-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Destiny |OT32| Driviks and Draksis (Spoiler Tag ALL Raid Discussion)
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
- Start date
darkistheway
Member
Drizzay was our only Titan unfortunately.
igordennis
Member
You shouldnt say stuff like this when we dont have a clear answer at this point. My bet would be that they just drop all the black spindles to 290.
Subtervotion
Member
What is the Touch of Malice BP? I assumed that 300 made sense because the Black Spindle dropped at 310.
toastyToast
Member
Does anyone need the last step of the exotic sword bounty? I've got the arc one
captscience
Member
Yes you can. You can have two three man fireteams and try to "sweaty" up.
Just a three man fireteam going against randos in rumble is still pretty effective. Just run around with your hilt, no heavy ammo necessary, and punch each other.
My group was lucky enough to get matchmade into a match where the other three were also doing their sword quests. Barely a single shot was fired the entire match!
i can do a raid even though I just did one xD
Lol and people wonder why they are nerfing it...wish i had a chance to try this to my raid group, this is the fight we got stuck on and it was completely because of a DPS problem.
Subtervotion
Member
Robdraggoo
Member
BH2.0 lament-by Elton John
And I think its gonna be a long long time
Till BH2.0 comes around to find
Im not the man that I was before
No no no no
Im a sniper man, sniper man
Fireing 1k yard stare alone
And I think its gonna be a long long time
Till BH2.0 comes around to find
Im not the man that I was before
No no no no
Im a sniper man, sniper man
Fireing 1k yard stare alone
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
lmao killing those deathsingers in story mission is so much fun
I think I'm going to start an alt this weekend but I haven't figured out what.
Titan:
Pros - I want to be the bubble guy in PVE and that sunbreaker super is HORSE SHIT in pvp. I like the look of the armor and always have.
Cons - The titan I already have is a male Exo I made under the assumption that I'd easily find a nice bright yellow+red shader and those still don't exist. I'd have to remake him. I don't have any good titan exotics.
Hunter:
Pros - I've wanted to make a Hunter solely for PVP for a while. I am sick of their shit in general. I have a 310 set of Hunter mittens lying around. Nightstalker looks great for PVE. The hunter I already made is a qt 3.14 to the max, at least she was on the creation screen.
Cons - My glittering eyes at golden gun have faded a bit after seeing Sunbreaker in action. I'm not as interested in Nightstalker for PVE as I am in Defender.
I guess I'll just wait for tomorrow - if big papa Draksis is still handing out exotics for free then I'll see if I dig up a 310 something for a Titan.
Titan:
Pros - I want to be the bubble guy in PVE and that sunbreaker super is HORSE SHIT in pvp. I like the look of the armor and always have.
Cons - The titan I already have is a male Exo I made under the assumption that I'd easily find a nice bright yellow+red shader and those still don't exist. I'd have to remake him. I don't have any good titan exotics.
Hunter:
Pros - I've wanted to make a Hunter solely for PVP for a while. I am sick of their shit in general. I have a 310 set of Hunter mittens lying around. Nightstalker looks great for PVE. The hunter I already made is a qt 3.14 to the max, at least she was on the creation screen.
Cons - My glittering eyes at golden gun have faded a bit after seeing Sunbreaker in action. I'm not as interested in Nightstalker for PVE as I am in Defender.
I guess I'll just wait for tomorrow - if big papa Draksis is still handing out exotics for free then I'll see if I dig up a 310 something for a Titan.
darkistheway
Member
gotstrangepowers
Banned
Anyone use the Hereafter sniper? Wondering if I should infuse it up... I've never had the blinding nearby enemies perk.
PrivateWHudson
Member
Don't forget about the damage scaling. Those wizards in the walker room took him just over three sword hits to go down. For me it was closer to 10. He could rip through the arc shield of a centurion in a hit with a solar sword. I couldn't, and would get pound into the ground before I could hit them enough for them to go down.
If everyone on the team is as good as him, sure, three is better than one. But it's not like one good guy can Rambo it and know that two other just okay guys will mop up the rest.
I think it always fell apart for us when the centurions came out to play. Also for me, when we did kill the ads he was always hiding. I could never find him and dps before the next set of balls spawned.
Called it!
I don't own one but my brother does. My useless input on the matter is that it sounds really rad when you shoot it.
So, y'know. If you favor weapons based on their acoustic ambiance, Hereafter is a winner.
darkistheway
Member
Trickster
Member
Sigh, this wait for the Spindle nerf is killing me. This is essentially me now and until they actually do it - what are you waiting for Bungie? Do it!
TheTylerDurden
Member
A good hunter with the ability to tether multiple adds in the boss room is a pretty good play, with titan hammers smashing them to follow up (especially with sunspots active to keep that area on fire for a while).
Chaining supers that way really, really helps. If you don't have the right combinatino of classes it's really tough. Tried running with a couple of warlocks, but they couldn't feed me orbs to keep the hammers flying it was just DPS fest with primaries. That won't do it in a group of three.
Chase helped us out even though he had done it already by using a good tether and I got lots of orbs for my hammer. We finished with over 2 minutes left.
It kind of seems like there might be something to trying it with two people after all if the scaling is that significant.
For sure he always seemed to be on the other side of the pillar when we got a clear room.
This is how people should choose their weapons!
It's not a good idea to fuse away weapons with rare perks like that. Never know when it'll be useful imo.
I think I'm the only one who thinks that the material grinding for the sword was painless.
I was on earth, which was nice and nostalgic. I also coupled it with doing the arc kills, so it's not like I was just running around trying to find spinmetal. Had a nice meal at about the halfway mark to take a break, and then I watched a movie while finishing it up.
I think playing MMO's all my life and grinding hours on end for a couple of XP has prepared me for this.
I was on earth, which was nice and nostalgic. I also coupled it with doing the arc kills, so it's not like I was just running around trying to find spinmetal. Had a nice meal at about the halfway mark to take a break, and then I watched a movie while finishing it up.
I think playing MMO's all my life and grinding hours on end for a couple of XP has prepared me for this.
What time would this be? Im a 298 Hunter
gotstrangepowers
Banned
Nah, I meant to raise it up with the purchased spindles.
ASAP if you're ready?
Good question - someone go check!
Exactly. Destiny has certainly saved me a lot of money this past year haha.
Sorry Toasty and crew that I had to bail... I'm back now and can jump on pretty soon. Not sure if the group disbanded or what. Thanks for the run up until that point though!
--
I got the shotgun and the cloak for the second time. Don't care about shotguns really and obviously didn't need the cloak :/
Oh well at least I got the fragments! Need to get a group for CoO together. I have a bunch of tier 1, one tier 2 and one tier 3 rune. Once I get the fragments from there I can finish off the malice quest. Hopefully some tier 2 runes will drop for me during it but if not I'll be grinding out Eris rep.
--
I got the shotgun and the cloak for the second time. Don't care about shotguns really and obviously didn't need the cloak :/
Oh well at least I got the fragments! Need to get a group for CoO together. I have a bunch of tier 1, one tier 2 and one tier 3 rune. Once I get the fragments from there I can finish off the malice quest. Hopefully some tier 2 runes will drop for me during it but if not I'll be grinding out Eris rep.
I can join in 5mins psn biggy70686
298 hunter
xplicitone
Member
Destiny TTK Vent after 1 week of playing with just 1 character, 5 days of just mainly doing Heroic Daily and PvP Daily, a half day when I started which mainly included main story, then a total of 7 heroic strikes and 2 Nightfalls, and last night: a dozen+ attempts of Spindle:
The game is a lot better now. I've always loved it, but damn it continues to be great with many improvements.
I still have so much to do. I haven't completed many quests especially those that require a fairly decent grind like doing patrols and killing VIPs from every place or farming like collecting Hadium? Etc. I'm just doing what I want instead of being overwhelmed with so many quests, and for the most part, it's working.
Here are things I love!
0) New missions/strikes and old strikes redone. Really great stuff overall. Sound effects and music included. Love it.
1) Nightfalls not returning to orbit.
1.1) Nightfall Checkpoints!!!
2) Attributes and UI display of them: The ability to swap different attributes. More customization is awesome! I was 30 over max intellect so I swapped my class item and artifact to get more discipline and knew exactly how much of everything, SO GOOD.
3) Light Level System: Love, mostly. Not only are the numbers bigger but having 10 items to distribute light is awesome instead of 4. See things I don't love, below, but having 1 piece or 2 somewhat behind doesn't hurt nearly as bad as before. It's great. The quest to 290 was pretty fun. I got up anywhere between 5-10 light on average, everyday. Buying a 280 Light ghost first helped, a lot.
3.1) It's really fun to use all different types of guns! And greens/blues important again, mostly blues after the story missions. At one point I was using a really crappy AR and a fusion rifle with a machine gun, a combination I'd never have.
4) Turning in bounties anytime!
5) Infusion. This is a lot better than I imagined. I really pay attention to Light and the item's perks/stats. Last night during the Spindle Mission, after failing a few times, I decided to do an overhaul of my loadout and inventory. I analyzed all my gear mostly and infused up to use a better loadout with more sniper ammo, more intellect/disc, etc and eventually it led to success! Being able to keep an older gun is awesome. Also, their silly Spindle nerf, keeping that hard earned 310 value as much as possible.
6) Heroic Strikes! They drop engrams pretty regularly. Playing the decrypt game at the end is fun. Also the buff when doing strikes in succession is a very nice addition.
7) 3 of coins is cool. I've only ever used them in strike playlists. Got 1 or 2 exotics out of 12 strikes.
8) This is more Weapons 2.0, but damn it's nice not getting killed by Thorn or the same set of 4-5 guns every PvP match now. It's great
Things I don't love... yet?
1) Hard to get Ghost above Light 280
2) Nightfall rewards so far have been crap for me, and not getting Legendary Marks regularly for them is salt in the wound. 15 marks at the least, IMO.
3) Shotgun PvE nerf was LAME!!! It's only 1.1x the base value prior to 100% buff, and I always thought that was extreme when I used it and thought... 1.25 to 1.5 would be the sweet range, but 2 was too big! 1.375 would have been a pretty sweet spot, IMO.
4) Shotguns again.... for PvP, they're still stupid silly. Nerf Harder, Plz.
Overall: I've been having a great time. At first, I wasn't having as much fun because I was playing Solo, I was super far behind, and I was also going to miss Raid day 1, all felt bad. ALSO, I played on a small TV relative to my home, and I didn't have my Sony Golds so now I can see everything more clear AND hear all the great ambient sounds, it's fantastic. So not only did TV/Headphones helps, but now that I'm back for longer periods of time I've been playing with Gaffers more and playing with people is just everything for the game. The story missions were still pretty good, but now running dailies with people, it makes a world of a difference even with these awesome new missions.
Last night I finally hit 290+, 293 to be exact and I couldn't be more than ready! I have a great sniper and AR so I'm ready! Hopefully we can get this group of 6 to confirm for the DGAF Blind Raid tomorrow.
Side Note: Yesterday was my first day back at work and my coworkers all said I'm crazy for not buying another ps4 for Destiny/playing a game on vacation but because I played a game on vacation! It's so hard to explain to them why it was important for me to do that and get my feet wet while I was away. Nobody understands!
The game is a lot better now. I've always loved it, but damn it continues to be great with many improvements.
I still have so much to do. I haven't completed many quests especially those that require a fairly decent grind like doing patrols and killing VIPs from every place or farming like collecting Hadium? Etc. I'm just doing what I want instead of being overwhelmed with so many quests, and for the most part, it's working.
Here are things I love!
0) New missions/strikes and old strikes redone. Really great stuff overall. Sound effects and music included. Love it.
1) Nightfalls not returning to orbit.
1.1) Nightfall Checkpoints!!!
2) Attributes and UI display of them: The ability to swap different attributes. More customization is awesome! I was 30 over max intellect so I swapped my class item and artifact to get more discipline and knew exactly how much of everything, SO GOOD.
3) Light Level System: Love, mostly. Not only are the numbers bigger but having 10 items to distribute light is awesome instead of 4. See things I don't love, below, but having 1 piece or 2 somewhat behind doesn't hurt nearly as bad as before. It's great. The quest to 290 was pretty fun. I got up anywhere between 5-10 light on average, everyday. Buying a 280 Light ghost first helped, a lot.
3.1) It's really fun to use all different types of guns! And greens/blues important again, mostly blues after the story missions. At one point I was using a really crappy AR and a fusion rifle with a machine gun, a combination I'd never have.
4) Turning in bounties anytime!
5) Infusion. This is a lot better than I imagined. I really pay attention to Light and the item's perks/stats. Last night during the Spindle Mission, after failing a few times, I decided to do an overhaul of my loadout and inventory. I analyzed all my gear mostly and infused up to use a better loadout with more sniper ammo, more intellect/disc, etc and eventually it led to success! Being able to keep an older gun is awesome. Also, their silly Spindle nerf, keeping that hard earned 310 value as much as possible.
6) Heroic Strikes! They drop engrams pretty regularly. Playing the decrypt game at the end is fun. Also the buff when doing strikes in succession is a very nice addition.
7) 3 of coins is cool. I've only ever used them in strike playlists. Got 1 or 2 exotics out of 12 strikes.
8) This is more Weapons 2.0, but damn it's nice not getting killed by Thorn or the same set of 4-5 guns every PvP match now. It's great
Things I don't love... yet?
1) Hard to get Ghost above Light 280
2) Nightfall rewards so far have been crap for me, and not getting Legendary Marks regularly for them is salt in the wound. 15 marks at the least, IMO.
3) Shotgun PvE nerf was LAME!!! It's only 1.1x the base value prior to 100% buff, and I always thought that was extreme when I used it and thought... 1.25 to 1.5 would be the sweet range, but 2 was too big! 1.375 would have been a pretty sweet spot, IMO.
4) Shotguns again.... for PvP, they're still stupid silly. Nerf Harder, Plz.
Overall: I've been having a great time. At first, I wasn't having as much fun because I was playing Solo, I was super far behind, and I was also going to miss Raid day 1, all felt bad. ALSO, I played on a small TV relative to my home, and I didn't have my Sony Golds so now I can see everything more clear AND hear all the great ambient sounds, it's fantastic. So not only did TV/Headphones helps, but now that I'm back for longer periods of time I've been playing with Gaffers more and playing with people is just everything for the game. The story missions were still pretty good, but now running dailies with people, it makes a world of a difference even with these awesome new missions.
Last night I finally hit 290+, 293 to be exact and I couldn't be more than ready! I have a great sniper and AR so I'm ready! Hopefully we can get this group of 6 to confirm for the DGAF Blind Raid tomorrow.
Side Note: Yesterday was my first day back at work and my coworkers all said I'm crazy for not buying another ps4 for Destiny/playing a game on vacation but because I played a game on vacation! It's so hard to explain to them why it was important for me to do that and get my feet wet while I was away. Nobody understands!
Oh, apologies. I'm at work. I thought you might be planning for later. Sorry.
invite whenever u are ready
I got it the night before Spindlemania, it dropped at 310 for me too.
I like it solely because it is the most badass sounding weapon I've run into in the game. I don't even have the weapon parts to afford leveling it up, so I can't comment on anything else about it...interesting that it comes with aggressive ballistics though. Wonder how much that closes the impact gap between it and Spindle.
Updated:
1. Sane_Man (PSN: SaneManPritch, 300 warlock)
2. Revolutionary (??)
3. thelongdarkriversofhell (PSN: darkistheway, 294 hunter)
4. kudoboi (PSN: kudouz, 294 warlock)
5. Werd (PSN: Raptor2525, ??)
6. AQ706 (PSN: biggy70686, ??)
Still waiting for confirmation from Revolutionary if he wants in.
1. Sane_Man (PSN: SaneManPritch, 300 warlock)
2. Revolutionary (??)
3. thelongdarkriversofhell (PSN: darkistheway, 294 hunter)
4. kudoboi (PSN: kudouz, 294 warlock)
5. Werd (PSN: Raptor2525, ??)
6. AQ706 (PSN: biggy70686, ??)
Still waiting for confirmation from Revolutionary if he wants in.
Ohhhh, sorry. I have it and like it, but I don't know if it's worth an exotic slot, if you know what I mean.
Johan Liebert
Member
Got a game world is rebooting message.
Update time!
Update time!
Abusive_Red
Banned
I'm on Mars and it fucking blows. Least favorite planet for mat farming.
Goodbye Sniper Dream
Though I never knew you at all
you had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
We crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into my brain
They set me on the treadmill
Then they made you change your name
Three of Coins nerf incoming.
TheAquaticApe
Member
I won't be on until 6pm CST. Add me and if you're on then we'll get it going.
PSN: DirtyAquaticApe