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Whistler

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,719
I feel like I'm completely stuck now. All my gear is at 265 and I have no way to get anything higher than that. I'd like to try the heroic strike but I don't see a way forward to get new gear.

I should mention I don't have either DLC, but is this the soft cap?
 

MochaD124

Member
Oct 25, 2017
354
I feel like I'm completely stuck now. All my gear is at 265 and I have no way to get anything higher than that. I'd like to try the heroic strike but I don't see a way forward to get new gear.

I should mention I don't have either DLC, but is this the soft cap?

Yeah the pre-dlc soft cap is 265. At this point your main method of leveling will be from your weekly milestones. You can also get some small upgrades from the post campaign planetary quests (blue markers). Not sure if the strikes will scale down since you dont have the dlc but if they dont I am pretty sure you will not be able to damage anything.
 
Oct 27, 2017
2,272
Pittsburgh
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Yea baby
 

Deleted member 11976

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
7,585
Did the 200 precision shot thing for the IKELOS HC Pursuit only to find out I'm now tasked with killing 50 HVT/Yellows with it.

Also just started to realize the little floating Warmind nodes are mostly dropping blues and shaders.

The grind is back and it's bland. I think I'm done until the fall update/overhaul.
 

darkwing

Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,980
Did the 200 precision shot thing for the IKELOS HC Pursuit only to find out I'm now tasked with killing 50 HVT/Yellows with it.

Also just started to realize the little floating Warmind nodes are mostly dropping blues and shaders.

The grind is back and it's bland. I think I'm done until the fall update/overhaul.

but the raids
 

.exe

Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,266
I feel like I'm completely stuck now. All my gear is at 265 and I have no way to get anything higher than that. I'd like to try the heroic strike but I don't see a way forward to get new gear.

I should mention I don't have either DLC, but is this the soft cap?

Have you done the legendary/exotic quests? If not, those will help push you further. Once you get the ability to add mods to gear (at Banshee if you're 280 iirc) you'll be able to gain another 5 levels easily. Purple mods give a +5 boost to power level. Until then, keep an eye on gear with purple mods on them, and infuse those with the highest possible PL gear in that slot.

If you're really impatient you can fire up a second or third character and throw on your highest level weapons on them once they reach level 20, do the weeklies, and you should be able to get to higher than 265 with each new character. I don't believe there is value in having more than one of the same character. I think I read that the weekly milestones will drop at a lower level on another character of the same class.
 
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Oct 27, 2017
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Did the 200 precision shot thing for the IKELOS HC Pursuit only to find out I'm now tasked with killing 50 HVT/Yellows with it.

Also just started to realize the little floating Warmind nodes are mostly dropping blues and shaders.

The grind is back and it's bland. I think I'm done until the fall update/overhaul.
nah man just go in the raid solo and kill the orange bar cabal at the start also you dont have to kill the 50 with the gun just have it on you.. it shouldnt take but 3-4 goes at it..
 

ThiefofDreams

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,481
Did the new strike Insight Terminus. Final boss is either glitches or has the largest health pool of anything I'e fought so far in destiny. Direct gits with a solar raid rocket launcher were barely even scratching him. Rest was fun, but that fight was a bore.
 

Deleted member 5745

Account closed at user request
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,429
Or if you haven't done the Nessus milestone, do it with the gun equipped and you'll have it done in 3 or 4 PEs.

There's also a cheese method. If you haven't already done the Exodus Siege adventure, start it and kill the cloaked Fallen enemy (he's a yellow bar), but don't pick up the quest item he drops. He'll keep respawning out of a nearby cave until you pick it up.

I just stood there with Merciless and farmed him, he'll always drop a power ammo brick.
 

TheHunter

Bold Bur3n Wrangler
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
25,774
There's also a cheese method. If you haven't already done the Exodus Siege adventure, start it and kill the cloaked Fallen enemy (he's a yellow bar), but don't pick up the quest item he drops. He'll keep respawning out of a nearby cave until you pick it up.

I just stood there with Merciless and farmed him, he'll always drop a power ammo brick.
Alternatively you can start the raid and just redo the start.

10+ majors to kill.
 

tommy7154

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,370
Logged on for the first time in about 6 months. The FoV is claustrophobic.

Also, no idea what my next step is supposed to be. I guess I'll play a little more this weekend maybe and figure it out.

What are the weapons aside from exotics everyone's using now? I've still got my nameless midnight equipped.
 

Railgun

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,148
Australia
Logged on for the first time in about 6 months. The FoV is claustrophobic.

Also, no idea what my next step is supposed to be. I guess I'll play a little more this weekend maybe and figure it out.

What are the weapons aside from exotics everyone's using now? I've still got my nameless midnight equipped.
It boggles my mind why we can't change the FoV, of course the larger Destiny community doesn't seem to care either. It has one of the lowest FoV if not the lowest out of any game I play, it's there on PC and the game has a dynamic resolution so I don't see why not.
 

PJsprojects

Member
Oct 30, 2017
3,067
England
Is the PS4 getting patched? Played my PC my X1X charachars first before jumping on Pro last night only to find iits stuttering! Was fine before the update.
 

Milk

Prophet of Truth
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,823
Fucking May and this damn game still won't give me this damn raid ghost. Starting to just get irritated at this point. Crux of Crota all over again.

Gets especially annoying when seemingly everyone else on the entirety of XBL has multiple ghosts to the point where they're just normal drops for them. Christ.
 

ERAsaur

Member
Oct 25, 2017
751
DIM completely broke for me (Yes, even with the signing in on all 3 characters thing. It was working earlier but now just gives a bungie.net network error. Deleted Cookies, revoked the token, everything, still just gives me that red box.) so I've been adapting to going back to the vault to move things. It's not an easy adjustment.

Would have been extremely helpful when I was stuck in a 46 minute Nokris Heroic where I may have needed a Merciless instead of what I had with me, but oh well, it got done.
 

Milk

Prophet of Truth
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,823
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THAT WAS A GENUINELY EXCITING, SURPRISING DROP.

GG BUNGIE.
 

Ramala

Member
Oct 28, 2017
6,052
Santa Monica, LA
Wait they want me to do 5 heroic strikes with the IKELOS pistol? Are they out of their goddam minds? Can you have another weapon equipped? Do you have to only use the IKELOS?! That's absurd!
 

Aztechnology

Community Resettler
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
14,146
Wait they want me to do 5 heroic strikes with the IKELOS pistol? Are they out of their goddam minds? Can you have another weapon equipped? Do you have to only use the IKELOS?! That's absurd!
Apparently you just need to have it equipped. You don't even have to use it technically. That's the way it works for every part of it's chain afaik.
 

NutterB

Member
Oct 27, 2017
388
Started playing again tonight after having taken a good 5 months off. Went from 305 to 342.

Though would love to party up and play strikes/crucible with folks.

Xbox GT: TJ NutterB
 

Deleted member 2321

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,555
This DLC is very good.

It´s 100% the right direction.

NO DOUBT whatsoever that Destiny 2 will be fucking amazing this September.

Bungie and especially VV, GG!
 

Tawpgun

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
9,861
Almost sound like you are describing the intent of the nightfall. Heroic Strike play list is something meant to pick up and play with randos. At least that the reason Bungie said they never added match making to nightfall's...
if you want heroic strikes to be just combat strolls through the park.... why even have them? Why have an easy strike playlist (heroic) and then a WAY too easy one (normal)
 

Railgun

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,148
Australia
I'm going to be very annoyed if Bungie listens to the hardcore communities whinging about Raids not being the conclusions to the main campaigns story. They weren't in Destiny 1 and they haven't been in Destiny 2 and that's a good thing. Only a fraction of the players who finish the campaign do the Raid, that's a lot of people who wouldn't get to finish the story.
if you want heroic strikes to be just combat strolls through the park.... why even have them? Why have an easy strike playlist (heroic) and then a WAY too easy one (normal)
I think the main problem is because normal is ridiculously easy to the point its a cakewalk and then Heroic is a huge leap in difficulty. A simple hard mode across most of the game would be VERY appreciated, would much prefer to play Story/Adventures/Lost Sectors with a bit of challenge where I don't feel like I can just walk through it but also not too sweaty like the new Heroic.
 

KillLaCam

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 25, 2017
15,388
Seoul
I'm going to be very annoyed if Bungie listens to the hardcore communities whinging about Raids not being the conclusions to the main campaigns story. They weren't in Destiny 1 and they haven't been in Destiny 2 and that's a good thing. Only a fraction of the players who finish the campaign do the Raid, that's a lot of people who wouldn't get to finish the story.

I think the main problem is because normal is ridiculously easy to the point its a cakewalk and then Heroic is a huge leap in difficulty. A simple hard mode across most of the game would be VERY appreciated, would much prefer to play Story/Adventures/Lost Sectors with a bit of challenge where I don't feel like I can just walk through it but also not too sweaty like the new Heroic.
I thought people were just complaining about the dlc raids not being part of the dlc story? I don't know anyone who was expecting the raids to have anything to do with Gaul.
 

Railgun

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,148
Australia
I thought people were just complaining about the dlc raids not being part of the dlc story? I don't know anyone who was expecting the raids to have anything to do with Gaul.
One of the top voted posts of this week on r/DTG was complaining that Ghaul and Xol weren't the Raid bosses. Even with DLC Raid's I don't want them to require the Raid for something as simple as completing the main story. I've been max power level and have 214 hours played but haven't done the Raid or any of the Lairs due to the time and party requirements, I simply don't have any friends who care about this game anymore past the first week besides my partner. Using LFG in Destiny 1 led to a terrible experience that I wouldn't exactly want to do again.
 

EndlessNever

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,890
I really hope Xur has brand spanking new shit for us this week. I don't want to see any fucking repeats.

unless it's the Jade Rabbit, I need that