Smart man automates Destiny grinding (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 16:31 (3384 days ago) @ Korny

I don't think anyone would hate progressively building their characters if:

1. The requirement for progression is fun.
2. The requirement for progression is not random.
3. The progression makes the player make interesting choices about their progression.

Sounds like a game I've played recently called Destiny:

2. To progress you do missions and multiplayer that pay out a known amount of currency and use that currency to buy armor and weapons for known prices. Sometimes the game also rewards you with unexpected weapons and armors.

Can you get a Gjallarhorn or a black hammer that way? Can you get to level 32 with raid gear that way? Nope. If you want to do Hard mode tomorrow, you had to have gotten to 32 by way of an RNG.

My hunter is just shy of 32, and the only RNG gear I have to show for that are the raid boots. The chest and gauntlets I bought from Iron Banner, and the helmet I got from Xur. Looks like you don't need RNG whatsoever to be ready for Hard Raid.

I am curious if the scale in the hard mode raid is 33-35 mimicking the normal raid, or if it's like VoG and it's 33 throughout. If the former, you'd do no damage to enemies that are level 35 as a 31. If the latter, it's doable, but going to be as tough as beating Crota as a 30 :-)

Also you said it yourself: you had to RNG to get the boots.