PrivateWHudson
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I like the suros/final boss combo for pvp. I've been looking for something to pair with ice breaker for pve. I think I've found it.
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I like the suros/final boss combo for pvp. I've been looking for something to pair with ice breaker for pve. I think I've found it.
What. The. Fuck.
This is good stuff.
figadapaura
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Warlock finally level 27 and ready to raid. B)
The sad thing is that these changes are all just so blatantly obvious and would improve the game 10 fold. I really don't know why Bungie have made so many glaring errors in an otherwise great UI.
I need 3 more, what is the easiest way to get them?
I would love to see a Destiny version of Bungie's Firefight that was introduced in Halo 3: ODST and expanded upon in Halo: Reach. This seems like the absolute ideal game to feature this mode in as well. Raids are already kind of an expanded upon, lengthier encounter that is somewhat similar to Halo's Firefights, but the mechanics that are now introduced could take this mode to its next level.
One Firefight "encounter" per planet, each with a different objective. 3 difficulty options with a mixture of modifiers generated at random on a week to week basis like they do with Nightfalls/daily story missions. Leaderboards to show stats from each mode, including teams who lasted the longest in "endless wave" modes, etc...
The Endless War - Earth
- Survive endless waves of Fallen as they attempt to overtake your position.
- Random loot drops after the end of each "wave"
- Specific loot for this playlist
Waking the Hive - Moon
- Spawn with Firefight set of limited weapons/armor in phase 1
- Loot chests spawn in random locations with waypoints
- Objective is for your team to travel to each loot chest and acquire specific armor/weapons needed to complete each phase of this battle. Each chest gives increasingly more powerful weapons and better armor drops that instantly equip and replace your current gear (so you're not messing around in your menu swapping gear)
- Each chest guarded by increasingly difficult enemies
- Round ends when all players access loot cache and eliminate all enemies in that phase
- 10 chests, with the last chest containing loot you can keep with your Guardian after the game is finished. All other Firefight-specific loot is dismantled immediately as you open each new chest.
Defend the Conflux - Venus
- Defend 2 confluxes that move to random locations around the map every 4 minutes. 4 sacrifices on either conflux and the game is over. Successful defense will cause the confluxes to move to another location, guaranteeing a random loot drop at the end of each "wave."
- Specific loot for this playlist
The Spire - Venus
- Open and control 3 portals, one at a time, to form the Spire not allowing Vex to sacrifice themselves in the portals. As you open the 3rd portal and continue to maintain control of all 3, 1 relic will drop for your team to use in a defensive hold you must maintain for 5 minutes in order to open the Spire.
- Specific loot for this playlist
Final Fight - Mars
- 5 waves of Cabal and Vex attacking your position with a mixture of random Cabal & Vex bosses at the end of each wave.
- Wave #'s 4 and 5 will randomly spawn 4 pikes and 1 interceptor for your team
- Defeat each boss for guaranteed loot drops (rare or higher)
Become Legend - Random Planet
- Typical adds/Boss fight but the Boss' levels increase with each wave (start at 26, next boss is a level 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Guess it would have to cap here unless there was some specific gear you could acquire in this mode only that would allow you to fight higher level bosses).
- Kill the final boss (level 32 or 35 or 40, whatever would be possible given the gear in this mode) and get guaranteed legendary drops.
You could get real creative with the objectives like having to survive an area while you and your team search for specific mats or loot around a map in order to use in the next phase of an encounter, etc... But I think even just an "endless wave" mode that started with Fallen, and progressed through waves of Hive, then Vex, then Cabal and finally a mixture of all 4 until you died would be great. People would be posting their record times, how far they made it, challenging other fireteams to beat their times or high scores, etc...
Just a thought. Bungie did wonderful things with Firefight in Reach as they expanded upon ODST's version (in terms of customization), but this seems like the perfect game to expand on this mode given some of the mechanics they're introducing in the Raids.
One Firefight "encounter" per planet, each with a different objective. 3 difficulty options with a mixture of modifiers generated at random on a week to week basis like they do with Nightfalls/daily story missions. Leaderboards to show stats from each mode, including teams who lasted the longest in "endless wave" modes, etc...
The Endless War - Earth
- Survive endless waves of Fallen as they attempt to overtake your position.
- Random loot drops after the end of each "wave"
- Specific loot for this playlist
Waking the Hive - Moon
- Spawn with Firefight set of limited weapons/armor in phase 1
- Loot chests spawn in random locations with waypoints
- Objective is for your team to travel to each loot chest and acquire specific armor/weapons needed to complete each phase of this battle. Each chest gives increasingly more powerful weapons and better armor drops that instantly equip and replace your current gear (so you're not messing around in your menu swapping gear)
- Each chest guarded by increasingly difficult enemies
- Round ends when all players access loot cache and eliminate all enemies in that phase
- 10 chests, with the last chest containing loot you can keep with your Guardian after the game is finished. All other Firefight-specific loot is dismantled immediately as you open each new chest.
Defend the Conflux - Venus
- Defend 2 confluxes that move to random locations around the map every 4 minutes. 4 sacrifices on either conflux and the game is over. Successful defense will cause the confluxes to move to another location, guaranteeing a random loot drop at the end of each "wave."
- Specific loot for this playlist
The Spire - Venus
- Open and control 3 portals, one at a time, to form the Spire not allowing Vex to sacrifice themselves in the portals. As you open the 3rd portal and continue to maintain control of all 3, 1 relic will drop for your team to use in a defensive hold you must maintain for 5 minutes in order to open the Spire.
- Specific loot for this playlist
Final Fight - Mars
- 5 waves of Cabal and Vex attacking your position with a mixture of random Cabal & Vex bosses at the end of each wave.
- Wave #'s 4 and 5 will randomly spawn 4 pikes and 1 interceptor for your team
- Defeat each boss for guaranteed loot drops (rare or higher)
Become Legend - Random Planet
- Typical adds/Boss fight but the Boss' levels increase with each wave (start at 26, next boss is a level 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Guess it would have to cap here unless there was some specific gear you could acquire in this mode only that would allow you to fight higher level bosses).
- Kill the final boss (level 32 or 35 or 40, whatever would be possible given the gear in this mode) and get guaranteed legendary drops.
You could get real creative with the objectives like having to survive an area while you and your team search for specific mats or loot around a map in order to use in the next phase of an encounter, etc... But I think even just an "endless wave" mode that started with Fallen, and progressed through waves of Hive, then Vex, then Cabal and finally a mixture of all 4 until you died would be great. People would be posting their record times, how far they made it, challenging other fireteams to beat their times or high scores, etc...
Just a thought. Bungie did wonderful things with Firefight in Reach as they expanded upon ODST's version (in terms of customization), but this seems like the perfect game to expand on this mode given some of the mechanics they're introducing in the Raids.
I just realized I was playing with you and I got nothing. You stole all my luck
Oh really? Who were you?
Ya everyone kept saying all they got were shards and I'd get like 2 things per chest. Since it was my first time through I was still a little unsure of what's going on so I wasn't paying that close of attention to my loot as I was getting it, I was mainly trying to make sure I was following and not getting lost. Then afterwards I started looking in my inventory screen and saw all those things.
I'm glad we stuck through it and beat it. I felt like we were all getting pretty close to calling it a night there towards the end.
Fixed1979
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I've only had this happen twice on the strike boss, both times we finished it with 2 players right after the one player quit.
Shit congrats bud!
that is admittedly a badass pve combo. keep a great void special around (Which you can supply with regen ammo from Ice Breaker >_<) and you'll be unstoppable.
()_listerfeend_()
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What up Hood? Good holding the outside down with you last night! I was only there for the last couple sections but got the Epilogue too (two epilogues to two first timers?) and the chatterwhite.
Really really would like an exotic helm for my L25 Hunter alt. I have 30 motes of light and 16 strange coins. Should be rank 2 Crucible this weekend in any case (got like 136 crucible marks). So if Xur fails to deliver, I can hit L26 either way. But would be nice if I can get an exotic for my Hunter.
KillerElDiablo...yeah it was my first time too and I got nothing, and my friend who I brought in for that last part got the assault rifle too. Yeah it was starting to get tedious towards the end, but I'm glad we toughed it out. The last part is more about coordination than anything.
GuitarAtomik
Member
I like like like! This would probably also be a great alternative mode for 6-man groups (also matchmaking of course).
Good grief you lucky mofo
Ok so Xur comes tomorrow and i checked peoples wish lists. Hopefully i am in the wrong here but if that list is correct http://www.destinygamewiki.com/wiki/Agent_of_the_Nine
and so far it is there is not really much to hope for
Edit: especially in warlock exotic helmets
and so far it is there is not really much to hope for
Edit: especially in warlock exotic helmets
the_prime_mover
Member
Hit up tiger strikes all night - I find that many blues will decrypt into either motes or strange coins.
Yeah, it really did. It's odd, it was the first time I had encountered it in PvP and to give you an idea I'm nearing or have surpassed (I dunno) 200k Crucible score, so I do it a decent amount. Never got hit by it before.
Or, I've never encountered someone who knew how to use it
Interesting. I have a New Monarchy rank upgrade legendary with that perk but wasn't planning on using it because of the damage downgrade.
Wired All Wrong
Member
Wish I could have Raided with you guys last night. I was set to join your group but something came up and I couldn't get on until a few hours later than I wanted to. Hope you guys found a 6th person quickly. Awesome haul by the way.
Souldestroyer Reborn
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I would but I'm only 27 :I
Can't read from work, what does it say?Ok so Xur comes tomorrow and i checked peoples wish lists. Hopefully i am in the wrong here but if that list is correct http://www.destinygamewiki.com/wiki/Agent_of_the_Nine
and so far it is there is not really much to hope for
I am hoping for a Titan chest piece. I will gamble motes of light. It'll allow me to not stress about a Raid chest dropping and I can hit 30 that way. Yay for 3 friggin pairs of raid boots....at least they had the decency to drop one for STR, one for INT, and one for DISC.
Give it a try. I'd have killed this person if I could've landed headshots. The only reason I didn't was the damn screenshake....so they were like topscorer.
Ok so Xur comes tomorrow and i checked peoples wish lists. Hopefully i am in the wrong here but if that list is correct http://www.destinygamewiki.com/wiki/Agent_of_the_Nine
and so far it is there is not really much to hope for
Edit: especially in warlock exotic helmets
If that list is correct, I want him to sell either the last word or thunderlord.
Fog! That's the right word. It's a bit like being high but without any of the fun stuff that goes with it. haha smash bros. Very much so.
I may as well start buying my high tier HCs, RNGesus is too stingy. Though I do still need a legendary arc sniper too to round out my secondary loadout so that might need to go first.
Amazingly simple and good. I dunno what Bungle are doing any more. Adding these counters and an extra page to the menu wouldn't exactly be difficult work.
the_prime_mover
Member
I hope for titan guantlets from xur. I already have the skullfort but I am stuck at level 26 due to rare guantlets and the grind to level 2 rep is mind numbing. I wish you could buy gear for different classes from other vendors so that you could avoid the rep grind.
Other than that, i will probably just hold onto my coins as I have far too many weapons to level already and don't want to waste coins on armor for shards as exotics give no more than legendaries it seems.
Other than that, i will probably just hold onto my coins as I have far too many weapons to level already and don't want to waste coins on armor for shards as exotics give no more than legendaries it seems.
i've been trying to consider what would cause me to buy the dlc at release/full price
-new subclass(es)
-new game modes (pve or pvp)
-substantial QoL features (would be shitty to put these behind a paywall though)
-a full new explorable area (not just more areas on Earth/Moon/Mars/Venus, but another planet/moon or the Reef unlockable for Patrol and so on)
as much as I want the stuff we know is coming, $20 is hard to justify for it. I can wait for a sale/deal/price drop if it's literally just new items/strikes/maps/raid.
-new subclass(es)
-new game modes (pve or pvp)
-substantial QoL features (would be shitty to put these behind a paywall though)
-a full new explorable area (not just more areas on Earth/Moon/Mars/Venus, but another planet/moon or the Reef unlockable for Patrol and so on)
as much as I want the stuff we know is coming, $20 is hard to justify for it. I can wait for a sale/deal/price drop if it's literally just new items/strikes/maps/raid.
Story missions add no value to the price point to me for the moment, we'll see if they can possibly win me back...
young ahamkara's spine, my most desired item for the moment
I don't get why either.the_prime_mover
Member
Is there any word on new subs? There is another slot for each class, so I assume they are coming.
I expect the 2 announced expansions will be incremental - small areas, 1 new raid and a new strike, 2 new mp maps and a few story missions/Bounties. Then on the one year anniversary they will roll out a "sequel" like expansion that will add entirely new zones on earth and maybe a new planet. But it will cost full price...
gutterboy44
Member
I feel stupid for not spending the few ass shards on one upgrade to hit level 28 sooner. My exotic helm is fully leveled so all I needed to do was pick one piece of legendary armor to upgrade the first of the final three ass slots. Finally doing decent damage in the level 28 content. Now to start stocking ass shards again in prep for raid gear (hopefully).
The downside of hitting level 30, I have fuck all left to do.
Nightfallone
Level 28 Weekly Heroicone
Raid Normal/Hardone
I have all the legendary weapons I want so Vanguard and Crucible marks are useless, I have enough ascendant shards and energy to last me a lifetime so the Daily Story is useless, I've maxed out all the weapons I want and I've maxed out Vanguard, Crucible and New Monarchy rep so bounties are useless.
All I do now is log on to help a few groups of randoms with the Raid then I go do something else for the rest of the day. I hope Xur sells a Titan gear piece I don't have tomorrow, levelling it up will give me something to do at least.
Nightfall
oneLevel 28 Weekly Heroic
oneRaid Normal/Hard
oneI have all the legendary weapons I want so Vanguard and Crucible marks are useless, I have enough ascendant shards and energy to last me a lifetime so the Daily Story is useless, I've maxed out all the weapons I want and I've maxed out Vanguard, Crucible and New Monarchy rep so bounties are useless.
All I do now is log on to help a few groups of randoms with the Raid then I go do something else for the rest of the day. I hope Xur sells a Titan gear piece I don't have tomorrow, levelling it up will give me something to do at least.
young ahamkara's spine, my most desired item for the moment
That's the one! I don't even know what it does, it just looks cool.
Looking at his list, MIDA Multi Tool would be good. I was with someone in patrol yesterday, thing sounds amazing! Plus radar always up would mean I could swap around my Knucklehead Radar. I think I've become overly dependent on the situational awareness it allows; I'd feel disadvantaged without it now.
Fixed1979
Member
The downside of hitting level 30, I have fuck all left to do.
Nightfall
Level 28 Weekly Heroic
Raid Normal/Hard
I have all the legendary weapons I want so Vanguard and Crucible marks are useless, I have enough ascendant shards and energy to last me a lifetime so the Daily Story is useless, I've maxed out all the weapons I want and I've maxed out Vanguard, Crucible and New Monarchy rep so bounties are useless.
All I do now is log on to help a few groups of randoms with the Raid then I go do something else for the rest of the day. I hope Xur sells a Titan gear piece I don't have tomorrow, levelling it up will give me something to do at least.
You have 2 free character slots!
ethomaz
Banned
They moved to community side... it was a bad move in my view.
Anton Sugar
Member
What is this list that's being talked about?
AmateurHour212
Member
I need a void special weapon... any ideas? preferably not something earned in PvP.
Jest Chillin
Member
The downside of hitting level 30, I have fuck all left to do.
Nightfall
Level 28 Weekly Heroic
Raid Normal/Hard
I have all the legendary weapons I want so Vanguard and Crucible marks are useless, I have enough ascendant shards and energy to last me a lifetime so the Daily Story is useless, I've maxed out all the weapons I want and I've maxed out Vanguard, Crucible and New Monarchy rep so bounties are useless.
All I do now is log on to help a few groups of randoms with the Raid then I go do something else for the rest of the day. I hope Xur sells a Titan gear piece I don't have tomorrow, levelling it up will give me something to do at least.
Faction rep can't be maxed as far as I know and each time you level it, you have a chance to get Faction weapons that they don't sell. It's not much and you may not have any interest in that but there is at least a bit more value to Factions.
Thanks!
Yes I want that too! Been saying it for a while. Great idea. Firefight would be fantastic. Hopefully they put it into DLC or Destiny 2 (more likely).
Johan Liebert
Member
I did it. Got to level 30!
it makes my pocket infinity build even more awesome. extended tripmine grenades is the unique upgrade which isn't that exciting, but special weapon reload speed and grenade kills replenish super.
i really need to know if there's any difference between the legendary and exotic reload speed boosts, as well as if they stack if on multiple pieces...
death4romabove22
Member
So guys whats better mida or voc once fully upgraded ???
Robdraggoo
Member
leveling up my/wifes hunter yesterday going through tiger strikes I nended up with a slew of rare boots with light 10-13. broke em all down. onyl then did I realize that the boots currenlty equiped had no light on them whatsoever. I was so used to having gear with light I didnt realize I didnt already have them.
FML.
FML.
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