igordennis
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Drizzay get in here.
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Destiny |OT40| Killed by the Architects
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Drizzay get in here.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Okie doke, gimme 2 min
haha yeah everybody has the same problem on this map. It's just so damn open. It's more like planes of sight instead of lines of sight. I mean Frontier is a Rift map so I'm not sure why they keep using it in Trials, but there are still some tips to learn. We can talk about it more in a bit, I'll try to finish off this card with John first.
Right on, that sounds good. Haven't seen X or anyone else respond so not sure if we'd have a 3rd. If it gets too late and you're tired from the travelling then no worries, we could always run some tomorrow night if schedules work better then. We can play it by ear for now.
Of course! Anybody around here is welcome to add me. PSN is DrDrizzay101. Sometimes it's tricky to coordinate schedules for Trials but I'm down to play with anyone and I'm sure timing will work out eventually.
xplicitone
Member
I'm game to run Axo tonight
igordennis
Member
There's not enough tips for this map. Fucking krafty did single carries today for the first time since trials LAUNCHED because this map is so open and even he cant control angles like that.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
So anyone want to do anything, I'm bored...
4-0 Trial Card
Need KF x3
Need NF x3
Anyone ;(
4-0 Trial Card
Need KF x3
Need NF x3
Anyone ;(
Night_Knight
Unconfirmed Member
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I still need a couple NFs, but we may want a third.
Ballistic
Member
I can run the NF with ya. Psn ballistic911
xplicitone
Member
Axo and I are ready and we're just warming up on the pvp daily
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Woof. 8-1. Frontier is a tough map & that was by far the sweatiest card I've ever run. Those 13 games over 1.5 cards had the highest ELOs I've ever seen outside of final bosses. (And the single lowest, a team average of 897.)
Didn't reach Mercury, but Drizz put the good spin on it. The more often you're in the sweaty matches, the better you get. And that's what I want.
Thanks for running it with me, Drizz & Igor. Praying for a better map next week.
Didn't reach Mercury, but Drizz put the good spin on it. The more often you're in the sweaty matches, the better you get. And that's what I want.
Thanks for running it with me, Drizz & Igor. Praying for a better map next week.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Hey dude, sorry to bail but I really don't think this is a good map to help with first timers. Like you posted before it's just so damn open and exposed everywhere it's really hard for me to give good call-outs or advice about positioning because you can get shot from so many different places. We'll definitely get you in there again soon though. Hopefully next week gives us something a little more moderate to work with, not as cramped as Asylum but not as open as Frontier. Sorry again.
okie doke, gimme a few min. Just finished three sweaty ass games, two of which were 4-5 losses so I need a minute to process the rage, haha.
Night_Knight
Unconfirmed Member
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igordennis
Member
You are right drizz, Frontier is like the opposite of Asylum which is cramped and grenade spam reigns and instead is super open so you can get shot from literally any spot of the map. Both are super bad maps for trials for those reasons. Frontier is just marginally above Asylum for me. Ugh cant we have a good map Bungie please.
you guys ever watch Fumas? W O W. SO FAST.
https://www.twitch.tv/ifumas
Watching him now. Reminds me of Unstable when he's flying around the map.
Amazing.
PS: Fusion rifle
https://www.twitch.tv/ifumas
Watching him now. Reminds me of Unstable when he's flying around the map.
Amazing.
PS: Fusion rifle
xplicitone
Member
No worries man. It's not a good map for Trials. The more I play it the more I don't like it. Unlike most year 1 non Rift maps, that grew on me each time. I can only hope they design more trials / skirmish 3v3 maps in the future.
I had fun. I played for like 6 hours with 2 different lfg groups all night yesterday and it's refreshing to play with our community again. I'm not sweating this map anymore since I know how bad it is so now just hoping for a better one next week.
And we beat some pretty good teams today.
mehrmantrout
Member
This isn't a dig at Tyler but he rarely played the game post TTK, they really need to have open Beta weekends but that would mean they stop the drip feed of information. Or actually update the game regularly instead of this bi-annual nerf/buff cycle nonsense
Reagan's BR
Banned
Thought I would post this here as well as on the gaming side:
Marty O'Donnell, composer of Destiny, Halo, and Myth, is developing a musical "prequel" to the upcoming PSVR title Golem. Really cool project. I'm hoping this project meets the $45,000 goal. Marty's music is fantastic and helped shape both Halo and Destiny. I thought GAF might be interested in this project.
Kickstarter Link
Golem - Highwire Games
Marty O'Donnell, composer of Destiny, Halo, and Myth, is developing a musical "prequel" to the upcoming PSVR title Golem. Really cool project. I'm hoping this project meets the $45,000 goal. Marty's music is fantastic and helped shape both Halo and Destiny. I thought GAF might be interested in this project.
Kickstarter Link
Golem - Highwire Games
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Have you given a thought to what will you do once they nerf firebolts and stormcallers?
xplicitone
Member
I'll check this out tomorrow, thanks
mehrmantrout
Member
Have you given a thought to what will you do once then nerf firebolts and stormcallers?
Like all great players we adapt and move on
I don't think Sunsingers will be getting the nerf everyones looking for. Stormcallers, transcendence definitely needs nerfing but I don't use it as pulsewave is too OP
Slammin_Hammon
Member
My friends list says that FyreWulff is playing a private test build as well. Interesting.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
FYREWULFF WAS AN INSIDER THIS WHOLE TIME!?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Been awhile..
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Enjoying DS3?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Cant wait for you guys to play it. Also cant wait to replay it in English as well.
DrDrizzay101
Member
GGs gentlemen! They were fun games, but I'm super over this map. Like X said, it was decent at first but my opinion has gone down the more I played it. I played a bunch Friday, medium amount Saturday and a little bit today so 0 games Monday sounds about right. Fingers crossed for a good map next week.
Exodus Blue is always good. Timekeeper might be interesting. I wouldn't mind Anomaly or Cauldron again, even Pantheon. I'd love to see Shores of Time make an appearance even if it might be way too big.
Honestly there aren't many maps well suited for Trials. Burning Shrine has been done to death. Widow's Court is pretty played out after 5 appearances. Rusted Lands and Firebase Delphi are legit, Black Shield is alright. But Blind Watch and Thieve's Den are garbage tier. The Combined Arms trio of Bastion/First Light/Skyshock is obviously out.
Most year 2 maps were clearly made for Rift and don't play well at all in Elimination (Bannerfall, Frontier, Memento, Sector 618, Vertigo, Cathedral of Dusk). Drifter is best by default since it's appropriate 3v3 size, but it has the Thieve's Den tube problem. Dungeons is good for Control but probably not Trials. I don't know wtf Crossroads is supposed to be. Pretty slim pickings.
EJRobinson90
Member
I'd go for Cauldron. Got a bit bored yesterday, had to move out of my comfort zone and pulled out a shotgun. Funny to see that lots of teams can't handle a rushing team.
DrDrizzay101
Member
So...
I've been playing Destiny for about 6 months and I'm addicted. My goal is to collect all the trophies in the PS4 version.
So far I have not been able to participate in any Raid. As always, GAF is here to help, with the Weekly Newbie Raids. I can only play on Sundays and these are held on Sundays every 4 weeks.
Do you guys know when it's the next Sunday that will have Newbie Raids so I can join?
THANK YOU!
If we can figure out a schedule that works for everyone I'm happy to help with any newbies interested in raiding.
Welp, beat the TK and a bit of the post launch quests. At Light 282, and I guess I'm trying to get higher...? There are some good improvements here in TK over Vanilla, mainly, with how much more 'stuff' there is to do. It's mostly grind, but I guess that's what it comes to with these faux mmo/arpg's.
Gunplay is still great. Fantastic, really. Also, you forget how much you like the fantastical armor and weapon design when coming off something like The Division.
So do vendors only sell 280 gear? Is it the same thing with Xur? I guess the name of the game now is infusion? I've gotten some higher lvl blues from the rng, moreso than I have purples, but I'm curious as to what causes what in the infusion process. If I have a lvl280 purple cloak that I like better because of reasons, and I infuse it with a lvl285 blue, does that bring the cloak to lvl285?
As far as content goes, I kind of wish there was more matchmaking options. I'm surprised there's no raid or daily story matchmaking. I know Bungie said that teammates need communication for the harder stuff, but I think FF14 gets around this pretty well (outside of Savage, which I've never tried to do). It's a shame that there's no option there just to try it.
Maybe next weekend I'll ask around here and see if one or two pros can run me through the vault of glass,
Yeah, sadly the vendors and Xur only sell 280 gear so anything you buy has to be infused up. Blues can actually drop up to 300 Light but they can't be infused themselves so you can put them into a Legendary that you like. Legendaries get a minimum of 6 light from infusion, exotic items get a minimum of 4.
So in your example infusing a 285 into a 280 purple cloak would bring that cloak up to 285. But let's say you had a 280 exotic weapon, it would only go to 284 light if you used that same 285 blue. Personally I wouldn't bother infusing that small amount, just wait until you get a higher light item so you can make a bigger jump at once. You can use the following website to calculate exactly how much you'd get from any given infusion:
http://www.destinyinfused.com/
The game is so dead that it's pretty tough to group up for much of anything around here nowadays but if we can find enough people and schedules work out I'm happy to help newbie raid. Maybe you can group up with the people I quoted above, we'll just play it by ear.
MandrakeUK
Member
Not exactly true. He may not have grouped up much in the OT but I played with his regular raid group a few times and they did KF every Tuesday night for months after TTK launched.
mehrmantrout
Member
I meant hardly compared to the rest of us idiots, he stopped playing in November then came back for a bit in Feb
The general point still stands, whatever the result of this update we'll be stuck with it till the next expansion, why not have an open beta weekend where they can get better data/feedback
I'm so glad the endgame will be PoE now. After like 6 months and still having not done kingsfall, it will be nice to be able to participate without back hand knowledge of confusing mechanics and needing that damn ToM. Of course I'll still need to somehow get to 320 first, I hope the PoE with matchmaking will be sufficient enough to get me there on its own.
In the meantime, I wanna try get the raid done for the first time. Anyone wanna help? I'm like 309 light.
In the meantime, I wanna try get the raid done for the first time. Anyone wanna help? I'm like 309 light.
Hopefully this is only the beginning.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyThe...iance_duration_to_be_reduced_in_april_update/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyThe...iance_duration_to_be_reduced_in_april_update/
That sucks, I bet they didn't think about PVE when making that change.
A nerf no one has ever asked for, sounds like Bungie.
More coming soon (TM)
mehrmantrout
Member
I'll do some, I'm just logging on
With you we already have 3 (or 4?) newbies for kings fall. Shouldn't be hard to find 2 or 3 helpers in the next week to get you guys through it. Depending on the time I can help. You can also pick up the calcified fragments for the ToM quest. KF has 5 fragments to pick up with an additional 3 awarded for every challenge mode.
Of course not, pvp balancing always screws up pve things
Radiance duration didn't really strike me as a problem... The only thing I would have changed is firebolt grenade and the melee overshield on hit.Can't wait for Iron Banner tomorrow.
I have no doubt they'll completely ruin Sunsinger (i've already started playing other classes in preperation), they're so heavy handed with everything.
People will be real happy, until they realise their Shadestep and Smoke bombs are next on the chopping board lol.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Lower your light level down to 290 or so, you'll have a better chance of finding randoms.
Thing that needs a duration nerf: Stormtrance
Thing that gets the duration nerf: Radiance
Bungle gonna bungle.
With you we already have 3 (or 4?) newbies for kings fall. Shouldn't be hard to find 2 or 3 helpers in the next week to get you guys through it. Depending on the time I can help. You can also pick up the calcified fragments for the ToM quest. KF has 5 fragments to pick up with an additional 3 awarded for every challenge mode.
Of course not, pvp balancing always screws up pve things
Can't wait for Iron Banner tomorrow.
Yes, it's a horrible, horrible trend.
It always boggles me that Bungie only buff small degrees, but when it comes to nerfs, the nukes are called in. That's why it bugs me that people keep asking for nerfs.
igordennis
Member
Yessss.gif
Not the nerf that it needed but a start nonetheless. Now where's the arcblade buff that makes it actually work bungie.
mehrmantrout
Member
Wombo combo is by far the most OP thing in the game, if they're nerfing supers I'd also half the radius of fist of havoc (vertically) and its invincibility frames
Need one to join me, feetie, EJ, pew and blaze for some gaf on gaf
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I mean.
I know I got some heat for calling for the restructuring of Bungie and exodus of employees working on the game.
But really? They're going to hurt PvE radiance? They're going to kill the builds that aren't dependent on revive? Really? Fucking really? And once again they won't balance separately for PvE and PvP and just hurt everyone?
I don't know what to say. Bungie is fucking up at every turn. It's like any good will they got from doing the stream and announcing an April update is now being siphoned by their inept ability to balance properly.
xplicitone
Member
Reading through my old Facebook message group with 2 other IRL friends that hasn't been active for 487 days (sad face)
Good times when we were excited for Xur, the weekly and daily, and Atheon Hard cheese on October 2014.
We got him to fall and I ended up with 2 kills and 150+ deaths Hahaha.
Also, my friend got Helm of Saint 14 and was upset since he has to use defender instead of striker and thought the Blind was only useful for confluxes and would rather have raid helm Hahaha. Good times.
Good times when we were excited for Xur, the weekly and daily, and Atheon Hard cheese on October 2014.
We got him to fall and I ended up with 2 kills and 150+ deaths Hahaha.
Also, my friend got Helm of Saint 14 and was upset since he has to use defender instead of striker and thought the Blind was only useful for confluxes and would rather have raid helm Hahaha. Good times.