Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Think I quit playing when I had 2 33s and a 32. How much catchup am I looking towards?

Not much. It goes really fast. The older quests are a gate to a few exotic quests though.

Ugh this is torture. I should have only equipped these crappy guns for engram unboxing.

i gotta say the infusion stuff is great for alts. My main titan is 294 light, i save any 290+ blues and use them for alt infusions. I saved all the legendary engrams that have been dropping the past 3 days and used them to get purps for my alts in every slot, usually shit low lights, but then bunny hopped them up to 290 light (infuse with a 280 to get to like 272, then a 290 to get to 285, then a 293 to get to 290). Both my alts are now 285 or so light and I haven't even finished the story quests on them. You can do the heroic and nightfall strikes before you finish the story too, you just can't go into the raid until you finish the story.

and yeah heroic strikes are pretty much worthless, i guess if you are dying for 30 marks or 3 legendary engrams you can do 3 per week but really just doing the daily story/pvp gives you 210 marks a week, and the only thing you should be doing with marks is using them for infusion. I guess fill in a slot for an alt but thats only gonna be 2 or 3 engram buys.

i'm not that keen on the raid, twitch has sorta ruined me on my mmo tourist days. I've gone in and killed up to priests and joined a oryx pug just to see the fight, but having seen all the kills on twitch I have no desire at all to spend hours wiping in the raid. In 2-3 months the normal raid will be on casual farm mode as they nerf it down, might as well wait until then to really run in.

the nightfall kinda sucks now, all i've seen out of there are coins, runes, and crap < 280 gear. not sure its worth doing, at all. at least its relatively easy now, although no burns is a bummer.

all in all taken king is a great xpac, feels like there is just enough to play 10-20 hours a week or infinite if you love grinding, but by end of next week I think i'll be primarily playing metal gear solid 5 again. i wonder when they plan on putting out the next DLC, and when heroic mode raid is gonna open up (not that i really care).

Yesterday I thought that I would have to move my alts through the story missions to unlock the patrol on Dreadnaught so I could finish charging up that Argonach rune, so I joined a friend who was already on patrol there and was able to. Now today both alts have access to the dreadnaught patrol, odd but I'll take it.

Since hitting 290+ the engrams I decode at lower light levels much more often (like 265-275), but while raising light up to 290 they would decode most often in the 285-295 range. I think I'll start lowering my light level back to around 280 when I decode today and see what happens.

Yea, the Heroic playlist seems pretty retarded..had to 2-man Undying Mind from start to finish last night because a 3rd was never added in by matchmaking. Has anyone found or heard of a somewhat reliable way to get more of those Gunsmith faction items? I'd like to hit rank 3 this week even if he has 2+ Crucible test weapons, but I'd need a few of those DVAxxx items. A friend found quite a few while farming Draksis, but I don't really want to do that. ;p

I was going to use 150 marks to re-buy year 2 Suros... is this a bad idea?

Pretty sure buying year 2 exotics is a reasonable use of marks. I'm saving up for either Monte Carlo or Red Death since I don't have a year 1 suros.

It sucks that buying exotics outright just nets you a 280 when you could decrypt an engram for a 310.

I thought they decrypt at 290?

Qhue_sl said:

I was going to use 150 marks to re-buy year 2 Suros... is this a bad idea?

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it shouldn't really be one of the first things you buy. later on when you have a million 290+ weps then yeah buying a suros, bad juju, red death, etc for utility is nice but just running 36 strikes (or court of oryx T3s) will get you a ton of 290+ weapons, some legendary, all useful for the raid. a 280 gun isn't going to be that good in the raid, you really want to try to go in with a 290+ gun. also exotic engrams always decode to 290 (or higher once you are above 300) so it'd suck to buy a gun for 150 marks and then get an engram that decodes to a higher version.

you also get boolean gemini, a 290 scout rifle exotic, for doing the taken quests from petra/varis I think, no raiding required at any rate. Also a few gun unlocks from the gunsmith at rank 2 and 3.

best thing for legendary marks is to infuse lower gear so you keep pumping up your light level, only once you are closer to 300 and have a ton of crap blue/purple 295+ gear is it worth buying gun blueprints so you can infuse them higher. until then, they are guns you are basically not going to use.

Zindan_sl said:

Yea, the Heroic playlist seems pretty retarded..had to 2-man Undying Mind from start to finish last night because a 3rd was never added in by matchmaking.

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Tried to do 3 heroic strikes on sunday, two of them a guy just sat at the entrance of the zone and never came forward. Third one me and some guy cleared to the last boss with the giant harpy and never got a third added. Fuck that boss with two people, just went to orbit because it was so frustrating and shit.

Every time I stayed in queue after finishing a strike one or two people would afk or leave at the start of the next one and I'd have to solo or 2 man the whole thing.

Are people infusing items that match their playstyle? So far I've just been adjusting my playstyle based on what the highest light whatever I get. I suppose there is a point where it makes sense to stop just equipping something with a higher number and really settle on an item you like.

I did get a rather nifty autorifle from hitting rank 2 with the gunsmith (thanks to getting a couple of those purple drops that award a nice chunk of rep with him)

Heylel_sl said:

I thought they decrypt at 290?

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The 70+ exotic engrams I did this weekend all clocked in at 290, dunno where the 310 idea is comming from unless its exotic engrams from the raid.

Qhue_sl said:

Are people infusing items that match their playstyle? So far I've just been adjusting my playstyle based on what the highest light whatever I get. I suppose there is a point where it makes sense to stop just equipping something with a higher number and really settle on an item you like.

I did get a rather nifty autorifle from hitting rank 2 with the gunsmith (thanks to getting a couple of those purple drops that award a nice chunk of rep with him)

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I just upgrade legendary gear that match my playstyle, ran with blues until I found stuff I liked. Since you can get 295-300 blue gear its not much of a sacrifice.