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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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38 RepliesYet 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.
