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Destiny |OT12| Play. Whine. Repeat.
- Thread starter Hawkian
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What level is their sword carrier?
The loot cave was the most ineffective way to do anything. good riddance to dumb attempts to game the game.
That is definitely the benefit I am seeing on my exotic duplicates. Keeping my fully leveled IceBreaker, Last Word and Suros as they are and upgrading the duplicates i have barely touched through Xur.
Shinigami no Mori
Member
Looking to blow through Vault of Glass on Hard tonight at 10:30 PM CST (PS4). Posting early so people can see. Please be experienced and at least level 30.
1. ShinigamiFrost - Level 30
2. PhantomPaincake - Level 31
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My PSN is: ShinigamiFrost
Mainly going for ascendant materials and exotic shards.
1. ShinigamiFrost - Level 30
2. PhantomPaincake - Level 31
3.
4.
5.
6.
My PSN is: ShinigamiFrost
Mainly going for ascendant materials and exotic shards.
MADGAME
Member
Hmm. I see.
Has anyone completed Crota's End portion where you
defend the circle in the haunted maze AND killed everything? We clear it easy but after receiving loot we run into the light from everything chasing us. Wondering if it is possible to kill everything and explore afterwards (even if dark and weight x10) or if enemies keep spawning until you pass through.
Don't want me shooting the same things over and over?
The DLC has less than a handful of new missions and it's making me do parts of them over and over to kill specific enemies for these stupid bounties.
I actually like the story missions and the strikes and the new maps, and I'm sure the Raid is cool. But these bounties/ Eris reputation... I just don't see the point.
Doomshroom
Member
Looking for crota raid psn pansargryning
Oh, yeah, now I remember it. I think I got it mixed up with the guy who said it would be cool if we went backwards through the raid, where we beat crota then have to escape the collapsing dungeon and at the end face the left over soul of crota trying to kill us with the last of its strength or something...
Orthogonal
Member
I agree with a lot of this. It is getting out of hand trying to juggle all the different currencies, faction rankings and farming mats. Adding another RNG to progression with Xur upgrades is another insult to injury.
Seeing Icebreaker for upgrade feels like a punch to the gut for me. I was still saving up for my first Exotic Armor piece when that was available because I didn't have the time to get to the income level yet to buy it. It's like the rich are getting richer and I just get left in the dust with scraps. I have been able to buy 1 exotic weapon in 3 months. I am just now getting to the point of being able to buy maybe 1 exotic per week now.
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Does the Urn quest give you rep when you complete each step?
Major Williams
Member
Crota is definitely intense. The first two loot drop missions are pretty easy, but the last part is tough to say the least.
That second chest run with killing the thrall and screamers is tough, but totally worth it. I got 4 shards and 2 energy out of it with my 3 accounts. We kept 2 as anchors while we brought our alt accounts in - one to stand next to the chest so it didn't despawn, and one reviving guys as they came in.
That second chest run with killing the thrall and screamers is tough, but totally worth it. I got 4 shards and 2 energy out of it with my 3 accounts. We kept 2 as anchors while we brought our alt accounts in - one to stand next to the chest so it didn't despawn, and one reviving guys as they came in.
DJ Lushious
Member
No. Which is a shame, especially considering the work that goes into each step.
Judicious use of invisibility basically. Max out your Super/melee cooldown, use the Stalker and Shadowjack abilities, use the press L2 to turn invisible perk for Arc Blade. Stealth when possible and just move from light to light when you get to the panel to open the bridge try to refresh your invisibility. Toward the end pop arc blade and use its invisibility. Enemies will run around you but not actually attack as long as you are invisible. Rejoice when the bridge forms.
Doomshroom
Member
Conversely, seeing Icebreaker for upgrade is a punch in the gut to me, having the 300ATK maxed out version already. Xur doesn't give a shit that I poured tons of ascendant energy, mats and time into it. I think the only reason you can not feel shitty when upgrading something from Xur is if it dropped five minutes prior and you haven't had a chance to use it yet.
Dude, I levelled 4 exotics to max just after the exotic shard patch. ;_;
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
Right, I agree with that. But they also removed some of the better ways to acquire glimmer. There is no activity in this game that reliably gives a substantial amount of glimmer, short of popping consumables and running the same mission repeatedly.
They've increased demand, but not supply.
Furbies.
Count me in. Level 31
Major Williams
Member
What level are you? Sounds like you are missing the heroic weekly missions at the highest difficulty. Get to 31 with the new vanguard gear and use destinylfg!
Twilight Gap
Member
second legendary engram dropped in the wild today. anyone else notice higher drop rates?
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
That might be the most apt way to describe the experience right now. Spot on, Kotaku.
I'll hop in on this, if that's okay. PS4: SharkJAW Lvl 30 Titan.
Not for me. All blues and greens.
Orthogonal
Member
It just goes to show that Xur and the loot system in general is a total clusterfuck. Everyone feels cheated.
Twilight Gap
Member
Actually not so bad with the Icebreaker since it still has its best perk off the bat, but yeah.
Thorn is a good example. I upgraded it to max for the express purpose of using it in Iron Banner.. then they broke it in Crucible. Now IB is back again and I have to upgrade Thorn again. Insane. It's faster now but I feel like a crazy person doing this shit again.
I went crazy in IB last time but unless there's some really good new rewards this time, I won't bother much. I'd rather play the new maps. Are the drops just going to be upgraded versions of the stuff that dropped last time? The shit that I played *hundreds* of games hoping to get, now obsolete too. Oh and I can't even get anything useful for dismantling these weapons either.
A bucket and a table are technically used interchangeably in loot systems; it is easier to understand as a bucket in the abstract once you start modifying such that a roll modifies the following roll. Sometimes you'd set up a bucket such that if an item comes out of the bucket on a roll, it doesn't go back in (so you couldn't get that result again until another condition was met), or where the result goes back in but affects all of the variables remaining in the bucket.
Prior to the expansion it doesn't look like they did anything for raid drops except dump everything into the appropriate buckets at certain odds and said "good luck", where now I imagine they are either modifying each checkpoint's bucket separately (so if you don't get loot from X checkpoint, your odds all change next week at this checkpoint for whatever items you did not land on) or are modifying all of the buckets at each checkpoint (so if you didn't get loot from X checkpoint, Y and Z remaining checkpoints have their buckets modified).
Shinigami no Mori
Member
Alrighty
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Looking to blow through Vault of Glass on Hard tonight at 10:30 PM CST (PS4). Posting early so people can see. Please be experienced and at least level 30.
1. ShinigamiFrost - Level 30
2. PhantomPaincake - Level 31
3. zewone - Level 31
4. SharkJAW - Level 30
5.
6.
My PSN is: ShinigamiFrost
Mainly going for ascendant materials and exotic shards.
Dr_LawyerCop
Member
Upgrade it and it's improved. Perks don't make much of a difference.
Orthogonal
Member
I got to level 30 with VoG Raid gear but only this Monday, the day before the DLC dropped and realized I blew all my Ass Shards on worthless Raid gear when I could have saved them for the DLC and be Level 31 right now but can't because I need more shards.
I have only been getting 9 coins a week for the last 6 weeks. Just now getting an alt to lvl27 that can add a few more. Blew my first Exotic purchase on a chest piece before realizing I needed a helm to get lvl30. So, I have small income and have wasted coins without fully knowing what I was doing.
xplicitone
Member
Xur bounty from Crota. After you kill thrall with solar, you then have to melee kill 5 curse thrall without dying, then you have to kill hive wizards and acolytes with void. 100 points worth, and when you die you only lose some.
When you die it only hurts that phase, and you automatically get the next phase upon completion.
When you die it only hurts that phase, and you automatically get the next phase upon completion.
Alrighty
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Looking to blow through Vault of Glass on Hard tonight at 10:30 PM CST (PS4). Posting early so people can see. Please be experienced and at least level 30.
1. ShinigamiFrost - Level 30
2. PhantomPaincake - Level 31
3. zewone - Level 31
4. SharkJAW - Level 30
5.
6.
My PSN is: ShinigamiFrost
Mainly going for ascendant materials and exotic shards.
I have yet to run my 30 Warlock through this week and can use the mats after today.
PSN: coyquettish
IXIKelsonIXI
Member
I was actually generally okay with the new trade-in system until it was brought to my attention yesterday that, assuming an item costs 13 coins from Xur, it is more economical to just buy it flat out and shard your old one.
I mean, that's fine. But it's kind of twisted.
My roommate told me this morning that he sharded his almost fully upgraded Truth, and it yielded him two exotic shards. Even more reason you are better off just buying your exotic brand new if you get a chance. Bananas.
I mean, that's fine. But it's kind of twisted.
My roommate told me this morning that he sharded his almost fully upgraded Truth, and it yielded him two exotic shards. Even more reason you are better off just buying your exotic brand new if you get a chance. Bananas.
Yeah, I said in my next post that it doesn't really apply to Icebreaker that much. It hurts more with Thorn and other weapons.
Orthogonal
Member
I never upgraded my Thorn, figure I will just Shard it now that I have a 2nd bounty for it.
Twilight Gap
Member
from the engram earlier
i like how it looks but its stats are so unimpressive. oh well.
i like how it looks but its stats are so unimpressive. oh well.
Diablohead
Member
Destiny xbone just gave me a reasonable sized in-game update, any notes?