Lol is this guy for real? If I have the vanguard why wouldn't I hit 31 and make Crota that much easier. Your post makes no sense. I've completed vog on hard many many times pre Crota and now Crota no cheese btw.
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The point is, at lvl 30 atheon/iron banner gear, you can simply play the raid for 1 piece of gear and use an exotic to be 31 on your way to 32 vs leveling separate gear for 31 that maxes at 31 and takes longer as 3 pieces are required to be level vs 1 and when finally that 1 piece is needed ANYWAY so leveling to 31 from 30 via vangaurd/faction is basically the same as leveling to 31 twice.
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If u upgraded to 31 first week its reasonable as crota was harder than no one knew how to use sword and anyone could have been bearer
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Having 1 31 for the sword was a well known thing since day 1 and your average player gets 1 piece of gear per run and if you didn't there's always next week. If you have 2 of the same class, even more likely to get 1 piece. That 1 piece will replace 3 pieces of gear. So basically yea you might want vangaurd/faction as the sword bearer for 1 single run.