Squid mentioned this last night, but does anyone have a good guide for how to make the most out of getting light. i.e.: what activities to do in what order during the week, etc. As we all know this is not made clear in the UI and some Powerful are not the same as other Powerfuls. Always love graphics if anyone found one.

Sorry if this is somewhere in the Forum but I didn't see it.

LEVELING GUIDE - Forsaken

--Edit: Ignore all of this. kidtsunami's post is way better--

Not a cool graphic, but the "this part is dumb" part of this post is my daily/weekly routine. At the moment my three Guardians are 540, 542, & 543 so as obnoxious as it is, it's working for me. From what I've read (sorry, can't find my source), the "powerful rewards" from activities that have a higher light level requirement (Nightfall, Dreaming City (maybe?) and probably something else I'm too tired to remember) will give you the biggest bump in power level. When we were running stuff last week, I think Chappy was recommending doing the things that give you minor powerful rewards if your gear has a wide range of powers (i.e. 418 boots & a 428 kinetic weapon), and save the major powerful rewards (Nightfall) for when your gear is all within a one or two point spread.

Also, if you're running multiple characters every week, try to claim all of the powerful rewards on your most powerful Guardian first, then move onto the 2nd most powerful and clear everything before using your weakest Guardian. By the end of the week, they'll probably flip and the last shall be first.

-Disciple

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One of the things that I thought was cool was that there was a huge variety of ways to get powerful gear. Cool! Much more diverse than just doing what we did before.

But oops. There are soft caps. So past a certain point, all that variety vanishes.

Not good.

Not good.

Not just not good, but also thoroughly stupid.

It just shows that Bungie still hasn’t learned a goddamn thing about effective communication. What they said was that tackling things underleveled would give you even better rewards. They didn’t say anything about a tiered soft cap. Bungie still doesn’t have a damn clue how to explain anything, and it still seems like no one there has any clue what anyone else there is actually doing.

Not good.

Not just not good, but also thoroughly stupid.

I would have used a word resembling "bullpoop" but I didn't want to be overly negative.

By the way, putting an emoji into a DBO post breaks it. On inquiry, I was simply told "don't use emojis".

Not good.

Not just not good, but also thoroughly stupid.

I would have used a word resembling "bullpoop" but I didn't want to be overly negative.

It might be hard to tell from my posts over the last few days, but I’m genuinely trying not to be overly negative. I’m so happy with 95% of Forsakem, but the leveling system is so dumb it leaves me flabbergasted.

Thing is, I would be totally fine with this slow climb system if they didn’t have power level gates on content. Raid levels put pressure on the rate of the climb in a negative way. That’s the only thing that makes this as dumb as it is. If not for that, it’d be awesome to have new content open up over time and to have a long climb to 600. Locking away the raid though, that only hurts the players.

This is admittedly unnecessary, since you can pretty well do all of this just by glancing at DIM, but I've been averaging about 3 hours of sleep a night for the last couple of weeks, so I'm a fan of offloading as much mental computation as possible at the moment. Also, it's a slow day at work, so what else am I going to do with my time.

That said, I present to you the D2 Leveling Sheet

You plug in your armor and weapon power levels, it highlights your highest and lowest gear for each guardian, shows the difference between your power level and your lowest power item (listed as "drag"), and recommends chasing tier 1 (+1 power) rewards if the difference is too high (>1) or tier 2 (+5 power) rewards if all of your gear is nearly the same.

I would add a "nightfall blues" recommendation for a difference of >5, but I tried farming that last night when I had armor that was eight levels below my power level and gear was still dropping at twenty below my power level.

Oh, and there's an excel version, too. It's a REALLY slow day at work.

-Disciple

Edit: Forgot to note, weapon values are entered on the right and autofilled below each class so you only have to enter them once.

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The fact that this is even remotely necessary shows how screwed this system is though. If this is what it takes to reach the raid in a reasonable time, then screw it. I’m done chasing levels. I got two Powerful drops last night that did fuck all for me.

And this coming from the guy that had (has? I’ll have to dig through a closet and see) a notebook filled with Morriwind characters and their correct leveling paths to get those +5 attribute bonuses every time.