

If you fail the Nightfall once or twice, or if your groups struggle to defeat Crota, it may take closer to five hours. You can do them all in three hours if you have a short strike for the Nightfall, like the Nexus, that you can clear in less than 15 minutes, and if your raid groups are very competent and can fully clear Crota's End in half an hour. The weekly heroic strike is a second special level 30 strike that is easier than the Nightfall, and rewards 9 Strange Coins and some rare engrams. However, Nightfall strikes have a special "nightfall" modifier that causes you to return to orbit if all members of your fireteam are knocked out, so a failure in this activity means you have to start over from the beginning. If you complete the Nightfall, your character will get a buff called Radiant Light, which gives you a 20 percent bonus to all reputation and experience gains until the next Tuesday reset.

No matter what you get, it will be worth your time.

It has a high chance to drop exotic gear, and if it doesn't award that it will give you a legendary weapon, a legendary engram and/or some ascendant materials.Īt the very least you'll get some Strange Coins, a currency used to buy exotic gear and exotic upgrade materials from Xur, a special vendor who only appears in the game's social hub area on weekends. The Nightfall is a special level 30 strike with a bunch of difficult modifiers, as well as some fun ones that make elemental attacks do bonus damage. The raid drops legendary armor that can reach 36 Light when fully upgraded legendary guns with excellent perk loadouts and higher stat budgets than vendor guns as well as exotic guns and the radiant currencies that are used to upgrade all the good stuff. These are the most lucrative activities in the game, and they can only be done once per week, per character. That's about how long it takes to do three Crota's End raids, three Nightfall strikes and three level 30 weekly heroic strikes. If you need to get to that point, I'll discuss the best ways to do so as well. Five Hours of LootĪll it takes is between three and five hours per week of playtime to get the best loot, if you're a competent player and all your characters are at level 31. I discussed this subject in November, but the Dark Below content pack has changed many things. Its game systems are also incredibly intricate, and sometimes counterintuitive, so even experienced players can often use some tips on how to collect the game's shiniest rewards without pouring unreasonable amounts of their life into the game. Destiny, Bungie's controversial multiplayer shooter, is famously addictive yet notoriously grindy and disrespectful of players' time.
