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

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sjay1994

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Best. Bounty Name. Ever.
 

Fou-Lu

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I've been enjoying Destiny a lot more than I expected. (I actually cancelled my preorder and Amazon sent it anyway) And I don't even have friends to play with. Maybe I've just been lacking a shooter in my life for too long.
 
Shit, totally forgot the Raid itself gives you new loot on the way to actually finishing the raid. (If I remember that Luke Smith interview right.) People are going to be coming out of this thing like Level 30. 0_0
 
Thats awful. It should at least go to players making an effort.

(I sort of like how it is now since I'm not great at PvP but still want a chance at good loot).

Agreed. I'm an average to below average player at best. I don't spend all my time in Destiny or console FPSs in general (6h played since launch). When I came up to level 10 and unlocked a nice autorifle, I started sniffing .75 KD. I still like that even a scrub like me has a chance at some decent gear to continue my averageness.

Last game, only 1 item hit the RNG and it was a blue pulse rifle for me. I thanked the RNG god.
 

Shackzam

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Guys I'm just gonna be a dick and idle in crucible. I'm tired of my brain going numb from doing meaningless tasks. I'll give a write up of my progress.
 

gatti-man

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Just read this on reddit and it completely echoes my feelings on the endgame

He's wrong about legendaries. I bought my first one today. You get 2 a week unless you want a weapon or headpiece. I've got 2 legendaries off of pvp. Next week I can buy a headpiece and main weapon which will give me all legendary besides green and purple ammo weapons.
 

dengatron

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level 25 is required to even enter the raid. doing it at 25 might not be terribly difficult but as you can tell levels in this game are incredibly important. we just did the nightfall strike(28) at 25-26 but everything is a one shot and you definitely have to cheese it. it's a normal mode raid though, for now, so it won't be nightfall level hard, but it's apparently still going to be pretty tough.

also friday needs to get here because xur is holding onto my bad juju bounty item and my helm of inmost light. hurry up xur.

Ok seriously what do Motes of Light actually do?

they're a currency for items from the speaker, or exotic engrams for xur fridays-sundays. exotic engrams obviously more worth it than cosmetic shit
 

todahawk

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God damnit it is unacceptable that blue engrams can give you shitty green armor that you already have.

Well shit.

Welp, i'm done for the night and my final tally for the weekend is FIVE legendary engrams. All 5 gave shit green or blue engrams or materials. That's a big fucking ZERO ACTUAL LEGENDARY ITEMS. NADA. This is beyond laughable now, thanks Bungie.


Thats awful. It should at least go to players making an effort.

(I sort of like how it is now since I'm not great at PvP but still want a chance at good loot).

it's not like he'll get anything good from it though...
 

DY_nasty

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I tried a level 24 difficulty story mission at level 21. I died almost 50 times.

like another guy said, patience is the most important thing when tackling stuff outside your weight class

a lot of skills end up being used for entirely different things when enemies no longer operate with kid gloves. the hive go from headshot practice to brood war zerg at level 24
 

RoboPlato

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I think the fact that you can get items for other classes from legendary engrams is even worse than the degraded quality since there's no way to trade items with other players.
 

vypek

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Agreed. I'm an average to below average player at best. I don't spend all my time in Destiny or console FPSs in general (6h played since launch). When I came up to level 10 and unlocked a nice autorifle, I started sniffing .75 KD. I still like that even a scrub like me has a chance at some decent gear to continue my averageness.

Last game, only 1 item hit the RNG and it was a blue pulse rifle for me. I thanked the RNG god.
Yeah, the gear might be why I keep doing PvP even though I suck.
Ok seriously what do Motes of Light actually do?
Aren't they the currency you use when buying from the speaker?
it's not like he'll get anything good from it though...
Hm, thats true too. My legendary engram had a blue item. I was super excited when I first got it because I thought it was guaranteed to be legendary. The wind left my sails so quickly
 
Welp, i'm done for the night and my final tally for the weekend is FIVE legendary engrams. All 5 gave shit green or blue engrams or materials. That's a big fucking ZERO ACTUAL LEGENDARY ITEMS. NADA. This is beyond laughable now, thanks Bungie.




it's not like he'll get anything good from it though...

An engram should garantee an item of the same color. I dont know how anyone thought it would be a good idea for that not to be the case. It's obvious. If they wanted the items to be rarer than just make the engram drops of that color more rare. I don't want any of this bullshit.

I feel like I'm an early adopter for a product that needs a couple more revisions.
 
Just got my second purple Legendary...another rare.

I'm at this point wondering how Bungie didn't see this coming? Did they do no Q&A testing? No focus groups? It's just baffling to me.

They've got a few weeks of my time to try and fix it during which I'll be playing very little. If they don't do shit about it, I'll be dropping this game.
 

Steel

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Finally broke my legendary drought. Got 2 legendaries at once, one from a blue engram, the other from a purple.

Unfortunately,

One of them is Warlock gear...
 

BraXzy

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The problem with Legendary Engrams at the moment is.. not only do you have to get the actual engram, which are pretty rare as it is.. you also need to hope it's not a rare turn out which seems to be the case more often than not.. and THEN you gotta hope it is for your class.
 
You will get reported. It's really easy to do so. I wouldn't risk it.

I'm a little worried about this to be honest. I've found a really nasty trick where if you sit down when being approached sometimes they'll just wander up to you for the easy headshot and not expect you to spring to life with the blade, but now I'm scared to use it anymore in case people think im AFK.
 

todahawk

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He's wrong about legendaries. I bought my first one today. You get 2 a week unless you want a weapon or headpiece. I've got 2 legendaries off of pvp. Next week I can buy a headpiece and main weapon which will give me all legendary besides green and purple ammo weapons.

How is he wrong? What he said is very, very common. See my post elsewhere on the page. 5 legendaries this weekend and I got ZERO actual legendary items. A bunch of worthless greens and blues and a couple of materials. Loot is broken. I played a fair bit of crucible and did ok to good and got crap blues.
 

Chamber

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I think the fact that you can get items for other classes from legendary engrams is even worse than the degraded quality since there's no way to trade items with other players.

Encourages you to play other classes I guess. My friend playing a Warlock has 2 legendary and 1 exotic gear piece for a Hunter. I'd roll a 2nd character instantly in that situation.

So is 22 too low for the heroic weekly or should I try and get to 23 or 24 tonight and try the weekly tomorrow?

I did it just fine at 22. Probably helps that it was Devil's Lair which I've played enough to memorize.
 

BTM

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Legendary Class Engram actually turned into a Legendary Bond for my Warlock. Puts me in the Future War Cult. At least I got a Legendary Item from a Legendary Engram. Am now 1 for 3 with legendary engrams.
 

RoboPlato

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Encourages you to play other classes I guess. My friend playing a Warlock has 2 legendary and 1 exotic gear piece for a Hunter. I'd roll a 2nd character instantly in that situation.

You'll still have to get that class to level 20 before using it though.
 

gatti-man

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Welp, i'm done for the night and my final tally for the weekend is FIVE legendary engrams. All 5 gave shit green or blue engrams or materials. That's a big fucking ZERO ACTUAL LEGENDARY ITEMS. NADA. This is beyond laughable now, thanks Bungie.
it's not like he'll get anything good from it though...

Keep the faith. That happened to me too then I got two legendaries in a row. A good way to get engrams is doing a public event each day. You get free engrams in the mail.
 

Gaz_RB

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Legendary Class Engram actually turned into a Legendary Bond for my Warlock. Puts me in the Future War Cult. At least I got a Legendary Item from a Legendary Engram. Am now 1 for 3 with legendary engrams.

It's funny because you can buy those for a bit of glimmer
 
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