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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.

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Defender shield with that ability/talent that makes it give you a temp shield when you pass through it is great for bosses at higher level. I can't imagine going into a Strike without anyone being a Defender honestly. That safe haven is great when things go south.

Its gets boring with a couple of legendaries, because the shield charges faster than you actually need it(since you can only have one shield down per defender), and all your other abilities go towards punching people. Which you dont want to do, or simply can't do. During the raid I spent most of my time running after dead people to revive, while they take out swathes of enemies in a single special use.
 
How appropriate!

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Even when RNGesus IS handing out legendaries, it's still fucking people over.

:(

If I get one more I swear I'm going to break something.
 
Is there a point to leveling a faction beyond two? Like, better gear or something?

Rank 3 allows you to buy the faction weapons. And I believe every rank after that gets you a reward package waiting for you at the post master. I recall reading other GAFfers saying they got some faction weapons for free this way.
 

Dante316

Member
Rank 3 allows you to buy the faction weapons. And I believe every rank after that gets you a reward package waiting for you at the post master. I recall reading other GAFfers saying they got some faction weapons for free this way.


Yes I can say for sure. I got the legendary auto rife when I hit rank 3. Was nice surprise.
 

SnakeEyes

Banned
Is there a point to leveling a faction beyond two? Like, better gear or something?
Regardless of the seller it's usually level 1 for class items, level 2 for armour, and level 3 for weapons. This is the case for the Crucible, Vanguard, and Faction sellers (except you can buy the Faction class items at 0 because you need them to level up your Faction ranking.)
 
hmmm would it be possible to form a 3 man fireteam, go into free for all, and have the other two team members constantly run to me to die to my void damage?

anyone want to... test that... ?
 
The Devil Walker event? That one seems to run late from time to time. Supposed to show up between 40-45 but the window seems closer to 10 minutes than 5.

Happened again, this time in the Steppes. No event. It's saying the next event will occur in 13 min at the mothyard...hopefully it's right.
 
hmmm would it be possible to form a 3 man fireteam, go into free for all, and have the other two team members constantly run to me to die to my void damage?

anyone want to... test that... ?

it's possible but are you going to find two people who give zero fucks about their KDR's? And names don't appear on the screen, so you'd literally have to constantly tell them where you are.
 

KeRaSh

Member
After getting my Faction rep to rank 1 I kind of realized I actually want to level my Vanguard rep, so I wasted quite a while of farming rep for now. I might need it later but I switched my priorities to Vanguard.
I initially wanted the chest armor from fwc but I ended up with 11 strange coins so I might as well wait and see what Xur has in store this weekend. I should be able to get another two from a legendary engram like I did twice yesterday... (not even mad. Strange Coins are way better than shitty blues!).
I realized that the Warlock Vanguard shop has a cool looking helmet that I want so that slot is also covered on my wishlist.
The perfect scenario would be if Xur had an exotic chest piece for sale because my gauntlets and shoes have more light on them without upgrades than my maxed out chest piece.

Managed to reach Lv 23 with the gauntlets and shoes I found yesterday. A single upgrade for one of the two items should also push me over to 24!

So while it seems like the armor upgrade is steadily progressing I'm still stuck with a Shingen-C... The only thing I found that was better so far was a blue scout rifle but I still prefer the the Shingen-C.
My dream auto rifle right now would be a SUROS REGIME. So much want... ;_;
 

Zampano

Member
Had subconsciously been farming vanguard points as well with all events on skywatch haha.

There's always someone farming there so usually I switch to remoteplay on Vita and go watch a movie or something. While walking into the cave every 10-15 minutes or so. Gotta love other people doing the work for you. When there's an event I'll just sit safely in my bubbleshield lol.

Ha ha I was doing this yesterday and when I came back someone had sent me an angry message as I was apparently blocking the spawns. He then sat in the cave for 10 minutes to spite me.
 
hmmm would it be possible to form a 3 man fireteam, go into free for all, and have the other two team members constantly run to me to die to my void damage?

anyone want to... test that... ?

I did that for a bit for the bounty. It does help, I got 163 points that way. You still get fire team chat, so you can tell each other where you are and to head to point A or wherever. The rest of the points, I actually played for reals and it actually helped improve my PVP skills. I'd help you out, but I'm going to bed now. My PSN is in my profile, add me if you need to work on that bounty tomorrow.
 

Paertan

Member
Its gets boring with a couple of legendaries, because the shield charges faster than you actually need it(since you can only have one shield down per defender), and all your other abilities go towards punching people. Which you dont want to do, or simply can't do. During the raid I spent most of my time running after dead people to revive, while they take out swathes of enemies in a single special use.

Haha yes I can see it is not for everyone. I play medic in Battlefield/Killzone/Killing Floor etc. I do not have a problem running around reviving people or being the support. I love that stuff.
But when I don't need to revive I do my part and almost always come out of a Strike with most kills.
 
ROFL

So it drops me into a strike that is already over, spawned and the mission end timer was up

Good work Bungie


I got a lower level helmet though lol
 
Just beat nightfall strike by MYSELF. Took 1 hour but was so worth it for sunbreaker exotic gauntlets.

I was pissed I couldn't buy it last week, so I'm a happy camper now. Lvl 26 btw
 
I didn't even know that getting my vanguard to level 3 would guarantee me some legendary equipment/gear. It's not too late to do bounties I guess, I can probably reach level 3 by next week before my friends and I do the raid.
 
Ok that one really works. Just spent 40 minutes and got four blues one purple, and countless greens.

I've been farming that spot each day this week. Yesterday I farmed it for only 30 minutes, got 2 Legendaries. One gave me a Legendary Machine Gun, the other, 3 Ascendant Shards. And I got a package for leveling up the Cryptarch, but those engrams ended up being gun parts.
 
I didn't even know that getting my vanguard to level 3 would guarantee me some legendary equipment/gear. It's not too late to do bounties I guess, I can probably reach level 3 by next week before my friends and I do the raid.
It guarantees you a random piece. Odds are you won't use it (pulse rifle right after I got Thorn, bleh).
 
My opinion.

Farming is stupid, go play the game.

Vanguard Rank 2
FWC Rank 3 (Gave me free legendary hand cannon)
200 vanguard marks (haven't spent 1 yet)
20 crucible marks Left (spent 180)

Equipped right now:
2 Legendary armor's
1 exotic armor
2 legendary weapons

Not from farming
Not from engrams
All hard earned.

Once again, play the game.
 

INTERNET

SERIOUS BUSINESS
reef.txt
Who are you and why?
I'm a guardian from earth, also an awoken like you lol
Well I don't like it!
I want to kill the black garden or whatever
Why would you do that, I guess we told you to or? I'm not sure
Ya I think that's it
Well I'm going to be a dick about it, OK?
OK
So The Queen, my sister, wanted to tell me, my sister's brother, to tell you, that since she told you to blow up the black garden I guess, you should get a robot head first so we can help you.
lol that's stupid.
well, you'll die getting the robot head.
lol
do it or else, but you'll die probably. On Venus.
OK
I mean, I thought this was bad, but I just finished the proposed mission and watched the resulting cutscene and I'm not sure there's any adults in charge over at Bungie anymore. It's totally baffling that the crow dude is the most developed character in the universe including the player, and that he is just so bad. He is unredeemable and uninteresting from the start. Like, shut up dude, you are so bad. His sister is even worse just by association, and those in charge should feel really really bad about that.
 
K

kittens

Unconfirmed Member
Ok that one really works. Just spent 40 minutes and got four blues one purple, and countless greens.
I did it for an hour and got one purple, which gave me a blue.

Seriously yall, leveling up the factions is much better use of your time.
 

CLBridges

Member
Just beat nightfall strike by MYSELF. Took 1 hour but was so worth it for sunbreaker exotic gauntlets.

I was pissed I couldn't buy it last week, so I'm a happy camper now. Lvl 26 btw

Wow, congrats! I might try that later on today, but sometimes I get impatient and get killed by stupid stuff lol.

Maybe I'll attempt it after Xur comes to town.
 

Ken

Member
I ran the earth strike on easy about 20 times today for my exotic bounty

Ended up getting 2 legendary engrams for a purple mg and a purple chest

tybrng

What is the chest called? I like that look; from the thumbnail I'm guessing it might be the Crucible vendor?
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Jesus Christ the fucking Shingen-E! It feels so unfair to use this thing.
just tried it in Pvp for two matches. so, so silly. I won't touch it again, sad that I'm seeing it as what killed me such a huge percentage of the time. it's a point and press win button gun.

and people give bladedancers such shit, smh :3

Need 1 more for a few level 24 strikes! PS4 join Hawkian!
 
What do you guys spend your Glimmer on when you hit the cap? I'd rather still be earning Glimmer then letting it go to waste. I can't believe the cap is at 25K.
 
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