Official Destiny Thread

[cmdrdredd]

Luminous engrams are 10 levels above what you are with the possible 15 if they come with legend mod. The humps are 265, 275, 285. Second and third chars will clear you of the humps very fast. I wouldn't bother with the 265 hump on a second and third toon. Do heroic pubs with a group with the paragon boost and you will clear that 265 hump pretty well. Use the second and third toons for 275 and 285. Once you clear 290 getting to 300 is pretty easy.

Yeah and dumping a bunch of 280+ weapons on a second character affects the drops and reward levels a bit too I heard since it looks at your highest level items. I'm gonna exploit the exotic quests by doing them in second character once I'm a high level. That will give higher level rewards for completion. I know people who did multi tool at around 275 and got a 290 version for infusion fuel.

 

[cmdrdredd]

added 3 or so from the forum last night while I was on... let me know when you decide to do the nightfall; I never did the raid either. stuck at 272 as of last night but I did manage to boost some of my best guns from a week or so ago. i don't really seem to acquire many legendary mods that help; the one exotic ornament I got is for some obscure warlock weapon I think idk

Mods are very rare on gear I've gotten from engrams or milestones. I bought most of the ones I have.

 

[gus6464]

I'm saving my third toon exotic quests for when i hit 299-300 with him. That way I can get a MIDA with 310-315 easy peasy. My first MIDA was 285 did at 260, next MIDA was 298 did at 280, and now going for third at 300. MIDA is the best quest to do for this as you get the mini and multi at almost same level so then all you need a high powered heavy and you are set.

Also when doing the MIDA scout quest with the 50 enemies and 25 consecutive use the scout from trials of nine if you have one. The reload on slide perk does not count as a weapon reload so you can get to 25 consecutive without reloading super quick.

Also heroic pub events are the fastest way to gear up. Get 2 more people pop paragon buff and go do heroics over and over like EDZ. You will get a ton of legendaries and quite a bit of exotics. That's how I got past the 265 bump. I did heroics with 2 other for about 2.5-3 hours and hit 280.

 

[Anubis]

your mida will max out at 305 as 305 is the current light cap

 

[MBrown]

your mida will max out at 305 as 305 is the current light cap

Do we know if it will be higher with the prestige mode raid?

 

[Anubis]

part of me thinks yes but it may just be a 300 LL raid

 

[digiram]

This wks NF boss is a pita. Anyone have a good strat for the boss fight? I've completed it, but trying to get rat king. Went into fight with 10 mins left and took 6 mins to beat him.. sigh

 

[cmdrdredd]

This wks NF boss is a pita. Anyone have a good strat for the boss fight? I've completed it, but trying to get rat king. Went into fight with 10 mins left and took 6 mins to beat him.. sigh

Nah it sucks and it's not even a fun strike. In fact all of destiny 2's strikes are garbage. Too long for no reason and with really terrible boss mechanics for the most part.

 

[digiram]

Nah it sucks and it's not even a fun strike. In fact all of destiny 2's strikes are garbage. Too long for no reason and with really terrible boss mechanics for the most part.

Pretty much agree with you here, and told my team we prolly won't get rat king this wk.

 

[EXCellR8]

I don't think they're that bad... and I've done them all a number of times but the rewards aren't great. haven't been able to join up for any Nightfall strikes...

f*** those pyramidion laser traps though, took me a few tries on my first run of that one before I didn't get tagged.

 

[digiram]

I'm digiramm on xbl btw

 

[cmdrdredd]

List of mods and the slots they can occupy. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...N6vv8UflN14JRHYLNEYTELP6fc/htmlview?sle=true#

 

[zerocool84]

I really really dislike crucible more so now than Destiny 1. Matches are waaaaay too long and I prefer to have more on each team. I don't mind them having a competitive crucible but keep it separate from the quick play. They need to make quick play more fun for the casual player, it's too focused on pro competitive match play for normal people.

 

[Schfifty Five]

This wks NF boss is a pita. Anyone have a good strat for the boss fight? I've completed it, but trying to get rat king. Went into fight with 10 mins left and took 6 mins to beat him.. sigh

I beat it after numerous tries, and all I can say is:

1) memorize where all the anomalies are and farm them efficiently
2) when at the boss, I find it easier to DPS him down until he disappears, then clear the adds

 

[slag]

Well, I bought the game and have played it to 20. I will say, grouping up with someone else makes it a lot more fun, especially when he's a good player (Thanks Alamat!!). Hit 20 in a few days of on and off playing, really thought it was too easy, and wished they slowed down level progression more to keep it in line with power (light) level. It's 95% the same as D1, just some differences in gear, but everything feels the same so far. I'm only around 205 right now.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I really really dislike crucible more so now than Destiny 1. Matches are waaaaay too long and I prefer to have more on each team. I don't mind them having a competitive crucible but keep it separate from the quick play. They need to make quick play more fun for the casual player, it's too focused on pro competitive match play for normal people.

The casual play list is better but I still feel they are a little long at times.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well, I bought the game and have played it to 20. I will say, grouping up with someone else makes it a lot more fun, especially when he's a good player (Thanks Alamat!!). Hit 20 in a few days of on and off playing, really thought it was too easy, and wished they slowed down level progression more to keep it in line with power (light) level. It's 95% the same as D1, just some differences in gear, but everything feels the same so far. I'm only around 205 right now.

Progression to 20 quickly was on purpose. The grind happens when you try to get higher power level

 

[slag]

Progression to 20 quickly was on purpose. The grind happens when you try to get higher power level

I wish they would have made level progression slower and made light level go up slower as you level instead of level and then grind. Grinding is boring, but levelling up while raising power level is a linear progression and makes gameplay more fun imho.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I wish they would have made level progression slower and made light level go up slower as you level instead of level and then grind. Grinding is boring, but levelling up while raising power level is a linear progression and makes gameplay more fun imho.

Grinding public events is fun to me.


Also the patch notes for today's update. https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/Update/46352

A few notes
Crucible

Call to Arms

• Reduced the amount needed to complete the milestone to align it with other weekly milestones

Midtown

• Adjusted Clash & Supremacy power ammo locations
  
• Added invisible physics volumes to keep players from leaving the intended playable space

Eternity

• Added a soft-kill volume to keep players from hiding on the edge of the map
  
• Dead players' Ghosts will no longer appear in the "Fork" location

Clans

• Fixed an issue where clan XP was not being granted for completing public events
  
• Fixed an issue preventing some player from receiving weekly clan engrams
  • Players who leave a clan will still not be eligible for clan rewards that week

Faction Rallies

• Pledge to a faction Vendor
  • Pledging places a buff on the player character for the duration of the event associating the character with the faction
• Earn faction Reputation tokens
  • By Destroying Enemy resources in Lost Sectors, completing public events, completing strikes, completing Crucible matches, and the Leviathan raid
• Turn tokens in for reward packages
  • Earn faction themed rewards from your faction
• Help your faction win
  • The faction with the most rank ups across the game will sell a new weapon at a discount for faction members

 

[zerocool84]

What faction is everyone going to? I'm thinking Dead Orbit or Future War Cult.

 

[cmdrdredd]

What faction is everyone going to? I'm thinking Dead Orbit or Future War Cult.

Dead Orbit. Their weapon is a scout rifle. Dunno stats. Even so I think since Dead Oribit seems to be the most popular it will be sure to win the rally and give me the opportunity to buy the new weapon(for less than 50,000 glimmer). Also I don't think the other gear looks very good.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I’ll amend what I said before. Dead orbit isn’t that great this time IMO. I guess the shader looks good. Future war cult has the best weapons by far to me. The Pleiades Corrector is a really good energy scout rifle from future war cult. I also have the hand canon with delayed explosive rounds. I’m not a big hand canon user but people seem to like it. If you want armor I happen to think new monarchy looks the best before you add shaders but each faction armor has different stats. One may be resilience one may be recovery. The pictures I saw on other sites looked bad but in the game it looks much better while I think dead orbit is kind of bland and too much like the EDZ gear.

 

[Qbah]

I really like that they're mixing it up in the public events every week. Io Cabal event at the Pyramidion now spawns an extra huge Taken minotaur. And there's a Cabal Phalanx named scouting the same area that really packs a punch. The supply take-over stuff on Io is also pretty cool. The game doesn't feel as static as the first one I signed up to FWC on the Hunter (Recovery gear), New Monarchy on the Titan (Recovery gear and cool shaders) and Dead Orbit on the Warlock (that was left...). Faction tokens are abound, so it doesn't feel like a chore to try and get the faction armor and shaders 8 tokens for heroic event, 16 for the daily milestone, 1 extra for each milestone progress. Already got some new stuff to play with yesterday

 

[EXCellR8]

Pledged to FWC but basically because I already looked the part with my shaders lol... just felt right

having to go back into all of the lost sectors to destroy some supplies felt kind of mundane and silly but the tokens just rained in. a few of the chests netted absolutely no gear though, which I think a lot of players reported. I did see the Taken minotaur on IO when I was trying to do the Flashpoint; the secure supplies for the city was quite challenging and fun with a few good allies. i feel like everyone's probably gotten crushed by those dumb Cabal landing spheres at least once, especially the ones that land at the church in EDZ.

oh, and I got a freakin' rad sparrow that shoots flames out the side. haters gon hate

 

[cmdrdredd]

Pledged to FWC but basically because I already looked the part with my shaders lol... just felt right

having to go back into all of the lost sectors to destroy some supplies felt kind of mundane and silly but the tokens just rained in. a few of the chests netted absolutely no gear though, which I think a lot of players reported. I did see the Taken minotaur on IO when I was trying to do the Flashpoint; the secure supplies for the city was quite challenging and fun with a few good allies. i feel like everyone's probably gotten crushed by those dumb Cabal landing spheres at least once, especially the ones that land at the church in EDZ.

oh, and I got a freakin' rad sparrow that shoots flames out the side. haters gon hate

You could go into the same lost sector over and over. The one in the church is very short and you can just use fast travel point and run in again for them to reappear. I know that’s not the idea behind it but it’s efficient.