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Destiny |OT34| Stop Hammer Time!
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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Absolutely, TTK has a lot of content and you will find like-minded and friendly players in the DGAF community. There are a lot of players like you who have kids and don't have set times to play, but everyone manages just fine. Welcome to DGAF.
Best way to find players is to post your psn/live id, what content you're looking to play, how much time you have, light level, etc.
Aaronology
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TTK is an amazing step forward for Destiny, and this is coming from someone who dropped the game two months after launch and remained extremely critical of it and Bungie throughout its first year. It is nearly everything I imagined the vanilla game should have been from the go.
As far as finding people to play with, Captain, you've got GAF! In the two weeks I've been back into the game I've met a lot of incredibly friendly and laid back people here. Between posting here and joining the Destiny GAF community I doubt you'll fail to find other cool people to game with.
wait... what is this quest and what is the reward?
igordennis
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Ah ok i had asked you on the last thread but i think you were sleeping
Ok so thats what was missing for me to do.
Orochinagis
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Silver what?
figadapaura
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When you get to rank 25 with any faction you get a new quest for that faction. At the end you get an exotic class item.
Quest involves 10 Crucible wins, 10 Heroic Strikes, killing people in Crucible and killing Majors (I think?). All of this has to be done wearing the shader, emblem and class item of the faction.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Yeah could be. Vague and nondescript as always.
I'm assuming a one time reward during halloween and /or christmas?
Souldestroyer Reborn
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HM or Normal?
Wording they made seems like at the end of whenever the period is, those who logged in during said period get a "reward" which is more silver.
That is literally all they said.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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You get a quest from faction vendors when you rank them up to 25. The quest reward is an exotic class item.
Ah ok i had asked you on the last thread but i think you were sleeping
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Robdraggoo
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Need one more for kings fall, all experienced
Normal but we can do Hard, I suppose
Ruthless_Barbarian
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I read a bunch of articles that took this info and quoted 'playing regularly' as the requirement. So either they have more info or have assumed the same as we have. We'll find out in the coming weeks.
So I complemented matchmaking for two great matches.
Then I went on another horrendous run. After being placed in yet another game where only one person had stayed and we were about to lose I played a game on Crossroads where we'd lose whatever flag I left. I'm not good enough to win control when I'm the only positive K/D on the team.
Battlefront may have broken Destiny for me. Most games are enjoyably winnable. Losing doesn't mean I had a positive K/D despite having to deal with unending supers and heavy and lost flags and whatnots.
Give me an A-Wing Shaxx.
Then I went on another horrendous run. After being placed in yet another game where only one person had stayed and we were about to lose I played a game on Crossroads where we'd lose whatever flag I left. I'm not good enough to win control when I'm the only positive K/D on the team.
Battlefront may have broken Destiny for me. Most games are enjoyably winnable. Losing doesn't mean I had a positive K/D despite having to deal with unending supers and heavy and lost flags and whatnots.
Give me an A-Wing Shaxx.
Subtervotion
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Need 1 more for Oryx.
Psn: Subtervotion
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Psn: Subtervotion
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As per usual when it comes to Bungie, due to their wording, people make shit up as if its a fact.
"If you appear in the game between now and December, you’ll get even more Silver."
All this means is that if you log in, between when it was posted, and when it ends in December, you get bonus silver.
Even if you only log in the 5th of November.
I fail to see how this is regularly according to their wording. But we'll find out soon enough.
My breakdown in TL;DR:
You play Destiny? Have some Silver to try out our emote shop
Do you play at any point during now and December? Have some extra
CaptainofIndustry
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Awesome guys!!! I'll probably pick it up again soon. Feel free to add me. My PSN ID is BigBear4x4
Yeah smashbro you can do that with. Nice way to cheese it on shotgun or heroic.
Does it count as your 1 exotic armor?
No, as posted earlier the Faction reward Exotic have a perk that allows Exotic Armor to be used at the same time.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Nope, it can be equipped in addition to one piece of exotic armor.
igordennis
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It counts but it also has a perk that allows it to be used at the same time as another exotic armor.
CmdrShepard
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I would love to go if possible - i am a newbie though :/ 294 warlock
PSN: CmdrN7Shepard
no, the faction specific exotics allow you to have more than 1 exotic armor at a time.
edit: let it also be known that you cannot wear the faction exotic if you are not currently pledged with said faction.
Definitely! There's plenty of people on here at pretty much any given time, and people are almost always up for a raid. What system are you playing on?
I'll join ya'll
Orochinagis
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I know the mechanics but still lack some dps, PSN ShikiAoi
Cool. Shoot a friend request to ltwood12
Yay ichabod!
Perfect. That's 6. See you guys in about an hour/ hour:15
CaptainofIndustry
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PSN ID BigBear4x4 - Thanks!!!!
In down
Trumpet909
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Are there additional requirements other than completing the Regicide mission and dread patrol mission to get "A Broken Will" to start the sword quest? I did them on a hunter I boosted up, am 37 currently, and Eris doesn't have the quest available for me
Looking for a couple people to help me blitz The Undying Mind and kill this Taken spawn for the Hunger Pangs quest. PSN Hawkian, open party. All we have to do is not kill the boss until the spawn occurs.
Hit 40, I imagineAre there additional requirements other than completing the Regicide mission and dread patrol mission to get "A Broken Will" to start the sword quest? I did them on a hunter I boosted up, am 37 currently, and Eris doesn't have the quest available for me
yes. That work?
ToyMachine228
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Anyone up for Kings Fall on Xbox One right now? Full run. Message ProgenitorRyan on Live ASAP. 3 spots open.
If I can get this baby to sleep I'll help.
Trumpet909
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Ah, that makes sense. Oh well, at least I have my Hadium Flake farmer now.
JohnOfMars
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Warning: Wall of Text Analysis for the King's Fall Raid below:
Played through the Raid with some on DGAF on Friday night. Made good time until we got to the Daughters. I've come to the conclusion that it is by far the worst raid encounter in the game. I hope this doesn't come across as salt. I've failed hard and long at bosses before. But failing at the Sisters felt different. Felt bad. And I tried to think why.
Each raid has a final room with two boss fights in it, and King's Fall is no exception. Vault of Glass has Gatekeepers barring the way to Atheon. Ir Yut guards Crota's Crystal before he's summoned. And the Daughters something something before Oryx. (Maybe the lore can explain, but it's not rendered in the encounter. The first failure.) The function of the first fight is to teach any new boss mechanics before the final boss appears and/or to familiarize people with the arena. Ir Yut really only familiarizes players with the arena, but it works thematically at least. Gatekeepers teach the portal & relic mechanics and crucially they have their own mechanics just to them. Kill the Gatekeepers. Defend the Conflux. Those are on top of the shared Atheon mechanics of managing debuffs, guarding plates, etc.
The Daughters, however, have 0 mechanics to themselves. They tear people, then wait impotently until someone grabs a relic. Then they flail about on their platforms as we shoot them to death. This is the exact mechanic that we use on Oryx. There are no additional mechanics or targets. They are boring, bland bosses and you could cut them from the raid and no one would care. (And let's not discuss how trivial the damage phase is when everyone is running Touch of Malice.) Worse, there's really very little variation that's allowed. Five players have positions defined for them. And one guy can float. Gatekeepers can be tackled any number of ways. One side then the other or both at the same time, etc. The Daughters only variance is where the runner should stand, but there's an optimal choice now, so yeah.
So why are they there then? The Daughters were obviously implemented to combat the Atheon "bug" of players being able to make their own fate and decide who got to run the relic. The Daughters randomly tearing a fireteam member forces all players to learn how to run the platforms. An admirable goal, but it does such a terrible job at this that I'm staggered. Our team was made up of people who had only successfully completed the Daughters once or were complete newbies. We wiped on the Daughters for 1.5 hours. And that's not because what you're asked to do is hard. It's because it doesn't allow for learning. If you get torn and fail, you may or may not get another chance for 40 minutes. You can't count on being able to try again when your mistake is fresh to learn from it. This is why so many of our runs failed. You do learn it after a while, but if you gave people the chance to consistently run, even if you made everyone do it, it'd be so much faster. The difficulty for the Daughters comes from them randomly picking unprepared people and then not picking them again in sufficient time for them to learn.
Additionally, the mechanic is unfamiliar and small mistakes are not recoverable. Fail to kill adds well with the Brand in the War Priest, well, your damage phase is short. Fail to get the Gaze on Golgoroth, your damage phase is short. In both cases, the mechanic is a) familiar to people (shoot stuff) and b) can be recovered either independently or by the team on the next damage phase. The Daughters ask people to a) do the unfamiliar (jumping in 3rd person, in a combat phase, and with so much stuff on your screen you can barely see) and b) any tiny failure is unrecoverable and results in a wipe.
To be clear: The Daughters are not hard. At all. Learning the platforming is hard. That's it. Once everyone does know it, then the encounter is trivial. It's an easy minute-and-half. So it fails in that regard as well. (The Gatekeepers is still a fun, dynamic challenge, even when we did it as 34s.)
From a standpoint of justifying their own existence in the raid, the Daughters fight doesn't provide any in-game lore reason for them being there. It fails to provide even one unique mechanic to make them a satisfying boss. Finally, its challenge (and thus interest for raiders who are expected to run this weekly, if not more than that) only exists for new players.
Played through the Raid with some on DGAF on Friday night. Made good time until we got to the Daughters. I've come to the conclusion that it is by far the worst raid encounter in the game. I hope this doesn't come across as salt. I've failed hard and long at bosses before. But failing at the Sisters felt different. Felt bad. And I tried to think why.
Each raid has a final room with two boss fights in it, and King's Fall is no exception. Vault of Glass has Gatekeepers barring the way to Atheon. Ir Yut guards Crota's Crystal before he's summoned. And the Daughters something something before Oryx. (Maybe the lore can explain, but it's not rendered in the encounter. The first failure.) The function of the first fight is to teach any new boss mechanics before the final boss appears and/or to familiarize people with the arena. Ir Yut really only familiarizes players with the arena, but it works thematically at least. Gatekeepers teach the portal & relic mechanics and crucially they have their own mechanics just to them. Kill the Gatekeepers. Defend the Conflux. Those are on top of the shared Atheon mechanics of managing debuffs, guarding plates, etc.
The Daughters, however, have 0 mechanics to themselves. They tear people, then wait impotently until someone grabs a relic. Then they flail about on their platforms as we shoot them to death. This is the exact mechanic that we use on Oryx. There are no additional mechanics or targets. They are boring, bland bosses and you could cut them from the raid and no one would care. (And let's not discuss how trivial the damage phase is when everyone is running Touch of Malice.) Worse, there's really very little variation that's allowed. Five players have positions defined for them. And one guy can float. Gatekeepers can be tackled any number of ways. One side then the other or both at the same time, etc. The Daughters only variance is where the runner should stand, but there's an optimal choice now, so yeah.
So why are they there then? The Daughters were obviously implemented to combat the Atheon "bug" of players being able to make their own fate and decide who got to run the relic. The Daughters randomly tearing a fireteam member forces all players to learn how to run the platforms. An admirable goal, but it does such a terrible job at this that I'm staggered. Our team was made up of people who had only successfully completed the Daughters once or were complete newbies. We wiped on the Daughters for 1.5 hours. And that's not because what you're asked to do is hard. It's because it doesn't allow for learning. If you get torn and fail, you may or may not get another chance for 40 minutes. You can't count on being able to try again when your mistake is fresh to learn from it. This is why so many of our runs failed. You do learn it after a while, but if you gave people the chance to consistently run, even if you made everyone do it, it'd be so much faster. The difficulty for the Daughters comes from them randomly picking unprepared people and then not picking them again in sufficient time for them to learn.
Additionally, the mechanic is unfamiliar and small mistakes are not recoverable. Fail to kill adds well with the Brand in the War Priest, well, your damage phase is short. Fail to get the Gaze on Golgoroth, your damage phase is short. In both cases, the mechanic is a) familiar to people (shoot stuff) and b) can be recovered either independently or by the team on the next damage phase. The Daughters ask people to a) do the unfamiliar (jumping in 3rd person, in a combat phase, and with so much stuff on your screen you can barely see) and b) any tiny failure is unrecoverable and results in a wipe.
To be clear: The Daughters are not hard. At all. Learning the platforming is hard. That's it. Once everyone does know it, then the encounter is trivial. It's an easy minute-and-half. So it fails in that regard as well. (The Gatekeepers is still a fun, dynamic challenge, even when we did it as 34s.)
From a standpoint of justifying their own existence in the raid, the Daughters fight doesn't provide any in-game lore reason for them being there. It fails to provide even one unique mechanic to make them a satisfying boss. Finally, its challenge (and thus interest for raiders who are expected to run this weekly, if not more than that) only exists for new players.
Anyone want to farm the S.A.B.E.R. strike for the warlock helmet with me?
Also, i'm not quite clear on how strike specific stuff drops. From what I've heard, you can get the strike specific stuff from any playlist (from director, lvl. 36, heroic, nightfall), but the heroic and nightfall might have a higher chance of it dropping. Is this correct? Did I miss anything?
Also, i'm not quite clear on how strike specific stuff drops. From what I've heard, you can get the strike specific stuff from any playlist (from director, lvl. 36, heroic, nightfall), but the heroic and nightfall might have a higher chance of it dropping. Is this correct? Did I miss anything?
You need to get a Calcified Fragment, I think. They're hidden on the ship in various places.
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