Legendary lost sectors too high?

[The Key of Diary]

Maybe its not too high and I am just doing this wrong, but I feel as a returning player and on week 3, the fact that I am still at 1780 with very little progress, I just cant farm for the exotics needed to make a build.

Can anyone possibly tell me how to raise my level as I am running strikes, pvp, campaigns, you name it but the gear dropping is not higher than the gear I have on.

[Pocahawtness]

Yes, Bungie, in their almighty wisdom, decided to make the game more difficult so now it's rough going for people who are a lower level. On Legend, your only option is to camp, hiding behind rocks and so on, because at 1780 almost everything is going to one-shot you. You are better trying to do the older Lost Sectors, that are just easier. Use Strand to deal with the specials. And even then, I am not sure you are going to do enough damage to them.
Raising your level, just do activities on the planets and moons. It is a bit of a chore.

[Nakos]

Escape->Directory->Destinations

Look for the gold "coins". Those are "Powerful" and "Pinnacle" quests. They reset weekly. Do as many as you can every week. Try to do the "Powerful" ones first if possible.

You should also get a certain number of "Prime" engrams each week. Those should all be upgrades.

1780 is pretty low for the current Legendary Lost Sectors.

[Ryuukaze]

Yeah, there's no way you're going to complete Legendary Lost Sectors unless you get that light level up.

My trick? I did a *ton* of the new daily rotating event on Neomuna. It seems to drop a lot of "powerful"-worthy loot from the chests, and I got up to 1800 pretty quick on all 3 characters.

From there, it's basically just pinnacles until 1810, though.

[Wanderer]

Bungie wants people to no-life a video game. Like that appeals to the majority of people on earth. They are so out of it.

[DiabloMuerto]

Can tell you right now, the way lost sectors are currently, it is going to a slog trying to get any exotics. I ran the one yesterday because it was easy, or at least as easy as it's going to be at present. Cleared it five times and didn't get any exotics. That's not exactly abnormal, only thing is this this lost sector took me 10-14 min to clear depending on how annoying the champs wanted to be. So for five runs lets just say 50 minutes and I got nothing.

That's one of my many issues with the changes they made, they changed the damage output and all to make it harder but they didn't change anything else to compensate. So now you spend more time running those lost sectors but you still have the same crappy odds at a drop as before. Previously running twenty lost sectors to get the drop you wanted was annoying just for the sheer number of runs but at least the runs didn't take but five minutes, the one from yesterday probably not even that. You also got to play them how you enjoy, not hiding behind walls and corners taking shots at range, running away, etc. That's how you play them now, or you try and cheese with suspend.

[The Key of Diary]

Originally posted by Pirate☠️Pocah:

Yes, Bungie, in their almighty wisdom, decided to make the game more difficult so now it's rough going for people who are a lower level. On Legend, your only option is to camp, hiding behind rocks and so on, because at 1780 almost everything is going to one-shot you. You are better trying to do the older Lost Sectors, that are just easier. Use Strand to deal with the specials. And even then, I am not sure you are going to do enough damage to them.
Raising your level, just do activities on the planets and moons. It is a bit of a chore.

Thank you, could you possibly tell which are considered the easier lost sectors perhaps, haven't played this in years, if it's not too much trouble.

Originally posted by Nakos:

Escape->Directory->Destinations

Look for the gold "coins". Those are "Powerful" and "Pinnacle" quests. They reset weekly. Do as many as you can every week. Try to do the "Powerful" ones first if possible.

You should also get a certain number of "Prime" engrams each week. Those should all be upgrades.

1780 is pretty low for the current Legendary Lost Sectors.

Thank you for the suggestion on doing powerful first, will keep that in mind.

Originally posted by Ryuukaze:

Yeah, there's no way you're going to complete Legendary Lost Sectors unless you get that light level up.

My trick? I did a *ton* of the new daily rotating event on Neomuna. It seems to drop a lot of "powerful"-worthy loot from the chests, and I got up to 1800 pretty quick on all 3 characters.

From there, it's basically just pinnacles until 1810, though.

The daily rotating event, What is that exactly and where would I find that?
Thank you as well for the input.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by LootFruit:

Originally posted by Pirate☠️Pocah:

Yes, Bungie, in their almighty wisdom, decided to make the game more difficult so now it's rough going for people who are a lower level. On Legend, your only option is to camp, hiding behind rocks and so on, because at 1780 almost everything is going to one-shot you. You are better trying to do the older Lost Sectors, that are just easier. Use Strand to deal with the specials. And even then, I am not sure you are going to do enough damage to them.
Raising your level, just do activities on the planets and moons. It is a bit of a chore.

Thank you, could you possibly tell which are considered the easier lost sectors perhaps, haven't played this in years, if it's not too much trouble.

Originally posted by Nakos:

Escape->Directory->Destinations

Look for the gold "coins". Those are "Powerful" and "Pinnacle" quests. They reset weekly. Do as many as you can every week. Try to do the "Powerful" ones first if possible.

You should also get a certain number of "Prime" engrams each week. Those should all be upgrades.

1780 is pretty low for the current Legendary Lost Sectors.

Thank you for the suggestion on doing powerful first, will keep that in mind.

Originally posted by Ryuukaze:

Yeah, there's no way you're going to complete Legendary Lost Sectors unless you get that light level up.

My trick? I did a *ton* of the new daily rotating event on Neomuna. It seems to drop a lot of "powerful"-worthy loot from the chests, and I got up to 1800 pretty quick on all 3 characters.

From there, it's basically just pinnacles until 1810, though.

The daily rotating event, What is that exactly and where would I find that?
Thank you as well for the input.

In my opinion the oldest in the game are some of the easiest. Today it's on Earth and is very easy. Using a long range weapon you can pick everything off bit by bit, retreating to the entrance if it comes at you. They won't follow you all the way to the entrance. Choose your place and use strand to suspend then shoot away at it, running away if necessary. The boss, for example, there is a pile of something under a tarpaulin on the way to the boss that you can stand on an snipe the boss and he won't even fire back because his gun is too low to the ground to get a good shot of you.

[The Key of Diary]

Originally posted by Pirate☠️Pocah:

Originally posted by LootFruit:

Thank you, could you possibly tell which are considered the easier lost sectors perhaps, haven't played this in years, if it's not too much trouble.


Thank you for the suggestion on doing powerful first, will keep that in mind.



The daily rotating event, What is that exactly and where would I find that?
Thank you as well for the input.

In my opinion the oldest in the game are some of the easiest. Today it's on Earth and is very easy. Using a long range weapon you can pick everything off bit by bit, retreating to the entrance if it comes at you. They won't follow you all the way to the entrance. Choose your place and use strand to suspend then shoot away at it, running away if necessary. The boss, for example, there is a pile of something under a tarpaulin on the way to the boss that you can stand on an snipe the boss and he won't even fire back because his gun is too low to the ground to get a good shot of you.

Thank you, I did try it, still too hard for me sadly.

[Drake]

Legendary and master lost sector had a fixed difficulty. The enemies will always be 15 or 20 levels above respectively.

[The Key of Diary]

Originally posted by Drake:

Legendary and master lost sector had a fixed difficulty. The enemies will always be 15 or 20 levels above respectively.

never knew that

[=RaggA=]

Originally posted by LootFruit:

Can anyone possibly tell me how to raise my level

Here is a list of everything you can do in the game to get powerful & pinnacle gear and if it can be got solo or not.

https://www.blueberries.gg/leveling/destiny-2-max-power-level/

[Ryuukaze]

The event is Terminal Overload. At the end of it, there's 2 chests that have loot. The second chest requires a key, but you can get a key from a key, from the first chest, from random chests, and from other places, so I quite often have 5 (max) of the keys. Just run that repeatedly for loot and you'll level up pretty quickly in my experience.

[Dark_Embers]

This sounds like a case of get good....

yes the game is harder, But after 3 weeks of the game being out you are the only person to blame for not being 1800... the edz lost sector take about 5 mins or less to do flawless for plat rewards, did it 5 times got 4 exotics...

you should be doing all your powerfulls till you get to 1800, then farm all your pinnacles. to get to 1810.

Farm the seasonal event, try and do as many challenges as you can, dont pull the armor from the season pass as soon as it unlocks so that you can use it as you need to for slots that are lagging behind the rest of your armor.

its not that hard you just need to play the actual game.

[EckyThump]

Originally posted by Drake:

Legendary and master lost sector had a fixed difficulty. The enemies will always be 15 or 20 levels above respectively.

Not Lost Sectors, they don't have the fixed power cap like Nightfalls, etc.
But even so, Bungie's new difficulty scaling 'expects' us to play Legend content at 15 below the recommended. Even though you can get closer to the recommended, unlike Legend Nightfall, you shouldn't need to. 1,815 should be fine.

[The Key of Diary]

Originally posted by Dark_Embers:

This sounds like a case of get good....

yes the game is harder, But after 3 weeks of the game being out you are the only person to blame for not being 1800... the edz lost sector take about 5 mins or less to do flawless for plat rewards, did it 5 times got 4 exotics...

you should be doing all your powerfulls till you get to 1800, then farm all your pinnacles. to get to 1810.

Farm the seasonal event, try and do as many challenges as you can, dont pull the armor from the season pass as soon as it unlocks so that you can use it as you need to for slots that are lagging behind the rest of your armor.

its not that hard you just need to play the actual game.

I am currently 1805 or something like that, still cannot do those lost sectors, I came close to completely one in the dreaming city the other day but the hobgoblin regen'd its health faster than what I could do damage to it.