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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 8:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 9:04:03 GMT -5
Also, someone is reporting that their friend got the new exotic nemesis star mgun (it's an inverse thunderlord) from a pre RoI exotic engram
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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 9:10:36 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 9:11:51 GMT -5
Oh.... one other piece of advice:
If Xur sells an exotic rocket launcher this friday.... buy the gauntlets instead.
Because we all know that having an exotic weapon in the heavy slot is a total waste
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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 10:20:18 GMT -5
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Post by Dumien on Sept 20, 2016 12:40:47 GMT -5
Having fun so far. The gjallarhorn quest culminated in my favorite Destiny story mission to date.
"Your LIGHT is a DRAGON, Guardian!"
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Post by markopolo on Sept 20, 2016 15:29:56 GMT -5
Having fun so far. The gjallarhorn quest culminated in my favorite Destiny story mission to date. "Your LIGHT is a DRAGON, Guardian!" I have a school function until 7, then kids to bed... dammit
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 21, 2016 0:26:39 GMT -5
I see "those" quests...and I'm still a mission (or 4 on my other characters) away from possibly starting them.
This weekend can't come soon enough.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 21, 2016 8:38:56 GMT -5
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Post by wings on Sept 21, 2016 13:17:58 GMT -5
Thought about buying the Crucible sniper rifle since I dismantled my Stillpiercer. Knew they would bring back sniper rifles that would KO other peoples' Supers with the drawback if a three round magazine, since Efrideet's Spear has a three round magazine post-Field Scout nerf.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 21, 2016 14:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 21, 2016 22:08:54 GMT -5
Woo, just finished the story on my Titan...already almost done with the Khvostov quest.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 22, 2016 11:50:45 GMT -5
I am currently 368 on my titan and 367 on my warlock (with appropriate gear sets).
My friend PK Bishop is currently (at the time of this posting), ranked 2nd in the world (all consoles) at 286 light. He is practically ready for hard mode raid... I'm looking forward to rolling over Wrath of the Machine.
If I could give my own SGA for leveling... Don't spend legenary/exotic engrams or skeleton keys until specific moments.
Step 1. Strike until you hit rank 350. At 350 there is a small bottleneck where any engrams you try to decrypt will result in a maximum of 351 light. Bungie put this in to try to stop you from relying on decrpyting engrams.
Step 2. Start grinding heroic strikes. The two blues that drop will eventually get you to 351. If you have three of coins...keep popping them. If you get lucky on your strikes, you should have some skeleton keys stowed away. Make sure that you never have 5 because you can't carry more than 5. If you have 5 at the end of a strike use one key.
Step 3. Start decrpyting your legendary engrams and using vanguard/faction packages to gradually increase your light level. Since you are past the 351 bottleneck your level should start increasing more rapidly.
Step 4. Keep Heroic Striking. If you are serious about this, I highly recommend steadily enfusing a bolt caster or Plan-C as you go. If you can spare the exotic shard this will make your heroic striking experience on week 1 much smooooooother. I had even more exotic shards to spare so I did the same with my ruin wings so I could spam the destructo disc ability.
Step 5. Are you aroung 365? Are you at 363? 364? Cool. Start using keys at the end of your strike. This currently the only way to get a likely drop of a high level artifact. This is why you are saving your keys. The other legendary drops from skeleton keys will also decrypt over the level of 365 while legendaries from legendary engrams WILL NOT. You can also start popping your exotic engrams which can also surpass the 365 barrier. You can also grind out vanguard and faction rep packages since the legendaries from those packages (ghosts included!) will decrypt beyond the 365 barrier.
Step 6. Keep grinding Heroic strikes OR grab a group of 3 friends and grind out moon patrols. Do 9 patrols. Go to orbit. Do 9 patrols. Go to orbit. The latter method doesn't yield skeleton keys but it is BY FAR the most effective way to grind out faction rep. Two friends and I used this method prior to the DLC launch to grind out strange coins and faction rep. We got it down to such a science that we were able to complete 9 patrols in well under 9 minutes. Moon is the best because there are only 3 Zones and all of the scan/scout missions are in predictable and easy to access areas. Once you get good at it, it doesn't require much thought. I listened to over 48 hours of audio books for my master thesis while doing these patrols.
Bishop was able to reach such a high level because he stacked pages and pages of exotic engrams...very intense. Us plebeians will have to grind.
P.S. Archon's Forge is currently a trap. Don't do it if you are looking for efficient leveling. Strikes are the way to go. Past level 365 you should focus on Moon patrol (boring as they might be) or Strikes.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 22, 2016 12:08:39 GMT -5
Brad and I finished the story line. I also did some patroling for esses and gees to get familiar with areas.
SO far, so good.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 22, 2016 15:27:32 GMT -5
Prepare thine anus' y'all
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Post by bradman on Sept 22, 2016 18:22:02 GMT -5
Brad and I finished the story line. I also did some patroling for esses and gees to get familiar with areas. SO far, so good. "I am SO erect right now..." markopolo, upon being christened an Iron Lord September 21 2016.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 23, 2016 10:38:30 GMT -5
Brad and I finished the story line. I also did some patroling for esses and gees to get familiar with areas. SO far, so good. " I have to stop playing, I can only get so erect..." markopolo, upon being christened an Iron Lord September 21 2016. ftfy
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Post by bradman on Sept 23, 2016 15:38:28 GMT -5
Lol, top gaming moment, to be sure.
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Post by malgato on Sept 23, 2016 21:06:04 GMT -5
Is there a Destiny for dummies?! I haven't played since February and have no idea what is going on.
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Post by wings on Sept 24, 2016 6:03:35 GMT -5
P.S. Archon's Forge is currently a trap. Was for me literally. I went cluster hunting and, instead of turning left, I turned right and spent one of my consumables and got locked out of the arena. So I had to go to orbit and make the trip again. As you've completed it, is there a point in bringing in a shotgun into the raid? Wondering how useful my void Burden of Proof IX is going to be.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 24, 2016 13:26:24 GMT -5
Snipers are top tier for this raid.
Its a shame because the raid shotgun is top tier. Most of the raid weapons are top tier.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 24, 2016 16:10:13 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Sept 24, 2016 16:11:30 GMT -5
Maybe not for the raid, but shotguns are gods of supremcy right now
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Post by TheHawkNY on Sept 24, 2016 18:57:54 GMT -5
Literally don't do anything but farm Omnigul until everything but your Artifact on all of your characters is 365, because they may hot fix that really soon.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 24, 2016 19:53:41 GMT -5
Literally don't do anything but farm Omnigul until everything but your Artifact on all of your characters is 365, because they may hot fix that really soon. Find me a hunter fam
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Post by markopolo on Sept 24, 2016 20:00:00 GMT -5
Tbh, I'm taking my time. I was getting worn out at the end of ttk... I already power level by running 3 warlocks. It'd be nice to run the raid right now... But what will I do in oct/nov? WotM CM? Besides, TheHawkNY loves yelling at me and bradman during wipes... If I know what to do, how will hawk yell at me? Brad and I would be depriving him
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Post by TheHawkNY on Sept 24, 2016 21:19:08 GMT -5
Snipers are top tier for this raid. Its a shame because the raid shotgun is top tier. Most of the raid weapons are top tier. I'd say this is the raid that is least sniper-dependent. Fusion rifles and sidearms are still pointless, but I used a shotgun a lot. For almost all of it, you need to have something for close-mid range dps and something for long range dps. The choices are basically Sniper+Sword, Shotgun+LMG, or Either+Ghorn. I used Shotgun+LMG for the entirety of my first 2 runs. Are all of the raid weapons dropping? I have the Launcher, Fusion, Shotgun, Scout, and Auto Rifle, but no one I have seen has received any of the others.
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 24, 2016 22:55:46 GMT -5
Well, finished the story and got to ~340 on my characters...now to work on some quests and then eventually some heroic strikes.
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Post by wings on Sept 25, 2016 2:26:03 GMT -5
Literally don't do anything but farm Omnigul until everything but your Artifact on all of your characters is 365, because they may hot fix that really soon. If they do it would just add another silly move by Bungie. They removed players' Iron Banner bounties that rewarded Legendary Marks, make the new raid at a significantly higher light level and release it within three days of the DLC dropping? Like, what do they expect? A fix to this would just lockout players from playing the raid sooner.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 25, 2016 12:43:01 GMT -5
Snipers are top tier for this raid. Its a shame because the raid shotgun is top tier. Most of the raid weapons are top tier. I'd say this is the raid that is least sniper-dependent. Fusion rifles and sidearms are still pointless, but I used a shotgun a lot. For almost all of it, you need to have something for close-mid range dps and something for long range dps. The choices are basically Sniper+Sword, Shotgun+LMG, or Either+Ghorn. I used Shotgun+LMG for the entirety of my first 2 runs. Are all of the raid weapons dropping? I have the Launcher, Fusion, Shotgun, Scout, and Auto Rifle, but no one I have seen has received any of the others. Sniper is pretty important for the first two bosses and you should be using snipers on the final boss unless you absolutely need a shotgun to kill the yellow bars (why not use a OHKO super?) My group killed the bosses in less cycles than the top streamers were on the first day by focusing on DPS with sniper + gjallarhorn. If you have a decent primary you shouldn't ever be fighting any enemies in CQC other than the aforementioned yellow bars. You listed all the drops available. Also every piece of armor has dropped for various members of my group (though only one person got the helmet). Btw this auto rifle is FANTASTIC. Most of my core raid crew uses it throughout the entire raid. Its like they made a necrochasm that actually WORKS. We like it even though you cant really crit too many things in the final fight. It is a blast on strikes though!
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