Melchiah
Member
Wut?! Xur is already gone? Well, there went The Alchemist Railment.
Destiny - The Taken King |OT| Time to Explain
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Wut?! Xur is already gone? Well, there went The Alchemist Railment.
UnluckyKate
Member
its pretty but useless unless you play sunsinger firebro and heart of praxis fire is always the way to go imho
Yep, Friday morning to Sunday morning. Always thought it was kinda dumb he leaves early on Sunday, I wish they'd extend Xur to Sunday night or Monday morning.
SkylineRKR
Member
lol exotics and deserve. Save that for the quest related exotics such as Chaperone.
The RNG exotics are just that, RNG. There isn't much challenge in grinding level 36 strikes with 3 of coins, or do the odd Gatelord kill inbetween other stuff. Its way worse than before, in year 1 exotics usually dropped from end of raid bosses which was more difficult than a Strike or story major every 10 minutes. You could swap gorgon checkpoints for 3 shots but that was about it.
Then you have the guys who had enough coins to rinse Draksis before patch, who had everything already anyway. But only at 290. In the end its been sort of moot, most are looking for 310's. I've already managed to replace Telesto, Graviton, Nighthawk, CoAL, TLW and Monte Carlo.
The RNG exotics are just that, RNG. There isn't much challenge in grinding level 36 strikes with 3 of coins, or do the odd Gatelord kill inbetween other stuff. Its way worse than before, in year 1 exotics usually dropped from end of raid bosses which was more difficult than a Strike or story major every 10 minutes. You could swap gorgon checkpoints for 3 shots but that was about it.
Then you have the guys who had enough coins to rinse Draksis before patch, who had everything already anyway. But only at 290. In the end its been sort of moot, most are looking for 310's. I've already managed to replace Telesto, Graviton, Nighthawk, CoAL, TLW and Monte Carlo.
blame space
Banned
Wait Xur leaves at 5 fucking am on sundays? Djdugaydifkkslkh whose great idea is that
I'm pissed
I'm pissed
Why would you buy 2 when after the first one it becomes available for purchase from the exotic blueprints for glimmer, weapon parts, and an exotic shard.
After this last patch, I've been extremely low on weapon parts. I didn't have enough for upgrading gear, let alone to purchase anything at the exotic kiosk. I have been swimming in strange coins, though. So buying two wasn't an issue at all.
Melchiah
Member
Hopefully Heart of Praxis Fire turns up at some point, and yeah, it's odd that the store is not open for the whole weekend.
farmerboy
Member
Praxis fire was sold about a month ago. So it might be a while till it comes again.
Got my first exoctic drop in the wild the other day.
For a class I don't play :-(
There really should be an ingame economy. I don't have the time to play 2 other alts. Ended up just sharding it and used the shard to infuse my zhalo.
Also feel like the quests are drying up but I'm certain I haven't done anywhere near all of them. What can I do to trigger some of them?
Got my first exoctic drop in the wild the other day.
For a class I don't play :-(There really should be an ingame economy. I don't have the time to play 2 other alts. Ended up just sharding it and used the shard to infuse my zhalo.
Also feel like the quests are drying up but I'm certain I haven't done anywhere near all of them. What can I do to trigger some of them?
Jax Teller
Banned
Eva will give each character a bag with a blue one in it. Only one of my characters was given a legendary mask and some glue from the mail.
You can infuse a Legendary or Exotic weapon with another weapon of of the same class with a higher attack value. So infuse a primary with another primary, heavy with another heavy etc.
To infuse, select the weapon you want to upgrade (Weapon A), select infuse, then select the weapon you want to infuse with (Weapon B). The infusing process will delete Weapon B, and costs glimmer, weapon parts and motes.
For your example, If you want to increase the attack of your 273 scout, and it's a Legendary, then yes, you could use your 280 auto to do this.
Time zones, dude. America gets Xur all day on Friday, but in AU, he rocks up to the tower half way through Friday evening. But then he stick around until Sunday evening.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Its 4 am EST now due to the time change.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
I finally tried the KF raid. Wow, what bullshit. Stupid jumping, nonsensical boss fights and lots of standing around. Never again, the opposite reason of why I play games. What stupid shit we do in loot whore games, we should be ashamed of ourselves and demand better.
What was Bungie thinking? "Hey, lets make them fall to their deaths over and over, then make them move orbs around and jump on platforms and make them shoot and stand in the exact spot for the exact time - anything goes wrong start over!"
What was Bungie thinking? "Hey, lets make them fall to their deaths over and over, then make them move orbs around and jump on platforms and make them shoot and stand in the exact spot for the exact time - anything goes wrong start over!"
Jax Teller
Banned
What you call stupid, I call fun. Coordinated fun. It's a blast.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
It's a shooter, not cirque soleil! I'm not sure that "stand here, run here, jump up here, not too long!" is fun. If the rewards were missing, would anyone do it for fun?
The raids are easily the best content in the game.
What did you want the raids to be? 6 people shooting a boss with 0 mechanics?
Stick to your day job.
jetsetnickradio
Member
The platforming is my favorite part of the KF raid. I love being the relic runner on the Sisters.
Golgoroth was my favorite battle in the raid, but it got lame once everyone figured it out was much easier to jump out of the pit after the first puddle, instead of running from puddle to puddle.
Golgoroth was my favorite battle in the raid, but it got lame once everyone figured it out was much easier to jump out of the pit after the first puddle, instead of running from puddle to puddle.
I appreciate the variety it brings. There's plenty of time for shooting things in this game....
Yes. The raid is the best piece of content that Destiny has to offer. Plus, they are fun.
Go play strikes and hope for a bullet sponge boss. That'll solve all your problems.
smh.
What on earth did you expect? Stand there and shoot stuff and nothing else? This is a raid that has more complex mechanics. That's the point.
The raids are the best thing about Destiny.
Was the first exotic I got in the taken king. From my first nightfall. Got it to 309 atm. Love it.
UnluckyKate
Member
HOLY COW, I just figure I could use Mote of Lights to boost xp on Weapons. Got black spindle, 30 seocnds later, fully upgraded bwahahaha now all my vault of exo weapons is done upgraded ^^
I finally tried a Mario game. Wow, what bullshit. Stupid jumping, nonsensical boss fights and lots of weird mushroom and turtle creatures. Never again, the opposite reason of why I play games. What stupid shit we do in loot whore games, we should be ashamed of ourselves and demand better.
What was Nintendo thinking? "Hey, let's make them fall to their deaths over and over, then make them hit blocks with their heads and jump around on platforms and shoot fireballs and stand in certain spots for a certain amount of time-- anything goes wrong, start over!"
AgentOtaku
Member
Guess im weird as the raids are the thing I like THE LEAST about Destiny :/
Raids are complex because they are called raids. Otherwise they wouldn't be a raid. They'd be a Strike.
That stuff has been in destiny since nearly day one, my friend. Where have you all been? Well, I guess it's to each his own. A straight up shooter has been done to death, in my opinion. It's nice to see some variety in gameplay.
Mossybrew
Banned
I'm glad folks enjoy them but I've never done a raid in this game and have no plans to. Strikes are more what I want out of the game, I just wish there were more of them.
jetsetnickradio
Member
How did you feel about the Skolas fight in PoE? That's less platform-y and more "shoot the aliens face" with only some choreography.
AgentOtaku
Member
Yeah and I can respect that. Too much for me tho. Love the simplicity of Strikes.
Maybe its because I didn't grow up with MMOs nor have they ever really appealed to me either really, so the whole concept is... its just sort of there for me
Impeccable logic... ?
Then don't play the raids. Calling them stupid because it's too complex or different is ridiculous.
Mossybrew
Banned
Hey I never said they were stupid, just not for me, hence I don't play them.
Hardly anyone ever did even when it was "relevant" content. The rewards for PoE have never been considered worthwhile by many players.
jetsetnickradio
Member
No, not really. Some people will grind the lvl 28 PoE for strange coins and motes, but there's not much reason to do them outside of that and maybe collecting old Year 1 guns.
There are still people who play it though, to get strange coins or level up or just to get more variety from the gameplay. I haven't had a problem being matched in it.
EDIT: PoE was a cool idea, I just wish that they would refresh it so you can get more current gear. That way it would still be relevant in year two.
PoE guns and gun engrams also drop year 1 amounts of weapon parts when sharded.
Found that out a couple days ago.
Sounds like you just want to shoot shit mindlessly, in which case there's plenty of strikes you can do that in.
The raids (outside of maybe Crota's End, which is still pretty solid) have gotten tons of praise and are easily the best pieces of content in the game IMO.
I was referring to the other guy you were defending.
Mossybrew
Banned
More like "a handful" - my main complaint right now is the small amount of Strikes available in the current rotation.
There are a lot more strikes available in the game than are in the playlist rotation. The reason for this remains a(nother) Bungie mystery to me. I'd love to run a strike playlist that actually put you into all of the strikes- crazy idea, I know.
jetsetnickradio
Member
On days when you just want to kick back and mindlessly kill stuff to relieve stress, there's nothing better than patrolling a destination for an hour or so with no major objectives to worry about. Just take in the scenery, kill a bunch of low level mobs, race around on the sparrow, ect.
This is why Destiny has such a wide variety in activities. Both PvE and PvP have mainline activities, mid-end game and what I call the hardcore endgame. For PvE the regular content is missions, quests, patrols, Vanguard strikes, the mid endgame the later stages of the Taken War, daily heroic missions and heroic/Nightfall strikes. The raids are very much the peak of the endgame and don't appeal to everyone, but are very important for a subset of the population. I don't think anyone (including Bungie) expects every activity to appeal to everyone. (On the PvP end of things it's regular Crucible -> Iron Banner -> Trials of Osiris.)
I like the raids but strikes are more my cup of tea, especially the direction the new strikes took (which incorporate some raid-lite mechanics). But that presents a challenge for Bungie to span such a wide array of activities, and so players who are only interested in a subset of activities are always wanting more. As a fan of story missions and strikes I think TTK was pretty robust, while the raiding community got a pretty enormous raid (relative to the year 1 raids); TTK straddled things pretty well. But we'll always want more of what we like.
We ran the old strikes for a year, and when the old expansions came out, people wanted to play the new strikes more than the older ones for the variety. The current Vanguard playlist only has the new strikes or the ones that got new variations so people can play the new stuff; I'm guessing the older strikes will be folded into the mix before too much longer.
DC1
Member
And Bo-YA-KAAAA!! Life is worth it!
Really, I was equally excited to discover this.