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Followup to Post #1 I just spent a lot of time testing this last night, was going to write up a post but may as well add it here. I have more details (don't have my notes with me) but my testing lines up with OP's results. I tried blues, purples, exotics, all got the same amount of XP. Also tried equipping some fully leveled items, didn't change how much XP was applied to non-leveled items. I did my testing by loading destinystatus.com, applying some XP, then reloading destinystatus.com Class item boost means equipping a class item that has "increased rate for hand cannon/etc" Item Weapon Armor (including Ghost shell) Subclass/Light Level Bar 2500 XP Bounty 525 XP 500 XP 2500 XP 3000 XP Bounty 600 XP ? 3000 XP Mote 1000 XP 1000 XP None Mote with Telemetry 1312 XP N/A None Mote with Class Item Boost 1312 XP N/A None Mote with Telem + Class Item 1312 XP N/A None As you can see, bounties are either bugged or have been nerfed for some reason. ------------------------------------------ "... bounties are either bugged or have been nerfed for some reason." Nerfed. It would explain why Bungie gave us 16 bounty slots... Because we'll need them. Looking around Destiny, it also aligns with other displays of Bungie logic (paraphrasing to follow): Bungie statement: "Hey kids! In light of all the salt about weapons parts droughts we're going to allow you to buy weapons parts for glimmer very soon." Bungie action: Nerf glimmer earning potential when you make too much too fast, in spite of the fact they've given us glimmer supps and ghosts that increase earnings. It's all subterfuge on their part. There is just too much of this type of logic displayed since TK dropped, and in too many ways, for it to be interpreted as anything other than them publicizing what they give to us while simultaneously taking something/changing/nerfing an associated item.

Post #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3sitny/bungie_it_took_me_32_bounties_91750_xp_and_44/ Bungie: It took me 32 Bounties (91,750 XP) and 44 Motes of Light + 1 Focused Light Buff totaling - 157,750 XP to max out a pair of Bog Wild Boots. Please tell me there was a "bug," if not, this needs looked at. Over the past couple days I've been wondering how much it takes to level up gear. After doing multiple tests and using DestinyStatus.com, the first circle on Legendary Boots only takes 5,058 XP to fill it in. Which went in line with most of my testing I did when I used Motes of Light AND turning in bounties. So, here we go to the reason why I am making this post. This was after 16 Bounties (41,500 XP) : http://i.imgur.com/MJL8Xpm.png[1] This was after another 16 Bounties for a TOTAL 32 Bounties at 91,750 XP : http://i.imgur.com/hpjAPq1.png[2] Feeling pretty frustrated, I then started testing how much a Mote of Light gives, they give 1,000 XP. I then popped a Focused Light Boost (Red Bull Code 50% increase), so that would mean now a Mote of Light = 1,500 XP. I tested it on a Kingslayer Shell and it did in fact jump to 1,500 XP when I refreshed the page. With a Focused Light popped, I then had to use 44 Motes of Light exactly to fully upgrade my boots. For a total of66,000 XP just on Motes of Light. Making it a grand total of 157,750 XP used to level up ONE single piece of gear. SURELY there has to be something wrong here. It shouldn't take 3 days worth of bounties to level up 1 piece of gear, that's completely insane. Are the bounties "bugged" where some are not giving their CORRECT pay out of XP or not giving it at all? Either way, where did all the XP go? EDIT #1 : I just did another test. I completed a 2,500 XP Bounty. I made sure I only had on ONE piece of gear (Boots). I turned in the Bounty and the FULL 2,500 XP was applied to my Light Level Up Bar (for the 5 motes) and only 500 was applied to the Boots. There is something clearly wrong here OR they have nerfed how much XP is applied. Either way, this was never brought up by Bungie. EDIT #2 : In one more test, Motes of Light XP (1,000 or 1,500) are FULLY applied to said piece of armor/weapon. EDIT #3 : Video proof of applying only the 2,500 XP to my Boots only : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JrFxrwhQw[3] XP Bar Prior to 2,500 XP : http://i.imgur.com/NfD1ToY.png[4] XP Bar AFTER Turn In : http://i.imgur.com/6XmSAhm.png[5] Boots Prior to 2,500 XP : http://i.imgur.com/W2FyvVU.png[6] Boots AFTER Turn In : http://i.imgur.com/bXHE2R9.png[7]

So my number one problem with Destiny is what we all know as "The Grind". Whether it is Weapon Parts, Motes, Faction, Etheric Light, etc.... we have all played for over a year to acquire shiny objects that did nothing more than reinforce that we needed to Keep playing. It has bothered me for the last few months to a point however since TTK it has bothered me more because it is far more blatant. I don't know if you guys care, but I was going to gather up the various posts across the internet and share them here. My goal is not to make others stop playing, or get folks upset, but to actually track the changes as Bungie does their best to create newer and shinier carrots.

Power armor sinks. Don't try to fix pipe leaks with it on. It's a long walk out of the lake. If you assign a companion to a settlement, you can assign them to a task. Codsworth is now running a scavenging station for me instead of meandering about with no job. Build a bell in a central location in every settlement (Resources > Miscellaneous). Ringing it calls every settler to it, and makes it easy to find new settlers and assign them tasks. Equip all your settlers with a marker piece of common equipment, like a bandana. Makes it easy to spot new ones in a crowd, or make it task specific Star-light drive in: It's not just the barrels. The unrusted crashed car is also leaking radiation.

General Sell Fusion Cores to traders before they run out, you will get much more for a partially charged core, over an empty core. Pickpocket enemies with power armor to steal their Fusion Cores, this will cause them to leave the armor, and you can steal the frame The Lone Wanderer perk still provides bonuses with Dog Meat as a companion When Leaving your power armor remove the Fusion Core so no one will decide to use it. When hacking look for [],(), <>,and {} with anything in between the brackets, clicking the leftmost bracket will reset your attempts to give you more tries, or remove dud words from the list. Try to always carry a weapon of each ammo type, that way you are less likely to be completely out of ammo. Some companions can pick locks and hack terminals for you. More specifically: Cait for lockpicking, Nick Valentine for hacking You can tag specific crafting materials by going into your junk section in your inventory, and switch to material view. There is no level cap. Don't fret about spending perk points. The game's enemies don't scale with you, but they do get harder farther from the start, and the farthest away points of the map have level 50 enemies. There's no shortage of things to take down and no shortage of points to get strong enough to do it. To force a companion to equip, or apparel switch to their inventory in the trade menu, and a button will show up to have the npc equip the item. ( "T" for PC, "Y" for Xbox, "Triangle" for PS4) For Power Armor: sprinting, strong melee attacks and VATs drain your Fusion Core faster than walking or standing still. Fast Travel in Power Armor doesn't use and Fusion Core battery, and you can still fast travel with no charge in the core. You can zoom in on the pip boy by right clicking. Crafting You do not need to break down junk items to get components by hand the game will do it for you if the junk items are stored in your settlement workbench or inventory. Extra resources will be deposited in your settlement workbench.(It may take some time to appear) You can grow your own adhesive by cooking Vegetable Starch with Corn, Tato, Muttfruit, and Purified Water. When naming weapons, put a hyphen or space at the beginning of the name (EX: -gun name), and those weapons will default to the top of the list in your pip-boy. If you look at the Junk section of your inventory you can switch to a list of all the components your junk breaks down into (with C on PC). In that list you can set or remove a search tag. When you upgrade a weapon, the current mod will be placed in your inventory. If you transfer all mods to your workbench, if you put that upgrade on another weapon, it will use the mod before crafting a new one. You can salvage weapon sights by modifying the weapon with the no sights attachment, which costs no resources to make. If a gun/armour has a mod you can't build, you can still swap the mod out and install it on another weapon. Settlements When building settlements you can raise and lower objects by holding E and using scroll wheel on PC, X and L1/R1 on PS4 When building your first settlement use E to move the initial workbenches instead of scrapping them. You can remove the radiation from Starlight Drive by scrapping the barrels in the center, and the Unrusted Crashed Car. Water pumps, farms, and traders deposit the Items and Caps they produce into the workbench. To help place objects in hard places use a small rug then place the object on the rug, pick up the rug and the item will remain attached but the game uses the rugs collision detection.(This allows you to clip objects into walls!) To assign settlers select them in the crafting screen then select the object you want them to work Settlers can work up to 6 Food at a time. Meaning a settler can tend to 12 plants that produce .5 food each. To reduce raider attacks make sure your defense state is higher than food + water. Highlighting a settler in workshop mode will also highlight anything he's assigned to. Fast Travel in between settlements will instantly grow all crops that have a settler assigned to them. When your selecting something through the workshop build interface if you press and hold the move command(Press and hold [E]) this will pickup all items attached(or very close) to the object you are picking up. (Be careful as if your walls are all attached you can pickup very large parts of your settlement!) (Swiped from Reddit)

Most online games have Dedicated servers that everyone connects to, and that parses out information. The need to worry your connection to an every changing host is ZERO in games like Battlefield, or Destiny, or WoW, or Daoc, or Eq2, or Guild wars, or Wildstar, or EVE, or Elder Scrolls, or Final Fantasy, or Team Fortress, or Mechwarrior Online, or.... Do I really need to continue? You know this, stop being silly.

If you built a PC back in the 90's and early 00's, you will have absolutely ZERO issue building a PC now. The connections have not changed.

Your local connection doesn't have anything to do, up to a point, with how you connect to any server in the world. You have to remember that you do NOT have a 1:1 connection with that server. From my current location, going to www.callofduty.com, I have to pass through 9 servers first. I have no idea what the actual IP is for the game, but I imagine it is at least as many, if not more, servers in between. You should only be 1-2 servers away from your ISP's when you measure traffic for your 60/20 connection, or whatever, but it is the other servers that fuck your connection. Not to mention, when you are playing Multiplayer, you also have to take into consideration how many servers between you, the host, and then the other players. This is why CoD will ALWAYS have shitty connection issues.

I only did Software Etc, and Best Buy I think you guys had it worse

Dude bought a Jeep and they screwed him. This is how he gets revenge

Yea, my wife declared last night that if we can't buy it online, then we don't need to get it. I want to say Black Friday got its name from the fact that so many sales happened starting on that day, that the rest of the year, the stores would be "In the Black", or as non accountants would call it, everything sold for the rest of the year would be pure profit. ~Hits Wikipedia~ I am sort of right, there are a ton of things that started the term being used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin_of_the_term If you want to read it

I'd love to see one for all of them. Pretty sure Roger Moore was worse What I liked about Spectre/ Daniel Craig Bond: Casino Royale->Quantum->Skyfall-> Spectre are all one continous story. Which is something Bond films have never done. (Even if the connection between Sky and Spectre was horribly bad) I think for me what could summarize the disappointment was a general sense of wasted potential. The action scenes had good ideas and were nicely shot but never culminated into anything great. The opening tracking shot was amazing... but pointless. The helicopter fight felt like I had seen it before. The snowy plane chase was boring. The train fight was probably the best action scene but had no real pain or weight like in Casino Royale. The escape from the lair was laughably brief. The worst offender was the car chase in Rome which off the top of my head is the worst car chase I have ever seen. I kept waiting for it to start. Every few moments I would be anticipating a burst of action but it never came. Bond was just being perused at slightly elevated pace glancing in the mirror every now and then. There was no shooting, no clashing, not even pedestrians jumping out of the way. Bond ejected himself and it was over. That was it!? Even the headache-inducing car chase in QoS was better than that! Jupiter Ascending, quick and dirty thoughts: It had a ton of potential. Rarely does a new Science Fiction universe come along, and so I was excited for this one. The villains were petulant children, they were boring, and honestly you get annoyed by them more than you ever care about them. The heroes are just as bad. You honestly never care about any of them, their plight, or their story. The action sequences were better than most movies. Also, zero shaky-cam bullshit The CGI was really solid and amazing.

Some good buys in there as well! Thanks chris

Jupiter Ascending //facepalm.jpg

Just came across this. If I come across others, I will post them here Best Buy http://blackfriday.bestbuy.com/?category=doorbusters

How good is Anno 2205 you ask? So good that I played an hour, maybe, of Fallout 4, before coming back to this game FYI: The Arctic is a bitch

It would amuse me if streamers were responsible for how I got it. Sorry, but not going to happen. It is out there, it is easy to find. Just be smart and use a VPN if you do grab it. This game on PS4 will not compare to how it will be on PC. You can easily build a PC to run this for the cost of a PS4. Maybe not at 4k resolution, or Ultra video settings, but still.

This game right here. Such a huge PITA to get working with AMD, it makes no sense but once you get it going, it is worth it

Some versions go "Live" today

Servers must be hammered, I am looking at 8 hours 7 minutes to download it

With the weapon parts and other items to be sold at vendors sometime soon we need the glimmer issue fixed please. I want to be able to buy stuff with glimmer again and not be held back by a temporary time-gate on glimmer gain. Especially since we soon will be able to buy weapon parts and turn them in for faction rep. Text Verison: Essentially, Bungie put in a mechanic to slow down your glimmer gain by restricting your character from gaining glimmer if you get over a certain amount within a certain time. In the video I show that I have on the Ghost that gives glimmer when killing Hive and you see right at 168 glimmer gained that I stop getting glimmer BUT I keep gaining candy. I am not at max glimmer. The other part of the video shows fighting Fallen and how I have the Ether Seed buff active with 6 minutes left and I am not gaining glimmer. EDIT: Anyone else feel free to contribute your own vid evidence if you have some so we can maybe figure out a fix for it? Maybe it only happens under certain circumstances. //Why yes, Time Gated anything is fucking bullshit

Should probably ask this in the CoD section.

I went back to Final Fantasy VII I will still log in here and there for folks that need help, and to finish out my Arms day orders. Other than that though, there isn't a multiplayer game out there that looks like something I want to play

Yea I agree with the Break. I logged in to run some nightfalls tonight and was happy to not see anyone on. I didn't feel bad about not being there to help folks

As an avid Wow and Warcraft player for more years than I care to count, I am torn on this. The writing in the MMO has gone to shit, they have done such a poor job of writing they went from 14 million active subscribers, to 5.5 million. However, part of me really hope they do this, and do it well, I just have a hard time imagining how they will pull off any section of the lore in 1 movie