Destiny players, get me up to speed on this new stuff

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Decided to check out Destiny again because my Xbox Live membership is about to expire and figured I'd see if it's worth renewing. All my legendaries and exotics are shittier than greens I picked up, and I need a bunch of materials to make them better. Several of my exotic upgrades were reset too, which blows ass.

What are the new exploits? Which guns are good and which suck now?


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
I heard Xur is selling the Hawkmoon this weekend.

But this is coming from a guy who heard that on a website and sold Density months ago; so what do I know?


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I heard Xur is selling the Hawkmoon this weekend.

But this is coming from a guy who heard that on a website and sold Density months ago; so what do I know?

He is but I don't have enough coins and I don't have TTK yet so I really don't have a way to get them quickly.


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So... I guess I'm going to have to pick up after your horrendous mistakes on here too?
I heard Xur is selling the Hawkmoon this weekend.

But this is coming from a guy who heard that on a website and sold Density months ago; so what do I know?

He is but I don't have enough coins and I don't have TTK yet so I really don't have a way to get them quickly.

Yikes, well sorry.

Like I said, I sold Density months ago, so I have no idea what's up-to-date.


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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?


 
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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?

All Year One items have a max level of 180. With Year 2, the items go beyond that -  so regular Y2 greens will deal as much, if not more, than a Y1 exotic. Sone Y1 exotics have gotten a stronger Y2 option as well.

You can still use Y1 items for any of the pre-Taken King story missions and strikes though


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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?
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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?

All Year One items have a max level of 180. With Year 2, the items go beyond that -  so regular Y2 greens will deal as much, if not more, than a Y1 exotic. Sone Y1 exotics have gotten a stronger Y2 option as well.

You can still use Y1 items for any of the pre-Taken King story missions and strikes though

Year 2 items are marked with the TTK emblem in the corner, right? And does that include ascended year 1 items, or is ascending them not very useful?


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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?

All Year One items have a max level of 180. With Year 2, the items go beyond that -  so regular Y2 greens will deal as much, if not more, than a Y1 exotic. Sone Y1 exotics have gotten a stronger Y2 option as well.

You can still use Y1 items for any of the pre-Taken King story missions and strikes though

Year 2 items are marked with the TTK emblem in the corner, right? And does that include ascended year 1 items, or is ascending them not very useful?
Ascending no longer does anything useful. Anything from the launch game or previous dlcs are obsolete.


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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things. 


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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things.
Any tips on where to get started working on gear? And I've noticed my old gear works just fine in patrols and the crucible; I assume higher level missions and raids will prove that it's all obsolete.


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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things.
Any tips on where to get started working on gear? And I've noticed my old gear works just fine in patrols and the crucible; I assume higher level missions and raids will prove that it's all obsolete.
Quests


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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things.
Any tips on where to get started working on gear? And I've noticed my old gear works just fine in patrols and the crucible; I assume higher level missions and raids will prove that it's all obsolete.
Quests

So just to confirm, my purples and exotics are completely useless in strikes and stuff, so outside of sentimental value there's no reason to not deconstruct all of them for materials? Or will they not even give me anything useful and they should just sit in the bank forever?


 
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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things.
Any tips on where to get started working on gear? And I've noticed my old gear works just fine in patrols and the crucible; I assume higher level missions and raids will prove that it's all obsolete.

Exactly. If you want to run the Year One story again, you can use your Year One gear and it will be fine. Once you get into any Year 2 content, it'll become essentially useless.

If you want gear, and you have TTK, simply play through the story and complete the quests that you get - many of the quests will branch off and give you the option to start additional side quests for more Legendary Marks (to buy gear) or for item upgrade rewards.

If you get an engram, decode each one at a time. Say you are Light Level 200 and decode a chest piece. Try that piece on and see if it increases your light level. If it does, keep it on and then decode another engram.


 
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Three of coins and strikes are good. You get them from xur and every time you kill a strike boss and you pop one it will increase your chance for an exotic from the next boss you kill. The leveling system is revamped so you have a base level of 40 to achieve and then a light level which at this point has a max of 310 (You should start somewhere in the 170 range if you have already been playing). You will get a new subclass on the second mission of the DLC depending on your class. The raid requires a light level of around 290 but it is totally worth getting up in levels to do it. Besides that a whole bunch of rebalancing has been done, much too many things have changed to list on here but here are some basic things.
Any tips on where to get started working on gear? And I've noticed my old gear works just fine in patrols and the crucible; I assume higher level missions and raids will prove that it's all obsolete.
Quests

So just to confirm, my purples and exotics are completely useless in strikes and stuff, so outside of sentimental value there's no reason to not deconstruct all of them for materials? Or will they not even give me anything useful and they should just sit in the bank forever?

Decode if you want - it'll give you Y1 upgrade stuff that you can turn in for reputation and such.


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Anyone know of ways to get strange coins before level 40? i.e., no weekly heroic strike or that stuff.


 
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Anyone know of ways to get strange coins before level 40? i.e., no weekly heroic strike or that stuff.

Might get lucky with a Crucible drop. Other than that, not really.


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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?
Save ones you like for the crucible. Or just to have.


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Any gun is better than what you have now

So should I just be ditching all my purples and exotics and starting from greens and blues?
Save ones you like for the crucible. Or just to have.

That's what I did. I'm already level 40, got a couple exotics and a couple legendaries from random engrams and Xur. Liking the new content. The way it is now is how the game should've shipped.


 
 
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I'm uh... not pleased to hear that all the shit that I spent fucking hours and hours working on over the last year (well october-june time) is now utterly obsolete. Kind of a slap in the face there, especially when trying to sell a Β£40 DLC to me is going to be damn near impossible.

Ah well, I'll give it until the next super digital deluxiest edition comes out with all of the current content and more so that I'm not wasting money too much and then consider getting back into it.


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I'm uh... not pleased to hear that all the shit that I spent fucking hours and hours working on over the last year (well october-june time) is now utterly obsolete. Kind of a slap in the face there, especially when trying to sell a Β£40 DLC to me is going to be damn near impossible.

Ah well, I'll give it until the next super digital deluxiest edition comes out with all of the current content and more so that I'm not wasting money too much and then consider getting back into it.
Destiny 2 should be out next year. Buy the original then with everything bundled togeather. I know they'll do it. Expect gear to reset with every new expansion. Or at least. Once a year. We'll see how that goes. In MMOs I can forgive it, because there's more gear, and more time in-between resets. But I was disappointed to hear most of my gear is trash now.