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I'd wager 10am again, it's the easiest way for them to work around the rep cheese.
Sleepy Buddha
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If you want to we can try a 34 tonight. I haven't done one yet this week and probably won't if you don't want to do it. No pressure, I'm not sure I want to do it either!
This week I'll probably spend most time in IB to get EL. You might also want to try it a bit, it's not as unforgiving as Trials.
robertsan21
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My first trip to Murcury happend last night, no buffs.
almost made it twice, but lost 2 very tight matches, still fun as I got Gold tier rewards.
Got some nice loot!
almost made it twice, but lost 2 very tight matches, still fun as I got Gold tier rewards.
Got some nice loot!
noomi
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After playing ToO these last few weeks, with a bunch of different players. I am seeing all the different playstyles and how people play with one another.
I am trying to pick up all the new strats, and keep improving. Playing with Rubenov last night definitely thought me some new things, I know when to hang back, when to push, and how to approach different situation and execute new tactics when necessary.
I've also learned if I am not 100% focused I should probably not even go into ToO lol. It requires perfect coordination and undivided attention.
Rubenov, if you see this, we are jumping on the IB train together this week I need to further sharpen my skills!
I am trying to pick up all the new strats, and keep improving. Playing with Rubenov last night definitely thought me some new things, I know when to hang back, when to push, and how to approach different situation and execute new tactics when necessary.
I've also learned if I am not 100% focused I should probably not even go into ToO lol. It requires perfect coordination and undivided attention.
Rubenov, if you see this, we are jumping on the IB train together this week
I need to further sharpen my skills!
gonna rewatch last night's Game of Thrones episode (just really want to see the final 20 minutes again) and then it is off to ToO to get the boots on my hunter and be done with it.
I was half-expecting him to be the one to give you the main story missions long before it was revealed Petra would do so. Thank god.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of him. Ignore the avatar.
Right where he belongs: out of this DLC.
I was half-expecting him to be the one to give you the main story missions long before it was revealed Petra would do so. Thank god.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of him. Ignore the avatar.
I think a big problem that will affect a range of people (Ghaleon included) is that the Prison of Elders bosses aren't all equally difficult. Valus Trau'ug I can see being a huge clusterfuck of a fight at 34 (it already was at 32). Qodron, as many have said here, is a very difficult fight and a huuuge spike from what we had last week. Personally, I really love the fight, and I think it was a smart implementation of mechanics into a fight that I wish they did more often. Lastly, as previously mentioned, Urrox was pretty damn easy for a first week's taste at 34. I don't think many of us had a problem at all with him, even at 33. On top of all this, we've still got 2 more bosses we haven't seen (datamined-- though I would love to see more). This fluctuation in difficulty is really throwing people for a loop in these initial weeks. Last week it was, with some effort, very doable to finish PoE 34 as a group of 33s. It gave us an expectation that it was going to be like this and this week proves it is very much not the case. People who are still 33s could very well have a very hard time finishing the PoE 34's with reasonable time that several of us have done multiple times last week to get a character to 34. I wouldn't say it's a simple problem, but it is a notable one.
Secondly, I wish the progression was slower. This isn't a common or likable opinion, especially here I think, but they're handing out etheric light in way too many places way too fast. I think it's a byproduct of having multiple characters and just sharing loot between the characters but that really throws progression balancing in a really crazy loop. From what Ghaleon has said, I take it he's not running everything three times a week to get three times the loot so like many of us are to boost a single character ahead. But many of us are doing just that and many of us have accelerated our characters because we could get one to 34 on day one and quickly get groups to do 35 and it snowballed into this week (including Trials that handed them out in spades to many of us). Now some of us, me included, have all 34s with a bucket of Etheric Light with which we have no idea what to do. I really don't like that. We shouldn't be at this point in less than 2 weeks.
This mostly boils down to me expecting Monthly-Sub style MMO content in an MMO-like game that doesn't have a subscription. I want a slow burn progression that makes me work for it. I want a raid that takes (up to) weeks of practice and headbanging to finish completely. I want to spend a month hitting max level with the new expansion. I don't want to exhaust all the content there is in 2 weeks. This is a $15 DLC addon to a $60 game, though, and that's where we're at. The problem is they talk as if it is a slow burn and as if we have a quality-of-life system that they need to balance. There's hardly any quality-of-life to worry about when we will exhaust all there is in 2 weeks and then bail after 3 or 4. This thread will slow down to a crawl again like it did after TDB because of just that, though. Again, it comes back to us approaching the game as if it was a subscription-style MMO when it is just a $15 addon. I would prefer the former in this case, clearly, but it isn't and it bothers me. I want it to be but it isn't and I treat it like it is but it doesn't really play by those rules.
I really do hope they have a plan to trickle in more content until Destiny 2/Comet/The Taken King/whateverthehellitis because they have the systems in place now to do so. Prison of Elders is a great modular way to add in small bits of new content. Make a new boss fight over a few weeks and throw it in the game. Spread out Trials cause holy shit is it overload with the amount of progression/loot you can get from it if you can get 9-0s. Make Etheric Light untradable between characters (this isn't a solution at this point, the damage is done, but I want the equivalent of this in the future).
Secondly, I wish the progression was slower. This isn't a common or likable opinion, especially here I think, but they're handing out etheric light in way too many places way too fast. I think it's a byproduct of having multiple characters and just sharing loot between the characters but that really throws progression balancing in a really crazy loop. From what Ghaleon has said, I take it he's not running everything three times a week to get three times the loot so like many of us are to boost a single character ahead. But many of us are doing just that and many of us have accelerated our characters because we could get one to 34 on day one and quickly get groups to do 35 and it snowballed into this week (including Trials that handed them out in spades to many of us). Now some of us, me included, have all 34s with a bucket of Etheric Light with which we have no idea what to do. I really don't like that. We shouldn't be at this point in less than 2 weeks.
This mostly boils down to me expecting Monthly-Sub style MMO content in an MMO-like game that doesn't have a subscription. I want a slow burn progression that makes me work for it. I want a raid that takes (up to) weeks of practice and headbanging to finish completely. I want to spend a month hitting max level with the new expansion. I don't want to exhaust all the content there is in 2 weeks. This is a $15 DLC addon to a $60 game, though, and that's where we're at. The problem is they talk as if it is a slow burn and as if we have a quality-of-life system that they need to balance. There's hardly any quality-of-life to worry about when we will exhaust all there is in 2 weeks and then bail after 3 or 4. This thread will slow down to a crawl again like it did after TDB because of just that, though. Again, it comes back to us approaching the game as if it was a subscription-style MMO when it is just a $15 addon. I would prefer the former in this case, clearly, but it isn't and it bothers me. I want it to be but it isn't and I treat it like it is but it doesn't really play by those rules.
I really do hope they have a plan to trickle in more content until Destiny 2/Comet/The Taken King/whateverthehellitis because they have the systems in place now to do so. Prison of Elders is a great modular way to add in small bits of new content. Make a new boss fight over a few weeks and throw it in the game. Spread out Trials cause holy shit is it overload with the amount of progression/loot you can get from it if you can get 9-0s. Make Etheric Light untradable between characters (this isn't a solution at this point, the damage is done, but I want the equivalent of this in the future).
Sleepy Buddha
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Even what you describe is less insane than Skolas. In the Skolas fight you have 3 people trying to kill SpongeBob 2.0, while having to kill an add just to start damaging it, dozens of adds popping up constantly (and depending on the burn can oneshot you), poison that has to be passed around within a timer or it's instadeath, and mines that you have to dismantle otherwise it's a wipe.
Who in their right mind thinks this is a fair, fun challenge? Atheon and the Templar are fun and challenging.
Akiyama_AE
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xD I thought he was an interesting character seemed like someone who would
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Yeah we can try it tonight. I could go with my 34 Titan for the first 4 rounds in case we can't find a someone with a Titan and then switch to one of my other characters (at 33 btw) since I already done it with the Titan.If you want to we can try a 34 tonight. I haven't done one yet this week and probably won't if you don't want to do it. No pressure, I'm not sure I want to do it either!
This week I'll probably spend most time in IB to get EL. You might also want to try it a bit, it's not as unforgiving as Trials.
As for IB, I did it once a long time ago to get some boots at rank 3 but it took so many matches and I can't afford to spend an entire afternoon grinding for that right now (have exams in a few weeks).
Up until this expansion I've been almost 100% pve (a few iron banners here and there). That's changing. Was a crazy weekend with lots of trials.
Highlight was getting to play with Unstable for a lighthouse run. Unfortunately I didn't play anywhere near my best and didn't make it all the way, but that set of games was a great learning experience. He kindly offered to help me see the awesomeness of Mercury next weekend so looking forward to that.
Just wanted to thank all the ppl here who helped out with the lighthouse trains.
Highlight was getting to play with Unstable for a lighthouse run. Unfortunately I didn't play anywhere near my best and didn't make it all the way, but that set of games was a great learning experience. He kindly offered to help me see the awesomeness of Mercury next weekend so looking forward to that.
Just wanted to thank all the ppl here who helped out with the lighthouse trains.
SenatorBot
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in the end the only weeks where you can consistently clear Skolas is a solar burn week with everyone with gjallarhorn. I should have farmed Skolas last week.
Also I'd like to say that the cabal boss with the rotating elemental shield is fun and challenging without being entirely unfair as you know what you did wrong if you fail to kill him. POE should have more bosses like him and the Hive boss.
Don't listen to the heathens! Necrochasm is the best goddamn weapon in the game! Gjallarhorn got shit on it!
Agent_Tiro
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Is there anyone fancying some ToO? Really fancy getting the boots on my titan. Ideally I would like an uber Sherpa to assist in a trip to Venus. But getting the boots would be brilliant
noomi
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Oh you!
Seriously, I fully expect them to do another round of weapon buffs/nerfs and I'm pretty sure the nechro will be on the receiving side... Time will tell.
I'm just waiting for the "TOLD YA SO!" from you now
Akiyama_AE
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Whoa the chrome extension for Destiny is pretty good you can move stuff over from one character to the other directly no need to send to vault wish I knew about this thing earlier lol
It's been a lifesaver for sure.
Are we expecting Qodron to be the 32 PoE this week?
Mess around with the loadout feature. Thank me later.
Noisepurge
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the destiny withdrawal symptoms are real, two days after my PS4 YLOD i'm looking to buy a new one so i can play Nightfall tomorrow...
Akiyama_AE
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robertsan21
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wow just found out about this one. ITS AWESOME!
noomi
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I'm planning on grinding level 34 PoE for the elder cipher bounty with Nuszka at some point tonight.
Meaning that we get to the last boss, kill him and quickly wipe. Rinse and Repeat about 8 times (need to do 2 bounties). I think rep is about 250points so it shouldn't take very long.
Will want to recruit a 3rd Guardian for said activity, so if you are interested for tonight let me know I'll make another post later in the day, but we are probably shooting for later in the evening... maybe 7PM EST?
Lemme know!
Meaning that we get to the last boss, kill him and quickly wipe. Rinse and Repeat about 8 times (need to do 2 bounties). I think rep is about 250points so it shouldn't take very long.
Will want to recruit a 3rd Guardian for said activity, so if you are interested for tonight let me know
I'll make another post later in the day, but we are probably shooting for later in the evening... maybe 7PM EST?Lemme know!
Akiyama_AE
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Better than the companion app that I've been using thats for sure
BenjaminBirdie
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Having just tuned my two alts this weekend to the light zone, and in one case going from 17 to 33 in two days, I feel the opposite actually, at leas far as characs go. All I have to do to get to 34 is do 32 POE once a week until I get a whole 42 set. Previously I knew I'd never get to the highest light levels because raids were just not something I did all the time or enough.
I will say this, it's STUPID hard to level legendary weapons to 365. Right now I can level an exotic up every week if I want because I can just buy an exotic shard. But etheric light might as well be grown on Jupiter. My Fatebringer may never get to 365 if I don't get lucky.
One thing that also helps is my firm refusal to even consider playing 34 or 35 POE. Luckily the game has given me a path to get to 34 without it. IIRC, there wasn't that kind of alternative path previously. You had to get through the hardest stuff in the game to get to the highest level. Now I don't think you do.
EJRobinson90
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I remember this vaguely, you killed the whole team with 3 shots, guy resurrected and then there was this 4th shot + dance party.
After playing ToO these last few weeks, with a bunch of different players. I am seeing all the different playstyles and how people play with one another.
I am trying to pick up all the new strats, and keep improving. Playing with Rubenov last night definitely thought me some new things, I know when to hang back, when to push, and how to approach different situation and execute new tactics when necessary.
I've also learned if I am not 100% focused I should probably not even go into ToO lol. It requires perfect coordination and undivided attention.
Rubenov, if you see this, we are jumping on the IB train together this week
noomi, I'm absolutely down for some IB this week
The Mango Sentinel
Member
I really want my boots too. I may abandon sleep.
What the fuck has this game done to me...
Definity
Member
Yeah, that's gotta be tough but people should not expect a flawless each and every time they are getting carried. Some great teams out there and things happen!That feel of letting a team you were supposed to carry down
Shit's real
SenatorBot
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Just throwing this out there, would anyone like to carry me before ToO is over?
I have not gotten beyond 2 wins this weekend, I just want the packages.
I have not gotten beyond 2 wins this weekend, I just want the packages.
Same. PSN issues right now it seems.
I have three FB and three Fang and Three BH and three IB and three (five) horns and with the latest release of the loadouts app for iOS I feel like I only need one of each.
This app is so good that duos are totally in-necessary.
Hey Drizzay you need to link to the "loadouts for Destiny" app in the OP. By comparison the "tower ghost" app that you currently have linked is totally "the worst".
This app is so good that duos are totally in-necessary.
Hey Drizzay you need to link to the "loadouts for Destiny" app in the OP. By comparison the "tower ghost" app that you currently have linked is totally "the worst".
noomi
Member
I see some of you talking about the chrome extension that allows you to move gear around.
Just want to quickly mention one of my favorite iOS apps, that makes transferring gear extremely easy.
It's called "Loadouts for Destiny".
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loadouts-for-destiny/id980586442?mt=8
Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyThe...ssion_loadouts_for_destiny_10_iphone_app_for/
Just want to quickly mention one of my favorite iOS apps, that makes transferring gear extremely easy.
It's called "Loadouts for Destiny".
iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loadouts-for-destiny/id980586442?mt=8
Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyThe...ssion_loadouts_for_destiny_10_iphone_app_for/
Darknyss09
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Forgot to reply to your last post about Tower Ghost. It stopped working for me last week and I deleted and reinstalled and it has been working fine since. I use it over Loadouts because it's iPad compatible. My only complaint is that sometimes it takes awhile to load.
Day 174 ... still no Hunger.
Dear Bungie. Please. Think about all the Crota's I slayed. Think about those poor Gatekeepers that only serve as a way to warm up my Gjallarhorn. Think about poor ol' Ir Yut trying to keep me away from her boss.
Think about it. Please. Just drop my Hunger of Crota (preffer 3 times) and I will leave the Hive alone. Untill then;
Dear Bungie. Please. Think about all the Crota's I slayed. Think about those poor Gatekeepers that only serve as a way to warm up my Gjallarhorn. Think about poor ol' Ir Yut trying to keep me away from her boss.
Think about it. Please. Just drop my Hunger of Crota (preffer 3 times) and I will leave the Hive alone. Untill then;
Hunger is not that exceptional unless you really want the hive perk. Buy a RL in the tower and re-roll for tracking etc.Day 174 ... still no Hunger.
Dear Bungie. Please. Think about all the Crota's I slayed. Think about those poor Gatekeepers that only serve as a way to warm up my Gjallarhorn. Think about poor ol' Ir Yut trying to keep me away from her boss.
Think about it. Please. Just drop my Hunger of Crota (preffer 3 times) and I will leave the Hive alone. Untill then;
Stephen_drewz
Member
Doing the Thorn bounty with Atheon's Epilogue as my only void primary is damn near impossible. Maybe I should just ignore it and start running hard crota again until I get word of crota : /
I mostly relied on swordbreaker. Didn't think word of crota was all that helpful.
This AP is A-mazing!!! Using it for the last month, it saved me soooo much trouble. Can not it recoomend enough! <3
Oh yeah this app is by far the best way to transfer your fear that I have seen. Love it. Posted about it just above your post too noomi!
I deleted it an reinstalled it several times and the tower ghost app still hangs for me when loading my gear...even if I wait for up to 15 minutes!
Yeah I wish loadouts worked on iPad too not sure why they can't make the app universal though... Anyway I just bring my iphone with me.
In any case even when tower ghost worked the interface was much worse than loadouts and now loadouts let's you transfer to the vault too which makes it perfect.
Stephen_drewz
Member
Can't use shotguns at all for some reason, hand cannons I can at least get some kills with.
Dr_LawyerCop
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Yeah, I did mine with Word. Made it pretty easy. I put off the bounty for months, then got it done in a weekend with Word. It's not a great gun, but good enough to get the bounty done.
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