Will do the bounty then and hope it gets a good buff!
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Destiny |OT7| "In the Garden of Suros" by I. Ron Banner
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Will do the bounty then and hope it gets a good buff!
5 hours?
What? o.o do you just play it when there's bounty every day?
I am only 7 after 1h 35m =( i am guessing each level will be a lot longer after level 10.
I have no desire to level an alt actually, the only reason to do it is so I can actually play the game a bit more each week with a chance of some rewards.
Union Carbine
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Though it's easy to complain that there are too many of them when you've got a brace of exotics in your inventory. As someone who has yet to land a single exotic weapon, I certainly don't want the chance to land one reduced, though I'm okay with the chances as they stand.
TheTylerDurden
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It's plenty accessible. I had no trouble accessing the game prior to getting into a position to be able to get exotics.
It ALSO needs to cater to end game minded players. That's why there are weapon types and encounters for everyone, including those who are willing to put in the extra effort.
We're not going to convince each other, most certainly, and I think we've both made our points.
MADGAME
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Everything in the game takes time at least some skill, doesn't it?
How about Red Death, Hard Light, and probably some others? Those can't be obtained via bounties and I seem many grumblings or at least debates regarding their usefulness.
Yep its worth grabbing for sure - just in case, mine's chillin' in my stash until I have a reason to pull it out
Nightfall done.
In addition to that area under the platform, there is also the place where you enter the fight that you can retreat to if things get hairy.
Also before you jump down from there, above you and to the left is an area you can perch and see straight across to the platform you can hide under. It's not completely safe, but with two people there and one person under the platform, you can divide the attentions of the more explosively oriented enemies and hit the Archon Priest in the head while it hangs out near the platform. Just have to watch out for the occasional trio of shanks, vandal snipers in that two-layer cave, and the dropships that plop reaver captains from time to time (just retreat back, pick them off and continue).
In addition to that area under the platform, there is also the place where you enter the fight that you can retreat to if things get hairy.
Also before you jump down from there, above you and to the left is an area you can perch and see straight across to the platform you can hide under. It's not completely safe, but with two people there and one person under the platform, you can divide the attentions of the more explosively oriented enemies and hit the Archon Priest in the head while it hangs out near the platform. Just have to watch out for the occasional trio of shanks, vandal snipers in that two-layer cave, and the dropships that plop reaver captains from time to time (just retreat back, pick them off and continue).
Kalamari
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I have heard Bad Juju doesn't really come into it's own until the String of Curses upgrade.
When Ice Breaker goes on sale at Xur (I bet this week), all hell will break loose. Everyone will be using nothing but ice breaker.
Seventy_X_Seven
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Strength is big for a Sunbro because flame shield. I always try to max my strength because it allows me to be more aggressive.
I am down tonight around 9PM PST. PSN - sharpacid
I do have the SUROS Regime and the range of all auto rifles outclasses every other weapon. As a weapon class it is literally competitive from Sniper to Shotgun range. Thus the upcoming nerf.
I'm not really talking about Iron Banner because I haven't played it yet. if I makes me go grab my Regime from the vault I will let you know.
Anyway I don't use it because I don't really like auto rifles. I use other guns and still win matches, artificial hamstrings and all. That's pretty much as far as I need to think about it.
This is exactly what I'm saying. As far as striking the balance I've described I think Destiny's done about as decent a job as possible with it.
I will say that anyone who has been playing since launch and doing bounties should have, by now, received their first Exotic Bounty. Bungie should just send one out to everyone who doesn't have that flag on their character.
If you don't mind exploiting the rollover system, you can also do double bounties each day.
If you are logged on at 2am Pacific, you can grab an finish all the PvE bounties in about an hour and then log off. When you log back on, the bounties will be available again.
Everything is better than bad juju. Any blue AR is better than bad juju.
Bad juju is bad. I like the gun and i think it's fun to use. But it's useless unless you're shooting thrash mobs.
Turdburger
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I have a fully upgraded Suros that I use plenty -- and i agree with you on this. But part of that is not just about ice breaker, but also that if everyone had a fully upgraded Gjallarhorn (which they could because xur sold it in week 2) the entire game would be a joke and every boss fight would be all players unloading 5 gjallarhorn rockets as quickly as possible.
Ya man, I'm a hand cannon guy myself as well, but for PvP, I use Suros. Iron Banner is monster with a fully upgraded Suros.
I had a 5.0 k/d last night being lvl 29 with it. The gun is laughably broken.
I did the same thing because I pretty much detest Auto Rifles.
Oh well, guess I can't win at PvP anymore because I like Scout Rifles. -_-
Well, when I did it, I was also doing the Queens bounties. Two sets of PvE quests plus the story mode XP was pretty great. I didn't go from 1 to 20 in one sitting. I would log in, do the bounties that I can and the necessary story missions, then switch to another character. Next day I would do the same thing. It helps to know where you can go to efficiently complete the bounties, e.g., the kill 10 hive elites quest.
Scout rifles also getting buff in future.
Admiral Woofington
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Depends on how you play. If you're going around close quarters to fight enemies on their face with shotgun then strength. If you plan to use it to keep away from enemies or against bosses then discipline is a must since most bosses have AoE attacks if you get too close and you'll do more damage spamming stuff like sticky grenades. You're one of the fee sunbros I've met with emphasis on strength. Do you do a lot of PvP? I stick with PvE.
As far as I'm concerned the PvP and PvE halves of this discussion are totally separate. I don't think I can muster any complaints about people being able to quickly take down bosses in this game after they've been described to death as bullet sponges.
I've said it before and say it again: Bungie is so big now that small details and decisions get overlooked. Everything is operating on a conveyer belt.
Twilight Gap
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EL CUCO
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I'm jelly, nice to meet you
I agree. Id say the end game is raid hard mode and iron banner for those end game players. And there are more raids to come.
my point is for those that lack the skill or time to do the end stuff xur is an outlet for those people to get nice gear. Its also an outlet for those people who have terrible rng luck. I had to beat the raid to roll my first exotic (besides good advice which sucks). I bought my first 3 legendaries.
GuitarAtomik
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I've been finding a few ghost fragments lately and came across this one with insight on the Cabal that I thought was kind of interesting and funny:
Just rekindles my wish that they could have included some of this stuff in the game. I'm dying for some real characters. Where's this game's Prophet of Truth or Arbiter? I want to know more about these species and, considering how much info there is on them in the Grimoire, I'm not convinced they were intentionally trying to make them mysterious. There should have been moments during the story missions where you could walk around a corner in the Cabal base and see this exact scenario going on while your Ghost roughly translates what they're arguing about if you chose not to interrupt immediately.
Just rekindles my wish that they could have included some of this stuff in the game. I'm dying for some real characters. Where's this game's Prophet of Truth or Arbiter? I want to know more about these species and, considering how much info there is on them in the Grimoire, I'm not convinced they were intentionally trying to make them mysterious. There should have been moments during the story missions where you could walk around a corner in the Cabal base and see this exact scenario going on while your Ghost roughly translates what they're arguing about if you chose not to interrupt immediately.
I got a Legendary Scout rifle as a drop earlier this week so I don't mind getting into this gun type for PVP.
Eclpise Maw is Dis/Str (no Int), but I hear you. I don't know, I'm really torn on how important the stat values on armor even are. The mods could really be worth the tradeoff depending on build.
That double-grenade Radiance though, yowee
Flame Shield is when Sunsinger clicked for me. So... goddamn... good.
The strangers rifle is a better gun than that piece of shit.
PrivateWHudson
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Yes! Want!
In PvP, i've seen dudes clean up with the stranger's rifle. I've never been killed by Bad Juju in PvP. even once.
I don't know about Red Death, but I've seen Strange Suspect absolutely run the table in Rumble before.
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Flying Toaster
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I would love to know how often pulse rifles are used in PVP, I never see them as well.
Pulse rifles are just fine in PVP. I don't know why I don't see them more (other than the red death recently)
Jest Chillin
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I'm not sure. Gjallarhorn does how much damage per rocket? 10K on initial then 1k each secondary and there's 6 or so secondary explosions?
Fully upgraded Ice Breaker can crit for around 12k and can get off maybe 7-8 shots in burn phase, maybe more.
So say Gjallarhorn has 7 secondary explosions. That's approx 17k damage per shot. How many can one person get off per phase? 3 shots or so? 51k Damage per person for 255k Damage in a single phase. Up it to 4 shots and you get 340k Damage in a single phase.
Ice Breaker, assuming all crits at 7 shots is approximately 84k per person for 420k Damage in a single phase. At 8 shots you get 480k Damage in a single phase.
These numbers aren't empirical but Ice Breaker, due to it's ability to crit and it's much faster fire rate has the higher damage potential. Gjallarhorn does incredibly well though and as long as you're not using the center platform strat, is pretty dependable.
When Boogie does it, it's pretty funny. (imo)
N
Noray
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Need one more for Nightfall. PSN: ultrajari
That's not the joke.
GuitarAtomik
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I use them all the time. I don't like the stability on AR's and I don't think scout rifles hit hard enough for how accurate you need to be. AR's are definitely better though as long as it fits your play style.
Psh, I've gone a week and a half without a legendary drop. Then as I was finishing up last night I got an exotic weapon bounty. I then found out the one I picked, bad juju, sucks.
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