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Davey_Pitch said:
Archon's Forge can drop artifacts up to 385, and you can potentially get them from levelling up Eris Morn. They'll be more plentiful from the Tuesday update anyway.
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Meh I did 5 games of archons forge last night and all I got was 368 cloaks, absolutely drowning in them.

But having done the raid last night I've managed to go from 367 to 369, I mean wow just bloody wow at that jump in light level lol.

Meh will run another raid later in the week once reset hits but I'm not decrypting any purple or exotic engrams till after tues if anything. Got quite a few from last nights raid.

All I can do now is just grind strikes, nightfalls and level my faction to get anything decent light wise.

The grind is a million times worse than TTK and that's not a good thing in all honesty.
 
It is annoying the way they screw up the light system every time.

Light level grinding in Destiny is awful. I'll happily grind for the right gear and rolls but just grinding to get the game balanced is such a dumb mechanic. As I don't have every evening to grind I'm always a few weeks behind being able to take part in the raids. I'm probably not going to be able to run HM until next IB :/
 
Bummer on the HM activation time.

I can only assume there will be an additional hot fix going in to lock out the ability to solo glitch into the raid to grab every single chest...

I find it hard to believe that the update would be large enough to warrant a 4 hour "download" window otherwise....

EDIT: On the grinding front the update does bring with it the ability for legendries to decode to 385 light and faction / VG packages to give up to light cap. Archon's Forge is meant to be getting ghosts and artifacts dropping up to light cap and Heroic strikes will reward up to 385 blues.
 
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The grind hasn't changed, just as I get up to the current cap we get an increase, and then it's back to grinding rep for packages, blergh.

I'm just going to wait it out for the next IB to get my light up, it's the only route to max light that doesn't make me want to delete the damn game :P
 
Drops at 390.

It can be infused and then picked up again at ~ 320 (I haven't checked tbh).

I can only assume the one you saw had been bought from the kiosk and infused up.
 
mid_gen said:
The grind hasn't changed, just as I get up to the current cap we get an increase, and then it's back to grinding rep for packages, blergh.

I'm just going to wait it out for the next IB to get my light up, it's the only route to max light that doesn't make me want to delete the damn game :P
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Well I was at 360-ish light level for IB this time round, after hitting rank 5 my LL was an amazing 362. Which to me was a complete waste of time doing IB this time round.

Meh like you I haven't got hrs to grind to get to max light. I just managed to finish the raid in he early hrs of Sunday. Again I went from 366 to 367 which is absolute rubbish, again I was sat wondering was there really any point in doing the raid only for me to end up one whole light level above what I started before the raid.

And before someone jumps in, I always make sure I have my highest LL equipped before decrypting any engrams either blue or purple but if I'm lucky I get maybe a few items one or 2 light levels above what I have. Majority it's all below my LL.

So either Destiny rng doesn't like me or it can go suck my hairy backside:p.
 
Yas786 said:
Well I was at 360-ish light level for IB this time round, after hitting rank 5 my LL was an amazing 362. Which to me was a complete waste of time doing IB this time round.

Meh like you I haven't got hrs to grind to get to max light. I just managed to finish the raid in he early hrs of Sunday. Again I went from 366 to 367 which is absolute rubbish, again I was sat wondering was there really any point in doing the raid only for me to end up one whole light level above what I started before the raid.

And before someone jumps in, I always make sure I have my highest LL equipped before decrypting any engrams either blue or purple but if I'm lucky I get maybe a few items one or 2 light levels above what I have. Majority it's all below my LL.

So either Destiny rng doesn't like me or it can go suck my hairy backside:p.
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Assuming you were 365+ when decrypting purples they would all decrypt at a max of 365. This is the current hard limit for legendries from engrams.

Update increases this to 385.
 
After months away I've come back and bought RoI!

Ran through the "campaign" last night and did a few patrols, gear is at 326 now. Was amazed that they just hand out the sword now! Assuming that there will be a suitably painful quest chain later to upgrade it to end-game damage levels.

Is the gearing route the same as it's always been? Normal strikes > Hard strikes > Raids/Nightfalls? I've got a long way to go to raid territory by the look of it, and it's sad when blues are replacing my lovely exotics and KF gear :(.
 
In essence yes although you can also get look from your (faction) rank up packages (you can now choose specifically if you want a weapon or armour), Archon's Forge and PVP.

Patrols now offer up significantly more rep than before (40-50 rep instead of 10-25) and there are weekly bounties / quests you can complete to pretty much give you a level right off the bat.

Public events now reward a legendary engram and legendary marks on the first daily completion (per character).

There are plenty of avenues to get to end game level (or at least raid ready) but the actual experience can be a bit hit and miss if RNG decides to kick you in the nuts.
 
Makhaira said:
I've got a long way to go to raid territory by the look of it, and it's sad when blues are replacing my lovely exotics and KF gear :(.
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Why not just infuse the blues into your exotics/kf raid gear?! But yes farm strikes til 360 ish then you can play the raid!
 
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