Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Nice run! And yes, the chest engram was alpha lupi. Again.
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Destiny |OT32| Driviks and Draksis (Spoiler Tag ALL Raid Discussion)
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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If my math is right that's an exotic roughly every 11 3 of coins (also holy fuck you ran 70 strikes?). I think that's a little below average for what people have reported but 11 3 of coins costs just over 10 strange coins which is cheaper than the cheapest exotic xur can sell, and he doesn't sell them above 280 so yes, certainly worth it and especially so if you got any weapons.
EroticSushi
Member
You're using 3oC during the Heroic bosses? Let me know if you're still running them.
The chest engram has to be bugged. I got 8 back to back last time.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Me and my buddy are starting the nightfall. One spot open. Anyone is welcome to jump in.
xx_BATMANx
xx_BATMANx
me please, be right on
Ok, what time you think you'll be on?
Wanna do some strikes? I'll buy some 3oC for it
I'll also run at pretty much any time tomorrow.
Ah ok, not sure I'll be up so early but if I am, I'll check in.
EroticSushi
Member
MixedBeverage
Member
Anyone interested in King's Fall starting at the second boss? I have the checkpoint, but my raiding party seems to have vanished after our intermission.
EroticSushi
Member
Depends on which helmet's perks you prefer. Use rockets a lot? Go with Taikonaut. Use blessings? Go with Saint.
igordennis
Member
We must have spent 20+ hours on that weekend. Like 6 hours on saturday and the entire sunday lol. That was rough.
Ah alright. Well just keep an eye out for my posts if you're around. I don't necessarily plan on running it right away tomorrow.
Alright cool. Already got half a group hopefully if everything works out
True. Been using hammers so it seems like I should do Taikonaut. But Saint 14 seems better for raid, which I haven't done yet so not sure which super would be better. Probably bubble.
EroticSushi
Member
Do you pop a 3oC when you reach the boss of every strike?
Yup. I think across ~10 Chest engrams all but one has been a Lupi. The weighting on it has to be broken or something. 99% of the time I chalk this shit up to RNG, but this seems to be a universal complaint among everyone I've seen everywhere.
wow Sealed Ahamkara Grasps are pretty great.
Gunslinger - no 3 knifes, but can then use the fast reload skill, also, shooting an enemy, running out of ammo and then landing a kill with the throwing knife and getting a free ammo refill is great, procs a lot and doesn't need to be a special melee to work, but not sure quite how often, maybe 20%?
Bladedancer - turn invisible more often or heal a bit
Nightstalker - turn invisible more often
tons of xp to level this sucker though, 20+ motes and i still don't have the melee charge increase, but now I want to spec strength, ha, was always discipline before
Gunslinger - no 3 knifes, but can then use the fast reload skill, also, shooting an enemy, running out of ammo and then landing a kill with the throwing knife and getting a free ammo refill is great, procs a lot and doesn't need to be a special melee to work, but not sure quite how often, maybe 20%?
Bladedancer - turn invisible more often or heal a bit
Nightstalker - turn invisible more often
tons of xp to level this sucker though, 20+ motes and i still don't have the melee charge increase, but now I want to spec strength, ha, was always discipline before
Finn of Ooo
Member
I'm 289 but I'm a pretty cool guy if anyone needs people to raid with. Haven't done it yet.
Yup.
You can, but I don't think it matters which character you open it on. I got about 10 exotic armor engrams, opened them all on my warlock, and only 2 of them were warlock items. (3 titan armor and 5 hunter).
I'd be interested in joining up. My psn name is Nirran. Most of the groups I have joined this week have left at the second boss and I would like to finally clear the place and see everything.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah. I mean, anecdotes are anecdotes, but this is pretty blatant. It's clearly broken.
Finn of Ooo
Member
Alternatively if no one is raiding I could use help in CoO. Need to finish that quest for the artifact
psn: PerilousInJ
psn: PerilousInJ
Subtervotion
Member
So I did a lot of experimentation with 3oC today. So far I have used 55 of them.
The first 9 I used in strikes, both lvl 36 and picking summoning pits off the map. This net me 1 exotic.
I then went to Draksis to use the remaining 46. I got 4 exotics.
Running strikes: 1 exotic every 9 3oC OR 1 exotic every ~ 1 hour.
Draksis: 1 exotic every 12 3oC OR 1 exotics every ~20 minutes.
Obviously this is a super low sample size. So It's not even close to conclusive.
Farming Draksis takes more 3oC, but takes way less time. In my opinion, if you ONLY want the exotics, it's more efficient to just keep farming there.
The first 9 I used in strikes, both lvl 36 and picking summoning pits off the map. This net me 1 exotic.
I then went to Draksis to use the remaining 46. I got 4 exotics.
Running strikes: 1 exotic every 9 3oC OR 1 exotic every ~ 1 hour.
Draksis: 1 exotic every 12 3oC OR 1 exotics every ~20 minutes.
Obviously this is a super low sample size. So It's not even close to conclusive.
Farming Draksis takes more 3oC, but takes way less time. In my opinion, if you ONLY want the exotics, it's more efficient to just keep farming there.
Yup and I'm still running them. Wanna join?
I can do some CoO with you.
No charged runes at the moment though.
But I have a tier 2 and A tier 3.
PS4 DekuBleep.
EroticSushi
Member
I can join you guys too, if there's a spot.
EroticSushi
Member
Join up on us. On the boss.
Before or after the 2nd boss? I'm after him but don't mind doing him too.
igordennis
Member
Meh i ran dust palace with 2 other gaffers and we destroyed that strike in 10 minutes. We killed all the psions as soon as they spawned with swords, the adds didnt even appear. I dont really see whats wrong with it after playing it quite a few times. A lot of lazy design of "defend this door while the ghost is doing whatever" but a lot of the original strikes have that.
EroticSushi
Member
We had a random quit the moment the strike started. Made it all the way to the boss without anyone else joining. They need to do something about that.
Yea. Kinda bullshit
igordennis
Member
Yeah this seems to be happening like 70% of the times im doing strikes. Someone always leaves on the beggining and the useless matchmaking system never replaces them. Pretty shitty.
Oryx is so easy now that it makes that first raid seems like a dream.
minimumhippo
Member
Yep, I don't think I've ever seen someone replaced during a strike I've run, although today I was placed in a strike in progress about half way through.
igordennis
Member
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah I'm thinking this too simply because strikes take so long. Last night I did over 30 strikes for 6 engrams. A pretty spot on rate for drops even though RNG game me a streak of about 15 with nothing in the middle.... However that took hours and hours (about 6 hours? Longer?).
I'm not sure how bungie wants us to use 3 of coins right now. At the moment I'm limited by time more than coins. The thing is they are really designed for farming at the moment because of RNG. If you just pop them casually there's a good chance you'll never get anything. Over a number of hours the drop rate is about 1 in 5 but thanks to RNG you can grind strikes for hours and get nothing at all.
I feel like most people would be better off spending twice and many coins to do it in one tenth of the time. It doesn't help that once you hit 290 blues become almost useless though I guess though so I'm really only hoping for that exotic drop at the end.
Edit: I was also surprised by just how few ledendary engrams dropped. Out of about 30 strikes I only saw 2 . Granted I was running the 36 playlist because too many people drop from the heroic playlist right now but it as lower than I expected anyway considering the Vanguard streak buff.
MixedBeverage
Member
Just before. Looks like there aren't enough takers tonight, so maybe I'll try again tomorrow.
@Nirran -- you were in my group. I'm legilimens. Let's try again later ...
"Smart" loot is working as intended. Got a Fusion Rifle from W
. Hunter Boots from G
(the only worthwhile thing I got in the Raid today), Nothing from D
, and a duplicate Hunter Chest with LESS Light than the first one I got from O
, used Shards too and got an Antiquated Rune and no Primary Weapon.
Gonna go stream SOMA and hope that cheers me up.
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Gonna go stream SOMA and hope that cheers me up.