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[the_id]

I need a NF on my Warlock, and I'm just running Heroic Strikes in the meantime.

Sorry bro. Taking a break for now. Might try DS3 instead.

 

[bagandscalpel]

wow did anyone think that new Strike was any good?

it was really meh and I was laughing all the way through it, thinking to myself that this cant be the new strike. it was so unbelievably uninspiring and bland.

The NF version I liked because it reminded me of the Driviks fight, at times, with all the taken psions shooting everywhere.

 

[Daemul]

Here's a brief outline of what I'd recommend. Start initially with only one character. You'll want to get him as high as possible then infuse that progress into your next alt. Repeat for your 3rd character.

1. If you have materials to donate, level up a few factions. Assuming your character is close to 320, whatever gear you get should be mid-320s. It's best to do this early since the faction rewards cap at 330. You want to use them as a boost before running the Hard raid, so that your raid drops can start extending into the upper 320s.
2. Nightfalls are another chance for 320-330 gear, similar to ranking factions, so that's an option if you're short on materials. Personally I didn't do any NFalls.
3. If you saved exotic engrams, decrypt one for your lowest light gear slot, e.g. if your special weapon slot has the lowest light and you have an exotic engram then decrypt it and equip whatever you get. How many exotics you decrypt depends on how many you have saved. I'd recommend saving most of them for later, especially if you only have one engram for a certain gear slot (i.e. don't use all your helmets). That way you can fill in the gaps later that you don't get from raid drops.
4. Run the raid on your first character. Make sure to equip all your highest light gear. Don't be afraid to infuse your high light items (ex: a 327 faction auto rifle) into the gear you actually wanna use (ex: Hung Jury). You want to be as high light as possible each time you clear an encounter since the LL of drops will be determined by your character's current LL. We never saw anyone get a drop more than 6 light above their current level.
5. Equip or infuse every higher light item as soon as you get it, before clearing the next encounter. With some decent luck your first character should reach mid-320s.
6. Once you finish the raid, transfer your highest light weapons and ghost to your second character. Then infuse all of your highest light armor and artifact from your first character into your second character. Definitely keep something if you really like the stats/perks but otherwise infuse it all. This includes exotics since 1:1 infusion means it's easy to replace something using the kiosk.
7. Now run the raid on your second character, but you'll start at mid-320's so your gear drops will be high-320s, low 330s. With decent luck your second character should reach low 330s.
8. Transfer weapons + ghost to your 3rd character, and infuse all of your highest light armor from your second character. Your third guy should start the raid at the same LL where your 2nd character finished (I started our last raid at 331).
9. Once I hit 332, every drop since has been 334-335. Now's also the time to cash in any remaining exotic engrams, especially if they match a low light gear slot. When you get multiple high light items for the same gear slot (e.g. I got two 335 artifacts from our third challenge mode), you can now pass them back to your initial alts. Except they'll be receiving higher light gear than what they initially donated. That's why my first two characters could hit 333 after my last character had hit 334.

A couple random notes: All faction rewards will drop at 330 once you're over that LL. Exotic engrams should decrypt above your current level, but I did get a 334 Praxic Fire when I was 334. You can run Challenge of Elders for additional 335 drops from both the end game rewards screen, and the High Score + Cumulative Score rewards.

Anyway, hope this helps. It's not nearly as confusing as I made it sound, but I wanted to include enough detail. The progression system is so much better now that everyone will reach high level before long, but this method works really well for anyone that wants to expedite the process and start getting max light drops ASAP. Let me know if anyone has questions.

Brilliant work Boguester, I also realized quite soon after the update dropped that I was wasting my time trying to do Nightfalls, CoO and even the Level 42 Challenge mode in order to try and get my character to 330+ light quickly, and that running the Raids first was a much more effective strategy.

I've currently run the raid on two of my Hunters and I'm sitting on 229 light, so by the time I finish my 3rd Raid I'll probably be in the 332+ range and I can go back and do the other activities.

 

[Slammin_Hammon]

I thought I did pretty well this morning when I for seemingly no reason picked up a Shaxx package with a longbow that had SLR10 - triple tap - injection mold - and hot swap, but I just pulled another package and got hooked up with a longbow with SLR10 - last resort - Snapshot - hidden hand. Even after the nerf this roll is going to feel pretty good I think.

 

[Carbonox]

Is there a list of things to do that get you higher level gear?

Nightfall - done on 1 character
POE 41 - done on 1 character (can this be played over and over?)
COE - done on 1 character (can this be played over and over? The 3 times I did it for the Sigil netted me rewards but what's the standard of the rewards? I know the Sigil is or should be weekly)

Weekly Heroic?
Crucible?
Crucible Bounties?

Then there is the obvious Raid-related stuff.

Edit: Just seen Boguester's post above. Thanks.

 

[mehrmantrout]

By the end of the day I was 332.4 on my Warlock.

The others will not be this easy.

Just decrypt gear on your warlock then transfer it over, easy

 

[Daemul]

Oh yeah before I forget to ask, why doesn't the Challenge of Elders have matchmaking? It's easier than the level 41 PoE ffs.

 

[glaurung]

Just decrypt gear on your warlock then transfer it over, easy

Yeah, I took a longer time to figure out the exotic engram decryption math.

Need to start raiding again now.

 

[Wallach]

Guess I'll log in a bit this week and see what's goin' on in Destiny lately.

For some reason I had 200 spacebucks for their spaceshop, and saw that they were selling gamble boxes for speeder horns of all things. Was hoping for a mariachi horn but wound up with a fog horn instead, which is still pretty okay. It came with a speeder which is kind of neat looking. The second one had an "aqua horn" which to me doesn't sound like anything but a normal car horn so I don't really know what is aqua about it.

All the AR and PR changes look pretty keen. Seems like the raid PR and sniper should be even better, which was already one of my favorite combos. Also they seem to have fixed that exotic Titan AR and in the brief spin I took it on seemed pretty awesome now.

 

[Terrordactyl]

Oh yeah before I forget to ask, why doesn't the Challenge of Elders have matchmaking? It's easier than the level 41 PoE ffs.

Because it's a C H A L L E N G E

 

[phen0m24]

Oh no, Colonel has been Taken! ;_;



Nice bro, glad to hear of your success with the Drizz strat. Please comment, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel for more hot Destiny tips.

Just spoiled from playing with you guys.

 

[Daemul]

Because it's a C H A L L E N G E

The final Exotic Sword quest is more of a challenge than this shit, and hell even that has matchmaking.

It boggles my mind that the the nightfall still doesn't have MM, whilst the one mission which requires more coordination and teamwork than any other(because Lord, so much can go wrong when 3 random people are each going for different exotic swords) does have MM.

Bungie pls

 

[Hedera]

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT.

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

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2. hedera_
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Added myself. Looking foward to do some raiding!

 

[KuroNeeko]

PvP is still a thing right?

Is it locked or based on light level? I tried joining something via the Crucible last night and couldn't find any active games (level 26-ish).

 

[Kreus]

Theres no content...

Spoiler

I had fun!

 

[Number45]

wow did anyone think that new Strike was any good?

it was really meh and I was laughing all the way through it, thinking to myself that this cant be the new strike. it was so unbelievably uninspiring and bland.

I spawned into the strike and immediately thought... surely it's not just one fucking room?

Spoiler

Wasn't far wrong

 

[glaurung]

The final Exotic Sword quest is more of a challenge than this shit, and hell even that has matchmaking.

It boggles my mind that the the nightfall still doesn't have MM, whilst the one mission which requires more coordination and teamwork than any other(because Lord, so much can go wrong when 3 random people are each going for different exotic swords) does have MM.

Bungie pls

Someone at Bongo was imagining that we'd be killing all three elemental knights along with Darkblade within 30 seconds. Now that would pose a challenge. The most I've done is two elemental knights with Darkblade, never three.

 

[LifEndz]

The final Exotic Sword quest is more of a challenge than this shit, and hell even that has matchmaking.

It boggles my mind that the the nightfall still doesn't have MM, whilst the one mission which requires more coordination and teamwork than any other(because Lord, so much can go wrong when 3 random people are each going for different exotic swords) does have MM.

Bungie pls

This stands out all the more in a post-Division world. The companion app was running like shit for me and when I finally did get in a group for the nightfall I got kicked for being too low light (315 is too low?). Matchmaking for nightfall needs to happen.

 

[HunRevan]

Should I upgrade Hawkmoon or Ace of Spades?

 

[xplicitone]

Obviously his skill is a million times better than mine but this felt good.

 

[inthrall]

Alright, finally about to come online. Anyone running this PoE thing and need another?

 

[mehrmantrout]

PvP is still a thing right?

Is it locked or based on light level? I tried joining something via the Crucible last night and couldn't find any active games (level 26-ish).

The population wasn't very high last night, 90% of my games were join in progress. Actually level 26 do you have TTK or still vanilla Destiny?

Should I upgrade Hawkmoon or Ace of Spades?

Hawkmoon

Edit Nghtly got partnered

 

[2real4tv]

I forgot I got this bad boy earlier until Vaal was frothing at the mouth and I remembered.

woah stable as f**k

 

[inthrall]

Apothesis Veil and Zen Meteor from my engrams, not too shabby. Also got the new Chroma gloves from my sterling chest

 

[Klyka]

I just realized I would have to resub to playstation plus if I want to play the new strike and the remastered PoE


Uuuuuuugggh i don't want to spend money on this for like 2 hours of gameplaaaaay

 

[WeTeHa]

Evening your time or mine?

Evening my time 10 pm CET?

 

[inthrall]

And got the helmet and this ship from my second one

Anyone for Challenge of the Elders?

 

[KuroNeeko]

The population wasn't very high last night, 90% of my games were join in progress. Actually level 26 do you have TTK or still vanilla Destiny?

Hawkmoon

Edit Nghtly got partnered

I own the TTK and PvE is gradually starting to reflect that. It also gives me the option to join classic or TTK maps when entering the Crucible. (I tried both.)

Even the "low-level" Strikes are really hard to find. I just completed the vanilla Crota quest line at level 25-ish...lol

 

[Number45]

I just realized I would have to resub to playstation plus if I want to play the new strike and the remastered PoE


Uuuuuuugggh i don't want to spend money on this for like 2 hours of gameplaaaaay

Planning on doing it all twice?

 

[Klyka]

Planning on doing it all twice?

D: D: D: D:

 

[DrDrizzay101]

Edit Nghtly got partnered

Nice, good for him. I remember his early streaming days when he'd get like 30 viewers and a lot of them were DGAF'ers due to the Zoba connection. He definitely cultivated his own unique vibe, well deserved.

 

[Deku Tree]

Anybody who bought the mystery boxes. How much did you need to spend to get a full set of Taken armor on one character?

 

[WeTeHa]

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT.

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

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2. hedera_
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I can join you guys.

 

[Sentinalprimus]

Kurt and I need one more for a few Challenge Prisons.

 

[Namikaze1]

Anyone raiding soon?

 

[Darryl M R]

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT.

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

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Is there any reason to do HM vs CM (3x)? I should be down though. PSN: Darryl_M_R. So this will be 12 est

 

[JayHayabusa]

Anyone raiding soon?

Im setting up a group in 5 hours from now. But by soon you might mean less than 5 hours

 

[JayHayabusa]

Is there any reason to do HM vs CM (3x)? I should be down though. PSN: Darryl_M_R. So this will be 12 est

Not sure about HM vs CM. But following Drizzy's post to edge my titan up from about 315

 

[JayHayabusa]

Updated list below

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT -- 12 pm EST

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

1. jayforone
2. hedera_
3. WeTeHa
4. Darryl_M_R
5.
6.

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[WeTeHa]

Is there any reason to do HM vs CM (3x)? I should be down though. PSN: Darryl_M_R. So this will be 12 est

You get additional drops from the second chest, I guess.

I just unlocked the exotic class item quest... I have to wear a dead orbit shader, emblem and class item while completing the steps? Is it really a class item or does any armor work?

Edit: Oh I think I know what you mean... Now that drops aren't "310-320" anymore, but always around or higher than your light level, I think it's better to do the full HM raid to get drops from everybody. And with the CM you get a possible double drop.

 

[Namikaze1]

Im setting up a group in 5 hours from now. But by soon you might mean less than 5 hours

If I'm not too busy dying in Dark Souls 3, I'll join in.

 

[keakster]

I just unlocked the exotic class item quest... I have to wear a dead orbit shader, emblem and class item while completing the steps? Is it really a class item or does any armor work?

Needs to be a class item, I tried it with a chest piece and it didn't count (for New Monarchy)

 

[DrDrizzay101]

Is there any reason to do HM vs CM (3x)? I should be down though. PSN: Darryl_M_R. So this will be 12 est

Not sure about HM vs CM. But following Drizzy's post to edge my titan up from about 315

Keep in mind that Challenge mode doesn't drop max light gear anymore. So it's not necessarily higher light stuff compared to other raid checkpoints. It just drops more gear, and specific types like the artifacts and armor pieces this week. So it's a great place to get higher LL stuff, but once you've equipped that then you'll get even higher LL drops from Daughters and Oryx since your character's level is now higher.

Honestly it's not a bad way to make the entire raid worth doing, since you can get better gear from every phase now. When Challenge mode started most people stopped doing anything else since 99 times out of 100 they got lower light drops. That's not the case anymore.

 

[Hedera]

Keep in mind that Challenge mode doesn't drop max light gear anymore. So it's not necessarily higher light stuff compared to other raid checkpoints. It just drops more gear, and specific types like the artifacts and armor pieces this week. So it's a great place to get higher LL stuff, but once you've equipped that then you'll get even higher LL drops from Daughters and Oryx since your character's level is now higher.

Honestly it's not a bad way to make the entire raid worth doing, since you can get better gear from every phase now. When Challenge mode started most people stopped doing anything else since 99 times out of 100 they got lower light drops. That's not the case anymore.

So what you're saying is that loot is actually smart now

 

[Inapplicable]

Updated list below

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT -- 12 pm EST

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

1. jayforone
2. hedera_
3. WeTeHa
4. Darryl_M_R
5. Inapplicable
6.

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I should hopefully be awake for this, haven't done a full KF in forever.

 

[Namikaze1]

Updated list below

Planning a hard mode raid for 4 pm GMT -- 12 pm EST

Let the slow creep to 335 begin (not everyone got Drizzy's godly RNG )

1. jayforone
2. hedera_
3. WeTeHa
4. Darryl_M_R
5.
6. Namikaze1

Please quote this post and sign up.

I'm in

 

[WeTeHa]

Anybody wanna run PoE challenge? Need to do the 30k/90k on two of my characters.

 

[LyleLanley]

I haven't been following much news from this update, can you now buy actual gear with real money?

 

[Darknyss09]

Room for 1 in NF. Join on me or Trakan.

 

[Deku Tree]

I haven't been following much news from this update, can you now buy actual gear with real money?

Yes. It has LL 3 but can be quickly infused up to max LL. It is the best looking armor in the game. Gotten via RNG mystery boxes.