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davetherave2 · 20 Jun 2016 at 12:49

dhill said:
I haven't played Destiny for months now, since just after The Taken King came out in fact, and still haven't run the raid that came out with it either.

I have been almost exclusively playing The Division since it game out, whilst it's great game it's even more of a grind fest than Destiny. And at least with Destiny you aren't forced into PVP to get the best gear.

So I'm looking to potentially get back into Destiny, but I only have one decent character (lvl 40 Nightstalker Hunter with a light level of 297) so what have I missed, and any pointers for getting back into it at all and whats with all this "Chroma glow" gear?

Cliff notes:

1) Light Level Max is now 335
2) Levelling is now "smarter" so less "grind'y" items should drop within a +5 range of current light level.
3) Challenge mode for the raids where you are guaranteed high level drops (e.g. 320/335 items depending on mode)
4) Chroma is just a cosmetic thing for the new armour sets introduced since April Update
5) Challenge of Elders & lvl 41 Prison of Elders drop decent gear for "quick" levelling.
6) Infusion is now easier. Rather than being 80% of infusion amount it is now 100%. e.g. if you infusion a 335 item into a 280 item it will be 335 at the end of it.
7) Sterling treasure have been introduced 3x a week (1 from postie, 1 from weekly crucible playlist and 1 from level 41 PoE)

If you want to run the raid again I'm sure we could carry you through at your current light level on normal mode (I know how painful it was back in the early days of doing this ;p) . If you get to 308 - 310 we could pull you through on a hard mode raid.

If you want to level up "quick" use a bunch of materials/motes into your faction and equip what ever gear you get before collecting the next package as that should get you levelled up pretty quickly. (Max level from these items is 330)

dhill · 20 Jun 2016 at 12:52

Cheers for the updates all, very much appreciated!

Guess I'll be running Strikes and spamming materials/motes into my faction of choice to level up asap.

LackyT · 20 Jun 2016 at 13:16

Nice summaries, thanks guys. As many will know, I played continuously up until the end of Kings Fall era, but as I remember, all the gear reset with that DLC / level update (we had to trade in perfect ToO/Raid gear for blues and purples to start with)

I assume the same thing will happen in Rise of Iron? E.g. we'll go to level 50? So apart from getting that new Hawksaw, which I can hopefully infuse, should I be able to pick up Rise of Iron from ~315 without much trouble?

Also, I heard they nerfed/tweaked the subclasses again?

oweneades · 20 Jun 2016 at 13:27

In terms of bringing gear into ROI I think its a bit of an unknown. Infusion is most likely coming forward so it begs the question whether we can infuse our current "Year 2" items as well. We will find out in a upcoming stream (no idea when).

Hopefully Bungie have learnt from their past mistakes and make the new weapons ones we actually want to strive for. No more trash like half the King's Fall weapons.

Sublasses were tweaked. Generally speaking they were nerfed from a PVP perspective but boosted for PVE (Supers now actually fee super). Some of the tweaks were stupid (nerfing tripmines and throwing knives) and others were "ok".

Makhaira · 20 Jun 2016 at 14:11

No mention in Iron Pride of upscaled versions of old raids to make them relevant. Sad panda

Vlad Drac · 20 Jun 2016 at 22:51

dhill said:
Cheers for the updates all, very much appreciated!

Guess I'll be running Strikes and spamming materials/motes into my faction of choice to level up asap.

Just a little warning. The Tower Faction venders will only drop gear up to Light 330. After that you’ll have to go look in the Raid or Challenge of Elders for 335.

oweneades · 21 Jun 2016 at 12:46

Well RIP, looks like there won't be any Iron Banana this week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/4p1cmp/iron_banner_is_cancelled/

Anyone up for a triple Warpriest take down at some point this week (before next reset)? Wouldn't mind a chance at a Harrowed Defiance of Yasmin. I have the normal one (at 333) but prefer the looks of the black one

llamadal · 21 Jun 2016 at 12:47

Thanks for the tips and guidance posted. Very useful.

Just hit 40, my psn Id is dsxy1981

Mr Gimp · 21 Jun 2016 at 12:49

Weekly Reset 21/06/2016

Nightfall:

Blighted Chalice with:

Epic
Berserk
Small Arms
Chaff
Airborne

Challenge of Elders:

Catapult
Specialist

Bonus modifier is Grenade Kill Bonus

Vanguard Heroic Strikes:

Arc Burn
Exposure
Catapult

Kings Fall Challenge:

This week it's time to smash Warpriest (unless you're Wardy using a Hunter

)

JLarks · 21 Jun 2016 at 12:53

Great modifiers on the nightfall and coe this week! Easy mode

oweneades · 21 Jun 2016 at 13:06

Heroics still have Arc burn with the added bonus of Catapult..

Now hopefully people will actually pay attention to the modifiers..... *lol*

TehBluebear · 21 Jun 2016 at 13:14

Would quite like to get WP challenge mode done and tick the Fragment from it off my list. Anyone up for doing it at some point? (PS4)

Also need to do the Hard Mode KF at some point also.

JLarks · 21 Jun 2016 at 16:15

TehBluebear said:
Would quite like to get WP challenge mode done and tick the Fragment from it off my list. Anyone up for doing it at some point? (PS4)

Also need to do the Hard Mode KF at some point also.

Sure I can carry you

Let me know if you get a group together

jpm · 21 Jun 2016 at 18:44

oweneades said:
Heroics still have Arc burn with the added bonus of Catapult..

Now hopefully people will actually pay attention to the modifiers..... *lol*

Loving the modifiers on the heroic playlist.

Zhalo Supercell and Blade Dancer = Easy mode

redrooster303 · 22 Jun 2016 at 11:56

TehBluebear said:
Would quite like to get WP challenge mode done and tick the Fragment from it off my list. Anyone up for doing it at some point? (PS4)

Also need to do the Hard Mode KF at some point also.

I need to do the KF hard mode too, only ever done the normal mode. I did the challenge mode on the ogre boss, can't remember the name, but not done the others.

Mr Gimp · 22 Jun 2016 at 12:49

Milkybk said:
I'm more than willing to stick one up the Warpriest. Unless we're talking about beating him in the conventional sense?

I think even the Hive have a register to put you on for the things you'd do to the Warpriest!

Fallen god · 22 Jun 2016 at 16:12

oweneades said:
Well RIP, looks like there won't be any Iron Banana this week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/4p1cmp/iron_banner_is_cancelled/

Anyone up for a triple Warpriest take down at some point this week (before next reset)? Wouldn't mind a chance at a Harrowed Defiance of Yasmin. I have the normal one (at 333) but prefer the looks of the black one

Hate Bungie and their stupid practices. Why did they rush patch 2.3 it didn't fix anything broken and instead once again Crucible is left in a ****** state and no one cares. Think I'm gonna just focus on Division and Overwatch for awhile and come back for rise of iron.

MachM · 22 Jun 2016 at 23:41

What is the point in being dropped into a Rumble match that's already in progress?! Join the match and you're already miles behind! :mad:

I'm bad enough in rumble anyway without giving people the jump on me.

Rant over!

Fallen god · 23 Jun 2016 at 10:08

I hate it when your joining a control match, its black, you hear alarm going off, lord shout screaming too get the get the points back.

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