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Edited by Twohothardware:
10/7/2014 3:48:44 PM
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STOP racing through the Strikes if you actually want Legendary Rewards
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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3 RepliesIf I want to waste my time trying to get a random drop from nothing enemies I'll go farm that new loot cave, I don't do that because it would be boring and pointless, just like wasting my time in strikes killing enemies that don't need to be killed. If they're right in front of me and in my way (if I'm not on my sparrow speeding to an objective) I kill them because why not, but going out of your way to kill low level mooks is idiotic, these strikes take long enough as it is and there's no call whatsoever to drag them out hoping for a handout that's not even likely to happen. I got most of my legendaries and exotics either by purchasing them from the factions, completing the weeklies and dailies, or in the Raid, and you don't get any of that done if you waste all your time killing trash. If you want legendaries and exotics, do bounties and save up all your marks each week (and work on Rep with the factions if you haven't already). And if you haven't already made three characters you should, all the limits on activities will hold you back otherwise, and doing the weeklies and the raid on three characters per week makes all the difference trying to get stuff quickly. And if you make duplicate characters that are all the same class then you can gear swap between them and save yourself the time and bother of needing to get high level on a new character from scratch, just get to level 20 and instantly go up to whatever light level your first character is just by swapping your gear, I just got my third Warlock to level 20 last night and within an hour I was running the Raid with him and got Aetheon's Epilogue (my gear gets whichever character I'm using to 29, I can even solo the weeklies without much trouble, though with the Nightfall that's mainly because I can res myself if I go down... There's a reason I made three Warlocks, Fireborn ftw).
