JPDunks4

8 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

I haven't gotten any legendary contracts yet but I am now level 27. Looking forward to hitting 30 and doing GM difficulty. I am also attempting to do the trails as well. Do we have any info on new content or the roadmap?

Roadmap as of now...

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3 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Weird, she won’t give me a contract yellow or purple for that matter. Am I missing something?

Hmm not sure.  You've talked to everyone obviously in town you can right.  Whats your Sentinel level at?  Maybe you need to be lvl 1?

19 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

I get two Legendary contracts a day, one from the guild and the other from Matthais. I assume Brin (sP?) would provide the third? 

Yeah I have one from each everyday.  Freelancer, Archonists, and Sentinels

Did my 3 on my Colossus today already.

I had a great day with my Storm yesterday.  Ran the 3 Legendary Contracts, did my dailies, and then started going Quickplays with it.  

By the end of the day, I had all Components Masterwork as well as collected multiple skills slots and weapons as MW.  

Quickplays I found I actually snuck into like 50% Legendary Contracts with guaranteed Component drops, which helped me out a lot.   

Today I'll focus on my Colossus, as its currently my weakest of the bunch.

44 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Did my first Stonghold Mission. Fucking incredible. I can’t stop playing this game!

My Ranger is 107. 

Question where do you find rare ember or are you supposed to purchase it?

Salvaging Rare Gear is the main way you'll get it, or from harvesting materials or chests.  Never purchase that stuff.

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Agreed, and I'm not sure why. I get component drops being higher since there are six slots to fill, but after 60+ hours with this game, I've only seen a handful of support gear drops. 

Well there are only 2 possible options as drops for Support currently, where as every other slot has at least 6 to 8 minimum, with components and weapons being way higher.  So I guess it'd make sense it'd feel way lower.  But I agree, some of my characters were using a really low level support for awhile cause I never had anything better.

I wish they'd have more options for Support too, 2 is rather limited, but they've said they will be adding more. 

If you can find a few friends to play with it'll probably drastically improve your experience.  Squads of 3 are probably winning 80% of the matches.  The ping system is great but being able to make actual call outs, or call out what you need for items, ect make all the difference.  

You all are on a video game message board, set up some groups to play together rather than constantly running solos.  

Thus far it doesnt seem to be a really solid meta, but Wingman w/ Skullpiercer  in the right hands will wreck most folk.  

I personally love the Devotion if I can find ample ammo for it and the Turbo Charger. I can have some amazing games with a Wingman but I'm a bit too inconsistent.  

I think a lot of it comes down to get a decent mag for a lot of the guns.  The default or Lvl 1 mags really leave a lot of the guns with such small clips that it's tough to get through a gun fight without having to reload constantly.  

Spitfire is one of the few guns with a nice size mag, especially if you can get to 60 rounds.  

1 minute ago, atom631 said:

Just finished it but no MW gear? Maybe they don’t drop until after 30. 

Oh ya I believe you need to be on GM1 Difficulty

18 minutes ago, atom631 said:

I have a purple contract icon in the fort. I’m assuming this is a legendary contract. Should I wait until 30 to do it? 

 

Also got a MW heavy pistol that does 200% damage when hovering!! It’s an absolute beast. 

You get one per faction daily i seems, so if ur not gonna be 30 tonight do it today.

Lucked out and joined a Quickplay event, and it was a Legendary Contract literally just ended.  I got a really good MW Component, making it my 3rd on my Storm.  So my Storm went from being a piece of crap to being a downright beast real quick today.  

I love playing as all the Javelins.  Now my Storm just wrecks havoc with my combo of MW Ice Shards combo'd with my Lightning strike.  

Just ran two of my Legendary Contracts for my guaranteed MW Components with my storm, which is easily my worst Javelin.  Of course got the same component both times.... Ugh.

At least I had a MW drop for a Shotgun I didnt have yet during one of them.

Yeah, i mean they keep asking for more and more feedback, and I think they will understand, a Loot Game needs cooler and cooler more unique loot.  

Every Masterwork I've been earning though, first thing I do is do the challenge associated with them to get the Blueprints for Crafting, but gonna wait til they patch in the improved inscriptions.  No point in wasting my MW Embers.

I forget which game it was, maybe Division, that allowed you to pick one inscription to reroll per item.  A game like this could really use that with 4 really randomized rolls per item.

52 minutes ago, atom631 said:

what was the item?

A Cryo Glaive for my Interceptor.  

I think Legendary's just have higher stats than Masterworks, but same perks.  Also has a guaranteed Max Roll on an inscription I think?  I didnt have a Masterwork Cryo Glaive though yet, which is one my favorite gear to use on my Interceptor, so I'm happy.  Decent roll on the inscriptions too.

Also they have said they are going to be patching improved inscriptions on items.  So anyone that gets to Lvl 30 may wanna hold off on crafting MW until that patch comes through. 

3 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

I am now just two components away from a full MW Jav!  I hope to get there by the end of this coming weekend, but that's of course up to RNGesus. I have yet to pull a legendary item though.  

Got my first Legendary drop last night while running a GM1 regular Contract and a  “Boss” character dropped it.  Felt good to see one.

were the orbs there in the demo? Cause i remembered thinking how easy that section was and how it was like impossible to fail and just a waste of time, but then in the retail i was like, whats killing me up here.

44 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

That's the hardest part of that Stronghold.  I beat on hard a couple of times now... the thing is a couple of the squad should focus on the ramp leading up the platform and keep the insects from swarming. The other members should focus on the glowing electric orbs that drain your shields. If you ignore them, they will make this phase of Stronghold harder.

I actually find that easy, I find the opening sections with the Scars the hardest part.  The main issue I see is people not realizing you can kill the lightning orbs that will wreck you fast if you dont take care of them.  1 person shooting those and 2/3 on the ramp should be able to handle it. 

If you ever are stuck and need help, DM me here if someone drops or something, if I'm around i can hop on quick to help.

Still don’t get the hate.  

Compare it to games of the same genre and I think it’s as good or better than most. It’s better st something’s and worse at somethings, but far from a 4/10 which means it’s downright broken and unplayable to me.  

2 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Ah, gotcha the "hazardous" contracts from the guild and the advanced blarga blargs from Matthias(s)! I guess I'll have to take a look and see what I get from those, seemed like the same 5 MW weapons that are always on tap. I'll double check this evening. 

A Masterwork Component is a guaranteed reward from these.  Its the only way I've had MW Components drop so far.  

25 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

@JPDunks4 , you know, I can honestly say that I don't know if I've done a legendary contract!  How do i unlock those?

They are the Purple (which is weird as you'd assume the yellow contracts are higher level) Contracts you get, I think if you continue doing contracts they eventually will become a Legendary Contract.  I think you maybe able to do 3 a day? One per faction?

My weekly challenge is 5 Legendary Contracts, I've done 4/5.  I hope I can do one more, I've done one for the Sentinals and Freelancers, so I'll start doing some contracts for Arcanists an see if it gives me a Legendary Contract. 

@Mr.Vic20 I just did one Arcanist Contract and the next one to pop up was Legendary.  So I do think you can possibly do 3 per day, 1 per faction.  To get the MW Reward I think you probably have to do it on Grandmaster 1 Difficulty.

Not to keep comparing it to Destiny, but didnt Destiny use the same exact mission structure.. You do a mission, once its done, it drags you out of the world back to loading screens.  It didn't let you continue playing did it?

I've gotten a ton of Masterworks, still no Legendary though.  I think Legendary guarantees 1 perfect rolled stat.  

its nice they are retooling the Modifiers on the items.  It sucks getting a few nice rolls and then some useless ones.  I've seen some really impressive ones on Twitter, like a weapon with +350% damage cause it rolled two +175% damage.