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Destiny |OT24| Dances with Wolves
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EJRobinson90
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After an hour the interwebs returned! For now...
Is that HM Gorgon's still going around or did I miss out?
Is that HM Gorgon's still going around or did I miss out?
The Hunter exotic on sale this weekend is worth picking up. There are many situations where going invisible can be far more useful than a 4th GG shot - getting a tricky revive, hiding from enemies to recover health, picking up some faraway ammo during an elemental burn activity, capping a mine in Prison of Elders... don't pass it up.
As for weapons, Ice Breaker is a classic. Before Gjallarhorn's DPS potential was figured out, Ice Breaker was the poster boy everyone deemed the most important element in a PvE arsenal.
Prison of Elders has a lot of activities with Juggled and Majors in your face. Invective is a great asset - a shotgun with regenerating ammo works wonders in PoE. In PvE, my exotic slot belongs to Gjallarhorn, Ice Breaker or Invective most of the time unless I'm just messing around and want to play with silly builds.
If you play PvP, that's a whole other world though. Stuff you'd never look twice at in PvE become your most powerful tools in the Crucible. Knucklehead Radar for radar while aiming your primary is a favorite of mine for PvP.
ethomaz
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What is the difference between the new gear and the bladedancer perk?
Or it is just you can use the invis with Gunslinger?
For the the Don't Touch Me looks like a better option yet.
The latter. Or, you can use it with a Bladedancer while not using the invis perk.
I haven't played a Gunslinger build in a long time, and this will entice me into doing so. Stealth is just too useful.
You had one job! One job!
Haha yeah my clan is currently in implosion mode so maybe I will take you up on that.
You play with so many noobs
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Just logged off 5 mins ago, dinner was ready. Wheelhoss should have the checkpoint, you can grab it off him if he's still online, else I'll be back in an hour or so..
OkayRene
Member
Those were a lot of fun last night, thanks a bunch everyone!
I was also super happy you guys got me that Gorgon-killing grimoire card.
I was feeling that way so hard in the last couple of days and reading on Bungie's forum about the No Horn club and everything. Suddenly I'm jumping on DeathJr's gorgon cp and the guy before me gets a Suros Regime and I'm pretty jealous despite the nerf, but then I open the chest and it falls to me. Incredible. Is all I've talked about for the last few days and there it is finally. I'm convinced everyone will have one eventually, but you never know I suppose. Keep the faith.
Mass Appeal
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What stings the most is I have a few friends I have helped level up doing VOG and Crota just for the armor and in each raid I have seen Ghallys drop for them. It's almost to the point where I have become the good luck charm for others getting the Ghally. So.... Raid with me and you will get that Ghally! Lol
I tried! The Well cheesed us! I blame " died."
I'm there now if you want it, psn is jiza88
So I pre-ordered the Destiny TTK legendary edition which ships September 15th. I would've bought Destiny last year with Xbox one, but I was foolish enough to think MCC would be the game that would take my time. And then I just put off buying Destiny because people hated the story, and didn't really play PvP, said no point getting into it now as expansions meant people moving on etc. Said to myself I'd pick it up when the GoTY version came. Well the legendary edition is basically the GoTY so what can I expect. My beta stuff is still saved to my account. But should I run through all the original content, or jump right into TTK stuff right away so that I don't miss out on the new raids etc. What class would you recommend? Sorry if it's asking a lot. Plan to play the hell out of this nonstop to catch up.
PrivateWHudson
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Agreed. They just need an archive that is only accessible from the internets. Last gen is no excuse when they have such robust web tools available. I can scroll through the results of every match I ever had on B.net. Let me scroll through my archived weapons and move them to my vault via the app.
Well the problem if I recall correctly was holding all of the weapon's overlay stat/perk sheets at the same time for view while browsing your Vault. The memory problem only comes into play because you're trying to display too large a catalogue at once for the older gens' memory capabilities.
Splitting stuff up into two Vaults would eliminate this problem. I mean old gen has enough memory to display the current Vault. They can't do a bigger Vault, but they could have several different ones
You either have one open or the other, but you'd never be seeing both at the same time so it should work from a memory management pov (I say this of course without knowing the exact details of how these systems work but it's a reasonable assumption).Having one Vault for your weapons and another for your Armor would allow them to store more content while displaying the same amount while you're managing your stuff.
EJRobinson90
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Yeah thanks no worries, just testing out my connection. But my dinner will be ready soon as well and considering you're 8 hours ahead of me, you're eating dinner around 1AM, I would have died
Thank you, FR incoming!
Mass Appeal
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yah I always hope to get one after weekly resets but luck just hasn't been on my side. Congrats on yours! I am sure it's a special feeling when that first one drops. I still think I may pass out if I ever see it drop for me.
I think in some other games they just don't let you access those slots. There must be a workaround!
DrDrizzay101
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ethomaz
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I don't think the cooldown in the perk is something slow but there is a glitch in the perk.
Case 1 (the glitch)
- Crouch and get invis
- The invis ends
- Crouch again and well the glitch happens... you won't get invis no matter how much time you stay crouched
Case 2 (avoiding the glitch)
- Crouch and get invis
- The invis ends
- Crouch one time and get up
- Crouch again and get invis
The cooldown is less than 2 seconds.
BTW you can use the perk if you are ivis from other source too... like I used the melee and got invis and before it ends I crouched and got invis again.
The quotes are from me. Stupid warlock wouldn't radiance. I had super up and it wouldn't use it.
Aye, a great mystery like the fable fifth non-Spirit Bloom chest.
My orb killing an oracle
one of the great mysteries of the Vault
Phenom was the first and then the curse moved on to me.
Well the problem if I recall correctly was holding all of the weapon's overlay stat/perk sheets at the same time for view while browsing your Vault. The memory problem only comes into play because you're trying to display too large a catalogue at once for the older gens' memory capabilities.
Splitting stuff up into two Vaults would eliminate this problem. I mean old gen has enough memory to display the current Vault. They can't do a bigger Vault, but they could have several different ones
Having one Vault for your weapons and another for your Armor would allow them to store more content while displaying the same amount while you're managing your stuff.
Another thing they could do is actually have weapon progression and make new weapons that outclass old ones. They've hinted at this in TTK and if they introduce new, worthwhile weapons and discontinue the concept of ascending the problem may take care of itself.
Vault space is an issue but moreso because weapon progression is also an issue (or non-existent).
iRAWRasaurus
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grimlock33
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Your character is stored on Bungie's servers and can be accessed from either console at anytime. You can bounce back and forth all you want.
I forgot the "Come here. Come closer. Just a bit closer. GET BLINDED BITCHES!" moment from Crota's End. The Iron Wafer was the last one alive. I had radiance and was at the bridge. Wafer was still making his way to the bridge. Bridge deconstructed and the Thralls attacked all the ghosts there except for mine. Three minutes later, one finally attacks mine causing everyone else to run straight to mine. I equipped the new robes and waited for them to huddle up. I died about a minute later after reviving.
Nope, this is the absolute best Exotic for a stealth build. Using it on a Gunslinger is nice. Using it on a Bladedancer while freeing up the Stalker perk is nice. But the real utility comes when using this Exotic + Stalker perk. You can remain invisible forever! You just have to equip Khepri while under the Stalker invisibility so that the subclass Stalker and the Khepri Stalker are on different cooldowns. This separation of the cooldowns means that whenever your invisibility runs out, you can crouch and go invisible again because the "other" one will be ready. More detail:
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Yeah thanks no worries, just testing out my connection. But my dinner will be ready soon as well and considering you're 8 hours ahead of me, you're eating dinner around 1AM, I would have died
Yeah it's 1:30am now, but I had a late lunch so wasn't hungry during normal dinner time. Also plan to stay awake for a couple of more hours so feeling hungry now.
I don't know the deep engine or anything, but the expansion of vault space was probably not as big since it was done more quickly, and likely touched less systems.
The issue games have when accomodating various hardware (even moreso on PC) is you budget X amount of RAM to your UI and item ux components. You keep this limit a hard limit so that you don't have to worry about it later. In many cases games are not maxing out the RAM but leave themselves overhead.
What the first vault upgrade probably did was max out the UI ram limit (self imposed by Bungie and the engine parameters). Rewriting it so the game isn't keeping track of the vault all the time, or increasing the UI RAM allottment on last gen would be a deeper code write and re-write and would have to be planned carefully as to not screw themselves later if they needed the RAM. This would be needed even if Destiny was next-gen only.
As the camera pics of the E3 build show, there's a LOT more quest and bounty slots, so I imagine the canary build of Destiny probably has this re-write in the process of being completed now.
Robdraggoo
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ah, basically as soon as I get up on friday. MAK Morning after kill usually has a video up. I get my location and items for sale out of the gate . And some entertaining comentary
Also, I need an intervention. I have blown over 300 motes in the last 2 Xur visits trying to get purifier robes, all I get are rasberries, protocals, and lupis.
I need to stop.
PrivateWHudson
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I think that would be a great idea going forward, but while working on that, give me a quick and dirty out of game solution. The web based "archive" would still be useful 10 years from now when I want to pull my Khvostov out for the weekend.Well the problem if I recall correctly was holding all of the weapon's overlay stat/perk sheets at the same time for view while browsing your Vault. The memory problem only comes into play because you're trying to display too large a catalogue at once for the older gens' memory capabilities.
Splitting stuff up into two Vaults would eliminate this problem. I mean old gen has enough memory to display the current Vault. They can't do a bigger Vault, but they could have several different ones
Having one Vault for your weapons and another for your Armor would allow them to store more content while displaying the same amount while you're managing your stuff.
EJRobinson90
Member
Thanks a lot for letting me grab it x3!
I was actually looking for more shards/energies to convert them into motes.
El_Fenomeno
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I completely lost track of what day it is x__x. I wonder what the trials map will be. I only really want the titan chest plate this week. Meh
captscience
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Funny I feel the same way (being a good luck charm) ... gotta do Atheon x3 later if you are game?
Ryck007
I have it, add GT wipedout - Just send a message when you jump on.
EJRobinson90
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Fixed that for you
Laughed so hard when me and Ruthless pulled out the Messenger during the weekly and your son said "that's the only gun my dad really wants".
I could've sworn I heard a muffled "oh god" in the background XD
El_Fenomeno
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Fixed that for you
I can't believe I made such a mistake. Thanks for fixing it xD.
That perspective just skirts the issue. I could use the same argument and say that we don't need Vault space because the new stuff isn't worth owning. I think we all say this very often because of a few outliers, but in general, there are extremely few cases where your best bet is a Vanilla legendary right now.
For all the love we heap at The Devil You Know, the only reason for keeping one is sentimentality. You can roll a Red Hand IX with better perks all over. Except for a Firefly+Outlaw Ghaleon's Demise or random roll in the past (that's the best possible combo and is no longer available), the new Scout Rifles can be re rolled into being far superior to your old stuff, including formerly Raid-specific perks like Automatic Fire.
High impact Shotguns? The best around for PvP is the Matador 64. Low impact snipers? LGH and the ToO snipers are far and above the nicest in terms of RoF/Aim Assist in the 2bodyshot kill tier. For high impact Snipers, Her Benevolence is re rollable and at the very top of the pile for PvP. Rocket Launchers? Ash Factory with the right rolls (which you can now seek out) beats any old legendary RL except for perhaps the Iron Banner one.
Corrective Measure is cool but stats wise it's literally a carbon copy of the M18 Harm's Way. The Swarm < a well rolled PvP dropped machine gun. That Hopscotch pulse rifle is wrecking stuff out there. The Jewel is a perfect PvP Legendary Hand Cannon.
It goes on. The new stuff is, in general, the best available. We get the feeling that that's not the case because of how few new exotics we have. Out of the 27 we have in total, 20 are from Vanilla. So of course a large part of the coveted exotics are old - a large part of all of the exotics are old. But to be honest only a very few old legendaries come to mind that really beat the currently available re rollable stuff (Fatebringer, Black Hammer and The Supremacy; debatable but let's at a stretch include Vision of Confluence and barely maybe Found Verdict).
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