Slowly dipping my toe in the water... (Destiny)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Monday, September 26, 2016, 03:22 (3073 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

Hey all. So I never really finished up content from The Taken King and I'm trying to see if I can slowly acclimate myself to the game and find a way to enjoy it enough to see what I already own through. Maybe also decide Rise of Iron is worth the price at some point in the future. I played some patrol last night for a quest or two and I gotta say it seems like they made it more rewarding. Happened upon 4 public events in an hour by accident and brought home a lot of loot.

Yes, there was an update fairly recently that did that, like within the last few weeks. The first one of the day gives 15 legendary marks and a legendary engram. And that's per character, so if you have 3 you could get 45/3 per day, if you have the time and are willing to pursue them. There's also a "small" chance for them to give an exotic. Not sure how small exactly, but it hasn't happened for me yet so I'd say it's small enough that you shouldn't count on it. Just a pleasant surprise when it does, I guess.

But can someone point me in the direction of a guide or several that tells me how to treat different gear from different expansions/updates, etc.? I remembered (a little too late) that you should maximize your light level before turning in engrams and then do one at a time to try to roll higher gear. That still stands, right?

Yes it does. Although I'm unsure why you would treat gear from different updates differently. At least as far as engrams are concerned, they're all the same. Taken King engrams will decode the same as Rise of Iron. And it's not like you can tell the difference between them in your inventory anyway. Now, some activities from the older DLCs that drop items DIRECTLY might still be capped at their old light levels (for instance, someone mentioned to me recently that Court of Oryx from The Taken King is still dropping things at 335).

Should I just trash anything from year 1 at this point? Too low of a light level to bother?

Well, I mean... technically yes their light level isn't good for current content. But that's been true for a long time and you haven't trashed them yet. And they're still usable in old content and Crucible (if you do that). I still have some of my old favorites. The only ones that I've felt OK getting rid of are exotics that I have year 2 versions of. In those cases, they're 2 free exotic shards, and I still have one to use.

I also have a metric crap ton of sterling boxes in my inbox. I should probably Infuse which ever gear I like from that and infuse it?

Yeah, go ahead and open those right away. They all start at 3 light so it's not like they'll be higher level if you wait. Just open them all, see if you like the stats/perks/look, and keep them to infuse up if so. Shred the ones you don't, they'll give you chroma you can use to put lights on the keepers. Pro tip on that: hitting the "destroy chroma" button (or whatever it's called) on those armor pieces will actually re-roll the color on them to a random setting for 100 glimmer, so you can change them to a color you like for a fairly insignificant price. Just something you might not know if you haven't dealt with them much.

I also remember that the Gunsmith did weapon test things. Is that still a thing and is it worth doing? I forget why.

Yes, at least if you're currently below rank 2. Hitting rank 2 with him will start a quest for a class-specific legendary weapon. Hitting rank 3 will start the same quest for a class-specific exotic. Some of these weapons are quite good IMO (Tlaloc especially is monstrous) and there's no other way to get them. See here for info.