Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[djskribbles]

Ohh crap, how much further was it? I left on the big guy with the 360 degree shield.

That's the first big boss.. he was tough as hell... so many things you had to pay attention to. Took us like 4 tries to beat it. Dunno if I should spoiler tag it, but I will just in case I guess.

Spoiler

You have to pay attention to oracles popping up and harpies keep spawning (and eventually minotaurs). One person holds a shield and killing enemies charges the shield's super that breaks the boss's shield so that we could do damage. Plus we would get marked once in a while and we would have to get cleansed by the person holding the shield. If the person with the shield dies, someone has to pick it up or everyone dies.
Another annoying thing was when the boss's shield breaks, sometimes you would get trapped in this red force-field that you have to break out of or else you die.

The next two parts were a maze and a platforming section. The maze was in a dark area with a bunch of tunnels and rocks, with these things that looked like harpies patrolling throughout. If any one gets spotted long enough by one of these things, everyone died. There were two chests in this area with a bunch of really good loot. Everyone got weapons and armor, and all I got was a bunch of Ascendant shards (which is nice I guess, but I would have preferred some better weapons which I desperately need).

The platforming section was a huge drop and you have to make it across to a very small ledge way down on the other side. These platforms appear/disappear and you have to jump on them and make your way down to this ledge.

After that, we made it to the vault of glass. There are a few enemies and a mini gatekeeper boss before the final boss appears. That's where we all quit.

I can not join until saturday again, since I will be out of town until then.... Hmm vita remote play over the internet from a crappy hotel wifi?

Heh, it's all good. They are committed to beating it today though, and we found another person to fill in yesterday. I WANT to finish it just to get the rewards, but fuck that was exhausting, and the last boss looks tough as hell. I'm not sure I'm even up for it today. It took us 3-4 hours to get to that point. I usually don't play that long in one sitting.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Whatever ppl say, this is one game I cannot go to sleep without playing at least once each day ! This is FUN !
Yeah, if they had more to it, there would be more missions to it, but the difficulties and modifiers have made sure that, atleast for me, repeating a mission has never felt repetitive. Anyways, its always three guys and different things happen with different people each time. Maybe I have just been too lucky but I have been constant state of ecstacy with this game uptill now and there is soooo much more to do yet !
It works for me ! If it doesn't for someone, I feel sad for him/her cos this has been pure gold for me since the day I set foot in it and there has been no slowdown for me till now. After level 20, the focus on Elements has totally changed the game and its missions for me.

EDIT: Just checked the reddit post, so the game is not what is was supposed to be? cos the writer left? I think that explains the non existant story, then. That is indeed sad

 

[Rangers]

Yeah it's the fist game in ages, maybe even since halo in 2001, that when I'm not playing it, I'm thinking about it Life is kinda currently playing Destiny>>thinking about playing Destiny>>playing Destiny, in a loop

I guess the upgrade hamster wheel chasing the way it's done in this particular game somehow just appeals to me.

I even kind of dont mind how hard it gets to upgrade. A lot of whining about rarity of upgrade materials etc, but I hope people realize by wanting more and more loot in a way you dont change anything. it's kind of like monetary inflation. Yeah everybody wants legendary engrams, but if the game is changed to be flooded with legendary engrams like people seem to want, dont people realize they'll become pointless? I guess not given longstanding economic policies

I like the challenge, I like that the level ups get like pulling teeth. That's how it should be for the last level ups.

 

[orangpelupa]

why legendary engram become pointless?

in PvP they are already pointless and in PvE, it wont affect other people because the game is heavily instanced

 

[Rangers]

Well I guess not pointless, it could just enable everybody to max level very quickly and run around overpowered, or as overpowered as the game lets you be...

Basically it would make the game easy.

Back to the game, I've decided my strategy is best to go to early 28, then pursue Raid gear. There's no point in "wasting" shards on normal legendary armor, except perhaps the 6 (1 level for one legendary) needed to hit level 28 with a maxed exotic.

The goal of this game just keeps constantly changing and there's always 4 or 5 things to do maybe at the endgame it just narrows to only 3 or 4.

Speaking of that constantly changing, it's fun trying to wrap your head around each new puzzle as it comes into view. Right now it's mostly, how to get the most shards possible per week. Would it be for example a good strategy to farm helium on the moon using a neat little run I have, change those in for VG marks, use that to buy legendary armor, and decompose that for a few more shards each week?? I dont know, but I'll find out.

For example right now I need to: keep up with the daily strike, keep up with the daily gold tier public event, try to beat the weekly strike at least on 26 if not 28, try nightfall (major major endeavor), get iron relic for upgrades (once I get enough shards), keep slowly chipping away at VG rank 3 because someday I may buy a legendary weapon, try to pick up some easy queens bounties for some easy mission, keep re rolling till I get restoration, and the only reason I'm doing that is to try for maybe accidentally scoring the legendary sniper that drops...kind of a side project.

Now the goal is, shards, asc. energy, and strange coins...

One thing that bothers me is I think my weapons are underpowered for my level. I see everybody say, on reddit, talking about their exotics this or that guns, many of them lower level than me, and I only have two legendaries! And one is a worthless (imo) shotgun. That means I'm still running a lowly blue primary and special I need help in this area.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

why legendary engram become pointless?

in PvP they are already pointless and in PvE, it wont affect other people because the game is heavily instanced

Iron Banner starts soon....everything will matter in PvP too !
That's what I like about this method. Game changes every time an event is announced. Queens Wrath brought in basic legendary gear for all above Level 20,lower ones got a motivation to level up quickly as the kill orders are too tough for the lower levels. I myself got propelled from level 20 to 25 with no so called grinding, only challenging missions.

Now, we know Iron Banner is coming soon. Under geared person has no chance in there, so there is this urgency to find gear before it hits. Then to excel in it for super awesome gear !

Can't wait for the next events. Hope new planets mentioned in Grimoire cards also drop in soon in December. This is gonna be an epic journey !

 

[AzBat]

EDIT: Just checked the reddit post, so the game is not what is was supposed to be? cos the writer left? I think that explains the non existant story, then. That is indeed sad

Joe Staten wasn't the only one, but he was the lead writer & possibly the one that caused the scale back on the story. Anyway, there were 3 others that left before Destiny was finished too: Robert McLees, Dave Mongan, and Lily Yu. The Reddit post is interesting, but hopefully they can make it better with DLC.

Tommy McClain

 

[NRP]

I finally got my Warlock to level 20. What's next, just farm for better weapons and armor?

 

[Scott_Arm]

I finally got my Warlock to level 20. What's next, just farm for better weapons and armor?

You'll keep getting levels which will unlock daily heroic, weekly strikes, weekly nightfall strikes, raids. It's pretty much the same strikes and missions over again, but with difficulty ramped up and modifiers turned on, like playing legendary halo with skull modifiers.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

I finally got my Warlock to level 20. What's next, just farm for better weapons and armor?

Get ur elemental weapons ready buddy, the game from now isn't about just shooting. I really like the Epic modified missions

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Joe Staten wasn't the only one, but he was the lead writer & possibly the one that caused the scale back on the story. Anyway, there were 3 others that left before Destiny was finished too: Robert McLees, Dave Mongan, and Lily Yu. The Reddit post is interesting, but hopefully they can make it better with DLC.

Tommy McClain

And Marty, the composer too. Doesn't look like all is well with Bungie ! A studio is its people. Hoping for the best!

 

[orangpelupa]

How you guys reach high level enough for vault glass? I never got legendary even once from anything.

The only thing that always give legendary are Queens kill order, but it only give head and body. Never arm, leg, or weapon.

 

[HTupolev]

How you guys reach high level enough for vault glass? I never got legendary even once from anything.

The only thing that always give legendary are Queens kill order, but it only give head and body. Never arm, leg, or weapon.

Get to Vanguard/Crucible rank 3, buy gear with marks.

 

[Rangers]

Vanguard Rank 2 will let you buy Legendary armor for 65 marks. Not bad. It's the weapons that are outrageously priced at 150 marks and requiring rank 3. Unfortunately my prob is one of the better strategies for acquiring/supplementing shards appears to be buying and dismantling legendary armor. So, spending 150 (whenever I could get that much!) on a weapon seems problematic, especially since you are limited to 100 marks per week anyway!

I got my armor set by spending 13 strange coins on the exotic helm from xur (didn't have to plan this at all, already had 13 without trying when I got ready), I purchased two legendary armor (total 130 marks not bad at all) and the third legendary, chest, from doing a Queens wrath, it dropped the first time so that worked out perfect.

If I had known how the end game systems work earlier, I could have planned ahead and been better off. I usually find out "oh crap, I need this now, time to go do it a bunch". I was not close to Vanguard Rank 2 at about the time I needed it, for example. Had I known I would have been doing bounties at a more consistent pace throughout.

What level are you Pelupa? As I mentioned I see everybody talking about their exotic weapons on reddit, and I only have two legendaries (and one is the imo worthless for PvE shotgun that I dont even use)! Still have blue in my primary and special slots. And I'm level 27. So dont feel alone.

 

[djskribbles]

How you guys reach high level enough for vault glass? I never got legendary even once from anything.

The only thing that always give legendary are Queens kill order, but it only give head and body. Never arm, leg, or weapon.

You can buy them with vanguard marks. I bought 1 or 2 pieces of armor that way. You need a vanguard rank of 2 or higher to buy armor, and 3 or higher to buy weapons. The best way to earn marks is via strikes or public events. The best way to raise your rank is with bounties and patrol missions.
The rest of my armor I got from rewards and from drops, but it seems like legendary engrams are more rare now that they've updated it and all legendary engrams are now guaranteed legendary or greater gear.
You can also buy exotic armor from xur on weekends with strange coin or motes of light.

Just leveled up my warlock to 28 and my hunter is very close as well (just need a few more shards to upgrade my armor).

Attempted the last boss in the vault of glass tonight with 5 others and couldn't do it. Will try again tomorrow. We think we got it down now, but it was getting late.

 

[rekator]

Take a faction and do some multi (you don't need to be good, only participed ), is the quick way to have legendary weapons or increased your Cryptarque rank. Also the Queen's mission give you legendary helmet or plastron so quick way for two armor set.

 

[orangpelupa]

hi reaktor. what is faction and how to take it?

hi djskribbles. how to see my rank? i cant found it in the start menu

thanks, destiny really need a handbook or something... the game never tells or show me anything. luckily there's google but sometime its hard to get correct result. for example those 2 question above.

EDIT:
reading this
http://www.gamesradar.com/destiny-factions-reputation-gear-guide/?page=2

it seems the crazy Cryptarch is a faction. But how to get faction-bounty from him?

 

[djskribbles]

When you visit the vanguard quartermaster (or any faction you may be in) it will say your rank in a circle on the top left I believe.

 

[orangpelupa]

omg i typed something, it was posted, but its not here.
its dissapear into the void or i replied on wrong forum... sorry if it was posted on wrong forum/subforum..

@djskribbles

thanks, i checked and im still level 1
ugh why they did not make this indicator available in start menu

 

[JPT]

reading this
http://www.gamesradar.com/destiny-factions-reputation-gear-guide/?page=2

it seems the crazy Cryptarch is a faction. But how to get faction-bounty from him?

When ever you decode a engram you go up in rank with the cryptarch. Not sure if he has any special bounties, but if you do patrol missions some of them are for the cryptarch.