Yeah, I'm sure that works better. Going up top means there's a chance of someone missing the jump (ie., me) and missing the buff.
How soon after hitting 40 can this be started? I'm new to Destiny and just hit 40 with around 200 light.
Also with Warpriest, it's important that the person who gets the aura (the person who jumps on the last plate), kills adds SLOWLY. When you get the aura you get a 5 stack of the buff, each one for about 10 seconds. Every add you kill takes one off the stack and resets the timer to 10 seconds. If you kill to quickly then you don't maximize your team's time with the buff. The best thing to do if you have the buff is to wait until you only have about 2 or 3 seconds left, then kill the next add to reset the timer. As the dps of the team goes up in the upcoming weeks as gear gets better, then this won't be as strict. By the end of the second go-around, you should have the bosses hit points down to the "p" in Priest. As it was, I was in a pug this week and we got it down to the "p" after the first aura.
I think you get the initial legendary sword quest right after unlocking the dreadnaught patrol. Then you get the exotic sword quest when you have your sword at 280+ and all perks unlocked/filled in.
295 wouldn't be hard except I can't seem to find a heavy drop above 282 no matter what I do. It's getting to be kinda bullshit.
I just ran 25-35 normal strikes and I am light 296. Now I have no need to purchase anything, and I can only really level up now via the raid.
I've had similar luck, except with my heavy. I just never seem to get heavy engrams, and when I do they just turn into strange coins or shitty mid-270s rocket launchers.
Yeah. I didn't know what a_skeleton_03 said above was the case with maxed out legendary marks - but I didn't have maxed out Legendary marks and the loot from normal strikes was the same. In fact most of the loot I received from heroics were lower than if I had run normals. Whether that's RNG or what, not sure. I have looted some of the same purple gear between the two however, and a Legendary gun was the same name - dropped in normal and it was 298 attack, dropped in heroic and it was 278. All a roll of the dice.
Marks are so absurdly common that it's really not even worth running heroics vs the reward of doing 2 normal strikes in that time. Every max xp legendary you break apart refunds 5 marks and 1-3 motes of light. It's trivially easy to "bank" 50+ marks in legendary gear you don't need to crack open yet.
So ive been doing a bit of experimentation on my warlock. Since my titan is now 295 and getting shit for decrypts now, I started to give all my engrams to my warlock to gear him up. So anyways, I did not take down any numbers but the sweet spot it seems to get 290+ engrams at a faster pace is roughly 283 light. I get like one out of 5 engrams decrypting to 290+ where as my titan at 295 is getting shit for 290+ anymore its like 1 out of 15 or more. Its almost like the game wants you to get to 290+ and stops feeding you those 290+ decryptions once you are at that 290+ light spot.
We should try downgrading all our gear to 280 and keep turning in engrams and see what happens.
