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Post by mannon on Nov 6, 2014 14:58:04 GMT -5
Figured I'd just start a thread rather than continuing to derail all the others. ;3
Marko and I have been hitting Daily and Weekly Heroic missions lately for fun and profit. We're learning that our weapons are underpowered for our level, but hopefully we can rectify that soon.
So far we've successfully completed them below level 28. I'm fairly certain the two of us are no match for the level 28 heroic weekly strikes, but maybe... just maybe level 28 heroic daily story missions are attainable with much pain and gnashing of teeth. I tried one solo the other day, though and it does get tough to kill enemies quickly. Kinda have to grind them down and try not to get overwhelmed. Then again with two of us they would have even more health...
Looking forward to this weekend if I can get some gorram motes and excited for Marko now that he has full legendary and should be able to purchase an exotic armor from Xur this weekend for coins.
Maybe next week we'll be trying level 28 content. Though we'll both have some XP grinding to do first and I'm not sure Marko has enough shards to hit 27.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 6, 2014 16:20:53 GMT -5
Yes.... please come here, mock us (well, me) and tell me what I did wrong.
It's gonna be epic Mannon!
With my new Pulse Rifle, anything is possible!!!
Actually, I hate the effin' thing, but it's my only purple weapon so I'm using it until I get something better
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Post by mannon on Nov 6, 2014 16:34:04 GMT -5
And then you'll dismantle it for ascendant energy and dance! ;3
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Post by iw5000 on Nov 7, 2014 9:11:09 GMT -5
KEEP UP THE GRIND!!!!
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Post by mannon on Nov 7, 2014 9:35:09 GMT -5
Last night was E.Y.E. Devine Cybermancy (weird FPSRPG) and Trine with the GF so no go. Sad that I missed the daily, it would have been fun. Maybe tonight. I really need to grind and try to get those two motes since I probably won't have much time to play tomorrow. We shall see. I might miss Xur, but if I do I'll just work on my Vanguard rep and marks and buy a helmet so I can get to level 28 with the Voidfang chestplate if I have to.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 7, 2014 10:20:39 GMT -5
Did some grinding withoutcha amigo. Without going into too much detail, read the question thread.
Anywho... look me up tonight. Saturday I got a buddy's birthday to go to so unless something bad happens (it sucks, he gets sick, I get sick) saturday's a no go
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Post by markopolo on Nov 7, 2014 10:21:54 GMT -5
I have those exact words carved into my PS4 controler, written in the virtual blood of a million dead level 1 dregs
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Post by mannon on Nov 7, 2014 10:40:10 GMT -5
Yeah I usually go hand cannon to keep things interesting unless I need firepower (my fully upgraded auto rifle for hairy fights). I've got two decent ones and can't decide which I prefer. One has like 11 rounds in the mag, which is ridiculous. I can bump it to 13, but 11 is generally enough so I use the other mod (I forget what it is) most of the time. My other one only has 5 but getting a precision kill gives it a reload buff that makes it reload really fast and I can't tell you how badass it makes me feel to blast off 3 to 5 headshot kills then reload lightning fast. It feels like twirling the gun on my finger after the kill like in some flashy Western. ;p
I will definitely try to be on tonight.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Nov 7, 2014 12:19:08 GMT -5
Talking about Hand Cannon: "The Devil You Know" at the Vanguard Quartermaster is a great buy. I was one-shotting the normal VoG mobs with it last night and it is not even fully upgraded.
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Post by mannon on Nov 8, 2014 20:57:36 GMT -5
Speaking of which. I did some bounties/patrols/events today and got my Vanguard rank up to 3 and they gave me none other than "The Devil You Know" as my first legendary weapon! YAY Still no motes, though... T_T
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Nov 9, 2014 0:30:32 GMT -5
Wait manncat; is marko your brother?
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Post by mannon on Nov 9, 2014 1:06:33 GMT -5
Nope. Just my brother in arms. My RL bro is named Cy and doesn't really hang out on the message board.
PS. I GOT MY MOTES! Yay! Rahool gave me a Hunter helmet... ehhhh.... Oh well. When my hunter gets to level 20 they will have a shorter trip to level 28. I'll just get 8 more marks, and buy a legendary helmet. I got a legendary hand cannon by luck anyway. I've already disassembled both of my rare hand cannons. One had a big mag and the other got fast reloads after a precision kill. This sucker does both! Mwahahaha I love it. Just need XP up.
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Post by mannon on Nov 10, 2014 2:09:54 GMT -5
Got my helmet and spent myself up to level 28. I forgot that I needed to do the shardless upgrades on the helmet so I used more shards doing it than I should have, but oh well. There will be more shards. At any rate HUZZAH I can do all the content. I also got a legendary fusion rifle from an engram. Now to just get back to earning those coins for an exotic weapon.
Sorry I've missed you the last few days Marko. Our schedules just haven't matched up. Thinking maybe I should make another attempt at finishing the story missions in order, btw.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 10, 2014 10:52:17 GMT -5
No worries
I maxed out my vanguard marks for the week, so I might take tomorrow off.
Grats for the Devil You Know... I'm torn between buying that or buying the Swarm with my 150.
Got lots of blue and purple engrams... but nothing worth writing home to mother about... in fact, most of them turned into strange coins (I went from 12 this weekend to about 19, and lots of Motes... from 6 to 22) I got a lot of existing blue guns, but the difference was the ones I got this weekend were just as good as the ones I had suped up, so I broke down the maxed guns and am leveling the new ones
I need shards... all I seem to get is ascendant energy... I have about 25 of those... but only 3 light. Did some helium farming too.
Meh, an average weekend
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Post by mannon on Nov 10, 2014 11:43:57 GMT -5
Hit the daily on level 28 for some shards. You can do it on level 27. I did it last night and managed to not even need to Radiance. (Though the minotaurs at the end were a bit tough. Luckily my void sniper and rockets were able to take out their shields and I found a spot where they didn't try to teleport into my face.)
Don't be like me. Do ALL of the non shard upgrades on you legendaries, and fully upgrade your exotic armor before you dump shards into legendaries, then only use enough shards to get to level 28. I recommend pants since there are no exotic pants the only thing that will replace them is raid gear.
Grats on the coins and motes. Keep it up. I'd say definitely keep those coins for an exotic weapon unless Xur sells some fanfuckingtastic Warlock armor this weekend. You should prolly go ahead and spend the motes on an armor engram, though, unless you want to buy those items that enhance weapon XP.
I saw a pretty good guide on leveling up legendary and exotic weapons that I can't find now, but basically the idea was to buy one of Xur's weapon XP multipliers and hang on to it. Then you go finish 5 bounties, but don't turn in, then go run your daily, but just get the boss down to low health (if there is a boss). Then just before you finish the daily activate the item from Xur, finish the daily, go turn in your bounties, pickup new easy bounties and go grind them out if you can. Probably helps if you've done Nightfall beforehand too, but I don't think either of us could have until maybe now.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Nov 10, 2014 12:14:51 GMT -5
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Post by mannon on Nov 10, 2014 14:16:27 GMT -5
There it is! I couldn't even remember if it was here or Reddit.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 10, 2014 15:42:15 GMT -5
If you're on tonight mannon, I wouldn't mind finishing the Moon story line and possibly getting on to the next plannet
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Post by mannon on Nov 10, 2014 17:11:57 GMT -5
No promises, but will look you up if I can. If I'm not on I may be playing Halo:Reach, (our favorite Halo) with my GF.
I did make a run at Crucible this weekend, but it was a mistake. Literally no progress at all on my exotic bounty since my KDR was around 0.56. Uhg... Been a while and I just got pwned. Plus I think the meta game has changed some and I was solo. Also not sure switching to voidwalker when I've been playing strictly sunsinger was really to my advantage. I got literally zero kills from my super anyway, where as my sunsinger could have been slinging double grenades and raising from the dead.
Mainly I need practice and teammates, though. ;3 I don't want to drop the bounty.
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Post by mannon on Nov 11, 2014 9:56:04 GMT -5
Yeah, couldn't make it. Planning to be on tonight, though.
(Did some more Halo:Reach firefight with GF on 360. Good fun!)
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Post by markopolo on Nov 12, 2014 9:52:18 GMT -5
Ground the hell out of the moon for an hour or 2... think I got 100 heliums over 2 hours... plus a couple of events for fun... didn't know the events on the moon scale up in comparison to the Cosmodrome (ie: 4 waves on the glimmer prevention one, as opposed to 3 in the cosmodrome)
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Post by mannon on Nov 12, 2014 9:58:05 GMT -5
I got distracted watching a video of all the remastered Halo 2 cutscenes. mmm... I'll have to get an XB1 eventually so I can play MC collection. Still kinda annoyed they didn't include Reach. Reach with 1080p and solid 60 FPS would have been nice even if they didn't update the graphics.
I dropped in around midnight for a few events on patrol. Feel like I'm missing out.
Yeah the moon events are definitely a bit more difficult, which makes them more fun IMO. I've heard at least one of the Venus ones is fecking hard too, but haven't done events on Venus or Mars yet.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 12, 2014 11:55:48 GMT -5
And remember my luck with the engrams... yea... it dryed up 6 purple bonbons: 3 strange coins, and 3 blue armours Dozen+blue bonbons: all armor... which I have purple of all of them... seriously, I've got hadronic essences coming out of zee wahzoo hell, eventhe Cryptarch, who has been so good to me whenever I pass a level... gave me 3 blue engrams. I guess he got insulted when he came here and he read that I bitched about the comedian he gave me as a rank present. This is all I have to say:
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Post by markopolo on Nov 14, 2014 10:05:07 GMT -5
After power marking, I bought the Shadow Price and took it to the moon to finish the story line there.
Then Polo went to Venus to get some Spirit bloom (because that the mat I need to upgrade the Price)
First impressions:
1. Every where I go in this game, the levels and music are just effing gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Artistically, this is one of the most beautiful games I've played. Venus is no exception. What a gorgeous level and patrol. It kinda reminds me of a sci-fi/piss yellow stained/jungle infested version of MW2's One Shot One Kill.... but maybe that's just me.
2. While it is not as plentiful or available as Helium or Spin-metal is, Spirit Bloom is easier to find... hey: there's a glowing green ball... gotcha.
3. Is there honestly a place where the Fallen aren't? Honestly, I have to go to take a piss soon and if I saw a Vandal walking out of the stall... I wouldn't be shocked.
4. I was fortunate to have 2 level 30's, a 29, and a 28 to do a Vex Sacrifice event. Thank god. Witty (I think it was him) was right: they just keep coming and coming and coming and wow are there a lot of them. And because they're level 20ish, they're not solo-able for me
5. I'm not sure if it is or not, but standing in the Citadel, on the bridge, looking left, there was a cave where literally, mobs were just pouring out, much like the Loot cave that I had heard about but never got to use because they patched it 2 days before I bought Destiny. But wow... 10 vex constantly pouring out and spewing out like a leaky dam. I got some blue and green bonbons too. No one else was there, so I can't really confirm if it was a loot cave, but it was fun.
6. I'm slowly getting better at recognizing damage types... pounded away at a yellow named Vex and barely nicked it. Then I remember I had a shitty level 16 void fusion rifle. Bingo bango, bugger went down! Hell, I even got a bit saucy and brought out The Comedian for a stand up routine of CQC/poor damage/quick shooting/slow reloading/living on the edge routine.... it reminded me just how much I hate that weapon.
7. Venus is going to be good for me... I'm getting lazy of just standing there and ramboing out foes... too much exposure to <5 level mobs in the Drome... I tried that on Venus and it almost didn't end well at all. At all. Gonna have to stop skipping leg day and move around. Bob and weave... stick the jab... put em down
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Post by wings on Nov 14, 2014 10:12:27 GMT -5
3. Is there honestly a place where the Fallen aren't? Honestly, I have to go to take a piss soon and if I saw a Vandal walking out of the stall... I wouldn't be shocked. Yeah, Mars. Unless you are a high level I wouldn't go there unless you enjoy being suppressed by rocket firing bipedal rhinos.
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Post by markopolo on Nov 14, 2014 10:22:43 GMT -5
3. Is there honestly a place where the Fallen aren't? Honestly, I have to go to take a piss soon and if I saw a Vandal walking out of the stall... I wouldn't be shocked. Yeah, Mars. Unless you are a high level I wouldn't go there unless you enjoy being suppressed by rocket firing bipedal rhinos. Mannon and I did the strike there... I won't be soloing it for a while, but it was fun too. Mainly because Mannon was there to res me ;>
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Post by mannon on Nov 14, 2014 10:51:32 GMT -5
That was fun. Never fought those enemies before. Running out of ammo sucked, but we recovered eventually. (I had the LONGEST wait I've ever had for ammo to refill for free. I was completely dry for all weapons and we couldn't proceed until some random guy came and cleared out some mobs, and THEN my ammo finally popped once we could proceed again. I'll have to get less stingy and invest in more ammo packs for runs with the juggler modifier.)
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Post by markopolo on Nov 14, 2014 13:28:19 GMT -5
That was fun. Never fought those enemies before. Running out of ammo sucked, but we recovered eventually. (I had the LONGEST wait I've ever had for ammo to refill for free. I was completely dry for all weapons and we couldn't proceed until some random guy came and cleared out some mobs, and THEN my ammo finally popped once we could proceed again. I'll have to get less stingy and invest in more ammo packs for runs with the juggler modifier.) i hit the max 25k glimmer, so i bought some packs
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Post by wittyscorpion on Nov 14, 2014 14:16:48 GMT -5
That was fun. Never fought those enemies before. Running out of ammo sucked, but we recovered eventually. (I had the LONGEST wait I've ever had for ammo to refill for free. I was completely dry for all weapons and we couldn't proceed until some random guy came and cleared out some mobs, and THEN my ammo finally popped once we could proceed again. I'll have to get less stingy and invest in more ammo packs for runs with the juggler modifier.) i hit the max 25k glimmer, so i bought some packs Suggestions based on my experience: 1) Use the consumables to earn glimmer whenever you are doing something. These things constantly come in so no need to save them, and they are great source for easy glimmers; 2) Keep your glimmer level below 22K, to have enough room for earning more glimmers. Any time it crosses that threshold, buy heavy ammo packs. You can never have too many of these things;
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Post by markopolo on Nov 14, 2014 14:37:20 GMT -5
i hit the max 25k glimmer, so i bought some packs Suggestions based on my experience: 1) Use the consumables to earn glimmer whenever you are doing something. These things constantly come in so no need to save them, and they are great source for easy glimmers; 2) Keep your glimmer level below 22K, to have enough room for earning more glimmers. Any time it crosses that threshold, buy heavy ammo packs. You can never have too many of these things; I can't remember the last time I bought something, so that's the main reason how I've got so much. That and I hit all the bonuses for killing things inthe Cosmodrome, so I get more glimmer for that. I think I might drop 10k into the bank to make my 2nd characters life a bit easier to do
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