Hey guys, long time PS player but mad a Titan since I got a good deal on TTK for Xbone. I'm experienced in the raid on PS, have all the exotics and emblems that people hound for on LFG. I'm LL299 after going through the normal raid twice (thanks, RNG). So let me know if you ever want to do a few runs! I'm hoping to do another run of normal this week and get in the 305-310 range, which is fine for everything on hard outside of Oryx (and even then not a huge deal).
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Ran the normal Oryx raid mode last night found a really chill group that walked me through the ship jumping puzzle so I finally got that fragment and chest. And than I finally got the ghost shell at 309 at the totems and the machine gun at 304 at the Warpriest. I ended up infusing the machine gun it into my Iron Banner one which made that 303. They even went so far as to unlock the chest in the maze for the 4 of us that never had it. Everything was going smooth till Oryx and than it went to major crap. It was like I was the only one who ever ran that part and that was saying a lot. After the two chill guys got frustrated and left I was stuck with 5 people who were all under 297 that all knew each other and couldn't grasp the mechanics of the fight. I think I tried like 6-7 times and we could never make it past the first damage cycle. I ended up giving up and just shutting my Xbox off and going to bed. I did see that both of the original chill guys from LFG.com both sent me friends request this morning so I guess that was good.
Uh, LFG. I joined a group at Warpriest (on hard) and we wiped a few times and people kept getting disconnected. On the last try we almost had him dead but wiped and then I got disconnected. I took that as a sign. Then I joined another group that, fortunately, was much better. We got to Oryx but of course up to that point I got absolutely nothing useful. I really could use more class items but that is one of the things that the game seems to have stopped giving me. I could even use those at 305 or so - I have lots of class items like the Trials ones (one of which I got at 300) that I want to level up.
At Oryx we had the strategy down, but we just kept wiping over and over. One guy wouldn't make it back, or we'd miss detonating a blight. Me and one other guy I knew who was there kept suggesting we assign particular sides to everyone but they insisted on the "get the one by your plate" strategy. That is great but the 4th guy up top who was supposed to get the empty plate kept going to the wrong one. And then when we finally did get stuff right, lag would kick in and the platforms wouldn't spawn or enemies would freeze/teleport. It got horribly bad at one point. So in the end we had to give it up.
After that I ran a Nightfall and got a 297 Vanguard ghost. Sigh...
That was an awesome drop - better than the two sets of boots I got for 2 of my characters. Boots are the one thing that I get a lot of from the hard mode Raid and the one thing that you don't really need to collect a lot of different versions/do infusion for. I can get my Warlock to 315, and this without yet having gotten a chest piece over 310 or a helm over 313 (no thanks to the Raid -my first ever silver Trials package gave me a 313 Light Beyond Nemesis).
Still, though, I feel like I should run my Titan through and I should get that Oryx kill on my Warlock for the remote possibility of getting a helmet or ANY primary over 310.
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ZxT Vendetta
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Ugh Raid. Ugh Trials Drops. Ugh RNG....
Still no helmets (2 HM clears so far, getting third in tomorrow sometime).
Trials trolled me hard last night.... 314 Don't Touch Me's from Silver.... then what do I pull from the Lighthouse Chest? 310 Don't Touch Me's!
Nightfalls were complete poo.
Also, I just wanted to ask here.... For the refer a friend on PSN, I should qualify right?:
-Downloaded TTK on launch with code that came with the console bundle
-Downloaded patch
-Have not played TTK at all, only downloaded it
The language per usual with Bungie, really isn't well written. My interpretation is that I qualify.
Still no helmets (2 HM clears so far, getting third in tomorrow sometime).
Trials trolled me hard last night.... 314 Don't Touch Me's from Silver.... then what do I pull from the Lighthouse Chest? 310 Don't Touch Me's!
Nightfalls were complete poo.
Also, I just wanted to ask here.... For the refer a friend on PSN, I should qualify right?:
-Downloaded TTK on launch with code that came with the console bundle
-Downloaded patch
-Have not played TTK at all, only downloaded it
The language per usual with Bungie, really isn't well written. My interpretation is that I qualify.
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Is today the spindle mission? Damn, I may have to play tonight after all.
I ended up completing my Warlock's raid via LFG last night (only took like 15 tries
).At least I had some decent drops. I got a 317 chest piece (my previous best on my Warlock was 310) and a helmet. It is only the regular one (at 308) but I had only ever gotten one Raid helmet (for my Hunter) before so I'll take it. I still need a hard mode raid helmet to get the shader.
I am absolutely swimming in 311-315 boots and gauntlets which absolutely sucks because there isn't much to use those on. On the other hand, I have dozens of helms and chest pieces that need to be infused past 310 (exotics, Iron Banner, etc) and can't get any extras of those.
If you guys are still running a Normal any time this weekend let me know.
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Just an FYI. I was right about TTK and refer a friend. Just checked on my PSN account and as long as you haven't played it, you could have owned it back when it came out.
So if you guys want the loot and have friends that just haven't touched the game, it does work.
On a side note, those of you that are Twitch viewers, I get to do the refer a friend with Laced Up Lauren
So if you guys want the loot and have friends that just haven't touched the game, it does work.
On a side note, those of you that are Twitch viewers, I get to do the refer a friend with Laced Up Lauren
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Don't both people get the referral loot? Maybe I'm confused? If anyone is starting up and wants to run that stuff I'd be down to refer you.
I ended up going back to the HM raid this week after taking about a week and a half off. Found a good team at reset and didn't have much of an issue getting an easy clear on my Titan. Didn't have time to do much more until after thanksgiving and ended up paying the price by slogging through some horrendous LFG teams. I finally got my Hunter clear last night and I had seriously considered not even trying after the results I had on Friday and Saturday. I seriously feel like I dealt with every "backwards-ass
" (sorry for the language, but that is one of my favorite Clerks lines) in the dwindling LFG community those two nights. Probably didn't help that I was on the least desirable character for people to pick up from LFG, but the quality of teams I ran into was piss poor. We are talking not even able to get through the first two platform phases let alone actually getting through to the Shade. Worst is that most groups didn't even seem to care to get the clears done, so we had people sitting idle and wasting everyone's time far too often, but then again it is not like we actually could make any progress even when we did try some runs. But there is just not much out there on lfg at this point.
I did end up with a few drops that helped my LL so I guess it was somewhat worth it, but I cannot get any chest piece or helmet for my Hunter so that is not helping me move over 312 there. Also the game has decided to start giving me Harrowed pieces that I need, but they are dropping at 310... utter garbage.
Can anything over 310 drop from NF now? I haven't ran them in a few weeks. I might be down to do a couple tonight before reset if anyone here hasn't tackled them yet.
I ended up going back to the HM raid this week after taking about a week and a half off. Found a good team at reset and didn't have much of an issue getting an easy clear on my Titan. Didn't have time to do much more until after thanksgiving and ended up paying the price by slogging through some horrendous LFG teams. I finally got my Hunter clear last night and I had seriously considered not even trying after the results I had on Friday and Saturday. I seriously feel like I dealt with every "backwards-ass
" (sorry for the language, but that is one of my favorite Clerks lines) in the dwindling LFG community those two nights. Probably didn't help that I was on the least desirable character for people to pick up from LFG, but the quality of teams I ran into was piss poor. We are talking not even able to get through the first two platform phases let alone actually getting through to the Shade. Worst is that most groups didn't even seem to care to get the clears done, so we had people sitting idle and wasting everyone's time far too often, but then again it is not like we actually could make any progress even when we did try some runs. But there is just not much out there on lfg at this point.I did end up with a few drops that helped my LL so I guess it was somewhat worth it, but I cannot get any chest piece or helmet for my Hunter so that is not helping me move over 312 there. Also the game has decided to start giving me Harrowed pieces that I need, but they are dropping at 310... utter garbage.
Can anything over 310 drop from NF now? I haven't ran them in a few weeks. I might be down to do a couple tonight before reset if anyone here hasn't tackled them yet.
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Not that I've seen.
I got two raid clears in a few days ago. I actually got OK drops. I finally got helmets for my Warlock and Titan, though both were the normal mode ones (with the Titan one at 300). But I also got a 317 Warlock chest piece and my best at that point was 310. My Titan got 3 class marks: 308, 311, and 320. I used the 308 and 311 to get my Trials mark to 311 and kept the 320 (for now). I also got a second 320 shotgun and I ended up using both of the ones I had to make my 1000-yard stare and Conspiracy Theory both 320. And I finally got a second harrowed primary though it was just the auto rifle at 313. Still, that is infusion fodder for something - just not sure what yet as I have wat too many primaries I'd like to get past 310.
My Chaperone should be ready after reset tonight and I think that makes my exotic weapon collection complete. There is one annoyingly missing one in the primary slot but I think that is the PS exclusive Jade Rabbit since, as far as I can tell, I have all the others.
That leaves me with not all that much more to do except to chase down slightly better gear from the Raid. Other than that, I'd like to give Trials another shot. I have a friend of a friend who offered to try to get me to the Lighthouse but I haven't taken him up on it. Maybe I'll try this weekend. I should have tried on the current map - I didn't realize it was Anomaly till yesterday. That is a good one for my style of play. Oh well - doubt I can get a run in today before reset but it anyone wants to do it just for bounties let me know.
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Did you boost the last word kills for chaperone? I have had that quest since TTK released and never really went after it seriously. After doing Thorn 4 or 5 times in Year 1 I kind of like being able to just run and gun in crucible but I'd like to get that exotic weapon and the other one you need the hand cannon crucible kills for eventually.
Actually after one of the failed Oryx runs most of the fireteam bailed and I was still in the party with 2 others. They said they were going to run trials and they said they could probably carry me to the lighthouse if I didn't suck too badly, but truthfully I was beat from all the failed oryx runs with them. Also these guys pretty much talked non stop shit on everyone they invited to the raid even though they were probably screwing up as much as the others. Oh well, they probably never lost a game in going 9-0 and I missed out, lol
My drops were decent enough. Got a 316 primary that got my Hung Jury up to that level. 319 Fusion, but since my 1000 yd stare is already 318 it is kind of a waste to infuse it for a one point increase. 314 hunter and 313 warlock gloves which also gave me a small boost. Then a 310 Harrowed Titan Chest and 310 Harrowed Warlock Boots. Total kicks in the nuts there since I already had a 310 normal Titan Chest and 309 Warlock Boots. Just total crap there. I am now 315 on my Titan 314 Warlock and 313 Hunter so not much chance to go anywhere. I still have never had any piece of 320 gear drop and my best armor/ghost drop is 317. I have an overload of 300-314 Boots/Gloves and Class items with nothing to really ascend. So really no where to go at this point if I can't get any high drops or at least any type of helmet over 310.
Actually after one of the failed Oryx runs most of the fireteam bailed and I was still in the party with 2 others. They said they were going to run trials and they said they could probably carry me to the lighthouse if I didn't suck too badly, but truthfully I was beat from all the failed oryx runs with them. Also these guys pretty much talked non stop shit on everyone they invited to the raid even though they were probably screwing up as much as the others. Oh well, they probably never lost a game in going 9-0 and I missed out, lol
My drops were decent enough. Got a 316 primary that got my Hung Jury up to that level. 319 Fusion, but since my 1000 yd stare is already 318 it is kind of a waste to infuse it for a one point increase. 314 hunter and 313 warlock gloves which also gave me a small boost. Then a 310 Harrowed Titan Chest and 310 Harrowed Warlock Boots. Total kicks in the nuts there since I already had a 310 normal Titan Chest and 309 Warlock Boots. Just total crap there. I am now 315 on my Titan 314 Warlock and 313 Hunter so not much chance to go anywhere. I still have never had any piece of 320 gear drop and my best armor/ghost drop is 317. I have an overload of 300-314 Boots/Gloves and Class items with nothing to really ascend. So really no where to go at this point if I can't get any high drops or at least any type of helmet over 310.
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No, I never did end up boosting it. I would just equip it towards the end of a match our team was winning. You get 3-4% just from a win. Even if you get killed you still get 2%, and if you happen to get a kill or two near the end you get a bigger boost. I was around 20% when the last Iron Banner started and since I was farming that for ghost shells on my Warlock anyway I was determined to finish that off. It didn't take as much effort as I would have thought to get it to 100%. I can tell you one thing - don't think I ever actually got a kill with The Last Word
.After that there are two more steps: shotgun kills on high level PvE enemies or Crucible foes. I never could find a PvE enemy that qualified (it isn't just majors - has to be level 40 ultras I think) so I just did that part in the Crucible and it only took a few matches. Then after that you have to kill the Shield Bros. with a shotgun. Well, it turns out you apparently don't have to kill them with it, but just do some sort of amount of damage on them with a shotgun - it isn't clear. It is a special version of the strike and luckily I had 2 people join me in matchmaking so it was pretty easy. I did this last Tuesday - then you have to wait for reset apparently so I should get it after 1am tonight.
So me and two friends ran Level 35 Skolas Prison of Elders for kicks the other day. MAN is that easy now. Wow. we breezed through the whole thing. The round 5 Servitor that used to take 20-30 minutes of careful whittling we beat in just a few minutes. On Skolas we beat him so quickly we almost wiped because we forgot there was a second round of mines. We actually did wipe on the first try because we forgot about the "taint" and were too far apart to pass it off correctly. I got just my 3rd elemental primary drop from him (of course at the old 170 light). It is a decent place to farm strange coins and use three of coins though. I got a 310 Bad Juju from an engram which I didn't think was possible (that, along with Red Death had never dropped for me in 15+ exotic primary engrams). Previously, I had finally given up and bought it from the kiosk. Thankfully I never did infuse that one. Oh yeah, so now I have an armor core and weapon core in my inventory. I guess I'll go get myself a Judgment's Chance. Those were so fruitful back in the day...
I really don't understand why they didn't make a few higher levels of PoE for Taken King. It seems like such a lost opportunity.
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Yep. Emblem is so sexy. Swords look cool but they are reskins and the emotes are freaking awesome.
I got all that stuff on PS4 before Xbox :lol:
I got my 2nd Chaperone done in Trials :lol:
As for drops... got a double arm drop on Titan last night.... Still no helmet. Lots of infusion fuel.
Trials was much better! 314 Don't Touch Me (which I posted about earlier) and 315 Stag.
Also helped a friend get a Spindle and got the Ship. Just need the Trials Fusion and HM helms and a couple guns and I have everything. I guess I am going to get to work on PS4 and try to get high enough so I finish off the Refer A Friend for the sparrow. Though I need to get to work on my guy on Xbox to get those for my account there as well....
Probably going to be the rarest things in the game unless Bungie changes the requirements.
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Was able to hop on and get a quick Oryx clear with an lfg group on the first try. Really wish I would have sent them some friends request because they really had the fight down. And even though I had 20+ shards all I got was the rocket launcher at 307 which I infused into my IB machine gun. I am now 308 with my max gear on so i guess I can start running some of the hard mode raid stuff.
Well, apparently challenge mode is up for the raid. I saw a guy on my friends list with the emblem and he invited me to a run. They didn't even know what they did but apparently when they killed War Priest they got 320 artifacts and everyone also got a 320 weapon.
We went through to there but we wiped a few times on Warpriest before getting it done in 2 rounds (which seems to be the thing you need to do). However, it also appears you cannot wipe. I'm not sure if that is at all, or just on War Priest. In any case, I didn't get anything besides moldering shards and an antiquated rune..
We went through to there but we wiped a few times on Warpriest before getting it done in 2 rounds (which seems to be the thing you need to do). However, it also appears you cannot wipe. I'm not sure if that is at all, or just on War Priest. In any case, I didn't get anything besides moldering shards and an antiquated rune.
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Reddit is saying the only condition is that you have to defeat warpriest with different aura holders each dps phase. That seems unbelievably easy considering most good teams can take him down in 2 dps phases.
The
. Why didn't we get it then? I guess the same guy held it (I don't remember). They were sure it was because we wiped. I wonder if I'm locked out of getting it since I cleared it already?Edit: Apparently I can go back in there. Good. I got crap drops from the regular HM rewards (moldering shards and an antiquated rune). When I did it last night half the team rage quit because they thought it was because of the wipe. I'm not sure if the info was up at that point. They had cleared it with other characters and didn't even know what triggered it. I looked online (this was like 2 hours after reset) and saw that it was 2 DPS phases. But no one knew about the aura holders and there was false info online about not being able to wipe. Sometimes trying to do stuff early really sucks
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Yea, I ran it on my hunter earlier in the day. The team we had was pretty much horrible with half not even on mics and we only had to wipe once. No Titan either. Well we did have a titan but he insisted on staying a sunbreaker for golgoroth or something 
. Love how they are giving out 320 stuff out now to everyone after rng tea bagged us for the past couple months. Does anyone know if you gett a 320 weapon on each character this week or just first overall challenge mode clear.
. Love how they are giving out 320 stuff out now to everyone after rng tea bagged us for the past couple months. Does anyone know if you gett a 320 weapon on each character this week or just first overall challenge mode clear.
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Challenge mode is such a joke. We almost killed him in one phase today. If only we had 1 more tether.
So you get when running in hard:
310 weapon and artifact (I.E. What you for normal)
320 weapon and artifact (your hard drops)
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I want more of a challenge Bungie. Make it soul crushing hard. But sadly you won't because the casuals will always win out. And yes I'm salty as
So you get when running in hard:
310 weapon and artifact (I.E. What you for normal)
320 weapon and artifact (your hard drops)
Emblem
Calcified Fragment 48/50
I want more of a challenge Bungie. Make it soul crushing hard. But sadly you won't because the casuals will always win out. And yes I'm salty as
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Nothing is bringing people back at this point. At least not until they release some info on what the next big update is and I'm guessing they will just lie low with that info until the holiday season is over.
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Thanks to everybody that helped bring me through and get my first taste of hard mode. So far not too bad. I didn't walk away with no total progress. Between the heavy machine gun and artifact I managed to go from 302 max light to 306. Would have been nice to get more than 3 machine guns from the warpriest, but at least I made progress. Still holding out on that ghost. And based on others' experience I may have a tough time getting the helmet...
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That was a fun run last night. That was seriously the smoothest raid through the Warpriest that I've ever been part of. Great drops too. Heavy has been holding me back and I got a 320 RL. Also got a 308 RL that I infused into my Sleeper. Great stuff and good chit chat.
Then Drunkz and I got into a group of 4 from Federation of Fathers and that was OK through Golgi and the Daughters, other than weed-infused homophobic wise cracking, but their method for Oryx sucked. Maybe it's because I was tired but I kept screwing up and it was pissing me off. When a couple of them got smart assy, that's when I knew it was time to call it a night. Oh well.
Then Drunkz and I got into a group of 4 from Federation of Fathers and that was OK through Golgi and the Daughters, other than weed-infused homophobic wise cracking, but their method for Oryx sucked. Maybe it's because I was tired but I kept screwing up and it was pissing me off. When a couple of them got smart assy, that's when I knew it was time to call it a night. Oh well.
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Is that all you get? What about your random raid loot drops (i.e., non-challenge loot)? Did those drop, too?
If you don't get those, then wouldn't it make sense to purposely fail the challenge to get your non-challenge drops (310-320 light drop from hard plus 300-310 drop from normal and/or shards), then reload checkpoint and get the guaranteed challenge drops in order to maximize your loot?
X_1 copy is in the mail, should arrive sometime next week. (can't believe cyber Monday's deal was better than BF on Legendary edition)
Only character worth mentioning in my Warlock 18, this is pre expansion. I still need to migrate the account to the new console...but I'll be down for whatever when I'm at the level where I'm not a liability. My play times will mostly be 10pm EST on weekdays. I have some of you on my friendslist already.
Any advice to level up a Warlock quickly appreciated aside from, do nothing but play this game.
Only character worth mentioning in my Warlock 18, this is pre expansion. I still need to migrate the account to the new console...but I'll be down for whatever when I'm at the level where I'm not a liability. My play times will mostly be 10pm EST on weekdays. I have some of you on my friendslist already.
Any advice to level up a Warlock quickly appreciated aside from, do nothing but play this game.
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You get your normal drops as well. There is a separate chest for the challenge mode drops.
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Man, I had THE WORST luck last night. I was in with a group that I know and thought everything would go smooth for HM so we could farm the War Priest. But then we got to totems and it just wasn't happening. It totally sucked because in the past I know we've cleared that in 2-3 attempts, but this time we had one guy (nice guy and usually pretty solid) who just kept dying about halfway through the cycle. We gave up on the 9th attempt.
I should just look for a Warpriest checkpoint tonight and save myself from further headaches. I got so frustrated last night that now I just want the 320 drops so i can go back to Tomb Raider.
I should just look for a Warpriest checkpoint tonight and save myself from further headaches. I got so frustrated last night that now I just want the 320 drops so i can go back to Tomb Raider.
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Don't disregard that totem chest, I got a higher light ghost shell from it last night. Sometimes someone is just off that day. Get in with another solid crew and you'll be fine
I dunno about that. It definitely brought people back for a day at least. My Destiny friends list spilled over to a second page for the first time in a long time last night.
Yeah, it was cool bringing you through that. It made it more fun actually. If only you could play a little later, the group I normally run with could get you through the rest of it - at least up to Oryx. At this point we are usually LFG'ing for 1 or 2 each time anyway so there's usually a spot available (except for our first run - one of our regulars only has one character so we have 6 for the first one, then 4 or 5 for the subsequent ones).
I got the rest of my challenge mode clears in (along with one full run). My Titan got a pure strength artifact - yuck. So hopefully they have this again and I can use two 320's to infuse my really good 310 one up to 320. I now have my Black Spindle and 1000-Yard Stare at 320. I had previously upgraded my Conspiracy Theory shotgun to 320 from a regular drop. I'm keeping the 320 machine gun from yesterday for now, along with a 320 Defiance of Yasmin with firefly. I already have Truth at 318 anyway. The only other heavy I have that needs to be leveled up is my PvP legendary RL (which has grenades and horseshoes) and is only at 306 right now. But since they nerfed the blast radius I'm not sure I want to infuse that up too much. Oh, I suppose I could level swords as well but given that I don't use them that much those can wait.
My Oryx run didn't give me anything too great though I did get a 318 Smite of Merain. I still have yet to get a hard mode helmet. So on the weapon side, I am nearly 320. I have a 319 raid scout, and 320 in every other slot (invluding ghost). But besides the artifact and 1 class item (for my Titan) I am only 313-315 in most of the armor slots, and only 310-313 on the helmet slot.
I am going to miss next week's challenge as I'll be travelling for work. That will really suck if it is 320 armor from Golgoroth. I will be back Friday night so hopefully I can find some people to run it with next weekend.
Hmmm... Since you are upgrading do you qualify for the referral program? I'm guess not. But if you do, I'd like in on thatX_1 copy is in the mail, should arrive sometime next week. (can't believe cyber Monday's deal was better than BF on Legendary edition)
Only character worth mentioning in my Warlock 18, this is pre expansion. I still need to migrate the account to the new console...but I'll be down for whatever when I'm at the level where I'm not a liability. My play times will mostly be 10pm EST on weekdays. I have some of you on my friendslist already.
Any advice to level up a Warlock quickly appreciated aside from, do nothing but play this game.
.Should have joined the CAG group!
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How long does the entire friends quest take to complete? I have a few friends who dabbled in the game a bit so they probably wouldn't qualify. Might have to LFG someone, lol.
I finally had a Helmet and Chest drop for my Hunter last night from Oryx. The Chest was 316 so that was a nice jump for me. Helmet was only 307 but considering I had a helmet under 300 it was a good drop. Also got a 315 primary from the clear that will probably go into my ToM. One thing that did suck was that I had all 320 Machine gun drops from the Warpriest Challenge. Wish I would have had at least 1 sniper drop so I could get my 1000 yd stare up to max.
Have they said what the next step is for light levels? Are thing going to drop higher than 320 at some point or is this going to be it until they start talking about the next expansion sometime after the Holidays?
I finally had a Helmet and Chest drop for my Hunter last night from Oryx. The Chest was 316 so that was a nice jump for me. Helmet was only 307 but considering I had a helmet under 300 it was a good drop. Also got a 315 primary from the clear that will probably go into my ToM. One thing that did suck was that I had all 320 Machine gun drops from the Warpriest Challenge. Wish I would have had at least 1 sniper drop so I could get my 1000 yd stare up to max.
Have they said what the next step is for light levels? Are thing going to drop higher than 320 at some point or is this going to be it until they start talking about the next expansion sometime after the Holidays?
it's rather confusing, I'm trying to read up and understand the referral program. I'm fine not importing my progress if it means we can get the stuff. I don't imagine 18 lvls is hard to get anymore, especially with a mentor. The sword and the sparrow looks pretty freakin sweet.
I'm also going from a 360 copy before any expansions came out to X_1 TTK LE which arrives Saturday. I'm trying to post on Bungie but they're having system maintenance atm.
"must purchase and activate TTK." That should be me Saturday night...the hiccup I'm running into is, I have a Bungie account already, heck I won an art contest during week 2 of Reach.
Damn it, I want my Bungie All Star Emblem for my Destiny Profile.
I'm also going from a 360 copy before any expansions came out to X_1 TTK LE which arrives Saturday. I'm trying to post on Bungie but they're having system maintenance atm.
"must purchase and activate TTK." That should be me Saturday night...the hiccup I'm running into is, I have a Bungie account already, heck I won an art contest during week 2 of Reach.
Damn it, I want my Bungie All Star Emblem for my Destiny Profile.
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You should be fine. Just make sure io sends you his refer a friend link and you have downloaded and played anything in TTK. Link up within 7 days of you starting TTK and you will be fine.
Jumped 5 points last night from 307 to a solid 312. Got a 310 Red Death from the Nightfall which I infused into my raid scout to make that 310. Than got a 320 and 310 sniper plus a 310 rocket launcher from the Warpriest Challange. Infused my other raid RL with tracking to 310 and moved my Black Spindle to 318. At Gokgorath I got a 318 chest and 308 boots both with crappy rolls. I am keeping them for now dice they both 8 points higher than what I had. I also ended up with a Stag from the exotic chest before I called it a night. Plus the exotic helmet engram that dropped for Golgo from a ToC turned into a 310 Obsidian Mind.
How many times have you done Golgoroth? You already got a better chest piece than I've gotten across all 3 characters in many, many hard mode runs.
I was helping some friends start from the beginning and doing the Warpriest challenge even though I had it done for the week. I wanted to continue on past there to get Golgogoth/Sisters/Oryx stuff. After we got through Golgoroth (who gave me 319 gloves at least) we had some trouble with Sisters. I kept being the platform runner, which is bad enough. However, I was doing great with it. But for some reason, people kept getting off their damn plates and I'd fall through on the last or second to last platform. Then we had some people yell at each other and rage quit - which included the friends I was helping. So basically I raided for over an hour to get rewards from a single checkpoint (Golgoroth). Thanks guys (no one here obviously).
And what sucks is that it is hard to LFG at Sisters, but I really wanted to do it since I desperately need class items for infusing. It took a while, but I finally got in a group who I think were all Australian (due to how late it was). One guy had never done it before. We got Sisters done after 7 or 8 wipes. That's not great, but it got the job done. I got two items, but they were both Normal drops - WTF!? I got a 300 shotgun (yay) and a 308 class item. At least I was able to infuse that into my exotic Dead Orbit bond to raise it a few points. But that was not worth the hour+ of waiting for the group to get together and learn the level.
So we went on to Oryx and as you could imagine it didn't go well. When you can't even get past the first phase in 5+ tries, it is not a good sign. So we stopped. But at least it is easier to find Oryx groups later.
As for next week's challenge, I will be out of town until Friday. Hopefully someone will still want to run it then (and at least the mechanics will be well-figured out by then). I'm sure it will result in 320 armor, of which I have none yet.
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GLOCKGLOCK
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Well you get guaranteed HM drops your first clears of Warpriest and Golgoroth, right? So that and the guaranteed 320 helped you a bunch there. The 318 gloves are a really high light drop for your first run for sure. Considering I have only received one armor piece at 318+ from HM raid, and that is running all 3 characters through all 5 loot drops almost every week since it released.
After you get to 310 then it is just a total grind since very few activities drop items that can raise your light level. What, you thought the grind was to get to 310? The grind is real...
That's the beauty of infusion though. You can wait till you get another piece at 313 or so and then infuse the 318 into that. The 319 gloves I got were crappy, too, but I infused them into my 316's.
britton_draws
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So I am tempted to come back and get the Challenge Warpriest stuff done but none of my friends care to do it haha. Is it once per character like everything else? I wouldn't mind just doing three super quick runs from Start to Warpriest; that really should only take me like an hour or so with a competent team but like I said my buddies are all off and I am not ready to try LFG again.. haha
Do it once to Warpriest, change characters to save the checkpoint, then just do it two more times really quick. Shouldn't take more than an hour total. If you need any help let me know.
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