantees. There's no reason a blue should give me anything below a blue.
 

Namikaze1

Member
Back from job hunting, which ended on a job offer, YEAH!!! Now time for some quick bounties and then several hours of dying during the raid.
 

Ken

Member
Decided to switch back to Vanguard grinding, there's no way I'll get enough Crucible Points to buy stuff when I'm constantly playing Strikes. :lol

If you like Strikes and don't mind being half as slow in progression, just focus on Vanguard gear lol.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Does it increase the quality of the engrams you get to decode though? For example, when you level him up you get a package in the mail. My understanding is that the package either contains 3 blues or 3 purples. Does having a higher level increase the chance that it will be 3 purples rather than 3 blues?
I have no clue, doubt anyone does.

also, who cares? The odds of getting something you need from any of them is teeny tiny.
I posted in that thread, the guy is just wrong. He's just wandering around finding items thinking his gun is leading him places. Shit is pretty funny to be honest.
what. that is fucking hilarious

he's dowsing!
Bah, been farming on the moon forever. These drops are horrendous. What's everyone else up to
join us arken, there is no need to farm
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actually have 3 more light than I did when I took this shot. i can almost taste it!
 
Dude, fluke. Maybe you slightly missed? A regular occurrence (once per match at least) is this:

I activate Arc Blade, come across a Titan, Hit R1, mid-slice he activates his super, blade bounces off harmlessly, I die.

I'm not sure. I have the super ability to send a shockwave in front of me, and the hunter was in front of me of my super. I killed his buddies behind him.
 
You may as well buy a blue from the gunsmith.

I'm surprised you haven't gotten a blue though. Have you done the Vanguard Playlist?

I need to do it more, thinking about that. Does it matter what level I do the playlist on? I'm level 24, so I could probably do up to the 24 playlist.

I check the gunsmith every time he restocks. He almost never has blues. Yesterday I saw a blue, but it was a Level 16 hand cannon and some other low level shit. If I see him with a level 18 blue auto rifle or scout rifle, I will definitely buy it though. I don't think he stocks level 20s does he?
 
Agreed. They needed to do something about it after it dominated matches in the beta, but it's been nerfed into the ground now.

The problem was they nerfed the damage and the rate of fire. They should have just done rate of fire.

I hate how I can literally hit a target dead on, in mid air, and it not kill them. What kind of beast can take a missile the face and laugh at me? That should be a kill, I don't care if a super is activated or not.

Also, did they do something to the sound? When I use the interceptors in that Cabal strike, the impact sound is like the baby "thwip" noise. It makes me feel so weak.
 
I think this is officially the worst trophy/achievement I've ever seen.

Only for right now. With a lvl cap bump down the road people ought to be able to get this no problem.

Though I'll be honest, if the expectation on Bungie's part is that people would need to wait for a level cap increase-- particularly if it comes in the form of packed into paid DLC-- before being able to achieve that particular trophy, that should rightfully become a PR nightmare for them. Every trophy ought to be reasonably obtainable given the toolkit in the base game. If it relies heavily on something you need to pay extra for, you done fucked up.
 

Moozo

Member
Weekly on PS4 anyone?
I attempted it earlier when I was at 22 with two other 22s and it was nigh on unbeatable.
I'm 23 now, but still I'd prefer to do it with some people who are higher than me if possible. Cheers.
 
Back from job hunting, which ended on a job offer, YEAH!!! Now time for some quick bounties and then several hours of dying during the raid.

Awesome!

Currently waiting for a lady to call me so I can have an interview with her. But otherwise I feel good about getting my first job in Los Angeles.
 
Does the titan in general just have the strongest melee? or is it a particular sub class? I wanted to make a build focused around it for pvp, and I'm not sure what skills would be best to use with it.

I don't think they're stronger, but their shoulder charge is fucking ridiculous. Well my shoulder charge anyway. I get like 10 shoulder charge kills per match lol.

Warlock and Hunter has slight range in their melee I think.
 

Savantcore

Unconfirmed Member
Weekly on PS4 anyone?
I attempted it earlier when I was at 22 with two other 22s and it was nigh on unbeatable.
I'm 23 now, but still I'd prefer to do it with some people who are higher than me if possible. Cheers.

Add me. My ID is LSB123. I don't have a mic right now but it's pretty straightforward. What level were you thinking of doing it on?
 

cilonen

Member
.... Boatloads of awesome posts ....

Thanks so much for your guides, I'm just hitting 20 and having fun just doing patrols and bounties as much as the story - I've only just got to Venus - and I sensed that the systems weren't a traditional loot RNG-fest as I seemed to be getting decent gear without trying and the vendors seemed fair; but your posts nailed it and layed it all out.
 
How are Titans in PVP?

Like, are any of their subclass abilities fun in that mode?

In FFA, my striker has the shoulder charge attack. If I sprint for longer than 3 seconds, I can melee to do a lunge forward an insta-kill someone. That's fun.

The Titan Smash is fun as well. It's great for jumping into another Titan's bubble shield, as well as awesome for control points with tight corners you can jump around.

I'm still using the flash bang grenade, but I think I'm going to try the supressor grenade next time I'm doing PvP. Apparently it prevents people from using their super/melee special/grenades as a debuff.
 
FINALLY! After 2 hours of grinding Rumble and A LOT of swearing, I finally got 500 points with a void weapon complete! Now the next step is to do the Moon strike but leave Phogoth alive and wait for the dropship to bring in an elite Wizard. Does this need to be done on a Heroic difficulty?
 

gatti-man

Member
I've played the game for 28 hours, I've never had a legendary engram, or a legendary drop. I've also never had an exotic bounty. I've got a pretty sick all blue suit that's got me to level 24 though.

My time will come...

I was well past 60 hours before my first exotic anything
 
I disagree. You get 18 kills or so for every death on the moon. Way faster than waiting on groups of three to come out of the cave 6 times.

It's groups of 5 actually (often more if the Thralls are spawning), and they spawn every 7 seconds. Plus if your'e going to be there a while, you'll get strange coins and Ascendant materials from doing the skywatch event.
 

Figments

Member
Awesome!

Currently waiting for a lady to call me so I can have an interview with her. But otherwise I feel good about getting my first job in Los Angeles.

I got hired just by calling my current employer and saying I need a job.

No interview, no application, no nothing.
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
Just killed nearly 3000 enemies at that damn temple and didn't get one damn purple engram.
It would have probably turned into a blue anyways. Just rank up the factions or Crucible and buy stuff from them. END THE CRYPTARCH'S RULE OVER OUR GROWTH
 

Moozo

Member
Add me. My ID is LSB123. I don't have a mic right now but it's pretty straightforward. What level were you thinking of doing it on?
The default, 22. No mic is fine, you're right it's pretty simple; we got right to the end but were just overwhelmed by numbers more than anything.
 

darknil

Member
I've been lurking this thread for a while now but just now decided to post.

So I just hit level 20, spent all my money on a ship (lol) and currently looking on factions. Any recommendations for a Warlock that likes punching and throwing grenades.

I don't want to farm anymore, so I'm actually expeting to get faction gear to level up as recommended some pages before, sooo, any suggestions?
 

Haint

Member
Just to be clear, you actually have to to grind the THOUSANDS of necessary Vanguard/Crucible/Faction RANK points in ~10 point (matches/patrols/strikes) and 50-100 point (bounties) blocks? There is no other way to get rank points by, say, turning in the variety of collectables for example? If not, what exactly are these collectable trinkets for, strictly armor/weapon upgrade materials?
 
FINALLY! After 2 hours of grinding Rumble and A LOT of swearing, I finally got 500 points with a void weapon complete! Now the next step is to do the Moon strike but leave Phogoth alive and wait for the dropship to bring in an elite Wizard. Does this need to be done on a Heroic difficulty?

How are you going to do it by yourself?
 

Afrocious

Member
I've been lurking this thread for a while now but just now decided to post.

So I just hit level 20, spent all my money on a ship (lol) and currently looking on factions. Any recommendations for a Warlock that likes punching and throwing grenades.

I don't want to farm anymore, so I'm actually expeting to get faction gear to level up as recommended some pages before, sooo, any suggestions?

Check out the New Monarchy Faction. I think they have the stats you're looking for.
 
It's groups of 5 actually (often more if the Thralls are spawning), and they spawn every 7 seconds. Plus if your'e going to be there a while, you'll get strange coins and Ascendant materials from doing the skywatch event.

Odd, only 3 seem to show up when I do it...

That's a good point about the Public Events. You have perhaps swayed me. That said, I'm not farming anymore. I'm earning shit pursuant to Hawkian's guide.
 

Arken2121

Member
I have no clue, doubt anyone does.

also, who cares? The odds of getting something you need from any of them is teeny tiny.

what. that is fucking hilarious

he's dowsing!

join us arken, there is no need to farm

actually have 3 more light than I did when I took this shot. i can almost taste it!

alrightyyyy. i'm in gaf clan
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Thanks so much for your guides, I'm just hitting 20 and having fun just doing patrols and bounties as much as the story - I've only just got to Venus - and I sensed that the systems weren't a traditional loot RNG-fest as I seemed to be getting decent gear without trying and the vendors seemed fair; but your posts nailed it and layed it all out.
Well thank you for reading them!

I'm glad to hear there were others who perceived the intended design. I agree with many complaints about it not being communicated very obviously, but I also "got it" pretty intuitively and from there just wanted to learn more. The moment I understood something different was going on here was when, at level 22, I equipped a pair of level 20 boots to advance to level 23. This is a very unusual thing to do in any game, and it reflects a lot of the subtle differences Bungie has applied to the various formulas that brought Destiny together.
alrightyyyy. i'm in gaf clan
clans are worthless :'(

Add Hawkian on PSN!
 

Xater

Member
Seeing all the moaning anout legendary drop rates and such in this thread makes me wonder what kind of overlap there is between Destiny players and seasoned Monster Hunter folks. Enjoy mowing through the same monster countless times in the hopes of overcoming the infamous Desire Sensor and scoring that Rathalos mantle with a 2% drop rate.
Coming over from MH3 Ultimate, it's funny to me how right at home I feel with a lot of Destiny's common criticisms. Now...if only my internet service didn't mysteriously die on Monday I could actually be enjoying the game. Instead I'm stuck here doing research. Hopefully I can apply it later!

I played lots of MH but that game doesn't really guard me off from doing anything just because I don't have the right gear.
 

Croc

Banned
Okay so...is it possible to get items/weapons during a match? I was just playing a match and someone found an exotic item (I think corrupted handgun or something) during the match. It showed up in the bottom left and wasn't shown in the results screen either.
 

kyored

Member
I've been lurking this thread for a while now but just now decided to post.

So I just hit level 20, spent all my money on a ship (lol) and currently looking on factions. Any recommendations for a Warlock that likes punching and throwing grenades.

I don't want to farm anymore, so I'm actually expeting to get faction gear to level up as recommended some pages before, sooo, any suggestions?

Dead Orbit. Join us.......
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Okay so...is it possible to get items/weapons during a match? I was just playing a match and someone found an exotic item (I think corrupted handgun or something) during the match. It showed up in the bottom left and wasn't shown in the results screen either.
I've heard about people getting engrams this way, I don't have an answer for you though. Mystery for now.
35% x 3 is not really teeny tiny
Where on earth are you getting that number?
 

bombshell

Member
FINALLY! After 2 hours of grinding Rumble and A LOT of swearing, I finally got 500 points with a void weapon complete! Now the next step is to do the Moon strike but leave Phogoth alive and wait for the dropship to bring in an elite Wizard. Does this need to be done on a Heroic difficulty?

I am working on the same exotic bounty.

You need to play this special version of the strike:

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Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_giRtFw0cmU
 

cilonen

Member
Just to be clear, you actually have to to grind the THOUSANDS of necessary Vanguard/Crucible/Faction RANK points in ~10 point (matches/patrols/strikes) and 50-100 point (bounties) blocks? There is no other way to get rank points by, say, turning in the variety of collectables for example? If not, what exactly are these collectable trinkets for, strictly armor/weapon upgrade materials?

You can turn the collectibles in for marks. Not sure about rep. Crucible rep you can IIRC
 

Wallach

Member
Just to be clear, you actually have to to grind the THOUSANDS of necessary Vanguard/Crucible RANK points in ~10 point (matches/patrols/strikes) and 50-100 point (bounties) blocks? There is no other way to get rank points by, say, turning in the variety of collectables for example? If not, what exactly are these collectable trinkets for, strictly armor/weapon upgrade materials?

You can turn in materials for rep, but it is not all that rep efficient. It requires 50 pieces of material for +25 rep, +5 marks and +250 Glimmer.
 

Kamina

Golden Boy
Okay so...is it possible to get items/weapons during a match? I was just playing a match and someone found an exotic item (I think corrupted handgun or something) during the match. It showed up in the bottom left and wasn't shown in the results screen either.
You might have played with me and famicom before. He had an exotic bounty that rewards him with the gun once he hits a certain pvp score.
 

Golgo 13

The Man With The Golden Dong
Does something change in the game when you hit level 16/17? I went from literally not getting any useful loot anywhere to getting 3 rares in an hour and tons of cool new gear.


Bungie fucked up by leaving lots of stuff so vague, it can be annoying.
 
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