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So these legendary items that are starting to pop up in this here thread - are you all finding them via decrypting stuff you find out killing? rewards from strikes and such?

I was reading about the "Thorn" yesterday and it mentioned that it was a quest reward for a mission set on Mars. I'm curious if i'll have to wait until that specific mission comes around to the Weekly Heroic before that specific weapon would pop .. if that was the case some Exotics could be crazy rare...
 
pixxxelz said:
How do you even get those anyway? I only have one and I can't even remember how I got it :/
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Completing public events which are rare as fuck considering I've never seen one in the main game yet. Otherwise you can get rewarded one by playing PvP or by giving rare engrams to the cryptarch and getting one potentially. I have about 4 so far.
 
Big Baby Buddha said:
The Traveller came to earth and kicked off some golden age. The good times came to an end and 'the darkness' arrived to ruin the fun. The Darkness' forces are apparently the fallen, vex, cabal, and hive. For some reason they all fight each other too. IDK. You are shooting stuff in the face, belly, or glowy bits because reasons.
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I think some of the races are more involved than others, based off the codex information.
Like the Cabal come off as opportunistic and expansive, perhaps attracted to the Sol system in the aftermath of the collapse.

The Fallen are referred to having once been a much greater society than the pirates and scavengers they are now - they could be the remnants of a civilization that met the same fate as Humanity once.

The Hive has been mentioned as Humanity's 'ancient foe' and might be closer related to the events of the collapse than the others. Although ancient foe could also just be a reference to the fact that they are quite literally, ancient undead beings.

The Vex seem to worship the darkness, (geth anyone?) and in the final moments of the game we come face to face with what seems to be the Darkness or a portion of it; assuming direct control over Vex Gate Lords. The Vex are referenced as being quite old and also from the future, apparently having some command over time-travel. This leads me to believe they stumbled across the Darkness after the collapse, and began to revere and serve it, using their control of time to unravel the secrets of the bygone eras, rather than being minions of darkness during the collapse.
 
This is my legendary Warlock Bond. It has a fire effect to it like an unusual it your familiar with TF2 and DOTA2 terms.
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Eppy Thatcher said:
So these legendary items that are starting to pop up in this here thread - are you all finding them via decrypting stuff you find out killing? rewards from strikes and such?
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I got mine from a Blue engram.
 
Anoregon said:
Saying the story is "bad" implies it actually exists. What's there in Destiny is so bare bones it doesn't even make sense to call it bad. It's not even there.
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Nah, it exists. That's part of the problem. If all it was was your standard issue boilerplate MMO minimal story with the Grimoire cards providing the backing, that'd be fine. Instead, there is a story, and it's actively awful.
 
Just wondering for those of you running warlocks on pvp on a daily basis. Do you guys focus on armor (toughness) and speed/agility for your subclass abilities? I noticed that whenever I'm running a shotgun and I engage someone else using a shotgun, I would take away half of the other guy's health while he would instantly eliminate me. I'm wondering if it has to do with Warlock's low armor and toughness
 
EmmaWatsonButt said:
Just wondering for those of you running warlocks on pvp on a daily basis. Do you guys focus on armor (toughness) and speed/agility for your subclass abilities? I noticed that whenever I'm running a shotgun and I engage someone else using a shotgun, I would take away half of the other guy's health while he would instantly eliminate me. I'm wondering if it has to do with Warlock's low armor and toughness
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Armor and recovery > speed. Always. Warlocks are too brittle otherwise.
 
This is getting pretty annoying. It starts me in a game of Salvage with one teammate so it's 2 vs 3. To top it off, my teammate is level 10 and the other team is 20+.

Makes no sense.
 
Poodlestrike said:
Nah, it exists. That's part of the problem. If all it was was your standard issue boilerplate MMO minimal story with the Grimoire cards providing the backing, that'd be fine. Instead, there is a story, and it's actively awful.
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If you say so. I'm on Venus on my character and have only just now started to interact with real, actual characters who have dialogue (exo lady, queen and her brother.) And in pretty much every case that interaction is just "i have mysterious motivations!!!"
 
I have found 3 legendary Engrams today. 2 of them were just rare crafting materials and the last one turned out to be a blue. I feel cheated.
 
To anyone looking for somebody to tackle the Weekly Heroic Strike with: PSN = demian__ (that's two underlines)

Just tried it on my own. Made it till the final boss and got his health bar halfway down thanks to AI occasionaly just staring at me from 30 meters away and doing nothing. All went fine until I got swarmed in my camping spot by a suddenly spawning mob full of Captains and such...
 
So if a weapon with an element is 120, is that the max it can do or does the element put a bonus on top of that? Would it be better to equip a weapon that is slightly higher but no element attached?
 
Uthred said:
I think people are exaggerating about how bad the story is, it seems of fairly average "video game" quality. Which is basically what the story is like in every other Bungie game (apart from some dips into the the shite like ODST) so I dont see how peoples expectations could have been that high.

The dialogue is ropey at times, though I think a lot of that has more to do with delivery, it feels like the couldnt decide if they wanted the ghost to have a personality or just be an AI and both the lines and the delivery clearly display that indecision.
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Yeah no the story is terrible, it has no actual characters, well it does, 4 to be exact: you, the speaker who shows up twice, the robot chick who shows up 3 times, and dinkleberry the ghost. You're fighting to defend a city you've never seen besides the tower. Furthermore it does a piss poor job at motivating any of the fighting going on. Why are the vex, cabal and fallen angry at each other? Where do they come from? What do they represent? Not to mention it's barely coherent, because it barely explains any of the brand new terminology. What is a conflux? What does it do? I don't know but dinkleberry seems super keen on hacking a bunch of them while quickly inventing some sort of plot to gain the opportunity to do so. The only way this story could be redeemed was if they did a 180 in the dlc and made it so that dinkleberry was playing you the entire time. He was using you to gain access to a bunch of bullshit and giving you poor excuses to cover for it.
 
Zomba13 said:
I think you get them as random blue engrams, crucible/strike end of mission drops and public quests. I though I'd try and grind some pub quests but spent like 30-40 mins sitting in the place on Earth where the tank drops and juts fought it once before getting bored of waiting.
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*sigh* I guess I'll never have one of those exotic items

Citizen_Insane said:
Completing public events which are rare as fuck considering I've never seen one in the main game yet. Otherwise you can get rewarded one by playing PvP or by giving rare engrams to the cryptarch and getting one potentially. I have about 4 so far.
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I've actually completed 3 of them 2 on earth and one on the moon, but yeah they were a lot more common on the beta.
And I just checked and I actually have 3 coins I one for each public event I guess
 
Poodlestrike said:
Ahahahahahahahahaahahahaha no. Just no.

Destiny's story is categorically worse than any previous Halo game, and in fact most other games in general. There are no characters. That alone would kill it dead.
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The Halo games narratives were generally terrible, and were laid upon an amazingly derrivative foundation. Destiny's is neither categorically nor an order of magntiude worse and certainly it floats around the average mark for a videogame story (which is a very low mark). If your point needs to be supported by blatant fabrication (there are characters, they are arguably cipheres, but theyre there non the less) then maybe it isnt worth making?

Etnos said:
no dude, lore and story ar both shallow, nonsensical, corny and uninspired.
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Happy to agree to disagree on the story, I think its middle of the road but not terrible, still opinions and all that. However I disagree on the lore front, the universe is interesting (subjective I know) and it fits together fairly well. I wouldnt say that it was shallow, nor uninspired, while the setting isnt particularly novel in fiction there arent a lot of games that spring to mind that are set in the middle of a post-singularity apocalypse. Dont really see nonsensical either.

FloatingDivider said:
Yeah no the story is terrible, it has no actual characters, well it does, 4 to be exact: you, the speaker who shows up twice, the robot chick who shows up 3 times, and dinkleberry the ghost. You're fighting to defend a city you've never seen besides the tower. Furthermore it does a piss poor job at motivating any of the fighting going on. Why are the vex, cabal and fallen angry at each other? Where do they come from? What do they represent? Not to mention it's barely coherent, because it barely explains any of the brand new terminology. What is a conflux? What does it do? I don't know but dinkleberry seems super keen on hacking a bunch of them while quickly inventing some sort of plot to gain the opportunity to do so. The only way this story could be redeemed was if they did a 180 in the dlc and made it so that dinkleberry was playing you the entire time. He was using you to gain access to a bunch of bullshit and giving you poor excuses to cover for it.
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Theres a few other characters, though the characterisation is quite shallow. As for not seeing the city, presumably you mean a city you dont get to walk about in because you see it every time you go to the tower. I agree, and mentioned in a previous comment that the story is lacking a lot of context, quite a lot of it is farmed off to the grimoire. Which is a big mis-step, but then again if they want you to put your groups together outside the game maybe its not so strange they expect you to experience the story there as well ;
 
I'd say another large issue with the story is that they pulled an FFXIII and hid a lot of their lore in a bunch of text you have to go out of your way to read, but they took it an extra step by making you use Bungie.net or an app, instead of just making it in game.
 
I am probably being really thick here but...

got to level 15 and noticed I could change to defender, however when I do I lose all my upgrades that are placed in Striker

is this normal, can I undo those and re-spend them in Defender?
 
hamchan said:
I'd say another large issue with the story is that they pulled an FFXIII and hid a lot of their lore in a bunch of text you have to go out of your way to read, but they took it an extra step by making you use Bungie.net or an app, instead of just making it in game.
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That's...something I never thought about...and that's a good observation.

Well shit. Destiny is the FF13 of shooters?
 
hamchan said:
I'd say another large issue with the story is that they pulled an FFXIII and hid a lot of their lore in a bunch of text you have to go out of your way to read, but they took it an extra step by making you use Bungie.net or an app, instead of just making it in game.
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Yup that shit is ridiculous.
 
hamchan said:
I'd say another large issue with the story is that they pulled an FFXIII and hid a lot of their lore in a bunch of text you have to go out of your way to read, but they took it an extra step by making you use Bungie.net or an app, instead of just making it in game.
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What? Why? That just breaks the immersion and makes the lore feel like an afterthought. I don't mind reading video game lore through books. But on a website and phone app? Odd.
 
Weird, picked up all five golden chests on earth, but the counter still reads 4/5 and didn't get the bike upgrade. Tried double checking, but all are now vanished as if I got them.
 
Uthred said:
The Halo games narratives were generally terrible, and were laid upon an amazingly derrivative foundation. Destiny's is neither categorically nor an order of magntiude worse and certainly it floats around the average mark for a videogame story (which is a very low mark). If your point needs to be supported by blatant fabrication (there are characters, they are arguably cipheres, but theyre there non the less) then maybe it isnt worth making?



Happy to agree to disagree on the story, I think its middle of the road but not terrible, still opinions and all that. However I disagree on the lore front, the universe is interesting (subjective I know) and it fits together fairly well. I wouldnt say that it was shallow, nor uninspired, while the setting isnt particularly novel in fiction there arent a lot of games that spring to mind that are set in the middle of a post-singularity apocalypse. Dont really see nonsensical either.



Theres a few other characters, though the characterisation is quite shallow. As for not seeing the city, presumably you mean a city you dont get to walk about in because you see it every time you go to the tower. I agree, and mentioned in a previous comment that the story is lacking a lot of context, quite a lot of it is farmed off to the grimoire. Which is a big mis-step, but then again if they want you to put your groups together outside the game maybe its not so strange they expect you to experience the story there as well ;
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It's not a fabrication. I simply don't consider exposition boxes and voiced shop menus to be characters; they have to have a personality, and interact with other characters for them to count. You could, if you really wanted to, count Dinklebot, the mysterious Vex Hunter, and the royal siblings as characters, but that's stretching the definition for the first two. It goes beyond them being just shallow, they're practically a mirage.
 
Sitting on 10k glitter... bought a rare icon thing. I see ships are pricey, but really, it's just cosmetics huh? Why would you ever need the items that get you more glitter?

Also, anyway to review crucible medals? I got some weird ones i wanted to check on...."nail in the coffin"
 
Am I doing something wrong? Just trying the game for the first time but when it comes up with 'press X to start' it doesn't do anything - won't respond to any button press except the PS button.

Fake edit: turning off my DS4 and back on got me through, but I hope it doesn't do that every time..
 
Finally got a legendary primary

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Gonna take 72 relic irons to fill out the 5 damage increase slots. Fun fun

xir said:
Sitting on 10k glitter... bought a rare icon thing. I see ships are pricey, but really, it's just cosmetics huh? Why would you ever need the items that get you more glitter?
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You still use glitter towards upgrading items
 
Tamanon said:
Man, a bunch of grave dancers in the Review thread. Weird.
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Yeah. Haters gonna hate. Funny thing is I have just been lurking forever and the same concern trollers from the Beta and the Alpha are the grave dancers. They have been waiting for this moment for a long time, let em do their thing, they'll get bored and move along soon enough.

The game is incredible in my opinion. I have faith in Bungie. This is something different for consoles something ongoing and evolving. Gotta laugh when people are bored and done before level 20.
 
xir said:
Sitting on 10k glitter... bought a rare icon thing. I see ships are pricey, but really, it's just cosmetics huh? Why would you ever need the items that get you more glitter?

Also, anyway to review crucible medals? I got some weird ones i wanted to check on...."nail in the coffin"
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Crucible medals are all listed on Bungie.net in the Legend section.
 
Poodlestrike said:
It's not a fabrication. I simply don't consider exposition boxes and voiced shop menus to be characters; they have to have a personality, and interact with other characters for them to count. You could, if you really wanted to, count Dinklebot, the mysterious Vex Hunter, and the royal siblings as characters, but that's stretching the definition for the first two. It goes beyond them being just shallow, they're practically a mirage.
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Being shallow or ciphers makes them arguably poor characters, it doesnt magically make them not characters.
 
xir said:
Sitting on 10k glitter... bought a rare icon thing. I see ships are pricey, but really, it's just cosmetics huh? Why would you ever need the items that get you more glitter?

Also, anyway to review crucible medals? I got some weird ones i wanted to check on...."nail in the coffin"
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Nail in the Coffin is for dealing the final blow in a crucible match.
 
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