#The Grind to 64,000 Light: A Discussion

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umbral trout
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Lightbearers,

I wanted to go ahead and kickstart the Gold Medal gating discussion for Acclaim 18. After some careful deliberation, it seems as though the only possible way to get your character to 64,000 light is through exotic weapons. I'll write an explanation of the math below. This is assuming your toon is already completely maxed in every other area, which would put you around like 61-62,000 light. I will also dispel some misconception with artifacts, as I initially thought that Artifact Perk Level 5 would be the final gate to break to pass 64,000 light, but thats not the case.

Weapons: Currently, with Exotic Mod upgrades limited at +7, we are limited to around 9,500 light on a double mythic weapon with triple exotic mods, completely maxed. This means that the only possible source of increasing your light to the appropriate 64,000 threshold lies within Exotic weapons. Exotic weapons will require the respective catalyst + the first upgrade, and Catalyst boosts I, II, III, and IV. This totals to 140 Exotic Weapon Infusion Cores and 1 duplicate of the weapon itself. Both of which are extremely time and luck gated. For F2P players, assuming you blew all your resources trying to get through Acclaim 15 like me, this would require 35 pinnacle completions of the legendary campaign. 35 pinnacle completions requires 700 pinnacle energy, which equates to 5 full resets and almost all your pinnacle energy from the next reset (5.83 to be exact). I really don't feel like doing the math for guaranteeing an exotic dupe through the gauntlet onslaught choice engram, but I would assume that grind is going to take way longer.

Artifacts: As we are gated to +7 on Mythic Mods, we are also gated to +7 on Mythic Artifacts. The in game Perk Level quip is currently saying that an average inital attribute score of 50.0 + Level 10 Mythic Mods are needed to reach Perk Level 5. Each level of a Mythic Artifact gives a +10% boost to the initial attribute score. So, if we take 30% of 50.0 and add it back into the 50.0, we can see that it is physically impossible to reach Artifact Perk Level 5, even with a literal perfect artifact, without breaking through the Acclaim 18 barrier.

I'm curious to see everyone's thoughts on this. Please let me know if I'm overlooking anything!

lone citrus
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The weapons is really my struggle tbh. speciffically gwynn. trying to get her concertos is painful and honestly at the mercy of rng. dont really see a great way to grind for them?

ning fei and the others felt easier because their better exotic was from raids, bp or etc. but characters like gwynn is rough.

glossy trench
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Acclaim 19 is only timegated - on Monday when it unlocks, it will allow Exotic artifacts to go to +8.

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I would assume that will assist substantially

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But yeah, if you don’t have an exotic with a Level 1-2 Catalyst, I would assume that you’ll need everything else absolutely perfect. And Gold medals for perfection / perfection for Gold medals sounds about right.

glossy trench
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meanwhile I'm missing Exotic Mods, but I do have Catalyst Level 1 on both of my target characters for Gold medals (Huckleberry with login rewards, and Izanagi's Burden with a lucky Blitz drop + a target exotic synthesis). I could grind out for Exotic mods now, or I could just wait until Monday, level their artifacts to +8, and get to 64k for my two Golds

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I think that's fine, multiple ways to get there but you do have to try quite hard

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Gold medals and high Acclaim shouldn't be easy!

ornate badge
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as a 44k, this whole grind feels so boneheaded.
so you need exotics, but there's no common way to get so you just farm strike 1-3% yes?
and first farm orbies for artifact for acclaim to get more runs, yes?

glossy trench
# ornate badge as a 44k, this whole grind feels so boneheaded. so you need exotics, but there's...

You can also accrue Exotic parameters over time and either roll a limited set or you can target ones that have already dropped.

The f2p strategy is to use the Huckleberry, Crimson, or Borealis you get from your 14 day login or the Partridge Sky from Efforts Rewarded. This lets you set up a Jolder, Finnala, Ning, Attal, Tan-2, or Umeko with a guaranteed exotic.

But yes farming Chaos for artifacts is a great way to spend extra time once you’re zeroed on pinnacle energy.

You can also use Wolf with the Smart Bomb.

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by the time you’re at 63k trying to break into 64 to pass into Acclaim 20, you should have had 1-3 exotics random drop

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it’s possible to have none but that’s really unlucky

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and if you have none, use the f2p compatible characters above to break through

untold kiln
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I’m glad someone is talking about it this. My tan is at 63500. I have borealis at 2nd catalyst and my lockout is at 9700. Cannot get it any higher. I have 4 exotic artifacts at 2400+ and the power menu is telling me to increase power I need to get the artifacts to lvl 8 (can’t do
This without 19 aclaim) which I can’t get without 64k power.

glossy trench
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the acclaim 18 server cap lifts tomorrow, and if you have enough xp to instantly go to 19, you can level your artifacts to 8, get to 64k, unlock the medal, and progress to 20 and beyond

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If you want to check for yourself, go into the Acclaim menu, you'll see that there's no gate between 18 and 19. The only thing holding you back is the Server Cap.

waxen sphinx
glossy trench
waxen sphinx
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I can't see anything past 29

glossy trench
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you will get to see more as you progress up. The Acclaim Bonuses unlock all the way up to 50

waxen sphinx
fiery isle
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Just do this thing

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Im probably gonna have to do it but im gonna leave it to a last resort

marsh whale
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How

opal pollen
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currently on acclaim 15 gate, just wish i had more pinnacle energy lol