darkjedi187
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I must be livin under a rock, I just found out about the loot cave today. after finding out where it is, I realize what all the people were doing in that area all the time.
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Destiny |OT4| Get your ass to the Vault of Glass and help Timmins find better pants
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The Librarian
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OT5 prepped and ready to go.
Lostconfused
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WoW has a ton of gear slots, so everyone has a ton of gear to grind. Bosses drop you weapons and minor upgrades like rings and trinkets. You also get currency, that is marks. Everyone gets marks so they can buy their raid level armor when they earn enough. Bosses have a fixed set of items they can drop, those items are very varied and can be useful for one specific class or several, only a few items drop per kill. Only a small portion of the players can get an item from a single boss kill, but its a really good item that several players probably want.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
But your entire complaint hinges on intentionally avoiding the main progression method and then complaining that Bungie didn't copy other systems. It's their game and their choice. If you want to shoot into a cave, fine. But that's not how the game was designed. You could be a very high level with great gear by now if you would just buy some.
Finally though, a large portion of my gear came from strikes and random drops. I have a limited amount of purchased gear because I had practically everything I needed after buying two bits of armor and a helmet in strange coins. Now I just buy things my alts can use and they're already halfway through the light levels too. I have no end of legendary weapons because I made use of all aspects of the games systems instead of relying solely on one.
It does, and it's 2.5 k/d, they missed a decimal.
blazeuk
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Just got myself the Invective shotgun from the exotic bounty, went through the weekly task at level 22 and did it the easy way of just staying on the cliff, unbelievably easy doing that, I've got no excuse not to get Nightfall done sometime this week even by doing it that way, I imagine it doesn't take very long.
It really depends on how well you perform in Crucible.
I got it within two matches of rumble.
Yes, assists count. It's actually not that hard, and I suck at PvP. Stick with your team.
My Exotic helm is 8 to upgrade.
Assuming Hunter haha. Looking forward to watching it, though, either way.Warlock or Hunter
I fretted about this in the Withdrawal threads. I can imagine realistically that it's the only way to get to 30 for now. Until December, anyways.
The thing that bothers me more is if the weapons from the raid turn out to be the best for PvP. I want to raid and hope to with the buddies I've made here, but if I can't....well, this doesn't have the social groundwork WoW has to just "join a guild".
That and 6 person raids is such a low number that it can actually make it harder rather than easier.
Thanks by the way for the Heroic Weekly rant on Phoggoth last week. Made me get off my butt and go "Why am I not trying this,too?". Was able to do the 28 one last week to not miss out on coins.
WTB solo vids for all Weeklies.
God, I hope so. Iron Banner offering raid tier loot would be great.
Special Chest! I've gotten two thus far.
My best gave me 10 spinmetal, glimmer, a blue engram, and a legendary engram.
Victory Red
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Well when you have the Suros you can just close your eyes and fire ;-)
I'd prefer a token system, even if it meant 4 weeks for a single piece or whatever arbitrary threshold. However, given that the raid itself really seems like my kind of thing, the blow is lessened than in other games with similar "roll to advance" requirements.
Blue Ninja
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You mean the Strike? Is it doable solo?
I still need to get 500 kills with void weaponry in PvP. I don't want to.
Dhruv_hanom
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The one strike I think can't be cheesed is the dust palace. I can't figure out a good placement/strategy for it.
Its a good thing its a ps4 exclusive and shouldn't be up for nightfall.
GlamFM
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Ok. That's exactly like TOR then with a few name changes (marks being called commendations)
Now the question: Should destiny have something like this?
Go, Dax, go!
Not alot, around 10 Queen's missions, where I got either a chest or helm and them broke them down for 3 ass shards each, so that's 30. Then we add all the ass shards I got in the Raid, and walla, enough ass shards to last me a life time. I won't be running out anytime soon.
Let's do this!
Yes! Another thread to lurk and occasionally post in!
ethomaz
Banned
It is cumulative.
So you just need to have two or more kills in a row to increase the counter... two deaths in a row decrease.
I ended the first match with 12 k/d even so my k/d of the match was only 3... that is because I didn't get killed two times in a row so my counter never decreased.
It is easy to be fair.
PS. If you make a group of 6 to play one vs one you guys will reach it in one match... but even without boost it is really easy.
The Librarian
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lol I plucked one from the suggestions, yes.
Ya'll still need to make 300 posts!
That's fine, I'm not attacking people that like the game. I'm just making it known that it feels like shit to me and how that could be improved lol. And I honestly don't think these types of improvements would hurt the game in any way. It would give way more high notes during farming and general gameplay, there's no economy to affect by increasing legendary drops, and getting a BiS item would still take ages.
That is not my argument at all, no. It's great that there are people that enjoy this and I'm happy for you, but I also don't see how these changes would be anything but good. We already have the ability to get baseline armor easily. There's just not much to do afterward, and it's not because of lack of content. There's plenty of random drops possible, they just don't give them to us lol.
There's absolutely nothing to keep me trying, because it just says "Fuck you" at every single possible corner. And then the only things that don't involve the beyond abysmal drop rates are timelocked. The only thing to do once you've hit the timelocks is farm for drops, and they don't have anything to keep that interesting.
I can't even view it as a longterm goal, because though I can normally spend many hours farming, I can't in Destiny because there's just... nothing... it doesn't even seem to want to try to keep us interested, as noted by the timelocks and the fact on average you're looking at 3-4 hours without a single actual legendary item, even a bad one, from drops.
Yeah, but during those 50 hours you're likely to get 30 or more times the number of potentially good items as you are in Destiny, and those make it feel fun. Every one of those drops is "Yay!" even if it's not what you want or even good. Those drops in Destiny are "Well here we go again..."
And yeah, it is a recipe for heartache, but it doesn't HAVE to be. That's my point. It could be millions of times better, and it doesn't even require new content. It just requires tweaking some numbers and quality of life improves drastically.
It apparently piss hard for some people to get it though if they suck that much in Crucible.
Personally, I say go into rumble with a shotgun or fusion rifle *shrug*
MADGAME
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I'm down to form a raid party. Level 28 Titan with both subclasses maxed and powerful legendary/exotic weapons. I can dedicate time pretty much every weeknight and on weekends. PSN.
blazeuk
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Yeah the strike, I'm not sure it's possible to do nightfall solo just because you need someone to watch your back with the Minotaur spawning if you don't jump off the cliff and you'd probably need help getting to the boss too, but level 22 is easy and I imagine level 26 isn't too difficult either.
Sure it is their game and their choices, but that doesn't mean that the choices they made were good and are above criticism. And main progression? Up until lv 24 you don't have to buy shit cause you can rely on drops. The game doesnt tell you that best way to lv up is to buy stuff so it is hard to tell it was design that way.
Lostconfused
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Probably not? I mean you only need 4 pieces of armor and one or two weapons. The number of players per raid is also super small. It shouldn't take too long at all to earn the that gear.
The problem with destiny is that its too stressful compared to regular MMOs. The overwhelming visual, auditory stimulation, more demanding direct control, and no social elements to blow off steam make playing Destiny a more grueling experience than a WoW raid.
WoW raids/dungeons can be a lot more relaxed with a lot more downtime than destiny.
Cave Story or bust.
What's the trick to do the boss solo? I need my damn coins. Was able to do it all easily until the boss. My solar fusion rifle is amazing in this strike though
What's the name of that autorifle again? I want it
The Suros Regime. The day that Xur carries this will be a dark day for PvP.
So glad I pre-ordered this actually because I would probably not have bought it with all that negativity going around. While the story and NPC characters in general are underwhelming and the mission structure could be significantly improved upon, I really like the gameplay, graphics, PvP, strikes, patrolling and loot system. Overall I would say it's a pretty rough diamond that is in need of some fine polishing if they want to continue their 10-year plan. Hopefully it can shine brighter as we bring back the darkness.
On a slightly unrelated note, as someone who has never been into console FPS games and has never played any Halo singleplayer, I would also say that my Destiny experience has definitely made a strong case for me getting a XB1 at some point in the future.
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On a slightly unrelated note, as someone who has never been into console FPS games and has never played any Halo singleplayer, I would also say that my Destiny experience has definitely made a strong case for me getting a XB1 at some point in the future.
It seems to melt people. Sucks I didn't get lucky and receive it yet.
Dhruv_hanom
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Hey Ghaleon, were able to fix your bungie.net problem?
Victory Red
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backflip10019
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I cannot wait to never see the OT4 title again. It just bothers me so much.
Yes!
toastyToast
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I'm pretty sure there were a lot more Titans during the first week. The kill 25 Titans bounty takes forever. Meanwhile Hunter and Warlock is one game.
ComputerMKII
Banned
The Crucible has been kind to me:
Yep. Best gun in the game from what I've seen.
Aw, not that bad. I got the bounty in two Crucible games
GlamFM
Banned
My man!
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