Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Xexx

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So ive beaten Skolas 3 times and ive never gotten emblem, ship, shader - and the guy ive done it with has never gotten it either - is there some special method to getting it?
 

Zaide

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Yeah I really don't understand why they removed all the hard mode missions etc. All the people who came back for 2.0 and have the house of wolves and crota content they never touched have to do those missions on easy mode... Also my patrols and daily events have been giving me no rewards/faction etc. It's pretty lame.
 

mkopec

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Yeah its like, "hey folks, nothing to do here, come back next week! Oh, and dont forget to buy Taken King, because without it you wont be able to do shit!"
 

Zaide

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Is there currently any reason to do the old raids? I farmed the shit out of VoG and it's hardmode back when it was current. Should I bother with doing it again? Also, is there any value left in doing the Crota raid more than once just to experience it?
 

mkopec

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Not really since none of the shit is carrying over like it did in the past. Other than collector type shit to finish your collection or some shit maybe a few PvP weapons?. It seems like only a few of the exotics are carrying over and none of the raid purps are this time so IDK. Maybe they redo the drop tables on the old raids? I mean, it would be a shame to have all that content, be it old content, to be just useless when 2.0 really hits.

Its shit like this that angers me about this game. The game is severely lacking in content and to just hamstring your game like that makes no sense. At least with the past two expansions, the shit in VoG was still useful, you had your fatebrinnger, mythoclast and others that were still usefull for PvP and nightfall burns and such. Then HoW came around and they let you upgrade all of those, which still made it worthwhile to go to VoG and camp some shit out. But now? Who knows what they will do to keep the ld content from fading into obscurity.

Waht they should of done from the beginning is introduce new higher levels of those raids that correspond with the new levels of the expansions, like a hard mode lv34 version, then with TTK, a new lv40 hard mode. With corresponding drops of course.
 

Talenvor

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So ive beaten Skolas 3 times and ive never gotten emblem, ship, shader - and the guy ive done it with has never gotten it either - is there some special method to getting it?
Silly question, but have you been using a treasure key on the big chest after you beat Skolas? That's where all that stuff comes from...and you need to make sure to have room in the respective inventory slots or they poof (don't go to Postmaster).
 

bixxby

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You have to go to the faction NPC and "pledge" with them, it costs 2500 glimmer and you are stuck with your pledge for the entire week (can't change until next reset). After that 25% of your vanguard or crucible rep goes towards the pledged faction, so you are always double dipping now. You can also turn in mats (armor, weapon, heavy synths, motes, etc) at the faction vendor to rep up too.

The only thing really worth doing right now is getting every character to 34, getting 16 bounties completed but not turned in, doing your sub class quests but DO NOT turn in the final step (reward is a level 40 legendary class item, hit cancel if you see that as the quest reward), and farm public events once a day per char and keep the packages in your mailbox. You can also try to grind your rep close to the edge of turnover but since the only way to get rep right now is nightfall/weekly heroic (once each) or crucible for PVP its limited. I guess play a lot of crucible if you want, farm 200 marks those will turn into like... 4? rep marks next tuesday.

live trailer was all right, but dude didn't have to reload his shotgun and his fireteam was only 3 people against Oryx? Pssht, shoulda been six people and you bet your ass he has more than 8 adds before you fight him.
Thanks man, appreciate you.
 

Xexx

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Silly question, but have you been using a treasure key on the big chest after you beat Skolas? That's where all that stuff comes from...and you need to make sure to have room in the respective inventory slots or they poof (don't go to Postmaster).
Yeah i used them on it - and so did a friend and he didnt get it either - Ive posted on it but as im now out of keys i dont want to have to farm normal 28s for "luck" keys and do Skolas again to get fucked.
 
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Attention hardcore guardians!

Who is planning on Raiding this Friday? Group I play with has close to two raid groups, prob have 3-4 spots open but we could form a third raid if needed. Not sure how hard its going to be to hit level cap but most of us have 20 public event packages saved up, full bounties and story/quests to do. Hope some of you have done the same. Exciting to have a new raid, lets hope it doesnt suck.

This is the make or break it expansion for Destiny IMO.
 

Kreugen

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So do you need to the buy the old DLC or just TTK?

Has anything been done to make forming groups less annoying?
 

Qhue

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I think it must be technically possible to do TTK without the other two, but as I recall the special versions of TTK $60+ include the other two but the base $40 one does not.
 

Kreugen

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Have they at least made communication less cumbersome? Or are we going to be playing charades with the new emotes?

Chat should just be proximity + group. Fucking easy. The zones only hold like 12 people or some pathetic amount, it's not like there will be 500 people yammering at once on top of Xur.
 

spronk

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you can't buy digital taken king without owning the previous xpacs. However for $60 you can buy the legendary edition which gives you everything - base game and all DLCs (in a single code), either digital or physical. So your cost is either $40 (if you own all xpacs up till now) or $60 (if you don't). There is no way to play taken king without owning all the DLCs, basically. You can still run destiny without taken king DLC but you are level capped at 34 and can't access any of the new content.

usha - i should be 40 easy probably within the first few hours on all my chars, keep in mind however that hitting 40 won't be enough. you will need light level 280 or more (?) to access the new raid. Since there is no cap on earning legendary marks i don't think it should be too tough to just run strikes or PVP and buy gear, but people will need to do that not just level to 40 and expect to enter the raids. I'd also expect the raid to be locked behind the new sub class story questline, so people don't go into it without all 3 subclasses.
 

mkopec

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I thought they were opening the past expansions for everyone for free once when TTK hits? Because people, once again were bitching everywhere on the net about how they had to pay for that shit and now people are getting it for free.

Had fun over the weekend playing with my kid. Got his hunter to 34, did nightfall, weekly. Then completed the HoW quest and did the 28 PoE. He got a hawkmoon from the nightfall, then the hard light from the PoE. I got the mida once again.

Then on Sunday took his lv12 titan and leveled him all the way to 30. Going to hopefully try to get him to 32 today and do the nightfall one more time, this time on my titan, and do the PoE one more time since we both have one one more key.