Ooo...I know you get extra materials from a leveled up engram but seeing as I've only dismantled one exotic, I had no idea you get 2 shards from a leveled up one. Before I got 320 helms I bought 2 helms from Xur the other week so I could dismantle one and make the other one 300 from 280. Thanks for the tip.
I have hit the wall too. Have barely played the past two weeks. Didn't even touch Oryx challenge mode and the only times I logged in were to check xur and pickup my Chaperon and Final Word after reset/armsday.
Mine I picked up on Tuesday had 7/10 complete when I only turned in the three bounties. A couple others I was racing with said the same thing happened to them.
Just to add to that, you don't need to actually "buy" the upgrades. Just get the ring around the circles filled in. Save your weapon parts and planetary mats.
Damn, you are having some good RNG. I don't know how many hours of sparrow racing I've done at rank 3+, but I'm probably guessing at least 30-40. And I have yet to get a 320 helm. I've gotten two 319's and I've gotten one 320 class item. Otherwise it is a lot of 311-314 junk it seems. I'm even at rank 4 on my Warlock. That should at least get you a better chance of higher drops but that does not seem to be the case. Well at least I've gotten much better at it and can usually pull out a win here and there.
Hah. So I was so low on armor materials (which can't be bought anywhere) due to all the infusion I've been doing that I leveled up 4 garbage armor pieces this way. Of course on those it takes 30-40 (or 50) motes to max them out (or something like that - didn't really keep track). When you break them down you get 5 armor materials instead of 2-3. So, yeah, I spent 40 or so motes just to get maybe 8 extra armor materials - not even enough for one infusion. But then again SRL gives out so many motes it is ridiculous. I had nearly 900 just on my Warlock. I spent that down to 700 levelling stuff up just 2 days ago and now I'm back near 800 again.
). I have nothing worth infusing at this point but I hear Iron Banner will have helms this time so I'm hoping to get some good ones there and I'll save the SRL helms for infusing those. Would love to get Trials helms as well but it just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me this time around.
I have been playing this game since day one and would say I am more than competent in this game to say the least and yet I personally think the 16 orb strategy is the easiest anyway. With the 16 orb strategy you eliminate the possibility of a stupid death. No need to worry about a random effing up the bombs each time or someone missing their running phase, all you have to do is do your job and it is over.
Double post because I missed this sorry.
Bah garbage...I think I picked up a dozen assists because I pulled back and let someone else get the kill for a bounty that doesn't work that way.
If you want to run some Crucible let me know. I have the stupid weekly bounty of having to compete 5 matches in a fire team - it is the only one I have left on one character so I might as well get it done.
. It sucks I missed out on one of the weekly 10 bounty bounties though - that would have been a big chunk of what I needed right there (that plus the 5 days of bounties I missed in the beginning would probably have put me there already). I did manage to get that 320 helm on Christmas and then not two races later I got another 320 class item. So my Hunter now has a 320 wolf's head cloak all ready to go for IB. I really hate that they end things like IB (and presumably SRL) at midnight but then don't start them until 10am. I remember back in the day it used to start right at reset and I could jump right in on Monday night during my prime playing time.170?! - I guess I'm decrypting dat @#$% as soon as I get back to the tower.
Mine during the initial launch of them was on average 1 for every 12 I used so really 1 out of 20 is fairly accurate for how poor my luck is with them. Consider yourself just lucky all the other times!
I did this with a secondary (one of the sniper rifles, I think). Used a special weapon telemetry. Pop a few motes of light. I believe it took 12 to level the sniper. Dismantle for two shards. Pocket one and use one to buy the gun again. Rinse and repeat until poor. It would be harder to do if you actually had to use mats on the weapon, hopefully Bungie doesn't patch that, but may as well take advantage while I can.
Damn, you have the worst luck with those disconnects right at the end. I was going to say we should run through the level 35 PoE, but I could see you getting disconnected at the end of that as well. Anyway, it was so incredibly easy when I ran it the other day compared to how hard it used to be. More significantly, it is much faster now. That wave 5 Servitor boss, for example, used to take 20-30 minutes to down. I think we did it in 2 or 3. Then that Skolas bastard was cake. The whole thing used to take us 3-4 hours and now it is less than an hour.
When I was farming exotics early on by doing one of the Black Garden bosses over and over (and over, before they added the hidden cooldown timer) it was pretty uniformly an exotic every 4 or 5 Three of Coins. It only occasionally went to 6 or 7. Same with most of my racing up to then. That's why I was shocked to go through 10+ races using coins and not getting one.
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I'd hold them as long as possible until you can turn them in to hit rank 5 in one fell swoop. The increase in rep in the later days is huge if you wait. If you are staggering all 3 characters you will get even more rep from the 2x catch-up bonus. I always just focus on the daily bounties and turn them in every day. Usually only have to play a couple hours a day to get them done on all 3 characters.
I think you do want to hit rank 2 or 3 a least as soon as possible.
. (And yes, I realize 3 320 shells was probably super lucky but it took minimal effort to get at least a couple of 315 range ones).
ing there. I got pissed after like 10 deaths and quit. I think I might go back to the Warlock...Is that the Oracle mission in the Vault of Glass area? I had to help 100xp100 with that as well - if you haven't done them before it is hard to know what you are looking for. Add me and I'll help you there. And hey, if you need a Refer-A-Friend partner I know someone who is looking for one.Picked it up today, made a new Hunter and used my level 25 boost. Realizing that I have to grind out all of the upgrades still. Very lame. Turns out my Warlock is only 20. I went on a House of Wolves mission and keep dying because I'm not killing glowy squares that aren't even
Are the 320 IB ghosts guaranteed drops for hitting max rank or still RNG based? I completely skipped the last one since the rewards were garbage the first one. I knew they were improving them, but I was in a Destiny rut (similar to now) and didn't want to bother playing IB. If you are guaranteed one I might mess around on one character just to get one since I have so many weeklies saved still.I think you do want to hit rank 2 or 3 a least as soon as possible.
I have completed weeklies (and some dailies) on each of my characters left over from last time. I'm trying to decide when to cash them in. The 2x catch-up bonus is a big deal, though. Last time I got one character to the next rank ASAP, then played the other 2 to catch up - then went back to the first one for rank 3, etc. I remember turning in my weekly stuff pretty early and I still ended up maxing rank 5 on all 3 with a few days to spare and with leftover weeklies to save for this time.
Then again, I was intentionally grinding IB to get the 320 ghost shells last time, so I wasn't concerned with minimizing my path to rank 5 necessarily. I've seen so many people complaining about ghost shells holding them back and yet they were so easy to get last IB. I think the ghost was my first 320 and I got one for each character even. I did way less grinding of IB to get 3 320's than I did of SRL to get just 1. It's just frustrating now because everyone wants to run the tedious Totems part of the Raid (for a very slim chance at a high level ghost) instead of just starting on War Priest checkpoints. Had they just taken care of their business last IB I wouldn't have to waste my time there
In any case, I'll be on in a bit if anyone wants to run IB (or the Raid).
The first IB was horrible as you remember. It was much better with the second one. No drops are guaranteed (though you can buy the armor pieces at certain ranks). But I got several ghost shells ranging from 311-320 and I didn't play it all that much. I mean, I probably got 7 or 8 total and was lucky to have 3 of them be 320. I also got several armor drops. I think I ended up buying a piece or two from Saladin just because the rolls were better. I don't think the ghosts started dropping until rank 3 or 4 though - so the key is to get up there ASAP and then just play.
We totally should run <everything> despite the potential for a disconnect. haha.
Yeah that mission...Picked it up today, made a new Hunter and used my level 25 boost. Realizing that I have to grind out all of the upgrades still. Very lame. Turns out my Warlock is only 20. I went on a House of Wolves mission and keep dying because I'm not killing glowy squares that aren't even
Oh snap.
Tonight may not be the best for me for Skolas, but we'll see. My Raid team is planning to Raid some time today but earlier than usual which means during dinner and such. Then I might have to hop off until late tonight (like 10-11 pm Pacific) when I'll be back on for whatever but I know that is late for you.
