Destiny 2

[dbtcity]

Just ordered it, 1st time I've played destiny but looking forward to the grind... none of my mates play it so I might have to jump in the foxestalk clan if there's space ??

[lgfualol]

Just started playing today. Never played Destiny before and had no idea what it was about.

 

****ing brilliant so far. 

[spacemunky]

Liking it so far.

 

One complaint though compared to the original is everyone looks the same to me. Seems like not as much difference between the characters and the colours.

 

Maybe I'm just getting old, but everyone looks grey.

[MrSpaM]

14 hours ago, spacemunky said:

Liking it so far.

 

One complaint though compared to the original is everyone looks the same to me. Seems like not as much difference between the characters and the colours.

 

Maybe I'm just getting old, but everyone looks grey.

You start getting items that let you change the colours of your gear once you hit about level 11

[spacemunky]

4 minutes ago, MrSpaM said:

You start getting items that let you change the colours of your gear once you hit about level 11

I'm at 15 and I have some shaders. It just doesn't seem  to stand out like it did in D1.

 

It might be the lighting or maybe my old eyeballs.

[The Horse's Mouth]

kinda tempted to cave in and get it as I did enjoy the original for a bit, have they added any story though?

[sk3since03]

Anyone fancy doing nightfall? 

[MrSpaM]

3 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

kinda tempted to cave in and get it as I did enjoy the original for a bit, have they added any story though?

The story is miles better in this one

[dbtcity]

Finally got it and loaded it up tonight.... servers are down... guess I'll play it 2mora then ?

[spacemunky]

Did my first D2 strike tonight.

 

Both guys I played with were 20's(I'm a 16).

 

Wasn't bad

[MrSpaM]

Can somebody in the foxestalk clan post a link to it here?

 

I can't figure out how to actually join it :/

Edited 13 September 2017 by MrSpaM

[lgfualol]

****ing servers were down from the moment I got home until I went to bed. So annoying. 

[sk3since03]

3 hours ago, MrSpaM said:

Can somebody in the foxestalk clan post a link to it here?

 

I can't figure out how to actually join it :/

Do you have the companion app? 

 

Easier on there 

[dbtcity]

Finally got on last night and blasted through a few hours managing to rank up to 9/88, really enjoying it at the min but not realising how to get into the next mission thinking I had to jump into the crucible at rank 2 was interesting, can't believe I actually managed to kill some1... spent 3/4 of the match running and hiding after realising I was a million miles away from being able to even take health of the opposing team and by challenging them I was actually screwing the team over rather than helping ?

[Frank_mckenzie]

Got back from holiday so finally got to put some hours into it and I must say it's far superior to the first game.

[wardyfox86]

13 hours ago, dbtcity said:

Finally got on last night and blasted through a few hours managing to rank up to 9/88, really enjoying it at the min but not realising how to get into the next mission thinking I had to jump into the crucible at rank 2 was interesting, can't believe I actually managed to kill some1... spent 3/4 of the match running and hiding after realising I was a million miles away from being able to even take health of the opposing team and by challenging them I was actually screwing the team over rather than helping ?

You've no need to worry about being under levelled in general PvP, power and level play no part, but those green weapons you have would be a severe hindrance

[dbtcity]

1 hour ago, wardyfox86 said:

You've no need to worry about being under levelled in general PvP, power and level play no part, but those green weapons you have would be a severe hindrance

I don't even think I had a green weapon or green armour at the time  

[lgfualol]

Somehow went from level 12 to level 20 in 3 hours last night. Enjoying the game a lot.

[MrSpaM]

I'm 220 power level now, still liking the game but the grind is real now. Once you hit 200 your only option really is to grind public events for gear, I've also watched some youtube videos that explain what happens once you get to 275+ power level, that is going to be a massive pain in the arse for casual players. Unlocking 'powerful engrams' seems like a lot of dedication

 

I'm liking the fact that engrams seem to drop a lot more often now though, it's making the grind a bit more bearable than the first game. Finally got a couple of exotics as well which look really cool

 

A little tip for people. The engrams you get for faction reputation actually scale to your level whereas the engrams you pick up on the field stay at the level you picked them up at. It's a good idea to level up the factions until you get the option to unlock the engram, and then just leave it until you hit higher power levels

[Adster]

Got Power Level 267 now. Loving this cannot wait to go home from work and blast it out tonight.

 

If anyone wants to play tonight, add me on PS4. My PSN is: Martiiinezzz

[MrSpaM]

Just now, Adster said:

Got Power Level 267 now. Loving this cannot wait to go home from work and blast it out tonight.

 

If anyone wants to play tonight, add me on PS4. My PSN is: Martiiinezzz

Did you get to that from just grinding the public events?

[Adster]

Just now, MrSpaM said:

Did you get to that from just grinding the public events?

 

I got myself to a point where I bottlenecked in power level. I saved up all "Powerful" Engrams as these scale to your current level and their power level isn't pre-determined like Legendary Engrams are.

 

I did a lot of Public Heroic events and got a few good engrams from there. Always do the challenge missions on each planet when you can and get the reputation to get legendary engrams from the planet vendors as these will always give Legendary gear higher than your current power level up until power level 265.

 

Always do the Flashpoints from Cayde-6 per week to get really powerful gear also.

[wardyfox86]

I'm stuck at about 270 now. Made the mistake of opening my powerful engrams. Friends and I are going to try and do the Rat King quest tomorrow. Other than that, it's just the raid left for me this week. 

 

PvP seems a little sluggish to me and I miss the random perks on legendary weapons, eventually people will figure out the meta and then there will be NO variation in play at all, all using the same 2 or 3 weapons (it will be Thorn all over again). Though I'm still excited for trials, my friends aren't so PvP oriented so we won't get far. 

 

I seem to be the only Xbox player, but if anyone wants to add me, W4RDST3R

[Adster]

On 15/09/2017 at 17:08, wardyfox86 said:

I'm stuck at about 270 now. Made the mistake of opening my powerful engrams. Friends and I are going to try and do the Rat King quest tomorrow. Other than that, it's just the raid left for me this week. 

 

PvP seems a little sluggish to me and I miss the random perks on legendary weapons, eventually people will figure out the meta and then there will be NO variation in play at all, all using the same 2 or 3 weapons (it will be Thorn all over again). Though I'm still excited for trials, my friends aren't so PvP oriented so we won't get far. 

 

I seem to be the only Xbox player, but if anyone wants to add me, W4RDST3R

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Shame that. Once you hit above 265, the rewards from legendary engrams are pretty much redundant as they will never really be above your current power level.

 

Just make sure to do everything that grants luminous engrams, and clan reward emblems as these are usually always higher.

[Manwell Pablo]

Ways to get past 265 quickly

 

1) Raid - LFG if you've got no mates, might be hard less than 270 due to raid snobbery and Calus is difficult if not  280.

 

2) Nightfall

 

3) Weekly Challenges, Flash points call to arms, etc.

 

4) Xur (270 exotics)

 

5) Join a clan   Definitely do this, not only will you get the weekly challenge to add xp to the clan (easy Powerful engram) you will get a usable engram every time the clan completes an objective together, if two people do nightfall together whole clan gets and Engram, if two people win a crucible match, engram, 3 people do a raid, engram, two people go 7-2 trails, engram, it doesn't even have to be you, so if you join a huge one your quids in.

 

6) If you've done all the above only thing you can do is grind Public events and turn them heroic for a chance of an exotic you can use for infusing. 

 

7) once you're 280 get into modding and mod everything to add +5 to most of your gear.

Edited 20 September 2017 by Manwell Pablo