How to level for the raid (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 15:58 (2803 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by Cody Miller, Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 16:17

Apparently once you hit 350, decoding engrams is no longer a viable way to significantly increase your light. For the PS4 crew getting ready for the raid, the way to do it seems to be running SIVA strikes, CoE, and Archon Forge. We should all do these thing together the coming days!

We have friends in town this week; I played a bit yesterday morning, before they arrived, but I'm not sure if I'll get a lot of time this week to play otherwise.

But I have to say, even though we've gone through this before, I'm surprised (and a little saddened) by the idea that getting more than 15 levels above where you were YESTERDAY (well, 15 hours before this post was written) needs to be gamed.

I think I'll look forward to a much slower progression - one that's really only allowed to me because I'm not AROUND to be sucked into the current feel. (That is: if I were playing this week, I'd be doing exactly the same thing - and that makes me sad.)

I would feel the same way, but after about 4 hours of play all that's even left to do is level up. There is hella little to do in this expansion compared to TTK. Yesterday afternoon I'm sitting there with no active quests, and no quest icons. After you play the story missions and the new strikes, nothing is left but the raid.

I... I can't even.

Until yesterday, I hadn't had a quest icon visible in the director for almost a year. And I haven't had any leveling even AVAILABLE for more than 6 months (all 3 chars at 335). And yet I STILL found stuff that brought me back to play nearly every single day.

I wasn't lamenting the quantity of new content - I was lamenting the single-minded attitude towards it. My wife chewed me out at one point on our recent camping trip - I was trying to optimize the driving home, and at one point complained that she was asking for too many roadside stops. She reminded me that the POINT was the roadside stops. It was supposed to be about the journey, not the destination. Something you get told in all sorts of aspects of your life, all the time, but rarely internalize. I was just commenting on seeing it again.

Yeah, I know, you're raiding in a week and a half or something, and want to be sure you've got an appropriate light level. So it IS the destination, for you. And that makes me sad. That's all.

No, the raid is the journey. And sometimes to prepare for a journey we have to do stuff that we might not like.

The rest of the game just isn't very good IMO. Raid and Crucible is what keeps me playing. (And I am raiding friday)