I take it some people just want to level up there vanguard or clan level up. You can't think of them rushing with no point attached to it. Some people don't always have enough time but i do get what you mean. If people skip ahead then let them be and take your time to kill what they skip while you slowly caught up. There really no point in having a fit about it. Most of the time it's just luck but i did 15 strikes and walked away with 4 legendarys. All 4 games each player walked away with a legendary as well.

I rush some when its for a bounty, easy rep, or like currently i need 5 strikewith no deaths for the invective

Too right, Was levelling up my alt on sunday and got to the earth strike, matey boy hops on his sparrow after the mesh generator cluster-blam!-. Speeds off into the distance only to have the spider tank land right on top of him. I just watched and face palmed as the fallen walker teabagged him. Moral is, always give way to spider tanks kids.

I'm okay with skipping public area stuff, but when people try to race through the entire event, skipping any battle they can... I just don't get it. If you're not doing it to have fun and actually do the content, I wish you'd just find a group for speed racing that stuff. I think the default attitude is 'doing this for fun' rather than 'doing this to blow through it as quickly as possible,' and public play should reflect that. That said, a/ the game does ask for a lot of grinding from you, and b/ the threat of a disconnection hangs over many people's heads.

But I like being That Guy...

Level 29's and 30's don't want more gear. They're already capped. They just want to finish up bounties. If you see a level 20-28 rushing through, he's a -blam!-ing moron.

If I may, here are two poems that sum up looting, before and after the update. Roses are red, Your item is blue. Your engram was purple, It sucks to be you. Roses are red, Your engram is blue. There are no more purples, It still sucks to be you. In the end, it is all the same. Bungie didn't help us, they simply tried to hush the complaints.

Whenever my girlfriend and I do Strikes, we'll occasionally get teamed up with one of those speedy magoos. We'll just let them do their own thing, whether it's making it to the next segment of the Strike without us or dying (lol). As much as I'm trying to get Vanguard marks and rep, I just have fun fighting the enemies too! I get more enjoyment out of the game through the gameplay, not the reward.

I agree with you accept I don't kill the low levels outside of the restricted spawn. As you pointed out the drop rate seems to be a lot higher inside the restricted spawn. Plus the enemies outside just keep coming. You could be out there all day. Once inside restricted spawn however make everything that moves stop moving!

Yet again the Destiny community proves itself to be wrong yet again and trying to spread these ridiculous tactics like kill LESS mobs to get to the reward screen to get more rewards faster! When I played Diablo 3 and grind to 100 Paragon, we didn't operate on such stupidity. We figured out how to kill MORE and do it FASTER, therefore making it more EFFICIENT. Speedrunning strikes by skipping low+high lvl mobs is NOT EFFICIENT for loot. I don't really care what bounty you're there for or marks you're grinding. I grind for marks too but when I go into a strike, I play as a team and that means I'm going to be there killing stuff. Now you can either kill stuff with me so we can get this done FASTER and thereby INCREASING our chances for loot, or you can skip it and do it all yourself. That's your call. Like I've said previously, I don't mind skipping the low level free roam stuff, but once it says respawn restricted and the mobs are level 24, I don't skip that stuff. To address some of the OP's points though, the 24 strikes do not have a higher drop rate of engrams, at least not off of mobs. They have a higher rate of engrams on reward, however his idea is not completely wrong. The more stufff you kill and the faster you do it, the more loot you get which increases your odds of getting a legendary item. However, where I disagree is killing the low level free roam mobs. I don't kill those things and I go straight for the respawn restricted zone. Once there, THEN I will kill everything.

I was doing strikes yesterday and 2 dudes raced past the public area. Then a public event happened, and im sure they werent notified because they had already loaded into the next area. The best part is one of the low lvl mobs dropped a legendary. So they missed the shard from the PE, and the chance at that purple. All while racing to the finish to collect that one blue

Yeah.. I have seen those guys too. They are just annoying. Most of the time I meet those guys I still fight every enemy that's in my way. As far as I care, these rushers can rush if they want to.. but they can also die (only ingame, if course) because if it. They are as annoying as those "I'm after that 'Finish a strike without dying'"-guys. You know.. those people that hide every time it gets harder so they wont die. But I have to say I love it when people try doing this on moons strike. At the end boss there is one spot (next to the cliff) where people love to hide, because they can shoot everything from there.. but they are almost not to hit by enemy fire. I'm a warlock.. I push them always down the cliff if they hang out there. I don't like glitchers, bugusers, leechers and rushers. I'm pretty sure those guys don't like me either :D Edit: Problem is.. my english is pretty bad and I know my initial post is responsible for this.. uhm.. I'd like to call it a shitstorm. It's not easy to describe the situation I was facing there. There was this landing pad were sometimes a few dropships bring in some new troops. That's a place those guys could see. They also could see this ramp (?) that led to the main part of this room and just a few feet from that part. When I saw them a few of those enemies that came via drop ship walked up that ramp and than just stood there. A few of them moved back to their waypoints (as if you have walked out of their "area". At some point npc's stop following you and walk back to their positions) or engaged me. Ranged enemies only shot at that rock between themselfs and my two party members while one of them just shot back without getting hit. Everything else in that room was attacking just me.. enemies that walked up the other ramp as well. I'm not a prick.. A lot of times I meet people on earths strike who hide - for exsample - as far away from that walking tank as they can while firing a few rounds here and there. I'm okay with that. Those guys may often be not very usefull, but at least they draw some attention in their direction.. or do some damage. At least those guys try to contribute something to the team instead of.. sacrificing it for their own goals. But that one case I tried to explain was, that two guys glitched in an area they were not supposed to be (how the AI acted proofes that in my opinion) and as a result I was reduced to cannon fodder. All those wizzards and knights in that room were on me.. thank's to those guys funny glitch back than. I also was worried about getting banned myself. Those guys were part of my strike team, using glitches and I was on their spot as well while trying to figure out what thos two guys were up to. After I saw it I pushed them (so they respawn back ON the map) and jumped back in the fight as well. After this we all finished that strike as it's supposed to and everything was fine.