Right now I'm just grinding using this trick at the temple of Crota. And I got a few light armor so well on my way to level 21.
I guess things to do are getting thin though, it's basically strike playlists, grind, or crucible. I'll never be much for crucible as I'm not much at MP.
One thing, actually a few, I dont get:
-Does Crucible gear carry over into PvE?
-In the crucible, are all level advantages to your character turned off? There's a message that says level advantages disabled, but does this apply to everything? I come across some guys in crucible that seem to have a yellow health bar shield for example, I dont know what that is. Is it truly no advantages and everybody is on an exactly equal playing field? What about better armor and the like?
It seems like 29 may be the max level. I have never seen a level 29 so it must be extremely difficult to achieve.
Simple thing but now I understand the item hierarchy
Exotic
Legendary
Rare
Uncommon
You can only wear 1 exotic each I believe for weapons and armor, so you'll have to round out your arsenal with the best Legendary you can find.
I just acquired my first Legendary, and am currently working on leveling up my cryptarch who is only level two. He is said to give you loot for each level up.
Strange coins appear to be key to endgame content as you can buy exotic's with them. I already have 4. However I think you need either 13 or 23 to buy an exotic from Xur. You can get three apiece for doing I think the weekly and/or daily strikes. Apparently serious players will have two chars and thus for example are capable of farming 12 strange coins per week. I'm kind of proud of already having 4 without even really trying at level 20.
For me.. blah. That's why I'm not so thrilled with Destiny because from what I've read, you're not going to be a "max level character" or have the "max level equipment" unless you finish the game and then just raid or farm.
And that sort of set-up really ruins the games for completionists (I'm not one, but my main co-op partner is), because while they want to get every achievement and do everything there is to do, doing everything multiple times just so you can get an achievement or the ability to replace your "Bullet Shooting Gun" with a "Bullet Shooting Gun +1" isn't very fun for a lot of people.
I guess, I'm still enjoying it a lot. I feel like some of the criticisms can apply to any game, which is the case for most game criticism I feel like. Because 90% of games are basically just shooting stuff. Like Last of Us is supposed to be art or something, but if you wanted to you could say "well it has all these aspirations but really it quickly becomes just shooting zombies".
But yeah beating story is easy and I did it at level 18, so yes you definitely end up just crucible (MP) strikes/raid, or grind. But I still love getting better stuff so far. People can say "that' the only thing to do", but it's the only thing to do in any RPG really. For me, It's still fun. This game I can keep coming back to for a long time. That's why I wanted to buy it digitally, I can put other discs in but this will always be there at the ready.
One of my stupid little goals is to get a really nice long badass Warlock-style cape for my hunter, because it's hard to get good looking hunter capes at least that I know of. The one I've got recently is easily the best I've had yet. It does nothing but make my char look cooler, no defense or anything. I saw this girl on a twitch stream with a pretty cool cape on her hunter, so at least now I know for sure it seems possible...
