I just reinstalled this and after doing a bunch of level 41 content like heroic strikes and prison of elders, I noticed I'm not getting any engram drops that decrypt over 245 for blues or 265 for purples. I'm usually around light level 296-300 and I thought that the light level of engrams was based off your light level. How come all the engrams I'm getting are so low? I used to get engrams in the 280-300 range fairly regularly but after decrypting dozens of engrams I'm just getting a lot of garbage. Aside from one blue chest engram that decrypted to a light level 300 Lucky Raspberry.
Has there been some change to the loot system?
Also I don't know if this is significant, but after I loaded in for the first time after reinstalling, I got the Upgrade Available notification and all of the upgrades on all of my gear and sub-classes were listed as new even though I had purchased them all. It went away after looking at each piece of my gear and sub-class abilities.
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I just reinstalled this and after doing a bunch of level 41 content like heroic strikes and prison of elders, I noticed I'm not getting any engram drops that decrypt over 245 for blues or 265 for purples. I'm usually around light level 296-300 and I thought that the light level of engrams was based off your light level. How come all the engrams I'm getting are so low? I used to get engrams in the 280-300 range fairly regularly but after decrypting dozens of engrams I'm just getting a lot of garbage. Aside from one blue chest engram that decrypted to a light level 300 Lucky Raspberry.
Has there been some change to the loot system?
Also I don't know if this is significant, but after I loaded in for the first time after reinstalling, I got the Upgrade Available notification and all of the upgrades on all of my gear and sub-classes were listed as new even though I had purchased them all. It went away after looking at each piece of my gear and sub-class abilities.
The upgrade thing is new, it happened to me as well and it's probably just a result of the update for the next expansion.
I don't know why you're having that engram problem though.
You aren't on one of the old consoles are you? Because they outright stopped updating/changing those weeks ago and I could see that maybe having some sort of effect.
Ugh, I'd avoided the Destiny grind until now but lo and behold the new stuff recommends light level 280 and here I am with my sad clown 250. Guess who's running level 36 Vanguard strikes tonight!
Do some court of oryx. You'll get way too many blue engrams, good way to light level up fast.
Can you run court of Oryx with randos though? I don't want to distract anyone from the shiny new stuff and I don't think I have the right runes anyway, all I have are these reciprocal runes and they're for the 190 version.
I just reinstalled this and after doing a bunch of level 41 content like heroic strikes and prison of elders, I noticed I'm not getting any engram drops that decrypt over 245 for blues or 265 for purples. I'm usually around light level 296-300 and I thought that the light level of engrams was based off your light level. How come all the engrams I'm getting are so low? I used to get engrams in the 280-300 range fairly regularly but after decrypting dozens of engrams I'm just getting a lot of garbage. Aside from one blue chest engram that decrypted to a light level 300 Lucky Raspberry.
Has there been some change to the loot system?
Also I don't know if this is significant, but after I loaded in for the first time after reinstalling, I got the Upgrade Available notification and all of the upgrades on all of my gear and sub-classes were listed as new even though I had purchased them all. It went away after looking at each piece of my gear and sub-class abilities.
The upgrade thing is new, it happened to me as well and it's probably just a result of the update for the next expansion.
I don't know why you're having that engram problem though.
You aren't on one of the old consoles are you? Because they outright stopped updating/changing those weeks ago and I could see that maybe having some sort of effect.
I'm on PS4. It might be a sample size thing but I thought even the bad rolls should be a certain % below your current light level. Like if you're light level 300, bad blues should be around 260 or something right? Or does light level just increase the upper range of the roll?
Ugh, I'd avoided the Destiny grind until now but lo and behold the new stuff recommends light level 280 and here I am with my sad clown 250. Guess who's running level 36 Vanguard strikes tonight!
Do some court of oryx. You'll get way too many blue engrams, good way to light level up fast.
Can you run court of Oryx with randos though? I don't want to distract anyone from the shiny new stuff and I don't think I have the right runes anyway, all I have are these reciprocal runes and they're for the 190 version.
CoO is pretty much all randos whenever I do it. What happens is I'll wander into that part of the Dreadnought, see someone else doing it, and head over to help. And then when their rune is done, I'll pop my own, and we'll trade off for a while. And more often than not, two or three other characters will wander through the zone during that time and keep the chain going. Also, as a pretty mediocre player, the Tier 1 runes are pretty soloable. The rewards aren't bad for all tiers (provided that the launch today has fixed the weird ~240-250 cap for Blue Engrams). And the main way to get the T2 and T3 runes is to use your T1 runes.
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Ugh, I'd avoided the Destiny grind until now but lo and behold the new stuff recommends light level 280 and here I am with my sad clown 250. Guess who's running level 36 Vanguard strikes tonight!
Do some court of oryx. You'll get way too many blue engrams, good way to light level up fast.
Can you run court of Oryx with randos though? I don't want to distract anyone from the shiny new stuff and I don't think I have the right runes anyway, all I have are these reciprocal runes and they're for the 190 version.
CoO is pretty much all randos whenever I do it. What happens is I'll wander into that part of the Dreadnought, see someone else doing it, and head over to help. And then when their rune is done, I'll pop my own, and we'll trade off for a while. And more often than not, two or three other characters will wander through the zone during that time and keep the chain going. Also, as a pretty mediocre player, the Tier 1 runes are pretty soloable. The rewards aren't bad for all tiers (provided that the launch today has fixed the weird ~240-250 cap for Blue Engrams). And the main way to get the T2 and T3 runes is to use your T1 runes.
Cool, thanks. I'll see how that goes and will probably run through some strikes anyway. Need the shinies, need more light, need to not have such low numbers.
Ugh... I've still got two and a half hours of work, then probably another two hours of commute and bullshit to do before I get home. I want to shoot the space mans with my wizard guns!!
When I get home though, anyone who's up to anything that they need help with on the PS4, let me know. As of last night my Warlock is 334, my Titan is 332, and my Hunter is 325. New content is always way more exciting in a group than solo to me. Or helping burn through old content to get someone else ready for the new content, it's all good.
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If you have legendary marks you can buy some 75 mark pieces that give 350 light each.
If you did the reef stuff they ask for a purple engram and money for more pieces
When I did story each quest reward was a 340 piece so ask someone to run you through the yellow triganle quest line and see if the 340 pieces are end mission rewards for you too even though you're 240
The least amount of effort but slowest is to do the two daily pvp missions that give 15 marks each (you can afk in them if you hate pvp), so 30 a day, then get those 75 mark pieces I mentioned earlier
Mission rewards you get from talking to the mission contact are always at a set level. The ones you may get at random on the mission complete screen are randomized, but most regular story missions don't even offer those.
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And they asked, why did you climb Fellwinter Peak?
BECAUSE IT WAS THERE.
Also Bungie stop making jumping puzzles, you're terrible at it.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
Man, levelling in this feels really fast. I used the instant level 25 item from buying Taken King because that's where I got my character to a couple years ago anyway. I did a handful of the early missions again to get a feel for the game again but I don't think I'll spend too much time on the original content unless there's missions with neat cosmetic or similar rewards that I look up or people recommend.
That said, I'm not sure what to do with the instant level 40 item, maybe get a class I haven't played much levelled up, but in 2 evenings of play I've gone from 25 to 31 so it really doesn't seem necessary for my Hunter.
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I'm considering deleting a character, making a new one, and using the spark to get them back to 40 just to get a Khostov and not have to do the workaround quest stuff.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
Is there actually anything worth getting from the early quests? Stuff like special Sparrows/shaders or whatever? Or would I just be getting a whole bunch of lowlevel gear to dismantle?
That'd be a pretty big waste of time, it takes about 10 minutes to start the khvostov quest. It would take far longer creating a new character and playing the intro through
MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
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Eh, good point, my Titan is still way behind on subclass leveling but he's got SOMETHING in there at least
The character I most would want to remake because I hate how he looks is also the one with three capped subclasses and the most quests completed out of any of my characters, so I wouldn't delete him anyway
I used the spark on my warlock who I hadn't used much, and I figure I'll immediately go do the quest for her third subclass and just focus on leveling that one up
Or I might not use her ever! Who knows
I'm curious if there will be any ability to carry characters over to Destiny 2 cause I'm attached to my Hunter
I finished the main Rise of Iron questline last night, I think? They have so many branches that splinter off that I guess you might not consider it finished, but it's the "immediate threat handled, now begin patrols and weird weapon quests" phase
I think this game has really good setpieces and a suitably epic presentation and RoI continues that
I'm not actually clear on this point though, are there new strikes?
I finished the main Rise of Iron questline last night, I think? They have so many branches that splinter off that I guess you might not consider it finished, but it's the "immediate threat handled, now begin patrols and weird weapon quests" phase
I think this game has really good setpieces and a suitably epic presentation and RoI continues that
I'm not actually clear on this point though, are there new strikes?
I think there are new strikes (2 I think)? I was in a party last night with @squall99x and I think we did one. Also I think a few of the strikes have been changed.
I could be wrong on this.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
It's one new raid and one new strike
Which, given how short I am given to believe the main quest is, makes this sound a lot more like the Dark Below or House of Wolves than Taken King
Go on patrol and immediately to the right there's a yellow wizard named Broodmother, kill her and she always seems to drop one of those keys. Pretty short respawn timer to, you can hold 10 keys per character and 10 in the vault if you want to grind them out.
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Awesome, thanks
How many things do I need those keys for?
One for the G-horn quest, and they're also used to respawn in Archon's Forge and open up locked areas in the plaguelands that have chests and the giant axes.
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Has there been some change to the loot system?
Also I don't know if this is significant, but after I loaded in for the first time after reinstalling, I got the Upgrade Available notification and all of the upgrades on all of my gear and sub-classes were listed as new even though I had purchased them all. It went away after looking at each piece of my gear and sub-class abilities.
The upgrade thing is new, it happened to me as well and it's probably just a result of the update for the next expansion.
I don't know why you're having that engram problem though.
You aren't on one of the old consoles are you? Because they outright stopped updating/changing those weeks ago and I could see that maybe having some sort of effect.
Can you run court of Oryx with randos though? I don't want to distract anyone from the shiny new stuff and I don't think I have the right runes anyway, all I have are these reciprocal runes and they're for the 190 version.
I'm on PS4. It might be a sample size thing but I thought even the bad rolls should be a certain % below your current light level. Like if you're light level 300, bad blues should be around 260 or something right? Or does light level just increase the upper range of the roll?
CoO is pretty much all randos whenever I do it. What happens is I'll wander into that part of the Dreadnought, see someone else doing it, and head over to help. And then when their rune is done, I'll pop my own, and we'll trade off for a while. And more often than not, two or three other characters will wander through the zone during that time and keep the chain going. Also, as a pretty mediocre player, the Tier 1 runes are pretty soloable. The rewards aren't bad for all tiers (provided that the launch today has fixed the weird ~240-250 cap for Blue Engrams). And the main way to get the T2 and T3 runes is to use your T1 runes.
I went in at 291 light and have already pulled a bunch of ~320 blue gear
Cool, thanks. I'll see how that goes and will probably run through some strikes anyway. Need the shinies, need more light, need to not have such low numbers.
When I get home though, anyone who's up to anything that they need help with on the PS4, let me know. As of last night my Warlock is 334, my Titan is 332, and my Hunter is 325. New content is always way more exciting in a group than solo to me. Or helping burn through old content to get someone else ready for the new content, it's all good.
If you did the reef stuff they ask for a purple engram and money for more pieces
When I did story each quest reward was a 340 piece so ask someone to run you through the yellow triganle quest line and see if the 340 pieces are end mission rewards for you too even though you're 240
The least amount of effort but slowest is to do the two daily pvp missions that give 15 marks each (you can afk in them if you hate pvp), so 30 a day, then get those 75 mark pieces I mentioned earlier
BECAUSE IT WAS THERE.
Also Bungie stop making jumping puzzles, you're terrible at it.
That said, I'm not sure what to do with the instant level 40 item, maybe get a class I haven't played much levelled up, but in 2 evenings of play I've gone from 25 to 31 so it really doesn't seem necessary for my Hunter.
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So like you gotta do something to get those
The character I most would want to remake because I hate how he looks is also the one with three capped subclasses and the most quests completed out of any of my characters, so I wouldn't delete him anyway
Or I might not use her ever! Who knows
I'm curious if there will be any ability to carry characters over to Destiny 2 cause I'm attached to my Hunter
I think this game has really good setpieces and a suitably epic presentation and RoI continues that
I'm not actually clear on this point though, are there new strikes?
I think there are new strikes (2 I think)? I was in a party last night with @squall99x and I think we did one. Also I think a few of the strikes have been changed.
I could be wrong on this.
Which, given how short I am given to believe the main quest is, makes this sound a lot more like the Dark Below or House of Wolves than Taken King
I like to think of it as House of Wolves 2. More missions and exotics than HoW, and a new patrol zone, but not much more than that.
Also, got my Y3 Gjallarhorn and the Khvostov 7G-0X woo
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Kill Brood Mother wizards in the Plaguelands, they're a guaranteed drop from there iirc
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How many things do I need those keys for?
One for the G-horn quest, and they're also used to respawn in Archon's Forge and open up locked areas in the plaguelands that have chests and the giant axes.
Trying to get one of these Taken bounties for Petra and the 3 other idiot pubs are unable to even all shoot the damn thing at the same time so it gets away