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[PewPewPewBow]

Ready for skolas guys!

I'll invite you, we're at round 5

 

[HouseDragon]

Welcome back! Don't worry too much about the clans- they aren't useful. More just a cosmetic/affiliation indicator, no one really relies on them to organize things much. Glad to have you in the raid tonight. You'll be sitting pretty as a 32 Defender in CE. I'm gonna put you on Boomer bubble duty- don't worry, it'll be fun

Awesome, thanks!! One thing that I just noticed is that I didn't see in what console is the raid going to take place. I'm in PS4, by the way.

And about the clan, I thought they were more important for matchmaking since there's even a trophy about them, but if it's only cosmetic, then no problem.

 

[Mass Appeal]

Anyone doing POE 34/35? Be on in 20 min if anyone wants to get a fire team together

 

[nOoblet16]

Injection Mold is better than Hand Laid Stock since it increases ADS speed along with increasing stability. If you're going up against pros in ToO you will add more ADS speed on your sniper for quick scoping, so perks like Quickdraw will be better than Hand Laid Stock.

EDIT:TOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea sure, with this sniper. If it was a high RoF sniper I'd still pick hand Laid Stock over it. Plus not everyone likes to quickscope, if you like long range stuff then you might prefer hand laid seeing how it gives you more than double the stability. Then again stability stops mattering after 60-70%.

 

[Darth Ghandi]

Anyone doing POE 34/35? Be on in 20 min if anyone wants to get a fire team together

I'm down for 34

 

[blazeuk]

Anyone doing POE 34/35? Be on in 20 min if anyone wants to get a fire team together

I'm up for either 34 or 35.

 

[Mass Appeal]

I'm down for 34

I'm up for either 34 or 35.

Ok sweet! Will be on in 15 min if that's ok.

Psn: thenal84

 

[Darth Ghandi]

I'm up for either 34 or 35.

What is your PSN?

 

[Born2Live]

Use Tacsys scope if you aren't going to reroll it right now and use it in ToO instead. It gives you the same aim assist as Shortgaze, gives you higher stability and is about just as fast to zoom as shortgaze. The only downsize is that the zoom itself is slightly higher.

I'll give it a go. Never used snipers in PVP so it's going to take some getting used to.

 

[blazeuk]

What is your PSN?

Same as here, blazeuk

 

[Hawkian]

Awesome, thanks!! One thing that I just noticed is that I didn't see in what console is the raid going to take place. I'm in PS4, by the way.

And about the clan, I thought they were more important for matchmaking since there's even a trophy about them, but if it's only cosmetic, then no problem.

mm, I'm PS4 only. Ah yeah, there is one trophy for doing a strike and a raid with everyone wearing the same clan tag. I think there's an achievement GAF clan for that... I should probably have everyone throw it on in advance of these newbie raids... next time anyway.

 

[Mass Appeal]

Same as here, blazeuk

Alright hoping on now

 

[Zocano]

Funny, so I read the uh, lore and Variks is mad/sad that the Fallen have no history, or gods, or anything that makes them proud. Also who the hell is the last card-

That last card is most likely the Fallen special PoE event (Like Urrox and Qodron). Looks like it'll be Kaliks Reborn

 

[robertlebrone]

No checkpoints doesn't help either.

Really not happy with that. It should at least give a checkpoint for the final boss of 35. Spending hours on it and then having to go due to RL and losing all your progress is Laaaaaaame

This is why I attempted PoE 35 once this week and called it. I'll may try again next week, idk. I'm just not willing to waste hours of my time for nothing in this game anymore. Honestly, I don't like PoE on any level 28-35 and may just avoid it completely. I don't care about any of it's rewards, it's not fun and I can get etheric light from the NF and ToO. Which doesn't even matter that much since I'm mostly playing PvP these days and all my go tos are already ascended.

 

[Twilight Gap]

okay i think my list and stream are all systems go for tomorrow.

i'll post the list tomorrow so i don't wake up to 40 names lol

 

[Frostburn]

Looking to do PoE 34 x2 starting in about 25 minutes or so.

 

[Sullichin]

Does ToO activate when Xur rolls around? I already forgot.

 

[Hawkian]

This is why I attempted PoE 35 once this week and called it. I'll may try again next week, idk. I'm just not willing to waste hours of my time for nothing in this game anymore. Honestly, I don't like PoE on any level 28-35 and may just avoid it completely. I don't care about any of it's rewards, it's not fun and I can get etheric light from the NF and ToO. Which doesn't even matter that much since I'm mostly playing PvP these days and all my go tos are already ascended.

Yeah, if it's not fun for you then none of the other stuff even matters.

 

[Nori Chan]

Does ToO activate when Xur rolls around? I already forgot.

10 am PST

 

[Orthogonal]

I haven't publicly raged yet HoW upset I am about not being able to obtain the Wolf Hunter Emblem. It's my favorite emblem in the game, and because I happend to be gone on business during the particular Monday everyone had to get the reef invitation, I missed out forever. If Bungie gave some kind of warning, I could have easily had a friend log on for me.

It makes me VERY MAD that as someone whom prepurchased the season pass and plays everyday, I missed out on this due to circumstances.

That was a one time deal? I thought it was a post master reward for buying HoW.

 

[Orthogonal]

Anybody for a fast PoE 32?

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

Xur needs to sell EL just like he does Exotic Shards.

He needs to sell a lot of things.

 

[E92 M3]

That was a one time deal? I thought it was a post master reward for buying HoW.

Yep, one time deal. Some bullshit, right?

 

[silver.tongue]

Yep, one time deal. Some bullshit, right?

I had no idea either. It's a pretty cool emblem. I kept 2 and dismantled 1.

 

[phen0m24]

okay i think my list and stream are all systems go for tomorrow.

i'll post the list tomorrow so i don't wake up to 40 names lol

Spoiler

mine is just implied

 

[Navid]

Anybody for a fast PoE 32?

Yeah, I still need one more run at it...

 

[Orochinagis]

I think I am gonna bail out the PoE 35 this week , I dont own a good arc sniper outside PaT and my group dont have a Titan for the extra buff, feels pretty underwhelming to not meet those requirements

 

[ocean]

Skolas why won't you die

 

[Ken]

He needs to sell a lot of things.

Thunderlord, Chest of Alpha Lupi, Mask of Third Man, Voidfang Vestments, Glove Engrams

let's go

(May or may not be based on nightfall loot this week)

 

[E92 M3]

I had no idea either. It's a pretty cool emblem. I kept 2 and dismantled 1.

Yeah it's great - the color palette is perfectly suited for my tastes. I like the Osiris emblem as well, but would rather use that one.

 

[Twilight Gap]

Spoiler

mine is just implied

i'm carrying cosmos_man before anyone else.

 

[silver.tongue]

Thunderlord, Chest of Alpha Lupi, Mask of Third Man, Voidfang Vestments, Glove Engrams

let's go

(May or may not be based on nightfall loot this week)

Didnt he sell thunderlord like 2 weeks ago?

 

[Deku Tree]

Skolas why won't you die

I feel like Bungie play tests these encounters with no burn and on level and then they just add all the crazy modifiers without testing any of them with regular gamers. Skolas arc burn is one that everyone should just skip.

 

[Ken]

Didnt he sell thunderlord like 2 weeks ago?

Don't you remember the great Xur Sunbreakers sale at launch for like 2-3 weeks in a row.

Xur does what Xur wants.

 

[Twilight Gap]

I feel like Bungie play tests these encounters with no burn and on level and then they just add all the crazy modifiers without testing any of them with regular gamers. Skolas arc burn is one that everyone should just skip.

if i didn't know better i'd say they test them to make sure they work and then that's it.

 

[A_Gorilla]

I feel like Bungie play tests these encounters with no burn and on level and then they just add all the crazy modifiers without testing any of them with regular gamers. Skolas arc burn is one that everyone should just skip.

That should be obvious given the glitches on Atheon and Crota.

Don't worry, knowing Bungie they'll patch in 3 or 4 months, just before Comet comes out...

 

[hydruxo]

This is why I attempted PoE 35 once this week and called it. I'll may try again next week, idk. I'm just not willing to waste hours of my time for nothing in this game anymore. Honestly, I don't like PoE on any level 28-35 and may just avoid it completely. I don't care about any of it's rewards, it's not fun and I can get etheric light from the NF and ToO. Which doesn't even matter that much since I'm mostly playing PvP these days and all my go tos are already ascended.

Pretty much how I feel about it. We spent almost four hours on Skolas last night and came within just 10-15% consistently before we got wrecked by adds. Honestly the only reason I wanted to beat him was for the chance at the exotic bounty, I could care less about the weapon/armor cores + etheric light.

I might try it again one more time before reset, but if we don't down him in an hour I'm not gonna bother. I'll do solar burn Skolas again, but if they do arc burn Skolas in the future I'm staying far away. You know it's a poorly designed fight when even fully ascended weapons aren't able to bring down the boss. Like you have to have a very specific loadout for that fight (final round & field scout arc snipers with high impact), and if you don't have them, you're missing out on that extra bit of DPS that is needed to finish him off before you get swarmed by adds. We had ascended arc LDRs, but they didn't have those perks so we couldn't do enough damage by the end. We were unloading full clips of LDRs and Thunderlords into him and then it goes to shit and you have to get the mines / move the debuff around / avoid adds that spam arc bullet and melees.

I don't rant about this kind of stuff very often, but I just didn't have fun with this fight at all. It's awful.

 

[Ken]

That should be obvious given the glitches on Atheon and Crota.

Don't worry, knowing Bungie they'll patch in 3 or 4 months, just before Comet comes out...

Knowing Bungie they'll increase the rate of random teleporting into middle of the map to promote...idk, skill.

Pretty much how I feel about it. We spent almost four hours on Skolas and came within just 10-15% consistently before we got wrecked by adds. Honestly the only reason I wanted to beat him was for the chance at the exotic bounty, I could care less about the weapon/armor cores + etheric light.

I might try it again one more time before reset, but if we don't down him in an hour I'm not gonna bother. I'll do solar burn Skolas again, but if they do arc burn Skolas in the future I'm staying far away. You know it's a poorly designed fight when even fully ascended weapons aren't able to bring down the boss. Like you have to have a very specific loadout for that fight (final round & field scout arc snipers with high impact), and if you don't have them, you're missing out on that extra bit of DPS that is needed to finish him off before you get swarmed by adds. We had ascended arc LDRs, but they didn't have those perks so we couldn't do enough damage by the end. We were unloading full clips of LDRs and Thunderlords into him and then it goes to shit and you have to get the mines / move the debuff around / avoid adds that spam arc bullet and melees.

I don't rant about this kind of stuff very often, but I just didn't have fun with this fight at all. It's awful.

If you only wanted the bounty why not spam Qodron? Or will it only drop on the first kill of the week.

 

[silver.tongue]

I feel like Bungie play tests these encounters with no burn and on level and then they just add all the crazy modifiers without testing any of them with regular gamers. Skolas arc burn is one that everyone should just skip.

Yeah it's crazy. You get killed so fast it's not even funny. The fight is bsically impossible without titan bubbles.

Me: Fuck you! How am I supposed to "kill them back", Variks?! There's not enough time!

Knowing Bungie they'll increase the rate of random teleporting into middle of the map to promote...idk, skill.

That pisses me off so fucking much! ://////////////////////////

 

[phen0m24]

i'm carrying cosmos_man before anyone else.

Cosmos has ALL the Amiibos.

Spoiler

And a Vex.

He would say you should take me instead.

I'm teasing bud - I hope you have fun whatever you end up doing. And you should consider making some funny montages.

Carrying+creating content = and put up your stream link

 

[Twilight Gap]

Skolas isn't actually that bad if everyone has the right weapons. The only reason my group took so long yesterday is because I didn't.

That Qwhatshisface guy in 34 wasn't hard either if you had an LMG to take down the bubbles. Really, all of the Prison of Elders stuff simply requires the right positioning, proper class makeup and gear. Maybe you'll get screwed over by unpredictable AI behavior and glitches occasionally, but I don't think any of it is that difficult.

Templar and Atheon are still the only challenging fights in the game.

 

[PuMa]

Knowing Bungie they'll increase the rate of random teleporting into middle of the map to promote...idk, skill.

Promoting...chaos?

I got teleported halfway through trying to revive someone last night. I wasn't even static before that.

 

[Akai XIII]

Need 1 for Skolas.

 

[Dunlop]

He needs to sell a lot of things.

I hope so, it will make me eligible for PoE :-(

 

[Orthogonal]

Yeah, I still need one more run at it...

Well, I got a friend now who wants to run the 34 version. You up for that?

 

[Frostburn]

Need 1 for Skolas.

I'll join, Titan or Warlock?

 

[silver.tongue]

Ok, I had some spare time. Pls don't laugh DGAF:

Where do you guys think I can improve?

 

[Ken]

Promoting...chaos?

I got teleported halfway through trying to revive someone last night. I wasn't even static before that.

"This is an activity that was designed to be undertaken by a hardcore team that is ready and willing to adapt and improvise to changing battle conditions,”

 

[Akai XIII]

I'll join, Titan or Warlock?

Whichever you prefer.

 

[Twilight Gap]

Cosmos has ALL the Amiibos.

Spoiler

And a Vex.

He would say you should take me instead.

I'm teasing bud - I hope you have fun whatever you end up doing. And you should consider making some funny montages.

Carrying+creating content = and put up your stream link

my stream is the same as my PSN

twitch.tv/twilightgap/profile

i might get my own laptop soon. i'll be able to stream more regularly when i do.