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Destiny |OT42| Embrace the Not-Knowing

Marvel

could never
Bad Juju, Jade Rabbit, Telesto, and Supercell are some of my current fav exotics.

They actually feel exotic and unique :)
I have been using Jade Rabbit recently too, only just got it. It's badass.

Still looking for a Monte Cralo lol.
 

Trakan

Member
Shoulder charge has always been pretty broken, so I don't mind seeing a tweak to it. It's still a one hit melee kill.

I tried leveling up New Monarchy to see if they fixed the ship drop, but either I got unlucky or they haven't fixed it.
 

dawgparty

Member
Just got the game(probably a weird time to start, or maybe not?) and I can't decide between a Titan and Warlock. Are the playstyles significantly different or is it mostly just the supers that make up the differences?
 

Deku Tree

Member
Nerfing weapons keeps the game fresh. I'm guessing the raid is more casual friendly and bullet spongey even if it still has mechanics based upon what Bungie people have said. So if that's true then any really high DPS weapon has the potential to trivialize encounters like sleeper or ToM+Blessing etc.
 
T12 not a bug, just people not remembering that altering a max light level also means that light level effectively the number needed to be T12 is higher than it was previously,

But T12 wasn't possible when max light was 320, was it? What was the max prior to TTK? (I wasn't paying attention).
 

Zakalwe

Banned
Great. Are you available to run it at some point today?

I guess I'll do this:

KF Raid - first timers, everyone welcome! (perhaps 1 or 2 experienced Guardians to guide us).

1. Zakalwe (astropoff)
2. Muzicfreq (MuzikFreq)
3.
4.
5.
6.

Not sure for when exactly, some point today please. Let's discuss as we collect players.

Still interested in putting this together.
 
Nerfing weapons keeps the game fresh. I'm guessing the raid is more casual friendly and bullet spongey even if it still has mechanics based upon what Bungie people have said. So if that's true then any really high DPS weapon has the potential to trivialize encounters like sleeper or ToM+Blessing etc.

Oh sure when you make everything old shit, everything new will comparitively be fresher. You know how they fix this problem? Make it so you cant upgrade old gear. Have a diablo system where you can get said old gear at various levels, thus preventing people from automatically having those strong exotics at the beginning of an expansion.

Or have a system like WoW and simply leave old gear behind each expansion, and have a ton of new gear available.
 

noomi

Member
I have been using Jade Rabbit recently too, only just got it. It's badass.

Still looking for a Monte Cralo lol.

Ahh man, monte carlo was one of the first exotics that dropped for me and I'm sad to say that I almost never used or level it, everyone always said it wasn't a very good exotic so I just passed on it. Maybe it's time to dust that old boy boy off, the ornaments looks very cool on it.
 
It would be hilarious if they built RoI around a build that didnt have the changes made in the PoE update. Thus why all the engrams and rewards have seem to reverted to TTK levels loool

This sounds exactly like what they did.

Just got the game(probably a weird time to start, or maybe not?) and I can't decide between a Titan and Warlock. Are the playstyles significantly different or is it mostly just the supers that make up the differences?

Warlock. Sunsinger. The revive helps as you make your way up.
 

Jabronium

Member
Apologies if it's been mentioned already or isn't relevant, but it looks like the gunsmith rolls changed. If you held on to the Tuonela SR4 there's a Hung Jury clone, and the Suros DIS-43 has a full auto/max stability roll as well.
 

spyder_ur

Member
Given that special exotic engrams are decoding to a new exotic, are we holding out hope that all exotic engrams currently saved have a chance to decode to ROI exotics? My expectation was that they'd be good light level boosters but just decode to pre-ROI stuff.

Also, how are the crucible drop rates? Maybe I will finally get my hands on an Eyesluna or Ash Factory.


Still disappointed about IB bounties. That is some major BS.
 

noomi

Member
Apologies if it's been mentioned already or isn't relevant, but it looks like the gunsmith rolls changed. If you held on to the Tuonela SR4 there's a Hung Jury clone, and the Suros DIS-43 has a full auto/max stability roll as well.

worth picking up if we already have the god roll hung jury?
 

oSoLucky

Member
Telesto is a joy. Feels super alien. Nothing in the game like it. Sleek, futuristic look, spacy sounds. Fantastic exotic.

Absolutely. And it's also highly useful for specialist and void burn(the orbs on multi kill just seal the deal). It's why the best exotics are ones that change the rules or are truly unique, instead of just being super powerful(Black Spindle, Truth).

Ice Breaker, Sleeper Simulant and Touch of Malice sit squarely in Telesto tier of being highly useful, unique and having really cool aesthetics. I wish they were all so good. There are still really fun and good weapons that look or play more generic like Jade Rabbit, The Last Word, Gjallarhorn, Ace of Spades, Tlaloc. The Queen's exotics are unique but have niche usefulness. Exotics are too married to their weapon type being a part of the meta when I feel they should always be unique and highly useful. Maybe exotics could be balanced differently than the same type legendaries. They have examples already in the patch notes.


I probably haven't used Patience and Time since doing Arc Burn Phogoth in Year 1. The sniper glare should be reduced to maybe 66 or 75 percent in pvp.
 

ch4fx_

Member
Also, how are the crucible drop rates? Maybe I will finally get my hands on an Eyesluna or Ash Factory.


I think they said yesterday they buffed the drop rate & from the little I played last night, it seems accurate. The party I was in had 3 Eyeslunas drop in back to back to back games, and I only remember playing 1 game last night where someone didn't get a legendary drop at the end.

Hope you get what you're looking for.
 

X-Frame

Member
So nobody got any of the unreleased TTK exotic armor pieces yet?

Also, infusing exotics no longer require an Exotic Shard? Can anyone confirm?
 
Given that special exotic engrams are decoding to a new exotic, are we holding out hope that all exotic engrams currently saved have a chance to decode to ROI exotics? My expectation was that they'd be good light level boosters but just decode to pre-ROI stuff.
I am cautiously optimistic. While Trespasser dropping from old engrams is a good sign, it's still possible that it's the only exotic that will drop from old engrams. We won't know for sure until 9/20.

With boot engrams decrypting to 339 max it would also seem that the max LL increase has been changed to 4 from 6. So leveling up will take a bit longer than it did with the April update.

Because of this I plan on holding onto all my packages and engrams until I at least run through the story and other activities and raise my LL up a bit by other means.
 
The PS4 I bought arrived today, and I've been thinking about getting Destiny for it. I know that The Collection comes out soon, I just wanted to check that if I was to preorder that on the PS store, I'd be able to play the previous content right away?
 

SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Finished my Chapperone quest last night. The Buckshot bruiser quest was actually kinda fun. i was going to finish it in strikes but decided to jump into Mayhem and saw my progress jump like 30% every time i got a buckshot bruiser medal. Just two buckshot medals and a few more solo kills and finished that part of the quest in just a game and a half.

the bond brothers werent too hard either thanks to Dez and Dthomp.

Once i get this next week along with my Ace of Spades i will only be missing the fucking Jade Rabbit. It's been a lot of fun chasing these exotics, Even the last word part once i learned not to use the last word for the quest. TTK was a really great expansion.

Lets hope they have quests for most of the exotics in ROI.
 
Man that update was a big one eh? My power bar, that I connected my ps4 to, decided to stop working 6 GBs into the install. So I had to restart my download after making sure I had no corrupt files. So I barely got to play last night.

Anybody else notice how grainy the game looks after the update? I thought something was up with my ps4 until a buddy of mine brought it up as well. Could be something to do with the update?
 

MrDaravon

Member
The PS4 I bought arrived today, and I've been thinking about getting Destiny for it. I know that The Collection comes out soon, I just wanted to check that if I was to preorder that on the PS store, I'd be able to play the previous content right away?

Correct; it goes into detail in the description, but it essentially treats it as a Rise of Iron pre-order and as a "bonus" you get immediate access to Destiny, Dark Below, House of Wolves and Taken King.
 

SoulClap

Member
Shoulder charge has always been pretty broken, so I don't mind seeing a tweak to it. It's still a one hit melee kill.

It was? Broken in the sense that the hit detection was not that great? It's always been a movement tool for me, you're not going to get much kills with it. The unnecessary tweak to the animation makes it a lot worse.
 
Correct; it goes into detail in the description, but it essentially treats it as a Rise of Iron pre-order and as a "bonus" you get immediate access to Destiny, Dark Below, House of Wolves and Taken King.

Excellent! I thought that was the case, I just wanted to make sure.

Well then, I guess I'm a newbie player here. All of the content sounds pretty overwhelming at the moment, any starting tips or advice? I need to think what class I want to play, too.
 
Here's another thing to add to the heap

Just completed 3 heroic strikes and only got marks for the first one.

The director still says
Weekly bonus remaining 3
 

oSoLucky

Member
It was? Broken in the sense that the hit detection was not that great? It's always been a movement tool for me, you're not going to get much kills with it. The unnecessary tweak to the animation makes it a lot worse.

In the sense that a Titan can stop his sprint, turn a corner and still Shoulder Charge for a 1 hit kill. If the effect didn't last after the sprint dropped I would have been fine with it before.
 
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