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

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patchday

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Finally found a shader I like.

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Hawt!
 

Leotarius

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As a new father with a newborn I really appreciate this game's mechanics vs a traditional MMO.

I usually log in, get some bounties, complete a strike, or just explore and patrol. The beauty of it is that I can get stuff done within an hour that I get free here and there. I'm also on the go a lot with work, so I like that I can log in to the app and absorb some of the lore while commuting on the train. The entire game really fits my lifestyle, oh and yea it's really fun.

I can understand the issues presented to the more hardcore player. While I feel like I'm being perfectly catered to, someone who has more time may run out of content quick.

In my opinion what this game needs mostly at the moment is:

  • More Content
  • A better delivery mechanism for the story while inside the game.
I'm sure Bungie will continue to iterate more as time goes on, I just hope that have a team in place that can deliver updates quickly.
 

Spineker

Banned
I hope you're a Warlock or a Titan, and you have a decent void Fusion Rifle and void Machine Gun/Rocket Launcher.

Have fun in Rumble.

Nope, only decent Void weapon I have is a Legendary Rocket Launcher. I need to farm the fuck out of Vanguard playlist tomorrow in order to get The Comedian shotgun from the Vanguard vendor.

I'm a Titan, but my Defender subclass is nowhere near unlocked. Looks like this bounty is going to be sitting in my menu for awhile.
 

GutZ31

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I want to die.
Please don't die :(. My luck had been incredibly horrible with engrams and loot chests up until today.
(uncommon, and rare from 12 legendary engrams, stings bad man.)

What did you do to get into a raid? I have no clue how to gather 6 people. 1 of my personal friends is stuck in level limbo, my other friend is just not playing much.

I was lucky to get grouped with a very international group from GAF, and we just happened to be able to listen to each others advice, and take orders when needed.
We are still working on the raid, but so far we have made pretty good progress.

I had added a shi-ton of Gafers to my PSN friends list at the end of the beta, so I had plenty of opportunities for forming raids.
Just randomly happened that I was on when a spaniard, couple aussies, and some 'mericans were all on and wanted a raid party.

Praise RNGesus!



RNGesus, blessing our brother Gutz! (Grats!)
Lol, thanks bud, it was worth the heart ache from all those purples turning green on me.

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I'll do whatever it takes to get my hands on these Exotics man. They all look so fuckin good
This gun is so sick, it fully reloads in about 10 seconds after emptying its "clip". It doesnt reload in the way other weapons do, as it doesn't have a magazine, and just needs time to recharge.
Sweet baby RNGesus, I can't wait to level it up to turn people into walking explosives.
 

Flo_Evans

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I'm really liking the defender subclass. The buffs as it gets higher level are pretty insane.

Is there a 3rd subclass unlockable? or is that a future expansion?
 
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Deleted member 17706

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Theyre stronger than auto rifles? Or....

The one I got with that mod only let me hold down the trigger for auto fire, but it still just fired in bursts of three shots. Didn't seem like an improvement at all.
 

Cømet

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Where abouts on bnet are the advisories and crucible stuff? This website is a pain in the arse to navigate.


EDIT: nvm found em.
 

BraXzy

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I keep hearing about bonuses you can activate from Grimoire cards but when I go to the cards all I see are the cards themselves with lore/info on. What am I missing?
 
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Deleted member 17706

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Cømet;130424963 said:
Where abouts on bnet are the advisories and crucible stuff? This website is a pain in the arse to navigate.


EDIT: nvm found em.

Flash at the cost of function.

I hope someone dumps all of the Grimoire text into a Wiki format or something.
 

Tekku

Member
My friends have finally caught up with my level and tonight we're gonna try a weekly Heroic for the first time (lvl 22 one).

Any pro tips from those who have done Ocean of Storms on a high difficulty already?
 
Bungie: "We want every piece of loot to have an epic story behind how you got it."

Player: "I got a legendary engram from a random chest."

Welp.

Seriously, Bungie, I know you have people reading this thread. The loot distribution, in its current state is crap, and you know it. Fix it.
 
Cømet;130424963 said:
Where abouts on bnet are the advisories and crucible stuff? This website is a pain in the arse to navigate.

On the menu on the left choose legend, then the menu at the top will have the advisories section. It's a bit confusing at first but once you get used to it, it's actually pretty handy and not too bad to navigate. I can't use it to read Grimoire cards on my phone though, don't like the layout for that side.
 

Juraash

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Spent most of last night working on Sunsinger while doing bounties and stuff. I was fairly cool on the subclass when I first started messing with it, but I'm warming up to it big time now. I'm not sure if I'll sunbro full time but I'm really starting to have fun with it. Ultimately I may settle on which one to main based on w/e my first exotic armor piece benefits most.
 

X-Frame

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Cømet;130424963 said:
Where abouts on bnet are the advisories and crucible stuff? This website is a pain in the arse to navigate.

EDIT: nvm found em.

I know where the bonuses are, but where are the advisors? I have the iPhone app, if it's on there I can't find it.
 

Xater

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Bungie: "We want every piece of loot to have an epic story behind how you got it."

Player: "I got a legendary engram from a random chest."

Welp.

Seriously, Bungie, I know you have people reading this thread. The loot distribution, in its current state is crap, and you know it. Fix it.

There also doesn't seem to be a lot of exotic items which even further diminishes the idea of finding something unique.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
I keep hearing about bonuses you can activate from Grimoire cards but when I go to the cards all I see are the cards themselves with lore/info on. What am I missing?
There's a little button that looks like a Bar Graph, on for example a Place card. Click it!
At this point (27 hours in / 11 of those at lvl 20) It seems the expected way to gear up is from the Vendors.
You are correct, at least for your starter set.
 
There also doesn't seem to be a lot of exotic items which even further diminishes the idea of finding something unique.

Well, for the next game – or maybe the DLC – I hope Bungie adds more interesting weapons. You have all the aliens fighting with these uniquely designed weapons, why can't we use them?

Some of the guns we have a very cool, but darn it, I want my alien weapons!
 

TheGrue

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What's the thought on Level 20+ story missions? They don't give you vanguard armor like a strike playlist strike would have. What's the benefit to doing them over those strikes or even the daily story?
 

Cudder

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So I assume using gear with Light on it is better than using gear without Light on it, even if it's a higher level?

It's kind of confusing because my Defense would be much higher with some of the armour I have without Light.
 
I've done some farming last night on Moon and Earth. I must be having the worst luck ever, I barely got any greens or blues after two hours of grinding. Forget about purples, haha.

Although, I did get a purple from Mr. Cryptarch after I leveled him up to 4, I think? And I got a nice Hunter class wardrobe.. Of course I'm not a hunter, lol. my guy is a warlock. I'm not mad though, as I have a hunter class chick that's only level 5 atm, so I got a nice piece of fashion design for her when she hits 20.

I'm gonna try some more grinding tonight for a couple of hours to see if I can get better luck and after I'm gonna focus on some playlist strikes and hopefully some fireteam coops. I need to build up my Vanguard, I didn't even hit level 1 yet.
 
Well, for the next game – or maybe the DLC – I hope Bungie adds more interesting weapons. You have all the aliens fighting with these uniquely designed weapons, why can't we use them?

Some of the guns we have a very cool, but darn it, I want my alien weapons!
I think they could also make the weapon effects more interesting. Spewing bullets from a Void gun look the same as from an Arc gun or a Flame gun-- how about some particle effects? Or maybe some kind of impact effect? Would help make some of the guns, particularly the non-exotics, feel more differentiated and special.
 

Tc91

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Let me know how it goes, I'm at work so I can't test out the run quite yet. I've heard that there are more assassination missions on Mars, so I would like to go there and see if I can map out a route for optimizing the patrol there.

Not great at the moment haha, haven't found 1 assassination mission yet. Did get a random event but that's it.
 

naeS

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Looking at the Grimoire cards for the Crucible playlists, it says:

Cloaks, marks, and bonds can now drop in this Playlist. Tournament Tickets also become more common.

Anybody seen/know anything about Tournament Tickets?
 
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the reason strikes don't seem to be dropping much gear is the advisories on Bnet are the way to open them up. I have one sitting there right now where I need to beat 5 more strikes (50 total) and then cloaks, marks and bonds will start dropping too. Perhaps once you hit 75 or 100 it makes legendary or exotic gear available as end of round drops too?

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There is one of these for the crucible too.. 25 wins in a crucible mode opens up the ability for cloaks, marks and bonds to drop in that mode and increases the chance for tournament tickets.

I don't know if there are any additional levels.
 

Tovarisc

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Bungie: "We want every piece of loot to have an epic story behind how you got it."

Player: "I got a legendary engram from a random chest."

Welp.

Seriously, Bungie, I know you have people reading this thread. The loot distribution, in its current state is crap, and you know it. Fix it.

Or alternatively; "Oh this legendary rifle? I got it by stomping on level 5 mobs, it was SO epic adventure!"
 
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kittens

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Getting an exotic AR and rocket launcher on my third day of the game has made me kind of ambivalent about finding more exotics, haha. Some of them look cool, but I already have to swap my weapons around to use the two exotics I have.

With that said, I would totally kill for an exotic sniper or LMG.
 
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