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

by EffortlessFury , Monday, September 26, 2016, 15:57 (3072 days ago) @ stabbim

Hey thanks for taking the time to reply, very helpful stuff here :)

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).

What I meant by treat gear differently, I meant how should I prioritize storage, dismantle, etc. I rarely look at my vault and realized I have a bunch of low level blues from year 1, for example. I could use those as other characters but frankly the loot wheel turns relatively well at that level so perhaps its best not to waste the space that way? And yea, you have a point about Crucible. I may keep a few year 1 Legendaries/Exotics for that reason, but I barely play Crucible so it may not be worth keeping many.

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.

Only reason I wouldn't open them all now is storage space. But thanks for the destroy advice, I was wondering where the reroll mechanic I'd heard of was.

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.

I think I JUST got the quest for the Legendary one. Neato. Thanks for the advice :)