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gospvg

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Er, I was just checking the app, and it's listing only four Vanguard Bounties, and six Crucible ones. Is that right for today? If so, what the fuck?

Mobile app is rubbish. never updates bounties or marks etc.

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Wavy

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Does anyone have a rock-solid explanation of how the level difference impacts on damage taken and damage done?

I have it in my head that a 1-level difference (player at 23, enemies at 24) means the player will do circa 25% less damage to the bad guys, and take circa 25% extra damage when they shoot him. And that this increases again for every level difference until 4 levels difference, at which point the player basically can't damage the enemy. But I'm not sure how it is if you're at a higher level, and I'm not sure I have it right anyway.

Read this a couple of days ago. Not sure how they got this info but it seems fairly accurate based on experience.

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/24315/article/destiny-why-you-should-not-try-the-raids-until-you-are-level-28/

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metallicfrodo

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My primary is a scout rifle which only does 267 damage at the moment.

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Been reading up on this since someone posted about it previously. What you have written there is, I believe, a misunderstanding of how damage works in the game (also it's 267 attack not damage). From what I understand the damage of a weapon is calculated based on its impact. So a scout rifle will do a certain amount of damage based on a multiplier of impact against base damage for scout rifles. You then have to take into account enemy levels, as there is then a divisor based on the attack value of the weapon. So a weapon with attack 100 will do the maximum damage value allowed against level 10s. If you are shooting at a level 20 enemy then it will only do 50% of the maximum damaged that your weapon could do against a level 20.

So to do the maximum damage to a level 30 you need an attack value of 300, however this will not affect the amount of damage that you do to a level 10 (you will do a lot more damage to a level 30). The only way to do more damage once you have an attack/10 above the level of the enemies you are shooting is to increase the impact.

But then obviously all impacts are not created equal as they are only multiplers of the base damage of the weapon type, so my sniper has a lower impact that my scout rifle but obviously does a lot more damage. Also rocket launchers have no impact so I have no idea what goes on there!

There is all also compounded by the fact that damage scales by player level as well.

Anyway I think that is all correct!

The point being that upgrading that scout rifle won't actually make it do anymore damage in the raid as the enemies are level 26, and as you are at 267 you are already doing 100% of the damage you can on them.

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Soi

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The point being that upgrading that scout rifle won't actually make it do anymore damage in the raid as the enemies are level 26, and as you are at 267 you are already doing 100% of the damage you can on them.

That's interesting, and makes sense too.

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Soi

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I saw that the mobile app only had 4 Van bounties. The website tower map also shows the bounty guy having 4 Van bounties, but with the Postmaster saying that he has a special bounty message for me.

It's either a bug or bungie is giving everyone a special bounty...

Can anyone with Destiny to hand have a check?

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gospvg

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The app has been pretty good for me actually. It always shows what the Gunsmith has in stock for example, and when his stock refreshes.

The gunsmith needs to up his stock with character level. All he ever has is greens.

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Scruff

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Just finished the Nightfall with Double0 and Karthrian. It has further compounded my belief that the RNGesus has well and truly forsaken me. Purple rifle for Double0 (Shadow Price) 9 shards for Kartharian and although I had exactly the same kills as him (Karth) I only got 7 shards. This is to add to being 14 Cryptarch and not receiving a purple other than a cloak, and nearly Vanguard 5 and the only purple I've got from them has been shards.

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Weavus

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Woohoo. Weekly and nightfall done. :) Got a legendary auto rifle out of it. Looks better than that piece of crap dead orbit rifle that I previously had.

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What perks did you get on yours? I have the shopp bought one but the perks are not that great imo.

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bobontheway

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Finally, we did it! Atheon has been defeated. We had him down to the teeniest bit of health about two times only to wipe due to silly mistakes (shield bearer jumped off the map once, haha). I can't wait to try it again next week.
I only received Ascendant Shards and Chatterwhite as loot drops off the final boss but it was well worth it anyway. I love the amount of coordination and communication it took. I can totally see why Bungie didn't want to put matchmaking into the raid but I do feel sorry for those people out there that won't get a chance to play through it.
Hard mode is still a long long way away though. We wiped far too many times on Normal for us to even consider it (plus we need better gear).

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Len

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Be on later for weekly hard and nightfall attempts if anyone's about? Also really, really want to have another go at the Vault after getting to the Vault itself a week or so back but no further.

Have we got enough US based members to give the Vault a go on week nights as gets late for UK ppl? I know there is a few of us.

Anyway, any time after 7pm EST / Midnight GMT if you're on guardians. :)

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Weavus

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I wonder if all the negative feedback on the weekly post comments & bungie forums may have changed their mind?

Doubt it, the patch just isnt live yet.

Anyone up for a potential raid attempt tonight from about 8:30 (ps4)?

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Marmite

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Quick question - when you guys are doing the story mission bounties with the heroic modifiers required, how hard do you make it? Do you get better drops the higher the level you go for or not?

Basically is there any incentive to go for a really high level on these or not?

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Uncle Mike

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I think, as a rule, it's basically most sensible to play them on the hardest difficulty you can breeze through. So your level or below, depending on how much of a challenge it is. Higher level enemies do, I think, tend to drop a bit more often.

And the Daily Heroic you should make as tough as you can get through.

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Weavus

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Daily heroic on 28, bounties on the lowest hero level.


Me and a few rw friends are looking for extras about 8ish. Will post in here around the time.

Great, I'll keep an eye out. Lvl 28 (might even be 29 depending on daily drop) Titan, run raid once before so know the general idea of things.

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