What've you found to be the best/quickest way to get your Vanguard level up Neema?
My usual approach is:
- Accept the most general bounties first thing when you log in,
- Start the daily heroic and hopefully complete something,
- Hand in anything completed, accept something else, go to a Patrol to finish off any 'without dying' bounties, Overcharge, Cleansing Light or One For All,
- Accept the remaining bounties, at this point these will usually be strike boss targets or story mode ultras with the heroic modifier,
- Do the story mode ultra targets first,
- Start the Tiger strike playlist, play until bored,
- Do some Crucible or Patrol for a while, find some more resources to trade in (I can usually find 15-20 per Patrol session on Earth or The Moon),
- Trade in resources whenever possible - until you reach the weekly mark cap, at which point I trade them in at the Crucible quartermaster instead to maximise their usefulness,
- Play more strikes until bored, if I have a target from a strike that can be selected from the map I'll usually do that but not all of them can be chosen specifically and have to be randomly initiated in a playlist.
- Pretty much just repeat from there, really.
- Find people to do the weekly heroic with when necessary.
The problem is that strikes earn at most 25XP which is the same as a single VIP Patrol mission which can often be completed with a single bullet! The trade-off is that strikes give you a lot of XP (for motes of light), you can find engrams while playing and you get given one or two items at the end which can include legendaries, maybe even exotics, as well as strange coins and maybe also motes of light (I think I had one once but I can't remember for sure), and VIP missions are harder to find anyway, though sometimes you can find one after the other and do a string of four or five. It's rare, though.
It turns out that something like 0.2% of players have reached Vanguard rank 3 so it does take a long time, I have the highly dubious 'benefits' of being unemployed and having a girlfriend who is out of the country right now so I have a
lot of spare time at the moment and
nothing to do (I do study but college only started this week, no work to do yet)! I also tend to dislike PvP so I've literally been doing nothing but PvE, until the night before last that is.
I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be, but does anyone here want to help me with my Thorn bounty? I need two level 26 players (I'm not even there yet myself) to join me on a heroic level 26 Moon strike, but instead of killing the target at the end we have to hold out against wave after wave of enemies, potentially for a
long time, until Xyor, the Unwed (a wizard) shows up. Then we kill it and I get a sweet new gun,
you get... Potentially nothing useful. As I said, I'm level 25 (I think I'll probably level up if I can upgrade my armour once, or if I buy an exotic piece from Xur on the weekend) so I'm not looking to do it just yet, but I need help with that.
. I'm level 17 right now, and I'm on the last mission for the Moon. I still have to do the strike mission on there.
