Destiny 2 - Super Good Advice

OptimusTractor

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

There is an anti-farming lock out if you open too many region and random chests within 5 minutes. Happened to me yesterday while collecting Cayde-6 treasure chests, the last chest rewarded nothing

Yep 5 chests within 5 minutes. Happened to me yesterday spamming the same lost sector for Drang kills.

OptimusTractor

Getting rid of shaders as soon as they drop. You get Bright currency for this dismantling legendary shaders. Glimmer for blue and green.

OptimusTractor

In case anyone anyone is confused with modding/infusing here's my best explanation:

I'd grown quite attached to a 274 grenade launcher Wicked "Something" so Thursday I equipped it with an Arc power mod to bring it up to 279.

This morning a blue 276 launcher dropped. I was able to infuse it to the 279 launcher because it's base power level is still 274. The mod stayed on and it's now 281.

Total power level on Warlock is 283. But engrams are decrypting at 276 which makes my Warlock's actual power level 281 (Is that correct engrams decrypt at 5 levels below). Always be wary of that if true.

SolvableKnave

OptimusTractor wrote: »

In case anyone anyone is confused with modding/infusing here's my best explanation:

I'd grown quite attached to a 274 grenade launcher Wicked "Something" so Thursday I equipped it with an Arc power mod to bring it up to 279.

This morning a blue 276 launcher dropped. I was able to infuse it to the 279 launcher because it's base power level is still 274. The mod stayed on and it's now 281.

Total power level on Warlock is 283. But engrams are decrypting at 276 which makes my Warlock's actual power level 281 (Is that correct engrams decrypt at 5 levels below). Always be wary of that if true.

Yeah, I think engrams discount any +power/armour mods when looking at your overall power level. I haven't used a single mod yet. If the weapon has one equipped when it drops, so be it, but I haven't actively used any so far.

OptimusTractor

SolvableKnave wrote: »

Yeah, I think engrams discount any +power/armour mods when looking at your overall power level. I haven't used a single mod yet. If the weapon has one equipped when it drops, so be it, but I haven't actively used any so far.

Too busy spending your hard earned glimmer on cough syrup.

SolvableKnave

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Too busy spending your hard earned glimmer on cough syrup.

Exactly.

gimli2112

OptimusTractor wrote: »

(Is that correct engrams decrypt at 5 levels below). Always be wary of that if true.

my engrams are dropping @ 281 for level 290 characters

OptimusTractor

gimli2112 wrote: »

my engrams are dropping @ 281 for level 290 characters

Are using mods. It's seems your true power level is 286.

gimli2112

yeah I have mods on at least 50% of my gear

Mitch Connor

i'm scared of putting mods on my gear cause I don't know what is good or great. Don't want to waste a mod! (though I have loads!)

Kimbot

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i'm scared of putting mods on my gear cause I don't know what is good or great. Don't want to waste a mod! (though I have loads!)

Try the blue, keep the legendaries. I threw all arc mods on my smashy titan and his grenade recharge is insane (Double Nades aswell). Worked a treat in PvP last night

gimli2112

I'm throwing legendary mods on everything. You can buy rare ones from the gunsmith and make legendaries from them. It only costs glimmer and I'm constantly on 99999 anyway.
My LL is 292-293 with the mods but true LL is 287 or 290 I think

Kimbot

gimli2112 wrote: »

I'm throwing legendary mods on everything. You can buy rare ones from the gunsmith and make legendaries from them. It only costs glimmer and I'm constantly on 99999 anyway.
My LL is 292-293 with the mods but true LL is 287 or 290 I think

Yeah, if you hit the glimmer cap I buy aload of mods plus aload of the maps off Cayde to bring it down abit then build it up again but it fills up so fast.

Generic Dreadhead

If you opt in to using the DIM Beta (over standard) you can now see which items have Legendary mods via a Gold Border/Outline.

http://beta.destinyitemmanager.com

A 300 non-legendary mod scout put into a 300 scout with a legendary mod will make the one with the mod become 305 now

This is more helpful than I'm making it sound, but any stuff you have with Legendary mods should be not deleted and maybe infused with other gear.

Generic Dreadhead

Most pulse rifles do 33% of their damage per bullet (3 burst), The Graviton Lance does 12.5%, 12.5% and 75%, but the 3rd round doesn't suffer from range drop off. So overall it does the same damage as any other Pulse that level at most ranges, and essentially handicaps the user by putting so much of the damage into the round that is hardest to aim/hit/crit with

gimli2112

quick way to rank up an alt or farm exotics (grindy)
tl:dr when you do the specific public event rather than travel away from it spawn into the area again and if you're fast enough you'll get another

TitianGerm

gimli2112 wrote: »

quick way to rank up an alt or farm exotics (grindy)
tl:dr when you do the specific public event rather than travel away from it spawn into the area again and if you're fast enough you'll get another

If you do public events on Titan they usually start within 30-60 seconds of each other on the first and second platforms.

I've found it the best place to run them.

gimli2112

yeah me too (or the EDZ) doing it the you tube way you might get into another 2-3 right at the end and get 2500xp a pop

Just on public events trying to do them solo can be painful

TitianGerm

gimli2112 wrote: »

yeah me too (or the EDZ) doing it the you tube way you might get into another 2-3 right at the end and get 2500xp a pop

Just on public events trying to do them solo can be painful

I can solo the two walkers but it's always touch and go with time.

The Wizard one on Titan is nearly impossible to solo.

mcgrath1992

emmetkenny wrote: »

I can solo the two walkers but it's always touch and go with time.

The Wizard one on Titan is nearly impossible to solo.

i just did the walker one on titan twice just 2 mins ago but ran out of time , and that wasnt even the heroic one , its hard enough to complete this weeks flashpoint with decent rewards on your own if no one spawns in titan to help..all im getting is tokens at the moment but oh well

TitianGerm

mcgrath1992 wrote: »

i just did the walker one on titan twice just 2 mins ago but ran out of time , and that wasnt even the heroic one , its hard enough to complete this weeks flashpoint with decent rewards on your own if no one spawns in titan to help..all im getting is tokens at the moment but oh well

You can't solo one? Just knock him down and put two of the orbs into the same shield generator and kill him with the Scorch Cannons.

mcgrath1992

emmetkenny wrote: »

You can't solo one? Just knock him down and put two of the orbs into the same shield generator and kill him with the Scorch Cannons.

yep i just suck at destiny. i can solo the story easily just not competent enough to finish it in the time limit on my own. Best i have done is get him down to his last bar of health with scorch cannons

TitianGerm

mcgrath1992 wrote: »

yep i just suck at destiny. i can solo the story easily just not competent enough to finish it in the time limit on my own. Best i have done is get him down to his last bar of health with scorch cannons

Are you shooting his leg until he falls down? Once he falls down his head exposes a weak spot on his neck that does extra damage.

If your using a scorch cannon fire with RT/R2 and keep the button held down to charge up the shot. It'll charge three times (indicated by a change in sound). Release the trigger for extra damage.

syboit

mcgrath1992 wrote: »

i just did the walker one on titan twice just 2 mins ago but ran out of time , and that wasnt even the heroic one , its hard enough to complete this weeks flashpoint with decent rewards on your own if no one spawns in titan to help..all im getting is tokens at the moment but oh well

If you fly in and your on your own, I wait till about a minute to go and then fast travel back into the same zone , you can do it around 2-3 times before the event starts and you'll usually end up in an instance with more players.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

For those of you who are missing the Grimore:

When inspecting exotic item, you can read the lore of each item by pressing the left trigger (PS4).
This will give you the story behind each item - works for armour, not sure about weapons.

Generic Dreadhead

You can do it on Raid Weapons also. Not sure about Trials

mcgrath1992

emmetkenny wrote: »

Are you shooting his leg until he falls down? Once he falls down his head exposes a weak spot on his neck that does extra damage.

If your using a scorch cannon fire with RT/R2 and keep the button held down to charge up the shot. It'll charge three times (indicated by a change in sound). Release the trigger for extra damage.

yeah i been shooting the middle leg and oh right i didn't realise there was a charged shot i just been spamming the r2 trigger..thanks for advice

syboit wrote: »

If you fly in and your on your own, I wait till about a minute to go and then fast travel back into the same zone , you can do it around 2-3 times before the event starts and you'll usually end up in an instance with more players.

Ah right cheers i'll try that

gimli2112

you can get legendary weapon mods for kinetic weapons by thrashing legendary mods and then creating legendary weapon mods with the gunguy

ginger_hammer

gimli2112 wrote: »

you can get legendary weapon mods for kinetic weapons by thrashing legendary mods and then creating legendary weapon mods with the gunguy

I tend to only dismantle legendary mods that are for the other 2 classes that I'm not playing, as you never know when you might need the others. After 280 its not too much of a problem as you can create your own.

Angron

gimli2112 wrote: »

you can get legendary weapon mods for kinetic weapons by thrashing legendary mods and then creating legendary weapon mods with the gunguy

Aye, I just wish it was a bit less random on getting the kinetic mod.