Stillmatic
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13 OT's and still no Gjallarhorn. Fucking thing...
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Destiny |OT13| How the Grind Stole Christmas
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Stephen_drewz
Member
Currently sitting on 72 Vanguard Marks, can't decide between getting boots at 75 marks which should push me into level 28 or staying 27 for another 3-4 days and waiting until I get 120 marks for the Helm. Already have a commendation for it.
EL CUCO
Member
That sucks. How far along were you before it hit?
As far as I can tell this is the definitive DPS resource.
In short: Explosive rounds are pretty good now. They're outstanding when matched with an appropriate burn.
The only time you can lose out with explosive rounds is with the Firefly. If your precision shot does not do enough damage to kill your target, but the explosion does then Firefly will not proc. However, since you are using explosive rounds in the first place this shouldn't be a big issue.
Are you coming back in?
Orthogonal
Member
Bugs are the biggest hurdle to flawless runs I imagine. I don't have the patience for it.
Man, everybody abandons me when the will of Crota strike comes up in the playlist.
Wussies. It's actually an easy strike.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Yeah trying, I rebooted my router then got marionberry. Rebooting it again. Sorry about this issue.
Edit: seems good, coming back now
It just takes a while. The new Valus, imo
Twilight Gap
Member
Finally figured it out.
Not A Fallen Hood
Pleiades Hood
Night Rain Cloak
Dynamo Cloak
Frumious Cloak
Cloak of Perception
Cryptarch sells 3 class items depending on your level. Once you hit the next level of items, the set of 3 appears to be changed. AFAIK, you cannot obtain items below your current level from him anymore, which is why level 20 players are unable to find these cloaks.
If you want a lower level class item, you have to make a new character and level it up until you're the level of the item you want. Or you can transfer engrams you earn on your higher levels to the vault and decrypt them on your lower level.
(shader is cryptographic in the first 5 pics and revenant in the last)
Not A Fallen Hood
Pleiades Hood
Night Rain Cloak
Dynamo Cloak
Frumious Cloak
Cloak of Perception
Cryptarch sells 3 class items depending on your level. Once you hit the next level of items, the set of 3 appears to be changed. AFAIK, you cannot obtain items below your current level from him anymore, which is why level 20 players are unable to find these cloaks.
If you want a lower level class item, you have to make a new character and level it up until you're the level of the item you want. Or you can transfer engrams you earn on your higher levels to the vault and decrypt them on your lower level.
(shader is cryptographic in the first 5 pics and revenant in the last)
Hung Wei Lo
Member
Sword Of Doom
Member
Oh boy. Crota is a mess. Confidence at an all time low. It's what getting solo'd by a hunter will do to you
I'll join. Sent you a PM, not sure it went though. pSN: miamijaaz
Ok, yea, everyone doing hard. My alts is 28 so F that.
TheTylerDurden
Member
Man, everybody abandons me when the will of Crota strike comes up in the playlist.
I keep seeing people making disparaging remarks about that strike. I actually like it a lot. The end could be shorter and less bullet spongy, sure...but overall I really like the onslaught and waves of enemies, the sniping in the second part with some well placed enemies, etc.
Guess I am the only one, but I like when it comes up.
Orthogonal
Member
Trying to get kids to bed now. If you still need one I will jump in, but it may be a bit longer. Sorry.
figadapaura
Member
you're a sadist
Me too. At least, I'm not sick of it quite yet. The end can be annoying just because it takes awhile but the rest is fine. Much easier as a Strike than a Nightfall.
It's a decent glimmer farm too. Pop some idols and ether seeds and you can bank a few thousand glimmer every time. Unlike the bullshit of undying mind which doesn't give you glimmer for the hordes of yelow bar enemies and it doesn't give you glimmer even if you eat the blue polyphage.
Stallion Dan
Member
Man, everybody abandons me when the will of Crota strike comes up in the playlist.
Too many parts you need stop at to fight waves of enemies. The other new strike not much better, don't even get glimmer on the part with all the armoured enemies.
Look at Nexus, stop right near the start for the 3 floating ball things and can run to boss from then onwards. Same for the moon, do the 3 locks on the door and run to boss.
xplicitone
Member
Anyone need to run heroic weekly?
Orthogonal
Member
If your focus is crowd control then blast radius. DPS you want velocity.
Both if you can, but Blast Radius is the more important of the two if there's no other option.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Velocity = Rocket Speed, faster it chases to where you pointed or lock-on target
Blast Radius = Bid Bada Boom, how far the damage penetrates around the burst of said rocket
If very low on Velocity, take that, Blast Radius only if it's a significant jump, I'm taking |______| much worth of bar (say at least 7-10 points)
I try to keep stability > velocity > blast radius > reload
Orthogonal
Member
Psn: Khorgano
EL CUCO
Member
Does velocity = more damage or the damage just gets there faster?
I'm leveling up HOC and it's one or the other. I guess I'll mess around with them.
I'm game. PSN is CornDogg86
Easily one of the most intense gaming moments I've had. But we did it. That damn platforming section, man. Now one last trophy (collect 50 ghosts) and Iordship will be mine.
Congrats!
LollipoPReapeR
Member
Fuck the undying mind. Ridiculous numbers of yellow enemies and they don't even give you glimmer. Fuck that shit. Straight to orbit each time. The three shields at the end are annoying as fuck as well
Finally figured it out.
Not A Fallen Hood
Pleiades Hood
Night Rain Cloak
Dynamo Cloak
Frumious Cloak
Cloak of Perception
Cryptarch sells 3 class items depending on your level. Once you hit the next level of items, the set of 3 appears to be changed. AFAIK, you cannot obtain items below your current level from him anymore, which is why level 20 players are unable to find these cloaks.
If you want a lower level class item, you have to make a new character and level it up until you're the level of the item you want. Or you can transfer engrams you earn on your higher levels to the vault and decrypt them on your lower level.
(shader is cryptographic in the first 5 pics and revenant in the last)
But what level did you decrypt at to get those?
Twilight Gap
Member
the first 2 hoods were at level 2 and now that i'm level 7 i can't get them from cryptarch anymore. frumious and cloak of perception were blue class items transferred from my main and decrypted at level 2 as well. the night rain and dynamo cloak were decrypted from rahool at level 7.
EL CUCO
Member
Gotcha. Thanks!
The Lamonster
Member
Fatebringer
Atheon's Epilogue
Timebreaker sparrow
outdated helm
all in one run.
Atheon's Epilogue
Timebreaker sparrow
outdated helm
all in one run.
Bungie gives no incentive to endure it. If you are doing it for marks or random drops, might as well skip and do an easier and faster one
I actually like it too. But bungie should give additional and different rewards per strike cuz they aren't created equal
xplicitone
Member
All fan speculation. Hard mode will be 33 sometime in January.
Twilight Gap
Member
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2pzml3/the_crota_bossfight_doesnt_make_sense/
"From his perspective, he just stands there, mostly out of his attacking range, and watches as 6 dopey guardians kill his minions to collect heavy ammo and eventually the sword bearer. He quite literally lets the only weapon that can hurt him be brought out of his range of fire so the guardians can take it and smack him with it.
Does anyone else feel like he should probably just tell the sword bearer to watch some Netflix and just hang out behind that door we can't open until he can rage and call some Ogres to finish the job?
My Final Bossfight: Crota's shield is an ever changing element. Once that specific element takes it down, only Super abilities can harm him. His main attack is that of the knight you fight at the end of Fist of Crota. No adds. No bullshit. Just a 7 man Super Fest. When he gets down to a sliver of health, he enrages and tries to assholes and elbows out of there, at which time his shield won't recharge and you chase him on speeders, landing tricks to do taunt damage him until he's dead."
I remember reading a rumor that sparrows would be used in this raid. It's obviously a silly idea, but it's one of many others that sound like Bungie could have made the fight more interesting and challenging. Atheon at least sends us through time and has oracles try to wipe us out of existence. Crota just waits to get beaten with a stick.
"From his perspective, he just stands there, mostly out of his attacking range, and watches as 6 dopey guardians kill his minions to collect heavy ammo and eventually the sword bearer. He quite literally lets the only weapon that can hurt him be brought out of his range of fire so the guardians can take it and smack him with it.
Does anyone else feel like he should probably just tell the sword bearer to watch some Netflix and just hang out behind that door we can't open until he can rage and call some Ogres to finish the job?
My Final Bossfight: Crota's shield is an ever changing element. Once that specific element takes it down, only Super abilities can harm him. His main attack is that of the knight you fight at the end of Fist of Crota. No adds. No bullshit. Just a 7 man Super Fest. When he gets down to a sliver of health, he enrages and tries to assholes and elbows out of there, at which time his shield won't recharge and you chase him on speeders, landing tricks to do taunt damage him until he's dead."
I remember reading a rumor that sparrows would be used in this raid. It's obviously a silly idea, but it's one of many others that sound like Bungie could have made the fight more interesting and challenging. Atheon at least sends us through time and has oracles try to wipe us out of existence. Crota just waits to get beaten with a stick.