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Destiny |OT9| Suros Business
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Still need 2 more
Johan Liebert
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Xur is Rahool's secret identity. He gets a body double to play Cryptarch when Xur "visits".
That's a fair way of looking at Xur if you're not interested in collecting Exotics, there are definitely weeks with more bang for your buck than others. From here on out, I'm gonna be buying every Exotic weapon he stocks and I don't have, just for completion's sake, while most likely also an armor piece if I have the coins for it. This week, I have Truth already, so I'll be buying at least Sunbreakers for the collections, possibly also Third Man- still need to get through the Weekly on my Hunter and Warlock and Nightfall on my Warlock first. Hopefully tonight while helping out
You're not gonna have any Strange Coins or enough Motes of Light at level 13 to buy anything from Xur
But he has a certain kind of endgame loot called "Exotics," which are best-in-slot, but you can only have one Exotic weapon, and one Exotic armor piece equipped at one time, so it becomes about "spending" your slot on the certain piece that works best. What he carries each week (he comes on Friday and Saturday) is random. Glimmer is best spent on Heavy Ammo Synthesis at the gunsmith, but it's not something you really need to start worrying about until ~20, when glimmer becomes much much easier to come by.
Robdraggoo
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My 3rd alt is now 18. Couple more days and he will be able to wear all those legendary engrams I've been saving in the vault. Then he will be raid ready! Chances are her Will be 30 before my titan that has been sitting at 29 for a month. Damn gloves
scarletham
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That's a fair way of looking at Xur if you're not interested in collecting Exotics, there are definitely weeks with more bang for your buck than others. From here on out, I'm gonna be buying every Exotic weapon he stocks and I don't have, just for completion's sake, while most likely also an armor piece if I have the coins for it. This week, I have Truth already, so I'll be buying at least Sunbreakers for the collections, possibly also Third Man- still need to get through the Weekly on my Hunter and Warlock and Nightfall on my Warlock first. Hopefully tonight while helping out
Soooo...wanna run the weekly tonight?
Cool picked up two Truth's for the void and the eventual void burn. Plus I had the free exotic slot in the raid while I am using praedyth's and VOC. The void will help with those annoying Pratorians. Got a helmet for my hunter and then gambled on the engram and got a helmet for my warlock. Not a bad weekend xur but ghorn would be appreciated. Or icebreaker. Super pissed I didn't buy that.
unfortunately im gonna be muted most of the night as i level my new truth, dont want you guys to hear me get the sniffles
Subtervotion
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Happened to me. My Warlock hit 30 after a cumulative of 11 hrs for the raid. Titan finally hit 30 after 44 hours in raid. Granted the first time you do the raid it takes way longer and the average time to completion is longer, but I 44 vs 11 is still a big gap.
Unacceptable!
Are we talking about a difference before/after the weapons patch? Do you use Auto Rifles and/or Shotguns? If you want gameplay tips, tell me a little bit about the build you bring into the Crucible.
Does it seem like lag making the difference? Are there a lot of rubberbanding people or anything? I usually feel pretty confident when I die in the Crucible about whether or not I was legitimately outplayed.
One other possible explanation is that if you were consistently getting >1 k/d before, your success previous to this "rut" has been leading to matchmaking you with players of a higher skill level and you're hitting a wall. After enough harsh losses you might get bumped back down and start wrecking everyone.
Yes, you're in for my first group.
Will get on as early as possible but it'll probably be 9pm eastern. We're doing it legit too
HARD MODE RAID PS4: gatekeepers checkpoint
1. kitaj84 (29)
2. wretched_walrus (29)
3. Dontbrikmebro (30)
4. Rubenov (30)
5. Kartik21
6. ScrewAttack_ (29)
We can go as soon as we have 6
I'm in again!
Johan Liebert
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Why else would he hide his face? You can't run from the Truth.
yup ill just go with thunderbird so i have it in my back pocket just in case, once i get horn i won't use truth anyway
As European I can say that lag in Crucible is real[ly noticeable] and plays a lot into outcomes of battles in Crucible.
i actually have a decent idea if anyone is up for it
take turn power leveling?
we run each other through the campaign with mains on hardest difficulties
psn cyborg1 =p
AmateurHour212
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Somehow, I doubt that.
I'm still undecided on whether I level up a second titan and then delete my hunter and make a warlock... or do I buy the exotic helm for my hunter, get him to 29 (tonight) and then work on a second titan so I can run the hard raid three times a week?
robertsan21
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Things I hate about Destiny:
Not enough things to do. (cant wait for DLC in dec)
Same missions over and over.
bounties, god damnit they suck.
not enough space in the vault if you are a collector like me.
love and hate the RNG.
Xur.
nerfing of weapons just becomes some complain.
public events not near random enough, also need something new bungie, come on!
Things I love and is the reason why I am still playing:
The Raid, I know its glitch heaven, but its still fun as hell and is almost the only reason why I am sticking around still.
Potential awesome loot of the nightfall strikes every week.
Fun to kill shit in PVE and I am unfortunately a grind addict, love that shit.
Fun matches with my fireteam in PVP, not a super big fan of PVP but it can be fun.
at the moment, the only thing I look forward to is doing the raid, nightfall and weekly stuff.
Not enough things to do. (cant wait for DLC in dec)
Same missions over and over.
bounties, god damnit they suck.
not enough space in the vault if you are a collector like me.
love and hate the RNG.
Xur.
nerfing of weapons just becomes some complain.
public events not near random enough, also need something new bungie, come on!
Things I love and is the reason why I am still playing:
The Raid, I know its glitch heaven, but its still fun as hell and is almost the only reason why I am sticking around still.
Potential awesome loot of the nightfall strikes every week.
Fun to kill shit in PVE and I am unfortunately a grind addict, love that shit.
Fun matches with my fireteam in PVP, not a super big fan of PVP but it can be fun.
at the moment, the only thing I look forward to is doing the raid, nightfall and weekly stuff.
Why do you want public events to be more random?
Yup.
One of the easiest things they could do to give variety is change up the bounties. But they can't even do that. Just change the variables or make us do more different types of objectives. It's the same stuff over and over.
Johan Liebert
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that's what he wants you to think, I can turn my guardians head into a pumpkin right now. Face it, we've all been played :3
robertsan21
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element of surprise? and mix it up, do something really hard from time to time, something we dont expect like a monster we never seen before? and make it really hard to beat.
This by itself would breath so much life into the game IMO.
here's hoping this weekly update is better than the last one...
things that still haven't been delivered that would be nice to be addressed:
9/24/2014 - 44 days ago
- bungie mentioned exotic weapons will be buffed "soon"
- bungie mentioned strike bosses will be tweaked "soon"
10/17/2014 - 21 days ago
- bungie mentioned mythoclast tweaks are going in "soon"
10/31/2014 - 7 days ago
- bungie again reminded us that exotic tweaks are going in "soon", since its been a while and people had forgotten that bad juju was bad
not to mention raid bugs, heavy ammo bug, synth bugs, and the bug where xur doesnt sell gjallarhorn
things that still haven't been delivered that would be nice to be addressed:
9/24/2014 - 44 days ago
- bungie mentioned exotic weapons will be buffed "soon"
- bungie mentioned strike bosses will be tweaked "soon"
10/17/2014 - 21 days ago
- bungie mentioned mythoclast tweaks are going in "soon"
10/31/2014 - 7 days ago
- bungie again reminded us that exotic tweaks are going in "soon", since its been a while and people had forgotten that bad juju was bad
not to mention raid bugs, heavy ammo bug, synth bugs, and the bug where xur doesnt sell gjallarhorn
Worst one... Only sold it first week when I wasn't ready....
I have invited you guys to the party
I am in or? If not I'm going to go do some work, so it'd be nice to know either way.
Prototype-03
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SUNNBRREAAKKKERRRSSSS!!!!!!!
Sabotage
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robertsan21
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Cant wait for the mytho to get buffed, It sucks that they nerfed it. The only gun in the game that is hard to get, should be a hell of a gun IMO.
JohnOfMars
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Since I've been getting a lot more exotics I'm definitely more interested in that exotic weapons buff.
Also, the scout rifle "auto fire cut out" bug.
figadapaura
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SUNNBRREAAKKKERRRSSSS!!!!!!!
lol
its the gjallar one that hurts
robertsan21
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But that just means bullet sponge to Bungie
yeah anything BUT that, horrible way of creating a harder opponent.
xur selling gjallarhorn again today would have been better than any patch so far
would also save bungie work, dont need to tweak strike boss HP if everyone has horn
Oh the usual, some 29s some 30s. Problem is level doesn't always denote skill (thanks Bungie), so I've had terrible attempts with 30s and great attempts with 29s.
The big problem is, on gaf people are generally good, but arranging any raid is difficult since the majority in here seem to be American (or otherwise run exclusively). LFG just isn't good for arranging HM raids, too many CP beggars and low levels and the higher levels on there refuse to take any 29s. Just not worth running HM GK onwards without at least two level 30s imo.
I've just realised I've wasted the motes I was saving for my hunter's cloak on an exotic engram I didn't even need. Why do I do these things, I have no shortage of shards!
Really annoying when the speaker has three cloaks I like the look of.
[OT10] "Soon".
robertsan21
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what??
they are NOT planning on making bosses take less damage are they?
Find it easy as it is..
they want to tweak it a little, which is fine by me. spending many minutes shooting valus ta'aurc in the face while he tries to be challenging is tiring
MiniBossman
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So I have the +25 Kill Exotic bounty for the Crucible to get the shotgun
I'm terribad at PVP. I had one awesome game where my K/D ratio was 1.03, and i guess i racked up a bunch of assists and got to +8
Next match my team got totally stomped. Died like 30 times. Back to 1
Been playing control mostly, thinking the capture the flag aspect would make killing me a secondary objective, and I might have a easier time getting to +25
What is the best Crucible mode for this? Cause this isn't working.
I'm terribad at PVP. I had one awesome game where my K/D ratio was 1.03, and i guess i racked up a bunch of assists and got to +8
Next match my team got totally stomped. Died like 30 times. Back to 1
Been playing control mostly, thinking the capture the flag aspect would make killing me a secondary objective, and I might have a easier time getting to +25
What is the best Crucible mode for this? Cause this isn't working.
So I started as a Titan Striker and was around a 1.0 KDR. I switched to Defender and it shot up to 1.15 after that. That was around a month and a half ago probably.
I was an auto rifle guy, had a rare painted suros with the "slower rate of fire but hits harder" before Xur sold Regime the first time. Then was using Regime after that.
After the weapon patch I tried hand cannon and scout rifles but that was around when I started doing bad so I switched back to Regime and improved a bit back to normalish.
But lately, last 3 weeks or so things have gotten really bad again. I don't see rubberbanding but I lose out straight up gun fights a lot where it feels like I'm dead before I can get off more than 2 shots.
Do they really have matchmaking like that in this game? Where you play against better people if you're doing better yourself?
I play Control and just like in CoD I'd play Domination and I am a flag capper more than I am a killer so I get that I'm never going to have an awesome KDR. It's just that it's usually not this bad.
Son, I hate to Break the Truth...
haha yeah that gun is pretty bad. its not even remotely viable in the pve universe..in pvp its not too bad if you ADS, but nobody wants to be that shotgun guy, he doesnt get invited to parties
This would make running the10 tiger strikes needed to reach the mark cap a lot less headache inducing.
"Hard to get" is very relative in this case.
Just post "Looking for Atheon hard checkpoint / Looking for group at Atheon hard checkpoint", repeat X times / week depending on how many 29-30 chars you have and suddenly you have Mythoclast with low effort.
Current meta is to leave strike instantly when Valus one comes up in Tiger. It's what happened to me few times last night in Tiger, 2 other people instantly quitting.
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