NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
IMO, the TTK is longer than previous dlc combined. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt also try them.
Also, if you managed to get light level 30 before 8/31/15, you get some pretty cool stuff.
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Also, if you managed to get light level 30 before 8/31/15, you get some pretty cool stuff.
The Vault of Glass mission from House of Wolves was really good. The one from The Taken Taken involving Praedyth was pretty bad. The boss is okay, but that nonsense in the Templar area was pretty distasteful. It's several waves of enemies with very few checkpoints......even when you think it's over and you're just mopping up a few stray monsterss they will spawn a bunch of trash in from nowhere that kills you and makes you start from the very beginning again.
Several people in this thread said they pretty much gave up on solo'ing it. I hid out in the Fanatic spawn cave until I could get some of the captains down.
The Shade of Oryx boss in the Citadel was much worse.....it probably took me 20-30 minutes to slog through the fight. So much trash spawns that you can't stay out in the open for long and half of the majors that pop have projectiles that go through solid objects or bend around corners.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
I cant believe fighting the taken for some missions has turned the style from dps race to a kps race.
blue_phazon
Member
Just because something is difficult doesn't mean it's unfair.
I soloed it just fine by constantly running around.
Maybe you just need better gear?
BlackSalad
Member
very much so
game has improved immensely in almost every regard. If you had fun with destiny before, TTK is a must
The point being that those areas get so suddenly and immediately clogged up with enemies that you can't reliably just "run around" because you are beset on all sides. You end up having to hunker down in a cheese spot just to have a minute to breath, all the while the Shade of Oryx drains your super energy so you can't really even hope to mount a big counter-offensive.
I'm hoping I will like those missions better when I can have the weapons and gear I want. Right now I'm forced into a particular loadout because the only 255+ Light weapons I have are an auto rifle/sniper/shotgun. That said I was at the supposed Light requirement for the mission (240).
blue_phazon
Member
Ah that makes sense. I actually worked on some other quests first so I think I was at a higher general light level
On top of the attack element, there's also the guard some may want to take into account, which is strong against the two other elements but weak against its own.
There's also the matter of the exotic version's perks and appearance since they do differ there.
Bolt-Caster(Arc)
Dark-Drinker(Void)
Raze-Lighter(Solar)
Bolt-Caster can shoot a beam of Arc energy and can drop orbs for kills.
Dark-Drinker has an AoE and recharges grenade energy for kills.
Raze-Lighter has an uppercut and recharges super energy for kills.
I've put a dozen hours in and feel like have barely scratched the surface. After the main campaign missions, a large number of quests and other activities open up; it's actually pretty overwhelming.
Trojan
Member
Love my armor right now
Game is fun.
I'm happy destiny
Not gonna lie, that armor looks badass
Phanatic8390
Member
So I this is probably a dumb question but how do you get R3 to pop up next to your name and what does it do? I've seen it on Earth and the Tower but never clicked it.
blue_phazon
Member
Just buy Bad Juju v2 when you can afford it later lol
On Wednesday you can order a Legendary gun from him, if you have reputation Level 1 or higher. The gun will not arrive until the next Wednesday....you keep the order in your inventory until then.
The Prototype weapons are not quests with rewards.....all you get is reputation for finishing them. Once you get each gun to 100% your reputation goes up and you can just delete them.
Light beyond nemesis is still the coolest damn exotic helmet in the game. Can't wait to get my year 2 version.Love my armor right now
Game is fun.
I'm happy destiny
Revolutionary
Member
Just unlocked Shadestep. Really useful in a firefight. But giving up advanced tracking for it is a tough call
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Change them to what though? Currently the download keeps on pausing or slowing to an absolute crawl. It randomly goes from full speed to almost nothing.
FadedRevolution
Member
Finally reached level 40 with my Warlock hopefully my light level will be good enough to do a run of the raid this weekend. I'm loving stormcaller but that VOG story mission was kicking my ass I had to switch to sunsinger to beat it.
Crabernacle
Member
Should I spend the 60 marks for a legendary from the cryptarch? I've still got a two blues to replace, but I'm wondering if I should wait for xur.
jediyoshi
Member
My plan is to wait for Xur. I don't want to buy something and then the only Xur class exotic ends up being the same armor type as something I just bought.
Crabernacle
Member
That's my worry as well. I'm sitting at 230 light and I'll be stuck at work until tomorrow night. Hopefully my friends have the decency to wait on me for the raid.
Sparrowhawk
Member
Hey guys, if I delete my original character from launch and start over completely fresh, will I lose anything? I'll keep all of my shaders and stuff like that, right?
I tend to be of the opinion that everyone is better off waiting for Xur before spending any Legendary Marks.
SomeOneInaHat
Member
No need to delete a character, just choose a slot for a second character.
I'm pretty sure that they need to be the same item type.
The "story" is broken up into thirds. First third is about 3-4 hours, then the quests open up. That is the second third of the main story, and a bunch of side stories and mission in the universe. Last third is end game Raid, which will be the conclusion.
I've already sunk 22 hours into it and am probably half way, but some of that is loot spelunking. There's 80 of so quests.
SomeOneInaHat
Member
Not to mention that there is storytelling within the dreadnought patrol through the use of environmental puzzles and scanning. Just seeing how all the little pieces of the world come together to obtain secret treasures is some Dark Souls tier world building.
Seth Enosh
Member
You can play the revamped parts of vanilla by just downloading the patch, there's no need to buy TTK. The expansion storyline content you already paid for has been updated to use TTK's new quest systems as part of the free patch.
In terms of storyline content TDB and vanilla were about the same quality. HoW has better story missions but was also short. TTK seems to have better quality missions and also way more content.
Decided to do one last Rift match before I went to bed, completely dominated it.
The first match you do each day gives 15
The first match you do each day gives 15
davidbloop
Member
This game. Destiny has gotten a LOT more interesting. Only issue is I don't have enough hours in the day to play it in between work and sleep. Been having a lot of fun exploring the Dreadnought trying to figure out the new secrets and mechanics.
Also Court of Oryx is great for farming blue engrams you get so many.
Also Court of Oryx is great for farming blue engrams you get so many.
Sparrowhawk
Member
I would, but I'd just like to start over completely fresh. Will I still keep everything?
Twilight Gap
Member
that's the part that doesn't kick ass. they're a bit obscure at the moment.
-daily pvp gametype
-daily story mission
-weekly nightfall
-first 3 weekly heroic strikes
-dismantling year 2 legendaries
-rewards for some quests
that's it i think. unfortunately they aren't awarded for just playing the game like the old marks were, which is part of the problem.
I kinda wonder what exactly that does to Crucible matches, when suddenly 50% of the players don't give a shit and are just there to get their marks in as quick a time as possible. I wonder what the statistics on a normal Salvage match are, versus a Salvage match on a day when Salvage is the Daily Crucible activity.
I think we'll all get over this pretty quickly and soon we will all have Legendary Marks coming out of our asses, amassing huge bank accounts full of marks we have no way to spend.
That said, this system has really soured me on Week 1. The raid comes out tomorrow and I'm sitting with all my Light Gear around 250-something. I don't have any hope of getting geared up in time to do a blind run.....shit, I am not even at the right level to do the Weekly Heroic which would net me more Marks to get raid-ready gear. Part of this is just because I had some unexpected work obligations that took me away from the game yesterday and today.....but looking at all those laundry list quests now is just pretty daunting.
Sure there will be supposed "blind" runs in the next week or so, but you know every group is gonna have some dude who peeked at some YouTube videos and learned the mechanics.
Effigenius
Member
So does the campaign end with
My buddy and I played through it today and it only took us
hours.
I know there's still the strike and raid, but is that really all the campaign? Why are people acting like that's a lot of content?
the fight with Crota's dad?
My buddy and I played through it today and it only took us
4
I know there's still the strike and raid, but is that really all the campaign? Why are people acting like that's a lot of content?
Well, with Persona 5 being delayed I ended up picking The Taken King up today. Had a Destiny addiction for a couple of months at launch then got bored and quit before the first Season Pass expansion released. Hopefully my new controller's analog sticks hold up better than me launch ones did at Destiny's initial launch.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Do I need to progress through the story missions before I unlock the strikes? I'm level 40, but only a few missions in. Can't remember if that's how the vanilla game was, since I've mean MIA for a long time.
Edit: With regards to the strike playlist, I mean.
Edit: With regards to the strike playlist, I mean.
I actually struggled to find something to spend my legendary marks on before. I hit the cap and needed to lose some. Not even sure how I'm managing to get so many, I guess mostly stuff I can't do again till next week.
Pretty much everything besides buying year 2 exotics from blueprints is semi useless and only handy as a starting point since 300 atk/def is the highest you can get. Making me worry about Xur tomorrow.
Pretty much everything besides buying year 2 exotics from blueprints is semi useless and only handy as a starting point since 300 atk/def is the highest you can get. Making me worry about Xur tomorrow.
I guess you are new to Destiny (or trolling). Finishing the campaign doesn't even scratch the surface compared to the amount of things you can do afterwards. This is not a single-player game where campaign is the meat of the content.
I've sunk more than 20 hours in it since TTK launch and I'm not even Raid-ready yet.
MaKTaiL
Member
Once you finish this quest, 12 more will open up for you. You have to complete journeys and they will appear. The campaign only finishes for good in a mission on Fobos, where it all started. You kill the final Oryx Echo. There are a total of 18 new missions on TTK for you to do, not counting the journeys you can do.
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