Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[Rangers]

Err, what do you mean boost? I run full throttle (left trigger) all the time and there's no right trigger boost in SRL that I see. RT is brake.

I just hold down the left trigger and thats the only means of acceleration, there's no boost on SRL tracks. Except sideboost.

That's on snowscream which I've been using since it dropped. Maybe I should look at other sparrows. I dont really see anybody with a faster sparrow though, people aren't consistently (or even at all) passing me on straightaways that I see.

Edit: You just mean boost from the gates? I understand that. I may try a different sparrow. Still, I'm only 400 points from rk3 and after that I'll be racing just for loot and wont give a crap really where I place. Just watched a YT that claimed the Crucible Q Master sparrow is best, maybe I'll buy and try that, but again, too late really.

Edit: just read a youtube comment claiming boost is the same across all sparrows in SRL, normalized like light level in crucible. But then he claimed Timebreaker was the only exception which seems dubious. But he said Timebreaker handles like crap.

I'd lean no sparrows are faster, just cause I never see sparrows overtake me on a unboosted straightaway, or when we've both recently boosted. Basically ever, all things equal.

One thing I have noticed is SRL is really lucrative glimmer wise. Seems to give about 200 glimmer per race, same as crucible, but the matches are twice as fast. That's good cause I'm usually short glimmer for some reason. I can use the SRL glimmer to build up my weapon parts stash which was in turn low.

I really dont love Sparrow racing at all...it's too intense and competitive for me, one screwup and you are screwed. Crucible I OTOH just love playing. It's like I'm doing SRL for a job and do crucible in between for fun the last couple weeks.

Just saw on that same YT you can cheese the TLW part of chaperone bounty in SRL too. Not sure if you have to finish top 3 or anything, but it'd be a fast way to finish it.

 

[Rangers]

Lately in crucible I was running:

Dis-43
1KYS
Truth

Now I'm experimenting with a very similar lineup

Mida
Stillpiercer
The Smolder

I decided to try stillpiercer when I recently read it has one of the shortest zoom scopes in the game, even less than Shortgaze, at 4.15X. I had always for some reason thought it had high zoom. I do like it, not sure I'll stick with it. It has a bit less aim assist than 1kstare, which I dont like, and I dont think I like the crosshair as much, it seems less precise. A good sniper for sure though. It does 171 to the body. When you are team against team down a hall or something, it's great as one body shot makes them easy pickings for your teammates primaries.

Next up Id like to try The Hereafter for an decent run. Of course I'll have to go with Dis 43/Smolder for that. I was killed a bunch by Hereafter in a recent game.

The thing is Bungie mentioned on a recent podcast their data shows certain undiscovered highly effective guns. For example maybe just 300 people will just be owning with a certain gun, but it has not spread wider and required a nerf. I found that interestng and am trying to discover those guns. They also specifically called out 1KYS as being just average according to their data, despite that everybody uses it. So I'm looking for better snipers that's why I'm trying these different snipers.

I run the vendor smolder when I cant use Truth because it picks up 4 with RL boots (or 3 without). It has not ideal velocity and blast radius, but so far I've found it decently effective anyway. I prefer it to vendor Vertigo/Various Suros etc which is better, but only picks up two. Basically every good RL except Truth can only pick up two, by Bungie design. Although, if you run an exotic chest with "heavy" perk and RL boots, you can still get 4 IIRC on any RL. But great, no hunter exotic chests have Heavy perk. Other classes win as always. Although it still restricts your choice of exotics.

I run boots and chest with sniper ammo to start with 12 shots, ever since I've been on my sniper binge. Which means I only get 3 Truth/Smolder rockets.

For an exotic I've been running Radiant Dance Machines, with or without Mida. The other hunter exotics are lackluster anyway, and since I run scout I like the idea of being able to strafe smoothly in mid range engagements. Other than that I'd run Third Man or Tarantalla ATS8 for arc blade synergy.

 

[Billy Idol]

Light level 230 now. Slowly climbing up.

I try to upgrade one of my legendary weapons with damage 200.

How much can one increase damage level by sacrificing an other weapon?

 

[orangpelupa]

To 320

 

[Billy Idol]

What?!? Really! So...I should go ahead and start upgrading it seems...does this hold for all legendaries?

 

[DrJay24]

What?!? Really! So...I should go ahead and start upgrading it seems...does this hold for all legendaries?

Yes, as long as they are year 2. They loose some in the infusion, use the online calculators to see.

 

[Nisaaru]

Light level 230 now. Slowly climbing up.

I try to upgrade one of my legendary weapons with damage 200.

How much can one increase damage level by sacrificing an other weapon?

It's not worth it to upgrade these low weapons at the moment. You'll get a lot legendaries and at the moment you better spends marks on things you *need* like the 280 Ghost or armor to quickly climb up.

 

[djskribbles]

Only infuse low level weapons/gear if they have good perks. Use online calculators as DrJay24 suggested.

 

[Billy Idol]

Thanks guys!

 

[Rangers]

320 warpriest heavy...314 (so far) SRL helmet get...317.5

I still have time to grind SRL some more, not a lot but some. I'll be pretty disappointed if 314 is the best helmet I get out of it!

I'm logging my helms and how many races. Well, the first handful of races I didn't track (probably like 5), and I got a 316 class item. Since then I've done 13 races, and got 4 helmets, 312, 313, 313, and 314.

Had another crap run at Oryx...I suckkked. On the bright side, I now think the 2nd jumping puzzle is no longer much issue. Honestly with Bones, it's almost impossible to screw up. Pretty much as soon as you touch the ledge, it "resets" Bones, so if you hit and slide off, you have like 4 jumps to maneuver back on in midair. Like I said, almost impossible to fail (other than being piston flung). Also, I'm getting the sisters down pretty well, although I still struggle a bit with where to go on 2nd round.

 

[orangpelupa]

I have not done oryx hard even once

 

[Rangers]

I'm seeing a lot of oryx challenge emblems, so people are getting really good at it.

Plus with a party of 315+'ers, DPS is off the charts, We annihilated Warpriest in 2 runs, had him like 2/3 down in 1 run.

But yeah I still haven't beat him. I'm going to watch a youtube guide and write down the steps so I know what the hell to do...

I've got my spindle at 320 now.

 

[orangpelupa]

O_O the destiny bungie forum hot topic right now is a discussion about Muslim = terrorist.

Ugh. I can't imagine the nightmare the moderators got. It's Christmas and their community show no Christmas spirit at all. (and destroying their holiday)

 

[djskribbles]

The oryx challenge isn't that much harder than killing him normally. It just took our group a little time to adjust to the new strategy (we would always do the no knight strategy).

I keep getting heavy weapons, primaries and somewhat useful armor out of these challenges. Only 1 special 320 and no helmet, which are the two that I want more. Still need 320 class items and ghost shells as well. It's going to take my a long time to get any of my characters to 320. All of them are currently at a comfortable 318. A few guys on my list are 319, but they have at least 1 duplicate class.

 

[Rangers]

I think I have 320 artifact, heavy and special thats it.

I ended up with no much time to race SRL for loot I'm still hoping to get a 320 helm or at least better than 314.

 

[Nisaaru]

Got a 320 Helmet for my least used Hunter on the 4th or 5th race after lv3. Still need to get my other characters to lv3.

 

[shredenvain]

Err, what do you mean boost? I run full throttle (left trigger) all the time and there's no right trigger boost in SRL that I see. RT is brake.

I just hold down the left trigger and thats the only means of acceleration, there's no boost on SRL tracks. Except sideboost.

That's on snowscream which I've been using since it dropped. Maybe I should look at other sparrows. I dont really see anybody with a faster sparrow though, people aren't consistently (or even at all) passing me on straightaways that I see.

Edit: You just mean boost from the gates? I understand that. I may try a different sparrow. Still, I'm only 400 points from rk3 and after that I'll be racing just for loot and wont give a crap really where I place. Just watched a YT that claimed the Crucible Q Master sparrow is best, maybe I'll buy and try that, but again, too late really.

Edit: just read a youtube comment claiming boost is the same across all sparrows in SRL, normalized like light level in crucible. But then he claimed Timebreaker was the only exception which seems dubious. But he said Timebreaker handles like crap.

I'd lean no sparrows are faster, just cause I never see sparrows overtake me on a unboosted straightaway, or when we've both recently boosted. Basically ever, all things equal.

One thing I have noticed is SRL is really lucrative glimmer wise. Seems to give about 200 glimmer per race, same as crucible, but the matches are twice as fast. That's good cause I'm usually short glimmer for some reason. I can use the SRL glimmer to build up my weapon parts stash which was in turn low.

I really dont love Sparrow racing at all...it's too intense and competitive for me, one screwup and you are screwed. Crucible I OTOH just love playing. It's like I'm doing SRL for a job and do crucible in between for fun the last couple weeks.

Just saw on that same YT you can cheese the TLW part of chaperone bounty in SRL too. Not sure if you have to finish top 3 or anything, but it'd be a fast way to finish it.

When you inspect a sparrow in the menu it will show you 2 stat bars. One is boost speed and the other is durability.

If you select a racing sparrow with the cursor and compare with a legendary sparrow (that isn't a tumbler or raid sparrow) using the left trigger you will see that the racing sparrows have a slower boost speed. The boost speed of a sparrow is the speed you travel when holding down the left trigger.

The racing sparrows feel much better in SRL to me though. The tend to glide with walls instead of clipping them.

 

[shredenvain]

Err, what do you mean boost? I run full throttle (left trigger) all the time and there's no right trigger boost in SRL that I see. RT is brake.

I just hold down the left trigger and thats the only means of acceleration, there's no boost on SRL tracks. Except sideboost.

That's on snowscream which I've been using since it dropped. Maybe I should look at other sparrows. I dont really see anybody with a faster sparrow though, people aren't consistently (or even at all) passing me on straightaways that I see.

Edit: You just mean boost from the gates? I understand that. I may try a different sparrow. Still, I'm only 400 points from rk3 and after that I'll be racing just for loot and wont give a crap really where I place. Just watched a YT that claimed the Crucible Q Master sparrow is best, maybe I'll buy and try that, but again, too late really.

Edit: just read a youtube comment claiming boost is the same across all sparrows in SRL, normalized like light level in crucible. But then he claimed Timebreaker was the only exception which seems dubious. But he said Timebreaker handles like crap.

I'd lean no sparrows are faster, just cause I never see sparrows overtake me on a unboosted straightaway, or when we've both recently boosted. Basically ever, all things equal.

One thing I have noticed is SRL is really lucrative glimmer wise. Seems to give about 200 glimmer per race, same as crucible, but the matches are twice as fast. That's good cause I'm usually short glimmer for some reason. I can use the SRL glimmer to build up my weapon parts stash which was in turn low.

I really dont love Sparrow racing at all...it's too intense and competitive for me, one screwup and you are screwed. Crucible I OTOH just love playing. It's like I'm doing SRL for a job and do crucible in between for fun the last couple weeks.

Just saw on that same YT you can cheese the TLW part of chaperone bounty in SRL too. Not sure if you have to finish top 3 or anything, but it'd be a fast way to finish it.

Im not sure speed levels are evened in SRL. They don't seem to matter as much as hitting the boost gates though.

Time breaker and grave robber are the fastest in racing, but it comes at the price of possible explosion. I've seen people using them to pass everyone on the final lap only to explode just before the finish line.

 

[Nisaaru]

Got a 320 Helmet for my least used Hunter on the 4th or 5th race after lv3. Still need to get my other characters to lv3.

Couldn't reproduce that on my 2nd lv3 char yet. Helmet is still only 309 and mark 311. Though got an EV-39 Lumos sparrow after completing the last racing bounty.

 

[Rangers]

Well the highest helmet I ended up with was 317. I was hoping for 320 if not a 320 class item as well.

In total I raised my best helm from 310 to 317 and my best class item from 315 to 316 through SRL. So raised 8 points total. I was also able to raise most of my exotic helms a decent amount to around 312-313 as well (I chose legendary helm to take highest, as currently I use Bones of Eao in the raid). I was also able to stash a bunch of 300-310 ish helms for future infusion (although it's hard to see much need what with exotics dropping at 310). I guess if we're assessing total loot, then the good deal of glimmer (weapon parts) SRL gave should also be accounted. It's also the fastest way to turn 3oC's into exotics as well, although I didn't really do that until late at least I got a couple helpful 310 exotics.

It was pretty frustrating though, I wrote down my loot and after rk 3 I got like 14 helmets, and the best was 317, and the vast majority 10-12 were 314 and below. It doesn't seem fair at all. I guess it's random but to me Bungie's RNG seems weighted toward the bottom for 310-320 items. In the end I just started too late and didn't give myself enough time to grind for that 320 helm. OTOH it's a mixed blessing because, I dont enjoy sparrow racing (the opposite of IB).

So onto IB...both weapons this week look crap I was hoping for the high impact scout (although it's low aim assists reduces it's appeal as well). I will deffo do IB though cause it's fun, and two chars at rk5=4 more chances for 320 loot for relatively little effort if you play your cards right.

Should be fun to see how high I can raise my default crucible loadout (s), it'll definitely be over 310, and I can selectively raise a few more things.