That actually sounds like fun. ;)

Unfortunately, I won't be near an Xbox between 12/4 and 12/7, so I'm out... but if I were around, I'd DEFINITELY join you. Because I'm a little nuts, too.

We'll have to hope things will work out for Season 6, then :p

-Disciple

No. He's right. You crazy. XD

...sounds fun.

I also plan on streaming everything on Twitch (Mixer will only keep the videos up for two weeks at a time). Hopefully some of the other raiders (if there are any) will stream as well. When we were tackling Last Wish, I had Cheapley's stream up on another screen and it was pretty handy to be able to glance over and see his perspective when we were filling different roles!

-Disciple

I am willing to commit to grinding like crazy, sure. But I’m only just at 580, so I’m working from a deficit to start with.

Let me know if you want a hand knocking out any of the milestones this week to bump that up a bit before the reset.

I'll try to get that Saturday off so we can start earlier than 5pm central.

I guess I would just say that my caveat is that I'll play until the reset the following Tuesday, but then after that, I'm out so I can just enjoy the rest of the content. I think that should be enough if we can get a full weekend in.

Sounds fair. Hopefully this will be doable at whatever power levels we reach by start time.

-Disciple

Could you coach me as far as leveling goes?... What should I do before Tuesday?

Borrowing from this:

For all characters this week:

• Do the Gambit weekly, but don't turn it in
  
• Do the orange Spider bounty, but don't turn it in
  
• Do the raid challenge, but don't turn it in
  
• Get an ethereal key from Riven, but don't use it
  
• Do any Exotic Quests you still have available (e.g. Chaperone), but don't turn them in
  
• Get close to major rank ups for Valor, Glory and Infamy
  
• Don't do any daily challenges after Saturday
  
• Complete (or progress) the new pinnacle weapon quests, but don't turn them in

When the new content is released, grind public events and lost sectors (nothing powerful) until you hit the new soft cap via rare (blue) drops.

Then you can start to complete (and/or turn in) powerful reward activities and bounties. Unknown at this time what the optimum strategy for that will be, but assuming that things work similarly to Season 4, you'll want to balance +5 rewards with +1 rewards to evenly grow your light level across all slots.

If you have 3 characters, do this with your tertiary character first. Once that character has reached max power and no more powerful rewards are available that week, start again with your secondary character - they'll begin with the highest light weapons left over from the first character, so they should be able to gain more light. Finally, do it all again with your main character so they have the highest light possible (by your Friday start time).

Good luck!

-Chappy

I'll get the most important question out of the way: you are intending this team to be blind, yes?

Definitely!

If so, we're on the same page, Disciple. I'd rather jump in as soon as possible and go for as long as possible (in as few sittings as possible) to finish. That's always been my preference, but finding people with the flexibility or willingness to do such a thing has been difficult.

Could you coach me as far as leveling goes? I frankly was confused about the Robot Chickens/Disciple method from last release--I probably didn't spend the time necessary (for me) to understand what you guys were saying.

It was mostly just trying to make an educated guess at which type of activity was most likely to provide the most beneficial reward. I think Bluerunner took the exact opposite approach I did and leveled at pretty much the same rate :p

What should I do before Tuesday? I'm willing to get on early and stay up late (or later than normal) weeknights next week, and I might even take at least part of Friday off. It's a short-term sacrifice of real life that honestly I prefer over six weeks of stress trying to find a few hours here and there when everyone can play.

Edit: Chappy's plan is more thorough and easier to read. Use his instead :p

I'm not 100% sure on what vendors will be giving what level of rewards next week, but my goal for this weekend is to have milestones completed but not claimed wherever possible (I can pretty much guarantee they'll be at the current level cap and not the new one, but it's worth a shot) and to have things ready to be completed as soon as I jump in on Tuesday. Off the top of my head, I know I'll be making sure I've got 5K XP worth of clan bounties, eight Dreaming City bounties, and enough other random bounties completed to hit the 20 required for Ikora's weekly reward.

I'm really hoping to have that ready to go on all three characters so that on Tuesday I can turn in everything (AFTER picking up that Dreaming City bounty for turning in 8 other bounties--don't want to screw that up again), knock out the easiest daily milestones and hopefully roll into any new missions/activities (providing they promise powerful rewards) pretty quickly.

The goal for me will be to knock out nearly every possible powerful reward milestone for my Warlock on Tuesday, then knock out dailies on my Titan and Hunter before bed. Wednesday I'll pick up any new dailies on my Warlock, then do all of the rewards on my Titan and wrap up the day with any new dailies on my Hunter. Finally on Thursday, I'll do the new dailies on my Warlock, then Titan, then Hunter and then hopefully get through all of the other available rewards which, ideally, should push my Hunter to the highest power level of the three (unless I get REALLY unlucky with my rewards). Depending on how all of that goes, I'll either use any time I have on Friday between getting home from work and raid start time to either knock out any new dailies that have popped up (I really should have paid closer attention to how these are renewed during the week), or take a nap--whichever looks like it would be most beneficial to my raiding ability :p

-Disciple

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I will do my best to be leveled, but hey I did say I like blind raids better underleveled.

I mean, I can see the appeal when you're good enough to tackle this stuff underleveled. I am definitely not at that skill level though, so I've got to make it up with power level :p

-Disciple

Let's go for World First!

...lol.

Easy peasy :p

I was totally prepared to get zero response to this request. This approach--blasting through new content to jump straight into hardcore grinding--feels like the opposite of the way I thought most everyone preferred to play. If you signed up because this is totally what you're into, then I'm glad to have you on board. If this really isn't the way you like to do things but you signed up anyway, then I hope we can make it fun and it turns out to be worth the effort in the end!

Speaking of "not how we like to play," I've ALWAYS gone through new content solo, in Destiny and every other game I've ever played, but I guess it's time to make an exception. Leveling will be way faster and easier if we do things as a group, so I'm setting up FTB events for Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday so we can team up, knock stuff out and still get a reasonable amount of sleep. The start times are just going to be set for the earliest I'm available, but if you post your preferred start time, we can split teams based on that. We may just end up with an Eastern/Central team and a Mountain/Pacific team :p

Also, I know Cheapley mentioned needing a few more light levels before things kick off on Tuesday and there may be some others that haven't hit the current max yet, so if anyone's interested, we could try to plan a quick raid/nightfall night for Sunday and/or Monday.

-Disciple

I signed up. I'll post the times when I'm available to start closer to then. I might be able to play as early as 6 EST on some nights, but I should be able to be on by 7 most of the time. A few notes:

1) I, too, am accustomed to playing my first play-through solo, and you can count on me to be respectful of that, and try not to interfere with the experience of the content by talking over dialogue, skipping cutscenes (an obscenity!) or being unwilling to explore if we want. This won't be the time for me to ramble on about that jerk who cut me off in traffic on the way home. I'll be there to play Destiny and savor the new.

2) I will have only one character. I don't know how this will affect leveling but I thought I'd mention it.

Also, I know Cheapley mentioned needing a few more light levels before things kick off on Tuesday and there may be some others that haven't hit the current max yet, so if anyone's interested, we could try to plan a quick raid/nightfall night for Sunday and/or Monday.

I'm currently at 591. I still have both Gambit milestones, both Crucible milestones, the score threshold Nightfall, and raid stuff to do for Powerful drops. I'll be knocking the easy stuff out this weekend and see how close to 600 I can get.

People who signed up for next Friday, clear as much of the weekend as you can, and post your availability on Disciple's event when you can.

He asked for that, but I noticed that few have yet.

I added that this morning and meant to mention it in my earlier post, but completely forgot. I hope it really is a smallish raid and we can knock it out in a day or two, but I would definitely like to have a plan to make as many additional attempts as possible before the reset.

-Disciple

I’m working on getting Saturday off. Chances are good, but not certain. I’ll post here or use our Xbox group chat to let you know when I know for sure. I can maybe try to swing getting out of work an hour or two early on Friday, but I wouldn’t count on that.