Calculator tool to make portal farming easier with a fireteam

[u/Independent_Fan_3028]

One of the biggest headaches I’ve had with the portal when playing with friends is figuring out what to run next. It usually turns into: “I’ve got 2 bonuses on Inverted Spire,” “I’ve got 3 on Whisper,” “I don’t have any on either,” and so on.

And now with Bungie putting more emphasis on Fireteam Ops and especially with bonus rewards mattering more in the last 50 levels, I thought it’d be nice to have a simple way to line up the best next activity for everyone.

So, I put together a tool to help optimize this: d2portal.com. This calculator takes into account each individual’s bonus rewards and shows which activity your fireteam should launch next so that everyone gets the most rewards possible. It also lists all the portal activities and highlights reward overlap between guardians, sorted from most rewarding to least.

Just a quick side project I put together, but hopefully it can help a few people out. Would love to hear if you find it useful or if there's anything you'd like added!

[u/ImTriggered247]

Neat but won’t this be useless once you hit 500? Prime drops are based on completion rewards and bonus drops are separate, yeah? They mentioned prime chances from completion rewards but didn’t explicitly state bonus drops would benefit from the same chance.

[u/bobert1201 → u/ImTriggered247]

Bungie is making completion rewards give a +1 on A/A+ ranks for the last 50 power, so you won't need primes anymore.

[u/ImTriggered247 → u/bobert1201]

Yes, but that’s irrelevant to the post or my comment. OP is talking about including bonus drops and I hadn’t seen something that explicitly stated bonus drops also have a chance to be prime drops— only completion rewards which are listed differently than the bonus drops.

Prime drops will still very much be beneficial but the +1 on A+ scores was a well-needed addition.

[u/bobert1201 → u/ImTriggered247]

My point is that primes aren't neccesary to level the final 50 power band anymore, so a lack of primes shouldn't be much of a consideration. Primes are still helpful, but the +1 means that, over the course of 20 drops, which is about how many it takes to get a prime, you'd get 20 power without a prime, and 23 power with a prime. This is a 15% increase, which is nice, but not nearly as important as it was when we didn't have the +1.

[u/extce → u/bobert1201]

+1 is horrendous though, you'll take ages to reach cap without primes especially cos you'll likely get a lot of dupes

[u/ImTriggered247 → u/extce]

The +1 is in addition to prime drops for a more consistent leveling experience.

[u/extce → u/ImTriggered247]

Yes I understand this,I just don't think the previous comment stating 'you won't need primes any more' really appreciates how long it'd take with just +1s aha

[u/ImTriggered247 → u/extce]

Yeah that’s valid

[u/bobert1201 → u/extce]

It's only 50 power, though. It's definitely not ideal, but it should take a similar amount of time as the 300-400 band, as opposed to the current system where the 400-450 band takes more time than the entire 10-400 band.

[u/extce → u/bobert1201]

I just mean that it'll go a lot faster with primes too, that's all 🤣

[u/Independent_Fan_3028 → u/ImTriggered247]

I'm not sure if bonus rewards are separate or considered completion rewards. That would be unfortunate if they are separate. Fingers crossed they count for primes.

I would think they'll at least count for the +1s.

[u/ImTriggered247 → u/Independent_Fan_3028]

I’m saying that bonus drops are (currently) separate from completion rewards but Bungie didn’t state if bonus drops would also have a chance at a prime drop.

[u/Guy_Butts]

The search results don’t show all of the possible matches. I see it’s ordered by the hash number but mine (Buck#6867) does not show in the dropdown

[u/Independent_Fan_3028 → u/Guy_Butts]

Great catch! Should be fixed now. You can include the player code after the # in the search

[u/Guy_Butts → u/Independent_Fan_3028]

Awesome! One other feature, if it’s possible, would be a button to pull in the current fireteam for the overlap. Otherwise this is a great tool, thank you!

[u/Independent_Fan_3028 → u/Guy_Butts]

Love that idea! Just added it

[u/sparrow-smiles]

Thank you!

[u/RubiGames]

Sounds interesting — gunna give it a look next time I’m on!

[u/OutFractal]

What does Type 1 / 2 / 3 mean?

[u/pastuleo23]

Added it as a useful tool in my power level video and what bonus drops actually do for it

https://youtu.be/JWeC70XtK9w

[u/Djungleskog_Enhanced]

And they wonder why player counts are dropping...

Good work on your part tho

[u/YTWelshDragon19]

It’s peak

[u/pastuleo23]

Just checked this out and could be genuinely useful

[u/GolldenFalcon]

The fact that there has to be a community made calculator to figure out what mission to do with friends should be a massive red flag.

[u/LeijuvaFlatus]

Oh boy..