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[Subtervotion]

I'd much rather go back to paid content if it will include new game modes/content with well thought out quest, etc. I'm hoping this is the direction they go with Destiny 2 or at least have a lot more manpower on the free updates.

The very first step in the Speaker quest ask you to complete 5 missions in the Weekly Story playlist. Instead of guaranteeing a variety of missions by picking 5 from Earth and Moon locations they pick them at random so there is a very good chance you'll be repeating a mission or worse (I got the Array mission 3 times and the Sword of Crota mission twice). We're all used to repeating content and OK with it to a certain degree but how something like that is included is beyond me when you could simply dedicate 5 different missions to the initial quest step thus removing the unnecessary grind of it.

Me too. Knowing that TDB and HoW we're on the way got me hyped. In Y2, I was just like, well I guess we're not getting anything? And I felt less invested in Destiny as a whole.

I think if Destiny wants to be the game it set out to be before launch (lived in world, something you can play every week, etc) then it HAS to have substantial quality content throughout the year.

 

[everyday math]

I expect the live team to have much better updates in D2. Right now they're held back by using the old tools while everyone else is on the better ones.


God I'm so excited for tomorrow. Been waiting for this day for too long.

 

[biteren]

trying to start necrochasm quest, whats a good spot to farm the Ogres?

 

[thabiz]

trying to start necrochasm quest, whats a good spot to farm the Ogres?

I just did shrine of Oryx and got the husk on the first orge kill. If not jump off​ the edge and try again.

 

[silver.tongue]

Either the drop rate is based on what you dont have or i just gor really lucky.

2 full runs with both callenges:
- 2 helmets.
- 2 class items.
- 1 gauntlet.
- 4 legendaries (oversoul edict, abyss defiant, hunger of crota, light of the abyss)
- 4 exotic primaries (edict, abyss, word and fang)

No duplicates at all.

 

[Kyoufu]

I expect the live team to have much better updates in D2. Right now they're held back by using the old tools while everyone else is on the better ones.


God I'm so excited for tomorrow. Been waiting for this day for too long.

Me too. Hopefully they show something meaty in the trailer.

 

[Dez_]

Either the drop rate is based on what you dont have or i just gor really lucky.

2 full runs with both callenges:
- 2 helmets.
- 2 class items.
- 1 gauntlet.
- 4 legendaries (oversoul edict, abyss defiant, hunger of crota, light of the abyss)
- 4 exotic primaries (edict, abyss, word and fang)

No duplicates at all.

Must have been lucky. I did get duplicates, not a lot, but I got 2 of the adept raid auto rifles and one person in our group last night got two of the adept hand cannons for each of the challenges.

 

[ll_J0N_ll]

So I've been out of the picture a bit here. Tried the update last night.

Did the speaker quest Heroic Story.

I had my pvp setup from last time I played and was running a Thorn with Ironwreath. Using Thorn body to dreg at close range was not a one shot. Switched to Ironwreath and was able to one shot body dreg. Tried with the yellow wizard Wreath dropped sheild in 2 shots. Got to Sardok one shot with thorn did practically nothing, proceeded to finish Sardok in less than 2 clips with the wreath. Wut?

Didn't experiment with anything else as I got weasled. Anyone else found that sidearms are doing more damage than primaries in PVE?

 

[Jest Chillin]

So I've been out of the picture a bit here. Tried the update last night.

Did the speaker quest Heroic Story.

I had my pvp setup from last time I played and was running a Thorn with Ironwreath. Using Thorn body to dreg at close range was not a one shot. Switched to Ironwreath and was able to one shot body dreg. Tried with the yellow wizard Wreath dropped sheild in 2 shots. Got to Sardok one shot with thorn did practically nothing, proceeded to finish Sardok in less than 2 clips with the wreath. Wut?

Didn't experiment with anything else as I got weasled. Anyone else found that sidearms are doing more damage than primaries in PVE?

Is it a Y1 Thorn?

 

[Dthomp]

Must have been lucky. I did get duplicates, not a lot, but I got 2 of the adept raid auto rifles and one person in our group last night got two of the adept hand cannons for each of the challenges.

Yeah that was me, got two Word of Crota Adept, and two of the legendary Pulse rifle, 1 auto rifle, and the terrible Warlock bond as my only armor piece, plus 1 exotic engram.

I want to log on and play but had my eyes dilated at the eye doctor around an hour ago and am waiting on vision to return to normal....It's killing me

 

[ll_J0N_ll]

Is it a Y1 Thorn?

Defo Y2 lol but good sherlocking. I wouldn't put it past me to do something like that...

 

[Into the Light]

Completed Deathsinger last night. I don't know if I have the stomach to do Crota. It was already delving into a sh*t fest when we failed 2 times. It was a reminder of why I sometimes hate this game. People turning on each other, it got ugly quick.

Just doesn't seem worth it.

 

[Jest Chillin]

Defo Y2 lol but good sherlocking. I wouldn't put it past me to do something like that...

Just a shot in the dark since you said PvP setup. No idea why it wouldn't be performing as normal then unless the Story playlist has a modifier.

Edit: Yup. That's it's. The Daily Story has modifiers. Heroic, Juggler, Specialist.

 

[WeTeHa]

Completed Deathsinger last night. I don't know if I have the stomach to do Crota. It was already delving into a sh*t fest when we failed 2 times. It was a reminder of why I sometimes hate this game. People turning on each other, it got ugly quick.

Just doesn't seem worth it.

Where did you get your raid team? oO
We just did a raid and failed a couple times at the crota challenge with people from gaf but nobody turned on each other.

 

[FiraB]

Completed Deathsinger last night. I don't know if I have the stomach to do Crota. It was already delving into a sh*t fest when we failed 2 times. It was a reminder of why I sometimes hate this game. People turning on each other, it got ugly quick.

Just doesn't seem worth it.

That sucks, remember when me, kadey and one other smashed our heads on skolas for like 4 hours. Seriously depends on the group to how wiping turns out.

 

[Strangelove77]

So what's the pvp meta like nowadays? Still pulse rifles and shotguns?

 

[Jest Chillin]

So what's the pvp meta like nowadays? Still pulse rifles and shotguns?

I've done pretty well with everything tbh. HC's are good. Scouts are good. AR's seem ok. Sidearms are really strong actually. Snipers are still strong but not as dominant with Special disappearing. I see less shotguns but they're still deadly in the right hands.

 

[Sky Walker]

PSA: Weapons of Light now does boost the damage output of the Sword during Crota fight. It helped quiet a lot during my runs "and screwd some runs too due to enraging at the last shiver of his health bar lol".

 

[Kadey]

Did first strike did week and husk dropped Thanks Obama.

 

[captscience]

Either the drop rate is based on what you dont have or i just gor really lucky.

2 full runs with both callenges:
- 2 helmets.
- 2 class items.
- 1 gauntlet.
- 4 legendaries (oversoul edict, abyss defiant, hunger of crota, light of the abyss)
- 4 exotic primaries (edict, abyss, word and fang)

No duplicates at all.

You got lucky. A member of my fireteam got 3 Adept Fangs in 3 chances.

I barely got any armor or non adept weapons. Used up all my luck in getting a husk to drop on my first ogre kill.

 

[ll_J0N_ll]

Just a shot in the dark since you said PvP setup. No idea why it wouldn't be performing as normal then unless the Story playlist has a modifier.

Edit: Yup. That's it's. The Daily Story has modifiers. Heroic, Juggler, Specialist.

Lol thanks Jest chillin. Was losing my mind 8D

 

[Dez_]

I want to log on and play but had my eyes dilated at the eye doctor around an hour ago and am waiting on vision to return to normal....It's killing me

The eye dilation or not being able to play Destiny?

 

[Trakan]

So someone figured out that they nerfed handcannon range by 4.5m instead of the 3m that was mentioned on stream.

I guess Josh Hamrick was speaking in terms of HIPFIRE, BECAUSE WHY WOULDN'T YOU? 99% of the time you shoot while aiming down sight, so let's talk to everyone in terms of hipfire. I guess because handcannons have a 1.5x zoom, you multiply the 3m nerf by that to get the 4.5m range nerf for ADS.

God I feel dumb for even typing that.

Did autorifles get a 7% boost to hipfire range?

 

[Into the Light]

I got them from LFG. We got to the end in 35 min, it was glorious. beat Death singers on 2nd try, then it turned into a bloodbath.

I got Oryxx flashbacks.

 

[Jabronium]

Apologies if I missed it being posted already, but...Anyone know how much of the book you have to get for rank 7?

 

[ZeoVGM]

But we sooooooo need matchmaking in Raids....

/S

Most people aren't asking for blind matchmaking. They want something in game. A lobby system in orbit, a group finder, something.

(But matchmaking should be in absolutely everything else.)

 

[Jest Chillin]

So someone figured out that they nerfed handcannon range by 4.5m instead of the 3m that was mentioned on stream.



I guess Josh Hamrick was speaking in terms of HIPFIRE, BECAUSE WHY WOULDN'T YOU? 99% of the time you shoot while aiming down sight, so let's talk to everyone in terms of hipfire. I guess because handcannons have a 1.5x zoom, you multiply the 3m nerf by that to get the 4.5m range nerf for ADS.

God I feel dumb for even typing that.

Did autorifles get a 7% boost to hipfire range?

Tying in Scope values to Hip values like that seems like an awful idea specifically due to the fact that it makes changes a nightmare when you combine that there's a distance related damage drop off.

 

[shingi70]

Is it confrimed that the Destiny 2 DLC is going to have a year PS4 exclusivity.


Seems such an odd thing to do, with it being such a point of contention for the first game, and it hurt PS4 users as well with that content not being cycled in.

 

[WipedOut]

PSA: Weapons of Light now does boost the damage output of the Sword during Crota fight. It helped quiet a lot during my runs "and screwd some runs too due to enraging at the last shiver of his health bar lol".

Who suggested you use weapons on your team?

 

[iFirez]

I'm just hoping for ingame footage tomorrow but I have a feeling it's all going to be CG.

 

[Deku Tree]

What do all the snipers do in PvP now? No special ammp?

 

[all of my hate]

What do all the snipers do in PvP now? No special ammp?

They sit in the vault. Next to the fusion rifles.

 

[Vanillalite]

Don't get to really play the PS4 doing the week to help reinforce that we don't let the kids play except on the weekends.

That being said my son and I did just boot up and download and install the update so I know we are good to go this weekend.

 

[Kadey]

Can we do crucible classes stuff in private matches?

 

[Toddler]

Do people still help out with Trials here? I'm gonna need help with the Trials page. Like, every stamp. I suck at Trials 😩

 

[silver.tongue]

Can we do crucible classes stuff in private matches?

Nope.

 

[Shiv47]

Do people still help out with Trials here? I'm gonna need help with the Trials page. Like, every stamp. I suck at Trials 😩

Unless you gotta complete everything, you can get to the top level of the book without doing Trials.

 

[Kadey]

Nope.

-=chucks controller=-

 

[Deku Tree]

Does a recking ball in elimination private match count for the book?

 

[Sky Walker]

Who suggested you use weapons on your team?

Couple people from LFG. 👀

 

[irrotational]

I honestly didn't even think about using Nighthawk, I just stuck with tether at the end. I think it let the sword bearer do more damage, but it was kind of hard to tell since we all generally did about 33% damage to Crota each cycle anyway.

Dattos group tested it and decided it didn't do any extra damage. They seemed to decide quite quickly though so I wasn't 100 percent sure.

 

[Subtervotion]

Can we do crucible classes stuff in private matches?

Out of curiosity, what classes are you missing? I ask because I know you play a lot of pvp and I'm surprised you didn't get all those quests done a long time ago.

 

[Cybrwzrd]

Fresh Crota anyone around 9 eastern? Need 4

 

[Tovarisc]

I haven't been around in ages, but very nice to see DGAF going strong and a lot familiar names

I thought I was out of the game, but that teaser... hnnng... Hopefully good things are ahead and that PC version.

 

[D_psipher]

Fresh Crota anyone around 9 eastern? Need 4

I'm down for a run.

 

[thabiz]

Fresh Crota anyone around 9 eastern? Need 4

I'm down

 

[Foxxsoxx]

Fresh Crota anyone around 9 eastern? Need 4

I'm down my man.

 

[molnizzle]

They didn't bring the Black Hammer back, right?

Any reason to do the new Crota then? lol

 

[Kadey]

Out of curiosity, what classes are you missing? I ask because I know you play a lot of pvp and I'm surprised you didn't get all those quests done a long time ago.

I didn't bother to take the quests outside of a few. If I did yeah they would have been done at this point. Now I don't want to use other classes besides what I'm using now. Definitely don't want to play defender.

 

[Foxxsoxx]

They didn't bring the Black Hammer back, right?

Any reason to do the new Crota then? lol

Sick looking armor and some elemental primaries.

Crota is a pretty fun raid. Flawed but fun.