It's getting to be a common thing now during the Lvl 24 Strikes that I see these kids race as fast as they can through the Strike usually hopping on their speeder bypassing the first several mobs of lower level enemies which is fine but then they continue on and bypass as many of the Lvl 24 enemies as they can just to get to the final boss quicker.
Why? The boss gives you nothing and your chances of getting anything worthwhile from the end game roll are poor odds for the amount of time it takes to complete each Strike. Your best shot of getting a Legendary Engram drop or at least multiple blue Engrams to give you a chance at Legendary gear and to rank up the Cryptarch is to kill every Lvl 24 enemy up to the boss because that is where all of my Legendary Engrams have come from and I get at least half of my blue Engrams from Mob drops to go along with what I get in the end game roll.
The Lvl 24 Tiger Strikes since the last patch appear to have a higher drop rate than the normal game modes at least in the areas you're facing Lvl 24 enemies, and so bypassing them to finish the Strike faster is just decreasing your chance of getting multiple drops. There's little other reason to be grinding Lvl 24 Strikes in that manner because you can earn Vanguard rep faster farming Patrols, Vanguard Marks faster farming Public Events, and if you need a bunch of Strikes for a Bounty run the Lvl 8 Devil's Lair on Earth and get them done quick.
So don't be that guy that runs way out ahead of everyone else. Don't waste you and your teammates chances for more Legendary/Exotic drops. It doesn't take but an extra 5 minutes or so to clear out all the Lvl 24 enemies your bypassing between you and the Boss when you do it as a group.
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legendary engrams are sort of pointless by now anyways...you should be geared enough that only raid drops will help your light level by now
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Edited by Hickory Hammer: 10/5/2014 6:07:43 PMWhy don't we all just admit that everyone's farming at this point and that no one wants to stop and smell the roses anymore. It's a damn shame, I enjoy the fights with the little guys as much as the fights with the big guys. It's not my world out there right now, too many digital loot whores.
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The darkness zone is the only place considered the strike zone and it'll spawn high level mobs. The low level mobs are just mobs in public areas, AKA patrol. So if you wanna kill the low level mobs, you have plenty of time doing it in patrol. Of course, some people enjoy doing patrol stuff in Stirke, but you can't force that idea onto everyone. Most people still do patrol stuff in patrol and strike stuff in strike.
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Just under 50 strikes, 50 missions plus patrols and a raid. Two legendary drops, both the same under powered machine gun which had a tiny clip and almost no impact. One I got from a chest farming spinmetal, the other the raid. In the only person I play with who has not dropped a half decent gun. Its nonsense.
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Don't waste my time fighting the mobs in the start area, then- I'm a minimum of 10 levels higher than they are, I want to get to the level 24 enemies.
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I'm lvl 29 and have 3 toons.. I'm not wasting my time. if you skip the trash mobs and only do the stuff at your lvl you're more likely to get good drops.. that was outlined in the damn patch notes.
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This has also been happening to me a lot over this weekend. Pretty annoying as I do strikes for max exp and drops without watching a hole for an hour at a time. Kinda funny to watch them die repeatedly on mini boss fights as I'm clearing through everything they left behind. It dosent take long to clear eveything and I always catch up to the people that just ran through.
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I always skip the waves of underpowered enemies. I don't play the game for engram drops, I play the game for fun, and there's not much fun in taking on low level enemies. I really wish we could set patrols to hard mode.
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It's only going to get worse.
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I dont need purples from strikes, im usually doing them for bounties, and do the 24 version to get an engram or 2 for my trouble, so yeah I skip everything skippable
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Yeah but keep in mind people who get exotic bounties and need to complete 25 strikes to get to the next stage of the bounty. I bet those guys (me too) want to get those 25 done as soon as they can.
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OMFG, yes!!!! I get so annoyed when people try and do that. If you isolate one of your guys too, he isn't gonna help with the boss because he's bogged down fighting the guys you skipped.
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Edited by Cromica: 10/5/2014 6:02:42 PMThe only thing strikes are good for is maxing vanguard tokens. I get better loot more often just doing patrol missions and faster rep gain.
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Until there is hard proof that the drop rates of engrams are different in tiger strikes, then I will continue to run thru them. The only thing that they tweaked was the rewards at the end of the strike. They didn't tweak the drop rate inside the strike.
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This guy is stupid. The drop rates are the same as everything else.
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I've only done about 2/3 of all the Strikes in the game so far all the people I've been matched up with more or less clear all the mobs in the game. The 1 exception to this rule is the Devils Lair. I've only done that mission once ( back in the Beta ) where everyone stayed behind in the first area to make sure everything is dead. Nowadays everyone hops on their Sparrows and speeds past the first few mobs of bad guys.
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You have to loot a looting place
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Lol...I'm speechless
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Also if they are doing that they are most likely not wanting engram drops. They are just getting the rep and insuring one for bounties. Dur!!!!
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I play strikes for the marks, so why waste time with lvl 6 enemies....
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its called trying to get bounties done and i dont have time for you to kill everything to get uncommon engrams
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Evidence please? Ha you don't know what your talking about
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I'll play how I want to, thank you. I need 25 strikes for a bounty....killing those level 8 dregs before the strike starts isn't fun for me. Get a fireteam together who like to play how you do. Otherwise you are at the randoms mercy when you matchmake.
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Because I'm grinding rep and bounty.
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Seems random. I'll just stick to the 28 daily story and weekly, etc.
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People want the marks and to finish bounties. If you just want to mindlessly grind mobs you can do that anywhere anytime.