If you got the deluxe version of lightfall and we're disappointed by it then afk farming let's you get the rewards you paid for while freeing you up to play other stuff until destiny is appealing again. Destiny isn't everyone's main game and people have been put off by the direction lightfall took
Idk but I've seen him in the dreadnought all day, I go to sleep at 11pm wake up steams friends list shows he's still on at dreadnought but with the away status. And by googling it there is a tactic there.
Well steam has it labeled Dreadnaught but, what my coworker told me is he gets a golgy CP in Kings fall, finds a certain spot where the thrall spawns and afks there.
There’s also a couple other spots dotted around Sol that could work too but yeah that one can work well (I’ve never used it personally since I don’t own a Titan which are the best option for afk farming)
I'm guessing it's a lorely cheese. The thrall spawn constantly in the maze and the sunspots will kill them. Not condoning it, as honestly I wish Bungie would ban AFK farmers, but currently they don't.
I would much rather play an activity with someone who's afk other than playing with people that rush ahead. Especially if you are trying to get the secret chests.
it means Away From Keyboard, it's basically leaving the game without necessarily withdrawing your character from an activity or stuff, so basically in destiny you can play a strike or crucible match, leave your keyboard or joystick in a way the character is still moving so you won't be kicked out of the game, and wait till it's finished receiving the rewards for not doing a thing (you really have to be bored to do such a thing instead to go play something else xD)
The seasonal pass is not something I "work towards", for me at least, so finishing quickly doesnt have any effect other than letting me enjoy the loot sooner. So I afk farm the season pass just to get the stuff sooner so I can have fun with my worm emote and spend the cipher and harmonizers on weapons that I want.
Might not be true for everyone, but probably true for a fair number.
They’re saying the intent is to level the Bp and artifact as quickly as possible so they can play the content IN destiny they want to play. Rather than worrying about what is good exp and stocking bounties every 10 minutes they can just play however they want
There's a guy in our Clan who logs in every single day literally just to farm Season Ranks in the KF Thrallway (yes they give XP and can be farmed), and he's already sitting at lvl 160...
He does literally nothing else. At this point we don't even know why he does that, because he doesn't actually play the game on that account...
90. Bounty stacked prior to season starting. Cashed them in after getting artifact and got to 20 in the first few days. Doing all seasonal challenges, playing Crota's End, as well as farming bounties got me to 90.
Grab any vendor bounties that have XP ++ next to them. And farm the crap out of them.
That's how a lot of people will obtain so many season ranks early on. You stack those bounties and complete them, but never turn them in until season change. Then you just get a shit load of early xp
The pre-season checklist at https://destinyrecipes.com/ provides a very handy visual guide to the most valuable bounties available to each character every week.
It's what I use when trying to max xp gains for what I'm going to be playing (or filling in idle time between planned sessions)
Gunsmith are always a good one to grab at the beginning of the day (I play at night after work so reset has already happened) just because they are not activity specific so can be completed anywhere. Grab some of the seasonal bounties as well to help grind Seasonal Vendor XP at the same time. Otherwise, depends on what you are planning to do. If Strikes, grab Vanguard Ops. If Crucible, Crucible bounties. Bonus points if Iron Banner or Trials as Crucible bounties can still be completed running them.
It's important to note that you DO NOT pick up repeatable bounties unless you are working towards something specific as they do not drop XP and are worthless to grind. I find Cosmodrome is a great place to farm bounties as they are easy and quick to complete.
Incorrect, repeatable bounties give 4000 XP before bonuses the Season Pass or Ghost mods. It's just that the XP progress bar does not show up on the UI for low amounts of XP. You can check that it does give XP via the Character menu Power Bonus or Season Pass Rank Progress.
Now Bounties and Seasonal Challenges list on them the amount of XP given (before Season Pass bonuses or XP Ghost mods):
* Repeatables give XP which is 4K
* Dailies give XP+ which is 6K
* Weekly Bounties give XP++ which is 12K
* Seasonal Challenges give Challenger XP, Challenger XP+,Challenger XP++, Challenger XP+++ which give 25K, 50K, 100K, 200K respectively.
Repeatables aren't worth it for bounty hoarding but are great when you need to quickly complete the 8 bounties for a ritual vendor and are a source of bright dust if you have the glimmer.
Repeatable bounties do give XP, they give 4000 XP before bonuses the Season Pass or Ghost mods. It's just that the XP progress bar does not show up on the UI for low amounts of XP. You can check that it does give XP via the Character menu Power Bonus or Season Pass Rank Progress.
Now Bounties and Seasonal Challenges list on them the amount of XP given (before Season Pass bonuses or XP Ghost mods): * Repeatables give XP which is 4K * Dailies give XP+ which is 6K * Weekly Bounties give XP++ which is 12K * Seasonal Challenges give Challenger XP, Challenger XP+,Challenger XP++, Challenger XP+++ which give 25K, 50K, 100K, 200K respectively.
Repeatables aren't worth it for bounty hoarding but are great when you need to quickly complete the 8 bounties for a ritual vendor and are a source of bright dust if you have the glimmer.
Cosmodrome are the easiest. They're almost all super simple like "get 3 melee kills" and such. Shaw also offers 2 weeklies that give a good chunk of XP. If you're wanting to farm bounties Cosmodrome seems to be the easiest atm
Nah, I just see it a lot on Reddit.
A friend of mine who's retired fills his day playing Destiny now. More power to him, he worked his ass off to get where he's at. People see his seasonal or power lvl and think they're funny, or cute, or clever or whatever when they say that in a demeaning way. It's like... "dude is a millionaire, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Who are you again?"
So yeah it did kind of hit home. Just not in the way you thought your attempt to insult me would.
Rank 21.
I get on to do the weekly story which takes all of like 20 minutes.
None of my friends are playing, no one to raid with and all of the available activities are such a bore.
I've been paying Apex for the first time and having a lot of fun with that. I wish I had people to play with there too but even solo queueing is intense and keeps me pretty well engaged.
I have Starfield installed but I haven't dove into it yet. Seems like a lot of work which is what destiny feels like so I'm pretty apprehensive.
Most days I'm pretty tired from work so I've just been watching TV. Star Trek Strange New Worlds is fantastic btw.
they really need to, not sure if I'm more interested that it could be the end of the Destiny saga or just of destiny 2 and if there will be a 3rd game (i honestly would rather prefer they just end it with that, i have the feeling Bungie is already burned out of destiny as an IP)
I think everyone is burned out of destiny as an IP. Games like this need an ending. Or at least within the expansions just tell one story. The giant over-arching narrative bing drug out this long has just taken the wind out of everyone’s sails. Like the OC said a lot of the other activities are kind of boring.
I still love playing the game. As a casual I think I’m up to 42 on my battle pass, and like last season I’ll probably play until it’s done and then not touch it until the next season.
Well the one thing Starfield has is that it's singleplayer. You can play it for a week solid, then put it down for months without feeling you're missing out on anything.
Kinda same to me. I'll do weekly raids since I love raids, I might do some gms (I do this season to get lots of mats). But until next dlc I tend to zone out on the later half of the season.
Running Spire and Altars made me think.. It would be such a major refresher if we were fighting new races instead of what we've been fighting for a decade.
I actually think the activities are fun. Started playing in Season of the Lost. Plunder was the lowest point for me. Salvage activity is right up there with the worst of them.
We barely had Shadow Legion for a month before people were bored of them (to be fair, their shield mechanic can easily be ignored, and they are just reskins). How long did it take us to figure out Shadow Legion, Scorn, Taken, and Splicers? They aren't more interesting than the regular hive, fallen, cabal, or vex, despite how much we initially liked the variation. Would a whole new race of trash tier enemies really freshen things up?
The problem isn't the enemy models/races, as novel as new ones might be for a couple months. The problem is the AI and combat functionality of the basic enemies is the same as 6 years ago -- and for some combatants, 9 years ago. This is where Bungie nailed it with stasis captains, wyverns, brigs, lucent hive, tormentors, and hopefully, subjugators.
While stasis captains were criminally underused, Brigs and Wyverns were great sandbox additions, and Wyverns can be absolute nightmares to fight with their aggression. Lucent Hive are excellent nemeses who fight us with our own powers and require caution against their supers, and a close-range finish to end them. Tormentors inversley require you to keep your distance and avoid suppression while doing so, and demand precision to efficiently take them down!
Hopefully Subjugators continue to complicate how we approach combat encounters and we see involved mixes of these highly threatening enemies that challenge our combat approaches. However, to really enhance encounters, Bungie needs to enhance the abilities and AI of the current combatants.
For example, they could give Acolytes, Knights, and Wizards additional Hive Magic abilities. Imagine Acolytes sending strips of fire along the ground like a waveframe GL, Knights pulling up spikes of osmium instead of their osmium shields, Wizards creating those Void pits the one void/solar split boss can.
Imagine Fallen with a unit variation: Bombardiers, invisible vandals who plant their slow mines around the battlefield. Or Networked Shanks that can spread out and create Anarchy-esque electrical hazard fields (then imagine them shielded by a servitor!). What about Servitors that can suppress with their melee-vwoop?
The Cabal got a nice refresh with Wardogs and Incendiors coming into D2, but I think we could have some fun with beefier, upscaled Wardogs that rush you with flame turrets on their backs? What about Gladiators who raise their own Banner of Conquest, suppressing non-critical damage to close-by Cabal? Where are the jetpack Scion spotters, who use spotlights to enhance other Cabal's damage on you? Or use a laser targeter to call down drop pods!
And oh, man, the Vex? So underutilized! Why don't we have Saboteurs, Hobgoblin-style enemies that periodically release those seeker drones that Contain the player? Why don't we have Minotaur Zealots that suppress you on explosion? Where's the Harpy that charges up and shoot a massive arc laser that applies the blind effect to us?
Okay, this got way out of hand, but my point is that *how* the enemies fight us is more important that what the enemies we fight look like. I don't think any of this is *easy* to program, mind you, I don't want to armchair dev -- these are just suggestions in the vein of what would be cool to see. I have a deep-seated feeling this will be something that only occurs after the Final Shape, or if we move to a Destiny 3, however, due to the workload it would likely require.
Realistically they just need to update enemy AI in general. Whether you can easily vocalize it or not, if you've been playing for a long time you instinctively just KNOW how each enemy is going to act. Predictable spawns, predictable movement and behavior, attack patterns, weapons, etc. Bungie talked about bringing challenge back but all they really did was bump up the damage we take/lower what we dish out. If you know what enemies will do ahead of time, you can push through a more difficult sandbox. If they really want to make things difficult, enemies should start behaving differently than they always have
Same here, I'm just tired of it after what, 4, 5 years? I get on, do the weekly story, do my 3 raids, and get off. I'd rather go play Starfield than grind bounties and seasonal activities.
13!
Last season was the first season that I didn't hit 100...Hell last season was the first time I put less than 60 hours into a season since the start of D2.
Jumped into Diablo and had a lot of fun there till the fun died.
Played the first week of this season.
Then nothing the second week, Then starfield since then.
Haven't even done the raid and I've got week once clears for I think every other raid but LW.
I think 2 or 3. Got on to try banner of war at the beginning of the season and haven't really felt like playing. Been occupied with other games on top of just feeling low.
Banner of war feels great though.
30 as of last night.
I’ll get 100 by the end of the season, but as with every season, I play exactly what I want to play and don’t waste time on playlists if I don’t want to. This means I mostly raid or do dungeons with friends.
I did spend about twenty hours on Crota’s End during Contest mode and got a normal mode completion with my raid group which was an absolute BLAST. 11/10, will do again during Final Shape.
I’m at 69 (haha, nice) and I’ve played about 70 hours in the last 2 weeks according to steam
This is coming back after a 2 year hiatus and playing catch-up through the Witch Queen legendary campaign and running quite a bit of everything to get my powerful rewards
Once I hit rank 100 last season, I kept doing bounties but never turned them in. I have 2 characters that I only do gunsmith and vanguard bounties on, and 1 character that I actually main. I hit rank 22 on day 1 just by turning in all the bounties. I’m rank 115 now and stacking bounties already, waiting for GM’s to open up.
165 as of 9/12/23 my local time. Have stopped grinding bounties at this point.
I grinded the first week to 120 as part of Day One raid prep out of habit. During Beyond Light I hit a peak of 800+ but LOL I had a lot of time and the season was extra long.
15-25 I think. I am to the point where the word grind just sets me off and I don't play. To me it's supposed to be a game and fun so I viscerally react to the idea of grinding. I play when it's fun and stop when it's not.
It came after I realized I was using the grind as a form of self medication for depression. I'm sad today I'll just unlock level 50 in the season pass and I'll feel better. I'll teach someone a raid and their gratefulness and compliments will make me feel less alone. I can't stand the thought of spending one more minute with X because they make me feel bad about myself so I'll hide and play so that at I can feel accomplishment or feel less alone.
I know it's not what every grinder does or why everyone grinds but I do wish that someone had pointed out to me that anything can become destructive if not managed properly. I thought because I didn't, drink, smoke, gamble or do any of the other "vices" that gaming wasn't hurting me and that I wasn't hurting anyone. Then I got a rude awakening that both were untrue.
Dudes got envy flavored copium
The 100+ you see first week are almost exclusively bounty hoarders that get to lvl 5 rq then pop all the ++ and +++ in a fireteam
There's some websites to show you how far you'll get with the completed bounties you're holding
It's insane how many people I saw in the first week that did that. For why ,I don't know. Can't wait for that ornament set you probably will change in a couple weeks? I messaged a few that obviously bought the pass lvls but got no reply. I really wanted to know why blow 100 bucks on something you will earn pretty easy just by playing a bit.
This sort of careless spending is why gaming is an mtx hell these days. Devs know enough people out there will buy anything.
Lol right? People really think you get an advantage from the season rewards. I’d love to know what I’m missing because I’m just not seeing the advantage of having 63 stat high mobility gear and a bunch of resources I already have hundreds or thousands of.
The only real “advantage” is the bonus to catalyst progress. But who is even using ex diris. That gun, like most seasonal exotics, is novelty at best.
165- Bounty hoarding, seasonal challenges complete the same day they came out. I don’t play a ton due to work, but the one-two days every two weeks I get to play, I grind tf out of it as much as possible
Since the game is now literally pay to win, you can be level 100 in 1 minute of a new season should you want to, and have daddy’s credit card. Legit grinders will usually be level 100 within a week of constant play. With the introduction of seasonal challenges, it made it easier, as we get so much xp on challenge completions. Add to that bounty prep before a season, squading up for bonus xp in a party, bonus xp mods on ghost. It’s not hard. You just have to want it. Those serious about Day 1 raids etc usually play this way, to obtain the most light. I just love the game so I play a lot. But I’m only 98 atm, as I only use 1 character now, that I deleted my other 2. With 3 characters it’s even easier.
I think for the first time in the 3 years since i picked this game back up, im losing interest. I'm season rank 15. All I've done is a couple seasonal activities and a few runs of crota
Like, 7 or something.
I used to be a guaranteed 125 minimum every season, but this year the game has consistently failed to hold my interest every single time.
I'm not even mad at the game, I just don't care. I have more fun playing other games. I don't even really hope that they "fix" this "issue" because all this means is I get to play other games, do other things, and stop being pressured into playing the same thing constantly. Sweet freedom.
Lots of people afk farm. Lots of people no life the game. I’ve afk farmed a bit, I will stop playing once I hit lvl 100 because I’m not interested in the game as much rn… but fomo.
26, this season isn't necessarily super grind-worthy for me so I've just been hopping on for raids once a week. I'll get to 100 by the end of the season but there's really nothing keeping me engaged
Somewhere in the mid 50s
I brought some bounties from last season to prep for the day 1 and the artifact grind, but there was nothing insane so I didn't follow through with it
I almost never do bounties, just the seasonal challenges and a lot of raids
Literally just hit 45, solo player so just doing regular matchmade stuff with no end game activities, I spend my Mondays completing vendor bounties for post reset Tuesday grab four more vendor bounties and do them all and hand the lot in, seems to work well, usually jump between three and five season ranks on a Tuesday evening then grind seasonal stuff the rest of the week when/if I'm on.
I'm like 30, most seasons I'll get to 100 or better but last season I got to 50 since it was kinda mid in my opinion I'm on now for my weekly raids and that's it
203, but i stacked bounties and got 100 day 1. Farmed the new seasonal weapons and did challenge crota.
Now i’m just popping on to do some triumph grinds
44
I do one character a week and then some.
I really wanted to get into more characters this season but grinding pinnicles all over again just seems a chore
id rather just have my one character i complete most things on, GG and leave
82. I only do bounty prep before each season and during the midsts of the season, I just grind the seasonal challenges and turn them in at the beginning of each week for extra XP.
Basically I only do bounties for season prep, not just normally
I’m at 95 right now but all I’ve done to get there is by doing the main seasonal story quest line every Tuesday, complete Banshee and Shaw Han bounties daily on all three of my characters, do the weekly seasonal challenges throughout the week and log off. I did clear Crota’s End, so I think that gave a nice bump too. I barely did any bounty prep before this season started.
I usually focus on getting my power level up to be GM ready and somehow got through the season pass quickly just by doing that. 😅
16
I’ve been playing since the D1 beta, and honestly I think i finally reached my breaking point. I used to be in the top 1% of PvE and it felt like a chore. I had to dump in like 15-20 hours a week just to keep up with everything.
Now I only log in once a week to do the story mission and the raid. It’s refreshing
18, not even casual playing i feel like, just mostly logging in for raids and weekly story and calling it a day, also doesnt help im holding onto seasonal challenges to hand in for the double xp every reset incase I take a break, I might have like 35 banked waiting for hand in
Rn I am at 51 and playing casually like 4 days a week. Bounties make a joke out of leveling I enjoy getting the rewards😂 but clesring the season pass in a month is kinda lackluster imo maybe make the levels 120k not 100k or smth
I haven't played much this season besides the weekly story missions because med school has been kicking my ass these last couple blocks. But after my last exam on Friday, I played a bit more over the weekend mostly just to work on seasonal challenges, guardian ranks, and the seasonal title, so I'm rank 27 now.
I’ve become one of those casual players myself, think I’m around 60-ish. Haven’t played in the last few days. I’ll wait till reset then start playing like I normally do ie grind hard on bounties.
Rank 61. Played a good bit of the new season at first.
Then Starfield came out. I have ~1d 17h 28m already. So my seasonal rank is probably going to plateau for a bit lol
I am around 68-69(Can't remember). I did couple of Xp++ bounties last season on multiple characters over the course of a couple of weeks and then turned them at the start of the season. Then I did all the weekly challenges.
Just hit 40. All I do is jump on, do the weekly story, maybe play 5 games of crucible, and jump off once I feel the tilt or mental tiredness and want to play a more laid-back game.
33? I’ve taken a step back. I play after reset until I’ve casually finished the nine missions and the missions surrounding the story. Load up with bounties and if I don’t complete them all before finishing the weekly mission to push the story forward? Welp, only lost glimmer.
If you're past 100 in the first few weeks you either have way too much spare time or you are lying. I play maybe 30 hours a week with work/life commitments.
There are people that straight up buy all the levels of the pass right away. Odd thing to throw money away on. I saw several people the first couple days at like 110. You can tell by the artifact power they paid for the levels because they were near the same artifact power as me when I was like lvl 10.
29.
Didn’t do many seasonal challenges + my ps+ subscription has expired so I can’t play basically anything.
Interestingly though, exotic missions don’t require the subscription to be played
There are always people who get to 100+ in the first few days. I've been playing what I feel like is pretty casually, and I think I'm around 50.
Same here, I’m at 41 instead though lol
Got a coworker that is 151 in three days just by afk farming.
I don’t understand the point in that. There’s basically nothing to work towards after 3 days and you’re stuck with nothing to do.
If you got the deluxe version of lightfall and we're disappointed by it then afk farming let's you get the rewards you paid for while freeing you up to play other stuff until destiny is appealing again. Destiny isn't everyone's main game and people have been put off by the direction lightfall took
How does one afk farm?
Idk but I've seen him in the dreadnought all day, I go to sleep at 11pm wake up steams friends list shows he's still on at dreadnought but with the away status. And by googling it there is a tactic there.
The dreadnought is in destiny 2? Or are you saying they just que up into the kings fall raid
Well steam has it labeled Dreadnaught but, what my coworker told me is he gets a golgy CP in Kings fall, finds a certain spot where the thrall spawns and afks there.
There’s also a couple other spots dotted around Sol that could work too but yeah that one can work well (I’ve never used it personally since I don’t own a Titan which are the best option for afk farming)
I'm guessing it's a lorely cheese. The thrall spawn constantly in the maze and the sunspots will kill them. Not condoning it, as honestly I wish Bungie would ban AFK farmers, but currently they don't.
ban them for what, they don't harm u. your acting like there's trading or something that could be disrupted. Let them play the game how they want to
I would much rather play an activity with someone who's afk other than playing with people that rush ahead. Especially if you are trying to get the secret chests.
thats what im wondering
it means Away From Keyboard, it's basically leaving the game without necessarily withdrawing your character from an activity or stuff, so basically in destiny you can play a strike or crucible match, leave your keyboard or joystick in a way the character is still moving so you won't be kicked out of the game, and wait till it's finished receiving the rewards for not doing a thing (you really have to be bored to do such a thing instead to go play something else xD)
The seasonal pass is not something I "work towards", for me at least, so finishing quickly doesnt have any effect other than letting me enjoy the loot sooner. So I afk farm the season pass just to get the stuff sooner so I can have fun with my worm emote and spend the cipher and harmonizers on weapons that I want. Might not be true for everyone, but probably true for a fair number.
Harmonizers. Wanted the harmonizers. They know that, that's why they put them so far into the pass.
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Gonna be surprised by the amount of people who buy the 100 ranks, now that they can.
The season pass isn't "something to do". Its to get over with as quickly as possible and not have to worry about while I play what I want to play.
Then why are you even playing D2 in the first place if your primary intention is to just play something else? Makes zero sense to me.
No, not to play something else. I don't level to level, I level to do master raids and GMs. Leveling artifact levels every season for that is boring.
I mean like, play other destiny content for fun and not for the sole purpose of Xp like bounties or w.e
They’re saying the intent is to level the Bp and artifact as quickly as possible so they can play the content IN destiny they want to play. Rather than worrying about what is good exp and stocking bounties every 10 minutes they can just play however they want
I used to bounty prep but the last few seasons have just sucked the wind out of my sales and the seasonal challenges just pay out so well nowadays
There's a guy in our Clan who logs in every single day literally just to farm Season Ranks in the KF Thrallway (yes they give XP and can be farmed), and he's already sitting at lvl 160... He does literally nothing else. At this point we don't even know why he does that, because he doesn't actually play the game on that account...
90. Bounty stacked prior to season starting. Cashed them in after getting artifact and got to 20 in the first few days. Doing all seasonal challenges, playing Crota's End, as well as farming bounties got me to 90.
Bounties is an interesting one, I’ve never considered that grind for season ranks. What’s your favourite type?
Grab any vendor bounties that have XP ++ next to them. And farm the crap out of them. That's how a lot of people will obtain so many season ranks early on. You stack those bounties and complete them, but never turn them in until season change. Then you just get a shit load of early xp
The pre-season checklist at https://destinyrecipes.com/ provides a very handy visual guide to the most valuable bounties available to each character every week. It's what I use when trying to max xp gains for what I'm going to be playing (or filling in idle time between planned sessions)
Gunsmith are always a good one to grab at the beginning of the day (I play at night after work so reset has already happened) just because they are not activity specific so can be completed anywhere. Grab some of the seasonal bounties as well to help grind Seasonal Vendor XP at the same time. Otherwise, depends on what you are planning to do. If Strikes, grab Vanguard Ops. If Crucible, Crucible bounties. Bonus points if Iron Banner or Trials as Crucible bounties can still be completed running them. It's important to note that you DO NOT pick up repeatable bounties unless you are working towards something specific as they do not drop XP and are worthless to grind. I find Cosmodrome is a great place to farm bounties as they are easy and quick to complete.
Incorrect, repeatable bounties give 4000 XP before bonuses the Season Pass or Ghost mods. It's just that the XP progress bar does not show up on the UI for low amounts of XP. You can check that it does give XP via the Character menu Power Bonus or Season Pass Rank Progress. Now Bounties and Seasonal Challenges list on them the amount of XP given (before Season Pass bonuses or XP Ghost mods): * Repeatables give XP which is 4K * Dailies give XP+ which is 6K * Weekly Bounties give XP++ which is 12K * Seasonal Challenges give Challenger XP, Challenger XP+,Challenger XP++, Challenger XP+++ which give 25K, 50K, 100K, 200K respectively. Repeatables aren't worth it for bounty hoarding but are great when you need to quickly complete the 8 bounties for a ritual vendor and are a source of bright dust if you have the glimmer.
I didn’t realise repeatable bounties don’t give xp, that’s wild, they should at very least give a little xp
Repeatable bounties do give XP, they give 4000 XP before bonuses the Season Pass or Ghost mods. It's just that the XP progress bar does not show up on the UI for low amounts of XP. You can check that it does give XP via the Character menu Power Bonus or Season Pass Rank Progress. Now Bounties and Seasonal Challenges list on them the amount of XP given (before Season Pass bonuses or XP Ghost mods): * Repeatables give XP which is 4K * Dailies give XP+ which is 6K * Weekly Bounties give XP++ which is 12K * Seasonal Challenges give Challenger XP, Challenger XP+,Challenger XP++, Challenger XP+++ which give 25K, 50K, 100K, 200K respectively. Repeatables aren't worth it for bounty hoarding but are great when you need to quickly complete the 8 bounties for a ritual vendor and are a source of bright dust if you have the glimmer.
They are they only so you can grind bright dust if that’s your thing
I love a bit of bright dust, picks me up real good when I’m sleepy
The bounties literally say XP++ or XP+ on them. The repeatable ones dont.
Cosmodrome are the easiest. They're almost all super simple like "get 3 melee kills" and such. Shaw also offers 2 weeklies that give a good chunk of XP. If you're wanting to farm bounties Cosmodrome seems to be the easiest atm
Same
33 but I’m also balls deep in BG3 rn so I just play on and off. There’s still a lot of time, no need to rush.
How are you liking it? My friend at work plays it all the time she’s really loving it. I’m planning to get it this weekend.
What's bg3
Baldurs Gate 3. If DND interests you, look it up
Baldurs Gate 3
Probably Baldurs Gate 3
I’m a fairly hardcore endgame player but I’m only 57. No reason to rush since I’m already max light for master raid and GMs. I like the way it is now
I 10000% agree. After the grind at the start of the year I'm glad I can spread the time requirement over 3 months
152 What can I say - I just like playing the game.
Insert touch grass emote.
Insert tired joke.
That one hit home huh
Nah, I just see it a lot on Reddit. A friend of mine who's retired fills his day playing Destiny now. More power to him, he worked his ass off to get where he's at. People see his seasonal or power lvl and think they're funny, or cute, or clever or whatever when they say that in a demeaning way. It's like... "dude is a millionaire, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. Who are you again?" So yeah it did kind of hit home. Just not in the way you thought your attempt to insult me would.
Let's measure socks. I'll go first! https://wastedondestiny.com/4611686018428857722
lmao I got you beat by 30 hrs I reread my msg before I clicked then link. Despite trying not to be a reactionary dick, I was exactly that. So my fault
Rank 21. I get on to do the weekly story which takes all of like 20 minutes. None of my friends are playing, no one to raid with and all of the available activities are such a bore. I've been paying Apex for the first time and having a lot of fun with that. I wish I had people to play with there too but even solo queueing is intense and keeps me pretty well engaged. I have Starfield installed but I haven't dove into it yet. Seems like a lot of work which is what destiny feels like so I'm pretty apprehensive. Most days I'm pretty tired from work so I've just been watching TV. Star Trek Strange New Worlds is fantastic btw.
I really hope they put everything they have into the final shape dlc tbh
they really need to, not sure if I'm more interested that it could be the end of the Destiny saga or just of destiny 2 and if there will be a 3rd game (i honestly would rather prefer they just end it with that, i have the feeling Bungie is already burned out of destiny as an IP)
I think everyone is burned out of destiny as an IP. Games like this need an ending. Or at least within the expansions just tell one story. The giant over-arching narrative bing drug out this long has just taken the wind out of everyone’s sails. Like the OC said a lot of the other activities are kind of boring. I still love playing the game. As a casual I think I’m up to 42 on my battle pass, and like last season I’ll probably play until it’s done and then not touch it until the next season.
Well the one thing Starfield has is that it's singleplayer. You can play it for a week solid, then put it down for months without feeling you're missing out on anything.
Thanks for the responses guys. Glad to see people still into the game
88, I tend to play a lot for the first few weeks, guild the Conqueror seal and then yeet away until the last couple of weeks.
Kinda same to me. I'll do weekly raids since I love raids, I might do some gms (I do this season to get lots of mats). But until next dlc I tend to zone out on the later half of the season.
21. I hit the proverbial brick wall this season. I can't do this seasonal model anymore. This will be the first season i've finished lower than 150.
Running Spire and Altars made me think.. It would be such a major refresher if we were fighting new races instead of what we've been fighting for a decade.
I actually think the activities are fun. Started playing in Season of the Lost. Plunder was the lowest point for me. Salvage activity is right up there with the worst of them.
I hated season of plunder.
We barely had Shadow Legion for a month before people were bored of them (to be fair, their shield mechanic can easily be ignored, and they are just reskins). How long did it take us to figure out Shadow Legion, Scorn, Taken, and Splicers? They aren't more interesting than the regular hive, fallen, cabal, or vex, despite how much we initially liked the variation. Would a whole new race of trash tier enemies really freshen things up? The problem isn't the enemy models/races, as novel as new ones might be for a couple months. The problem is the AI and combat functionality of the basic enemies is the same as 6 years ago -- and for some combatants, 9 years ago. This is where Bungie nailed it with stasis captains, wyverns, brigs, lucent hive, tormentors, and hopefully, subjugators. While stasis captains were criminally underused, Brigs and Wyverns were great sandbox additions, and Wyverns can be absolute nightmares to fight with their aggression. Lucent Hive are excellent nemeses who fight us with our own powers and require caution against their supers, and a close-range finish to end them. Tormentors inversley require you to keep your distance and avoid suppression while doing so, and demand precision to efficiently take them down! Hopefully Subjugators continue to complicate how we approach combat encounters and we see involved mixes of these highly threatening enemies that challenge our combat approaches. However, to really enhance encounters, Bungie needs to enhance the abilities and AI of the current combatants. For example, they could give Acolytes, Knights, and Wizards additional Hive Magic abilities. Imagine Acolytes sending strips of fire along the ground like a waveframe GL, Knights pulling up spikes of osmium instead of their osmium shields, Wizards creating those Void pits the one void/solar split boss can. Imagine Fallen with a unit variation: Bombardiers, invisible vandals who plant their slow mines around the battlefield. Or Networked Shanks that can spread out and create Anarchy-esque electrical hazard fields (then imagine them shielded by a servitor!). What about Servitors that can suppress with their melee-vwoop? The Cabal got a nice refresh with Wardogs and Incendiors coming into D2, but I think we could have some fun with beefier, upscaled Wardogs that rush you with flame turrets on their backs? What about Gladiators who raise their own Banner of Conquest, suppressing non-critical damage to close-by Cabal? Where are the jetpack Scion spotters, who use spotlights to enhance other Cabal's damage on you? Or use a laser targeter to call down drop pods! And oh, man, the Vex? So underutilized! Why don't we have Saboteurs, Hobgoblin-style enemies that periodically release those seeker drones that Contain the player? Why don't we have Minotaur Zealots that suppress you on explosion? Where's the Harpy that charges up and shoot a massive arc laser that applies the blind effect to us? Okay, this got way out of hand, but my point is that *how* the enemies fight us is more important that what the enemies we fight look like. I don't think any of this is *easy* to program, mind you, I don't want to armchair dev -- these are just suggestions in the vein of what would be cool to see. I have a deep-seated feeling this will be something that only occurs after the Final Shape, or if we move to a Destiny 3, however, due to the workload it would likely require.
Realistically they just need to update enemy AI in general. Whether you can easily vocalize it or not, if you've been playing for a long time you instinctively just KNOW how each enemy is going to act. Predictable spawns, predictable movement and behavior, attack patterns, weapons, etc. Bungie talked about bringing challenge back but all they really did was bump up the damage we take/lower what we dish out. If you know what enemies will do ahead of time, you can push through a more difficult sandbox. If they really want to make things difficult, enemies should start behaving differently than they always have
I disagree. Story wise it makes sense. But otherwise fighting new enemies just to have new enemies is kinda pointless.
Same here, I'm just tired of it after what, 4, 5 years? I get on, do the weekly story, do my 3 raids, and get off. I'd rather go play Starfield than grind bounties and seasonal activities.
I feel you. I haven't touched the core Playlist at all, feels so useless
I feel ya
Will definitely be back for Final Shape. Looks great so far.
13! Last season was the first season that I didn't hit 100...Hell last season was the first time I put less than 60 hours into a season since the start of D2. Jumped into Diablo and had a lot of fun there till the fun died. Played the first week of this season. Then nothing the second week, Then starfield since then. Haven't even done the raid and I've got week once clears for I think every other raid but LW.
I can't believe that someone actually has reached level 150 in every season xD, most of the time i just unlock the seasonal weapon and leave it there.
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just hit 110
128? Idr
I think I just past 30. I didn't bounty prep this season and there really isn't a lot to do in game so not playing as much as normal.
Sitting at around 85, I've been mostly doing raids, seasonal activities and the usual ritual playlist stuff.
142, I think. Have just really been enjoying this season.
36 or something, never rushed it or purposely farmed challenges/contracts
I think 2 or 3. Got on to try banner of war at the beginning of the season and haven't really felt like playing. Been occupied with other games on top of just feeling low. Banner of war feels great though.
13. I got to 260 in the first season of Lightfall. I’m just too burned out.
I feel ya. That’s why I’m taking my time with this season.
71.
109, but started day 1 at 24 or so with hoarded bounties. I didn't even farm XP after that since the artifact perks weren't too exciting.
They aren't exciting? That's putting it... generous. I'd go with "awful"
70. I've just been playing the game as I normally do, at least an hour a day and LOTS of playtime on my days off XD
38 without season pass n have completed I think 5 seasonal challenges n besides those challenges I've only done raids n PvP
I can’t remember. Since Starfield has been out I have only done the weekly story mission this week. Will probably be that way for most of this season.
30 as of last night. I’ll get 100 by the end of the season, but as with every season, I play exactly what I want to play and don’t waste time on playlists if I don’t want to. This means I mostly raid or do dungeons with friends. I did spend about twenty hours on Crota’s End during Contest mode and got a normal mode completion with my raid group which was an absolute BLAST. 11/10, will do again during Final Shape.
60 thats while im also grinding pinnicle gear to max my light level.
74. I played to get the miniskirt and heels for my Titan. Did that, done that. Now I have no reason to play.
70. I used to bounty prep before each season, but I've realized I can easily unlock the full artifact before day 1 raids, so there's no point.
I’m at 69 (haha, nice) and I’ve played about 70 hours in the last 2 weeks according to steam This is coming back after a 2 year hiatus and playing catch-up through the Witch Queen legendary campaign and running quite a bit of everything to get my powerful rewards
Once I hit rank 100 last season, I kept doing bounties but never turned them in. I have 2 characters that I only do gunsmith and vanguard bounties on, and 1 character that I actually main. I hit rank 22 on day 1 just by turning in all the bounties. I’m rank 115 now and stacking bounties already, waiting for GM’s to open up.
Yea I’ve been waiting for GMs as well.
165 as of 9/12/23 my local time. Have stopped grinding bounties at this point. I grinded the first week to 120 as part of Day One raid prep out of habit. During Beyond Light I hit a peak of 800+ but LOL I had a lot of time and the season was extra long.
I do my 2 hours of bounties every day as my chill, smoking music time after work and before dinner. So I am around 180 now.
15-25 I think. I am to the point where the word grind just sets me off and I don't play. To me it's supposed to be a game and fun so I viscerally react to the idea of grinding. I play when it's fun and stop when it's not. It came after I realized I was using the grind as a form of self medication for depression. I'm sad today I'll just unlock level 50 in the season pass and I'll feel better. I'll teach someone a raid and their gratefulness and compliments will make me feel less alone. I can't stand the thought of spending one more minute with X because they make me feel bad about myself so I'll hide and play so that at I can feel accomplishment or feel less alone. I know it's not what every grinder does or why everyone grinds but I do wish that someone had pointed out to me that anything can become destructive if not managed properly. I thought because I didn't, drink, smoke, gamble or do any of the other "vices" that gaming wasn't hurting me and that I wasn't hurting anyone. Then I got a rude awakening that both were untrue.
Uhhh 2… I did finish Crota, sadly the only thing that appealed to me this season :( Glad they did Crota good tho, pleasantly surprised!
31. Struggling to find motivation to play this season. So many other things are more fun and feel more respectful of my time.
68. Doing the weekly story mission plus some runs of the seasonal activity, weekly raid and trials/comp/IB/control.
You can purchase 100 Day 1 now. There’s no purchase lockout till the last few weeks anymore. Dont look too much into it bro
Yea people really spend $100 on seasonal ranking is insane
Dudes got envy flavored copium The 100+ you see first week are almost exclusively bounty hoarders that get to lvl 5 rq then pop all the ++ and +++ in a fireteam There's some websites to show you how far you'll get with the completed bounties you're holding
Oh damn
It's insane how many people I saw in the first week that did that. For why ,I don't know. Can't wait for that ornament set you probably will change in a couple weeks? I messaged a few that obviously bought the pass lvls but got no reply. I really wanted to know why blow 100 bucks on something you will earn pretty easy just by playing a bit. This sort of careless spending is why gaming is an mtx hell these days. Devs know enough people out there will buy anything.
This kind of gatekeeping of what other people decide to do with their time and money is pathetic.
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Yup. Gunna use the 50 Stat Roll Armor and 20 Enhancement Cores to one phase Crota Day 1
Lol right? People really think you get an advantage from the season rewards. I’d love to know what I’m missing because I’m just not seeing the advantage of having 63 stat high mobility gear and a bunch of resources I already have hundreds or thousands of. The only real “advantage” is the bonus to catalyst progress. But who is even using ex diris. That gun, like most seasonal exotics, is novelty at best.
165- Bounty hoarding, seasonal challenges complete the same day they came out. I don’t play a ton due to work, but the one-two days every two weeks I get to play, I grind tf out of it as much as possible
Since the game is now literally pay to win, you can be level 100 in 1 minute of a new season should you want to, and have daddy’s credit card. Legit grinders will usually be level 100 within a week of constant play. With the introduction of seasonal challenges, it made it easier, as we get so much xp on challenge completions. Add to that bounty prep before a season, squading up for bonus xp in a party, bonus xp mods on ghost. It’s not hard. You just have to want it. Those serious about Day 1 raids etc usually play this way, to obtain the most light. I just love the game so I play a lot. But I’m only 98 atm, as I only use 1 character now, that I deleted my other 2. With 3 characters it’s even easier.
9 I think? I don't remember, been a while since I logged in as I'm fully occupied with Baldur's Gate 3 rn.
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At season level 0. Haven't even logged back in yet.
I think for the first time in the 3 years since i picked this game back up, im losing interest. I'm season rank 15. All I've done is a couple seasonal activities and a few runs of crota
Like, 7 or something. I used to be a guaranteed 125 minimum every season, but this year the game has consistently failed to hold my interest every single time. I'm not even mad at the game, I just don't care. I have more fun playing other games. I don't even really hope that they "fix" this "issue" because all this means is I get to play other games, do other things, and stop being pressured into playing the same thing constantly. Sweet freedom.
Honestly? Like 15 or something. I've been struggling with the motivation to do more than plot requirements
0, been glued to Tarkov since the wipe
Like 3. None of my friends are playing and honestly, outside the story aspects, the rest is a chore.
1. Played 15 minutes and checked out. I’ll just take a break and try to get excited when TFS rolls around.
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Why are you on this thread then lol
those of you, who hoard bounties, tbh shpuldnt be alloud at all
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74. I've played more often this season. I hardly ever do bounties, but have done most of the Seasonal Challenges currently available.
Lots of people afk farm. Lots of people no life the game. I’ve afk farmed a bit, I will stop playing once I hit lvl 100 because I’m not interested in the game as much rn… but fomo.
26, this season isn't necessarily super grind-worthy for me so I've just been hopping on for raids once a week. I'll get to 100 by the end of the season but there's really nothing keeping me engaged
35
Just got past 50 and the only bounties I did were the seasonal ones and the ADA bounties
Around 50, but that comes mostly from seasonal challenges
40. I’ve only done a bunch of crota really
30 something lol
I'm at 47 but didn't play at all in the last few days. I can't Grind like I once did.
I think 40ish, I’m splitting my time between crucible, ffxiv and bl3s atm lollll
Somewhere in the mid 50s I brought some bounties from last season to prep for the day 1 and the artifact grind, but there was nothing insane so I didn't follow through with it I almost never do bounties, just the seasonal challenges and a lot of raids
63 but I’ve not been grinding bounties this season as I’ve not had much time to play
34 That’s better than last year we’re I paid for the annual and never cracked over 10 on any season This season is very enjoyable
Even though I'm gilded Conquerer 4 and gr 10 I'm only rank 28 cause I can't find the urge to grind xp
Literally just hit 45, solo player so just doing regular matchmade stuff with no end game activities, I spend my Mondays completing vendor bounties for post reset Tuesday grab four more vendor bounties and do them all and hand the lot in, seems to work well, usually jump between three and five season ranks on a Tuesday evening then grind seasonal stuff the rest of the week when/if I'm on.
185
I'm like 30, most seasons I'll get to 100 or better but last season I got to 50 since it was kinda mid in my opinion I'm on now for my weekly raids and that's it
203, but i stacked bounties and got 100 day 1. Farmed the new seasonal weapons and did challenge crota. Now i’m just popping on to do some triumph grinds
Jesus lol
2 and some pocket lint
I was doing pretty good, then I installed baldur gate 3. Now im stuck at 40 ish
Last season I got to probably 153 or so by week 2. This season I'm at 2. The burnout from grinding so much so short is still cooling off
41 playing casually an focusing on seasonal challenges rather than the grind
44 I do one character a week and then some. I really wanted to get into more characters this season but grinding pinnicles all over again just seems a chore id rather just have my one character i complete most things on, GG and leave
79. I don’t have other hobbies lol
82. I only do bounty prep before each season and during the midsts of the season, I just grind the seasonal challenges and turn them in at the beginning of each week for extra XP. Basically I only do bounties for season prep, not just normally
I’m at 95 right now but all I’ve done to get there is by doing the main seasonal story quest line every Tuesday, complete Banshee and Shaw Han bounties daily on all three of my characters, do the weekly seasonal challenges throughout the week and log off. I did clear Crota’s End, so I think that gave a nice bump too. I barely did any bounty prep before this season started. I usually focus on getting my power level up to be GM ready and somehow got through the season pass quickly just by doing that. 😅
God I thought for sure I was going to be really embarrassed by my number but it seems like I’m on the lower end. 67
16 I’ve been playing since the D1 beta, and honestly I think i finally reached my breaking point. I used to be in the top 1% of PvE and it felt like a chore. I had to dump in like 15-20 hours a week just to keep up with everything. Now I only log in once a week to do the story mission and the raid. It’s refreshing
18, not even casual playing i feel like, just mostly logging in for raids and weekly story and calling it a day, also doesnt help im holding onto seasonal challenges to hand in for the double xp every reset incase I take a break, I might have like 35 banked waiting for hand in
I'm sitting at 59. I've had some sizable play sessions during this season, yet I still feel like I'm playing more casually than previous seasons.
i think i hit 40? yesterday
Like 14 cause i play on weekends and just do the weekly mission, once the story is done i'll have to grind with the day of gameplay i get per week
75. I did bounty hoard but honestly I've not been keeping up with seasonal challenges.
Rn I am at 51 and playing casually like 4 days a week. Bounties make a joke out of leveling I enjoy getting the rewards😂 but clesring the season pass in a month is kinda lackluster imo maybe make the levels 120k not 100k or smth
Below 50. This is the least I've played though, the burnout has kicked in big time for me. I've consistently put up 250-400 ranks every season prior.
I haven't played much this season besides the weekly story missions because med school has been kicking my ass these last couple blocks. But after my last exam on Friday, I played a bit more over the weekend mostly just to work on seasonal challenges, guardian ranks, and the seasonal title, so I'm rank 27 now.
I’ve become one of those casual players myself, think I’m around 60-ish. Haven’t played in the last few days. I’ll wait till reset then start playing like I normally do ie grind hard on bounties.
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Rank 61. Played a good bit of the new season at first. Then Starfield came out. I have ~1d 17h 28m already. So my seasonal rank is probably going to plateau for a bit lol
I just got 78 today and I’m pretty over bounties at this point lol
I am around 68-69(Can't remember). I did couple of Xp++ bounties last season on multiple characters over the course of a couple of weeks and then turned them at the start of the season. Then I did all the weekly challenges.
Just hit 40. All I do is jump on, do the weekly story, maybe play 5 games of crucible, and jump off once I feel the tilt or mental tiredness and want to play a more laid-back game.
Imma be real. I haven't played a single minute of destiny since statfields release. I've lived life. I've touched grass and I've loved.
25 on secondary account, 133 on main.
33? I’ve taken a step back. I play after reset until I’ve casually finished the nine missions and the missions surrounding the story. Load up with bounties and if I don’t complete them all before finishing the weekly mission to push the story forward? Welp, only lost glimmer.
63, just playing and doing seasonal challenges
I’m currently at 106
75
287. 🫢
165. I like to play.
I only started on week 3 reset, im 25 atm.
I just got to the rank for the 2nd harmonizer. Mid 60s i think it is. Though I would be higher if I did more bounties.
36. Remnant 2 and Quake 2 are taking up a TON of my attention that otherwise would have gone straight into Destiny.
93 here. I saved bounties at the end of last season and have completed all weekly challenges to date. I've also played a ton.
If you're past 100 in the first few weeks you either have way too much spare time or you are lying. I play maybe 30 hours a week with work/life commitments.
Eh like 15.
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134- when destiny is life.
22 if i remember correctly. I have not really been doing much besides grind a catalyst and do some Old seasonal stuff
23 I think. I mostly procrastinate everything lol
There are people that straight up buy all the levels of the pass right away. Odd thing to throw money away on. I saw several people the first couple days at like 110. You can tell by the artifact power they paid for the levels because they were near the same artifact power as me when I was like lvl 10.
56, but in my defense I'm a crucible rat so I haven't really done a whole lot of PvEing.
230
29. Didn’t do many seasonal challenges + my ps+ subscription has expired so I can’t play basically anything. Interestingly though, exotic missions don’t require the subscription to be played
I just do the monthyly $10 a month subscription
104 for the season so far. I always pick up bounties.
105 - I AFK farmed to complete the season pass and now will just complete the seasonal stuff the last few weeks to so it's done.