What's the fastest and most effective way to filter or squelch unwanted items in Destiny
After playing Destiny for a good few hours, I've now pushed my light level well into three figures. All my equipment slots are taken up with Rare/blue items.
I'm picking up new items and engrams on every mission. Early on, a friendly player on a fireteam told me just to equip the highest level items I had, never to buy upgrades, and junk everything else. The only exceptions were to be made for Legendary or Exotic items.
When you're rising through levels really quickly, this seemed like sound advice. And given I've still got a long way to go, I've stuck with it for my mid-level plays.
However, another friendly player told me yesterday that there were some upgrade perks that were worth taking and keeping, even on otherwise comparatively low-level gear. He gave me the example of Firefly, which causes targets to explode if they're killed by a precision shot, and said there were others.
Going through every item I pick up and looking at its upgrade tree is time consuming when I just want to be slaughtering aliens. So: what's the best way to quickly and accurately determine what's worth keeping and what should be dismantled for parts?
Best Answer
Something that hasn't been mentioned by the other answers is that the Gunsmith reputation will eventually give you missions to dismantle certain types of weapons for unique class weapons and other good weapons. Saving a few blue and purple weapons of different types will let you complete these right away. You need 10 "parts" total, you get 1 per blue dismantle and 5 per purple dismantle.
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Answer 2
Yes, as far as running missions pre-level-cap goes, just roll with whatever has the highest light level and almost never buy upgrades.
Something that was not mentioned here, though, is that, if you like the crucible, it is very important to note that light level does not matter for (almost) every game type. So it might be a good idea to keep around a set of gear that you fully upgrade that has the stats/perks you like for pvp.
A good example of this is that I kept around a slow ROF very high impact machine gun light level 100 for a very long time because it kills guardians in 3-5 shots. I also found a headpiece that had a melee speed upgrade. Which is pretty odd as that bonus is usually found on an arm piece. Needless to say the effects are devastating when combined with an armpiece with that same bonus on a titan in the crucible.
Many of those legacy legendary weapons you get while doing the storyline missions during leveling actually totally wreck in the crucible. The Murmur is a fantastic fusion rifle especially when upgraded.
Answer 3
I generally hold all items (and engrams) then check everything over at once, 'after the fight' when I return to the tower.
It's annoying and slow, but this is really a mmo fps and so some kind of grinding behaviour is to be expected.
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