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[17 Seconds]

Apologies for the silly question - have you double checked postmaster etc?

EDIT - ok it was a go to orbit thing - a few drops seems to be like that. I remember it starting with exotics at Crota, and then there was the IB rank 5 package thing recently....plus their admission that if you quit the game before going to orbit you can lose drops.

Seems weird to tie loot to exiting a mission rather than completing it.

It must be that boss drops get activated on boss kill (like skolas primaries) but activity rewards get activated on activity completion...and there is a grey line between the two.

it was a glitch or something, because a) i got the 310 stuff from the chest right away, and b) everyone got their 320 stuff from the chest right away

btw, i told the person inviting me beforehand that i was going to back out after the warpriest. i didn't want it to sound like i was screwing people over.

 

[Sentinalprimus]

The fact that they don't tell you what the challenge is is fucking retarded.

Yeah like how they never tell you what the raid mechanics are. They've never told you how an encounter works, why would they start now?

 

[maomaoIYP]

Finished 3 crucible NFs!
*drumroll....*
18 coins
18 coins
19 coins

.....thanks I guess?

 

[17 Seconds]

On your second character or on the same one?

If on the same character - did you kill him on your first try?

yeah, same character. killed him on the first attempt too. the second try was with a different group.

You messed up a glyph sequence on your first try?

nope. not on either try.

it sounds like there's some trivial thing that you have to do a certain way, and a lot of people are just doing it by happenstance. i'm trying to think of anything significant that we did differently on either run, and i can't.

 

[Jinjo]

The fact that they don't tell you what the challenge is is fucking retarded.

Part of the fun is figuring it out. First time raiding is the best destiny experience you can get. That's why people are sorta "disappointed" in challenge mode. Since you can pretty much get it by things going normally.

 

[irrotational]

They did say the actual challenge would be secret...although I thought they said there would be one of those "white text" clues?

There are really two challenges - just like there is with the raid itself. The actual challenge/execution of the fight and the "meta" challenge for the community of figuring out what the challenge is in the first place.

 

[Auto_aim1]

How is it even possible to mess up the glyph sequence? :lol

Finished 3 crucible NFs!

Wait... what? What did I miss?

 

[Twilight Gap]

hope i don't wake up to this thread at the bottom of the sine wave again lol

 

[Jinjo]

How is it even possible to mess up the glyph sequence? :lol

Ask Breezy lol.

yeah, same character. killed him on the first attempt too. the second try was with a different group.



nope. not on either try.

it sounds like there's some trivial thing that you have to do a certain way, and a lot of people are just doing it by happenstance. i'm trying to think of anything significant that we did differently on either run, and i can't.

You had only one aura holder the first time, two different ones on your second run? That's the latest speculation, you need two different aura holders.

 

[irrotational]

yeah, same character. killed him on the first attempt too. the second try was with a different group.



nope. not on either try.

it sounds like there's some trivial thing that you have to do a certain way, and a lot of people are just doing it by happenstance. i'm trying to think of anything significant that we did differently on either run, and i can't.

Time? did the first one feel longer?

Two different gaze holders versus the same one twice?

Did the aura holder fully complete their count-downs each time? I.e. they didn't lose any cycles by killing two adds at once?

EDIT - reddit seems pretty convinced it's different gaze holders - would be interesting if you can confirm, or deny, that?

 

[Sentinalprimus]

hope i don't wake up to this thread at the bottom of the sine wave again lol

Hopefully the chance at getting two of your Weapon slots to 320 should be enough to keep the salt down.

 

[maomaoIYP]

Wait... what? What did I miss?

I'm surprised that there are gaffers who haven't heard of this....Shaxx has a very long crucible quest. Completing it unlocks 5 weekly bounties. Completing those bounties every week gives you NF level rewards from the crucible drop pool, which has items that can only be found in the crucible. You can also get coins and exotics.

 

[Auto_aim1]

I'm surprised that there are gaffers who haven't heard of this....Shaxx has a very long crucible quest. Completing it unlocks 5 weekly bounties. Completing those bounties every week gives you NF level rewards from the crucible drop pool, which has items that can only be found in the crucible. You can also get coins and exotics.

I see. I didn't bother to do it, probably should.

 

[phen0m24]

hope i don't wake up to this thread at the bottom of the sine wave again lol

It'll happen shortly. Just saying.

By lunchtime it will be "320, now what?" and "This is not content"

 

[Stephen_drewz]

I understand going into the new raid blind etc, did it with KF and it was great but from previous MMO experience challenge mode was never something that had to be figured out, it was just difficult(though usually just timed).

If the challenge is limited to one boss per week to me it just seems clunky to have to hold the CP on an alt and everyone go to orbit and re join and then CP holder re join etc etc because you didn't do whatever the challenge is correctly. Not sure why I expected them to make the challenge known but I did.

I was probably too strong in my post, i'm actually salty as hell I can't be home having a go at it.

 

[Namikaze1]

Breezy
@Namikaze1 Challenge Mode is up!

Time stamp: 4:39 AM EST



I was knocked out, Breezy. Just saw your tweet. Still looking for a group to attempt the challenge.

 

[silver.tongue]

Breezy
@Namikaze1 Challenge Mode is up!

Time stamp: 4:39 AM EST



I was knocked out, Breezy. Just saw your tweet. Still looking for a group to attempt the challenge.

Hold on to your horse... We had a disconnect. Let's see if he can come back.

 

[silver.tongue]

Bigmanny, Id and I are up for it too.

You coming back?

 

[Jinjo]

Unstabie raid team confirmed:

Different aura holders gets you challenge loot.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

320 heavy machine gun

finally

after 10000 years

Unstabie raid team confirmed:

Different aura holders gets you challenge loot.

My speculation- Golgoroth and Oryx will require different gaze holders and different Oryx runners

 

[silver.tongue]

Unstabie raid team confirmed:

Different aura holders gets you challenge loot.

Wait, so you dont even need to 2-shot him?

 

[maomaoIYP]

I see. I didn't bother to do it, probably should.

Be warned, it's REALLY LONG. Also, not really worth it unless you like PvP more than PvE.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Got the day off, any raid teams need one more?

 

[mehrmantrout]

320 heavy machine gun

finally

after 10000 years



My speculation- Golgoroth and Oryx will require different gaze holders and different Oryx runners

Golgoroth with different gazerscan still be one bubbled, would be hilarious if that's all it is

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Wait, so you dont even need to 2-shot him?

Nope, just have different people hold the auras. We haven't tested other factors(Breaking sequence, going more than 2 cycles), so that is the theory right now.

 

[Jinjo]

320 heavy machine gun

finally

after 10000 years



My speculation- Golgoroth and Oryx will require different gaze holders and different Oryx runners

Pretty much. Guessing the single orb strat is still gonna be viable that way, as long as you can do it in 6 gaze phases.

Wait, so you dont even need to 2-shot him?

The two-shotted him both times, but other teams have reported getting loot with three/four cycles. Important thing is different aura holders.

 

[Auto_aim1]

We were actually making it harder for ourselves by not dying and trying to kill him in two auras which is still pretty easily doable.

 

[irrotational]

Pretty much. Guessing the single orb strat is still gonna be viable that way, as long as you can do it in 6 gaze phases.




The two-shotted him both times, but other teams have reported getting loot with three/four cycles. Important thing is different aura holders.

Yeah a person on reddit said they did it with 4 cycles and two people dead (they had deliberately let it go that long becuase they thought you havd to let him get all of his attacks)

because one of the three originals had died, they had 4 different gaze holders.

I think this also eliminates any time-based limit.

 

[noomi]

So is the 320 artifact a guaranteed drop?

 

[Deku Tree]

Pretty sure Warpriest Challenge is to kill him by only having one Rune destroyed

aka 2 cycle him

aka do what everyone has been doing for months

aka wtf

Well my first prediction about the challenge modes for WP was correct.

Wonder if I'll got three for three. Can repost my predictions later from my post history.

 

[Sentinalprimus]

So is the 320 artifact a guaranteed drop?

Yes along with a 320 Harrowed Weapon and a 310 Normal weapon, plus a 310 artifact.

 

[17 Seconds]

Time? did the first one feel longer?

Two different gaze holders versus the same one twice?

Did the aura holder fully complete their count-downs each time? I.e. they didn't lose any cycles by killing two adds at once?

EDIT - reddit seems pretty convinced it's different gaze holders - would be interesting if you can confirm, or deny, that?

i don't remember if we did on the first one, but i do remember we had different holders on the 2nd one. actually, we had 3 separate holders on the successful run, because the holder died about 10 seconds before we killed the warpriest.

 

[DrDrizzay101]

Warpriest Challenge seems to be "use a different brand holder each time."

Might also require 2 cycles but not necessarily so. Also if a different person grabs the second brand but then dies (and it transferred to the person who grabbed the first brand) we didn't get the challenge drops.

Also, the Challenge chest can drop 310 exotics. Stabie got a 310 Bad Juju.

 

[17 Seconds]

Well my first prediction about the challenge modes for WP was correct.

Wonder if I'll got three for three. Can repost my predictions later from my post history.

2 cycling him seems to be irrelevant.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Damn fine rewards on challenge mode.

Anybody up for a raid?

 

[Unstable]

Warpriest Challenge seems to be "use a different brand holder each time."

Might also require 2 cycles but not necessarily so. Also if a different person grabs the second brand but then dies (and it transferred to the person who grabbed the first brand) we didn't get the challenge drops.

Also, the Challenge chest can drop 310 exotics. Stabie got a 310 Bad Juju.

I'm streaming our run right now. @ http://www.twitch.tv/unstablelive

 

[Auto_aim1]

Did Bungie make a mistake? I kinda think this wasn't supposed to go live so we are just doing 3x Warpriest just to be sure.

 

[Sentinalprimus]

Gonna be pretty great when the one item that will be the 'hardest' to get for 320 will be the class item.

 

[noomi]

Yes along with a 320 Harrowed Weapon and a 310 Normal weapon, plus a 310 artifact.

Alright, cool. Thanks.

Guess all my guardians will finally have a 320 artifact and a 320 weapon too.

 

[Sky Walker]

I thought we would be required to finish all the challenges and collect the fragments in order to get the 320 artifact but damn.

Damn fine rewards on challenge mode.

Anybody up for a raid?

Same here.

Psn skywalker_3li

 

[j2theizzay]

Damn fine rewards on challenge mode.

Anybody up for a raid?

I'll be down for one. PSN j2theizzay

 

[Robdraggoo]

I thought we would be required to finish all the challenges and collect the fragments in order to get the 320 artifact but damn.



Same here.

Psn skywalker_3li

Nice.

Kings fall raid, at least war priest for challenge

Need 4

 

[Deku Tree]

So if you beat WP without completing the challenge then you miss it until the next time that challenge is turned on?

 

[Robdraggoo]

I'll be down for one. PSN j2theizzay

Nice, now we need three more

 

[Lnkn52]

Nice.

Kings fall raid, at least war priest for challenge

Need 4

Nice, now we need three more

I'm down

 

[BreezyLimbo]

So if you beat WP without completing the challenge then you miss it until the next time that challenge is turned on?

You can redo it for the warpriest challenge. Confirmed by unstable and us

 

[Nuszka]

So people are getting excited? Wow. Enjoy your 15 minutes of "new" content.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Ok, so kf challenge mode.

Me
Skywalker eli
Lnkn
J2Theizzay
Nami
Bigmanny

 

[Namikaze1]

Ok, so kf challenge mode.

Me
Skywalker eli
Lnkn
Theizzay
Open
Open

Me.

Are we just doing Warpriest? That's all I really just want to do.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Me.

Are we just doing Warpriest? That's all I really just want to do.

Yes, perhaps even 3 times