Destiny |OT6| Lock me like one of your French girls, Jack

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Fuck, I checked.

About 135 hours total.

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It hurts, what am I doing with my life? lol



Yes, I need help.

How do you check on ps4?
 
I wonder if there should be an actual attunment quest chain in order to do the raid then. Something like an exotic bounty that grants you access to the raid. That way, you have to not only accept the quest, acknowledging what you are working toward, but then complete the specific tasks set up to basically train you for the raid. If you can't complete the tasks, you aren't ready to be in the raid.

At first I was going to say in order for this to work then bounties would require organizing a team to complete, as to be raid ready the only real requirement outside of level/weapons is a synergistic team. This would require the bounties to be team-oriented then I realized there is at least one that already is - Thorn. To get it you need to kill Xyor in a strike, but there is no matchmaking for that and you have to be the one to select it on your map to complete. I suppose it's possible to solo, but for me that is one of the more challenging ones and really does seem to need an organized and communicating team.
 
Does anyone want to try the raid now? Maybe a couple to three hours tonight and then finish it off in the afternoon tomorrow? This is all GMT+1

Level 29 warlock. I'm broadly familiar with it but it'd be great to have some experienced heads!

Need four more....
Never done it, but willing to try: Wrynnax on ps4
 
Great haul tonight. Just got the Patience and Time exotic sniper rifle after completing the Nightfall and the Thorn handcanon by doing the bounty, with the help of fellow gaffers.

So to recap I got:

Grim Citizen III (bought)
Invective
Patience and Time
Thorn

Great day after having some really awful luck for a while.
 
I think I just had an epiphany. The fact that you often get shards in a raid isn't inherently bad. What's bad is that it happens in this game.

What i mean is, in other MMOs, raid bosses frequently drop 1 or 2 pieces of raid quality loot, but it's for the entire group. People then have to decide who gets what. But this feels better because everyone can at least see the drop, and there's rolls so that everyone has a chance and you can pass.

It seems to me like Destiny has a different take. The raid bosses still drop 1 or 2 legendaries each time, but not everyone sees it. People just see "oh I didn't get jack shit".

Based on this, I'm starting to question whether guaranteed equipment every kill is the best design. You'd just be done too quickly. I think this is exactly what bungie was hinting at when they commented about changes they were planning to make to loot.

But there's still a problem. That only works in other games because there's other stuff to do. There's other raids. Other ways to get gear.

I liked the Light system at first, but now i think it's part of the problem. People want to get max level first, then keep upgrading their character. That's just psychology. In Destiny max level is literally the end of the game. Everyone at max level has identical armor, there's no itemization (i.e. Choosing between three different chest pieces with different stat distribution). It feels bad not being able to get to max level. And to make matters worse, the only activity to help you reach t is only doable once a week, and usually gives you nothing useful.
 
The Titan one is ugly as hell. Those stupid spikes sticking out look terrible, and I too am thinking of grabbing another helm just because it looks not stupid.

If Xur is selling the Helm of Saint-14 for Titans this week then I won't have to buy one for a bit, so I'm holding out for that then I can just swap between that and the Inmost Light for Striker Titan's.

Have you seen what the helm of saint 14 looks like? I was kind of aiming for it too but it looks as bad as the queen's helm :(

Transmog plz
 
I am in the same boat but with a void sniper rifle instead of fusion rifle. I made it to 225 points last night, but it was a grind. Here are my tips.

1. Find a mode you like and suits your available void weapon(s). For me, this was clash. Rumble was too frantic and Control I couldn't get enough sniping opportunities. Clash, you and your team come from one side, and you can let the players in front of you hit combat first, giving you a sense of where to aim your scope, or in your case, charge your fusion rifle up.

2. Keep track of your points for the bounty each match. You will start to pick up a pattern on which maps are not working for you. For me it was Rusted Lands. I love that for control and blade dancer. But for a carefully sniping person who is KDR concious, it didn't work well for me. Moon and Firebase Delphi I clean up. Had my highest gain of +42 on Moon and my biggest loss, -17 on Rusted Lands. I now exit the match when it is Rusted Lands.

3. Find what works and stick with it. It sound like you are like me and not much of a PvP player, so ignore all the people who are like, "yeah I got it in 4 matches with a shotty, its super easy" It isn't easy, and shotguns suck ass. It is a grind but find what combination of the above tips gives you a consistent positive points yield. At the very least you are getting some crucible marks and random loot rolls. It is a good time to use a optional faction class item to get some non crucible rep too. I am going Vanguard and FWC. Fuck them crucible vendors.

Rusted Lands was the map I tried last night and like you said, if I was trying to do bladedancer it would be great but it sucked for trying to use my fusion rifle. I might try to get a void sniper rifle. I did well with one in the beta.

I hate shottys too. I will just be picky as to the maps I play on like you said. You guessed right, I don't do much pvp. The pvp requirement for the bad juju was much easier because I never lost points. I found that I wasn't actually too bad at pvp but that was with all of my tools. I am not going to give up yet!
 
Hence why it's even more important for Destiny to have better itemization. I've got 6 chances per week right now. 1 from nightfall. 1 from Xur (even though once you have one exotic for pve that's all you need) and then 4 from the raid: 2 Templar, 2 Atheon. The chests should be the only place to get energy/shards. if I get the wrong item for my class then I'll get more shards that week.

You forgot that there's a chance to get gear/weapons from the second chest. I'm not sure how I feel personally about guaranteed drops in Vault since there are so few slots to gear for. While you can have dry spells, you can also have winfalls. A clanmate last night got two pieces of Raid gear and a Raid Legendary Weapon in that run.

Do we even know when this pvp event will happen? I don't see any info on it from Bungie, just places that datamine the info. Perhaps this is an event that is going to happen after one of the DLC packs that raise the level cap.

Nothing official has been said about when Trials of Osiris will happen. I'm not sure they've even officially acknowledged it's existence.
 
Forgot about my Titan I just started... oh fuck me.



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My Titian is a baby. I got it to lvl 12 in around 3 hours (Queens bounties help with XP).

Destiny players can be real shitty.. Here I am a lvl 4 on Earth patrol, and out of nowhere a lvl 27 interrupts my headshot bounty by meleeing everything :/
 
screw all that other stuff, game needs gear transmutation priority one!:X



28 is definitely a new sort of soft cap. might make one final leveling guide to detail "Life at 28" as I plan to stick here while getting into regular raiding and such rather than trying to grind outright to 29.

I'll write that guide real quick for you:

Be lucky enough to get raid gear. You should already have one exotic armor piece by then. Raid gear is really all you need by this point. Haha.
 
Would love to try the raid or nightfall tonight. I'll be home at 3pm central time. Xbox one GT: Mixoiydian

27 hunter. Using upgraded grim citizeniii, the devil you know hand cannon, exodus plan void rocket launcher, etc.. Would be a 28 but those damn ass shards. I have a working mic and actively use it being an old halo 2 guy.
 
I'll write that guide real quick for you:

Be lucky enough to get raid gear. You should already have one exotic armor piece by then. Raid gear is really all you need by this point. Haha.
You can hit 29 without raid gear if you want to, but I'm not really interested. Acquiring multiple exotics and coordinating legendaries is going to be a bigger part of my endgame.
 
The Titan one is ugly as hell. Those stupid spikes sticking out look terrible, and I too am thinking of grabbing another helm just because it looks not stupid.

If Xur is selling the Helm of Saint-14 for Titans this week then I won't have to buy one for a bit, so I'm holding out for that then I can just swap between that and the Inmost Light for Striker Titan's.

That's what I'm doing, got a Saint 14 yesterday and started upgrading it, already have Inmost Light at maximum.
 
You can hit 29 without raid gear if you want to, but I'm not really interested. Acquiring multiple exotics and coordinating legendaries is going to be a bigger part of my endgame.

exactly my issue right now. I can waste those 40 raid shards on leveling my faction legendaries but really I should be waiting for raid armor and spending it on those. No raid armor? No real point in falsely inflating your level to 29 only to lose it continually as you replace your gear.
 
Have you seen what the helm of saint 14 looks like? I was kind of aiming for it too but it looks as bad as the queen's helm :(

Transmog plz

Yes, I think it looks totally badass, haha.

That's what I'm doing, got a Saint 14 yesterday and started upgrading it, already have Inmost Light at maximum.

Lucky you! Xur doesn't have many options left for Titans so I'm hoping this is in. If there is a repeat like what happened with the Sunbreakers I would cry, unless the weapon offered is what I want then I won't have to choose - but I'd much rather the helm.
 
Oh man, so many cloaks I want from the Speaker but dunno if I want to blow my motes of light on one of them or an exotic engram from Xur. Help me decide guys.
 
Yes, I think it looks totally badass, haha.



Lucky you! Xur doesn't have many options left for Titans so I'm hoping this is in. If there is a repeat like what happened with the Sunbreakers I would cry, unless the weapon offered is what I want then I won't have to choose - but I'd much rather the helm.

I've seen a few people report that it dropped at the end of this weeks Nightfall quest, which is were I got it. Probably just coincidence, but if you haven't run it yet then it might be worth it before buying it from Xur.
 
Oh man, so many cloaks I want from the Speaker but dunno if I want to blow my motes of light on one of them or an exotic engram from Xur. Help me decide guys.

Gear is far more important, especially if you Raid.

But boy are they sexy, I bought the Vulture bond for mah wooflock... and now I do not even use it thanks to the Prime bond from a raid chest. So yeah wasted my motes.
 
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