Welcome! (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 23:26 (3679 days ago) @ General Vagueness

You'll want to be decked out in mostly legendary or better armor at least before you do raids. For the Vault of Glass the game recommends 26 but you'll want to be 27 or 28 if you can, and for hard mode it's fairly important to be above 28 if not at 30 or more.

My Gunslinger is, he's at 31 with all Legendary and an exotic Helmet, and The Last Word. My Warlock only has the Ram exotic helmet and I think one Legendary armor piece.

Being one level below an enemy means you do something like 15% less damage I believe, two levels below is more severe, three or four levels below and you only do half damage, and five or six levels or more and you can't do any damage or even see what level they are. Being at a higher level than an enemy doesn't give you any advantage in your attacks, you deal the same damage as you would if you were at the same level as the enemy. (The higher defense that comes with being a higher level is always nice though.)

In other words, player at 27 + enemy at 28 = less damage dealt, player at 28 + enemy at 28 = full damage, player at 29 + enemy at 28 = full damage.

See, thank you for that! That's the sort of thing that is not explained at all. Granted, it's sort of obvious that being lower than the enemy is bad, but it's never broken down exactly how.

The best way to get those legendaries is to grab Vanguard bounties and play Vanguard strikes. The strikes give you rewards that can include legendary items. Completing strikes and bounties gets closer to buying legendaries or getting reward packages that have legendaries in them. Strikes are also a great way to get engrams. With the engrams you can get a legendary one, or you can get a surprise legendary from a blue engram, and decrypting any engrams will move you towards getting a Cryptarch reward package that can have a legendary in it.

I'll keep that in mind. My problem is that so far, the Strikes aren't very enticing to me. They are fun the first time, and every once in a while afterward, but more often than not I just don't feel like doing one. Again, up to this point, I've been soloing Destiny, in that I haven't been playing with friends. If it doesn't have matchmaking, I haven't done it. And I've had a few great experiences with some randoms, but we all know how that goes. So I'm looking forward to getting more active here and adding to my friends list. As fun as Destiny is, I've fundamentally missed out on a lot of great experiences by playing alone.