You guys won't believe what I just got for completing nightfall....
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I wanted this sooooo bad after watching the video I posted a few days ago... thank you rngesus
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Byron Bluth
Banned
Nightfall and Strike Cheese Tip of the Week
At the last boss, the Nexus, don't jump down that large drop. First take out the few roaming Minotaurs that are wandering down there until the boss spawns. Then, just shoot at the boss from the same spot, sniper rifles are your friend here.
There will be an Ultra Minotaur Vex that will spawn behind you every 40 seconds or sometimes less, but dealing with 1 enemy on a constant loop is easier than the hoards that spawn below on a regular basis.
If you have a defender Titan get them to drop their shield with "Weapons of Light" so when everyone passes through it, all damage on the boss will be buffed.
At the last boss, the Nexus, don't jump down that large drop. First take out the few roaming Minotaurs that are wandering down there until the boss spawns. Then, just shoot at the boss from the same spot, sniper rifles are your friend here.
There will be an Ultra Minotaur Vex that will spawn behind you every 40 seconds or sometimes less, but dealing with 1 enemy on a constant loop is easier than the hoards that spawn below on a regular basis.
If you have a defender Titan get them to drop their shield with "Weapons of Light" so when everyone passes through it, all damage on the boss will be buffed.
Sorry for the delay, had a meeting and holy sweet fuck does thread move fast.
First off, take this with a grain of salt because my warlock is level 4. This is from playing against them and paying attention because they're rare.
Most important point of what I said: well-played. A crappy sunsinger is easy pickings, so "weak" isn't a surprising descriptor. But let's imagine a well played one and consider these aspects/skills that would be used to dominate during Radiance in the Crucible:
Offensive Benefits:
Grenade Spam: Massively reduced grenade cooldown means that grenades are essentially your primary weapon when it's Radiance time. With Solar grenades you can create impenetrable deathtraps with area denial; Fusion Bolt grenades can guarantee individual kills if you are accurate.
Scorch: during Radiance, the Sunsinger warlock special melee attack is a OHKO even to a fully shielded target. Obviously this doesn't make them into Bladedancers, but with a high Strength armor set, this makes them incredibly dangerous at close range- including shotgun range- for the entire duration of Radiance
Touch of Flame: During Radiance, Sunsinger grenade cooldown is... silly. You can essentially spam them at will. This skill adds: "All grenades ignite enemies, causing damage over time." This can turn a grenade "miss" into a kill from DOT, and probably quadruple the amount of Postmortem kills you can obtain when killed out of Radiance
Viking Funeral (optional, consider against Radiant Will): "Enemies you ignite burn longer and take more damage." Obvious synergy with Touch of Flame and the grenade cooldown spam. What this does is essentially guarantee any grenade contact is a kill or near-kill. And there will be lots of grenades.
Defensive Benefits
Radiant Skin (optional, consider against Fireborn, but usually the right choice): "While active, Radiance reduces incoming damage." This alone makes the Sunsinger dangerous for the entire duration of Radiance. Radiant Skin with no other action taken still allows the Sunsinger to withstand two Arc Blade strikes. If I'm playing a good one, slice at him in Radiance, and discover he's got Radiant Skin (he doesn't die), 80% of the time I go on to be killed by either a shotgun blast or Scorch.
Flame Shield: "Damaging enemies with Scorch reduces incoming damage for a short time." Obviously, synergy with Radiant Skin. This is similar to the Titan Defender's barrier melee (though not as strong). Combined with Radiant Skin (and assuming all traits focus on Toughness) this can allow the Sunsinger to survive three Arc Blade strikes or possibly even four from full health while in Radiance. It also has no tell whatsoever that I can see, other than noting the green overshield on their health bar after they get it (which, as a hunter, is merely a "Nope" indicator rather than something I can counter).
Fireborn (optional, consider against Radiant Skin): "Radiance can now be activated from beyond the grave. Doing so returns you to life." Yeah this allows you to self-resurrect. Not recommended for Rumble; having been killed "counts" toward the match-ending score, and you allow for the chance of getting outplayed by someone who sees it coming (I'm hyper-vigilant about this already) and giving out double points. However, in Team/Objective modes, this can easily turn the tide of a team fight after you go down and even turn a close fight into a massacre like no other super can. Fist of Havoc and Nova Bomb get blown and if there was someone involved in that fight that wasn't in the spot, there's a moment of vulnerability for the super user. This is like the opposite of that; an apparent moment of expected vulnerability (one less team member alive) becomes an advantage.
General Benefits:
Radiant Will (optional, consider against Viking Funeral): Just extends Radiance duration so all of these benefits translate into more kills/minute. Depending on your accuracy, this might be the better choice most of the time. Viking Funeral is extra leeway if you miss grenade throws; Radiant Will is the professional's choice IMO.
Auto-revive: Activating Radiance revives any nearby dead guardians. In Skirmish or any other potential modes allowing revival this is an absolute godsend for team fights.
Incredible, duly underrated class. Utterly nasty with skilled play, but high skill ceiling IMO. As a Bladedancer, I still hate Titans more- because if I roll up on a Radianced-out Warlock with Arc Blade active, I can just get my ass to safety by air dashing rather than getting instantly Fist of Havoc smashed or Barrier Melee Shoulder Charge Fucked.
Thanks todahawk for the gif!
True...? Yeah I think so?
Not totally sure what you mean :>Thank you! I'll keep on rolling the way I have been then.
Eh. I was using the bubble with the ability to produce more orbs as it takes damage (you can produce 5 total orbs per bubble). Strategically place it so your team can peak around the side and use it / amplify their damage as well and it's amazing.
Our Hunter was Golden Gun'ng quite often due to it, which fed me orbs to do it again (and the Titan bubble already rechargse FAST).
It's a good move, but it requires cooperation to use it.
Kalamari
Member
There is a little hiding spot behind where you drop down to fight the Nexus. It took me a while, but I solo'd the weekly heroic last night using that stratergery.
MisterAnderson
Member
Has anyone found the camo hunter cloak yet? Its shown on the playstation site but I've never seen anyone wearing it.
AmateurHour212
Member
1) Your avatar looks delicious. I now want calamari for lunch.
2) In the nightfall, if everyone dies, you get booted to orbit, is that correct?
3) Any other tips for the Nightfall? I'm doing it tonight and am half-excited and half-"oh shit"
Byron Bluth
Banned
Thanks, I'll try it that way!
gamechanger87
Member
Anyone up for some queens wrath on XO?
I use neither weapon so I'm skipping them.
backflip10019
Member
I disagree. The cave is only good for loot. You also don't want to burn yourself out on it when there's a good amount of content that you still haven't seen yet.
TheMan
Member
farming the loot cave is actually pretty fun, especially when you get swamped by the huge mob every so often...i've gone up 3 levels today by doing that plus a mission and a few crucible matches. I could be at level 20 by the end of the day if I had the time to play some more. I haven't gotten any legendary or even blue drops yet, but then again I only farmed the cave for less than an hour today.
Where? Like an engram during the bounty? And what do you mean ONLY?!
Rage... maximizing... head... pressure... explosion
ElRenoRaven
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So if anyone is doing a Raid, weekly nightfall strike, or weekly strike on Friday/Saturday/Sunday feel free to pop me an invite. PS4
Dude. Badass Bond.I am the 2%.
Where? Like an engram during the bounty? And what do you mean ONLY?!
Rage... maximizing... head... pressure... explosion
I got a rare ship after completing my first queen bounty. Nothing for my second one though.
AmateurHour212
Member
Oh, awesome, thanks! I totally missed it when you posted it.
I think solar damage weapons are a big plus here, right?
What do you mean "after completing"? When you turned it in at the bounty tracker?
Beautiful! Those were easy yesterday. I'm glad they're back today.
a very cute dog
Member
How possible is it to do the level 26 strike for Thorn at 24? I'm getting desperate for a better weapon.
Dave_6
Member
Where? Like an engram during the bounty? And what do you mean ONLY?!
IIRC it was. I played a lot last night but I may have actually gotten it after a crucible match now that I think about it.
I love it! Most satisfying head shots ever!
I was eyeing that one up since the beta, lol. Just got enough motes to get it from the speaker.
Yea, easy bounties. I'll do them again today.
That's unrelated to the bounty for sure. You got lucky.
The ultimate rewards for Queen's Wrath are guaranteed legendaries (either a Helm, Chest, Sniper Rifle, or ship I think) from completing a Mission. Each bounty allows you to complete one Mission.
I would give up all my legendaries and all my other exotics and all my other guns, if I could just have Hawkmoon. I would start from level 1, in a heartbeat, naked, just to have Hawkmoon. I'd run the table with it in PvP too. I care about nothing else
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I like how doing the Queens Kill Order keeps giving me the same damn mission over and over again. And at this point I'm pretty sure the legendary gear you get is tied to the mission. Cause I've gotten the same legendary 4 times in a row.
TheCanisDirus
Member
I am the 2%.
God i have shit luck for the amount of time i've put in :/ Jealous
It's not, it's random.
super-famicom
Member
You can always go to orbit and retry the mission to re-roll it. And I got the helmet and chest from doing the Earth mission twice, so you just got bad RNG.
well that's the same thing, but you probably meant helm and chest XD
this is so true. people just flip out when they see a bladedancer running at them! it's among the most counterable supers! seriously!Basically this:
TangoAlphaLima
Member
I just got Grim Citizen III last night myself. I liked it a lot. Will probably be my primary of choice now, but my legendary Bad Seed Down pulse rifle is still pretty sweet itself.
I also got The Swarm legendary machine gun last night. Damn, that thing is powerful. Lovin' it.
Kalamari
Member
1) Thanks.
2) Not sure, as I haven't tried the nightfall yet. I solo'd the level 26 weekly heroic.
3) I hear solar is good this week.
Victory Red
Member
I had to buy pretty much everything there, lol. I did get the shotgun/machine gun from drops though.
Just got the rifle with helm together. Rifle is damn good.
Please tell me how to counter...
Byron Bluth
Banned
Just hit level 29! Need to find Raid gear now though. Didn't get any my first 2 times through
Ugh, I have the proper armour and enough ascendant shards to level them up to get to 29, but I would rather use those shards on raid gear.
But then part of me thinks the game knows what I am trying to do and won't give me Raid gear. And I didn't when I did the entire raid and finished it this past Monday.
Gahhhhhhh
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