So sorry guys. We keep getting sick in this house. Wife went to bed sick and baby unexpectedly woke up. So I'm on duty.
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Destiny |OT34| Stop Hammer Time!
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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So sorry guys. We keep getting sick in this house. Wife went to bed sick and baby unexpectedly woke up. So I'm on duty.
xplicitone
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TalentBurke
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Doesn't matter at this point. I would prefer arc or void because I've been seeing so many solar mantles.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Good luck Lieutenant Dan!
Breezy lets do Golgoroth thru oryx tomorrow night. My treat. We can listen to Jamiroqui
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Lessdo eet! If I don't play Rockband with my friend....but yeah I should be on tomrorow.
DrDrizzay101
Member
-Most people didn't play much Skolas, but that encounter was brilliant for allowing salvageable runs while still challenging the player. Templar is the only comparable boss. The 4 sync plates are a serious problem on Daughters-Oryx since it locks 4 (technically 3) people onto a very small piece of geometry.
-I agree about KF aesthetics, it looks and plays extremely well on first impression.
-That basic structure of "mechanics phase" to create DPS window followed by "DPS phase" to kill the boss is ubiquitous in raids. Probably overused by now, another thing Skolas did well. They missed a great opportunity with Crota to throw six swords into a pit with other mechanics to juggle but a boss that could be damaged liberally.
Give the players fun toys and we'll do fun things with them. Tell us exactly what to do and when to do it and we'll get bored.
zombiemortar
Member
Is this being streamed anywhere?
PrivateWHudson
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Draksis, or whatever, just dipped out on me. I was killing stuff looking for heavy and he disappeared. I ran around looking for him for a minute or so and the mission just ended.
SlenderBeans
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I would, but my internet sucks for streaming.
xplicitone
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So far no. Just waiting on getting invited I think!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeah. Skolas was fucking awesome. The mechanical design was great. But that's also why it was hard-it was full on MMO raid fight mechanics. Juggling the debuff, having to move to dismantle mines, and during the first phase worrying about the damage phase.
I guess what I'm talking about when I say the DPS phase is bad is like..yeah MMO's have that, but they have gradual fights that have you constantly DPSing, but situations are created where you stop DPSing not because the boss is invulnerable, but because something else gets in your way. Like, there's a fight in WoW called The Iron Maidens which combines movement, switching damage from bosses, and a phase where you have to avoid shit blowing up around you, as well as phases where you have to worry about deadly skills. The Oryx fight has this. It's the most mechanically intense fight of the raid because there's alot of things to watch out for, and you can kinda mess up without wiping(When it comes to just the blights.) Every other fight in the raid falls short of it. Warpriest and Golgoroth both suffer from 'Adds then boss then adds again'. Sure they both have unique mechanics(Keeping up the damage buff/Gaze) but it's mechanically lame of sorts, there's not more to it then that. The Totem Boss fight is a great example as well, the objective is to do a sort of relay race while taking care of adds and worrying about a debuff(Like Skolas of sorts). I actually wish you had to manually 'pick up' the buff like the Skolas debuff, not because it's artificial difficulty but it increases the amount of communication.
I guess what I'm saying is I dislike the 'boss is invulnerable until you trigger DPS phase'. Don't have the boss fights be spikes within a path,-the spikes being where you damage the boss-have the bosses be a challenge where multiple things are happening whilst keeping damage on the boss. A hectic boss fight is good. The only thing Skolas suffered from was the immense amount of adds it threw at you, the only flaw really.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Party hype with Dan Miller and Luke (not Smith) from Bungie 
Ah no worries dude, hope they get well soon.
xplicitone
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DGAF Raid with Bungie: http://www.twitch.tv/xplicit_one
gotstrangepowers
Banned
I'll setup a group if anyone wants to start at Oryx. Boguester said he'd help
PrivateWHudson
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Party hype with Dan Miller and Luke (not Smith) from Bungie
Don't make it too easy on them. Put your spindles and ToMs away.
zombiemortar
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guybrushfreeman
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I'll setup a group if anyone wants to start at Oryx. Boguester said he'd help
I'll take down Oryx if the group comes together. PSN: diggymow
DrDrizzay101
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Oryx-only kill, starting ASAP if everyone is available.
1.) Drizzay
2.) Doomguy
3.) SheHateMe
4.) Gotstrange
5.) LuckyDoobage
6.) RexNovis
Does everyone still want to do this now? I'm just sorting my vault, can start whenever.
*Lord Shaxx voice* Kill Oryx, Guardian!
Aight joining up now
everyday math
Banned
Exotic sword quest makes me wanna punch someone in the nuts.
DrDrizzay101
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Sending party chat invites now, if anyone can't make it then we can throw up another post to fill any missing spots.
A lot of the quests are rage inducing in how stupid they are.
If you need to fill a missing spot, I'l happily tag along on my hunter
everyday math
Banned
It's not even a bad quest itself. It's just how low the drop rates are for materials and fucking takes forever for ability kills.
Goodacre0081
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everyday math
Banned
145 helium filaments!
DrDrizzay101
Member
Yeah it's been an hour plus since Lucky and Doom posted so we may have missed them.
There may or may not be one spot still available, I'll post again if we still have a spot available.
guybrushfreeman
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I'll take the spot if it comes up. PSN diggymow
Vincent Alexander
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Anyone doing Oryx? I need his kill for the week.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
It's done. Oryx is dead. GG everyone.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
If bungie doesn't fix Incendiary throwing knives in the next update I'm going to flip out.
DrDrizzay101
Member
I think we just filled up but if a spot opens up then I'll shoot you an invite.
elaborate?
Party hype with Dan Miller and Luke (not Smith) from Bungie
Nice! Glad Luke got his kill. Thanks for helping out folks.
Vincent Alexander
Member
On way!
Goodacre0081
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is there also a bug with the Sunbreakers melee? is seems to only hit for small damage on a fresh hit.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Suros or hung jury?
Chums Knifeblade
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Nice! Glad Luke got his kill. Thanks for helping out folks.
anytime, it was fun, that first run was really smooth too!
keeping 1 of each because I can't not. I only actually like the LMG (though I admittedly love it). everyone is complaining about dupes and I'm sitting here like YES because it means I can infuse guns I actually enjoy, which there are quite a few of indeed.
KZXcellent
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