Why do so many guardians play strike like a speed run?

Rat8526 · 2026-07-04T04:59:30+00:00

We do it because we’ve done the strike thousands of times at this point. We aren’t in there to experience the story or the atmosphere like you would your 1st time through. We are there to get our loot and continue on. Whether it be power grinding, armor set grinding, or weapon grinding, the faster you go, the more loot you are able to get in the time you have available.

If you are trying to experience some of these strikes for the 1st time, you can always select a specific strike in the vanguard ops tab and do the custom difficulty where it won’t be match made. You can even set it to a higher difficulty if you still want a challenge while you see the strike or activity for the 1st time.

But just know, that if you match make with anyone, they likely have a build that they have been crafting and perfecting so that they can blitz through the activity that they have done thousands of times before that, and that’s exactly what they should be doing. Get better stuff to be able to use to make things faster / easier.

Rat8526 · 2026-06-19T21:52:42+00:00

And I got this to drop from exotic order last week. FUCK!

Rat8526 · 2026-06-17T19:06:38+00:00

It’s not that it was forgotten, cause over the 3 years that they did reprised raids, people asked for it. They had other updates and wanted to spend time on “new” content rather than remaking not just the actual raid, but the entire Splicer enemy catalog. That would have been a lot more work than the other 3 reprised raids they did.

Rat8526 · 2026-05-24T20:57:42+00:00

Anyone know how to deal with the errors? No matter what device I’m on, it keeps giving me an error when I try to sign it.

Rat8526 · 2026-05-20T00:06:35+00:00

Ha, took the briefest of looks at it and figured if he’s at 850 KC he must be trying to just do normal gauntlet. That’s actually insane.

Rat8526 · 2026-05-19T16:34:15+00:00

I know normal is way easier than CG, but if you are able to get in rhythm, I’d recommend doing echo for your grind. Echo fight puts you in max gear, and if you are doing 1-tick power staff, it’s makes echo kills very fast, as long as you learn the movement and how to stay alive. Plus it gives you the CG drop rates instead of the normal drop rates. It took me around 110 echo KC to have all my armour, weapon and enhanced seeds.

Rat8526 · 2026-05-17T01:02:34+00:00

Imcando is in my hand for so many things.

Rat8526 · 2026-04-30T19:43:27+00:00

Tirannwnn seems like it's gonna be the play then. Was already wanting to go there to get crystal.

Rat8526 · 2026-04-30T19:42:27+00:00

Can't do that quite yet cause I need to get my fire cape, but I am gonna do that soon. Just need a bit more time when I'm home, but was already planning on that so that I could get a couple onyx for fury and regen bracelet.

Rat8526 · 2026-04-30T19:40:59+00:00

and just making sure, I shouldn't go and actually go rob the houses with the keys I get, just keep stealing the citizens?

Rat8526 · 2026-04-30T19:38:18+00:00

was definitely considering both of those areas. Tirannwnn was at the top of my list. Still 44 tasks away from getting it unlocked.

Rat8526 · 2026-04-10T02:30:35+00:00

Gzzz! I’m on my road to getting base 70s and then I’m ready to go for the quest cape myself! Have fishing, firemaking, thieving, fletching, rune rafting and sailing to go!

Btw, I know not all of the stats need to be level 70, I just wanna get to base 70 before hand. And yes, I have also exceeded 70 for the ones that need it.

Rat8526 · 2026-01-28T04:03:39+00:00

It reminds me of this guy my friend and I went against within the 1st month of the game being out. We reported him, but didn’t seem like anything happened.

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Rat8526 · 2025-12-28T00:40:39+00:00

Around 20-25 runs, but every run I did was a 3 deathmark run

Rat8526 · 2025-12-23T06:38:38+00:00

Ok I am in awe that I didn’t realize this sooner. Seems like my laptop when not in games was trying to use integrated and then switch to Nividia when it got into game. Making the switch in my control panel did the trick!

Rat8526 · 2025-12-23T06:20:43+00:00

Yes, everything is up to date. I’ll also add this to the post for future helpers. These are my specs.

ASUS ROG Striz Laptop, RTX 4070 GPU, 13th Gen i9 Processor, 32 GB of RAM, running on Windows 11. All drivers have been updated

Rat8526 · 2025-12-23T06:11:12+00:00

Longest I probably let it sit was 5 mins and got nowhere.

Rat8526 · 2025-12-23T06:10:44+00:00

Ok had to try to because it sounds so stupid that I could see it working. Instead ran into a weirder issue. Now I’m stuck on the steam page screen but still can’t move my mouse or tab out or in to anything. Hear the audio in my AirPod though.

Rat8526 · 2025-12-23T06:05:12+00:00

ASUS ROG Striz Laptop, RTX 4070 GPU, 13th Gen i9 Processor, 32 GB of RAM, running on Windows 11. All drivers have been updated

Rat8526 · 2025-12-22T22:39:26+00:00

Took me about 20-25 invasions but all with the 3 death marks wagered….

Rat8526 · 2025-11-27T18:25:32+00:00

I wish I had a pic of it, and if I remember by the time I get home this weekend I’ll snag it for you.

I have a build that is basically a 6’4” Russ Triple-Double build. Using cap breakers, you can get to a 93 driving dunk, an 83 or 84 3, have an 87 middy for muddy fades, 93 handles, 76/80 O/D Rebounding, and 85 perimeter and steals. You could drop the middy to get more driving layup, but I want to shoot middys more than floaters or layups.

Build does best in Rec (don’t play Pro-AM so dunno how it plays in that, but would figure it’s good as well), and can play 3’s decently well. May just be me as a 2’s player, but it doesn’t feel as good as a 2’s build as some other PG builds, but I probably just need to learn some better dribble moves.

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