It's getting to be a common thing now during the Lvl 24 Strikes that I see these kids race as fast as they can through the Strike usually hopping on their speeder bypassing the first several mobs of lower level enemies which is fine but then they continue on and bypass as many of the Lvl 24 enemies as they can just to get to the final boss quicker.
Why? The boss gives you nothing and your chances of getting anything worthwhile from the end game roll are poor odds for the amount of time it takes to complete each Strike. Your best shot of getting a Legendary Engram drop or at least multiple blue Engrams to give you a chance at Legendary gear and to rank up the Cryptarch is to kill every Lvl 24 enemy up to the boss because that is where all of my Legendary Engrams have come from and I get at least half of my blue Engrams from Mob drops to go along with what I get in the end game roll.
The Lvl 24 Tiger Strikes since the last patch appear to have a higher drop rate than the normal game modes at least in the areas you're facing Lvl 24 enemies, and so bypassing them to finish the Strike faster is just decreasing your chance of getting multiple drops. There's little other reason to be grinding Lvl 24 Strikes in that manner because you can earn Vanguard rep faster farming Patrols, Vanguard Marks faster farming Public Events, and if you need a bunch of Strikes for a Bounty run the Lvl 8 Devil's Lair on Earth and get them done quick.
So don't be that guy that runs way out ahead of everyone else. Don't waste you and your teammates chances for more Legendary/Exotic drops. It doesn't take but an extra 5 minutes or so to clear out all the Lvl 24 enemies your bypassing between you and the Boss when you do it as a group.
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I see this is the new "loot cave whine" in the game. This is like the 6th or 7th post I've seen on this in the last day. Get over it. If you join a strike, I expect you're there to kill the boss and participate in the strike, [b]NOT[/b] kill the mobs between darkness zones that can be farmed on your own time in patrol mode. Especially considering those spaces are shared with those very people who [i]are in patrol mode[/i]. Go sit in Ishtar Commons in Patrol Venus - just sit there - and watch as teams of 3 spawn in at the door at random... Guess what those folks are doing? I don't skip anything in the Darkness Zones but I see no point in wasting time killing extremely low level mobs [i]between [/i]the Darkness Zones. These arguments that it's like Diablo are laughable and, again, people making such arguments clearly don't see the distinction between a dungeon/loot crawler and an MMO-style gear gated game. Tim Buckley hit the nail on the head with his CAD Comic about "An hour in Destiny". Loot drops are NOT as frequent as they are in a loot crawler like Diablo or Borderlands and the RNG drop loot is less meaningful than grinding for guaranteed loot from rep and marks (and the latest guaranteed engram addition). If you want to waste time killing level 8 mobs in Rocketyards on Earth, go play Patrol. If you want to earn gear, marks, rep, and guaranteed engrams at the end (at least for level 24) by beating a boss, join a Strike. If YOU want to go slowly, how about YOU make a fireteam to work at YOUR pace?