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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Edited by Psycho11Edge: 10/6/2014 5:43:02 AMThere's a chance you can get engrams from the Strikes. There's also a chance you'll get nothing until the end reward screen. I've had several strikes where the only worthwhile rewards I got were from the end game screen, and I did stop to fight everything, as I used to be like you. However, since the patch where 24 Strikes give engrams, I've seen less and less engrams drop, not just in strikes, but in general. I went through several strikes getting nothing but a few greens, killing everything in sight. So yeah, now I might skip a few enemies here and there, because personally for me, odds are I won't get anything as the game has shown time and time again. Also, if someone does stop to kill everything, as long as I aggro them with my speeder, any blue drops will appear at the postmaster. I don't mean to sound bad with that, but it's true. The first day of the update I got a crap ton of blue engrams, but the drop rate of them seemed lower and lower as time went on. Edit: I found 5 purple engrams on the day before the cryptarch update, and have only found 1 since, on a level 12 story mission for the Queen. Second Edit: Also, unless those engrams are dropping Raid Armor, I have a fair amount of everything I really need at this point, and the odds of getting an engram that will contain the one Exotic I want are so astronomically low that why should I bother trying to find a random engram amongst the level 2's before the strike?