Man. I still don't have a single 335. Although, all 3 can be 334. PvP loadouts are between 329-333.
I only have 1 335 helmet and no 335 ghosts.
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Destiny |OT41| Don't Worry, Leave Happy
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Man. I still don't have a single 335. Although, all 3 can be 334. PvP loadouts are between 329-333.
I only have 1 335 helmet and no 335 ghosts.
So, with Etheric Light being a huge success with the fanbase and their greatest upgrade system to date, why did they take a step backwards changing it to the original wonky infusion system? They definitely didn't react to that one.
It's because Luke Smith was overseeing TTK and they already had it all planned out with a separate team from HoW.
CoE, farm it. That is the best place to get ghosts.
Sitting on about 9 335 ghosts, each alt has 2 335 helms and a spare on in the vault.
maybe easier for them to leave y1 completely behind, they wanted to get rid of elemental primaries. Zhalo accidently made it through. Bungie hates fun. (Kidding, but it does seem that way)
I can't remember from their interviews, but my take on Infusion vs Etheric and why they changed it would be:
They probably felt Etheric Light took too long to "kick in". We remember Etheric Light as a great instant max level for all our vaulted gear, but for non-endgame players, Etheric Light basically didn't exist, because Etheric Light only dropped guaranteed from endgame content. It also didn't help the gun/gear mid-range economy because once you got your VoC and all that, people tended to never change the loadouts.
Infusion makes it so you get progressed upwards in power as you go, from just playing the game in any activity, not just specific endgame ones. I think the idea here is that you get pulled up to end game competitive from just playing the game, slowly but surely. It also helps the gun and armor economy because now if you get a gun or armor you don't like, they're at least useful for leveling up your current gear (a choice) instead of just being "blue = dismantle". It's Etheric, but shows up earlier, and encourages more churn and keeps the player's mat economy flowing.
They also gave it a "crumple zone", where technically the max light was above the highest end game light level, so you didn't need ALL of your gear to be max like Etheric Light did to be optimal for the end game. This was undone for the HM Raid update, though.
However, where it failed was that since infusion had a formula, the economy slowed down because we started hanging on to stepping-stone Legendaries so that we could optimally infuse up. This slowed down how many marks were passively gained from just playing the game and stuff up vaults and player inventory. The latest update putting it to 1:1 got rid of the need to hold the stepping stones and makes it more viable to experiment with multiple loadouts again. They also re-introduced the crumple zone with 335 being the max but 330 being the highest light anything is in the game. Legendary Marks flow more freely and we have more choice in where we play the end game.
A large amount of things were direct reactions to Dark Below and House of Wolves. Notably, House of Wolves proved that the playerbase liked and could handle raid-like mechanics outside of the Raid environment. It also proved that people preferred more raid-lite strikes than health bar sponges. Without House of Wolves being successful we wouldn't have the Vex Washing Machine strike. They didn't know how people would react to HoW and they don't assume any content will be accepted automatically as great; they're harder on themselves than most of the internet is on them.
CrudeDiatribe
Member
Yeah, it's how you keep gear you like useful for the content you're doing.
Played with someone the other night who didn't seem to know about it:
"I hate this hand cannon"
"Why are you using it?"
"I don't have another gun that's this high in light level"
Mamont1537
Member
Where can I get a 320+ artifact?
That thing has the lowest light on my character. Do I have to just hope for a lucky RNG drop?
That thing has the lowest light on my character. Do I have to just hope for a lucky RNG drop?
xplicitone
Member
You can either run the Hard Challenge Mode King's Fall (Oryx this week) or Court of Oryx using Tier 3 rune. Both will give you ~5+ what your current overall light is. So if you're like 322, you'll get around a 327 artifact, I believe. I think it's +1 to +6 for the actual range but it seems to be heavily catered towards the higher part of that range.
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Tier 3 court of oryx will drop them like candy, depending on your own light level. Tier 2 can drop them as well, but much less frequently.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
i made it to level 31 with my titan guys, i'm warming up to this game but it's so fucking weird in some parts, it kinda blows my mind that the multiplayer it's not separate from the single player.
What's fucking weird?
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
the fact that the single player and multiplayer feed off each other, every other triple AAA i have played keeps the modes separate. I dunno i just find it peculiar.
It's a curse and a blessing, really.
NeOak
Member
You never played Borderlands, did you?
Borderlands doesn't have competitive MP like this game. Borderlands also didn't nerf awesome weapons that were fun to use.
NeOak
Member
PM Hawkian
LunaticLMD
Member
Anyone want to run the nf?
This OT is presented due to the invaluable efforts of Lnkn52 and JohnOfMars, who provided graphics, writing, and collected stats from across the web.
My sincerest thanks also to all those throughout DestinyGAF who provided stories, images, and videos.
Special recognition is due to Macello as well, for taking the intiative to set up a fund for our contributions and have the "Guardian Angel" bouquet delieverd.
Finally, a shout-out to DeathJr, Unstable and all others who championed the close runner-up for the title of this thread, a dumb pun that Drizz would've loved: "The Doctor is Out."
This thread is a celebration of Dr. Drizzay's life and the immesurable impact he had on our community.
My sincerest thanks also to all those throughout DestinyGAF who provided stories, images, and videos.
Special recognition is due to Macello as well, for taking the intiative to set up a fund for our contributions and have the "Guardian Angel" bouquet delieverd.
Finally, a shout-out to DeathJr, Unstable and all others who championed the close runner-up for the title of this thread, a dumb pun that Drizz would've loved: "The Doctor is Out."
This thread is a celebration of Dr. Drizzay's life and the immesurable impact he had on our community.
No corner of our community was untouched by his legacy.
Here are some collected stories and memories- still a mere fraction of the times we had.
(presented in alphabetical order by username)
Here are some collected stories and memories- still a mere fraction of the times we had.
(presented in alphabetical order by username)
Biggy70686 said:Like many of you on DGAF I'm in awe of Drizzay's contribution to the community, His commitment to help each and every guardian with whatever activity they requested is phenomenal. I'm thankful to be part of this great community and to have met such a great kind soul.
You've inspired me to reach out and help the community.
R.I.P Allen Carr Mackey AKA DrDrizzay101
Chucker said:
Dave_6 said:My last interaction with him was a couple months ago about him running my account in Trials. I knew he was a nice guy but to do something like this for me and so many others with no questions asked is out of the ordinary these days. I knew I didn't have to worry about him doing something stupid like deleting one of my characters or stealing any of my account info either. Well an hour later I get this screenshot sent to me from him:
Needless to say I was super excited. I had been chasing a Doctrine for weeks and just didn't have the skills to get it myself. I will never delete the loot I got from this and I will never forget how much Drizzay did for us and the Destiny community in general.
RIP man, you will be sorely missed by so many...
deafmedal1 said:Almost all of my playtimes with Doc were raid related, especially VoG- I'm fairly sure the last time we were partied up we waxed poetic about VoG and how it was a shame it was left behind, forever lost in the dark corners of time.
Anywho, on a fateful night, on the Ides of March in '15 a group popped up here to do a run. Doc, ocean, Xion, Majik, lunlun and I... This was during the great G'horn drought. Always was great playing with someone who didn't have one when they finally got it. Xion was one such person and his reaction was fanfuckingtastic! Dude was crying and sooooo fucking happy, it was awesome to be a part of that. We actually did a "throwback" run, where we all rocked as much VoG gear as we could (I still do this!) and it was just pure fun
Link to page group formed, make sure to check out post 407 on the next page for a not as good written announcement by Xion
Very nostalgic reading those two pages.
Bonus:
Of course, I will always cherish our HM VoG Flawless- everyone told me I was crazy and it would be too hard. Not with the pros in that fire team
Duebrithil said:
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Frostburn said:One of my most random and fondest memories of Drizzy is him sharing HM Gorgon's checkpoint while on his Vita and me on my fresh level 30 Titan I leveled super fast not being able to jump up to the cave opening correctly. He immediately took to the DGAF thread to make fun of me about it.
And my reply:Boguester said:
Just a random moment in time with one of the best of DestinyGAF.This guy just hit 20 then 30 last week. I'm a Titan n00b
/titanexcuses
GlamFM said:
GraveRobberX said:
GutZ31 said:
Hawkian said:I spent a long time trying to come up with the "best" or "most epic" Drizzay story I had, but then decided just to settle on the first one that came to mind, because it was so him.
A newbie who had never done Skolas before posted looking for help with it. Through serendipity both he and I offered to assist; I joked as soon as we we in the fireteam that our new friend was really getting the all-star treatment here. Surefire success was our only outcome, of course.
We tore through the Prison of Elders and left Skolas a smoldering hole in the ground. I'm sure this was Drizz's 85th time killing him or something. This was just after the shotgun nerf, so we were sliding around struggling to get kills on yellow enemies that would've been cake the day before.
But Drizz didn't complain about that in our party chat. No, almost every word I remember about our run both during and after was praise and advice for this newbie we ran we. He couldn't stop talking about how well he did and what a great kill it was for a first-timer. It stuck with me as exactly 100% the way new players deserve to be treated when they come to our community for help, and putting it into my own practice helping others is the way I'll make sure to never forget the lesson.
Hypermusic said:Hi,
Mine isn't some big story or the like, but I remember it fondly.
As usual with IB and GAF we ended up together in a team. One match he ended up finishing below me and as I'm fairly bad at PvP, I said it was an insult to finish below me:
He laughed and said he'd rectify that next time. It was all banter and I said "sure". This was the next time we played:
I was so busy laughing and so was he. It was just an absolute pleasure being in his company, and my only regret is I didn't have the opportunity to play more Destiny with him more.
My best, K.
igordennis said:My story with drizzay is -as you would expect from me- a trials match. We played thousands together but some of them stand out, some were exhilarating, some were incredibly depressing to the point it made me and him not play destiny for a week, some were absolutely hilarious, and some made us feel at the top of the world. But most of all, all of them were fun.
And not even because of the game itself, but because of who i was playing it with. If you ever played trials with him you'll know what i'm talking about. His presence gave an incredible sense of safety and confidence, he made everything seem possible. Yes, even a 0-4 comeback against a team with 3 supers. I have played with a lot of players that had better stats than him but this warm "aura" was unique to him.
And so, one of the highlights of my trials memories with him is a particular match on frontier. If you know me by now, you know how much i hate frontier. But it was only after this weekend that i started disliking the map. But certainly not because of this match that I'm talking about, no.
This match...was a match at the end of friday. Me and him had (as frenden would put it) been poop-socking it that day and were playing trials on that god forsaken map for 8+ hours. We played 60+ matches that day, something like 6 or 7 successful cards, more than half of them being us helping weaker players. And so it was a marathon, we didn't set off the session planning on doing one but it ended up becoming one because of our enjoyment of it. Especially helping weaker players get to the mythical (and ever harder to get) lighthouse. Me and drizz agreed on this fact of Destiny: there is nothing more rewarding that this game offers than helping someone get to mercury. Or as he put it, "deflowering mergins (mercury virgins)".
And so this match was at the end of this marathon, the very last card. It was almost 3 am for me and we were tired but playing as focused as ever. Because this one, like i said, was helping a mercury virgin. And the stakes were higher than ever, this was final boss and we had lost our mercy earlier to a really good team so this was gonna be make or break. And since it was our last match of the last card for the day it would also either make us sleep really bad or make us sleep like a baby. Ending the day on a loss as painful as this one would be really fucks you up, me and Drizz absolutely hated ending the day on that note. It makes you forget all that you accomplished earlier that day (which was a lot) and all that is left ringing in loud tones on your mind as you fall asleep is that sour loss.
Our third was mercury virgin foxehkins, to be honest I'm not even sure if he is a gaffer, i don't think he is. All i know is he came asking for Drizz for help and, of course, Drizz offered a hand. Anyway, this was as sweaty as a final boss could be, really good team, self-rezzing warlocks, bullshit firebolts, extremely slow match, the other team abusing the cheese spots on the awful map that is Frontier, all that mess.
So we lose the first round (don't know how because it didn't record it). We lose the second round because they abuse the cheese spot on the map to get a pick on me and collapse on us. But in turn we win the next round because we punish that guy cheesing that spot by getting a pick. This guy self rezzes and after a lot of scramble and 8 kills for our team and only 3 for the enemy team we manage to close out the round. 1-2
The next round goes all the way to cap zone and when everyone starts moving there i manage to get two down, kill the last guy as he gets a revive and the revived guy dies soon after. 2-2. Next round they start by getting a pick on our carry but me and drizz manage to play off of it and win the round, 3-2.
Next round, things start derailing. We use all of supers, they use two of their smashes and i died to an unfortunate really long range shockwave. 3-3. We lose the next round because i shot a guy's neck instead of his head and get picked off. 3-4. We were kinda hopeless at this point.
On the next round i appropriately shoot their heads and win the sniper battle to get all 3 of them down, but the warlock self-rezzes while i wasn't watching and prolongs the round while getting all 3 of them up and our carry being dead. Me and drizz fall back and make plans for the cap zone. We manage to win that round by me sniping a guy, drizz sniping another one and me trading with a smash. 4-4.
Last round, drizzay gets a pick, and we push, he uses his blade but gets smashed (expected), so i use mine and kill two of them. One guy standing on their side, all 3 on our side. Drizz closes out the match by sniping him. We win. The famous "LETS FUCKING GO" is appropriately yelled some 4 times as loud as drizz could. I celebrate with him and we spend some 5 minutes stretching and making some weird (almost orgasmic) noises of relief as we go to our final destination, Mercury.
The night is closed out on a bright note and me and drizz have a late night talk for like an hour about trials and various stuff. This is one of my best and most cherished memories with him.
I saved the video but it doesn't have voice. But when we won, that was the most hype i ever saw him. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr3txbuEU0c
I will forever miss what he brought to this game, which was something unique and very personal. Rest assured, 20 years from now when I'm logging off for the last time on Destiny 4 or whatever, the person i will be thinking of is going to be none other than DrDrizzay101, or as he signed it to me on a PM:
Jinjo said:I can only hope to leave a fraction of the impact he had on this community. I played with him throughout my entire Destiny adventures from almost the beginning, whenever he was in your group you knew you'd succeed. A great Guardian and an unbelievable kind and fun person. It is no surprise why he was so truly loved by the community. If there ever was a true Iron Lord, it was him. May he look upon us from the Traveler in the sky during the rest our adventures. Rest in peace, Guardian.
Kalamari said:
Klyka said:
LiK said:My best memory was when we got the Flawless Raider trophy together. This was in early November 2014 during the first year of Destiny. We spent literally 2 weeks in VOG trying to get it through all the glitches and accidental deaths by various Gaffers who grouped with us. It was quite a struggle and when we finally did it, it was an amazing feeling. I still remember how excited he was when we finally got it. He screamed with such relief and we finally got to sleep well. He was such a nice guy and we would have great conversations together. He was one of my bros in Destiny and was always nice to me. And when we got frustrated with the game for whatever reasons, we had some good laughs anyway. I will never forget him. He was a good dude.
RIP, my friend. You were the best in DGAF.
This screenshot was when I finally got the trophy and I'm happy Drizzay is in it:
Lnkn52 said:Drizzay helped me achieve the impossible in Destiny.
But one thing that he and I shared was trying to make the OT nice and spiffy. I will miss the collaboration, I will miss my fan, I will miss my dear friend.
LTWood12 said:
Macello said:
Mass Appeal said:
Namikaze1 said:I remember my raid group got stuck at Oryx for a long while and weekly reset was coming. We wanted to get our first Oryx kill before the raid reset for its very first time (this was during KF's first weekend) and some of us couldn't make it. I ended up joining a few others who got stuck at Oryx as well Saturday morning. Drizzay offered to help us out since he already cleared it. It took us 90 minutes on the Oryx encounter alone but we managed to bring down the king. I stuck around with Drizz that day for a second run. He ended up helping a couple more groups beat Oryx that weekend. Dude was always helping out others. Rest in peace, good doctor.
Marvel
could never
I accidently dismantled mine mid-raid instead of infusing it lol. Luckily I have the Scout Rifle though.
DrDrizzay101
Member
You have been added to the PSN Community!
Although be warned that afaik it's not used very often. The group has nearly 500 members but I don't personally know of anyone that uses it for LFG or anything else really.
Mamont1537
Member
Thanks for help!
I'm 327, so I'll just farm Court for a bit when I have free time.
xplicitone
Member
You should get at least a 330 Artifact if you use a Tier 3 rune. When you use a rune, you're guaranteed an artifact and one that is at least 328.
Communities seems like one of those neat ideas but I don't see any use out of any of them, really. Sony needs to make them easier to check / flow in the UI.
Agent_Tiro
Member
I forgot they even existed
It was a nice idea, but it was poorly implemented.
The UI is bad.
It's much easier to do community stuff on a phone or tablet or computer, they should have spent time integrating the communities into their PSN app.
Nobody want's to be spammed with community notifications while your playing a game.
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Biggy and Manny and Manny's kid are in this guy's montage at 4:28 and 10:22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw2aARwOh5Y
Zoso Achilles
Member
The Destiny art stream was pretty interesting.
xplicitone
Member
Homeboyd told me they're looking for a 6th tonight
We're planning to run one this evening and need a 6th if you want. Won't be til around 8 est I think though.
Edit: WOW beaten
DrDrizzay101
Member
Yeah, it was pretty neat. It's not as exciting as big new content reveals but I really hope they keep doing more stuff like this during the down times. Game design is so complex that I love to learn more about all the different specialties, like that great audio team vidoc they released earlier. Personally I'd love to get some of the raid team on stream to talk about how they design encounters, how it fits into the lore, how it connects (or doesn't) to broader parts of the game, etc.
I couldn't watch it. Care to share some info you found interesting?
Don't lie Drizzay you're just a theme junkie looking for that answer after Luke ignored even our OT title asking for it
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
You can watch it on their twitch channel and they will link it in their blog post as well.
There were details about how and where they drew inspiration for weapons and character designs, which were very interesting.
Yep, 4 hours from now.
Pandora012
Member
Ugh of course I miss out on a raid.....
*Hobbles back to Dark Souls*
*Hobbles back to Dark Souls*
Awesome. See you then.
It's been hard to find people to raid. Tried yesterday with no luck, and it was reset day (I blame Naughty Dog). I definitely wouldn't mind doing more Oryx CP later in the week.
Thanks, I'll check it out if I get time.
It sounds like they are doing that next week, at least for Kings Fall. Would be nice to have one for VoG and Crota.
Raid Along: Kings Fall
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
Watch us confront our own demons. Bungie devs will face Oryx in his final form. A designer and a storyteller will provide expert commentary from the safety of a couch on the encounters and the lore that define the pinnacle experience in The Taken King.
TheAquaticApe
Member
I would love this too. Especially learning how they came up with the Golgoroth challenge. I really did enjoy doing that encounter the proper way until the CM came out.
Pandora012
Member
If you do, keep me in mind. Haven't raided in a bit.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Yeah? I have one in the Vault with Rifled. I guess I should give it a whirl.
Mamont1537
Member
CoE points run or some Court of Oryx farm anyone?
DrDrizzay101
Member
Don't lie Drizzay you're just a theme junkie looking for that answer after Luke ignored even our OT title asking for it
lol I can't deny that. It's funny that I've now had multiple chances to ask Dan Miller about the theme but blown it each time. Obviously I'm biased but that's probably my favorite OT title. There have been a lot of good ones (hard to argue with "0.04% of the 4%"), but that title made me laugh because it was stupid and failed its mission**. A good reminder to not take OT titles too seriously when we've had a few that generated a lot of silly, toxic posts.
It also met your excellent criteria that the titles should serve as a snapshot of the game's chronology, since that OT game out when most people had exhausted the TTK content and were starting the "critical evaluation" period. That point may have been lost on people who thought it was just about baiting out a response.
**My conspiracy theory is that it secretly succeeded because there is no theme. VoG was developed by the small raid team, independent of the rest of Destiny, and then CE was reportedly cranked out by some small Bungie/High Moon hybrid team in a few weeks (of course it's speculation for exactly who contributed what). King's Fall always felt like it had more cooks in the kitchen, as a necessary consequence of making the biggest, longest raid yet.
So, it wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't an initial unifying theme as per the Y1 raids but rather separate parts that were stitched together at the end. Or if there was a theme it didn't hold together well, similar to how the "One Way Trip" theme of Crota's End totally falls apart once you reach Deathsinger. Presumably CE's deviation was due to time/work force constraints, but KF may have had the opposite problem. There's clearly a through-line involving Auras but the mechanical vocabulary is too scattered to be distilled down to a singular theme.
Awesome! Must have missed this. Thanks for the heads up, sounds right up my alley. Maybe I'll finally get some theme answers!