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[Bam Bam Baklava]

Anyone on PS4 that needs to beat Xyor on the moon strike?

 

[E92 M3]

Got my first legendary after 25 hours last night. Unfortunately I was so tired when I got it that I accidentally held X to equip it. Bye bye legendary.

Lol - the cruel joke of life.

Just got a lvl 20 exotic rifle drop from like lvl 7 enemies on the moon doing random patrol missions.

Must've been a great feeling.

 

[Pilgor]

Just got a lvl 20 exotic rifle drop from like lvl 7 enemies on the moon doing random patrol missions.

Did it drop as a yellow orb, or purple?

 

[Union Carbine]

I've had issues getting booted. An option to quick-join your last fireteam would be nice. Since I'd been playing with folks on my friends list, I just manually rejoin but if it had been randoms, I'm not sure how I could.

 

[Chamber]

Finally got to 26 through upgrading my legendary gear. At least I can finally do the raid.

High level Titans are just pure beast mode appearance wise. This is definitely my next class.

Is that a thing? I never had that problem.

Oh, it's a thing. I always play Vanguard Strikes on Lvl 22 just because I know I can solo it when my matchmade teammates inevitably bail out. That's why I'm not too bothered anyone about the lack of matchmaking in the weekly missions.

 

[Anoregon]

ooohh gimme dat sexy ass ship

 

[MidEvlDed]

Sick of these damn assholes quitting Strikes just before the boss.

Never happened to me. I've had people leave midway through, but the bosses are still beatable with 2. I've done it many times. Never had to try it solo though. That would suck.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

What do you mean?

At my special orders vendor the founded emblem is orange with the tower ship on it now?

 

[Tawpgun]

Sick of these damn assholes quitting Strikes just before the boss.

Opposite happened to me lol. I had a bounty for never dying in a strike and killing the Nexus mind thing on the Venus strike so I matchmade that strike at the lowest level and it dropped me into a game where the dudes were getting to the boss area.

Rekt the boss and got both bounties. Felt kinda guilty lol

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

Regarding the grimoire card bonuses. Its the black bar that sometimes appears at the bottom of the HUD saying like Fallen Killer Rank 3 700/800.

It's tied to these bonuses

Bungie.net legend page, advisors tab.

Wish there was a way to view all the bonuses

Yeah it's a shame it won't let you look ahead, oh well I'll be back on in an hour or so and gonna speed through 5 strikes so I can see what pops up as the next reward at 100. (there's two more for strikes, one at 100 and one at 150 I think, maybe 250) I'll report back unless someone beats me to it. Crossing fingers for a rarity increase, only had them drop from enemies in strikes, never at the end of a round.

 

[Spineker]

Speaking of shotguns I found a legendary called The Comedian which has an effect that tightens the spread of each blast if I aim so effectively I can one shot people from twice the distance.

aha a hahaha hahahaha

Spoiler

That's the weapons description

This is the gun I'll be farming Vanguard Strikes for later today which will help with my Thorn bounty.

 

[malfcn]

And I think the Post Master is keeping some purple from the level ups.

 

[zma1013]

Did it drop as a yellow orb, or purple?

Purple

 

[Darak]

Sick of these damn assholes quitting Strikes just before the boss.

May not be their fault, I've had several server disconnects always at that point in a strike or inside the boss. The game is rock solid for me otherwise.

 

[fin]

Last night I was farming the cave in Skywatch for some drops. Was at it for about 2 hours or so. It's so mundane and mind numbing. But then something happened. A message popped up in the lower left corner of the screen, something like "Ememies organizing..." or "Ememies gathering...". This was not a public event, it was different. Instead of the regular Hive coming out of the farming cave, Wizards started coming out. After like an hour of shooting the same enemies over and over, I was like WTF?

Then more enemies started flooding the entire field from every spawn point, yellows all over the place, Hive Knights, Wizards, Fallen Captains. Most of the enemies were resistant to our weapons and could only be killed with supers. It was out of control. There was probably 3 of us farming (level 20+), then more players came in to help There were guardians everywhere firing off supers, generating dozens of nodes of light. It probably lasted 5 or so minutes, people actually got killed and needed reviving. It was a huge surprise after grinding level 5 enemies for so long. It was like the game knew we were gaming the system and tried to make us stop.

Things like this is makes the mundane in Destiny more exciting.

 

[BradC00]

real quick for my PVPing blade dancing hunter beasts: is INT/STR the way to go or INT/DIS

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Lol - the cruel joke of life.



Must've been a great feeling.

That's why Patrolling is more fun for me than Farming. Odds are probably the same and at least there's variety.

 

[The Librarian]

I award Destiny the "Best weapon descriptions in any game ever" trophy.

 

[keakster]

Anyone up for the weekly strike on PS4? PSN lightning2k7 i need 2 people. Thanks.

Heroic weekly right now anyone? Trying to do it for exotic bounty I'd love a hand.

I'm on now if you guys still need someone

psn: keakster

 

[Oozer3993]

Did you find that even when playing heroic strikes? Just curious. When you don't have the 30-second respawn I find it becomes a lot deeper. With the 30 second respawn it can be a bit spongey sometimes.

The respawn differences don't change the fact that the bosses aren't fun to fight. Every single one is the same. You go up against a giant reservoir of hit points that has 1 (maybe 2) ranged attacks and one up close area of effect attack. The bosses don't have any interesting movement, none have any different phases*, the geometry of the arena never changes, nor does the arena ever change. Most are just you and your fireteam chucking bullets at a nearly stationary target for up to 20 minutes.

* I'm referring only to the end bosses and not the Devil Walker or Gargantuan tank.

 

[MidEvlDed]

Agreed.
Its old already to hear ANY of the story dialog at this point. And a few of the missions where you are killing yourself to farm, he gets uber annoying.

I'm starting to memorize lines and play them back in my head at random times. This morning it was, "The fallen, on Venus, they've got themselves an Archon Priest. Now the Queen's bounty is high..."

 

[gamechanger87]

Anyone know why we can't use Bnet or the app to buy stuff from the merchants? Seems like that would be pretty easy to do right? You can already scan the available gear and re-equip your guy from there.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

How do I get to this on bnet?

Tab on the left choose legend, then choose advisories from the top menu.

 

[Oscar]

I'm down for Heroic Weekly if anyone else needs it.

PSN: OscarTheMonster

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Is that a thing? I never had that problem.

Same, if anything I'm surprised how well no mics and random MM are for strikes.

 

[Ramirez]

So I've been sitting on a fully upgraded 11 shot chamber hand cannon in PVE for a while. Finally gave it a go in PVP last night, and I felt like I time traveled...

So good. 3SK's every where.

 

[E92 M3]

High level Titans are just pure beast mode appearance wise. This is definitely my next class.

I agree - love their armor design.

At my special orders vendor the founded emblem is orange with the tower ship on it now?

Strange...but at the same token, I've gotten all of my missing Bungie emblems.

That's why Patrolling is more fun for me than Farming. Odds are probably the same and at least there's variety.

I will start patrolling soon. Want to level up my Vanguard.

I award Destiny the "Best weapon descriptions in any game ever" trophy.

Hmm, never read any of those.

 

[Chamber]

Anyone know why we can't use Bnet or the app to buy stuff from the merchants? Seems like that would be pretty easy to do right? You can already scan the available gear and re-equip your guy from there.

Buying stuff on the app isn't social enough for Bungie.

 

[Omni]

Last night I was farming the cave in Skywatch for some drops. Was at it for about 2 hours or so. It's so mundane and mind numbing. But then something happened. A message popped up in the lower left corner of the screen, something like "Ememies organizing..." or "Ememies gathering...". This was not a public event, it was different. Instead of the regular Hive coming out of the farming cave, Wizards started coming out. After like an hour of shooting the same enemies over and over, I was like WTF?

Then more enemies started flooding the entire field from every spawn point, yellows all over the place, Hive Knights, Wizards, Fallen Captains. Most of the enemies were resistant to our weapons and could only be killed with supers. It was out of control. There was probably 3 of us farming (level 20+), then more players came in to help There were guardians everywhere firing off supers, generating dozens of nodes of light. It probably lasted 5 or so minutes, people actually got killed and needed reviving. It was a huge surprise after grinding level 5 enemies for so long. It was like the game knew we were gaming the system and tried to make us stop.

Things like this is makes the mundane in Destiny more exciting.

Happened in the beta too... though you didn't get any warning :lol

 

[nowai]

Anyone on PS4 that needs to beat Xyor on the moon strike?

I do, but I'm level 25 and the mobs pack a whallup!

PSN sunvsthemoon

 

[kittens]

Welp, guess I'm staying out of the Crucible today.

 

[W1SSY]

Anyone on PS4 that needs to beat Xyor on the moon strike?

I also need to defeat Xyor. PSN is w1ssy if you are still looking for more people.

 

[Pilgor]

Purple

Did it drop as an exotic rifle, or a legendary engram? I didn't know exotic weapons were possible drops. Very lucky!

 

[VE3TRO]

Legendary Helmet Engram yay.

Becomes shitty Rare Helmet.

 

[MidEvlDed]

Last night I was farming the cave in Skywatch for some drops. Was at it for about 2 hours or so. It's so mundane and mind numbing. But then something happened. A message popped up in the lower left corner of the screen, something like "Ememies organizing..." or "Ememies gathering...". This was not a public event, it was different. Instead of the regular Hive coming out of the farming cave, Wizards started coming out. After like an hour of shooting the same enemies over and over, I was like WTF?

Things like this is makes the mundane in Destiny more exciting.

I believe this happens on every planet. It happens on Venus if you're in the Ishtar Commons area I believe, where the crashed ship is.

 

[catspit]

Went female model for hunter ... Now.. Male or female for warlock? Heh

 

[JohnOfMars]

in my case it got two rares.

Because I haven't been unlucky enough.

Lvl 22 and no legendary in sight to show for

You're level 22 and you already have a faction or the vanguard to Level 3? Impressive.

Also, Level 22 is a bit low for legs. Legendaries are ~26 or so. You should be going for better blues til you get to level 24.

 

[barneystuta83]

Is there any crucible items I can buy at rank 1 or do I have to be rank 2?

 

[PrivateWHudson]

Destiny isn't Diablo. Loot from grinding and drops isn't the only/main way to get gear. Here's a guide for:

100% Guaranteed Full Legendary + Exotic Armor, no RNG

Every Level after 3 with a Faction will earn you Legendary Faction Gear

So stop complaining about drops.

You know what the real pisser about this is? At the end it says that everyone should do a nightfall strike once a week. Guess what! I can't because I'm not moving off of level 24 without leveling the vendors. The barrier between 24 and 26 is ridiculous since I'm locked out of the things to help speed up that grind. I can't get Raid ready gear because I can't get into the Raid.

 

[everyday math]

Lvled up my faction(dead orbit) to lvl 3. Got a nice legendary sniper as a gift.

Now time lvl up vanguard and crucible.

 

[R0ckman]

Last night I was farming the cave in Skywatch for some drops. Was at it for about 2 hours or so. It's so mundane and mind numbing. But then something happened. A message popped up in the lower left corner of the screen, something like "Ememies organizing..." or "Ememies gathering...". This was not a public event, it was different. Instead of the regular Hive coming out of the farming cave, Wizards started coming out. After like an hour of shooting the same enemies over and over, I was like WTF?

Then more enemies started flooding the entire field from every spawn point, yellows all over the place, Hive Knights, Wizards, Fallen Captains. Most of the enemies were resistant to our weapons and could only be killed with supers. It was out of control. There was probably 3 of us farming (level 20+), then more players came in to help There were guardians everywhere firing off supers, generating dozens of nodes of light. It probably lasted 5 or so minutes, people actually got killed and needed reviving. It was a huge surprise after grinding level 5 enemies for so long. It was like the game knew we were gaming the system and tried to make us stop.

Things like this is makes the mundane in Destiny more exciting.

In some areas if there are two factions fighting, every thirty minutes instead of a public event, you get a chaotic war.

 

[Tawpgun]

Last night I was farming the cave in Skywatch for some drops. Was at it for about 2 hours or so. It's so mundane and mind numbing. But then something happened. A message popped up in the lower left corner of the screen, something like "Ememies organizing..." or "Ememies gathering...". This was not a public event, it was different. Instead of the regular Hive coming out of the farming cave, Wizards started coming out. After like an hour of shooting the same enemies over and over, I was like WTF?

Then more enemies started flooding the entire field from every spawn point, yellows all over the place, Hive Knights, Wizards, Fallen Captains. Most of the enemies were resistant to our weapons and could only be killed with supers. It was out of control. There was probably 3 of us farming (level 20+), then more players came in to help There were guardians everywhere firing off supers, generating dozens of nodes of light. It probably lasted 5 or so minutes, people actually got killed and needed reviving. It was a huge surprise after grinding level 5 enemies for so long. It was like the game knew we were gaming the system and tried to make us stop.

Things like this is makes the mundane in Destiny more exciting.

Whaaaaaat? This is a thing that happens? That sounds so sick. I wonder how random it is or if theres a time of day it happens in.

You didn't get any footage?

So I've been sitting on a fully upgraded 11 shot chamber hand cannon in PVE for a while. Finally gave it a go in PVP last night, and I felt like I time traveled...

So good. 3SK's every where.

While I probably would have done better with my Shingen I also went into PvP with an 11 round Hand Cannon. So goooood. Wish the aiming was more like Halos though

 

[zma1013]

Did it drop as an exotic rifle, or a legendary engram? I didn't know exotic weapons were possible drops. Very lucky!

Well it was purple engram that when decrypted turned into exotic auto rifle.

 

[Xeroblade]

So I've been sitting on a fully upgraded 11 shot chamber hand cannon in PVE for a while. Finally gave it a go in PVP last night, and I felt like I time traveled...

So good. 3SK's every where.

awesome.

 

[deoee]

Just found dinkelbot on tiwtter:

https://twitter.com/dinkelbot

:-D
This is getting out of hand.

 

[Tc91]

Just got my first legendary engram from doing missions on Earth.

Looking forward to my rare.

Edit: It was actually a legendary. Scout Rifle.

 

[todahawk]

Also got a new ship via blueprint and my 13th strange coin so I'll be able to buy an exotic piece come this weekend.

was it on the moon? I got that ship and a coin doing patrol on the moon last night

 

[kittens]

You know what the real pisser about this is? At the end it says that everyone should do a nightfall strike once a week. Guess what! I can't because I'm not moving off of level 24 without leveling the vendors. The barrier between 24 and 26 is ridiculous since I'm locked out of the things to help speed up that grind. I can't get Raid ready gear because I can't get into the Raid.

Just rank up the Crucible or one of the factions. It's pretty simple, just takes a while.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

So I've been sitting on a fully upgraded 11 shot chamber hand cannon in PVE for a while. Finally gave it a go in PVP last night, and I felt like I time traveled...

So good. 3SK's every where.

I know MS owns the Halo IP so it couldnt happen but I would have loved the Halo 1 Pistol to be a exotic weapon unlock.

 

[scarletham]