Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Column_sl said:

The weekly caps dont even matter, purples rain down on you if you play enough

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I grinded all weekend and all I got were legendary engrams that would turn into blues or ascendant shards. So if you mean that if you grind faction long enough you can buy your purps, that might be more realistic. I still have yet to receive legendary or exotic from the FUBAR loot system.

Just do shitloads of pvp. I've seen so many purple engrams, and purple gear rewarded it's nuts.

Its not even performace based, and you can grind crucible faction while you are at it.

I'm in full legendary right now, and My titan has helm/boots, and my hunter has chest/boots/helm. Mostly from doing pvp

Hey Zarcath can we not get Salvage bounties when Salvage isn't an option? Thanks.

I have matchmaking issues with my connection so for some reason I am completely alone (tower, pvp, strikes, absolutely everything) unless I am apart of someone's Fireteam...in which case, everything works fine and I still have zero lag. I don't understand this but anyway if anyone on PS3 ever wants PVP or Strike leeeemmmmmmeee know, it sucks just soloing everything.

PSN; Verseia

They Ninja patched something earlier today. Not sure what it was tho, all my farming spots for mats are still entact after the patch

Fadaar_sl said:

Hey Zarcath can we not get Salvage bounties when Salvage isn't an option? Thanks.

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Whats sucks is theres 2 of them!

Grumpus_sl said:

Currently ranked 3rd in the world for grimore score. Feels good man.

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Oddly my Grimorie score is 1860 and I'm not listed.Selix - Profile | Bungie.net

There seems to be something wrong with the engram algorithm. Out of 15 blue engrams I've gotten green or notes of light from 10 of them, nice augment mats from 3 and only two have resulted in actual blue items...

And why the hell is PVP rewarding loot at a much greater rate than the Strikes?!

got last place in a control match, my team lost, i got a purple engram and it contained a legendary sniper rifle just now (first purple engram and orange item). umm thanks bungie for giving me stuff for being shitty. pvp definitely seems to be the way to go, just play a bit every day and you slowly go up in gear, and you can bank all the extra crap for your 2 alts.

Column_sl said:

Just do shitloads of pvp. I've seen so many purple engrams, and purple gear rewarded it's nuts.

Its not even performace based, and you can grind crucible faction while you are at it.

I'm in full legendary right now, and My titan has helm/boots, and my hunter has chest/boots/helm. Mostly from doing pvp

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Never going to set foot in pvp, so this is a big part of what bothers me about the endgame. Why does loot rain down in crucible, even to people who barely participate, but if I do a L24 strike I am extremely lucky to even get a decent rare? And if I do a L24 story mission I get no loot at the end at all.

I've played somewhere in the 80-100 hour range and I have nothing but L19-20 blues.

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Not that i saw, i turned in 50 spinmetal for 20 rep and decided never to do that again.

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Spiritbloom is 25 rep, 250 glimmer, 5 marks... I assume they're all the same. Still pointless though, because it does not allow you to go over the cap.

this is cool lets you see what your character would look like with their current armor but different shader (dye)
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also if you DC during a story mission ie farming the acolytes in that moon strike when you go back to that mission you get put back at your last checkpoint, makes farming ez

The three things they are going to need to address eventually are the loot system, the voice chat system and heroic matchmaking (fuck yo Oxford comma).

Just finished the heroic weekly - tough, but fun, and I definitely felt accomplished completing it. Also got a legendary engram that turned out to be a blue. FU RNG!

spronk_sl said:

this is cool lets you see what your character would look like with their current armor but different shader (dye)
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also if you DC during a story mission ie farming the acolytes in that moon strike when you go back to that mission you get put back at your last checkpoint, makes farming ez

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Damn Bittersteel is pretty cool

I'm not the biggest fan of grinding but I can do it towards a purpose. But fuck RNG grinding. I like this game but I need more progression and less RNG. I feel like more games these days are shifting towards RNG based reward systems and that it isn't just Bungie.

I was required to earn 500 points in crucible for the Thorn hand canon. 4 points per kill, 2 points you lost per death. Talk about fucking nerve wracking, but I did it. Jesus christ

And the next step is killing Xyor the Unwed in the summoning pits on epic difficulty during the Phogoth fight.

Welp....that sucks

I agree that some of the loot design is retarded, like going 0-13 in crucible and getting an exotic wep. Really though there are only 4 slots for armor. You can only have 1 exotic on at a time. That means you need 3 epics and 1 exotic to have current "BiS" gear, at least as far as light level is concerned. If you do 65 marks per week with either vanguard or crucible you will have epic items in 2 slots in 2 weeks, and probably enough strange coins to buy a class specific exotic from the Friday vendor. Really if you just play the mode you like each slot will be epic by the end of the month, except for weapons. But getting light levels is more important than weapons because it lets you play the higher level modes and difficulties.

1 month to maxed out is pretty fast for a game like this. Other than the dumb rewards in crucible the loot design really seems ok to me. Having things to work towards makes me want to play, I wouldn't want to be maxed by the end of week 1.