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Edited by iMakeitRain0nEm:
1/5/2015 9:25:04 PM
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Saw a level 31 with 79 total hours
Wow. This game. I remember grinding about 10 ish weeks and 300 hours before my hunter ever got his 30 gear (week of 2nd iron banner from raid). I did the raid each week on all 3 characters on hard and put in so much work to finally be 30
Anybody else in this boat seeing 30 and 31s with blue weapons, never completing a raid, and having no idea what theyre doing in every game mode?
I dont care if theyre level 30 or 31 honestly, I care that now more than ever im being put with people that are nowhere near my skill level and can't distinguish between garbage and quality so now I carry nearly every team I play with.
Edit 1- for all those saying they have 30-50 hours on their 30/31 characters, yes we all can do that because we have several characters. This was his only character, can any you say you have less than that total on this game?
Edit 2- for those saying it was his second character it wasnt- if you view gamecard it shows total hours on that game for their specific gamertag. And for those saying he mightve still been good but didnt have enough weapons, he had 7 kills and used a pulse rifle on the mars strike.
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Lol at the first paragraph. So u got all 3 characters hard eh? Must be a freaky guy
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1 ReplyMy friend just got the game for Christmas, and she's already 31. It's how easy it is nowadays to pick up armor and BOOM 31 from doing nothing. I don't really care though, she sucks anyways :)
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1 ReplySo my titan is fully CE geared and i didnt reach the 30h mark so far... i needed 100h on my hunter to reach 30 -.-
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3 RepliesHours played in destiny is damn near pointless to judge much. Takes roughly 7-10 hours nonstop to get to lvl 20. After that, all it takes is luck. Someone could get back to back faction armor drops and hit lvl 31 possibly within the next day. Highly unlikely ? Yes. Possible ? Yes. Time isn't everything on destiny.
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3 RepliesI think what shocks me is how Bungie made in game content completely irrelevant the way they handled the new vendor gear. And this isn't a new idea. Why wouldn't Bungie have kept two versions (for now) for the stock in each Vendor's storefront? The one we all had before DLC, and the one we have now. The post-DLC one stays locked until a player hits a certain Light Level, say 29 or whatever. That way they actually have to do some grinding, actually have to play through VoG. People might do it now still, because certain weapons are still useful but the armor is not. Maybe for the experience, but definitely not three times a week every week for a while. Next DLC drops, the VoG weapons will be all but forgotten. Yet would it not be nice for people coming new to the game during the Spring to experience everything the game has to offer, and for it to be a bit challenging? Not skipping two whole raids because "what's the point? I bought better gear as soon as I hit 20". I just don't quite see what Bungie's long-term game plan is here, other than squeeze every dollar from each player as best they can.
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3 RepliesAnd they say no for trading because it makes everyone 30 in few days...
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If you played on an old gen console you keep all your gear when you move over to next gen, this is when it starts to count your hours, so he may have done this to achive this
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I didn't exactly think it was fair that once the DLC came out it was so easy for Xmas noobs to get to 30/31
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5 RepliesMy girlfriend is level 30 with 112 hours.
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Edited by Str8 Gidi: 1/6/2015 9:48:58 PMtook me 73 hours
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I've got 108 hours put in. Got it day 1. 1 main character.
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1 ReplyEverytime I have joined new groups I always sent friend requests to the people who performed well. Now I have a full friendlist of reliable people. We finished every weekly reset task in a matter of 3 hours last week. You gotta spend time digging in the dirt before you find gold.
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2 RepliesI've been playing since day 1. I never made it to 30 until the dark below launched
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Maybe another character?
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Agree I've been 30 on my warlock for two months well before dlc cuz I don't wanna use this gay looking vendor gear it's so cheap people can get to 31 so fast now
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I feel bungie will be rewarding us vets later down the road, have faith
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I get your point and this happens in MMO or pseudo MMO like destiny. A point to consider Is you are focusing on the number 30 but grinding to 30 pre DLC is different from post DLC. Pre DLC, 30 was the max cap and only means to get the armor needed was RNG from VoG and exotics. Post DLC, 30 is a stepping stone and 32 is the new cap. So a player has three additional avenues to hit 30/31 via vanguard, increased Exotic light, and Crota raid. Another change is drop rates have been tweaked for Crota and vanguard like ROC missions. Also keep in mind bounty missions are different with the ability to carry more and there is now Eris missions. Overall due to adding more content, MMO increase the speed to hit old level cap to get new players on board and to keep old players invested. If you played WOW when it first came out and player it during burning crusade you would level up faster due to same basic reasons: more avenues to hit cap and faster drop rate and exp gathering. There will still be a grind the last level or so to the newer caps that will come with expansions to create "end game" content. This is an issue for veterans of an MMO as we will look at new players. Think a year from now and we might be looking at cap of 50 and think "damn it took me 3-4 months of grinding gear and mats to hit level 50 and now it takes someone 3-4 weeks." Get used to it or you could stop playing and come back a year from now and quickly level up but miss out on things like: "Remember the loot cave?!" "Remember when you could only carry 5 bounties?" "Remember how powerful the VEX was before the nerf?" "Remember the alpha?" "Remember the beta?" "Remember the "holiday gift" that came AFTER the holidays?"
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I dont know if i agree with never completed a raid it would be hard to get the shards to lvl the gear to be 31 if he never did a raid
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i've had the game since launch, with only one character at lvl30 and less than 70hrs in the game. its really not that hard to do and doesnt take skill to level up even before the dlc.
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That's a lot of time. if you had said something like 20 hours I'd say nuts, but 79 hours is more than 3 days worth of work. I've got a friend that has only 1 more day played than that and he's had the game since day one. He's a 31, too
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And I can go play wow and get a free level 90 char. I bet everyone playing wow is pissed cause they originally had to grind to 60, then 70, then 80!!! Shut your hole and TROLL ON DOUCHER!!!!!
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2 RepliesI hit 31 on my warlock in under 15 hours...
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2 RepliesI'm close to having 32 gear and I only put in 25 hours. It's not hard
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2 RepliesWell I got a warlock to level 20 in 7 hours and since I'm 32 I just vault my armour to him level 32 on 7 hours. Simples
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3 Repliesand let me guess, you got mad at the rank reset with the last iron banner?
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9 Repliesthe key is just to think about having fun now and not grinding like crazy obviously there's no real emphasis on being a max level in Destiny even in Iron Banner if you are max level you will still be easily taken out by lower levels, the difference is simply not that dramatic we all grinded VoG because that was the thing, that's why I'm sitting at 1000hrs+ since release date had I known that this would have been the path and that my VOG/IB gear would become so obsolete so shortly I probably wouldn't have wasted my time on grinding it all out I would have just done Normal easy raids casually, just for fun that's where I am at now, and how I'm going to proceed playing Destiny, unless something changes and it becomes apparent that you absolutely HAVE to be max level
