Stuck on the Malfeasance quest

[Petralicious]

How do I even beat the motes deposited requirement?
Every time I try, there's a full clan on the enemy team with invader armor ready to destroy me because my teammates hog all the heavy ammo to try rocket launcher or sword some adds or the primeval and I can't deal with stuff like Hammerhead, Xenophage, Thunderlord, Truth, etc. without a heavy of my own unless they play super dumb and let me snipe them out in the open. And oftentimes they lag and kill me after I killed them, because Destiny hitreg works like that.

I can't get past like 15% without getting targeted and knockded down back to 0, and on top of it all, I'm an invader player so it's extra frustrating being forced to play collector when I don't even have any bonuses for it.

Is there really no way to cheese or at the very least guarantee some progress somehow?
I'm sick and tired of basically throwing matches because I run to deposit odd amounts of motes while getting constantly targetted by invaders that make it all worthless.

[Handoiron]

I had the same issue at first.

I'm up to 77%ish now. Either set up a fireteam that won't %*&^( you over or just join pub teams and be careful.

Even turning in every section no matter if you have 1 or 15 motes if you need to.

It might feel evil not playing to win so much, but most teams I get in pub gambit don't give a heck what anyone else wants -- they'll run right in front of you to grab motes ahead of you even if you're at 10+ and they have none. So I said %*&^ it and just turn in whatever I manage to get each section instead of trying to get 15 every turn in.

[Nophex]

bank early bank fast, if blockers are there first carry something like a fusion rifle to take them down asap or lord of wolves etc often times you cant deposit first you can take down blockers before the invader gets through and then it dont matter your free to fight them if you die you lose nothing because you deposited.

After that you will get a feel for when a invader will come.

[Petralicious]

Originally posted by Handoiron:

I had the same issue at first.

I'm up to 77%ish now. Either set up a fireteam that won't %*&^( you over or just join pub teams and be careful.

Even turning in every section no matter if you have 1 or 15 motes if you need to.

It might feel evil not playing to win so much, but most teams I get in pub gambit don't give a heck what anyone else wants -- they'll run right in front of you to grab motes ahead of you even if you're at 10+ and they have none. So I said %*&^ it and just turn in whatever I manage to get each section instead of trying to get 15 every turn in.

Doing this already and it's not helping when I'm constantly getting destroyed by invaders.

Originally posted by Red:

bank early bank fast, if blockers are there first carry something like a fusion rifle to take them down asap or lord of wolves etc often times you cant deposit first you can take down blockers before the invader gets through and then it dont matter your free to fight them if you die you lose nothing because you deposited.

After that you will get a feel for when a invader will come.

Yeah, I know more or less when an invader is coming, but not much I can do about it besides run to a corner of the map and hope they are dumb enough to run out in the open.

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Red:

bank early bank fast, if blockers are there first carry something like a fusion rifle to take them down asap or lord of wolves etc often times you cant deposit first you can take down blockers before the invader gets through and then it dont matter your free to fight them if you die you lose nothing because you deposited.

After that you will get a feel for when a invader will come.

Also, banking early with smaller offerings will get you back and you can check the heavy ammo more often. Lastly, don't discount mods like heavy ammo finder, machine gun ammo finder, etc. Don't bother invading. It doesn't help 'you'. Let someone else do it.

[Emurinus]

Get no more than 7 or so motes at a time and dunk them as soon as you can. As long as you aren't holding motes when you die, you won't have to worry as much.

[Handoiron]

Originally posted by Petralicious:

Doing this already and it's not helping when I'm constantly getting destroyed by invaders.

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Yeah, I know more or less when an invader is coming, but not much I can do about it besides run to a corner of the map and hope they are dumb enough to run out in the open.

If you bank your motes every section, you'll likely never have more than 4-7 motes on you at any time.

Invaders that know what they're doing enough to kill you no matter what will usually go after the guy with 10+ before you with your 0-7.

If all else fails, take a trust / targeting rocket launcher with you and try to kill them as they poke their head into the spawn hallway you're hiding in.

Or just run around anything that blocks them watching radar to make sure they don't go the opposite direction.

I swear I've heard so many invaders scream profanities when I just played ring-around-the-tree / pillar / rock making them waste their invasion time chasing me instead of getting kills.

The idea is to be as cowardly as possible, don't try to gather tons of motes, you'll have to play super aggressively to beat out pug runners and you risk getting killed and losing motes to the stuff they ignore not caring if they lose motes. Don't hold 10+ motes for any length of time -- get them banked. If you hear 2 blocker get dropped at the same time and you're carrying many motes, don't go to the bank -- run to spawn and set up to pound an invader that sticks his head in there looking for you. Make yourself less attractive as a target and more annoying to chase down than the rest of your team.

Overall, the goal isn't to bank massive amounts of motes, it's to avoid losing motes.The double drain for lost motes just hurts too much to risk carrying many. Even only banking 5 per game and losing 0 is better than pushing and banking 30 and losing 20 to cost yourself 40 and lose 5 overall.