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www.destinypublicevents.com

If you follow where they are dropping, you can pretty efficiently farm them (and do bounties and patrols along the way). I like the moon ones on Archers Line and Anchor of Light because they are so close together both geographically and usually chronologically. They also have a good chance of being Warsats, which are really good for XP. Earth can be really good too, especially if you have bounties that are easy to pick up there.

You get 4 Marks per public event, plus a bonus 2 for your first one every day IIRC. You also get some for Nightfalls and Dailies/Weeklies, but they aren't quite as efficient as public events. Getting to your cap of 100 per week per character is really pretty easy to be honest.

Once you start running Nightfalls and raids, you'll be swimming in crappy exotics to break down.

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yeah, the destinypublicevents actually has an app for your phone. I just have my phone with me and ran from event to event.

The moon between archer's line and anchor of light is good.

I also ran a lot on earth between steppes, mothyard and divide.

I thought 100 marks per week seemed like a ton at first but doing 4 or 5 public events a day will get you to 100 marks in no time.

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I probably just suck, but how is this jump possible in the Skolas ransom?

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/image...32250414_1.jpg

In every walkthrough video I've watched, everyone makes the jump effortlessly, but they seem to be able to jump 20 stories high or something. I can't come anywhere close to that height/distance with my Voidwalker. I've tried (literally!) twenty times, alternating between Glide and Blink, and I fell short every time. Any advice?

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I think there is another platform that pops up between the two. I have done it with my Warlock via the glide, and have had no problems at all

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Wasn't there supposed to be the ability to swap shard types and also re-roll weapons amd armor for different attributes? How/where are those done?

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There's not another platform, but it was definitely my fault. I just hadn't used Glide in forever and forgot how it worked. Instead of pressing jump again at the apex of your arc, you basically double-tap. Once I did that, it was a breeze.

So, yeah, as suspected, I sucked. :)

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Swap shard types with the speaker and re-roll weapons with the Gunsmith. I don't think you can re-roll armor.

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OK folks, here we go with the Xur 3.0 Report, brought to you by the Queen. She's hot, she's pissed, and we're dealing out her wrath.

Meet the new Xur, same as the old Xur, meaning he's selling the same old crap. It's just in a new location. Xur is located in the Reef! From where you spawn in, you want to go right down the walkway, make another right, and you'll see an open pod bay door. Xur is in there.

http://oi57.tinypic.com/24cbpd2.jpg

As I said, he's selling a bunch of stuff we've seen before many times.

For the Titan, it's the No Backup Plans Gauntlets. The roll is OK. The item is shit.

For the Hunter, it's Radiant Dance Machines. Low roll, OK item.

For the Warlock, it's Starfire protocol. Great roll on a pretty crappy item.

The engram this week is for helmets. If you want something new, this is your only shot. There are 3 new exotic helmets, and all of them are pretty damn cool. Good luck!

The weapon this week is The Last Word hand cannon. As if this gun wasn't already overused in Crucible, let's sell it right before Trials Of Osiris. Yeah, that makes sense.

As you can see, upgrades are gone! Now you can do that shit yourself. Want a better roll? Buy it or hope for a drop.

Also, we see the introduction of the coins for motes exchange. Xur will give you 1 mote of light for 2 coins. The speaker is offering 1 mote for 2 shards, but this is another option.

And that's that. Well, I did gamble and buy a couple of helmet engrams. Ended up with an Apothoesis Veil, and this:

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2ntzsm1.jpg

It also gives you health from picking up orbs. Neato. I think it's kind of a low roll, but not terrible.

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What else are Motes of light good for? Should I take a chance on an engram? I only have one character and the way destiny works I am sure it would turn into a non hunter class item.

Edit: I took a chance and at least it turned into a hunter helmet. It's the arachnid which I guess isn't too special but is better than the 15 light rust burner I had on!

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Ended up buying like 11 engrams. Got a bunch of dups, but did get, Ram, Saint 14, 3rd Man, and Eternal Warrior. The roll on Saint 14 is pretty shit, but its very helpful in PoE

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OK, I kept going.

And on my last two engrams:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/35mmpf5.jpg
http://oi62.tinypic.com/osbk2x.jpg

Also received:

Apothoesis Veil (3 times)
Glasshouse
Inmost Light
Knucklehead Radar
Mask Of Third Man
Achlyophage Symbiote

They all became shards as their rolls were worse than the ones I already have.

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What are the perks on Nighthawk?

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The main perk is that you get 1 golden gun shot, but it does 6 times the damage, and it has keyhole penetration.

So anytime you've put 4 shots into a yellow bar enemy only to see it still alive, this perk is for you.

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Yep, at the point that you are at in the game, the only thing that matters is light level. Once you are at a higher level, then you can worry about getting the "correct" gear

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Xur needs to be fired!

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Finally did a weekly heroic strike. Took over 2 hours. I got all of 3 strange coins... :(
I don't think that was worth my time.

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Ouch. I usually do the daily to get the 4 or 5 vanguard marks. Have you tried the "public event" farming yet with the timer above?

I am about 30 vanguard marks away from level 32 so I'll get it Tuesday when the vanguard marks reset for the week.

Since you can get to 32 without Xur and strange coins, I didn't bother going for strange coins. They seem to be plentiful once you get to 32 and can start doing nightfalls, harder weeklies, etc.

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Weekly Heroic Strike needs to be fired along with Xur...both are half-assed most the time.

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I did use that public event phone app and trying farming them for a few hours - first off, it's not very accurate, and while it did hook me up with some PEs, in most of them, I was the only one there for it, and thing I'm supposed to kill gets away before I could kill it, so I'd only get a "participation" thing. Then a few other times, I'd get kicked out with the "baboon" code. I seriously only got about 25% success rate on them, and even with those, I got jack squat for my troubles. I really don't see how people are leveling up with public events. It's like I'm playing a different game than every one else.

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I'm inclined to think the reason why Xur blows this week is they want people to try and grab gear to level up via PoE and ToO.

If you only got 3 coins you did it on the lowest level. Max level gets you 9 coins. What level is your character? Myself as well as others would be willing to help you on the other runs.

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I can't figure out if that's Michael Myers or an Engineer from Prometheus wearing that helmet.

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So far, I'm fairly pleased with the update. Not sure if it's worth $20, but so far, it's a huge step up from DB.

:up::

• Story and voice acting is a big step up from both DB and especially the core game
• Strike is much much much better than Omnigul...fucking hate that strike
• Looking forward to PoE. I didn't hate CE, except for the final boss, but this sounds better to me.
• Upgrades for existing gear makes VoG and CE relevant again...still a reason to play them other than a slim chance a whatever exotic
• I expect to see lots of mixes of armor rather than just whatever current raid set, which is great!!!

:down::

• Something like 4 of 6 of the new story missions are rehashes of existing assets.
• Seriously, more currencies? I thought we'd learned something. You can call it something besides another shard, but yeah, it's another fucking shard.
• Nothing terribly consequential in the new gear. Will be running Fatebringer, Icebreaker, Black Hammer, Hunger or Ghorn most of the time.
• Coolest new armor is PVP only?
• Key farming

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IMO PoE alone is worth more than all the DB content combined. At least now they will be pushing the new strike on us every few weeks as opposed to Omnigul. Fuck that strike.

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Some PEs are more reliable than others, so that's probably part of your problem. Some seem to show up 90% of the time, and others are really hit or miss. Also understand that the timer on the app is a "window" for them to drop, so if one drops at -5 minutes, it's right on time.

And yeah, those "eliminate the target" ones are damn near impossible to do solo because of their massive and instant shields. A lot of times, if I'm the only one in the area, I'll just say "welp" and move on to the next PE.

And don't hesitate to pop to orbit and bounce from planet to planet based on the schedule for the sake of efficiency.

The ones I gravitate toward are:

Moon: Archer's Line and Anchor of Light, because they are both very reliable to show up, are usually Warsats or Extraction Crews and the only eliminate target that shows up doesn't have a shield. If the timing is right, I'll pop into the Hellmouth one as well, but it's less reliable and can be a pain.

Earth: Divide, Mothyards and Forgotten Shore. Divide is very reliable and is always a Walker. Mothyards is almost as reliable, and it's a high traffic area, so there are usually people passing through. Forgotten Shore seems pretty reliable and it seems like it's often chronologically close to Mothyards, so it's usually worth hitting. Skywatch is very reliable, but it's a bit too geographically separated for my taste. Steppes are not reliable.

Venus: They show up less often here, but I could see Ember Caves and Citadel growing on me since they are both Wolf locations as well.

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The public event app was pretty accurate (most things happened at the -5 minute time) until the 1.2 update right before HoW. I think that goofed the public event timing.

As I understand it, if you are using the app, when you see the public event
you can select the circle with three bars to the right of the event on your phone to "report it". If enough people report the times, the timers get more accurate.

I've never seen an event happen at 0 minutes on the timer..its almost always -4 or -5 minutes so hang around until then if you can.