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cmdrdredd

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Dec 12, 2001
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One of my real life friends is a Destiny addict yet bitches about it all the time. He swore he was done with the game and moved on to MGS but sure enough he has been playing it non stop this week.


That's like me lol. I quit in April and came back a couple weeks ago and have been on nearly every day since.
 

mzkhadir

Diamond Member
Mar 6, 2003
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Destiny without TTK installed, here are the changes

Below is a list of changes that will affect Destiny players who do not have access to Destiny: The Taken King on their account:

Character Level is set at a maximum of 34
Strikes & Raid Activities are only available via the Destinations using the Director
Daily Heroic Missions, Weekly Heroic Strikes, and Nightfall Featured Activities will be set beyond level 34
Only the following Crucible modes will be available: Classic 3v3, Classic 6v6 and Classic Free-For-All
Only Year 1 versions of Exotic Weapons & Armor will be available
Tower Vendors will no longer sell Year 1 Legendary items
Bounties that were part of Expansion 1 or 2 are no longer available
Legendary Marks will not be available to be earned

XUR Changes

Xûr’s got a brand new bag. Curious about what’s in it? Senior Design Lead Tyson Green (perhaps you remember him from the Destiny Year Two Reveal) is here to talk about the strange being who arrives in the middle of the night to take earn your Strange Coins.

Tyson: In Year One, Xûr was a community “loot drop,” a shared rallying point that everyone could cheer or curse. In Year Two, Xûr’s offerings have been changed so that he will select either a specific Exotic Weapon or an Exotic Engram for sale every week. This change is due primarily to our desire to give players more direct paths to acquiring the Exotics they want through Quests and gameplay experiences, and to avoid repetition in his inventory.

Xûr will also sell a new consumable, the Three of Coins, which gives bosses a chance to drop Exotic Engrams, including Weapon Engrams. These consumables have a cumulative luck effect, so even if one doesn’t net you a drop, the next one has a higher chance to do so.

Lastly, Xûr will also choose a Legacy Engram every week. These Engrams contain Year One Exotics (at Year One Attack and Defense levels) for players who want to finish up a Collection. They strongly bias towards Exotics not already in your Blueprint Collection, to help fill in the blank slots - excluding Mythoclast and Necrochasm, which are still only available from their Year One sources.

Xûr has said so many times himself: His will is not his own.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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Avoid repetition lol...they could control what he sold so they were the ones who made him repeat the same stuff. This isn't for that, this is to try to keep people from getting exotics easily.

Also if you are really far below the recommended level of an activity like the heroic strikes please consider leveling more before joining. I had to almost solo valus t'auric strike cause the two people with me were 20light levels or more below the recommended 260. Also if you have a sword, please don't run into mobs thinking you can take them all on. One guy did that and ruined our strike run.
 
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cmdrdredd

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Bought like 6 engrams and got two stag helmets, some Titan helmet, some hunter helmet, and two obsidian minds. Kinda disappointed I didn't get light beyond nemesis but the stag is not bad. Considered buying more but I don't wanna burn all my coins. Also got the gauntlets for warlock. Don't think I will ever use them though.

Went ahead and bought a ghost and some boots from venders. Didn't boost me up all that much cause I am sitting on a couple things that drag me down a bit. Got from 260 to 267.

Oh and I have 70 three of coins items. Have to verify how these work before I use them.
 
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Anubis

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70 shit how many Strange coins did you have

im at 272. I bought a 280 armband from the speaker as well this morning. so I wouldn't cap legendary marks when I do stuff today

I was gonna buy boots but I didn't like what she was selling so ill wait for the stock refresh today to see what is there

I only purchased 1 head erngram and lucked out I guess it also rolled pure int which is nice. I think it was 2 weeks ago I gambled on it and got "The Ram" on my first go as well
 

Demo24

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So any advice or perhaps know of a good quick guide for a new player? I've not played since beta so of course I didn't do much then. Now level 8, about to do the Devils House strike, and mostly been doing story missions at this point.

Destiny doesn't exactly do the best job of explaining everything. Also kinda annoying Grimoire cards are not readable in game.
 

Anubis

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while some aspects of it would be great on a PC with a KB/Mouse. some of the wonky jumping/floating would also suck to control
 

Newell Steamer

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while some aspects of it would be great on a PC with a KB/Mouse. some of the wonky jumping/floating would also suck to control

I want it on the PC for teh graphixxx.

KB+M is not the main factor - I am honestly OK with using a controller for FPS.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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70 shit how many Strange coins did you have

im at 272. I bought a 280 armband from the speaker as well this morning. so I wouldn't cap legendary marks when I do stuff today

I was gonna buy boots but I didn't like what she was selling so ill wait for the stock refresh today to see what is there

I only purchased 1 head erngram and lucked out I guess it also rolled pure int which is nice. I think it was 2 weeks ago I gambled on it and got "The Ram" on my first go as well


I had over 300 coins and 430 motes or something.

Remember too that the three of coins is sold in a stack of 5. So I only had to buy 14 of them which is 98 coins. Spent 225 coins in total.

With the better weapons you have over me I figured you'd jump up more with new armor than I would. I did expect to hit 270 though. Oh well
 
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cmdrdredd

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So any advice or perhaps know of a good quick guide for a new player? I've not played since beta so of course I didn't do much then. Now level 8, about to do the Devils House strike, and mostly been doing story missions at this point.

Destiny doesn't exactly do the best job of explaining everything. Also kinda annoying Grimoire cards are not readable in game.


Play the story and you'll get xp. Do the bounties from the tower as you go along as well for the extra xp. You can do bounties every day for extra xp and don't forget to turn in any completed quests you receive from the vanguard or others.
 
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cmdrdredd

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I want it on the PC for teh graphixxx.



KB+M is not the main factor - I am honestly OK with using a controller for FPS.


They were supposed to bring out a PC version with "destiny 2" I heard but maybe that won't really happen because of all the work needed to turn this around in the past year.


Oh my...people say you can pop the three of coins for the taken bosses during patrol and get engrams. Also the following seems legit lol. Just be careful using them on strikes if there are two bosses as the first one will wipe out the buff when he dies.

Scourge of Winter mission - pop coin, snipe boss to low and suicide rocket into boss. You respawn and engram is still there and you can pop another coin and repeat as many times as you want
 
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Anubis

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I had over 300 coins and 430 motes or something.

Remember too that the three of coins is sold in a stack of 5. So I only had to buy 14 of them which is 98 coins. Spent 225 coins in total.

With the better weapons you have over me I figured you'd jump up more with new armor than I would. I did expect to hit 270 though. Oh well

my ghost and artifact are killing my score
 

cmdrdredd

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I think so. I mean I am having lots of fun again and there are a ton of quests to complete now from NPCs. You don't steamroll everything but nothing is impossibly hard that I have found. The new strikes are great too. It wouldn't take you long at all to level to 40 and start grabbing marks.

I think with all the changes in 2.0 it's the best time to come back.
 
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VashHT

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Is there any cheap way to upgrade the digital edition of the original? I have none of the expansions but wouldn't mind trying to play this again.
 

mzkhadir

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Is there any cheap way to upgrade the digital edition of the original? I have none of the expansions but wouldn't mind trying to play this again.

Trade in old copy to Gamestop and get the legendary edition. It will save you 20 bucks.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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Trade in old copy to Gamestop and get the legendary edition. It will save you 20 bucks.

He said digital.

The digital taken king expansion is $40. You get all the content for $60. That's your only options for digital unless you find some way to get a deal on PSN value cards.

Also a little info for you guys on farming the scourge of winter mission boss for exotic engrams. You do just enough damage to him with 3 precision shots and one body shot with an ice breaker that your next rocket will kill him when you stand next to him to blow yourself up. I was wondering how low I can bring him and that is what I found works best. Snipe him before you enter the door, stand outside the room. My average seems to be 1 engram out of 3 or 4 times. Only use one coin per go. The bonus stacks but the chances go up with each successive use, using more than one at a time wastes them.

According to Bungie they are nerfing this method so better take advantage.



edit: Of note I ended up getting the following.
Telesto(fusion rifle with multikills spawn orbs and projectiles attach to enemies and detonate)
Zhalo Supercell (auto rifle that chains lightning between enemies, grows more accurate the longer it's fired, and double kills charge super and return ammo)
Hereafter(sniper rifle with Precision kills have a chance to blind nearby enemies and magazine refunded if all shots are precision kills)
4th Horseman (need no introduction to the auto shotgun)
Starfire Protocol(year 1 at 290)
3x Last word (year 1 at 290)
2x Crest of Alpha Lupi (year 1 at 290)
2x Stag Helmet (warlock helmet gives fast charge super when all allies are dead & chance to spawn with overshield)
2x Obsidian mind (year 1 at 290)
Helm of Inmost Light (year 1 at 290)
2x Skyburners annex (hunter helmet gives chance to create orbs on heavy kills and orbs may grant special ammo when super is full)


Saving all the armor in case I want to infuse something later for my second character to level up quickly. I ended up using the starfire protocol and removing the stag helmet. Then I took my legendary helmet I had saved and infused one of my spare exotics to it to bring it to 290. Brought me up to 277-278 depending on whether I use an exotic primary or an exotic special. Pretty happy.
 
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Anubis

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Aug 31, 2001
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He said digital.

The digital taken king expansion is $40. You get all the content for $60. That's your only options for digital unless you find some way to get a deal on PSN value cards.

Also a little info for you guys on farming the scourge of winter mission boss for exotic engrams. You do just enough damage to him with 3 precision shots and one body shot with an ice breaker that your next rocket will kill him when you stand next to him to blow yourself up. I was wondering how low I can bring him and that is what I found works best. Snipe him before you enter the door, stand outside the room. My average seems to be 1 engram out of 3 or 4 times. Only use one coin per go. The bonus stacks but the chances go up with each successive use, using more than one at a time wastes them.

According to Bungie they are nerfing this method so better take advantage.



edit: Of note I ended up getting the following.
Telesto(fusion rifle with multikills spawn orbs and projectiles attach to enemies and detonate)
Zhalo Supercell (auto rifle that chains lightning between enemies, grows more accurate the longer it's fired, and double kills charge super and return ammo)
Hereafter(sniper rifle with Precision kills have a chance to blind nearby enemies and magazine refunded if all shots are precision kills)
4th Horseman (need no introduction to the auto shotgun)
Starfire Protocol(year 1 at 290)
3x Last word (year 1 at 290)
2x Crest of Alpha Lupi (year 1 at 290)
2x Stag Helmet (warlock helmet gives fast charge super when all allies are dead & chance to spawn with overshield)
2x Obsidian mind (year 1 at 290)
Helm of Inmost Light (year 1 at 290)
2x Skyburners annex (hunter helmet gives chance to create orbs on heavy kills and orbs may grant special ammo when super is full)


Saving all the armor in case I want to infuse something later for my second character to level up quickly. I ended up using the starfire protocol and removing the stag helmet. Then I took my legendary helmet I had saved and infused one of my spare exotics to it to bring it to 290. Brought me up to 277-278 depending on whether I use an exotic primary or an exotic special. Pretty happy.


Similar to me

2x hawkmoon
last word
invective
4th horsemen
SUROS
Jade Rabbit
2x hereafter
telesto
2x obsidian mind
alchemist robes (glimmer ones)

this happened in the raid to night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1L7qPYVDC8

we cleared to Oryx

im at 292 now
 

TallBill

Lifer
Apr 29, 2001
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Woof, I'm exhausted lol. So much destiny. Also at 292 max level, didn't get past the damn ogre today though. Wish I had a regular raid team, would have been so much smoother.

God an assload of exotics today to include finishing the Ace of Spades quest and the Chaperone quest.
 
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