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Destiny |OT3| Oh sweet a Legen- wait never mind, it's a rare.

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God damn. I want to thank my family and friends because of their absence I could pull this off and bungie for reinventing cocaine.
Fucking finally, my eyes feel like bleeding but it was worth it. Didn't expect anything from the 2 legendary and 4 blue encrypted thingies from the last two strikes. (100 vanguard rep BTW)

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SZips

Member
Honeybear77 just hopped on to help in that last strike after we had someone bail. Seemed to go smoothly for a level 22 Strike. Shame nothing above green Engrams dropped though (at least for me).

Also, sorry I didn't see the party invite until afterwards. I actually have to do a few things around the house right now but I should be back on later tonight!
 

Strider

Member
Just completed the weekly nightfall. Holy shit that was fun and the radiant energy thing is pretty cool.

Award I got was 11 Ascendent Energy
One of my striketeam members got 10 Ascendent Shards and the other got a legendary Sniper.
 

Zomba13

Member
Picking up my PCP grind from my disconnection earlier and already @ 1 purple, 1 green after 1 run.

Protip (I think, might've been the d/c after I went to orbit) if you accedentally kill too many and get put to the next part of the mission (after "resist the hive") return to orbit. You can then Resume the missiona t a later time (dunno if it carries over if you do something else or only if you go straight back).
 

Audible

Banned
Can a PS4 user please help me with the Weekly nightmare death to all heathens strike? I'm level 25 so it's quite a challenge...
 
So do you just not stop a Bladedancer? I stuck three hand cannon shots into one running at me from forever away and one even got his dome and he still killed me. Do you just run, or what?
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I got my 5 strikes without dying, now it's time for the 25 K/D. I seriously need to get gud or this is gonna take forever.
 

dengatron

Member
it's easy to tell the people that haven't played an mmo or game with rarer gear before from the comments. lots of "i don't even have an exotic yet" with a long term pve forecast it'd be nonsensical to give everyone the best gear in the game in less than a week.
 
Okay, with that I've finished up Venus. I'll list my favorite levels from each planet so far...

Earth
– The Last Array
– The Warmind

Moon
– Chamber of Night
– The Sword of Crota
– Shrine of Oryx

Venus
– The Archive
– Scourge of Winter
– Eye of a Gate Lord
 

Trace

Banned
So do you just not stop a Bladedancer? I stuck three hand cannon shots into one running at me from forever away and one even got his dome and he still killed me. Do you just run, or what?

Use your own super and kill him.

Or sniper rifle shots to the head. Or fusion rifle to the face.

it's easy to tell the people that haven't played an mmo or game with rarer gear before from the comments. lots of "i don't even have an exotic yet" with a long term pve forecast it'd be nonsensical to give everyone the best gear in the game in less than a week.

I'm actually disappointed with how easy it is to get exotics. I wanted exotics to be like WoW Legendaries. People would be doing big long quest chains that would take them to all four planets, and the only way to start it would be off the final boss of the raid with extremely low RNG.

But no, they give them out like candy. Can buy them from a vendor, can get them randomly from PvP, random drops, random bounties, etc.
 
Just completed the weekly nightfall. Holy shit that was fun and the radiant energy thing is pretty cool.

Award I got was 11 Ascendent Energy
One of my striketeam members got 10 Ascendent Shards and the other got a legendary Sniper.
Do you really get flames around your head or something like that for beating it? Do you (or anyone else) have a picture of it? Seems pretty badass to be running around with that.
 

guybrushfreeman

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lol

i ran with a level 18 hand cannon and a level 16 AR until i hit level 23. did heroic strikes, pvp, everything. "i can't play how i want to play" is jokes

Hmm I still carry my lvl18 Hand Cannon around but in my experience it's been useless agaisnt higher lvl enemies compared to rare weapons. It's still fine for anything below my lvl though.
 

Acorn

Member
it's easy to tell the people that haven't played an mmo or game with rarer gear before from the comments. lots of "i don't even have an exotic yet" with a long term pve forecast it'd be nonsensical to give everyone the best gear in the game in less than a week.
This isn't an mmo and I've played actual mmos with better gear rates.
 

Garland7G

Member
it's easy to tell the people that haven't played an mmo or game with rarer gear before from the comments. lots of "i don't even have an exotic yet" with a long term pve forecast it'd be nonsensical to give everyone the best gear in the game in less than a week.

Totally agree. Instant gratification is strong.
 

Croc

Banned
Anyone think it's possible to do Nightfall strike at 25? Reaaally want to do it to try and get some kind of upgraded item to put me to 26. I'm on PS4 if anyone wants to add me and help me out.
 

dengatron

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This isn't an mmo and I've played actual mmos with better gear rates.

not being an mmo doesn't mean anything when the entire drive of a game is endgame focused gearing, and the treadmill is the point. i've complained about the journey along the way in mmos and diablo and everything in between, but, less than a week in and being irate about not having effectively WoW legendary quality items is just goofy.
 
Mars is just damn fun. Fun enemies to fight. Fun environment to watch with all the battles going on. The Cabal actually look like a war race and are equipped like one. Lots of Public Events seem to occur. Fun landscape to ride your sparrow in with all the jumps and canyons. Lots of easy to access new areas and a good amount of buildings that you can explore around in.

They did a damn good job with Mars
 

Trace

Banned
not being an mmo doesn't mean anything when the entire drive of a game is endgame focused gearing, and the treadmill is the point. i've complained about the journey along the way in mmos and diablo and everything in between, but, less than a week in and being irate about not having effectively WoW legendary quality items is just goofy.

I don't know how this game is going to survive the three months for first expansion to come out when people are getting full exotic/legendary in the first week.
 

Trickster

Member
Anyone that still haven't done the weekly 26 strike? I'm up for a run if anyones interested

playing on ps4.

PSN : SC-Trickster
 

Victrix

*beard*
I don't know how this game is going to survive the three months for first expansion to come out when people are getting full exotic/legendary in the first week.

The same way people play Diablo 3 RoS for weeks despite legendaries dropping like candy?

Because its fun?
 

Garland7G

Member
This isn't an mmo and I've played actual mmos with better gear rates.

While its not an mmo, is borrows many gamplay elements from them. Taking wow for example, once you reach endgame and all you do is raid, you have one shot per week to get upgrades.
Then if one does drop, you need to roll against all the other people who need it.
In this regard, Destiny's loot mechanic isn't bad imo.
 
Just got offered my first exotic bounty, not sure which one to take.

Options are Bad Juju (pulse rifle), Pocket Infinity (fusion rifle) and Super Good Advice (machine gun).

I'm thinking to just go Bad Juju so I'll have a nice primary weapon, even if it is a pulse rifle.
 

Trace

Banned
The same way people play Diablo 3 RoS for weeks despite legendaries dropping like candy?

Because its fun?

But when you're "maxed out", there is nothing to grind for. It should not be easy to get maxed out, and it certainly isn't easy in Diablo.
 

Grisby

Member
Are the exotic bounties random? I've just been getting the same ones over and over.

Wouldn't mind going on a "legendary" quest.
 

Trickster

Member
Just got offered my first exotic bounty, not sure which one to take.

Options are Bad Juju (pulse rifle), Pocket Infinity (fusion rifle) and Super Good Advice (machine gun).

I'm thinking to just go Bad Juju so I'll have a nice primary weapon, even if it is a pulse rifle.

If you pick bad juju and have a decent level, you could come with me and lazybones18 for the lvl 26 weekly strike right now, seeing as it's the first part of the quest

add me on psn if you're interested : SC-Trickster
 
Are the exotic bounties random? I've just been getting the same ones over and over.

Wouldn't mind going on a "legendary" quest.

I was just turning in Crucible bounties and when I turned one in it gave me a "Vanguard Mentor Missive" which I can redeem for an exotic bounty. Just seems completely random on turn in.

If you pick bad juju and have a decent level, you could come with me and lazybones18 for the lvl 26 weekly strike right now, seeing as it's the first part of the quest

add me on psn if you're interested : SC-Trickster

Ah I would man but i'm on XB1 unfortunately.
 
So, what's everyone's favorite weapon? Mine's the Acheron SR5 so far. Scout rifle, handles great, does excellent damage, plenty of upgrades, and most of all it looks fucking cool from a first person perspective.

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Victrix

*beard*
Just got offered my first exotic bounty, not sure which one to take.

Options are Bad Juju (pulse rifle), Pocket Infinity (fusion rifle) and Super Good Advice (machine gun).

I'm thinking to just go Bad Juju so I'll have a nice primary weapon, even if it is a pulse rifle.

Bad Juju has a 15 round magazine and a very high rof/low impact so... keep that in mind. 5 shots is on the low end of Hand Cannon mag sizes!

It does have ultra fast reload + damage bonus if you score a kill, so there is that.

Both of those special/heavy options are really really good, they both have ammo management bonuses, I'd personally go with one of them, but do some research on destinydb.com and look at their exotic mods to see what you think.

You can also search youtube to see if there are videos of them, Bad Juju does look quite cool!
 
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