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[phen0m24]

Spoiler

Wizards

at crota. Yaaaaay...

IGN at Crota

 

[Jinjo]

Spoiler

No chalice. And gatekeeper.

Titan's again true heroes of Destiny. That Saint-14 helm man. True lifesaver.

 

[Conscience Falls]

I'm still hoping that whole Crota has multiple forms thing comes true.
I KNOW I KNOW

 

[Messiek]

Pulse rifle from the first checkpoint ?

 

[GalacticToast]

Holy shit.

Spoiler

Wizard + Gatekeeper at Crota

makes it sound like a giant cluster fuck of awesome.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Invigorate's got this. They're on another level compared to Primeguard.

Edit: Nami making me eat crow. Good job guys! You edged Primeguard already!

Yeah I think so too.

what is this I hear about team IGN cheesing the bridge?

 

[Jinjo]

Datto/Primeguard choking hard. What happened to all their prepwork?

Invigorate's got a strat down for Crota, they just need to execute it now.

 

[Conscience Falls]

Yeah I think so too.

what is this I hear about team IGN cheesing the bridge?

It seems out of character after the last Fireteam Chat podcast but they're so far ahead of everyone else that I can believe it.

 

[noomi]

anyone have the invigorate stream I can't find it :/

 

[Victory Red]

Oversoul Edict Pulse Rifle drops at Lamps.

Abyss Defiant Auto Rifle drops at Bridge.

Yeah I think so too.

what is this I hear about team IGN cheesing the bridge?

They cheesed lamps also.

 

[kidko]

Go team Nami! Deathsinger didn't stand a chance!

 

[Deku Tree]

Oversoul Edict Pulse Rifle drops at Lamps.

Abyss Defiant Auto Rifle drops at Bridge.

What about Ir Yut?

 

[scarletham]

Holy shit.

Spoiler

Wizard + Gatekeeper at Crota

makes it sound like a giant cluster fuck of awesome.

Awesome is one word to describe it

 

[Jinjo]

anyone have the invigorate stream I can't find it :/

http://tv.majorleaguegaming.com/channel/ltjohn5

What cheesestrats are there that remain at the Bridge? Warlock self-res/despawn?

Edit: sorry double post, don't know how that happened.

 

[Orthogonal]

I have to hand it to them. they got the luxury of a little time to fix the most egregious cheese before the first hard attempts, and along with boxing all the primaries (but not the raid Helm) to Hard mode only, they turned this "release" into an event. people are setting up streams, activity has spiked like crazy and there's gaming side threads and shit. well played.

Except for the annoying fact we lose a months worth of possible primary drops. I have run Crota every week and only have 1 raid weapon. It has been a lot less exciting as VoG in that regard. If I ever do get a few, it will be too late since HoW will be coming.

 

[spyder_ur]

anyone have the invigorate stream I can't find it :/

Here's on of theirs, I believe.

http://tv.majorleaguegaming.com/channel/ltjohn5

 

[Conscience Falls]

What about Ir Yut?

Ign didn't get a drop from Ir.

 

[R0ckman]

Wow, that sucks ultra bad.

Don't worry too badly, there have been many times in our raids where I took no damage during Crota. Sometimes we end up wiping later but for the most part if you play it a bit safe you should be fine.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Datto/Primeguard choking hard. What happened to all their prepwork?

Invigorate's got a strat down for Crota, they just need to execute it now.

If there's no chalice I guess you can swap sword runners no? I don't know what other mechanics they've added though

 

[Victory Red]

What about Ir Yut?

IGN didn't kill all Knights after her, they killed themselves. Going for speed run.

 

[Deku Tree]

lLTJohn says you can no longer blink strike Crota to go Invis.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Team nami @ crota

 

[Jinjo]

If there's no chalice I guess you can swap sword runners no? I don't know what other mechanics they've added though

They Saint-14 trap the Gatekeeper. If you have multiple Titans you can probably do that with all the gatekeepers (they are killing him first though then run to Crota). I haven't seen them switch swordrunners yet.

 

[Definity]

I've been watching on and off but I missed the deathsinger part. What are the changes there?

 

[phen0m24]

Suppression grenades guys.

Stop those wizards from firing and maybe in the towers too for the Knights!

Team Titan

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

Link to Nami's stream?

 

[noomi]

This is fucking crazy to me, that only about 40 minutes after release people are already at the end boss.... wow...

 

[Sword Of Doom]

IGN didn't kill all Knights after her, they killed themselves. Going for speed run.

Yeah it makes sense if you're going for speed

 

[JetBlackPanda]

This is fucking crazy to me, that only about 40 minutes after release people are already at the end boss.... wow...

well besides no revives not much changed up to Crota.

 

[Conscience Falls]

I've been watching on and off but I missed the deathsinger part. What are the changes there?

There aren't anything as far as I could see.

 

[LTWood12]

heard some enemies were level 34 at the end. Can anyone confirm

 

[Trace]

I'm just finishing up Deathsinger, no major changes to bridge or deathsinger. Lamps had more stuff.

 

[Conscience Falls]

IGN just said they didn't cheese.

 

[Deku Tree]

heard some enemies were level 34 at the end. Can anyone confirm

Spoiler

Yes

 

[DJ Lushious]

Don't worry too badly, there have been many times in our raids where I took no damage during Crota. Sometimes we end up wiping later but for the most part if you play it a bit safe you should be fine.

Yeah, but wizards, man. Wizards.

Bubble is going to be clutch for Hard Mode.

 

[Hawkian]

Except for the annoying fact we lose a months worth of possible primary drops. I have run Crota every week and only have 1 raid weapon. It has been a lot less exciting as VoG in that regard. If I ever do get a few, it will be too late since HoW will be coming.

*shrug* sorry to hear about your bad luck, but it's kind of immaterial. I didn't bring up my good luck with these raid weapons (and armor, in my case especially compared to VoG) as a positive facet either, just commenting on the aspects that made it a good idea from their perspective. I try to look at stuff like this beyond the individual player experience whenever possible.

IGN didn't kill all Knights after her, they killed themselves. Going for speed run.

I didn't know that gave you the checkpoint right away. huh.

Crota seems kiiinda intense.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

They Saint-14 trap the Gatekeeper. If you have multiple Titans you can probably do that with all the gatekeepers (they are killing him first though then run to Crota). I haven't seen them switch swordrunners yet.

We actually did that with the gatekeepers on the bridge part when we were doing our blind run. First time we did it we had several gatekeepers and we were doing that to them lol we didn't know they kept spawning everytime you picked up a sword

 

[gutterboy44]

Boomer Majors? Good thing that extra damage to hive majors perk is busted on Black Hammer.

 

[Rubenov]

Finally home... any hard mode raids assembling? PSN: Rubenov25. Level 32 Warlock/Hunter all kinds of maxed weapons

 

[Trakan]

Changes to hard mode seem pretty lazy to me.

Let's throw more enemies at you, make them a level higher for artificial difficulty via damage reduction, and make them majors on top of that.

 

[cilonen]

They've made titans super important to clearing this again.

 

[Orthogonal]

*shrug* sorry to hear about your bad luck, but it's kind of immaterial. I didn't bring up my good luck with these raid weapons (and armor, in my case especially compared to VoG) as a positive facet either, just commenting on the aspects that made it a good idea from their perspective. I try to look at stuff like this beyond the individual player experience whenever possible.

I didn't know that gave you the checkpoint right away. huh.

Crota seems kiiinda intense.

It's ok, VoG made up for it last night by dropping Vex finally. Feeling really good now.

I am glad to hear all sections can drop primaries in Crota. Gives me some hope now.

 

[Hawkian]

Link to Nami's stream?

http://www.twitch.tv/namikaze01

 

[Victory Red]

*shrug* sorry to hear about your bad luck, but it's kind of immaterial. I didn't bring up my good luck with these raid weapons (and armor, in my case especially compared to VoG) as a positive facet either, just commenting on the aspects that made it a good idea from their perspective. I try to look at stuff like this beyond the individual player experience whenever possible.

I didn't know that gave you the checkpoint right away. huh.

Crota seems kiiinda intense.

Yeah. Boomers have tons of health.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Changes to hard mode seem pretty lazy to me.

Let's throw more enemies at you, make them a level higher for artificial damage reduction, and make them majors on top of that.

That's their MO though right? I didn't really expect anything different except for some changes at Crota which is what they did with atheon. Added the bubbles

 

[Jinjo]

We actually did that with the gatekeepers on the bridge part when we were doing our blind run. First time we did it we had several gatekeepers and we were doing that to them lol we didn't know they kept spawning everytime you picked up a sword

Same here, first time we never knew you could kill them haha.

 

[Ikkarus]

Finally home... any hard mode raids assembling? PSN: Rubenov25. Level 32 Warlock/Hunter all kinds of maxed weapons

I'd be up for trying it if you don't mind a level 31 coming along.

 

[GalacticToast]

lLTJohn says you can no longer blink strike Crota to go Invis.

 

[Ambitious]

Which primary is Nami using?

edit: Saterienne Rapier.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Same here, first time we never knew you could kill them haha.

Yeah I mean we tried killing them but they would just one shot us since we were level 30 so we just said fuck it. My friend was throwing them off the side near the plate with solar grenades lol we just didn't realize they spawned every time you picked up the sword. The saint 14 was very useful