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originally posted in:Instant Karma
8/2/2014 8:25:47 PM
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Tips & Tricks (vanguard marks)
Ok, this thread will be about Tips & Tricks, not common sense stuff, but actual tips that people may not know.
To start us off, Vanguard Marks. In the beta i found it oddly super hard to gain vanguard marks, crucible marks were easy, just play crucible, but for vanguard marks, it says you need to do high level missions, strikes and bounties, but even though i was doing stuff at the hardest difficulty i could at lvl 8, i wasnt getting any by doing these things.
A tip to get alot of vanguard marks is to do the 'star side missions' when free roaming, these are the side missions marked with a star icon when pulling up your ghost when out in the wild, for completing these 'star side missions' you will get 25 vanguard rep (or faction rep if using a specific faction class item) 100 glimmer, and 10 spin metal. For every 40 spinmetal you get, you can turn in to the Vanguard Quartermaster (or Crucible Quartermaster) for extra Vanguard Marks or Crucible Marks in the tower.
So, go free roam, do star missions, get spinmetal, and turn it for vanguard marks.
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Here's one I just saw on the Destiny subreddit. It explains how elemental damage works against enemies. I figured I would post this because I actually had thought this was reversed, that blue shield would adsorb arc damage and that red would absorb solar.
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also, spinmetal is easily gained by doing earths explore missions. i personally go from the start to the divide and head over to the refinery and work my way back and fourth from the divide to the refinery, whilst focusing onn a specific method of grimoire kills. some missions give you 10 spin metal, and theres a few spawns on the way to the divide , and a few in the divide along with in the refinery aswell. in the beta i accumulated about 70-75 spin metal over the course of about 30 hours. i obtained 2 vanguard marks the whole time, i believe one was from the spinmetal hand in (along with like 500 glimmer and 25 crucible marks, the other one would have either been from about 40-50 missions being completed, or has to do with getting gold on public events. the only public events i did, were to kill a speicifc "SUPER " vandal, before he runs to a specific spot, i got a silver, and a gold and a DNF on that type. i played another one which ended quick but i know you had to kill the monster before the time ran out, im noit sure if he was running somewhere or what, but i got gold on that aswell. there was a 3rd gold event i did but i cannot rmember, either these golds rewarded me with the mark, or the bounties did, or the missions did
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3 RepliesI noticed this too. Cashing in Spin Metal with the Vanguard Quartermaster seemed to be the fastest way to gain Van rep in the Beta. I know the Vanguard section of the map was removed for the Beta (it's normally sitting next to the Crucible). I'm assuming going there will open up missions that allow for the same amount of Vanguard marks to be earned. For Crucible I think it was a 100 per week?
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2 RepliesAnother tip, when on the moon certain doors can be opened by pulling out your ghosts, and will have chests/dead ghosts inside.
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3 Repliesoh nice, I had no idea you could turn spinmetal in for Vanguard Marks
