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

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Nodnol

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So poking around, it seems doing certain missions on certain difficulties spawn either an enemy or a quest item that starts off a Exotic Bounty?

Has anyone got any other information on these? Do you get the bounty first, followed by several quests, or can you stumble across these?
 

Steel

Banned
Which are rarer, Exotic items or Legendary ones?

Exotic. Lucky bastard, I've been playing alongside a few friends, and we've done all the same missions and pvp. One of them has full legendary gear with exotic gaunlets, while I have all rares plus a legendary sash. God RNG hates me.
 

Gr1mLock

Passing metallic gas
Goddammit... I just logged out. And I checked every place in the Tower but the Gunsmith. :facepalm




Upgrades count, stats are normalized. I think...

I assumed that the damage was equal based on weapon class but I was wondering about all the specific bonuses you get with some weapons. All the 'accurate kills with this gives you more ammmo/faster reload/bonus damage etc. I feel like i should know these things since i almost play nothing but crucible.
 

Lima

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lolololololol

It's easy.

25 kills or 20 kills and 5 assists etc. Any combination counts. Doesn't matter how much you die.
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
I have got 13 legendary engrams so far, the only legendaries I got out of them were a pair of warlock items. A chest and the bond to get faction rep (what a joke). As a titan that's pretty awesome. At first I was annoyed to only get crafting materials but now that's what I'm looking forward to most which is sad.

Yeah, I've only had it degrade to blue or turn into some random material.

Though I've barely even had legendary drops in general. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

Namikaze1

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I take that back. I rather stay with my Slivered Hushwind since a) it's stronger, and b) it's level 20 compared to the level 14 rare Shingen.
 
I assumed that the damage was equal based on weapon class but I was wondering about all the specific bonuses you get with some weapons. All the 'accurate kills with this gives you more ammmo/faster reload/bonus damage etc. I feel like i should know these things since i almost play nothing but crucible.

I think those perks are live in Crucible.
 
Hand cannons in PvE are fucking awesome. They blast through everything

Yeah I tried using a scout rifle once and just laughed. It seems hand cannons can headshot even if you miss the head on the aim by a bit. With a scout rifle you have to be absolutely precise. With the right weapon skills you can fire and reload insanely fast too. Scout rifles are pretty much trash weapons. Same with pulse rifles vs auto. Non real point to use a pulse over an auto. No point to use a scout rifle over a hand cannon.
 
You know considering how people dont know what to spend their money on, why not have a "currency exchange" store where you can trade glimmer for currency for other groups.
 

-PXG-

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They need to fix the in game friends list. I hate it when shit won't load which isike all the time. Even worse since you HAVE to play with friends for daily and weekly strikes. God damnit.

Anyway. I really want to do the weekly right now. Just saying...
 
I would really like to know the weighting for actual legendaries when you get a legendary engram. It seems disproportionate based on the overwhelming anecdotal evidence I've seen so far.

It's gotta be something like this, at least for me:

90% Blue item you have no need of
5% Strange Coin
4% An actual Legendary, but one for a different class than the one you are playing as
1% An actual Legendary that you can actually equip and use

I've decrypted 4 or 5 Legendary Engrams, still haven't received a Legendary Weapon/Armor/Hunter Class Item. RNGsus why have you forsaken me?!
 
Yeah I tried using a scout rifle once and just laughed. It seems hand cannons can headshot even if you miss the head on the aim by a bit. With a scout rifle you have to be absolutely precise. With the right weapon skills you can fire and reload insanely fast too. Scout rifles are pretty much trash weapons. Same with pulse rifles vs auto. Non real point to use a pulse over an auto. No point to use a scout rifle over a hand cannon.

I'll test this later, because I love Scout Rifles, but if this is true, I'll switch.
 

Ramirez

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Finally got an exotic bounty offer. I picked the one for heroic/nightfall strike. Just did the heroic solo, my Arc Fusion rifle absolutely melted the tank and Sepiks, lol. Gotta get 25 journal pages or something out of strikes now, can't wait!
 

LiK

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They need to fix the in game friends list. I hate it when shit won't load which isike all the time. Even worse since you HAVE to play with friends for daily and weekly strikes. God damnit.

Anyway. I really want to do the weekly right now. Just saying...

Yup, it's not stable at all
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
I'll test this later, because I love Scout Rifles, but if this is true, I'll switch.

It seems true. I have an 11 shot Handcannon and got a higher level scout rifle and was fighting the boss on the earth strike, and was hitting for around 140 each scout rifle shot, switched over and was doing like 210 per handcannon one and was getting more shots in faster.
 

Nodnol

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Finally got an exotic bounty offer. I picked the one for heroic/nightfall strike. Just did the heroic solo, my Arc Fusion rifle absolutely melted the tank and Sepiks, lol. Gotta get 25 journal pages or something out of strikes now, can't wait!

What did you do prior to receiving it? Just handed in bounty after bounty?
 
It's gotta be something like this, at least for me:

90% Blue item you have no need of
5% Strange Coin
4% An actual Legendary, but one for a different class than the one you are playing as
1% An actual Legendary that you can actually equip and use

I've decrypted 4 or 5 Legendary Engrams, still haven't received a Legendary Weapon/Armor/Hunter Class Item. RNGsus why have you forsaken me?!

Based on what I've experienced: I've decrypted easily like 7-8 legendary engrams.

2 gave me armor that I didn't need for other classes
2 gave me legendary secondary weapons
4 gave me a blue or strange coin or some other crap that's not what I wanted.
0 gave me an actual legendary armor piece.

So I can only assume that actual armor you can use is extremely rare. I met a guy today, and saw a guy here earlier, with a legendary helmet for warlocks. So they must've gotten it or a legendary engram for a helmet from crucible. Which means they're just lucky as shit.
 

this guy

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Currently level 24 and my best weapon is still that stupid end game pulse rifle I got six levels ago. It's hard to want to keep RNG grinding when I get NO other primary weapons worth using. Ugh. Also no legendary armor whatsoever still.

EDIT: Also getting your vanguard rank up is unnecessarily time consuming. My cryptarch is halfway to level 5, and my vanguard rank is still barely past a 1? Come on.
 

H4r4kiri

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lolololololol

Got that same shit. This Warlock B.... is pretty greedy. I don't know how I should reach that ever. This is straight ridiculous. The 5 strikes without dying is very easy, but this is unreal. Okay at the beginning of the game it was not that hard, but now with all those full equiped defender Titans it is impossible. What is after it ? Do the Nightfall in 5 min ?

Guess I am never getting an exotic :D
 
Why are the bosses such bullet sponges. I'm doing dust palace and every boss has just been a grind. None of them are any fun nor do they have any interesting mechanics. I see why people are just doing multiplayer.
 

Uthred

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Did Destiny come with a free "sample" of PS+? Getting "Requirements not met" all over the place now. Dont really fancy re-levelling on the account that has PS+
 
I have a legendary shotgun with longer slide and plus 2 agility. Might be one of them

I can confirm this. I also have this shotgun and I'm a warlock, it gives me that Akira-after image wave thing when I sprint and I can slide for longer, also I have +2 agility though not sure if that's my shotgun or something else

http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/2/4611686018428604409/2305843009215789113#gear


I'm kinda mad that the warlock bond isn't caught on fire like it actually is on the game, but I don't want to log in and take a pic then transfer it to a USB so this will do lol
 
Yeah I tried using a scout rifle once and just laughed. It seems hand cannons can headshot even if you miss the head on the aim by a bit. With a scout rifle you have to be absolutely precise. With the right weapon skills you can fire and reload insanely fast too. Scout rifles are pretty much trash weapons. Same with pulse rifles vs auto. Non real point to use a pulse over an auto. No point to use a scout rifle over a hand cannon.

The game has VERY generous hit boxes with some weapons over others
 
Currently level 24 and my best weapon is still that stupid end game pulse rifle I got six levels ago. It's hard to want to keep RNG grinding when I get NO other primary weapons worth using. Ugh. Also no legendary armor whatsoever still.

EDIT: Also getting your vanguard rank up is unnecessarily time consuming. My cryptarch is halfway to level 5, and my vanguard rank is still barely past a 1? Come on.

I almost want to say that you must be doing it wrong.the complaints about legendary armor is legit, but I've burned at least 20 rifles better than that pulse rifle. What would you consider better?
 

LiK

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Why are the bosses such bullet sponges. I'm doing dust palace and every boss has just been a grind. None of them are any fun nor do they have any interesting mechanics. I see why people are just doing multiplayer.

I played with a Bungie employee and he sorta made some jokes about how long a Strike boss was gonna take to kill. I guess they know, lol
 
Finally completed my Exotic bounty. The last part took foreverrrr - 200 fusion rifle kills on Nightfall Strike.

Reward:
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Not impressed with that charge rate. I was hoping for a quick firing fusion rifle I could use in Crucible. :/
Oh well I'll still try it out in Iron Banner.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I just hit 22 and am entirely in blue loot, is that good enough for the level 22 strike queue or should I stick with 20 for a while?
 
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