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Destiny |OT8| Whine and Cheese
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All my weapons are maxed. I basically gave my 26 warlock all the maxed weapons my level 30 Titan had equipped.
Why is it so hard? It is a level 26 mission right? I am level 29 and I regularly solo the level 28 daily missions.
figadapaura
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Wizards.
Byron Bluth
Banned
Anyone interested in doing the raid at reset on Tuesday? 5am EST my time.
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Cosmos_Man
Looking for 3 more
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Cosmos_Man
Looking for 3 more
The wizards aren't that bad. It's that damn arc cannon spam.
It's a lot harder than 28 daily missions. Those are a joke.
No to cheese him the best thing to do is have one Warlock jump below the Atheon platform to the rocks just next to the second pillar on the LHS of the platform and everyone else hide. Then he always always moves to the good spot to knock him off. There was a video of this floating around but I don't know where to find it.
Johan Liebert
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Epic modifier. Enemies with Solar and Arc shields which regenerate really fast. Hardest mission in the game by far.
They just throw so many damn waves of shielded knights and wizards at you haha. It gets insane pretty quickly. Your best bet is cheesing it from the entrance and taking out the shrieker when it spawns.
Souldestroyer Reborn
Banned
Ice breakers solve that issue fairly easily, 2 to 3 shots and they're down.
I ended up jumping my way up to a beam that's over the middle of the room. I'm not sure anyone else has tried that, lol.
I am guessing a frustration with the community making a mockery of the raid difficulty. One thing for sure, though: it wasn't an unintended bug.
Blue Ninja
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Gonna try and beat Xyor later today. Get my Thorn on. Might as well solo it, take my Ice Breaker with me, and stay at the entrance.
TheTylerDurden
Member
Going to be looking for a regular raid for my 28 alt titan if anyone is interested in setting one up, I'm happy to join in on the fun. Would be looking for a fresh run.
robertsan21
Member
This game has so many bugs.
lately I have noticed that I aint getting any drops, no ammo, nothing. Doing a patrol mission now to kill dregs and collect some drops, and dregs are not dropping anything.
I have noticed this happen a lot since the hotfix.
lately I have noticed that I aint getting any drops, no ammo, nothing. Doing a patrol mission now to kill dregs and collect some drops, and dregs are not dropping anything.
I have noticed this happen a lot since the hotfix.
Der Flatulator
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Zebra'd right before the raid drop.
fml
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Wat? Xyor the unwed? I killed his ass yesterday solo. 28 sunsinger but i didn't need to revive.
I had ice breaker for wizards and arc zombie apoc for knights. Once their shields are down they die pretty quickly.
Hide from the big guy and kill adds. If things get too hectic run through the door.
When i noticed xyor he was almost dead.
It's easier with 2-3 people than a full team of 6. You want 1 person to bait the bastard and then one other (at most 2) to grenade him off.
The bait: One character changes his stats to get the boost jump and as much agility as you can get. As soon as you spawn, run all the way to the end of the room; off towards the left there's a cliff you can fall on. This video will show you the exact position:
http://youtu.be/vJZJBSXsTdA
It can be tricky falling there because there's a "glass floor"; you need to jump around it. Anyways once you're in that small crack the guy can't hit you and you can't hit him but he'll be well positioned to be cheesed off.
Now your grenadier (or two) have to manage a delicate balancing act. They need to move forward towards him quickly enough to grenade him off before the teleport, but not so quickly that they draw his attention before he's trying to get you on the cliff.
Might take you a few tries but it's the easiest way to do this. Double-grenade Sunsingers and Titans get the job done. This is probably the last week it'll be possible so give it a try if only for a chance to see the bastard fall at least once. It's part of this game's culture by now haha
milkham
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I helped someone with it yesterday and was going to just hang out in the entrance behind the shrieker to keep the party from wiping and losing progress like i had to do with two other people that I helped on this, but one of the guys said doing that causes mobs to respawn, I'm not sure if its true but it did seem like we had to take down a lot fewer hive before Xyor showed up.
therealminime
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It's not like the raid is a cakewalk on subsequent run throughs either. It still requires communication and organization and a couple of hours to beat. So weird that they felt the need to change that, of all the things they could change.
figadapaura
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Well, I didn't have an Ice Breaker when I did it.
EL CUCO
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It's not your average 26 mission. Trust me.
Wayyyyy harder than any 28 daily
I actually think its harder to do than Summoning pits weekly, maybe even nightfall.
For reference
http://youtu.be/CXo7Jtl34gY
toastyToast
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After much pain I finally reached String of Curses on my Bad Juju. Not to say I'm underwhelmed but I do wonder why the gun had to be so bad to mitigate it's seemingly OP effect. The damage boost looks to be 15% and it doesn't stack either. Not sure about how long it lasts but if I had to guess I'd say about 5s. Against any any one of the stronger enemies it might as well be a rare. I hope the buff is real. The design of this thing is amazing with all the bones along the sight and the kick off its recoil is super satisfying. It feels like it should hit a lot harder than it does and hopefully it will.
Didn't two people beat the raid by themselves? That was probably the straw that broke bungies back. Lol
Victory Red
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It will take all of 1 hour to just explain to the other members what to do in each portal. The raid will still be as easy as ever with
AmateurHour212
Member
Got the A.1F19X-THISNAMEISWAYTOOLONG SR for hitting Vanguard lvl 4.
Anyone have any experience using it? Any good?
Anyone have any experience using it? Any good?
Victory Red
Member
Its very good. Hits hard as hell with good impact. Rate of fire is a little slow for my liking. It was quickly replaced with Vision of Confluence.
AmateurHour212
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I'm at level 3 sensitivity. I have the touch of a blacksmith.
Breaking it down for ass energy?
Cheese or no cheese, whether I manage to kill him before Tuesday, we had a blast.
Two weeks ago we managed to get to the Oracle section.
Last week we managed to reach the Templar fight.
This week, we got to the Templar in one sitting in Friday. We then attempted it again today, and nailed it first time. Got both chests in the Gorgon section and had a laugh following each other round and laughing at fails in the jumping bit.
Gatekeepers was pretty straight forward once we were familiar with how it works.
Just wish we were all together now to try and kill Atheon. It's such a laugh having a bigger Fireteam.
Edit:
Even without killing Atheon, two of the team have 2/3 Raid gear. I got the RL, and shards lol. I have like 70 shards now.
Two weeks ago we managed to get to the Oracle section.
Last week we managed to reach the Templar fight.
This week, we got to the Templar in one sitting in Friday. We then attempted it again today, and nailed it first time. Got both chests in the Gorgon section and had a laugh following each other round and laughing at fails in the jumping bit.
Gatekeepers was pretty straight forward once we were familiar with how it works.
Just wish we were all together now to try and kill Atheon. It's such a laugh having a bigger Fireteam.
Edit:
Even without killing Atheon, two of the team have 2/3 Raid gear. I got the RL, and shards lol. I have like 70 shards now.
milkham
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I'd like to know too, it's been raining legendary scout rifles on me since the buff and the only time i really used a scout rifle before was at the loot cave, not sure which to go with between
A.1F19X-RYL- mulligan, life support
Cryptic Dragon - luck in the chamber, third eye
Crypt Dweller - return to sender, firefly
Crusader I - take a knee, Field scout, Life support
Pride is a strong emotion and Bungie are very full of themselves lately.
Indeed, but we'll let the numbers talk for themselves. It will interesting to see the fallout; I'm still banking on them adding or doing changes to the reward system. At least that's the logical step to mitigate anger.
I haven't decided yet. May keep just so that I don't keep putting the maxed out one in the bank.
With the huge sales, and the extremely large numbers of people playing so much, I'm not surprised that they're full of themselves. It would be tough not to be that way. The only way they will backpedal IMO is if the playtime numbers start to drop substantially.
I really hope they fix the rewards. At least guarantee that everyone who beats Atheon gets at least one exotic or legendary drop. It would also be great if the RNG system could check your inventory and not give you the same things every week.
It sucks so bad to beat hard raid after many hours and get shards + chatterwhite etc.
The worst part is I have two Warlocks and one Titan, with the intent of getting ONE warlock to 30, and the only armor piece I've gotten is on the Titan. This fucking game.
Shabadoo69
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Finally got my first exotic bounty and picked Thorn because I really want that hand cannon. There is just no way I'll ever get 500 points in crucible. I'm so bad at it. Every time I start getting points I'll have a horrible game and it will wipe them away. Do I have any other options besides playing rumble with 5 other friends and having them let me kill them for 30 minutes?
Just did the nightfall with my girlfriend.
She's 26, I'm 27, so she stayed in the back while I was soloing everything.
Took us nearly 2 hours, the majority of which spent on those fucking captains on the first phase.
I had a great time, and got myself... 6 strange coins.
My girlfriend was starting to get really bored at the end, running in circle in a safe spot for minutes on end. She got... Ice Breaker.
Sometimes, just sometimes, RNGesus is fair and loving. ^^
She's 26, I'm 27, so she stayed in the back while I was soloing everything.
Took us nearly 2 hours, the majority of which spent on those fucking captains on the first phase.
I had a great time, and got myself... 6 strange coins.
My girlfriend was starting to get really bored at the end, running in circle in a safe spot for minutes on end. She got... Ice Breaker.
Sometimes, just sometimes, RNGesus is fair and loving. ^^
I think it takes 21 shards to level one piece of Raid armor. Seven per upgrade with three upgrades.
21 per gear. 84 in total.
Actually, I think some developers are worse than others -- Bungie had always thought their way or the highway. Individually, the studio has some really cool and talented people, but group think is prevalent. Also, they are so big now that one side might not know what the other is doing until the last minute or a company meeting. On the podcast, they talked about how different divisions showed of their own part of game. Visions clash and that's why some parts of Destiny feel disjointed.
I think everyone loves the raid and would want Bungie to just fix the glitches and loot distribution, but other than that everyone was happy. I'd even say the raid is what's keeping us a lot of us core guys around (at least I know it does for me).
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