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2/8/2015 10:01:32 PM
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So here is where I'm at. I've played 99.9% solo pve and finally tried regular strikes. Everybody seemed to know what to do except me. One even threatened to turn me in for AFK. I wasn't, I was still back at the beginning killing everything in sight. I sent a message back and we ended up being friends. They "helped" me with the strike playlist. Mostly just told me where to stand and stay there. I really didn't learn much, but got enough marks to get better gauntlets. Between that experience and being stuck on siege of the warmind for several days, I'm not sure I would enjoy that much stuff going on at once. Especially with 5 other people that think this is actual life and death.
So, what's a guardian to do? Can I just kill low level boars and make my way to lvl 32?
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If you're on the ps3 add me if you want. I can help you with the eris missions, dailies, and strikes. Not much of a raider and don't do nightfalls/weeklies that often.
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So you were stuck...on strikes?
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I'm stuck on the siege of the war mind story. I've prolly died 50 times or more. I was lost on the strikes when everybody just took off and blew past all the stuff we usually kill. I've found I typically can handle it if I'm playing one or two levels above the suggested level. So if it's level 7, I do fine as an 8 or 9. I like the game and enjoy it. I'm just not sure I can do the rest of the dark below stories without better gear and I don't feel I have the skill required to do the multiplayer content without being carried. I guess not everyone can become legend.
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Yeah, I'm a 46-year-old Christmas noob with a family who can't play this game all day, and I'm just starting to do strikes myself. The way the veteran players immediately blow past all the distractions on the way to the boss can be disconcerting, but I guess it's worth watching and emulating. I have a relatively accomplished friend who's sometimes willing to carry me in multiplayer, which helps. (The first time we did The Summoning Pits, the third guy who joined us speed-ran to Phogoth so fast he even lost my friend. He basically decided to ignore every other object in the game.) I figure my advantage is modest goals: I have no particular need to become level 33, beat Crota on hard or get the G-horn. Sometimes it's fun just to do patrol and kill things.
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Yeah I agree, not everyone can play these kind of games to the fullest extent. I'm 57 years old and I just don't have the reflexes or eye hand coordination to develop "skillz". For me winning and completing everything doesn't matter, I play alone and have fun just being in game and taking in all the beauty and design of the worlds. People very kindly offer to help me, but they don't realize that isn't really what I want. I'm cool with learning on my own as far as I can. On occasion I ask for help with something I truly can't get, but most of the time stumbling along is my preferred way. I realize that there are huge chunks of this game I will never get to play (Raids) and that is just fine. I've got matchmaking and the weekly challenges and that makes me happy.
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Exactly. 50. And female, not that it matters, just seems like I have a whole different perspective than most here. I'm not totally frustrated yet, but I am sick of siege of the warmind. Sigh. But I'm at least consistently starting to make it to the third wave. I'm taking a break from it and leveling a warlock and titan. Totally different than a hunter.
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I started with a Hunter too, now starting to level up a Warlock and a Titan. This is doubtless a confession of ultimate incompetence, but you know what I find remarkably hard? [i]Restoration[/i], the second story mission, when you play it with a new level 2 character. That wimpy Devil Archon is just enough of a bullet sponge that you run out of primary ammo trying to take him down with the little popgun you have at that point, so it forces you to start running around the level for ammo drops, and you're also quite squishy at that point so he and his friends can actually take you down. With my Hunter it was relatively easy, because I drew a sniper rifle as the special weapon from that one chest, and you can hang back and snipe at the Archon. But I made the mistake of sharding the stupid thing instead of stashing it in the vault for my other new characters, and they both drew the shotgun, which is basically useless at that point.
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Ice Breaker makes Siege of the Warmind so much easier, if you dont have it...its a lot more painful, but doable...Murmur is the next best, or a High Level Solar Fusion Rifle. You want to focus on the Waker's of Crota first....take them out ASAP after you get rid of the Thralls, and then clean up the rest. Try and use a grenade or Super on one of the groups that spawns to take them out and make it easier. The Wakers are what you go for first and foremost. I stick to one of the corners of the room, where you enter from, and then when I hit the might of crota, go to the front where the control panel is and just focus your fire on him and take him down ASAP because that ends the mission. Bungie took the "Lets just add more enemies...because that means its more difficult!" approach to mission design with TDB -.-
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Thanks! It sounds like I'm on the right path with most of that. I have crap for guns because I don't raid or do strikes. I usually try to time a grenade at the cloud so it explodes as soon as everything emerges from it, then the thrall, then the Knights since they are kicking my butt. I'll try to clear the wizards then the Knights. More = harder. I think that's the issue, right there. I can only process so much at a time. It sucks when the second to the last wave spawns two clouds of crap. I've only got one grenade. Thanks for the advice! My goto is scout/sniper/machine gun. All blue, except machine gun is green since I don't have one with solar yet that is blue.
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The Knights will tend to stay down on the floor where they Spawn, so if you stay up on the outer platform near the doors that let you into the chamber, then they wont bother you and you can take them down at your leisure. But yeah, the biggest problem you have is your guns. You really need Purples and Yellows for TDB, and to get more of those.....really need to start running the Strikes for the Vanguard marks.....and engrams, so you can buy some new stuff at the Quartermaster. Blues will only take you so far before things become overwhelming. Strikes aren't that difficult, one you play them a few times you learn the patterns and which parts you can skip through. But yeah, better weaponry really is needed for TDB. If you have any Strange Coins, find Xur and buy a nice exotic..
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Edited by Moonlit Guardian M45: 2/8/2015 11:40:14 PMgo to the crucible & push yourself in rumble /////learn in there
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The Crucible's really a whole different set of skills, though. It's taking on extremely powerful, human-smart enemies in smaller numbers rather than hordes of stupid mobs.
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Edited by Moonlit Guardian M45: 2/9/2015 1:53:44 PMyou just gotta hone your skills man /// step 1 go to the Crucible's rumble / step 2 play song / step 3 get better / step 4 FIGHT the darkness
