Looks like paying for leveling is going to be a thing (the Spark of Light now available in the UK for $$) http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-gets-paid-level-boost-microtransaction/1100-6433121/
Challenge mode was actually pretty easy. I was dreading that different people would have to get the relic. I think I kinda prefer the 16 bomb method. You don't have to worry about someone getting back late from their bomb 4 different times. And I got that 320 helmet, yo
Guess who got raid boots, titan gear, and shotgun last night? Then managed to decrypt two exotic armors to 310
Same. Did it on our second try both times. Much easier than the Golgoroth challenge imo. Side note: You can't do the Gogoroth challenge with 5 people, even if all 5 grab the gaze. Sorry guys
we completed that challenge in our hearts, though. Ogre abandoned us, Dabut ran around like a sugar crazed 3 year old, but we somehow managed to kill that son of a bitch with all 5 of us grabbing the gaze and were rewarded with a glittering handful of moldering shards.
Golgoroth has fucked me on drops for weeks on weeks now. I have 6 harrowed chests, 2 gloves but not a single boots.
Yeh, before racing the highest helmet i had was 313 after 15 oryx kills. Come to think of it, even after challenge modes, oryx still hasnt dropped me a better helmet.
Back to fallout I go until everyone wants to raid or nightfall. I have 0 desire to grind or sparrow race (2 tracks gets real boring, real fucking quick).
The only time i set foot in a nightfall is when helping 290ish friends. I'm good on another 302 ghost
is there another exotic that hasn't been discovered yet with the year 2 december update? i was looking at blueprints and noticed 2 missing, one of them is no time to explain for me but everything else i have and when researching to see what it was i couldn't find anything. only thing that makes sense is that it's messed up since no land beyond is in the special slot instead of primary slot. didn't know if anyone had read anything on this.
That slot popped up for me as soon as I bought MIDA from the kiosk. It wasn't there before. Maybe something time-gated? Maybe a bug? With Bungie you never can tell.
Interesting. In other news i finally completed my collection of year 1 exotics thanks to 2 legacy engrams that gave me queens bow and dreg sidearm respectively. Now onto year 2 stuff like ntte and the tarantula and titan thing.
Tried the rubber band trick for srl to see if i could get rep easy without playing since i find doing it such a grating task. Ended up getting no rep and no rewards. Guess you gotta look like youre trying.
Last time there was the Warpriest challenge, I got 3 320 machine guns as the drops. This time, I got 3 320 rocket launchers. I still have yet to receive a special weapon higher than 317. I guess on the bright side, I now have a 320 Sleeper Simulant, Razelighter and Bolt Caster, all of which I will rarely use.
So what are the odds Lizard Squad or some other such faggot neckbeard group decides to DDoS Sony and Microsoft tomorrow?
I hope you guys have a merry Christmas and, because I'll most likely be busy not getting busy, a happy New Years. Hopefully you heathens have loved ones to spend it with, but if not, I'm glad I know some of you. I won't say the ones I don't care for in hopes that y'all don't slit your wrists (Jax Teller) ((jk, you're a swell guy, Joshua)). Whatever time we've spent playing this game, whether it's me annoying the shit out of y'all or us ragging on Karl Hungus or even when we spent full nights trying to kill Crota, I thoroughly enjoyed it all. Let us look back on all the times we had, from Jax Teller dying in the cheese spot for the VoG, for the mechanics of jump puzzles being a mystery to others, and for lehmanspeed's apathetic sighs and his annoyed ones. lazy bum lying about his age to us but still having the nimble fingers of a young man (for the joysticks...that's what I call them anyway). Hell, we even got flawless raider with Karl Hungus. If I didn't name you, it's because you're a faggot and I hate your stinking guts. Or I'm sleeping on a couch, either or. Thank you guys for helping to make this year a more fun and much less productive one.
The damage you've caused to my chairs and bedding because of how wet your voice makes me is infuriating.
Not true. I even found this Onion article about you and your crew. With Debo of course playing the hero part. http://www.theonion.com/article/weed-delivery-guy-saves-christmas-1264 Weed Delivery Guy Saves Christmas Spoiler MADISON, WI—The holidays evoke images of carolers and hot cocoa, sleigh rides through the crisp country air, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But for the four residents of a drafty little apartment on Johnson Street, such holiday traditions seemed nothing more than fairy tales. For, through a combination of poverty, circumstance, and plain old bad luck, these young gentlemen nearly saw their holiday dreams shattered like so many fallen ornaments. The weed guy delivers holiday tidings. Almost, but not quite. For although there would be no Yule log in the fireplace, a crackling blaze of another kind would come to warm the hearts of the hapless roommates. For, these four lucky friends had a guardian angel watching over them, and this is the heartwarming true story of how the weed delivery guy saved Christmas. "Dude, I was so bummed when I found out my stupid supervisor scheduled me for first shift Christmas Eve," said Patrick Moynihan, 26, a "part-time musician and full-time phone drone." "I was like, 'Come on, I gotta go to Milwaukee to see my old man and watch the game.' He was like, 'Sorry man, life's rough. You should've remembered to ask off.'" "It's not like Milwaukee's so great," Moynihan added, "but it beats spending Christmas alone in my shithole apartment." But, in a turn of events Moynihan described as "X-Files-type shit," each of his remaining roommates—first Dirk, then Kleist, and finally even White Jimmy—watched their Christmas plans come undone, leaving the four housemates together in Madison on the night before Christmas. "I was supposed to go home with this chick and meet her parents," said Dirk Udell, 24, a part-time bicycle-store clerk and bassist. "But we totally got into this huge fight the night before, and she was like, 'Sayonara, sweetheart.' Then Kleist got wasted and slept through his flight, and White Jimmy's credit card got turned down at the bus station, because he maxed it out on that amp he bought." Individual heartbreak turned into collective joy when the roommates realized that they could have their own Christmas... "We said, 'Fuck it,'" James "White Jimmy" Gaines said. "We were like, 'We have all the ingredients for old-time holiday cheer right here: some brews, the tube, and the Chinese place across the street that never closes on holidays.' We even cleaned the living room and washed the dishes. Then fate threw a monkey wrench." "Dudes, it's a no go," Kleist said before delivering the bad news. "Carl totally flaked on us. He left for Michigan already." The roommates' faces turned ashen: There would be no Christmas weed. "I was, like, 'No way, man!'" Moynihan said. "Kleist even called all our friends, trying to find someone who was holding, but everyone was out of town. We tried to drum up some Christmas cheer, but there was no escaping the sad reality that the four of us had all this time to hang out, but no pot." Disconsolate, the roommates went through the motions of scraping the bowl for resin. But, in their hearts, they knew that it wasn't enough to get them high. Peering out of the fourth-floor window, gazing at the municipal streetlight decorations below, they felt that Christmas had deserted them... Or had it? "That's when Jimmy—I think it was Jimmy. It could've been Kleist—wait, was it Jimmy or Kleist?" Moynihan said. "Aw, never mind—whoever it was looked up and said, 'Hey Dirk, why don't we try the number that that guy who worked at Big Mike's Subs gave you?'" After searching high and low with the help of his three determined roommates, Udell located the piece of paper containing the phone number given to him by his old stoner buddy Javier. "Javier told me he hardly knows the dealer, but the guy always has really great shit and he comes right over," Udell said. "Kleist was all like, 'Who in their right mind is gonna be out delivering weed on Christmas Eve?' But I was like, 'What would it hurt to give the number a try?'" "We were so psyched when he answered his cell on the second ring!" Udell added. The roommates busily prepared for the weed guy's arrival by laying out Chips Ahoy cookies on paper plates, loading disks into the CD changer, and lovingly placing a new screen in the bong. All the while, they listened for the crunch-crunch-crunch of his footsteps on the snowy walk and the jingle-jangle-jingle of the Apt. 4-D buzzer. They even put the porch light on for the dude, so he'd feel welcome. And when, in less than an hour, the weed delivery guy showed up bearing a gift more precious than gold, the roommates' hearts soared with joy. "That stranger brought us something so much better than any store-bought gift," Moynihan said. "I don't know his name—it's considered bad form to ask—but he taught us that Christmas wishes can come true, if you believe." And so it was that the weed delivery guy—hardworking, dedicated, and discreet—saved Christmas in the nick of time. "We may not have had a big tree and all that," Moynihan said. "And there wasn't eggnog dusted with nutmeg, 'cause the only time we ever had any nutmeg in the house was the time we tried to trip on it. Not recommended, by the way. But we had a happy Christmas all the same." It wasn't long before all through the house, not a creature was stirring up off the couch. The boys opened the baggie and packed a bowl with delight, murmuring, "Happy Christmas, weed delivery guy. You did us one right."
So I finished the story for Wolves and Taken King. My Titan is now level 40 with 212 light. Is the fastest way to beef up my light doing these Taken King strikes?
If you still have some strange coins, pick up The Armamentarium and MIDA from Xur (both 280 light). If you have time and want to grind SRL, you can get some 300+ light level helmets/class items starting at level 2, but that ends early Tuesday morning. If you're on later tonight, I can do the daily heroic with you, which today is the Black Spindle (best exotic sniper in the game) mission. Buy a 280 ghost from either the vanguard or crucible guys. Other than that, yes, strikes are the quickest way. Once you get high enough, switch to doing the weekly heroic strikes.
Oh, and make sure you are at the highest light level possible every time you decrypt engrams. And decrypt items one at a time in case you decrypt one that is higher than something you currently have equipped. The higher your light level, the higher the light level of decrypted items.
I really don't have much interest in Sparrow racing, but I might give it a shot if I get bored. I'll probably just do another strike or two and take a break until this evening. I did enjoy both House of Wolves and Taken King. Especially Taken King, since Fillion is the man. It's been a while, so my PSN is CPT_Awesome00, just to remind you all.
btw i'm loving how srl gives me wins in crucible. really helping the whole crucible questline. about to finish the 20 points one real quick with the 3 points per race.
finally got the crucible questline done for the bounties and after picking up the bounties it completed the bounty for nightfall rewards right off the bat without me doing anything. not sure if its supposed to do that but it was pretty nice. got a 290 ghost shell from it though...lame.