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Destiny |OT39| Tainted Love
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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JohnOfMars
Banned
I agree about legendaries in general. Mew is special to me, mostly because of that story I shared, which I appreciate y'all indulging me on.
You've actually kinda answered a quandary I had. Been looking for a pick up and play mobile game I can play since my second kid is going to be born next month. I didn't even think about Pokemon. And I've never done a Nuzlocke before. Interesting. Thanks, kor.
Agent_Tiro
Member
Wow. Cathedral in elimination is a whole world of rubbish!!!
Edit and wow randoms in elimination are the worst people ever. Had everything from AFKers to dropping out straight away to just hiding in a corner till timer expires
Edit and wow randoms in elimination are the worst people ever. Had everything from AFKers to dropping out straight away to just hiding in a corner till timer expires
A lot of bosses leaving these days
waiting with anxiously bated breath
whom are we kidding? ain't gonna happen... :/
Waste of lungs lol
Eyasluna w/ Outlaw, Rifled Barrel, & Grenadier; w/ tier 5 discipline & hand cannon reloader gauntlets is real fun in PvE.
Anyone else tend to get the same weapon back to back when buying cryptarch engrams? Got my third dealbreaker in a row last night. Previously I've gotten two Hawksaws in a row.
Anyone else tend to get the same weapon back to back when buying cryptarch engrams? Got my third dealbreaker in a row last night. Previously I've gotten two Hawksaws in a row.
LunaticPuma
dresses business casual
Can gunsmith weapons drop from the Cryptarch engrams or is it only Vanguard items?
Gunsmith weapons cannot drop from engrams, nor can weapons that drop from crucible matches (Red Spectre, Eyasluna, etc.) Vanguard and Crucible QUARTERMASTER weapons can drop, along with any faction weapons.
DrDrizzay101
Member
LT is the new Nami. Top poster w 79 posts.
Strange days indeed. At least Deku is still sitting comfortably in his familiar #2 spot.
Strange days indeed. At least Deku is still sitting comfortably in his familiar #2 spot.
TheAquaticApe
Member
What is happening? Nami come back!
I still love you LT and we will do another lighthouse run
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I just clicked for the posting list, and because of how small the box that pops up is, I thought each person had hundreds of posts(I saw LTwood with 700)
I had to think for a second, click this topic to make sure it wasn't the last OT, and then close the box and reopen it.
It's too early in the morning..
lucebuce12
Member
So I just got Destiny: The Taken King. The only time I played Destiny was the demo over a year ago.
The update's gonna be done in an hour or two. Do you guys have any advice before I jump into this?
The update's gonna be done in an hour or two. Do you guys have any advice before I jump into this?
.....I should probably post less.
jmvmadeira
Member
Goes and solo the nightfall. 291 Hacksaw and a blue engram. Not even a legendary drop from valus
Goes into a crucible match. Arrives at the very end. Team winning. Manages 3 kills and 1 death. Easyluna at 295 as post match drop
Working as planned.
Goes into a crucible match. Arrives at the very end. Team winning. Manages 3 kills and 1 death. Easyluna at 295 as post match drop
Working as planned.
xplicitone
Member
This little story ties into Destiny:
So 11 days ago, I started this diet called Whole30. Quick overview: can't eat/drink anything with sugar, grains (rice/bread), no dairy (milk/cheese), nothing processed. Basically can only eat eggs, potatoes, fruits & veggies, and dark coffee. Meat/seafood is OK as long as it's not processed.
Being that I'm Filipino, I literally have never gone more than 4 consecutive meals without rice (yes, I've kept track. I had the sweats once when I went a full day + breakfast next day without rice). I even get my Chicken Wings to-go from Wing Stop or BWW so I can eat them with rice at home, or sneak some rice in, otherwise I'll seriously NOT enjoy wings AT ALL. Today, 31 meals so far without it. I had hot wings the other day with veggies and actually enjoyed it, so it's working.
My body is feeling better, I can see and sleep better, and I taste food more.
The interesting part to me is my vision. I used to not be able to see when a guardian had their super, but NOW I CAN!!! I don't know if it's a coincidence or from eating some carrots now or from this diet, or a combination, but I can finally see it! After ~1.5 years of playing this game I haz become legend.
20 days to go including today.
So 11 days ago, I started this diet called Whole30. Quick overview: can't eat/drink anything with sugar, grains (rice/bread), no dairy (milk/cheese), nothing processed. Basically can only eat eggs, potatoes, fruits & veggies, and dark coffee. Meat/seafood is OK as long as it's not processed.
Being that I'm Filipino, I literally have never gone more than 4 consecutive meals without rice (yes, I've kept track. I had the sweats once when I went a full day + breakfast next day without rice). I even get my Chicken Wings to-go from Wing Stop or BWW so I can eat them with rice at home, or sneak some rice in, otherwise I'll seriously NOT enjoy wings AT ALL. Today, 31 meals so far without it. I had hot wings the other day with veggies and actually enjoyed it, so it's working.
My body is feeling better, I can see and sleep better, and I taste food more.
The interesting part to me is my vision. I used to not be able to see when a guardian had their super, but NOW I CAN!!! I don't know if it's a coincidence or from eating some carrots now or from this diet, or a combination, but I can finally see it! After ~1.5 years of playing this game I haz become legend.
20 days to go including today.
Kor of Memory
Member
Don't use the XP leveler item. The game doesn't have a crazy amount of content, and you'd basically be gutting a fair portion of the PvE bits by using it.
Classes don't work like MMOs, just pick whichever one you think looks coolest.
The game does a decent job of introducing you to itself up until about Level 40, so you should be fine just going with the flow until you hit the level cap, and even then, until you get to about 250ish in Light Level.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Good stuff X! Keep it going! We should play Trials together again soon as well.
lucebuce12
Member
All right, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
btw, what's the situation with the PvP? Any particular level/point in the story I should reach before trying it out?
xplicitone
Member
Thanks Ape! For sure - as long as it's not Cathedral
Nice. Carry me to the lighthouse with that newfound vision, ok?
Hahaha we still need to redeem ourselves with Zoso after that final boss incident.
Wow that's awesome x. I really should probably do something like this. My diet and food habits are awful. I drink so much fucking Coke, and eat whatever the hell I want. Hell most mornings I put whip cream on a blue berry Eggo and head out the door. Somehow I'm still only 170 Ibs, but I'm tired all of the time.
I don't know exactly when todays maintenance starts, but chances are you won't be able to play (for long) when your update finishes. I think it's ~6 hours long.
Kor of Memory
Member
The game will introduce you to the PvP parts of the game very early, around level 3 or 4 I think.
Feel free to intermingle it into your regular play. I believe there is a quest early on that tries to get you to play 1 of each game type in PvP so you can experience each of the modes.
The Rules of the various PvP types are not very well explained in the game.
Note that weapons and armor is normalized in PvP, so if you see a level 40 in a match, don't worry too much about it. He doesn't have THAT much of an advantage over you. That said, chances are that level 40 does have better perks on their weapons/armor and has all the abilities of their subclass available to them.
Personaly, I would wait until around level 8 or 9. You'll notice in your subclass tree that there are two perks that are just "stat boosting" style perks. I'd wait until you have unlocked both of those before jumping in. Which should be about level 8, maybe 9.
TheAquaticApe
Member
I'm throwing salt at you right now. I went over to my girl's place for dinner last night. She made pasta and bought me a big ass brownie. I'll be dead in a year. Almost as dead as Destiny.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Crucible playlists don't become available until you hit level ~5 or somewhere around there. You can start playing as soon as they're available but you won't have all your subclass abilities which can make it a little tough when competing against fully leveled and geared players.
Your actual character level and light level don't matter in normal Crucible (i.e. you won't do less damage as a Lv5 when fighting a Lv40 player, and your weapons won't do less damage if they're blue instead of purple). But not having your full subclass tree unlocked and not having access to strong legendary or exotic weapons will still put you at somewhat of a disadvantage. Give it a try anyway if you're interested, there's no other way to get better. Just try not to get discouraged too quickly if you aren't dominating right away.
mmmmmmmmmmmm I consume pasta by the pound. We had a retirement lunch for someone at our office last week and I just kept eating pasta instead of eating the dessert.
Robdraggoo
Member
Hey guys. Was thinking about booting up again. I opened the app for the 1st time in a month and had to sign in. It says i have no characters. Is there something wrong with the app?
Maintenance until 2 pm Pacific.
Kor of Memory
Member
Down for maintenance.
Robdraggoo
Member
Thank god. Was worried for a second
Darknyss09
Member
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Maintenance again? Didn't they do it earlier this week?
lucebuce12
Member
All right, thanks for the advice everyone
nah, I'm good. Too busy playing better games and finding porn stashes in the woods these days.
And surviving some nightmares no sane person should be subjected to. Fuck those movies.
Anyway, haven't been in the mood to play destiny in a while. Felt as if I was forcing myself to do so lately, especially this reset. I may just do one last trials run with you and Todd or Igor this weekend for old times sake and clean out this vault of what little passage coins I have left.
There was some psn maintenance earlier in the week. This is Bungie specifically. Prepping for the February update next week.
TheAquaticApe
Member
How's your ankle? Doing any better?
Yes! Play some trials this weekend. Even if we don't make it to the Lighthouse I always have fun! Let's cross out fingers for a good map!
The next KF newbie raid will be Saturday 2/27, at 3:00PM EST. I know it's quite a bit in advance but feel free to PM me if you want to reserve a slot.
Possible we could set something up outside of the regular schedule before then too.
Congrats on the lil one
JohnOfMars
Banned
Ankle is much better. Monday night to mid Tuesday, shit hurt. Yesterday was much better. Could walk around without having to lean on to anything though I could still feel a dull pain. Today, I decided to take a walk just to stretch my legs since I was too tired of being stuck inside (it rained most of the day yesterday so I stayed indoors). Ended up finding some guy's porn stash in the woods nearby. Who still does this nowadays? Hell, who still has a VHS player nowadays?
Back on topic, I may do some trials. Need a break from revisiting Dark Souls. Thinking about buying Dark Souls 2 from that psn sale going on right now since I never got to beat it when I rented it a month after it first came out for the 360.
Kor of Memory
Member
What did you do to your ankle?
I made the mistake of hurting myself Sunday morning. See my hashbrown wasn't cooperating with my fork, so I tried scooting my hashbrown off the side of my plate with the fork, in order to bite down on it that way.
Little did I know that my fork had slide under said hashbrown and that I was about to chomp down with full force onto said fork.
You can see this white square where I cracked the shit out of my tooth.
http://i.imgur.com/ojjK6Vn.jpg
Had to have it drilled out and filled Monday morning. Still feels senstive, and I'm afraid that'll never go away now.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Hold him to that if he gets cranky
AWWW. Colonel!
It's true though. I can get salty on bad Trials runs. I'm working on it.
I don't know what the hell happened. I'm standing outside the car, leaning in to pick up a carton of eggs. I hear my name being called so I pull back and just turn my head towards my brother. Not once did I ever take my feet off the ground. Just as I turn back to the eggs, my right foot says fuck it. I find myself barely holding on to the car door. Don't know what the hell happened. It wasn't even from slipping on snow since there wasn't none where I stood.What did you do to your ankle?
I made the mistake of hurting myself Sunday morning. See my hashbrown wasn't cooperating with my fork, so I tried scooting my hashbrown off the side of my plate with the fork, in order to bite down on it that way.
Little did I know that my fork had slide under said hashbrown and that I was about to chomp down with full force onto said fork.
You can see this white square where I cracked the shit out of my tooth.
http://i.imgur.com/ojjK6Vn.jpg
Had to have it drilled out and filled Monday morning. Still feels senstive, and I'm afraid that'll never go away now.
Sounds good to me!
We'll definitely have to play the next time doctrine is the weapon drop, that's the only weapon I'd like to get.
Kor of Memory
Member
Well, I can tell you right now that my brain tells my ankle to roll itself whenever it gets bored.
I probably roll my ankle about once every week or so.
Stupid Brain. Do your damn job!
Agent_Tiro
Member
Anyone else had an experience in crucible where someone is clearly lagging but still showing green bar? Seems to be happening a lot more often since this cbmm update has been spreading out to other playlists
That sucks. Ankles suck. Mine was fractured last year when all the snow was on the ground, and walking outside in the city was like avoiding landmines with all the hidden ice patches, hidden curbs, snowbanks that you weren't sure how densely they were packed. At least the streets are clear right now.
I play and have played a ton of basketball, which is murder on the ankles. Ive had a full break and a fracture in separate ankles in the last 5 years. I'm worried about when I get older.
Seeing this more and more.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Someone on Reddit had a theory that they lowered the standards to display a green bar. I see folks lagging and their connection seems fine. Bungie gonna Bungie.
I was actually wondering if the scale for what's green/yellow/red is relative to the overall player pool it's pulling from at a given time. So with the population being down considerably right now, green just means "this is the best we can do." This makes more sense to me than them actively going in and changing what qualifies as a green.
rasengan1337
Member
well, politicians do it nowadays, why not Bungie?
oh, well, yellow bars were >100ms ping? well, let's up that to >175ms ping
lower the standard so that the statistics sound better.