Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Utnayan_sl said:

We should try downgrading all our gear to 280 and keep turning in engrams and see what happens.

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Shouldn't be a problem with all the low level engram decodes we get at 300+ !

mkopec_sl said:

So ive been doing a bit of experimentation on my warlock. Since my titan is now 295 and getting shit for decrypts now, I started to give all my engrams to my warlock to gear him up. So anyways, I did not take down any numbers but the sweet spot it seems to get 290+ engrams at a faster pace is roughly 283 light. I get like one out of 5 engrams decrypting to 290+ where as my titan at 295 is getting shit for 290+ anymore its like 1 out of 15 or more. Its almost like the game wants you to get to 290+ and stops feeding you those 290+ decryptions once you are at that 290+ light spot.

Try it yourself, it could be just RNG fucking with me, or my mind trying to see patterns or whatever, but I swear I get ton more 290+ decryptions at around 283 than at 290+.

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I would agree with your observation. My warlock is my main, and I have him up to LL 298. I still haven't gotten the raid ghost shell to drop for him, and he still has 2 pieces of gear (helmet and gauntlets) below 290. Despite playing him the most, I haven't gotten any blue helms or gauntlets above 290 to infuse with. After many, many hours now.

Meanwhile, I decided to level up my titan and hunter "alts". It's like you said, when I hit that 280-290 "sweet spot", I was decrypting all sorts of 290+ gear. My alts ended up having better "blue" gear than my main. In fact, if they had identical raid gear, my alts would be higher light levels at this point.

You may be on to something. It would make sense to keep one of your toons at a slightly lower light level to decode engrams and then bank them for your main to use for infusing.

I just played for the first time. Holy hell this game is dope as shit! Went with Titan for first play through.

Saw in the mail I have a thing that can make me instant level 25. Is this for players who don't want to grind the story again? I was almost tempted just to get a boost in the game but wasn't sure what it affected.

Also beat first boss and got an engram. I hear talk about them quite a bit here so I assume that's part of the loot system. Will have to check that out.

Can't wait to play more!

Crone_sl said:

I just played for the first time. Holy hell this game is dope as shit! Went with Titan for first play through.

Saw in the mail I have a thing that can make me instant level 25. Is this for players who don't want to grind the story again? I was almost tempted just to get a boost in the game but wasn't sure what it affected.

Also beat first boss and got an engram. I hear talk about them quite a bit here so I assume that's part of the loot system. Will have to check that out.

Can't wait to play more!

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I think it's more to allow you to jump an alt to taken King

a_skeleton_03_sl said:

I need to add a bunch of people on the XB1 tonight, it sucks being entirely solo up until this point.

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You can add me: xZindanx

Haven't done the raid though, have a couple other friends who are in the same boat.

Holy fucking sniper shanks in the nightfall. Jesus.

killed oryx in a destinyLFG pug tonight after just 90 mins of tries, i honestly was planning on just waiting a few weeks but they needed a bubble titan and it beats trying to find T3 courts. Finally 300, yay! pretty intense fight although atheon and crota were probably more difficult mechanics wise, but oryx does have a lot of different things to do. I really do appreciate how shit doesn't 1 shot you constantly, i hated that crap in crota.

now i can start touch of malice quest on reset, still need to get a ton of fragments but I don't think i need to run the raid again to finish it, except to get the fragments in the raid I don't have. Really happy with the xpac so far, but timing wise I can feel me going into play-once-a-week mode soon since I don't really want to raid every week.

also iron banner may be tomorrow

I've yet to run the raid as well and I'm on the XB1 so feel free to add me: mister bdubb. My hunter is 295 and my warlock/titan are 293.

If anyone still needs help with the raid on the PS4 I can sherpa you guys through. My warlock is 305 now and I do insane damage on the raid with spindle/Malice. If you still need help with a group let me know.

I'm on PS4, my girlfriend actually got me into this as she's been playing since release. My username is Onoes- (with the hyphen), Titan and Hunter, and our current light levels are 296 and 292 all from blues. We haven't tried a nightfall strike or raid yet, although my girlfriend has done that stuff in the past, and I've been a gamer for a billion years, so I know the drill

Anyway, she is out of town until Friday night, but I'm pretty sure our weekend plans consist of "how much Destiny can we play?!" so Truehawk, if you're free at all this weekend, that would be awesome.

And anyone else really, at this point I'm skeptical at how much more I can really progress just doing strikes and playing... I need to randomly find items over 296 light to improve almost any slot, which doesn't happen very much. I'm not even sure what the cap is exactly, as I have a blue that lvl 299.

But yeah, would love some people to play with, and since I've been playing all of 3 weeks, I'm sure there are a million tips and tricks I could soak up as well. Really digging the game

Just started playing again. What is the first piece of legendary gear I should buy with Legendary Marks? Seems everyone recommends a new Ghost Shell first due to how rare they are as a drop.

Also, when should I start hitting up Court of Oryx? I am only around light 220 or so, but seems tier 1 is meant for Light 190'ish? Downside is, I don't know really anyone that is around my light level to do Tier 1 with, everyone seems ot be 290+ already.

I haven't done Court really at all either, I have a ton of runes and I'm light 296, would totally be on board for that.