figadapaura
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Destiny |OT7| "In the Garden of Suros" by I. Ron Banner
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He was a class apart.
EL CUCO
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I don't understand what you mean. I have alt characters and see everything in the Vault through the Bungie app
Not a fan of it either, but I do alright with it when playing Control and going straight for B with a sniper rifle.
ab.aeterno
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Just hit level 20 last night. Trying to read through the guides in the OP but it's confusing by virtue of not seeing these mechanics and intended play style explained or mentioned anywhere, and it's a lot to take in and remember. Going to have to make myself a checklist to remember what to each day and week, and what resources to focus on earning.
It is daunting seeing the gulf between where I want to be and where I am, and what I have to do to get there.
It is daunting seeing the gulf between where I want to be and where I am, and what I have to do to get there.
I got my Plan C from beating Talus without an arc special weapon last week; I got Thunderlord for beating my first Nightfall. My Knucklehead Radar, I purchased with currency I earned through weekly heroic strikes, engrams found gamewide, and public events, and saved up. The "exotics have a story" concept really applies the most to Exotic bounties, which are legitimately a progressive ordeal to acquire as evidenced by the many posts in these threads about the trouble people have had in the Crucible along the way, desperation for the Gunsmith to sell blue fusion rifles already, postings asking for help with Xyor, etc. Regardless, anyone could get, for example, Gjallarhorn from losing a match of PvP. The argument that "any given exotic should be statistically rare, difficult to obtain, and only available to certain players" is nullified by the game's core design, with the exception of a select few. Building a collection of exotics is crucial to any player's enjoyment in Destiny and that includes casual players who will take longer to do so, but still have the ability
"mostly all of us crave competition"/"we don't want everyone on a level playing field" This is a broad swath of gamers you're speaking as the representative of. I crave competition in PvP, but would prefer everyone on a level playing field, because that would mean the competition was based solely on skill. Meanwhile in PvE it's only a bonus to me if I'm in a game with someone who has the specific items they have always dreamed of. The kicker here is that the raid legendary armor, weapons, ship, shader and sparrow do meet your "we played the shit out of this game and this is what I have to show for it" description. The same actually goes for the IB gear at present. Just because they aren't exotic rarity doesn't mean they don't count. Most players will never come close to seeing a Fatebringer or Timebreaker in their inventory.
Your isolation of the "only 3 truly unique exotics" is laughable. I assume you're only including weapons, but there are no other guns like Thorn. Invective is a full auto shotgun that regenerates ammo. The Last Word literally has entire animations that no other gun is privy to and is handled differently than any other hand cannon. Bad Juju has a completely unique buff and is instantly recognizable. Patience and Time is a sniper rifle that cloaks and takes you off radar when you zoom down the scope. The Universal Remote is a shotgun that goes in your primary weapon slot. The Mida Multi-Tool boosts your movement speed and has its own radar. You can go ahead and attempt to tell me my Hawkmoon isn't unique, I guess, but even the SUROS Regime is incredibly unique in appearance and sound compared to other auto rifles. And we all know about the Mythoclast.
Yeah that bounty glitches for me before actually now that I think about it.
Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating like crazy. Last time i had this feeling was back in the WoW days competing for world first kills. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy as well. Sadly no Vex Pulse Rifle. All in all, very productive evening. Just need to do 50 ghosts and level my warlock and the platinum is mine....
figadapaura
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It does.
Icebreaker and Voidfang. Nice to see he mixed it up this week. I could afford both pieces but I'll have to think about it some. I know people sing Icebreaker's praise, but it's ugly as shit and its most redeeming quality seems to be its ammo regen. While that is nice, I'm just not sure it's worth replacing the legendary sniper with solar damage that I already have. I'll have to look at it more closely when I'm home tonight.
gutterboy44
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Hahah. I am being intentionally patronizing and I think it is hilarious that people are mad us peasants got an exotic. I could give two shits how butthurt they are. I got an icebreaker today, it is fucking awesome and I am mad stoked.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Try to join someone on GAF, but you could cheese it slowly by using that hiding trick.
GuitarAtomik
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Let's be real too. The only weapons that have a story attached to them besides "RNGesus favored me!" are the ones you got through exotic bounties. Even that's kind of pushing it since it's basically a check list that will be identical to everyone, but those (and arguably the ones you buy) are the only ones you actually earn.
wow, congrats. a truly impressive achievement. and you had a hawk on your team!Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy aswell. All in all, very productive evening.
PrivateWHudson
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Oh, you should. Back when Rahool was in top form, he gave me a bunch of loot for a Titan. Between that and getting a Titan Helm from Xur's mote of light engram, I leveled a baby Titan to 24 in about 6 hours.
The grind from 24 to 28 is still hard since I don't have much armor mats from breaking down junk like I did with my main.
Victory Red
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I know I'm far and away more advanced than the "average" player. Thats not what I'm after. I've played the game over 100 hours. There should be more that differentiates my character than someone who casually plays.
Its not about being "better" than anyone else in the game. Most exotics don't do anything that their legendary equivelant can't do.
Except for the IceBreaker, Gjallarhorn, and Pocket Infinity (and a few others Hawkian mentioned above.) Those shouldn't be easily obtained.
There isn't enough honesty int his thread.
I refuse to believe that everyone in here has a smile on their face that the Icebreaker is for sale and now thousands of more people will have it. "Oh, well I'm just glad that everyone gets to enjoy the Icebreaker now..."
Well that sucks. Testing it out last night it's currently the same speed as the rare sparrows without the speed upgrade. So they can get faster than my TimeBreaker then with the upgrade... *sigh*
Enjoy it man, I just turned in 5 bounties and accidentally equipped the wrong exotic for xp
EL CUCO
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Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating like crazy. Last time i had this feeling was back in the WoW days competing for world first kills. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy as well. Sadly no Vex Pulse Rifle. All in all, very productive evening. Just need to do 50 ghosts and level my warlock and the platinum is mine....
Fuckin nice! Congrats. That trophy is worth more than any weapon, IMO.
It's the helm I def want for my striker. Plus I think it looks the best. Lol
My guy is only 26 so I did it only a lower difficulty. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to play again till Sunday.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Easiest boss yet. Even done quicker than standard strikes. Modifiers FTW. 43 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBt2Sj_ags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBt2Sj_ags
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I know that I'm happy.
Besides, there's Raid Gear if you really want to "feel better" about having something exclusive.
(All of this shit will be obsolete when the DLC comes out. Not to mention when the second game comes out and everyone starts all over)
Crap Xur has that helm I want for my Titan but I am one strange coin short. Annoying.
Already did the weekly heroic too. Guess I need to shoot up a prayer to RNG and hope it is kind
Oh yeah, was doing crucible with some friends and got a SUROS Regime. Man is this thing killer.
Already did the weekly heroic too. Guess I need to shoot up a prayer to RNG and hope it is kind
Oh yeah, was doing crucible with some friends and got a SUROS Regime. Man is this thing killer.
Ice breaker.Took me a time to find this thread
What Xur give us?
PS. I'm at work and I can't see ingame yet.
Got Thunderlord from IB yesterday (I know it's random, but I had the highest k/d!)
Any thoughts? Been running with zombie apocalypse since week 1, love the stability.
Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating like crazy. Last time i had this feeling was back in the WoW days competing for world first kills. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy as well. Sadly no Vex Pulse Rifle. All in all, very productive evening. Just need to do 50 ghosts and level my warlock and the platinum is mine....
Crazy. I think that trophy is still at 0.1%, so congratz!
It's going to make raids so much easier with my clan... I am pretty happy.
It literally does not upset me in the slightest that some people will turn on Destiny this morning and buy a new sniper rifle. Why would it?
scarletham
Member
How feasible is it to get 12 strange coins before Sunday?
You aren't special anymore. I'm sorry.
MADGAME
Member
Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating like crazy. Last time i had this feeling was back in the WoW days competing for world first kills. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy as well. Sadly no Vex Pulse Rifle. All in all, very productive evening. Just need to do 50 ghosts and level my warlock and the platinum is mine....
Awesome, congratulations!
PrivateWHudson
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Look at that, I thought the app would be the same as the website. This is what I see at B.net:
Play one of the 3v3 modes and rush in for a kill. Pretty easy there.
starting to feel like RNGesus has forsaken me. 30 hours of play and I've seen exactly one legendary item (unfriendly giant). Stuck at lvl 24 playing crucible, daily missions, strike playlist, weekly strikes, nothing gets me anything worthwhile. All I get are blue engrams that decode into blue crap that's worse than what I have already or motes/coins. Am I doing something wrong or just cursed? I'm still enjoying PvP but it's discouraging to play match after match and never get anything.
Congrats man. Wow. I think our group is close to being able to handle it. We didn't die at all on Atheon in our last run. I could see gorgon's maze being a bitch and certainly phases of the Templar. Any tips for either?Managed to do Flawless Raider yesterday. Man, that was a rush. Gorgon maze was completely out of sync, so had to improvise how to get past them safely. By the time we arrived at the jumping platform section i was shaking and sweating like crazy. Last time i had this feeling was back in the WoW days competing for world first kills. We never really practiced Atheon encounter much so we went over roles and strategy for 20 mins. And nailed it first try without any problem whatsoever. In the end we all got the Flawless Raider tropy. After wards we went to hard mode and got the hard mode trophy as well. Sadly no Vex Pulse Rifle. All in all, very productive evening. Just need to do 50 ghosts and level my warlock and the platinum is mine....
Bummer I could run you through it. There are only 3 exotic Titan helms though so I am sure he will sell it again.
ethomaz
Banned
Thanks I found... and yeap it is the only great think today.Ice breaker.
Exotic Helmut Engram again... really?
Voidfang Vestments is interesting but I'm a Sunbro.
The others classes items are good? Just asking because I will level up a Titan and Hunter in the future.
scarletham
Member
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Have you done the Weekly on level 28? You get 9 just from that, you can also try Nightfall since that can sometimes reward coins. I got rewarded from it the other day with 10 coins so in 1 week from both missions I got 19 coins. Plus along the way some blue engrams turned into coins.
The assertion that this is not the case is ludicrous. How many exotics/legendaries do you have?
Assume you mean "can't" do; many Exotics are superior versions of a legendary equivalent, yes, but this is also an important part of the design because it is necessary to have legendary weapons. They're not supposed to be crap in comparison.
More easily obtained? Or is the current balance okay?
Please. Sure I'm happy about people getting the weapon I want, but the smile on my face is more along the lines of "yesss now the odds of someone on my fireteam having an Ice Breaker are higher"!
If you haven't done the weekly it shouldn't be too hard if you have some time.
Do level 28 weekly then do tigerstrike until you get enough from engrams. I average 2 engrams per run from rewards screen. Possibly more with drops.
I got mine from the exotic engram a few weeks back, same bonuses except my intellect bonus is +127.
Victory Red
Member
I never had an Icebreaker.
But that feeling of 'hoping the end of this match will bring it to me' will be gone the second I get home and buy it.
scarletham
Member
Haven't done the weekly yet, was planning on it. The last 3 coins were what I was skeptical about.
Nightfall rewarding coins is random, though? I'm assuming the last 3 coins will be up to RNG?
scarletham
Member
How many minutes is your average tigerstrike run?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Pretty much. Good luck!
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