Hello everyone,
So I've seen a lot of complaining about The Lighthouse being only available exclusively to the "Top 10%" of the player base.
Here are some helpful tips for those that don't fall into that category.
1. You want to buy all buffs from the ToO merchant. This will allow you to go 7-1 but still come out 9-0 allowing access to the lighthouse.
2. If you lose more than 1 match with a buff and actually get a loss on your passage record then simply discard it. You can buy a fresh passage with a clean slate for 100 glimmer. If any buffs have been used you may need to buy buffs again.
3. If you have a warlock that self resurrection can save a match. 1 hit melee kills upon resurrection and a shotty in hand can wipe out 3 people easily if near by or you can revive your teammates if not.
4. I recommend not going into ToO arena unless at least level 33.
5. This one may sound harsh but for the people that are not good at PvP and know it you will want to wait until all the people who are have gone through ToO on all characters and do your runs the day before it ends if at all possible. This will most likely (not a guarantee) allow you to go up against people with your same skill level. Remember that not all PvP pros will always be running ToO arena.
6. If your running with a group of LFG people don't expect to come out flawless all the time because they are random people you have joined with and you will not have chemistry off the start. You may want to run some practice rounds in another game type with LFG people before heading straight into ToO arena.
If anyone else has any additional tips for the less fortunate people post them below. Hopefully this helps some people out there.
[b]Lastly - solely my opinion and what I've seen/heard. Not a tip. [/b]
ToO is the only true "earn" your gear/items in my opinion this game currently has. I don't for see bungie's making it available to everyone and the people complaining about them paying for it as far as i have seen bungie never promised The Lighthouse being available so no one expected this and therefore no false advertising was given.
[b][u]Fellow guardian Tips pulled from below:[/u][/b]
- change your tactic if you are losing back to back. If it doesn't work the 3rd time you try it it's probably not going to change.
- be tactical, create distractions. You don't always need the kill! Don't be greedy. You want the win. Individual show boating is not needed.
- communicate! Call outs are important. Stick together and don't go running off solo. Rush enemy heavy. Don't let them get the heavy and make it a lock on battle. If they have gallys or truths and you're team is working with hunger of Crota you lose that round pretty much guaranteed.
- revive at all costs. If you see you're the last guardian standing all of a sudden and you can make a revive do it. Don't run away and give the opposing team the advantage to camp the orbs to revive your fallen teammates.
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Edited by Bicepus Maximus: 5/28/2015 6:44:15 PMI disagree about waiting until the last day. We went in with my Hunter on Monday (last day) and every team was all level 34 with Thorn, Vex, tlw and at least two exotic shaders so most if not all had previously gone flawless. It was like this for every damn game. Ended up going 6 -0 but then lost two. Got 8 wins but it was annoying. I suck at pvp so was very annoying. Granted one of the guys in my group had gone flawless. I did on another character but the point is every team had good players. No easy teams. I am terrible at pvp. It felt easier on Friday with more manageable teams.