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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.
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oh also, as I said I wasn't getting drops, a fucking legendary engram drops. Wish me luck
It's probably from doing the Thorn exotic bounty from the sounds of it. The player likely completed a PvP step of the bounty during the match.
RNG doesn't work the way you think it does.
Dat RNG. At lvl 26 I have blues coming out of my bung hole. I have 3 snipes for every element, 2 auto rifles, 3 rocket launchers for every element. I poop blues.
cpp_is_king
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If only 3 are showing up, then I think you need to go around and kill some of the surrounding monsters. I'm not sure precisely what triggers it, but I've seen 3 Acolytes, 5 Acolytes, and 5 Acolytes plus some thralls.
I still like farming because it allows me to complete other things at the same time. Grimoire entries for areas, enemies, class kills, weapon kills, for example. And levelling up my weapons quickly. It also allows me to complete bounties like the 100 kills without dying and the 9k exp without dying very easily. And if you hang around long enough you'll get the war between the fallen and the hive, and you can complete 2 additional bounties then: the one for 10 fallen majors and the one for 10 hive majors.
Once you're in all level 20 blues it becomes less appealing, for sure, but personally I still like the fact that I'm getting so many things done at once.
You can turn in the mats for rep and marks- 50 mats gives....3 marks iirc? and something like 150 rep. It can take a while though, I usually farm the mats necessary whilst doing the patrols.
Enough Crucible for now, weekly heroic in five minutes I think.
I am working on the same exotic bounty.
You need to play this special version of the strike:
Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_giRtFw0cmU
Did this in the morning with another gaffer and a friend of mine. It's not fun at all, it's horrible.
This is correct.
Lucent
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Uh, I do the Earth farming thing all the time. There's at least 6 or so that spill out. Just have to have everyone far away enough from the cave. And I much prefer just continuously killing enemies than killing the wave and then having to try to get something to kill me. It's really weird because the Knight on the moon will miss you a lot if you're trying to get hit and not fighting back.
cpp_is_king
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I do actually understand how RNG works. I have a degree in math and studied probability theory at the graduate level. It's possible you just didn't understand my post though, which could be because I didn't write it clearly enough.
If you have 3 purple engrams, the chance of decrypting to a purple item is not "teeny tiny".
everyday math
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ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
Doubt it, wouldn't matter if it did either, difference would be so small in a game that already uses a massive ton of aim assist.
cpp_is_king
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From the chart that was just posted all over the previous 2 pages, that shows that if you decrypt a purple engram, there is roughly a 35% chance that it decrypts to purple.
Ok, just need a third member. Anyone else?
N° 2048
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Quoting because this has helped me so much.
RedAssedApe
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if you inspect another player in game you can report both good and bad things about them.
quitters i don't mind as much...as single players can pop into your game through matchmaking. its the ones who you spawn with at the beginning who waste a player slot and then make it much harder/time consuming for you and the other person who are trying to quickly complete a strike. then they get a reward too -_-
everyday math
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Just lvl up to faction lvl 3 for the legendary stuff and then switch back to the other stuff.
Haint
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I thought I had seen people reference this, which is why I asked. Who/where are the NPC(s) that do this?
cpp_is_king
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Did it 6 hours ago at skywatch and got about 8 blues and 20+ greens in an hour.
Yikes- that isn't what I was saying. a ~34% chance of the item being either purple or exotic is grand, but even succeeding at that ~1 in 3 roll...
Knowing the type of engram affects the probability of what I was talking about pretty dramatically. Without that info...
It could be a purple weapon (which won't raise your level)
It could be a class item
It could be an armor piece for another class (possibly another ~33% roll if there is no weighting)
It could be an armor piece for a slot you already have
Those odds taken into account, the odds of any individual legendary engram being an item that you can use to progress are, indeed, teeny tiny.
Weapon vendors for Vanguard and Crucible. The Vanguard one is in the hangar on the east side of the Tower, just below the shipwright. The Crucible one is in the central area down below, on the left of the hallway (across from cap'n vikinghat).
This happened to me. It just popped up saying I had gotten a legendary engram, no drop or sound that I remember, no legendary on the result screen. It was there when I checked my inventory after finishing the match.
first of all, sorry about the smart ass comment earlier.
Second, although it may not be teeny tiny, its still a crackshot on whether you get it or not since you basically need to roll a 1-35 on a 100 sided die on one of the turn ins. And thats not including whether you get a piece of armor for another class.
I'll get on your level someday :*(
right now, I don't even have any legendaries lol. (just turned level 20 a day ago)
having no legendaries isn't an "issue" until level 24
Got this from a legendary engram just now. That magazine size.
That impact tho
PaulKersey
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Anybody on PS4 down for the weekly strike or something? Maybe even the Weekly Nightfall strike, but I am only 25, so I don't know if that is good enough. Hit me up at PaulKersey.
Yeah, I don't really like high fire rate and low impact but I'll level it and see.
Dave_6
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Damn this thread moves fast! I'm still at work and clamoring to get home and start it back up. This game has it's fangs in me!
I'm nearly a 25 and I think I'm done with farming for engrams. Time to start doing nothing but strikes, bounties and PvP (and patrols).
PSN is DaveS78 if anyone wants to add me that hasn't yet.
I'm nearly a 25 and I think I'm done with farming for engrams. Time to start doing nothing but strikes, bounties and PvP (and patrols).
PSN is DaveS78 if anyone wants to add me that hasn't yet.
Savantcore
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Just upgraded a piece of my Legendary Armour with some Ascendant Shards and its Light level only went up by one 
Thought it was two every time?
Thought it was two every time?I'm down - PSN: bearsohmy
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Call Lionel Richie because you will be shooting at the ceiling with that fire rate.
Admiral Woofington
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The Cryptarch should be called the Crypt
Cause that's where your hopes go after giving him engrams.
Cause that's where your hopes go after giving him engrams.
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