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This is what my postmaster looks like on my WL. Each of those Exotic Engrams are from the Master Lost Sectors and will decrypt into the new Arms and Legs. Every other Engram I get? I delete. I don't even open them up as there is no use in keeping something in your postmaster that you will never use. But... the problem with keeping your inventory full on your character is you run the risk of pushing those Engrams out of your postmaster if you don't constantly check it. Ask me how I know

 

And if you're asking if a Prime Engram that you keep and don't open until after the expansion drops will automatically open to 1350? No. It will only open at the level it dropped at. So a Prime Engram that drops today will only decrypt to 1330 assuming all your gear is 1330. Which leads me to believe that when I open those Exotic Engrams they will only open at 1330 since that is what they dropped at. Not a problem since we will have plenty of opportunity to level shit up.

 

I'm not even bothering with hoarding engrams, just bounties at this point. I'm playing the game the right way.

 

I mentioned this before but blue items will drop at a much higher level than what we have equipped when we start The Witch Queen. My recommendation is to not waste your materials leveling stuff up each time a higher level blue drops. Play until you can't match the power level requirement for the campaign. "Then" start leveling your shit up. Rinse and repeat. It will save you a shit ton of materials that you will need once blues are no longer able to level you up.

*EDIT* Forgot to mention... do not delete a higher level blue item when it drops. Just keep it on your character. The game knows when you have a higher level item in your inventory so it will continue to drop higher level blues. If you have a 1355 blue helmet drop. Keep it in your inventory rather than infusing your equipped armor and wasting materials. As you play, you may get another blue helmet to drop and because the game recognizes you have a 1355 blue it will drop a 1358 helmet. Delete the 1355 and keep the 1358 and so on. Do this until your power level can't complete the activity. "Then" start infusing. If you delete each blue before getting another one, you will continue to get 1355 blues if that makes sense?

 

You be you. I'm taking advantage of the system put in place lol.

 

Burning light actually will break at the end of this season so until we find out if there will be a replacement 12% XP mod, you will want to make sure you have a ghost running the 10% XP mod

 

The burning light mod (along with all the rest of the ghost mods) always go away at the end of each season. Since the rework to ghosts, the burning light mod has always been available at the start of a new season. As far as I know.... There are no ghost that have a built in XP boost anymore. They all have slottable mods only. So I'd be willing to bet that there will be numerous burning light mods ranging from 2% to 12%.

*EDIT* "Blinding Light". Been calling it the wrong thing

 

Quick and easy sub 7 min farm for materials. Whatever the NF weapons are can drop also. And... You might be surprised how many exotics drop from just running on Hero difficulty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2oKaseWuj8

 

So the final mission of the season will bug out if ANYONE in the group skips the cutscene and will bug the quest step out. Luckily I ran it right when the servers came up so no one skipped it. If you happen to run it and someone skips the cutscene here it is.

*SPOILER* Don't watch unless you can't get a group that won't skip the cutscene. Leads directly into the Witch Queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Pd0X1HP0c

 

This dude had to be pissed. Messing around in IB tonight. Perfect no scope.


https://youtu.be/lDwbGc3Q5H0

 

Okay... this is your last day to target farm the new Exotic Leg Armor for the WL for the upcoming expansion.

The steps once again are... You MUST have your engrams full on your character where the Exotic that drops automatically goes to your postmaster. Once The Witch Queen drops and the Master Lost Sector is a day where the new leg armor is dropping, the game will recognize that you have completed that Lost Sector. When that day comes up, pull it out of your postmaster and you will have that item. It's not a glitch or a cheese. It's just the way that the game is coded. I've done this many times. And if you want the new Exotic Armor there is no easier way to get it as a guaranteed drop.

Here is where it's at today. Dreaming City.

*EDIT* This is an easy Lost Sector to complete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOjjYL_lgQg

 

One more day of farming everything you need to get done. Make sure you turn in all your Gunsmith materials NOW!!! They will not carry over and you will be missing out on Legendary Shards and Enhancement Cores. Mod Components are going away but that's not a big deal as they are only used to buy mods. I'm sure by now most of us have every mod in the game. Mod Components are the most useless form of currency in the game. There are only so many mods available. I've collected over 5000 mod components with nothing to use them for. You get nothing for breaking them down.

I've stopped at 60 Paraversal Haul Boxes mainly because I'm tired of farming Dares. I've run it almost 400 times now and I just can't be bothered to run another one. If you do run Dares? I'd just save the Treasure keys now. No reason to use them. Maybe when the new expansion comes out, they might drop at 1350 or higher? No idea. No matter... If they drop at 1330 so what. Just dismantle it (unless it's a god roll) and collect the Legendary Shards.

If you still need Enhancement Prisms then I'd highly suggest running the NF on Hero Difficulty as many times as possible. It's a 5-6 min farm and they drop often and we will need them to level up any new armor you might want. And you might be surprised just how many Exotics drop even on Hero Difficulty.

I've gone over everything that I can think of to get you ready for Tues. Expect a long queue before you are finally able to log in. EVERYONE will be trying to get in once it becomes live. So it may take upwards of 5+ hours to even get into the game. It's not uncommon when a new full expansion comes out. Just deal with it.

Remember... Blues will level you up to the soft cap of 1500. Anything after that? They will become useless. I'm hoping the Paraversal Haul Boxes will fast level my character but we'll just have to wait and see? I've got enough to play around with so I can test it. And remember... Exotics drop out of those boxes so don't be surprised if you see one drop.

If you target farmed for the "new" exotics from the Legendary / Master Lost Sectors good for you. You did the right thing. If Tues. is Leg or Arm's day then I'll automatically get the new exotics.

You have one more day and that's it. What you end up with is what you end up with. Hope you've been hoarding all the bounties. I "think" that Shared Wisdom becomes available around level 5 on the season pass. DO NOT TURN IN ANY BOUNTIES until Shared Wisdom becomes active. You MUST be in a fireteam to take advantage of this. If not? You are wasting that XP. Make sure you have the Blinding Light Mod on at least one of your equipped Ghost so you can automatically get the 12% boost in XP also. I've got 120 bounties to turn in and many of those are the XP++ bounties. If you have any space in your vault? Put every Legendary weapon in there now. Most will not be god rolls and all you are doing is just breaking them down for the new materials for weapon crafting.

One last thing. If you have any "seasonal" mods on any of your armor remove it before you log off for the last time. Every season there is a bug if you have your seasonal mods from the Artifact equipped on any piece of armor there is a chance that you will not be able to slot the new seasonal mod from the new Artifact until Bungie comes out with a patch.

Other than that? Good luck.

 

And one last time. Tonight and tomorrow are the last times you can farm the easiest NF in the game. Just run it on Hero so it will be match made. I don't even run champion mods since "usually" someone on the team has them. If not? GH works just fine.

You are almost always guaranteed Prisms and Enhancement Cores at the end with the occasional exotic. Wait until the end of the video if you don't believe me. Takes less than 7 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvpBcRBvjNg



THE WITCH QUEEN RELEASE SCHEDULE (All times PST)

To prepare for the launch of The Witch Queen on February 22, Destiny 2 will undergo scheduled downtime from 7:00 PM PST (0300 UTC) on February 21 to 9:00 AM PST (1700 UTC) on February 22. Below is the scheduled timeline for this release:

February 21, 7 PM PST (0300 UTC): Destiny 2 is brought offline.

February 21, 9 PM (0500 UTC): Pre-load for Hotfix 4.0.0.1 will be available on all platforms.

February 22, 9 AM (1700 UTC): Destiny 2 will be brought back online.

 

Now do you see what I'm talking about with farming the Hero level of this NF? Exotics fall often.

This is what I mean. Only 30 secs. long. If you don't do this farm you are missing out on a lot of materials and loot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFLkt_jcho

 

Good explanation of how power level will work (has always worked) if you want to level your character / characters fast. Pretty much everything he goes over in this video has been touch on in here other than the website that you can visit to optimize your path to the hard cap. Glad that I started a Titan when I did as it will allow me to level up in the most efficient way possible.

Worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BESLu4Ud9i4

 

I understand that not everyone is trying to powerlevel their characters and just want to play through the game. I get it if that isn't your style. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm not that type of person. Everytime a new expansion came out for any of the MMO's that I used to play the goal was to level up fast so you could get into the raid as you would be locked out unless you had certain items that allowed you into the raid. Destiny isn't much different (now). For those that want to enjoy the story, you're going to play the story anyway so why not go ahead and maximize your effort in leveling your characters? You will be playing parts of that story over and over again anyway throughout the game and it will give you access to other parts of the game that are locked out to you until you hit a certain level. I understand that I have more time to play than the average person. But... You don't have to be a leveling beast to get your characters at least to the hard cap if you play smartly.

I want to get to the power cap just so I can focus my attention on weapon crafting. Weapon crafting came to LoTRO when I was playing it and it became a great addition to the game. Being able to craft a weapon and through its use, level it up to be able to make it stronger is exactly what Destiny is shooting for here (no pun intended). Making the weapon your own brings a sense of "ownership" to something that you have actually crafted. You can create your own god rolled weapon. This one change has brought Destiny closer to being a first person shooter MMO than any other game ever has.

I also want to be able to jump into the new raid on 3/5 so we can start figuring it out. That should give us a pretty good understanding of how Void 3.0 will work and also what Aspects and Fragments work best for each class.

 

Last post before the launch. I found this video and this is exactly what I was going to be doing as soon a I'm able to login after sitting in a long server queue.

But he breaks it down. Everything in the order you need to do it in. I would HIGHLY recommend watching this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aB1trYNjiU

 

Shit. I thought we had until the reset today, forgot they were taking everything offline. I still had a bit of gunsmith materials, but only a little.

So, make sure you have the XP mod on your ghost, get the artifact and level up to about 5 to get Shared Wisdom, then get in a fireteam and turn in bounties.

 

Watch the last video I posted. But pretty much yes. The only thing you DO NOT want to turn in are the Vanguard / Crucible bounties until you hit the soft cap of 1500. The reason for this is once you hit 1500, it opens up the Vanguard playlist and the bounties you turn in count toward your weekly powerful engrams. Same thing with Crucible. Once you hit 1500, turning in those bounties will also count toward your weekly powerful engram. Hold off on those. Turn everything else in AFTER you get your artifact (should be the first or second mission) and then get "Shared Wisdom" so you can gain the most XP. You automatically get 20% IIRC just from opening the first package on your season pass along with whatever weapon they are giving out this season (think it's probably the SMG). But around rank 5 you should get "Shared Wisdom". Then turn in all bounties except Vanguard / Crucible bounties. Only turn those in once you hit 1500. As far as the Gunsmith? I wouldn't worry too much about it. You mainly wanted to turn those in because the Gunsmith materials went away and it was a nice source of Legendary Shards and Enhancement Cores.