Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

sukik

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Regime and I stumbled upon the Court of Oryx last night while doing dreadnought patrols trying and trying to find sword shards. Ran what I'm guessing was the 196 rank(we're ~215 light) until we ran out of runes with some random dude who was hanging out at the court. Good rewards and wasn't too hard to figure out what to do since it flashes what you need to do on the screen.
 

Lost Virtue

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Well, if anyone wants to do some tier 1 Court stuff or normal Strikes, just message me on PS4 (name is my sig). Sadly, only have 1 rune to use at this time.

I am online now.
 

Droigan

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I bought the expansion. Also got the two previous ones, but never played them. I really don't have much progress since launch. Never done raid of any kind, and have hardly any exotics (I have a machine gun and auto rifle exotic).

Think I am level 26 or 27 (120 something?)

Point being, hardly progressed past completing the very first main story, and never grinded much gear. I heard something about the new expansion changing a lot of the early game, new cut scenes and such. Since my main character isn't very good, is it worth starting over? Does the new expansion add a lot of early game content as well as the new 26+ missions?
 

mkopec

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Well, if anyone wants to do some tier 1 Court stuff or normal Strikes, just message me on PS4 (name is my sig). Sadly, only have 1 rune to use at this time.

I am online now.
Tier one can be soloed at around 240 +/- light, mobs are 190 light. Its the tier two and 3s you need help with. Tier twos can be done with just two people but obviously the more the merrier.
 

mkopec

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I bought the expansion. Also got the two previous ones, but never played them. I really don't have much progress since launch. Never done raid of any kind, and have hardly any exotics (I have a machine gun and auto rifle exotic).

Think I am level 26 or 27 (120 something?)

Point being, hardly progressed past completing the very first main story, and never grinded much gear. I heard something about the new expansion changing a lot of the early game, new cut scenes and such. Since my main character isn't very good, is it worth starting over? Does the new expansion add a lot of early game content as well as the new 26+ missions?
Nahh, dont start over. This expansion is nothing but a big year two reset in that everyone started out basically the same. I would just jump into the taken king story, which starts on phobos, saturn. then when youre all caught up with all the taken king shit and have nothing to do, then you can revisit the old quest lines (which have not changed BTW). There is a kiosk by the class trainers that has them all. But just enjoy it. When xur comes around this Friday, and if he has the three of coins for sale, and you have coins, buy those. You use those for an increased chance at exotic drops on the strike bosses. Which is nice because if you get a good primary, it basically makes the quests easier to do. some of them ramp up in difficulty quickly solo this time around.
 

Lost Virtue

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So, how does this "three of coins" thing work? Do you kill an Ultra and then need to re-pop 5 coins again? Or does the counter only reset when an Exotic drops? Or do you run 1 strike/ultra mission, no Exotic drops so you pop another (equaling 2-stacks) and then just keep popping them after every strike/mission until an Exotic engram drops?

Also, when using these, are people just doing the easiest strikes/missions or doing normal/heroic just for the added benefits of other drops?
 

spronk

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you pop a 3 of coins, the buff stays until you kill an ultra. the second you kill an ultra the buff is gone, and you may or may not get an exotic drop. you don't lose the buff if you die, so you can pop it anytime and just pop it again after killing an ultra. there is apparently now a hidden 5 minute cooldown on it so don't pop it more than once every 5 minutes. Basically check your character screen, if you don't have the IX buff then go ahead and pop one, who cares when you next kill an ultra. if you notice you don't have the buff, pop a coin. The buff does vanish the second the ultra dies, it doesn't stay if you didn't get loot or anything like that. Just adds basically a 18% or so chance of getting an exotic drop.

cleared the raid today on my titan in a destinyLFG pug, he got hooked up. got 305 helm, boots, 3 weapons, 310 ghost, and 309 class item. Just need to start the touch of malice quest now.
 

Lost Virtue

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you pop a 3 of coins, the buff stays until you kill an ultra. the second you kill an ultra the buff is gone, and you may or may not get an exotic drop. you don't lose the buff if you die, so you can pop it anytime and just pop it again after killing an ultra. there is apparently now a hidden 5 minute cooldown on it so don't pop it more than once every 5 minutes. Basically check your character screen, if you don't have the IX buff then go ahead and pop one, who cares when you next kill an ultra. if you notice you don't have the buff, pop a coin. The buff does vanish the second the ultra dies, it doesn't stay if you didn't get loot or anything like that. Just adds basically a 18% or so chance of getting an exotic drop.

cleared the raid today on my titan in a destinyLFG pug, he got hooked up. got 305 helm, boots, 3 weapons, 310 ghost, and 309 class item. Just need to start the touch of malice quest now.
I'm confused by this though from Bungie directly: "X?r will also sell a new consumable, the Three of Coins, which gives bosses a chance to drop Exotic Engrams, including Weapon Engrams. These consumables have a cumulative luck effect, so even if one doesn't net you a drop, the next one has a higher chance to do so"

Sounds like if an Exotic doesn't drop, there is a silent background buff that means the next Coin has an even further increased chance?
 

Izuldan_sl

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Sounds like if an Exotic doesn't drop, there is a silent background buff that means the next Coin has an even further increased chance?
That's supposed to be how it works, yes. So if you don't get an exotic drop, the next time you pop a coin your chance goes up, increasing every time until you get an exotic drop, and then the percentage chance resets.
 

Xevy

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This collection nonsense for the exotic sword is cancer.
Pro tip: Spinmetal seems to be on a 5 minute timer in Rocket Yards. Collect all 4-7 nodes then afk 4 minutes and come back and do it again. I don't know about the Helium/Relic Iron though.
 

Heylel

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Pro tip: Spinmetal seems to be on a 5 minute timer in Rocket Yards. Collect all 4-7 nodes then afk 4 minutes and come back and do it again. I don't know about the Helium/Relic Iron though.
Yeah I've been making a loop through it and the zone where the spider tank spawns. Collect all nodes, switch, rinse, repeat. I'm up to 7 Zeptos and about 60% of my arc kills.

The kills are actually sorta tough. I dunno how some classes would do it. I'm using bladedancer and maxxing out my melee so it resets in about 4 seconds, plus Monte Carlo. I just run around arc blading everything I see.
 

spronk

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i did void on my titan using the "we've woken the hive!" mission, it was painful but i caught up on all my episodes of jim gaffigan and stephen colbert while doing it. apparently there is an easier way on ps4, haven't done it yet but saw this on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG..._exotic_sword/

i'm going to do that on my hunter for my arc and solar exotic swords, but gonna do it later since i should have the void sword tomorrow after armsday and do a final quest.
 

Heylel

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Arc kills took maybe 3 hours as a blade dancer. I did it while farming spin metal and they finished at roughly the same time.

Snagged an exotic special engraved earlier. I'm 297 light. I should just wait and decode at 300 right? Pretty sure finishing Bolt Caster will get me over the hump tomorrow.
 

Truehawk

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I'm on PS4, my girlfriend actually got me into this as she's been playing since release. My username is Onoes- (with the hyphen), Titan and Hunter, and our current light levels are 296 and 292 all from blues. We haven't tried a nightfall strike or raid yet, although my girlfriend has done that stuff in the past, and I've been a gamer for a billion years, so I know the drill
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Anyway, she is out of town until Friday night, but I'm pretty sure our weekend plans consist of "how much Destiny can we play?!" so Truehawk, if you're free at all this weekend, that would be awesome.

And anyone else really, at this point I'm skeptical at how much more I can really progress just doing strikes and playing... I need to randomly find items over 296 light to improve almost any slot, which doesn't happen very much. I'm not even sure what the cap is exactly, as I have a blue that lvl 299.

But yeah, would love some people to play with, and since I've been playing all of 3 weeks, I'm sure there are a million tips and tricks I could soak up as well. Really digging the game
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Sounds good, I will look you guys up this weekend. Your best bet for progression at this point is the raid, there is only so much blues can take you to.
 

Fadaar

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Mayhem Clash brings out the giggly asshole in me. Something about three Golden Gun kills followed immediately by three machine gun kills makes me giggle like a retard.
 

mkopec

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I hear it's Black Spindle day.
Tried this last week with my son but falied miserably. I think we had like 4 min on the last room when we finally got there. But this week will try with the hammerbro glitch. Just fucking toss in 30 hammers into the room and pray they kill it all.