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menace-uk- said:
I haven't even got a special exotic engram since the update, let alone getting one to decypt into the new exotic:sad::sad:

Haven't had a boot exotic engram neither.
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I actually got 2 exotics using 3 of coins off a PoE boss.

Honestly I'm worried drops are bugged. At least they are way different now. Heroic strikes used to be easy, steady leveling. Now the drops in there are terrible, plus you get the bug where marks don't drop. Next week everything could work out with the light cap going up. Right now it seems to be way too hard to level up a 310+ character. I was making better progress before the patch. Although I am loaded with glimmer and armor and weapon parts. It is nice not to have to be scrounging for those. Plus who knows, maybe I'm just getting a run of bad luck on drops.

The Trespasser is ok but nothing special. It is one of those exotics that will never get used unless you are just messing around. With the limited special ammo drops in pve, it just isn't great. I'd much rather run my Bad Juju in pve.
 
Kerosene31 said:
I actually got 2 exotics using 3 of coins off a PoE boss.

Honestly I'm worried drops are bugged. At least they are way different now. Heroic strikes used to be easy, steady leveling. Now the drops in there are terrible, plus you get the bug where marks don't drop. Next week everything could work out with the light cap going up. Right now it seems to be way too hard to level up a 310+ character. I was making better progress before the patch. Although I am loaded with glimmer and armor and weapon parts. It is nice not to have to be scrounging for those. Plus who knows, maybe I'm just getting a run of bad luck on drops.

The Trespasser is ok but nothing special. It is one of those exotics that will never get used unless you are just messing around. With the limited special ammo drops in pve, it just isn't great. I'd much rather run my Bad Juju in pve.
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Faction packages are still working fine and giving gear higher than your current stuff. Sometimes only 1 level, sometimes up to 5 levels, and with the easy Heroic Strike Modifiers it makes running through them fairly quick and easy enough.

The last 3 exotics I decrypted all gave lower light levels than my current gear.
 
menace-uk- said:
Faction packages are still working fine and giving gear higher than your current stuff. Sometimes only 1 level, sometimes up to 5 levels, and with the easy Heroic Strike Modifiers it makes running through them fairly quick and easy enough.

The last 3 exotics I decrypted all gave lower light levels than my current gear.
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Yeah it is totally inconsistent. Before vendor packages were almost always giving me good light levels, or at worst a point or two low. Now I still get some legendaries that are the dreaded 268 number.

With 1:1 infusion it isn't terrible but still annoying. Nobody seems to acknowledge that it is completely different post patch.
 
Just completed my first Challenge of Elders Sigil. Didn't get 335 gear or a damn queenbreakers Bow, but I did alright.

Got me a 330 Her Mercy Assault Rifle. A 329 Taken Ghost Shell. And a 330 Hunter Helm.

I am now sitting at level 327 :banana:

Think I am gunna have to find me a tier 3 rune(how do you get these again?) and get a better artefact. My current 319 one is holding me back.
 
Ghosts and artifacts are always the hardest to find. COO is usually the most reliable way for artifacts if you can find people on. Still the drops on them seem very rare. It is hard to tell too since the latest patch. Drops are just so different now. At least they used to be unpredictable in a predictable way :)

My PS4 character has a terrible ghost and artifact and I never get better ones dropped. I think both are only 300 or something.

Hopefully when ROI drops more of these hit.
 
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Challenge of Elders went even better with my Titan.

1x Lord of Wolves Exotic 328
2x Witness Mark 329 & 332.
1x Here Champion Shotgun (High Score reward) 331.
1xWitness Helm ( 90K score reward) 331.

That led to a Rank up package from Variks, which gave me a 330 Soultakers Claw Assasult Rifle.

:banana::bang:
 
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The change to Titan jumping is getting me killed a ton now on pve. Since day 1 if you timed it right, you could jump horizontally to get out of trouble. This helped counter the horrible floatiness of Titan movement. Now? You pop up in a slow arc. You may as well shout "pull" and wear a target. Any pve encounter where mobs snipe at you is brutal now. I'm terrified of playing the grounded modifier. I died 3 times yesterday just doing the low level daily.

I'm actually ok with nerfing titan skating since it was really a bug, but this makes our bad floaty jumps even worse. It really sucks when they take something we've been doing for years and totally change it (without even letting us know on top of that).
 
Kerosene31 said:
The change to Titan jumping is getting me killed a ton now on pve. Since day 1 if you timed it right, you could jump horizontally to get out of trouble. This helped counter the horrible floatiness of Titan movement. Now? You pop up in a slow arc. You may as well shout "pull" and wear a target. Any pve encounter where mobs snipe at you is brutal now. I'm terrified of playing the grounded modifier. I died 3 times yesterday just doing the low level daily.

I'm actually ok with nerfing titan skating since it was really a bug, but this makes our bad floaty jumps even worse. It really sucks when they take something we've been doing for years and totally change it (without even letting us know on top of that).
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I thought my Titan felt a little different.
 
menace-uk- said:
I thought my Titan felt a little different.
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Yeah it is hard to describe. You used to be able to time your boost for when your initial jump was ending and fly horizontally (or close to it). Now you pop up no matter what. Everyone just used it without thinking too much about it. Now if you are low health and just trying to escape, jumping is a bad idea. You'll end up in the ceiling no matter what.
 
menace-uk- said:
Challenge of Elders went even better with my Titan.

1x Lord of Wolves Exotic 328
2x Witness Mark 329 & 332.
1x Here Champion Shotgun (High Score reward) 331.
1xWitness Helm ( 90K score reward) 331.

That led to a Rank up package from Variks, which gave me a 330 Soultakers Claw Assasult Rifle.

:banana::bang:
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Apparently I should be doing this "challenge of elders" shiznit.
 
u2popmofo said:
Apparently I should be doing this "challenge of elders" shiznit.
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You should. It is pretty easy this week. Just go for precision shots and whatever the modifier is--this week is grenades.

I done a full sigil on 2 characters in around 2 hours.
 
menace-uk- said:
Just completed my first Challenge of Elders Sigil. Didn't get 335 gear or a damn queenbreakers Bow, but I did alright.

Got me a 330 Her Mercy Assault Rifle. A 329 Taken Ghost Shell. And a 330 Hunter Helm.

I am now sitting at level 327 :banana:

Think I am gunna have to find me a tier 3 rune(how do you get these again?) and get a better artefact. My current 319 one is holding me back.
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after getting the weeks loot.... you can run challenge over and over to farm the exotic special weapons as the chance for them to drop is limitless.
 
VaLLiancE said:
after getting the weeks loot.... you can run challenge over and over to farm the exotic special weapons as the chance for them to drop is limitless.
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Really!

Nice to know. I will def be doing some more this week then. I can probably solo it just to complete the event.
 
So, anyone figured out the best way to level up a 310-315 character before ROI? This 245 blue 268 purple bug makes it nearly impossible to gain any light level. Leveling was steady and easy prior to the patch.

The problem is the nightfall and challenge is still tough for my 314ish Titan who isn't geared all that great.
 
Kerosene31 said:
So, anyone figured out the best way to level up a 310-315 character before ROI? This 245 blue 268 purple bug makes it nearly impossible to gain any light level. Leveling was steady and easy prior to the patch.

The problem is the nightfall and challenge is still tough for my 314ish Titan who isn't geared all that great.
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Challenge of Elders and faction packages.
 
Boom! Hit my initial target of 330 on my Hunter. Doesn't seem like I will get much higher than that. Faction packages and exotics seem to max out at 330.

Now to get my Titan to 330.
 
Thank goodness they fixed that awful film grain issue. It was like watching vintage WW2 footage.

Thanks VaLLiancE for offering to help. I have so little time to play lately. True story - I took off work for ROI's launch. I told my wife the dates and she says "oh, so you took off for our anniversary!". "Uhhh oooooo yyyyeah". :)

My big need right now is an artifact on my PS4 character. I can never find anyone in COO. May as well just wait for ROI now. It launches at 5am my local time. :surprise: I'm just hoping I'm high enough level to play it. That would kind of suck.
 
So...Bungie has added a bunch of stuff fro ROI to the armoury page. I am not impressed with what I am seeing.

Not one weapon jumps out and says must have. The perks on the raid gear seem pretty meh. The Shotgun could be decent, and the auto rifle has firefly, which is nice, but overall, eh. The weapons also look s*** visually and don't even have ornaments. Meh.

The hunter exotics are whack. Still no new stuff to support the newest super and improve shadowshot. Lame!

Iron Banner weapons look cool visually, but have no unique perks and don;t seem to have the best archtype neither.

All the other weapons look like reskins of weapons we have been using for years.

So, I am not buying ROI today. I will watch some stream and youtube vids and see how it plays out, but as of right now, I am hugely disappointed....but on the flip side, I am likely going to save £25.
 
I think the artifacts have useful perks now instead of just being useless light levels. I haven't followed much on the other gear.

One annoying thing is every piece of armor seems sidearm focused. Sidearm loader, sidearm ammo, etc. Sorry Bungie, nobody is using sidearms still, especially with special ammo being so hard to find in pve.

I'm glad I saved up a bunch of blues. Leveled up from 316 to 327 just at the cryptarch. Funny how as you get close to the level cap things slow way down but once it goes up everything gets easy again.
 
Son of a...

Turns out the Year 3 Gally you get for a pre-order only works if you have a year 1 Gally in your inventory, which of course on PS4 I never even played in y1. :smash:
 
Kerosene31 said:
Son of a...

Turns out the Year 3 Gally you get for a pre-order only works if you have a year 1 Gally in your inventory, which of course on PS4 I never even played in y1. :smash:
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Pretty sure the Gally is tied to a quest. Once you do the quest you will be able to use it
 
These new bad guys are totally new and not just Fallen re-textured in glowing red :)

At least I got a token to upgrade a 2nd character to level 40 which is nice.
 
Kerosene31 said:
These new bad guys are totally new and not just Fallen re-textured in glowing red :)

At least I got a token to upgrade a 2nd character to level 40 which is nice.
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There isn't all that much new content that I can see. The vast majority of weapons are from year 1. Even the raid weapons are year 2 foundry weapons. The Siva scout rifle looks like Sleeper simulant.
 
Certainly nothing amazing so far. I went through the single player "campaign". There's a few remaining quests, a strike and of course the raid I have yet to try.

Nothing big to make people jump back in unless they really want to get back in.

I'm ok with it as I've still got lots to grind out yet.
 
menace-uk- said:
Pretty sure the Gally is tied to a quest. Once you do the quest you will be able to use it
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yeah that quest line sucks. I'm trying to do the part where you go to the builders area. you got to defuse two bombs I can't do the 2nd one to save my life. them f***ing flying robots blow up all over the place. I give up and raged quit.

I feel I wasted $40 cdn on this game. The SP story was short as hell and its still all the same s*** over again.
 
TOPDAWG said:
yeah that quest line sucks. I'm trying to do the part where you go to the builders area. you got to defuse two bombs I can't do the 2nd one to save my life. them f***ing flying robots blow up all over the place. I give up and raged quit.

I feel I wasted $40 cdn on this game. The SP story was short as hell and its still all the same s*** over again.
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I don't get why they waste so much time and resources on the story. I mean, it isn't like it is good or cohesive or anything. They should concentrate more on end game content like raids, strikes, POE, and just add new lore to find via ghost shells and grimoire cards.

I mean you only get 1....ONE! new strike, and strikes are what you spend 30% of your time doing.
 
The story is pretty terrible. Honestly I don't even read much of the grimore stuff. The only fun missions were the quests for the Gally and Kvostov weapons.

The new "story" was pointless. The new area is nice though. Archon's Force is actually quite fun if you can get a good group going. A lot more fun than the Court of Oryx.

I wish they would at least get more of the old content up to current light levels. Now PoE is going to be useless again and so will challenge mode.
 
Another tip that most probably know is that you now get a legendary engram and 15 marks per day per character from public events. These don't have to be in the new plaguelands where they need a fireteam, but can be the super easy ones on Earth, Moon, etc which are super easy to solo!

Most people are probably short on vanguard marks with all the infusion going on, so do these plus the daily and you can get those marks back up easy. Doing the public events is so much easier than the daily if you aren't super high level yet. I'm just 350 so the daily can still be a bit of a grind.

Most of the good timer apps have been updated for ROI, so grab one and find 20 minutes per day farming those public events. Even if you have a low level alt they are easy to solo. ROI comes with a free boost to level 40 too.

Also only cash in those purples with your highest light level character. There's lots of new great gear to get too. Some of the year 3 legendary weapons are great.

http://destinypublicevents.com/
 
anyone want to help a bother out getting his iron gjallarhorn? I'm on the last part where you're in the room and tons of bad guys come at you. tried it once hard as f*** doing it alone.

PSN:Jurell02
 
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