Level 20!

OneBadHuskerFan wrote:

S7 DROOPY wrote:So @husker are the raids new environments like a new dungeon/vault or is it the same environments as the story?  

The raid is a new "dungeon" like area.

Sweeeeet !! Good to know, thanls bro. Kinda my first mmo game and since I can't farm all the time then it kinda makes me few this game in a totally new way vs any other game type. Im a newbie I'm liking the game more and more everyday, besides the lack of knowledge and confusion on what all the game is about, I need to read more

I'm so lost on this game. Never played an mmo so forgive my ignorance. I will get it eventually.

S7 ROWDYFLASH wrote:I'm so lost on this game. Never played an mmo so forgive my ignorance. I will get it eventually.

Don't worry about it! Once you get used to how the light level system works the game is very straightforward from there.

@Droopy & Rowdy: I'm in the same boat, and I think there's more than just the three of us. Just gotta keep grinding for loot and then once you get enough shiny toys you hop on the roller coaster and see if you don't get your face melted off.

S7 ROWDYFLASH wrote:I'm so lost on this game. Never played an mmo so forgive my ignorance. I will get it eventually.

I agree with Atrum.  It really is all pretty confusing and doesn't help that they don't throw in any kind of tutorial, etc.  Even with all the posts we've made here about stuff it's still somewhat hard to absorb it all until you've just played enough to get used to what all of it means.

S7 SockPuppet wrote:@Droopy & Rowdy: I'm in the same boat, and I think there's more than just the three of us.  Just gotta keep grinding for loot and then once you get enough shiny toys you hop on the roller coaster and see if you don't get your face melted off.

Defiantly....more than 3.  I'm so busy during the week that I've only had the weekend to play.....totally confused but still love the game.   will be on this weekend as well

S7 Uncle Charles wrote:

S7 SockPuppet wrote:@Droopy & Rowdy: I'm in the same boat, and I think there's more than just the three of us.  Just gotta keep grinding for loot and then once you get enough shiny toys you hop on the roller coaster and see if you don't get your face melted off.

Defiantly....more than 3.  I'm so busy during the week that I've only had the weekend to play.....totally confused but still love the game.   will be on this weekend as well

Nice.  I'll walk you through whatever you want man.  You're a cool cat... bro.

Up to 21 now and got an exotic gun. Hand cannon. It does get much more fun especially in mutiplayer. Not gettin wasted anymore.

Makes ya feel like Billy the kid. When u melee with it u spin it around. I believe it's called The Last Word. Better than a shotty in my opinion.

Where did you find that???

I'm pretty excited for tonight. Finish up 2 more bounties and I'll hit faction lvl 2. I think I'll restrain myself until friday when Mr. StrangeCoin is back. Then I'll go all out and pick up 2 legendaries from my faction and an item from him too.

Crucible match of control. Guess they tryin to help a nine out.

Ridiculous!

AtrumX wrote:I'm pretty excited for tonight. Finish up 2 more bounties and I'll hit faction lvl 2. I think I'll restrain myself until friday when Mr. StrangeCoin is back. Then I'll go all out and pick up 2 legendaries from my faction and an item from him too.

That's definitely a good plan!  I should hit level 3 Vanguard Friday and be tempted to get a purple auto rifle but I can get 2 pieces of gear for less than a gun.  I have a nice level 20 AR that keeps me content, for now.

Of course that all depends on what the coin dude offers.

Hit lvl 27 tonight!  My helmet and heavy weapon are the only blue pieces I have left. Aside from my back up stuff of course.

Just hit level 20 last night doing some runs with OC and Coolhand. Now it's time to start farming vanguard rep and finish the story. Still haven't made it to mars in the story mode. So, I plan on finishing that soon.

I'll be on again tonight if you want help running through the story.

@ OC I might not be on until later. But if i see you on i'll send you an invite!

Is there any advantage to doing story missions on Hard (as far as loot goes). Or is it just more fun to have a higher challenge?

@win I'm level 20 and I have the 2 strikes on on Venus and haven't started mars yet, probably start mars on Friday night around 11

I'm going to call BS on the level advantage in the Crucible. I've been playing it a bit, and just hover around break even, or sometimes get destroyed. When I do get destroyed, it is by higher level players that I assume are really good or have played a lot more (thus the higher level). Then last night I got a chest piece with some light on it, as I had yet to find one. With that I went form level 21 to level 23. So nothing else changed but my chest armor, and I started rolling kids in the crucible. I think there is something to the level in the crucible, and not just the added perks. Anyone else notice anything similar?

~mrmiller

@Win - you get like 25% more experience or so, if you're under lvl 20 like me.

S7 mrmiller wrote:I'm going to call BS on the level advantage in the Crucible. I've been playing it a bit, and just hover around break even, or sometimes get destroyed. When I do get destroyed, it is by higher level players that I assume are really good or have played a lot more (thus the higher level). Then last night I got a chest piece with some light on it, as I had yet to find one. With that I went form level 21 to level 23. So nothing else changed but my chest armor, and I started rolling kids in the crucible. I think there is something to the level in the crucible, and not just the added perks. Anyone else notice anything similar?

~mrmiller

IDK.  The real answer may never be known either.  But if there was no normalization, lvl 5-18 kids would get constantly get wrecked.  I have seen said kids do really well so there has to be some form of normalization.  That said, obviously some guns are better than others.  Rate of fire, clip size and stability are key to a good PvP gun but your armor should not matter, aside from the perks like more ammo etc...  How to test this?  I have no idea.  If we had a private lobby, you could equip one and take some shots, then equip the other.  But with no private lobby system testing it would not be very scientific.  Is it real?  Placebo effect?  We may never know.

I haven't tried it, but can you do Rumble with 6? That would fill the game and allow for testing.

That being said I believe that the armor, health, and damage are all normalized. It's the other specs that aren't. Like Zak said, an awesome autorifle with maxed rate of fire AND stability is going to roll kids.

That being said the PvP has a surprisingly steep skill curve. Hitting those headshots makes a BIG difference. I played against another guy that was pretty good the other day and he rolled me for 5-6 kills in a row until I started landing my headshots more consistently and the reverse happened.

Also, any strafe patterns that worked in Halo 2 - work in Destiny. I suppose on these forums we'd call it the 'klown dance'. It works well.

Very true strum the little I have played crucible just like halo strafeing and headshots are huge. Don't have any clue on normalization as it seemed fairly often when I died it was from a higher level but almost always by a headshot.

I just know the only thing I changed was armor and light, and I "felt much stronger" and did much better. My weapons appeared to kill faster (3 3-round bursts over 4 or 5) and so on. No weapon upgrades, no perks to weapons, nothing else changed. IDK?


~mrmiller