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Rage187

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I'm sort of done logging in each day. I'll log in on Tuesday's to do the Nightfall and a couple raids but I think I'm done until they release DLC or Iron Banner.
 

Qbah

Diamond Member
Oct 18, 2005
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I'm sort of done logging in each day. I'll log in on Tuesday's to do the Nightfall and a couple raids but I think I'm done until they release DLC or Iron Banner.

Nothing else for you to do apart from praying to RNGesus during raids for armor and the mythoclast... even the Nightfalls are for secondary stuff I guess... since you already have the best guns anyway.
 

TeknoBug

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Oct 2, 2013
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I read it but saw nothing, even in your quoted part that says "destiny is the game that will help you". This is how the story has been portrayed all day on the forums I visit. That the doctor specifically recommended the game. If that is not the case then fine.

When going through a brain surgery they want you to do a repetitive task to ensure the surgery went well and if it's on the part of your brain that's close to the memory area, repetitive is a type of therapy for it and Destiny is the right choice for that.
 

Subyman

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Mar 18, 2005
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I just got level 20 and the game does a really poor job telling me what I'm supposed to do. It said to do Strike playlists for vanguard marks, but I'm not really geared enough for the Mars strikes. I've also heard something about Strange Coins. Anyone point me to an article or want to briefly explain what's a good progression?
 

sze5003

Lifer
Aug 18, 2012
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I just got level 20 and the game does a really poor job telling me what I'm supposed to do. It said to do Strike playlists for vanguard marks, but I'm not really geared enough for the Mars strikes. I've also heard something about Strange Coins. Anyone point me to an article or want to briefly explain what's a good progression?

Well strange coins you get by doing the daily and heroic missions. Strike playlists also give you coins and vanguard marks. You want to gain vanguard marks so you can get to rank vanguard 2 and be able to buy legendary gear.

Do the bounties from the tower too. I'm still only level 24.5 I haven't played in forever. Destinylfg.com is good too if you need a group or someone to run a mission with you.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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I just got level 20 and the game does a really poor job telling me what I'm supposed to do. It said to do Strike playlists for vanguard marks, but I'm not really geared enough for the Mars strikes. I've also heard something about Strange Coins. Anyone point me to an article or want to briefly explain what's a good progression?
Strange coins come from doing the weekly strike and they can also be rewards from other events or engrams. They are used to buy items from Xur who appears between Friday and Sunday morning. He sells random exotic weapons and armor for each class among other various items. He also sells a random exotic engram each week for 23 notes of light. You get motes of light instead of XP gains after you reach level 20. When your XP bar fills up you will receive 1 mote. The speaker will also exchange notes for emblems and class armor.

The easiet way to progress right now is to rank your vanguard or crucible to rank 3 and then earn marks that will allow you to purchase legendary armor and weapons from the venders. I find vanguard easier to rank up and get marks from. You can get vanguard marks and rep from strike playlists, bounties, daily heroic story, weekly strikes, patrol missions, and public events. You can earn up to 100 marks a week.

After level 20 your light level determines your character level from now on. To get more light you need to acquire and upgrade better armor. Full set of rare can get you to 24. Legendary can get you to 28-29. To upgrade legendary armor and weapons you will require materials like spinmetal from earth, relic iron from mars, helium filaments from the moon, and spirit bloom from Venus. The upgrade menu for each piece will tell you how many of each material it will require to level. In addition to this he last few upgrades will require ascendent materials. You may already have received an ascendent energy or shard. The energy is used for weapon upgrades and shards for armor.

In short the easiest way to level up is do your daily bounties, strike playlists, and some public events. You will rank vanguard, receive marks, and public events will give you a chance for ascendent materials. Then you can purchase legendary gear from your vanguard vender.
 

Bill Brasky

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I just got level 20 and the game does a really poor job telling me what I'm supposed to do. It said to do Strike playlists for vanguard marks, but I'm not really geared enough for the Mars strikes. I've also heard something about Strange Coins. Anyone point me to an article or want to briefly explain what's a good progression?

Read this post linked below. Specifically the Post 20 leveling guide and the tips and tricks.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=138100162&postcount=1
 

PimpJuice

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Feb 14, 2005
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Disagree 100%. Just because someone got RNG luck doesn't mean everyone should suffer having junk weapons. Raid got tons easier when people got ice breaker and suros. When people have good weapons and armor to level up it helps the whole team.

So you think everything should be available for sale?

Let me guess, you dont have a Gjallerhorn

Theres plenty of other guns I don't have, but I think its dumb to water down the experience of finding something that is supposed to be unique when you can just buy it with easily obtainable coins. It's pretty dumb for everyone to have suros now. I used to get owned by Suros all the time in PvP, and was fine with that, knowing that hopefully it would drop for me someday and I would be able to use it against others.
 
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Batmeat

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First expansion due out in December, and it only has a few other missions, some story and another raid......I'm lvl 28. I don't see the point of this game anymore.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
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So you think everything should be available for sale?

Let me guess, you dont have a Gjallerhorn

Theres plenty of other guns I don't have, but I think its dumb to water down the experience of finding something that is supposed to be unique when you can just buy it with easily obtainable coins. It's pretty dumb for everyone to have suros now. I used to get owned by Suros all the time in PvP, and was fine with that, knowing that hopefully it would drop for me someday and I would be able to use it against others.
Try reading again and come back when you can understand what I said. Here is a hint. I said that when people have access to good weapons and armor, it helps my raid runs and other events go much more smoothly. When people have the ability to buy a good weapon like suros or an ice breaker and can level it, it kills things faster and we don't have as many wipes due to not enough damage on enemies that need to be killed.

Let me say this. I am lv30 with enough maxed weapons that any element that is needed, I have two at 300. In some cases 3, including ice breaker, vision, epilogue, suros, hezen vengeance, praedyth's revenge, patience and time. So gloating about gjallarhorn is about as good as gloating you got a full raid set in two runs. It is RNG. Nobody did anything super special to get things to drop. They got lucky. Just like me in the raid. I have had relatively good luck. I didn't do anything different than the thousands of players who still need drops from normal.

For the record, I have done raid hard with no gjallarhorn on the team and it wasn't as if we were gimped cause of that. Is it good? Yes. Would I like to have it? Yes. Do I care if you got it by luck or bought it? No.
 
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First expansion due out in December, and it only has a few other missions, some story and another raid......I'm lvl 28. I don't see the point of this game anymore.

You have the following choices:

1. Keep playing w/o expansion
2. Keep playing w/ expansion
3. Stop playing all together
 

Rage187

Lifer
Dec 30, 2000
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arc burn. interesting. trying to think what exotic weapons I have that are arc besides thunderlord.
 

PimpJuice

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Try reading again and come back when you can understand what I said. Here is a hint. I said that when people have access to good weapons and armor, it helps my raid runs and other events go much more smoothly. When people have the ability to buy a good weapon like suros or an ice breaker and can level it, it kills things faster and we don't have as many wipes due to not enough damage on enemies that need to be killed.

Let me say this. I am lv30 with enough maxed weapons that any element that is needed, I have two at 300. In some cases 3, including ice breaker, vision, epilogue, suros, hezen vengeance, praedyth's revenge, patience and time. So gloating about gjallarhorn is about as good as gloating you got a full raid set in two runs. It is RNG. Nobody did anything super special to get things to drop. They got lucky. Just like me in the raid. I have had relatively good luck. I didn't do anything different than the thousands of players who still need drops from normal.

For the record, I have done raid hard with no gjallarhorn on the team and it wasn't as if we were gimped cause of that. Is it good? Yes. Would I like to have it? Yes. Do I care if you got it by luck or bought it? No.

I read and understood just fine based on what you wrote. I said I dislike the idea of Xur and the selling of exotics, and you diagreed and think that selling exotics is great because it makes YOUR raids easier.

My argument still stands, this game is about grinding and RNG. Selling exotics for easily obtainable coins goes against that philosophy.

Read again what you wrote:
"When people have the ability to buy a good weapon like suros or an ice breaker and can level it, it kills things faster and we don't have as many wipes due to not enough damage on enemies that need to be killed."

It makes it easier when people have better weapons? No shit. You just proved my point that you want people to be able to buy any weapon, and I was against it. It's okay for us to disagree, I just don't understand the butthurt response.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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I read and understood just fine based on what you wrote. I said I dislike the idea of Xur and the selling of exotics, and you diagreed and think that selling exotics is great because it makes YOUR raids easier.

My argument still stands, this game is about grinding and RNG. Selling exotics for easily obtainable coins goes against that philosophy.

Read again what you wrote:
"When people have the ability to buy a good weapon like suros or an ice breaker and can level it, it kills things faster and we don't have as many wipes due to not enough damage on enemies that need to be killed."

It makes it easier when people have better weapons? No shit. You just proved my point that you want people to be able to buy any weapon, and I was against it. It's okay for us to disagree, I just don't understand the butthurt response.
There are a lot of items that Xur can't and won't sell. You sound like the butthurt one because you got lucky and are not special.

I never said any weapon either. You made that up. Without Xur there would be a million players with no exotic stuff at all. You would also have raids taking 3 hours still because people aren't leveled and can't cause no exotic or raid gear. How is that good at all? It isn't.
 
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smackababy

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Bungie is thinking of other ways to get upgrade materials besides running in circles farming chests.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/11/bungie-promises-changes-to-material-farming-in-destiny

I really hope they add something else. I've basically stopped playing altogether because I don't have enough materials to upgrade my handout legendaries and refuse to run around planets looking for them. I am stuck mid 26 because during my initial leveling I didn't find enough to level anything up more than once.
 

metaphors

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Still no solar after everyone got ice breaker lol

Hey! it's random lol besides there's always witches and the cabals with solar shields even with other burns active.

Luckily ice breaker is still useful in every nightfall I've used it in regardless of the modifiers.
 

sze5003

Lifer
Aug 18, 2012
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I really hope they add something else. I've basically stopped playing altogether because I don't have enough materials to upgrade my handout legendaries and refuse to run around planets looking for them. I am stuck mid 26 because during my initial leveling I didn't find enough to level anything up more than once.

Same deal here I've stopped at 24.5 mainly because last time I played I was able to get my first legendary chest piece through a weekly heroic strike. But since then I've leveled the item up slowly and haven't had much luck. I don't play PvP unless my friends are on and we can form a squad.
 

PimpJuice

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Feb 14, 2005
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There are a lot of items that Xur can't and won't sell. You sound like the butthurt one because you got lucky and are not special.

I never said any weapon either. You made that up. Without Xur there would be a million players with no exotic stuff at all. You would also have raids taking 3 hours still because people aren't leveled and can't cause no exotic or raid gear. How is that good at all? It isn't.

then they haven't played the game enough to be able to do the Raid. That sucks for the .05% of people who had the worst of luck, but if you've played this game enough, you will get drops. Playing the Raid is not a right, its a privilege for those who are geared enough to do it. Also, there are purples that you can buy with enough marks to do the raid. Many purples are better than exotics actually.

People that "aren't leveled" shouldn't be attempting the raid......again in my opinion.
 
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