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Post by qupie on Sept 28, 2016 9:35:05 GMT -5
Yeah, "just" level one single character up to 365, then do raid and nightfall (not before!). Then infuse all that good stuff into your second character, making him probably around 370 going into the raid/nightfall, which will result in 370+ drops. This will leave your first one behind a bit, but he will be back up to 365 in no time, as every single blue that drops will be 365. From there on out, you are basically set to do whatever.
Remember to decrypt exotics on your highest character though! unless you are looking for a specific armour piece.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 28, 2016 9:37:54 GMT -5
watch the whole video, but if you want to see the Siva cluster swarm ala a sivagjallie... watch him kill the vandal at you can see it very easily at the 4:30ish mark and 5:20 to see them just hover sorta coolish
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Post by markopolo on Sept 28, 2016 9:39:55 GMT -5
Okay.... I have (give or take) 3/4 legendary and 3/4 exotic bonbons sitting in my vault waiting for decryption.
At what ll should I be decrypting them?
EDIT: so far, I've been infusing older gear because the stats are better... should i still do that or use the new gear, despite the worse stats
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Post by Dumien on Sept 28, 2016 9:45:11 GMT -5
A combination the perks of fatebringer and gjallarhorn with the body of grasp of malok +6 extra bullets.
If you want a longer explanation on WHY this is good... Its like they took the best part of the necrochasm (the fun add clearing with SUPER FIREFLY) and slapped it on a weapon that can actually do damage to bosses and THEN gave it an ability that stacks extra damage even if you aren't getting kills (ala DPSing bosses).
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Post by wings on Sept 28, 2016 10:30:15 GMT -5
I have the nifty new Secret weapon that took people working on Bungie's ARG. The whole thing was really well set up. It went from ciphers to raid secrets (ALA the hidden "basketball court of Oryx) to a quest to MATH PUZZLES to archon forge to MORE MATH PUZZLES to MORE RAIDING to MORE MATH PUZZLES all resulting in an awesome weapon (that I only got to use for 10 minutes before I went to work) that defiinty is up there with the vex mythoclast and gjallarhorn. Maths puzzles from the same developers that had the 0.04% fiasco?
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Post by Dumien on Sept 28, 2016 10:48:10 GMT -5
The chance for all 3 Hawkmoon procs to occur on the same shot?
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Post by TheHawkNY on Sept 28, 2016 11:22:16 GMT -5
Okay.... I have (give or take) 3/4 legendary and 3/4 exotic bonbons sitting in my vault waiting for decryption. At what ll should I be decrypting them? EDIT: so far, I've been infusing older gear because the stats are better... should i still do that or use the new gear, despite the worse stats Don't touch anything until we get you up to 365. That will take an hour. Then you can open your legendary engrams. Those won't decrypt higher than 365, but there's no reason to open them before then. You also should get a handful of 365 artifacts from that which you can use to infuse the new artifacts. From there, your drops that raise your rank are much more limited. Raid drops go up to 385. You can go even higher with Exotic engrams, skeleton keys, Archon's Forge, Nightfall, and (most importantly) faction rank up packages. I used a ton of faction rank up packages to go into the raid day 1 at level 380, and I could have pushed it further but didn't see the point. I converted thousands of shards/energy to motes and donated them. You can purchase heavy synthesis from Variks for 250 glimmer + 1 ether seeds, so make sure to spend a bunch before you hit the glimmer cap. Once you get that 365 ghost, make sure to infuse it into your ghost that gives glimmer for fallen and spinmetal for picking up engrams in the cosmodrome. After that, use your exotic engrams strategically. If you have an item that is lower light level than all of your other pieces, use an exotic engram to raise it. Those are the only way you can guarantee getting a boost from an item of the type you need, so don't just blow through them haphazardly. If you're sitting on a stack of strange coins, spend when Xur comes. I know a lot of people that spent a bunch on heavy ammo, which they then used to buy faction packages. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that - there are only so many items from a given faction, and I got so many FWC packages with motes - I don't need any more weapons that begin with "W". What I would recommend is to purchase a boatload of Three of Coins, because if you continuously use them the exotic engrams will be the most useful. You have three Warlocks so it's not an issue, but for others, I'd recommend infusing trash armor rather than pieces you want to keep. That way you have the flexibility to use it on your other characters, as opposed to keeping them lower level and getting worse drops.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 28, 2016 11:27:20 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Sept 28, 2016 11:27:40 GMT -5
Okay.... I have (give or take) 3/4 legendary and 3/4 exotic bonbons sitting in my vault waiting for decryption. At what ll should I be decrypting them? EDIT: so far, I've been infusing older gear because the stats are better... should i still do that or use the new gear, despite the worse stats Don't touch anything until we get you up to 365. That will take an hour. Then you can open your legendary engrams. Those won't decrypt higher than 365, but there's no reason to open them before then. You also should get a handful of 365 artifacts from that which you can use to infuse the new artifacts. From there, your drops that raise your rank are much more limited. Raid drops go up to 385. You can go even higher with Exotic engrams, skeleton keys, Archon's Forge, Nightfall, and (most importantly) faction rank up packages. I used a ton of faction rank up packages to go into the raid day 1 at level 380, and I could have pushed it further but didn't see the point. I converted thousands of shards/energy to motes and donated them. You can purchase heavy synthesis from Variks for 250 glimmer + 1 ether seeds, so make sure to spend a bunch before you hit the glimmer cap. Once you get that 365 ghost, make sure to infuse it into your ghost that gives glimmer for fallen and spinmetal for picking up engrams in the cosmodrome. After that, use your exotic engrams strategically. If you have an item that is lower light level than all of your other pieces, use an exotic engram to raise it. Those are the only way you can guarantee getting a boost from an item of the type you need, so don't just blow through them haphazardly. If you're sitting on a stack of strange coins, spend when Xur comes. I know a lot of people that spent a bunch on heavy ammo, which they then used to buy faction packages. I wouldn't necessarily recommend that - there are only so many items from a given faction, and I got so many FWC packages with motes - I don't need any more weapons that begin with "W". What I would recommend is to purchase a boatload of Three of Coins, because if you continuously use them the exotic engrams will be the most useful. You have three Warlocks so it's not an issue, but for others, I'd recommend infusing trash armor rather than pieces you want to keep. That way you have the flexibility to use it on your other characters, as opposed to keeping them lower level and getting worse drops. gotcha tyvm
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Post by Dumien on Sept 28, 2016 11:30:44 GMT -5
Three of coins is a really wise investment. Yeah, you are going to need stacks of heavy ammo if you want to git gud at the raid, but the exotic engrams will get you to that nice comfortable position. Getting from 365 to 371 will let the raid become a certain source of increased light level.
I frequently had issues with getting a good helmet, ghost, and heavy weapon. The raid covers all the bases and lets you use skeleton keys on exactly the pieces that you are missing (other than the ghost). For the ghost you just have to get lucky. For class items you can just hang out at the archon forge for a while.
On the breaking news side of things...the new secret exotic primary drops at 390 which you should be able to rely on since the challenges required to get the gun top at raid recommended light level. Sure you can save the first copy, but you can totes dismantle further copies to make your legendary primaries beefy.
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Post by markopolo on Sept 28, 2016 11:38:11 GMT -5
On the breaking news side of things...the new secret exotic primary drops at 390 which you should be able to rely on since the challenges required to get the gun top at raid recommended light level. Sure you can save the first copy, but you can totes dismantle further copies to make your legendary primaries beefy. ? You mean, it's a 390 weapon in the exotic kiosk too? Because that $hit will get patched pretty damn quick like the Spindle was
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Post by wings on Sept 28, 2016 13:46:51 GMT -5
I will be after this gun, maybe make someone confused in he Crucible. I am at 370 light now.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 29, 2016 13:58:19 GMT -5
On the breaking news side of things...the new secret exotic primary drops at 390 which you should be able to rely on since the challenges required to get the gun top at raid recommended light level. Sure you can save the first copy, but you can totes dismantle further copies to make your legendary primaries beefy. ? You mean, it's a 390 weapon in the exotic kiosk too? Because that $hit will get patched pretty gosh darn golly gee whiz quick like the Spindle was Nope. I mean completing the quest on multiple characters. Sorry for not being more specific.
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Post by wings on Sept 29, 2016 15:46:04 GMT -5
Oh what level light is each boss stage of the raid? I am 372 light on my Hunter so I'm wondering if 371 is the magic number like 311 was for Oryx HM when that was released.
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 29, 2016 21:24:59 GMT -5
Now I have the Gjallarhorn, 100 Three of Coins, a full tank of gas, 106 miles to Chicago, it's dark... and I'm wearing sunglasses.
I'm finally ready to do some solar burn heroic strikes.
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 30, 2016 0:30:12 GMT -5
Rather dumb question, would anyone happen to know if rare weapons/armor/loot from the Crucible post game rewards screen can drop up to 365, or is it just legendary/exotic crucible drops?
I've only played one game of PvP since RoI released and didn't notice if the rare's did or not.
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Post by bradman on Oct 1, 2016 10:32:30 GMT -5
I haven't seen a blue drop much above 350. Almost all are 340 for me.
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Post by TheHawkNY on Oct 1, 2016 15:09:29 GMT -5
I believe the rares in crucible cap at 340.
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Post by wings on Oct 1, 2016 15:37:18 GMT -5
You can also stock up on Shaxx bounties and claim redeem them for rewards more than once a week per character so I've read on Reddit. I forgot to claim the Supremacy bounty on my Hunter a while back so I might spam my Warlock on Monday before Iron Banner is back since the Supremacy bounty may come back. So you might get rewards from those that will increase your light level.
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Post by markopolo on Oct 2, 2016 10:52:16 GMT -5
I haven't seen a blue drop much above 350. Almost all are 340 for me. Run dem strikes wit me fam In 2 hours of selective runnings (fuck those shield brothers) I went from 355 to 360. Bad news is I think (didn't see the patch notes but I was told) they patched Omnigal at the bottom of the hill
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Post by malgato on Oct 2, 2016 12:36:34 GMT -5
Shield Brothers - stay planted on the left wall behind a tiny mound. You are pretty much immune from boss attacks. Make killing adds your #1 priority. Adds can still get you. Kill adds on your side.first, then across the map.
Also, crouch directly in front of the fire stomper boss and he was just flail hopelessly.
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Post by malgato on Oct 2, 2016 12:38:26 GMT -5
Skeleton key question. I am finally at 365 and ready to start popping keys. Can I get any class reward from a chest, or are the rewards always specific to the class I am currently running?
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Post by markopolo on Oct 2, 2016 14:51:55 GMT -5
Skeleton key question. I am finally at 365 and ready to start popping keys. Can I get any class reward from a chest, or are the rewards always specific to the class I am currently running? Any; I got a titan towel on my warlock from a skeleton chest
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Post by TheHawkNY on Oct 2, 2016 15:51:52 GMT -5
Either way, you're probably just going to infuse it anyway. Don't worry about class items, as you constantly get them in the faction rewards packages.
Btw, if like me you don't have infusable Iron Banner class items, you should use any legendary class item engrams to purchase them from Salad Bin.
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Post by snes chalmers on Oct 2, 2016 18:04:41 GMT -5
Run dem strikes wit me fam In 2 hours of selective runnings (Foxtrot those shield brothers) I went from 355 to 360. Bad news is I think (didn't see the patch notes but I was told) they patched Omnigal at the bottom of the hill Oh god, I hit the Shield Brothers Heroic strike yesterday...quit after the 4th attempt. Also quit the Psion Flayers strike too.
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Post by TheHawkNY on Oct 2, 2016 20:32:04 GMT -5
Psion Flayers is the best strike. Super short, you can run past a good part of it, and solar swords make it by far the easiest boss fight.
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Post by qupie on Oct 3, 2016 3:28:41 GMT -5
Do you guys even Gjally?
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Post by bradman on Oct 3, 2016 10:54:04 GMT -5
Run dem strikes wit me fam In 2 hours of selective runnings (Foxtrot those shield brothers) I went from 355 to 360. Bad news is I think (didn't see the patch notes but I was told) they patched Omnigal at the bottom of the hill Oh god, I hit the Shield Brothers Heroic strike yesterday...quit after the 4th attempt. Also quit the Psion Flayers strike too. Better luck with Marko and I, no?
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Post by snes chalmers on Oct 3, 2016 12:00:55 GMT -5
Better luck with Marko and I, no? Yup, got my Titan to 354, and all the extra 355 weapons and ghost shells from those strikes last night bumped my other characters up ~5 points to nearly 350 light. Also found out that those very high impact rare fusion rifles aren't that great outside of Lord of Wolves range unless the target's as big as Sepiks.
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Post by markopolo on Oct 3, 2016 13:40:30 GMT -5
Yup. I also run with PUGs that feel the need to NOT USE WEAPONS OR ABILITIES THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BURN THAT IS AVAILABLE NOR USE PRIMARY WEAPONS THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SMALL ARMS NOT THAT I AM BITTER OR PISSED OFF OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT NO NO SIR REE NOT ME [/rant] My shoulders are not that broad for pugtards
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