I recently thought about going back to try and get the Negral Servant set (or at least the helm) for my warlock since it looks beast. Does anyone remember how to do this? I believe you are supposed to grind tiger strikes for vanilla and doc strikes for DB gear. Can anyone confirm this before I go on a grind spree?
Edit: Apparently this information is true. If you wish to grind, here are the steps for each kind:
Vanilla ([i][u]note: only works for armors[/u][/i]): Grind out enough tiger strikes until you have tons of blue engrams for the desired armor piece [i][u]from the reward screen[/u][/i]. Turn them in for a slight chance at getting a vanilla legendary.
DB: Grind roc strikes until you have tons of blue or legendary engrams of the desired armor/weapon [i][u]from the reward screen[/u][/i]. Turn them in for a chance at DB legendaries.
Engrams picked up off of the ground can only produce HoW gear. Yes, this is a battle against RNG, but the question is:
[i]How bad do you want it?[/i]
Edit #2: A new farming method has come to light which only applies towards acquiring TDB armor and weapons. If you are running and Eris quest, delete the bounty for it midway through the mission. Complete the mission and you still get rewarded. Go back to Eris, get the bounty again, and repeat.
Edit #2.5: There are reports of the Eris method not working. If anyone could confirm it is working/won't work, I would greatly appreciate it.
Edit #3: Here is a better way of differentiating engrams, to help people understand whether it will yield HoW or Vanilla gear. Here will be the description of the engram.
Vanilla: "The Cryptarch in the Tower may be be able to decrypt this object and reveal its contents."
HoW: "A matter engram of remarkable potency. The Cryptarch can decrypt this into a piece of armor/weapon."
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Can anyone confirm if weapon engrams drop from Roc Strikes? I've been able to snag Dustwalker Helmet and Boots from Tiger and was wondering if I could maybe try and get that Two to The Morgue I wanted from DB but could never get to drop
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Can anybody confirm if we can still get the Vanilla/TDB faction class items doing this?
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Bump. I've received so far.. Hunter - Ghost Angel (Gauntlets) Titan - DURGA-GNT Type 0 (Chest) and Astrolord Plate (Chest) Warlock - Nothing so far
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I can confirm this works, I recieved a 300 attack doctor nope and a hunter hld_starwinder cloak from tiger strike engrams
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Good to know
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Delete HoW and TDB then everything you get is vanilla redownload when ready
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Does the roc strikes still give out TDB engrams?
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Edited by INOSKEDYOU: 7/20/2015 6:15:21 AMIt's crazy how people complain about not being able to go to mercury and they paid for the game and they deserve the content or whatever blah blah blah. I think it sucks even more that you can't get old weapons and armor. I'm sure I'm like lots of players that were forced to shard items because of the weak sauce bank space. Can't believe you will never ever get a shot at using The Supremacy sniper ever again. If you grinder for it and got I am quite [i]jelly[/i] Edit: where is the community out cry for that?
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I just did around 5 or 6 Tiger strikes on my Titan, was able to get one blue engram each time - all boots. I wore my "Blessing of the IV" emblem while decrypting them & received a vanilla set of boots for my Warlock! (: Check her out if you guys want! I attempted to try running on my Warlock to see if could that lucky again, but alas I could not. I'll try again once the reset happens with my Hunter and see if it works. (:
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I did a few Roc strikes before hitting bed, a member of my team got a ship from TDB so I'm confident that Vanilla and TDB gear hides in the Tiger and Roc strike lists. The ship was Extinction Event and was awarded to the player at the end of activity rewards screen. Happy hunting!
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I got a vanilla pulse rifle from a strike engram, but it sucked and I dismantled it
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Could I Uninstaller the expansion pass and buy legendary from the ecboc
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Can I get ghost angel?
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Haven't had luck with vanilla armor yet. Turned in about 50 vanilla engrams. Nada . Doing a few rocs
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Edited by Wheeping_Specter: 7/6/2015 4:58:36 PMSo the tiger method does work for the vanilla armor? Was going to do his today but wanted to confirm it works
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Make it so damn hard to get Vanilla gear, I've been grinding away on Tiger Strikes hoping to one day get the Ghost Angle Cloak Not only don't I have it, I haven't seen any of my blue engrams turn into legendary It's ridiculous I mean they only vanilla gear why make is so hard to get? When they were 1st promoting game one of things they highlighted was the [b][i][u]uniqueness[/u][/i][/b]of characters How am I suppose to customize my character I f I can't get [b][i][u]ONE[/u][/i][/b]lousy piece of gear after countless hours on strikes??!
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So, to be get Vanilla gear, you grind Tiger strikes and look for engrams with the "A matter engram" line. and then hope one eventually turns legendary? seems a bit of grindy time sink for something that could take 100 engams for one legendary. Why isn't vanilla gear attainable via all strikes, missions, and game modes ?
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At the end of Roc Strikes at the reward screen can you get a legendary weapon or legendary engram? Has anyone seen this? All i have seen for 40+ strikes are blues(weapons and armor) and legendary ships.
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Bump?
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Edited by PhantomMirage115: 7/11/2015 1:10:21 AMI think I know a way, make a new account play the demo (The demo has every Vanilla item) grind spinmetal to trade into marks buy a Vanilla gun/armour from the vender and then put it in the vault, re download Destiny the full version and when you play your demo progress will carry over so you can keep your Vanilla item. EDIT: To get to rank 3 for Vanguard or Another faction just keep doing patrols
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If you start a new character and do the Eris missions and bounties you can get tdb weapons I got a ldr and a longbow yesterday ;)
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Is it confirmed that you can get TDB legendaries from Roc strikes?
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Nerigal savant The helmet is cool but the rest is kina bleh
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I prefer vanilla over chocolate
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On vanilla version of destiny legendary engram captian start with "A matter..." but after the TDB it turned into "may the bastard on tower reveal it content" So we hit the jackpot when we see the caption a matter on legendary :)