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Destiny |OT19| Raiders of the Lost
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Our Atheon runs were really smooth; we almost got him in one portal.
Crota was rough; we couldn't kill him. We didn't even have bad lag or bugs. I think we just don't have enough HM Crota experience.
Anyone that has HM Crota down to a science willing to help a group out later this week or this weekend? I want the Fang, damnit!
It's nice, I can keep up with it now because it's moving at a pace closer to that of the Halo OT. Actually, Halo was moving a bit faster today with that whole Halo Online in Russia dealie.
Nice to see the Xboners stand out a bit too!
*cue "we're dead Jim" gif*
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Crota broke him. RIP.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I can help, add me on psn: ruthlesbarbarian
But but we break crota multiple times every week now...
HoW better be good. Dlc is meant to bring in more players, not drive away existing ones :/
ReignofSparrows
Member
We've gotten pretty good at handling most variables since we almost always have 2 new randoms each week, sometimes between each run. We got it on the first try twice this week after getting it first try twice last week.
If you want me to sherpa for a kill or even just party chat at some point, maybe I can pass enough information along to help get your group over the hump.
1) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
2) I got my second exotic drop from a raid ever - Hard Light, which I totally didn't buy last week because everyone told me it sucked. :lol
3) I also got Song of Ir Yut which is neat.
4) I ran sword and took down Crota for the first time. Sword School: Graduated.
5) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
Thanks everyone for enduring that run. It felt more like a crawl at the end but we did it.
2) I got my second exotic drop from a raid ever - Hard Light, which I totally didn't buy last week because everyone told me it sucked. :lol
3) I also got Song of Ir Yut which is neat.
4) I ran sword and took down Crota for the first time. Sword School: Graduated.
5) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
Thanks everyone for enduring that run. It felt more like a crawl at the end but we did it.
xVaalbarAx
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I'll help you out! PSN: xVaalbarAx
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Need 1 for hard Atheon 3x
1) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
2) I got my second exotic drop from a raid ever - Hard Light, which I totally didn't buy last week because everyone told me it sucked. :lol
3) I also got Song of Ir Yut which is neat.
4) I ran sword and took down Crota for the first time. Sword School: Graduated.
5) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
Thanks everyone for enduring that run. It felt more like a crawl at the end but we did it.
Hear, hear!
HiredN00bs
Member
I have the patience of Saint-14.
It also better be coming out in April cause fuck lol if it comes out May 19th. Like nuh uh no Destiny the same day Witcher 3 comes out.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Nooooo...April is Mortal Kombat.
If it was April, I have a feeling we'd know something about it by now.
GOT THE WORD OF CROTA
~30 hard raids later! I now have everything but the sparrow. But that's hardly something to grind for. I'm essentially done with this game until the expansion now. Only time I will be playing is if friends are. But I've seen a massive drop off in players on my friends list recently too
~30 hard raids later! I now have everything but the sparrow. But that's hardly something to grind for. I'm essentially done with this game until the expansion now. Only time I will be playing is if friends are. But I've seen a massive drop off in players on my friends list recently too
brianjones
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I think that weekly might be worse than omnigul honestly
it's 3 people all jostling to shoot through one doorway .. getting pushed and shot by each other.. Ugh
at least it's quick enough to get to phogoth
Agreed. This strike with arc burn is worse than omnibitch. Barely, but still. The 5 hive ultra wizards that spawn at the end in the triptych room makes me shit bricks.
And fuck boomers with arc burn, holy shit.
I prefer it to Omnigul. Greatly.
At least with arc Phogoth the "difficult" and tedious part is right at the beginning. Once you've cleared that room, it's an easy sprint straight to the boss, and you can easily cheese him while taking no risk at all.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Phogoth, even with arc burn, lightswitch and angry is a hundred times better than omnigul.
At least the nightfall only takes 10-12 minutes.
At least the nightfall only takes 10-12 minutes.
brianjones
Member
the phogoth section is still tedious .. Hiding from the stupid shrieker.. The swarms of wizards and Knights blocking view from phogoth
I find the omnigul portion with the cheese room better.. I sat and revived people with arc MGs and she was down in no time
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Will an easy daily bring some players back? Don't think so...
Xur better sell Thunderlord or better, the Ghorn, tomorrow.
Xur better sell Thunderlord or better, the Ghorn, tomorrow.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Omni is just a boring and tedious strike. Just like everything else in the dark below, lazy development.
Tell.me about it. The only good thing about TDB is eris' voice actin, and the bridge section of the raid, if you do it legit.
brianjones
Member
it's no better or worse than anything else in the game
it just happens to be dlc
if phogoth was dlc I doubt people would be changing their tune about TDB lol
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Crux get. Now I have every exotic and "beat" the game.
I like NM Crota. With people close enough to you so you don't get too much lag, it's a really fun fight I find.
Well, that might also be because I'm run the sword in my raid group...
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Eh, it's the price they're paying for the game design. If they put any mechanics in dungeons that require thought, than raids become glorified dungeons. So they have to keep 'em dumb and just throw waves of enemies at you. They introduce simplified raid mechanics in story missions(Sword/stepping on plate for VoG, Not being able to jump for TDB), but really it means that dungeons suffer because of it. That's why you have boss with adds every damn time.
The issue with the omnigul strike is fighting the boss in such an enclosed space with constant bullshit spawns. Every other strike lets you fight the boss in a large arena with multiple points of cove, so multiple strategies have chances of success.
brianjones
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yeah you can spread out on phogoth.. except when its the nightfall
which is the reason i compared it to omnigul in the first place
the nightfalls both involve hiding in a small room to shoot at the boss.. but at least omnigul isn't a single doorway
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Nope. Nobody quits Phogoth strike, not even randoms.
Everyone quits omnigul.
Phogoth, with or without cheese, is a decent strike. Omni is just garbage.
It is admittedly difficult to do standard raid mechanics due to the fact that there are no set roles.for players, no aggro mechanics,.and the sheer ability of players to traverse the environment.
I felt that VoG had fantastic raid mechanics design, and they should really expand on those.
brianjones
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we aren't talking about ROC strikes the original discussion was nightfalls
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Nightfall is even a better case for Phogoth. If you die at the boss it only takes a couple of minutes to get back to him.
If you die at omni, it's long and painful to get back to her.
As far as nightfalls are concerned, omni is simply the worst, whatever the burn.
Omni is so bad it makes Vaalus look good.
Remember omni with angry, lightswitch and no burns? Fuck that.
Blue Ninja
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1) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
2) I got my second exotic drop from a raid ever - Hard Light, which I totally didn't buy last week because everyone told me it sucked. :lol
3) I also got Song of Ir Yut which is neat.
4) I ran sword and took down Crota for the first time. Sword School: Graduated.
5) HiredN00bs has the patience of a saint.
Thanks everyone for enduring that run. It felt more like a crawl at the end but we did it.
Haha, they tried making me run sword on my Warlock yesterday. I didn't die, but didn't get the timing right so we had to wipe anyway.
Think I'll feel more confident once I can do it on my Hunter. Sword school is next.
Blue Ninja
Member
Might as well hop on, then. Not planning to play a lot of Destiny today, but I can knock those three out real quick.
Cannot wait to get my hunter to lvl 32, then i can try the sword.
brianjones
Member
any nightfalls with no burns sucks
vaalus was torture until bungie made xur sell icebreaker every other week
i remember the first time i did valus with no burns and no horn or icebreaker.. i felt so useless waiting for my special ammo synth to cool down
hiding under this ramp where only one person can get a decent look at him at a time
Heh, only did CE twice (we don't raid much, but I solo parts of it *a lot* ^^), both time running the sword. My first time was on my warlock, and second time on the hunter. It gets a little while getting used to it, but you'll see, hunter is WAY easier and fun to kill Crota with. Invisibility makes all the difference.
Blue Ninja
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Lol, that was a double post? DGaf is dying. :'(
Mine's only 31, don't see any of my characters getting to 32 anytime toon really.
Mine's only 31, don't see any of my characters getting to 32 anytime toon really.
this is a good start at making classes be nicely differentiated. VoG had no real use for a bladedancer, for example. please.expand on this, bungie. It might pigeonhole some.characters, but at least you get to use subclasses nicely.
Manp
Member
man this week sucked...
3xNFs
- Deviant Gravity A with a shitty roll
- The Calming with a shitty roll
- The Chance with a shitty roll (no filed scout)
sharded everything but the machine gun.
also got shit from 3x Gorgon Chests
hope Xur will bring something good tomorrow. too bad he will never sell the only gun i'm missing (Monte Carlo)
3xNFs
- Deviant Gravity A with a shitty roll
- The Calming with a shitty roll
- The Chance with a shitty roll (no filed scout)
sharded everything but the machine gun.
also got shit from 3x Gorgon Chests
hope Xur will bring something good tomorrow. too bad he will never sell the only gun i'm missing (Monte Carlo)
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