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Edited by Twohothardware: 10/7/2014 3:48:44 PM
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STOP racing through the Strikes if you actually want Legendary Rewards

It's getting to be a common thing now during the Lvl 24 Strikes that I see these kids race as fast as they can through the Strike usually hopping on their speeder bypassing the first several mobs of lower level enemies which is fine but then they continue on and bypass as many of the Lvl 24 enemies as they can just to get to the final boss quicker. Why? The boss gives you nothing and your chances of getting anything worthwhile from the end game roll are poor odds for the amount of time it takes to complete each Strike. Your best shot of getting a Legendary Engram drop or at least multiple blue Engrams to give you a chance at Legendary gear and to rank up the Cryptarch is to kill every Lvl 24 enemy up to the boss because that is where all of my Legendary Engrams have come from and I get at least half of my blue Engrams from Mob drops to go along with what I get in the end game roll. The Lvl 24 Tiger Strikes since the last patch appear to have a higher drop rate than the normal game modes at least in the areas you're facing Lvl 24 enemies, and so bypassing them to finish the Strike faster is just decreasing your chance of getting multiple drops. There's little other reason to be grinding Lvl 24 Strikes in that manner because you can earn Vanguard rep faster farming Patrols, Vanguard Marks faster farming Public Events, and if you need a bunch of Strikes for a Bounty run the Lvl 8 Devil's Lair on Earth and get them done quick. So don't be that guy that runs way out ahead of everyone else. Don't waste you and your teammates chances for more Legendary/Exotic drops. It doesn't take but an extra 5 minutes or so to clear out all the Lvl 24 enemies your bypassing between you and the Boss when you do it as a group.

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  • Edited by Gray Fox: 10/6/2014 6:02:58 PM
    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.

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    • Except for the fact that you can actually run through the Strikes on Tiger with 3 competent players and kill everything in less than 10 minutes because it has become so dang repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive upon repetitive..... There are no better drops no matter how you play it. You just get lucky once in a VERY great while. Bungie - Boring the gamer with mind numbing repetition since 2010

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    • Thanks for the tip. I will definitely be taking my time. Thanks. - S277

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    • Edited by xVVHITEYx: 10/6/2014 11:30:43 PM
      there is little to no point to grind anything in this game anymore! there is nothing interesting about the gear or guns...or characters...or class abilities. imo this whole game was a broken promise. even the raid was boring/un-rewarding. i should go on to say ill still pick away at destiny. I do the daily and weekly but there is zero grinding from this guy. maybe when the game is bigger and better. ...2hrs later im farming engrams lol fml!

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    • Edited by Capiton Render: 10/6/2014 5:57:38 PM
      [quote]Time and time again during the Lvl 24 Strikes I see these kids race as fast as they can through the Strikes usually hopping on their speeder bypassing the first several mobs of lower level enemies which would be alright by itself but then they continue to bypass as many of the Lvl 24 enemies as they can just to get to the final boss. [/quote] i do this with buddies to grind ascendant materials, we can getthem done in 12-20 minutes. Crai moar [quote]The Lvl 24 Strikes have a higher drop rate than the normal game modes[/quote] Stop making shit up btw

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      • Dude, Twohothardware, you suck. You are one of the people that I end up having to carry through strikes and such.

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      • well i usualy speed throw if i have little time atm, yes i want legendary engrams but if you have like less then 20 minutes left then you have like go back to work then i rush through, because of completing a bounty. but when i got the time i take my time, well i still rush through the level but i kill the enemies in the area quickly, i am almost level 29 so its a breeze :P

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      • I go 3 legendary engrams from racing through my last 10 strikes, so ill continue to do so, have fun.

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        • Just made a poll over this, plz search speedrun and add your input - trying to get consensus on which method is preferred.

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          • Only the mobs in the darkness areas/ transition areas count as part of the strike, anything in open public areas such as the mission start points don't count as part of the strike. Sitting there killing endlessly respawning level 8s is the waste of time, you might as well be doing patrol. If you're doing a lvl 24 strike, only the lvl 24 enemies you are fighting count. If you kill a lvl 8 and get a blue, good for you, but it will be a level 8 blue drop not a 24.

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            • My main is a 29, If im in a strike its for a reason. You better believe I will get on my sparrow and skip the level 16 trash and the start. I never skip anything at level, but I will jet to the respwan restricted zone and start laying down the pain while waiting on my silly teams to finish poking the level 16's

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              • So you start by saying that these people should stop rushing the strikes because they have a worse chance to get good gear, but then suggest they do a level 8 strike that doesn't even have a chance to give you something remotely useful? I'll just assume you see that people are going to do what they want now, and there will never be a time where your opinion will make people change the way they play.

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                • I skip everything that's feasibly possible to skip. Unless it's in a respawn restricted area, it's free game to skip if you can/want. Killing some level 8 dregs or goblins is pointless if my goal is to kill a boss. If I want to kill some level 8 guys, I'll do a patrol.

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                  • bad juju bounty, 25 strikes. Im rushing through it idiot.

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                    • Let them rush forward and kill everything everyone has the same chance to obtain loot anyways :p

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                      • Solid advice

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                      • I skip everything because I give 0 Fks and just am grinding out an exotic bounty or am helping a friend so your argument is pointless

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                      • How about people learn to play as a team? If you see rushers, follow them. The quicker you are done the quicker you leave these rushers do their thing. If you see cleaners, clean with them, if you help them to clean instead of rushing alone in front the quicker stuff will die so you don't wait for them. Stop being a self centered player, play WITH your teammates not against them. P.S. If you want a strike to go a certain way. Be the first in front, ppl will usually follow you if they see you clean/rush.

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                        • Edited by Folk: 10/6/2014 4:37:19 PM
                          Hi I'm [b]Twohothardware[/b] and I stop to kill trash mobs...

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                          • Edited by SirDjentleman: 10/6/2014 3:13:02 PM
                            I typically finish a lvl 24 strike in about 13 minutes, yes I run through it as fast as possible. I almost always get two blue engrams each time at the end. So let's just say I get about 6 blues every 30 mins and the occasional purple. To have someone fight all the mobs (even just the high-lvl ones) is dumb. And besides most strikes have an area where you have to stay and fight anyway so there's that if you're not down to run through with me. All in all, I see it more effective to run through the strikes when trying to gain anything other than exp.

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                            • >race through strikes >get rep and marks faster >buy weapon and laugh at people complaining about RNG

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                            • I agree with the OP to some degree as the Level 8 takes less than 20 minutes so do that if you want to speed run... Level 24 I have seen some try speeding through and fail hardcore at it.. right at the boss.

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                            • He's not incorrect, you don't get legendary gauruntees from racing through strikes and just getting to the boss. Let alone the engram you get is possibly trash anyway. Kill everything make your drop better. I've gotten better loot this way. Since the update. Since the update my crypt arch has not givin me one single legendary engram from the legendary package you get for level up. My crypt arch level is 47. Almost 50 I wonder what happens there.

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                              • Edited by XxVinylKittenxX: 10/6/2014 3:52:24 PM
                                Thank you for saying this... I had a erotic bounty where I had to do 25 strikes to make it to level 3, I finished the last 11 today and was highly annoyed with randoms flying through areas to get to the boss, needless to say I lagged behind cleaning up what they missed.

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                                • You can run or you can kill everything, it's fine, but waiting outside the boss room and let only one or two guys doing all the job sucks.

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                                  If you're doing the strike to finish a bounty, which seems to happen a lot, then it doesn't make any sense to fight all the little guys.

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