Destiny 2

So I know I just went on a rant about how to get Powerful Rewards, and I've done it a few times in the past in this thread, but with the new power cap moving to 700 tomorrow, I think its time for it again. However, this time i'm going to get some help and use a published source that I like.

https://www.fanbyte.com/guides/destiny-2-level-guide-maximizing-your-power-level-quickly/

Order of Operations
So, in short, you should do daily and weekly activities in an order like this:

Weekly Flashpoint, Crucible daily, Gambit daily, Strikes daily, Story missions, and Ikora’s 20 bounties. These will all offer low-tier Powerful rewards. Do these first to hope for the best in some minor bumps in Power. If you go up in Power, that’s great! The higher tier Powerful rewards will then drop at even higher levels. If not, you had some bad luck. You’re like a lot of Guardians out there who got the same pair of boots four times in a row.

Once you complete the tasks above, it’s time to head for the next tier of Powerful drops. This includes the Nightfall Strike, Gambit weekly, Crucible weekly, the weekly mission in the Dreaming City, and completing Petra’s eight daily missions. This tier of Powerful drops will drop even higher than the activities before these.

Up next is the highest tier of Powerful drops, including the Last Wish Raid, weekly Dreaming City rewards, and the Ascendant Challenge in the Dreaming City. These have the chance to drop even higher than the two previous sets of activities.

Outside of this order of operations, and once you’ve exhausted your activities for the week, you can always hope for an Exotic or Prime Engram to drop. Exotics and Prime Engrams will always drop at five or six Power higher than your Power level. And, thankfully, Prime Engrams drop much more frequently with the release of Black Armory. So while the power curve is technically the same, you should level up faster now than in vanilla Forsaken.

Tuesday is the day you want to make sure to hop on and play Destiny 2. That’s when weekly activities reset, giving you the chance for Powerful rewards all over again.
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This will be my rotation on all three characters each week, including Scourge of the Past raid. I don't have regular group for Last Wish or i'd do that too. Raids always have the highest tier rewards.
 
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Whoa, i'm so pumped. New Gambit Prime trailer:


Here are the perks of the new armor sets:

Reaper:

Clear Waves + Slay Larger Enemies

  • Weaken High-Value Targets

  • Multikills generate Special Ammo

  • Gain increased Mote lifetime

  • Powerful enemy kills increase Grenade recharge
Sentry:

Counter Invasion + Bank Protection

  • Multikills grants a damage buff against Taken

  • Bank gives health regeneration

  • Mark Invaders for teammates

  • Buff Allies in the Well of Light
Collector:

Collect Motes + Send Blockers

  • Drop Motes on death

  • Motes grant overshield

  • Gain Ammo on Mote deposit

  • Send giant 20-mote blockers
Invader:

Hunt Players + Steal Motes

  • Gain ammo while invading

  • Improved invasion overshield

  • Damage bonus on Guardian kills

  • Lock and drain motes from enemy bank
 
Very good first impression of the new Gambit Prime mode here for me.

It is intense and more frustrating in some ways.

EDIT: Finished weekly in all Gambit Prime. Mixed feelings. When I was done I got a 654 scout rifles so the number are going up.

GP is flat out tougher and there is also more frustrating attrition in some ways.

You have to keep killing envoys repeatedly to have shields drop on the Primeval for a limited amount of time. Meanwhile of course you are being invaded and all the rest of it. It's more time consuming without any doubt. Maybe it will feel better once people are up at 700 because it was tough. You also have to stay in this light sphere when you attack the primeval and I noticed their overall energy level took quite a bit more effort to drop.
 
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Q-BZ said:
Very good first impression of the new Gambit Prime mode here for me.

It is intense and more frustrating in some ways.

EDIT: Finished weekly in all Gambit Prime. Mixed feelings. When I was done I got a 654 scout rifles so the number are going up.

GP is flat out tougher and there is also more frustrating attrition in some ways.

You have to keep killing envoys repeatedly to have shields drop on the Primeval for a limited amount of time. Meanwhile of course you are being invaded and all the rest of it. It's more time consuming without any doubt. Maybe it will feel better once people are up at 700 because it was tough. You also have to stay in this light sphere when you attack the primeval and I noticed their overall energy level took quite a bit more effort to drop.
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part of the frustration is people not knowing how it works. Once people figure it out it will be less frustrating. I like prime a lot, the back and forth progress makes it a lot more satisfying when you win. You dont have to stand in the light sphere to kill the primeval but it does buff your damage output if you do, it also groups everyone up out in the open for an invader to pick the whole team off.

The reckoning is OK, if your team sticks together it is pretty easy to clear. If everyone runs around lone wolf style it is much harder. Waves of redbar enemies, then a few yellow bars mixed in then a boss. You get 5 minutes to complete it.

only thing I got over 650 was a 653 auto rifle, I actually like it a lot, very low recoil with extended mag perk field prep and swashbuckler
 
leezard said:
part of the frustration is people not knowing how it works. Once people figure it out it will be less frustrating. I like prime a lot, the back and forth progress makes it a lot more satisfying when you win. You dont have to stand in the light sphere to kill the primeval but it does buff your damage output if you do, it also groups everyone up out in the open for an invader to pick the whole team off.

The reckoning is OK, if your team sticks together it is pretty easy to clear. If everyone runs around lone wolf style it is much harder. Waves of redbar enemies, then a few yellow bars mixed in then a boss. You get 5 minutes to complete it.

only thing I got over 650 was a 653 auto rifle, I actually like it a lot, very low recoil with extended mag perk field prep and swashbuckler
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I'm about to try Reckoning right now...
 
Holy crap, this new Gambit stuff is amazing.

Got my first full set of Sentry gear and going to be working on my Invader set tomorrow. Spamming Gambit Prime then heading to Reckoning was a TON of fun tonight.
 
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I didn't jump into the Gambit stuff last night but I finally got Sleeper Simulant.....and holy crap that thing is great. I used it to melt some bosses in Escalation Protocol and even on some heroic adventures. It was totally worth the grind to get it. Next I will have to complete the Gambit bounties so I can get the 640 gear. I'm sitting at 564 light right now.
 
Blatantly stealing this from Reddit but this was a great writeup on the farming rotation for Synth's, Motes and then Prime armor sets.


To get a set piece you want (or need):

  1. Go into Gambit Prime for a couple of matches and get synths for your sets. Synths are given out for actions that corellate with a set, i.e. when you kill guardians in invasions you get more Invader synths, for collecting a lot of motes you get Collector synths etc. Random synths are also a reward for a Prime match or a successful Reckoning round.
  2. When you completed your first Gambit Prime match for a bounty, the Drifter has given you a synthesizer. You can access it in your inventory, it works like the Dawning oven.
  3. Create a mote with your desired synth with synthesizer. Synthesizer can be upgraded later to give you better motes (which then you use to create more powerful Prime gear).
  4. Go in Reckoning and bank this mote in bank at the start of a round. For each different mote rarity there is different place where you can bank the mote, run around the bank and find correct slot. NOTE: only weakest motes are acceptable by the bank yet, wait for next tier of the Reckoning to release to craft +2 and up items.
  5. BANK YOUR MOTE and go kill taken.
  6. After successfully completing a round of Reckoning, go back to bank and collect your set piece. NOTE: gear is not in the knockout list and you can get duplicates. If you fail a round you get your mote back when you claim rewards at the bank so you can try again.
  7. You can create motes anytime, so do it in the downtime between rounds in the Reckoning.
For maximum efficency you can farm a bunch of synths in Gambit Prime, go in Reckoning and farm these synths for a full set and get back to Gambit Prime with your sweet new perks.

Also if you do not bank any mote you can get synths by completing a round of the Reckoning. It is less efficent, but this way you can skip Gambit Prime part if you don't like it.


Heads up: to acquire a helmet - complete a weekly Prime bounty. It'll give you a helmet for the set and also it will upgrade your sinthesizer to craft better motes.
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Gambit Prime is a definite improvement. I had fun, except in bad losses due to idiots, and I prefer one good round. Going to get Collector first, as that's my natural inclination.
 
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I popped in after the update last night and tried to get an eyeball on what's new. Meh, I'll dig into it over the weekend, but set about my weekly tasks. It was a little change in routine to not have clan specific XP bounties to buy up, but instead were getting the XP (abet in smaller doses) from completing the daily heroic on Titan and a few heroic public events. (trying to grind out that Wanderer triumph).

May need to see about getting a dedicated team to do a full run on Escalation protocol for teh shotgun. Bleh. Any random team I start with ends up bailing after three rounds.

Weekly reset for anyone looking.
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Wow the damage shown in that video was crazy. I'm pretty sure I have it in storage also.

Also, I unlocked the Prometheus Lens exotic yesterday and that gun was just melting enemies being a solar week. I didn't even need to use super on my heroic missions.
 
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Intention was permanent but we'll see.. the increase was probably more than they expected.

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HOLY CRAP! I guess that's my next goal is to get that weapon....

I have to admit that the power leveling they put in the bounties for the drifter is crazy...i went from 574 light to 604 after turning in 2.....

Edit: Just realized its an RNG drop......welp I guess I will never see this drop
 
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Keep in mind, he also was a middle tree solar warlock and he melee'd Nockris first giving him the Empowered buff. Still though, it's crazy.
 
criccio said:
Keep in mind, he also was a middle tree solar warlock and he melee'd Nockris first giving him the Empowered buff. Still though, it's crazy.
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That's what I typically roll. That Sunwell is crazy and when your team stands in it you can melt anything....most of the time i just Stand in place and take hits just to get as much damage out of it since it heals and buff damage output.
 
It's what I bring the Well parties. Chunking down those every few minutes while melting adds.
 
After the Nova Bomb buff, don't think my Warlock has switched off of it. Top tree cataclysm bomb wearing Skull of Dire Ahamkara is stupid fun.

Blow up a group of ads, get your super back and do it again.
 
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After the Nova Bomb buff, don't think my Warlock has switched off of it. Top tree cataclysm bomb wearing Skull of Dire Ahamkara is stupid fun.

Blow up a group of ads, get your super back and do it again.
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My son was telling me yesterday almost word for word what you mentioned. I'm still a bit of a Destiny noob so I pick his brain a lot.
 
Anyone have an good advice on how to farm enhancement cores? I tending to find myself lacking in those to upgrade older weapons.
 
Not infusing until you absolutely have to and ALWAYS collecting your 2 from Spider each day helps. I'm hoping to get to 300 in the next few days before I start infusing a ton as I get near 700 Power Level.

If your vault is starting to get full, a full cleanout/dismantle usually nets you a nice chunk too.

If you're sitting on a lot of Legendary Shards and have some time to kill, the Simulation Seeds farm nets you the most. You'll want to spend 1K or so shards to make it worthwhile so this takes some time.

https://gamerant.com/destiny-2-enhancement-core-farm/
 
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I haven't been playing gambit that long at all, but I hadn't seen a servitor show up until yesterday. Now it has appeared about 5 times for me in the last two days. It's surprising. Going for the malfeasance hand cannon.
 
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Anyone have an good advice on how to farm enhancement cores? I tending to find myself lacking in those to upgrade older weapons.
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FYI - Just popped into the Spider's area and he is selling 1 enhancement core for 10 legendary shards.
 
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FYI - Just popped into the Spider's area and he is selling 1 enhancement core for 10 legendary shards.
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Yup, that's normal. Price doubles every time you buy one, however. You never want to buy more than two.

Key is to go see him every day and buy 2.
 
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Yup, that's normal. Price doubles every time you buy one, however. You never want to buy more than two.

Key is to go see him every day and buy 2.
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Spider really needs to get off his lazy ass and send some minions out to deliver. My ghost is the next evolution in a cellphone and some how that piece can't make a grubhub-esque app? For shame.
 
Well I finished defeating the 25 Taken bosses for the malfeasance hand cannon and tried to do "The Corrupted" mission alone, but had to quit. I have done the strike a few times, but it was too much. I got half way and quit.

Would anyone like to connect and help me with that mission? I usually play late mornings.
 
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If you're sitting on a lot of Legendary Shards and have some time to kill, the Simulation Seeds farm nets you the most. You'll want to spend 1K or so shards to make it worthwhile so this takes some time.

https://gamerant.com/destiny-2-enhancement-core-farm/
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Did they patch this out? I've never seen him sell resources for legendary shards, only glimmer. The only thing I can buy with legendary shards is enhancement cores.

In other news, one of the two weeklies from Petra didn't reset for me, so I can't get that weekly reward this week. :(
 
PiERiT said:
Did they patch this out? I've never seen him sell resources for legendary shards, only glimmer. The only thing I can buy with legendary shards is enhancement cores.

In other news, one of the two weeklies from Petra didn't reset for me, so I can't get that weekly reward this week. :(
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Just sold them a day or two ago for shards.

And yeah, the weeklys are bugged and will be fixed on Sundays reset.
 
F.E.A.R. said:
tried to do "The Corrupted" mission alone, but had to quit
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Even though some players have solo'd that mission, it's about the same difficulty as a nightfall and designed around a team of three. It's not the same as the typical strike version, most solo players will get stuck around the elevator part of the mission. On both the discords, (link1, link2) there's almost always players grouping up for that mission.
 
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Did they patch this out? I've never seen him sell resources for legendary shards, only glimmer. The only thing I can buy with legendary shards is enhancement cores.

In other news, one of the two weeklies from Petra didn't reset for me, so I can't get that weekly reward this week. :(
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The "prices" change daily on the resources. what costs glimmer one day can be shards the next. Which resources he has also changes.
 
That bug ^ has made the power grind annoyingly slow. 666, 667, 668 across my 3 characters so far and I still have the Gambit Prime weekly bounty to complete on my 3rd char/Titan.

As for the 4 Gambit Prime "roles", Collector SUCKS for increasing the Prime Weekly bounty. Especially when you have to solo queue and basically do all the roles yourself because your team STILL has no idea about Gambit mechanics. Sure, i'm trying to collect motes but I'll go invade... rinse and repeat.

The gambit salt is real.
 
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Completed the Malfeasance questline, with the surge of players playing Gambit this season it should be a bit easier to complete than before.
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I'm not too excited about this season though, was never really a fan of Gambit (or any of the PvP in this game), and like most players only played it when Bungie locked gear behind them. While Gambit does have some innovative design, the core issue is that invasions are all that matters and a good invader will carry your team no matter what. I've won so many 3v4 matches simply because a pro invader got matched into our team - it didn't matter we were outnumbered 2 to 4 while the invader did his thing as invasions outweigh every other aspect of the game mode.

In gambit it doesn't matter much how well you dps mobs, farm/bank motes, co-ordinate abiltities/supers, take down blockers, kill high value targets, eliminate envoys - all that matters is your invader is better than theirs. And from what I've seen this issue has remained in Gambit Prime, so this season I'll barely be playing - but there are people who enjoy Gambit as is so they should have a great time this season.
 
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