I wanted to make a thread concerning information that isn't readily available or explained thoroughly. I want this thread to answer general or technical questions pertaining to the games mechanics and I'll update the OP with the majority of helpful information. Plus there's no search feature, so if this trends hopefully it will help out a lot of people. For example let's say some one is wondering the best way to max out an exotic weapon. A person comments saying that if you have any missions you haven't completed or the daily mission, then you can do them on lvl 28 and get 7500 xp. While that method is ok for armor, that method does [i]not[/i] affect weapon xp gains. Someone could then comment saying that the above comment is wrong and the actual best way is to make sure you've done the nightfall (+20% xp), rank 2 on that particular weapon class (10%? xp), and use a telemetry (10%? xp). Then make sure to do as many bounties as possible on as many characters as you have. I've got a couple questions I'd like answered myself, but I'll start off the thread with a couple tips. [b]Fastest way to level up a character to lvl 20:[/b] [b]Solo:[/b] Complete as many missions as possible, running hard might be time consuming, so you might just run normal until a friend with some free time comes on. [b]Group of three:[/b] Some of you are going to be skeptical about this, but here me out. If you have a group of three people can run patrol on earth and get a lot of xp/rep very quickly. Here's why, normal patrol missions give 250 xp, & public events & VIP missions both give 500 xp. So if you have three people on earth, have one stay in the steppes (starting zone), one go left to the moth yard and the other right to the divide. Having everyone in three different spots will ensure the fastest xp gain. Another good thing about this method is that if you don't have any friends leveling up new characters, you can ask your level friends to help so they get rep gains to level whatever faction (great way to go for those Dead Orbit shaders). You'll actually probably hit rank 3 on vanguard before you hit 20 and if you do, make sure not to open your mail until you unlock legendary gear at level 18 (you might wait til 20 just to be safe though). [b]Cryptarch rank:[/b] If you have more than one character, just move all of your engrams to the character with the highest rank. You'd be surprised how fast you can level up the Cryptarch this way. I've had 3 characters for about 3 weeks now and I've gone from 35-60 in that time. That's the with just running daily bounties and mission and the weekly strikes and raid. No tiger strikes and very rarely farming patrols. [b]Leveling up weapons:[/b] Exotic weapons have a total of 212,500 xp. Everyone knows that bounties are the best way, but what about weapons that you rarely use like heavy weapons. Save your ammo synthesis, there's an easier way. If you run out of ammo, melee, supers and grenades count towards the weapon xp gain [b]AS LONG AS YOU HAVE IT IN HAND[/b]. I have confirmed this method, but I do not know if a melee/super kill count towards the kill count on the grimoire cards. Also once you've done the daily bounties on however many characters, turning in upgrade materials give a lot of xp. I believe its around ~5000 xp, but I have no definitive proof. I've turned in 1000 spin metal and leveled up a fresh exotic weapon to half way through the second special perk, so that's over half way leveled up right there. What I'd like to know is a few numbers. Such as the exact percent increase at rank 2 on grimoire cards and telemetries for weapons. I could've sworn I saw 10% somewhere for rank 2, but I'm completely speculating on the telemetries. Also I've heard tossed around on random forums that telemetries don't stack with the nightfall buff. No idea if this is accurate or not. Onto another question that I don't expect anyone but Deej or other Bungie staff to be able to answer. When the game first came out, there were Grimoire cards that gave perks for getting to a certain rank, just like rank 2 on all weapon types and enemies. However ever since the app patch that drastically changed the Grimoire layout I've noticed that three particular perks have been removed. Rank 3 on Crucible matches used to say it gave a chance for a tournament ticket to drop for Trials of Osiris, this I'm just going to assume will be put back in with the next DLC since that's when we're supposed to get that anyway. The next one was gaining a better chance for rare materials after a gold tier public event, not sure if this perk is altogether scrapped or what (I do know it took me personally 66 times til I got my first rare material drop off of one... but a friend was getting them A LOT and we're pretty even when it comes to the number of times we've done public events). The final one is something that I've got no idea what it does or is supposed to be. At rank 3 (maybe 2, I can't remember) of VIP kills, the patrol missions that have you go kill who ever and grant 500xp/25rep, it said that upon completion rewards would sometime drop. Now I'm assuming that these rewards would be at worst spinmetal, helium filaments, etc. & at best ascendant materials, but I was just wondering if anyone has a link to any info pertaining to them. I'm sure I've got more questions, but those are that is the only thing I can think of at the moment.