I got Destiny a week or so ago and have managed to get up to ~370 Light. I have been doing one or two strikes a day since that's all I have time for.
Now that I have a decent chunk of time to play, is there a better (and more fun) way to gain light than just chaining the heroic strike playlist?
Posted Oct 22, 2016, 5:40 AM UTC
First of all, welcome to Destiny. :D
I would recommend Archon's Forge as suggested. It's a lot of fun and you can do your Iron Lord and most of your Vanguard bounties there. Ranking up with factions gives up to 390 Light. Maybe even stock up on bounties you know you can do there instead of "Kill 50 Vex" ones.
The Raid is a possibility, but I'd recommend you find a sherpa on r/DestinySherpa/ since you are new to the game and to start with Normal Mode to get a handle on the mechanics. It would be frustrating to start with Hard when you haven't gotten Normal down yet. That was my problem when I came back to TTK when no one wanted to do Normal, but I had to learn Hard fast. Maybe you can even find some cool people to play with regularly when you do the sherpa raid?
Play some Crucible since it's good practice for Iron Banner and Trials if you want to give that a go sometime in the future. Legendary drops for Crucible gives up to 400 light depending on your current light.
Here is the chart: http://i.imgur.com/yYJJn8I.jpg
High quality answer. Well done.
I'd keep doing them until you are basically 385, using rep boosters if possible, then go to the forge for class items, ghosts and artifacts, then maybe shoot for a hard mode raid, iron Banner will be coming around, use three of coins bought from Xur during your strikes. Crucible drops weapons up to 400, lots of things to do
Crucible drops are painfully slow.
Just played 4 games in about an hour and received no good drops. =P
If you look up "chart" on Destiny reddit, you'll find activities you can do to get to a certain light level.
EDIT: the post/chart is made by aunm
FML
Been playing since Day 1, trying to find an hour here and there to get my light up. At 373
This guy gets the game a week ago and is caught up and probably already passed me
Kudos
Ha, sorry I guess? All I've been doing is a strike or 2 at lunch time every day. I wish I could help, but I don't really know what I'm doing.
What have you done besides strikes? Like, you'd have to do some of the story beats.
The raid
Run Sepiks Perfected at 320. With a decent team you can blow through it it less than 15 minutes and the decrypted drops after the boss drop up to 385.
rank up packages are a good way too. If you have SCs, which you might not have a lot of after one week, you can do the heavy ammo synths donation to factions to rank up. Xur sells 3 for 1 strange coin and you need 33 SCs, I believe, to buy enough to fully rank up. Or use crucible reputation boosters and do the daily crucible bounties to rank up there. I usually rank up after each booster. Use a class item that gives you more crucible rep too. And for vanguard (and faction) do patrols. Also switch to a vanguard rep class item.
The raid's also a good place for loot that can be 4 light levels above your current gear. I went from 374 to 381 after running it this week.
The blues dropping from heroic strikes will get you to 385.
If you're at 370 or even close, I highly suggest running the raid on normal. I did it last night at 379 and I am now 384. We also had two in our group that were under 370. If you get a good group and/or Sherpa, you can knock it out in about two-ish hours.
I say trials. It's generally faster than strikes unless you're speed running them, and trials gear drops from post rewards. I don't think trials post rewards give weapons though, and as such I'd suggest regular crucible for those. Try mayhem, it's disgustingly fun.
Run Archon's forge.