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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.
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Hell no. It'll clear for everyone in your party that has it
Cømet;130656203 said:
It's 5 marks per turn, I can't recall exactly how much rep, but definitely 5 marks.
I find doing patrol stuff and public quests while grabbing whatever chest and resources I find is a great way to earn a bunch of rep and cap weekly marks. It's a nice way to be able to yack with anyone in the room with you and still accomplish a bunch.
Also just as a sort of PSA, you can do the same turn ins with the crucible guy and get rep+marks for that was well, same ratios as you do for Vanguard. I'm sure it's easier to actually PVP but if you are like me and aren't a huge fan of pvp it is a consistent and reliable way to build general crucible rep and marks.
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Sorry, last slot got filled =/
Victory Red
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cpp_is_king
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Might as well do the actual math. Let's assume that the engram you receive is equally likely to be any of the following:
[1/8] Primary Weapon
[1/8] Special Weapon
[1/8] Heavy Weapon
[1/8] Head
[1/8] Gauntlets
[1/8] Chest
[1/8] Feet
[1/8] Mark
Furthermore, if it's a Head, Gauntlets, Chest, or Feet, you're only interested if it's for your class. (not necessarily true, btw, I like the idea of getting to 20 on an alt and immediately powerlevelling him to 24-25 with banked legendaries). Also, assume you don't care about marks. Now the odds become:
[1/8] Primary Weapon
[1/8] Special Weapon
[1/8] Heavy Weapon
[1/24] Head
[1/24] Gauntlets
[1/24] Chest
[1/24] Feet
I think most people would be happy with a purple weapon even if it doesn't raise your level, so I'm leaving them there.. The odds of the engram decrypting to any of the above is 3/8 + 4/24 = 13/24, which is about 54.17%. The odds of being purple or yellow is about 37%, so the combined probability that it's a purple or yellow item that you can use is almost exactly 20%. So, the odds that it's a blue or green item, or an item that you can't use is 80%. The odds of getting 3 such items that you aren't interested in (since we're talking about a pack of 3 legendaries), is (.8)^3 = 51.2%, and finally the odds that you get at least 1 item that you find useful from this pack of 3 legendaries is 48.8%.
This is the best case scenario, assuming that any purple you get, as long as you can equip it, is useful. This is true for most people at 24, since they are probably decked out in all blues and don't have any legendaries yet. As you start filling slots with legendaries, this number starts going down.
In any case, with a number like 48.8%, I don't think it's fair to say that 3 random legendary engrams gives only a teeny tiny chance of yielding something you need. Granted, this all depends on what the odds of your package actually containing 3 legendaries as opposed to 3 blues is, which leads back to my original question of whether levelling your cryptarch increases *that* probability. I don't know if it does though, and maybe nobody else does either.
I'm using that while I level Gjallarhorn. Fun weapon. With my armor I have store 999 rounds of ammunition.
Does anyone know if Exotic Bounties have to be claimed immediately? If you skip claiming them the first time do you lose them? I hate wasting bounty space when I get to play. Lose that efficiency making an extra trip to the tower.
of course i do so i apologize for not being more clear in stating that my personal experience says bullshit. and that people on my friends list are having similar experiences of very long dry runs of purples yielding shit. so my experience of going 0-12 doesn't matter? something's very clearly wrong.
it seems that some people don't have much trouble with engrams giving decent results and others are clearly having horrible results. i've talked with people decrypting upwards of 25-30 purples with nothing but shit blues and greens to show for it.
for christ's sake, no need to talk down to me and ignore the actual issue.
EL CUCO
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Lol. Yup. That's where the Shingen-C/E stomps all other AR's. The stability is delish
Took tip? I can't hover over the attribute of weapons. A specific screen?
Press triangle to inspect an item.
Blue Ninja
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Aw yiss, fully leveled Striker. Gonna level up Defender too, be versatile and shit.
Also got out of that 24 pit, 26 here I come!
everyday math
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I don't want to find Relic Irons and other materials anymore. :/
rocksteady1983
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What worries me is most of these exotic and legendary weapons I swear I have already seen in previews and what not. Surely there are several exotic auto rifles, launchers, etc. Seems very low so far though. Has anyone got a list of exotic weapons known so far to see how much variation there is?
Ok? A lot of people still haven't gotten them...
Lucent
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I sort of figure all of this out on my own once I learned about the factions. I figured, why deal with RNG and get frustrated when I can just work towards something that's guaranteed?
So I'm just ranking up in FWC and getting marks. Grabbing as many strange coins and motes of light as I can. But I'm not trying to rush.
Admiral Woofington
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So for how much do I have to sell my body to Bungie for so the exotic piece for Warlocks this weekend is Heart of the Praxic Fire.
Yeah I know I got a couple raid friends that haven't gotten either I don't understand how you're supposed to even obtain one I just randomly got mine after turning in a bounty so I'm thinking after every bounty you have a percentage chance of getting it.
Tell me about it. There should be a vendor at the Tower that sells a limited quantity of each but Bungie want us to grind.
Allnamestakenlol
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I picked up a legendary engram a few seconds before the end of a crucible match. Really caught me by surprise. Ended up decoding to a blue, sadly. =/
They might be happy with it (as would I), but it's not what I'm talking about. Since you have the relevant variables in front of you, could you calculate the odds that it will be an item with light on it?
Yup. I was gonna try for the platinum. Not any more.
So much useful info in the grimoire! Not a bad read either. Its all a bit overcooked but I do like the idea that hive ogres get tortured into being abominations like Phogoth. The Servitors have funny names too. They're just funny, actually. And the idea of vex precursors and descendants is interesting too. Oh dear. I think I actually like the plot of Destiny. And to think I studied literature.
The Librarian
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Only if you be my puppy.
everyday math
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Iv been saying that since day one.
Or maybe you could trade some materials for whatever material you need.
Insanity... just wow.
See I have a feeling they'll implement something like this in a future update after the games been out for some time to ease new players into it.
Don't feel bad, no one is posting the mountains of shit gear they also get.
If you are player who abuse Devil's Lairs matchmaking to get some chest farm done while 2 others try do strike you are worst, should be ashamed of yourself and stop it!
Yes, experienced few of these kind players while doing exotic bounty and even if we can 2 man this strike it's so annoying to have 3rd running circles for chests.
Yes, experienced few of these kind players while doing exotic bounty and even if we can 2 man this strike it's so annoying to have 3rd running circles for chests.
Jest Chillin
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It will be done easily once everyone out-gears and out-levels the raid. It'll probably be done before that though by a seriously dedicated group that figures out little tricks for every encounter.
cpp_is_king
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I assume you mean an item with light on it *for your class*, so if that's the case then the odds of any one random purple engram decrypting to any purple or yellow item with light for your class should be (1/6) x (37%) = 6.17%. If you do this three time, the odds that none of them will be purple or yellow items with light are (1 - .0617)^3 = 82.62%, and finally the odds that at least 1 of them will be a purple or yellow item with light that you can equip are 100% - 82.62% = 17.34%.
Again, this only analyzes the percentages from the package you get by ranking up your cryptarch, assuming that package has 3 random legendaries in it. To get a bigger picture about farming, you would need to have a really large sample size of kills to estimate how many blue / purple engrams per hour you would be expected to get, and what the odds of your level up package having purples in it as opposed to blues.
Savantcore
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Any decent/not too lengthy Spirit Bloom runs?
Hover over the name of the stat while looking at a gun in detail and it tells you what each one means.
Admiral Woofington
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everyday math
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Almost got all of these bonuses.
Ah that's right, spot on. Couldn't remember, haven't been able to do them for a few days as doing what you've said max'd my marks out early Tuesday!
I can only really enjoy four or five games of crucible at any one time before it starts dragging, so yeah I do tend to give my mats to the crucible guy.
I was so disappointed by that woman. She should be sacked. Bring someone in with better/more shaders!
The Librarian
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Be gentle with me
I don't like it ruff.
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