Noob Question on Alts

[Flushing]

I had been a f2p player for a month and got the latest expansion recently.

I play void warlock and love it.

I want to play titan and hunter too for a different experience.

I created alts of each but never tried them yet.

Today when I logged on, I see there is an option to boost them immediately for 2000 silver. Does that just give them gear with greater than 1450 powerlevel?

Can I just give my alts gear that is in my Vault that I found with voidwalker, or does it not work that way?

Also, anyone who plays regularly please add me to friends, I have 2 weeks to binge campaigns and have just been soloing them.

Thanks all, what a great game.

P.S.

Love Thunderlord, glaive and hand cannons.

[Nibbie]

I never used the boost, but I think it just gives them gear that is at a certain power level, to help speed up/skip some of the levelling process.

As for your current gear, armor is class based; you cannot use any of your warlock armor on the other classes and vice versa. However, weapons can be used by anyone, so you can freely exchange weapons between your characters. By having those high power weapons on your account, the normal levelling process of your other characters will be much faster as well, so I wouldn't advise paying for the boost.

To clarify that point, the power of the weapon and armor you get is determined by your maximum average theoretical gear power. As long as it exists on your account and you could theoretically equip it, it counts toward what power your drops are at. Your equipment can be equipped, in your inventory, in your vault, and even on another character, as long as you could use it it counts.

Thus, even without transferring weapons, your other characters will get drops much higher than normal, because while their armor will be 1350, their weapons will count as 1500 (or however high your warlock's weapons got up to), so your average level, and thus drops, will be in the 1400s, and you only need a few armor drops to climb to 1500, much faster than your warlock did.

[SenseiDecay]

All guns can be transferred between characters, so that makes leveling up your alts much easier.

Also, going up in power to the point where you need powerfuls really doesn't take that long so while I don't know what level the boosts bring you to, I can tell you they're probably not worth it unless your playtime is extremely limited.

[Mez Koo]

Don't waste your money, getting to the soft cap is easy.

[Emurinus]

The paytrack just exists to get you to the soft cap, which is basically a scam because you can reach that within a couple hours. You can transfer your guns to other characters and use them to significantly speed up your leveling (as then you only need to worry about armor), but you cannot do the same with armor unless they are of the same class- and there's no point in having more than one Hunter/Titan/Warlock.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

The paytrack just exists to get you to the soft cap, which is basically a scam because you can reach that within a couple hours. You can transfer your guns to other characters and use them to significantly speed up your leveling (as then you only need to worry about armor), but you cannot do the same with armor unless they are of the same class- and there's no point in having more than one Hunter/Titan/Warlock.

There is no leveling up in Destiny 2 right?

Gear determines your level and I unlock class abilities by purchasing them?

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Don't waste your money, getting to the soft cap is easy.

It's all just gear, right?

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Don't waste your money, getting to the soft cap is easy.

It's all just gear, right?

Power level is just gear yes. Seasonal ranks are where the character experience goes.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Don't waste your money, getting to the soft cap is easy.

Yeah, that.

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by Emurinus:

The paytrack just exists to get you to the soft cap, which is basically a scam because you can reach that within a couple hours. You can transfer your guns to other characters and use them to significantly speed up your leveling (as then you only need to worry about armor), but you cannot do the same with armor unless they are of the same class- and there's no point in having more than one Hunter/Titan/Warlock.

There is no leveling up in Destiny 2 right?

Gear determines your level and I unlock class abilities by purchasing them?

Gear determines your main power level. Your "gearscore" is averaged (down) among your 8 gear slots, and increases as you get more powerful drops from certain activities/challenges. If you don't like the looks or stats of certain gear though, you can infuse it into lower stat gear that you do like, that way you can keep using the stuff you like. For example, you have a Riskrunner at 1457 power but have a solar shotgun at 1500. You don't like the shotgun that much, so you just infuse it into Riskrunner to make it 1500. Your gearscore peaks after a high enough level (I think it's 1580 this season?) and won't go any higher than that.


The seasonal artifact is what requires XP to level, and has theoretically infinite power boosts. The more levels you get though, the higher the XP costs for the next one. For reference, you'll get a power boost of +20 once your seasonal rank reaches around 200 (I think it's closer to 198 though). This allows you to still play higher level content without having your gear maxed out, though it helps to do the latter if possible.


Going to class abilities, yes, you just purchase them for glimmer. I'd recommend buying all of the aspects first, then choose between what grenades you want to use and the aspects. Please note that you'll need to do this per subclass per character so it will get pretty pricey in the long run, but glimmer is also pretty easy to obtain too.

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

Originally posted by Flushing:

There is no leveling up in Destiny 2 right?

Gear determines your level and I unlock class abilities by purchasing them?

Gear determines your main power level. Your "gearscore" is averaged (down) among your 8 gear slots, and increases as you get more powerful drops from certain activities/challenges. If you don't like the looks or stats of certain gear though, you can infuse it into lower stat gear that you do like, that way you can keep using the stuff you like. For example, you have a Riskrunner at 1457 power but have a solar shotgun at 1500. You don't like the shotgun that much, so you just infuse it into Riskrunner to make it 1500. Your gearscore peaks after a high enough level (I think it's 1580 this season?) and won't go any higher than that.


The seasonal artifact is what requires XP to level, and has theoretically infinite power boosts. The more levels you get though, the higher the XP costs for the next one. For reference, you'll get a power boost of +20 once your seasonal rank reaches around 200 (I think it's closer to 198 though). This allows you to still play higher level content without having your gear maxed out, though it helps to do the latter if possible.


Going to class abilities, yes, you just purchase them for glimmer. I'd recommend buying all of the aspects first, then choose between what grenades you want to use and the aspects. Please note that you'll need to do this per subclass per character so it will get pretty pricey in the long run, but glimmer is also pretty easy to obtain too.

Thanks dude. Since you know a lot let me ask you two follow-up questions.

1. I crafted a glaive after I finished my first witch campaign mission. Is that the seasonal artifact?

2. I am playing warlock as my main because I like the caster look, but I've been reading that they are sub-par compared to Titan and Hunter in the current state of the game. When the devs do updates do they address class balance often?

[SenseiDecay]

Originally posted by Flushing:

Originally posted by Emurinus:

Gear determines your main power level. Your "gearscore" is averaged (down) among your 8 gear slots, and increases as you get more powerful drops from certain activities/challenges. If you don't like the looks or stats of certain gear though, you can infuse it into lower stat gear that you do like, that way you can keep using the stuff you like. For example, you have a Riskrunner at 1457 power but have a solar shotgun at 1500. You don't like the shotgun that much, so you just infuse it into Riskrunner to make it 1500. Your gearscore peaks after a high enough level (I think it's 1580 this season?) and won't go any higher than that.


The seasonal artifact is what requires XP to level, and has theoretically infinite power boosts. The more levels you get though, the higher the XP costs for the next one. For reference, you'll get a power boost of +20 once your seasonal rank reaches around 200 (I think it's closer to 198 though). This allows you to still play higher level content without having your gear maxed out, though it helps to do the latter if possible.


Going to class abilities, yes, you just purchase them for glimmer. I'd recommend buying all of the aspects first, then choose between what grenades you want to use and the aspects. Please note that you'll need to do this per subclass per character so it will get pretty pricey in the long run, but glimmer is also pretty easy to obtain too.

Thanks dude. Since you know a lot let me ask you two follow-up questions.

1. I crafted a glaive after I finished my first witch campaign mission. Is that the seasonal artifact?

2. I am playing warlock as my main because I like the caster look, but I've been reading that they are sub-par compared to Titan and Hunter in the current state of the game. When the devs do updates do they address class balance often?

1. Glaive is just a weapon, the artifact is from the mission it loads you into when you first start the game.

2. All classes can do all the content and you're not really at a disadvantage with any of them, it's mostly just playstyle preference. In higher end content warlocks are almost mandatory to be in groups, nobody will ever complain about having a well of radiance to do boss dps in.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Flushing:

1. I crafted a glaive after I finished my first witch campaign mission. Is that the seasonal artifact?

No, as SensiDecay said, that's just a weapon.

The Seasonal Artifact goes into the 5th (lowest) slot on the left hand side of your character screen. It's earned by completing whatever the intro mission is for the season.

What it does is give you access to the Seasonal Mods. At their most basic, these include the Anti-Champion mods. Every season has them, but they shift from season to season. Additionally, there are mods that are designed to facilitate whatever Bungie decides are going to be the meta builds for the season.

Mods need to be slotted into your armor to work.

Originally posted by Flushing:

2. I am playing warlock as my main because I like the caster look, but I've been reading that they are sub-par compared to Titan and Hunter in the current state of the game. When the devs do updates do they address class balance often?

The devs tinker with the game and with balance all the time, but major changes tend to happen when expansions are released. Warlocks tend to be the least played class (for various reasons, not necessarily "balance"). Whether or not class balance is the key issue in Warlock population is perhaps somewhat subjective.

So ... yes, the devs work on balance all the time, but whether or not they'll agree that Warlocks are out of balance with the other classes isn't a given, nor is it necessarily a given as to how they'll shift the balance if/when they consider the issue.

If you want to keep up on what Bungie is thinking and planning, then it's best to read their weekly blog, which you can find here: https://www.bungie.net/en-us/news

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by Flushing:

There is no leveling up in Destiny 2 right?

Not anymore.

[Jagdtiger]

Every "fast track" payment is a noob trap. They are obscenely overpriced and exist exclusively to satiate players who can only play maybe 1-2 hours per week

[Flushing]

Originally posted by Jagdtiger:

Every "fast track" payment is a noob trap. They are obscenely overpriced and exist exclusively to satiate players who can only play maybe 1-2 hours per week

I won't do it. I understand how it works in Destiny 2 now. Thanks all, you saved me $20.

Really love the game so far.

Got my Thunderlord and Glave and just binging Gambit now.