Official Destiny Thread

[cmdrdredd]

Ouch man...RL first of course.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Well i was going to try to get on tonight and play for a solid 4-5 hours, but ended up a car wreck this afternoon, head-on collision at 40mph. Feeling like shit for now, broken collar bone and cracked sternum. Gonna take it easy for the next few days I think, probably wont be on too much. Ah well, i'll be back when im feeling better

Damn dude that's crazy. At least it wasn't worse though. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Rage187]

Hit 29 tonight and have one more upgrade available on my gloves. That should put me at 110/120 to 30.

Sucks for Qbah about the nightfall strike, but we will do it again tomorrow.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Anyone read the latest update notes?

“The Hive of the holy ‘Treasure Cave’ have realized the futility of their endless assault on Skywatch and have retired to lick their wounds and plan their next attack.”

Lol. At least I checked it out before they nerfed it.

I'm more upset about this one.

"Queen's Wrath Event
Material rewards for dismantling Queen's Wrath gear will no longer provide ascendant materials, but missions will continue to drop Legendary items"

Damn. I was racking up on ascendant shards all week until today when they suddenly stopped appearing. That sent me hunting for the patch notes to see if this was Bungie's fault. Oh well. I've only got one armor level left anyway. :\

http://www.bungie.net/7_Hot-Fix---09252014/en/News/News?aid=12190

 

[Qbah]

Yea, it will take forever now to hit 29 I need like 40 more shards...

 

[cmdrdredd]

Xur is selling Suros Regime auto rifle this weekend for 23 coins. Upgrades to fully maxed stability, when aiming it fires slower(I have heard that it is not much slower at all) but does more damage and the bottom half of the magazine does extra damage and heals you with every hit. I bought it and it will replace my Monte Carlo which I am keeping. I dismantled my shadow price legendary auto rifle and got an auto rifle telemetry which speeds up the upgrade progress with auto rifles for 30minutes.

Suros regime is the best auto rifle in the game. Kind of OP, but the range Nerf coming will tone it down for PvP.

 

[Qbah]

I had enough coins to buy the exotic autorifle on both my Hunter and Titan. I'm keeping my Red Death and Bad Juju though, just in case (can't bring myself to dismantle them - took a lot of effort for the Bad Juju, Red Death is from an engram). Also, I won't be scrapping my legendary guns, since I need to switch to exotics in special / heavy slots too , so I need to have good guns for the slots depending on which one I want to use an exotic in.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I don't want 3 auto rifles though. I have a good legendary scout rifle if I ever get an exotic special or heavy. I'll could always buy a legendary something from a vender.

 

[Rage187]

Where is he? I have more than enough coins and motes.

 

[Qbah]

Where is he? I have more than enough coins and motes.

Hangar, in the very back, down the stairs (in the "bar" area).

 

[Rage187]

Sweet. I'll be on in about a hour.

 

[smackababy]

Been slacking this week (you can thank Fifa for that one), but I finally hit level 2 on Vanguard rep last night. Immediately purchased a legendary, and will soon purchase another. Hit level 25 after equipping it!

Going to check out Xur and see what he has before purchasing anything else though. I could really use a main weapon. My level 20 scout rifle is okay, but I'd much prefer an auto rifle.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah I figured that as other stuff comes out I and others would be taking a few days off this.

 

[Rage187]

I some how accumulated 3 exotic weapon bounties. I got them all to the pvp portion and knocked out 2/3 tonight. When all is said and done, I will have 6 exotic weapons ��

Auto rifle
Shotgun
Pulse rifle
Machine gun
Hand cannon
Rocket launcher

I also had a great day for legendaries and pulled 8 today. Today was indeed a good day.

 

[Ferzerp]

Is there a group that runs the raids or the other non matchmaking PvE items? I've gotten to 27 (nearly 28) but haven't gotten to do any of the ones that aren't matchmaking enabled, and there is no way to communicate in game to actually find a group to do things with. (I play on XB1)

 

[KentState]

Is there a group that runs the raids or the other non matchmaking PvE items? I've gotten to 27 (nearly 28) but haven't gotten to do any of the ones that aren't matchmaking enabled, and there is no way to communicate in game to actually find a group to do things with. (I play on XB1)

I'm on PS4, but curious about this too.

 

[zerocool84]

New loot cave. I'm going to hit it tonight

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6850109/destiny-new-loot-cave-engrams-farming


Plus loot is going to be possibly fixed next week in a patch. All engrams will turn into whatever color they are or better, no more blues turning into greens or purples turning into blues. I can understand why they thought it was a good idea initially but the rate in which you get crappy stuff is too much. I can't remember a game in recent memory where it was this bad.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6852027/destiny-patch-loot-system-engrams-legendary-rare

 

[SlitheryDee]

New loot cave. I'm going to hit it tonight

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6850109/destiny-new-loot-cave-engrams-farming


Plus loot is going to be possibly fixed next week in a patch. All engrams will turn into whatever color they are or better, no more blues turning into greens or purples turning into blues. I can understand why they thought it was a good idea initially but the rate in which you get crappy stuff is too much. I can't remember a game in recent memory where it was this bad.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6852027/destiny-patch-loot-system-engrams-legendary-rare

I never minded the idea of each decoding being something of a gamble, but it has to be on the less frustrating side. Even a 50/50 chance of the purple engrams turning out to be legendary items would be fine with me. It's only when I decode about 10 purple engrams and get maybe 1 actual legendary item out of all of them that I want to throw my controller through the screen.

Currently I'm pissed about the fact that as soon as I got my exotic bounty for the pocket infinity fusion rifle I suddenly stopped getting any blue fusion rifles. It's been over a week and I've only managed to dismantle 3 of the 10 I need to move to the next part of the bounty, and 2 of those I had in storage before I even got the bounty. I'm not sure, but I think I've been more consistently pissed at Destiny than any other game I've played.

 

[cmdrdredd]

New loot cave. I'm going to hit it tonight

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6850109/destiny-new-loot-cave-engrams-farming


Plus loot is going to be possibly fixed next week in a patch. All engrams will turn into whatever color they are or better, no more blues turning into greens or purples turning into blues. I can understand why they thought it was a good idea initially but the rate in which you get crappy stuff is too much. I can't remember a game in recent memory where it was this bad.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/26/6852027/destiny-patch-loot-system-engrams-legendary-rare

That is a good thing. The loot system is pretty broke as it is now. Also, they are increasing the frequence of getting good drops from higher level activities.

As for the raid, I wonder if we have enough people here on ps4 who are appropriate level and have weapons with element damage. I know I am 28 but I keep getting special and heavy weapons with void and solar damage. I can't for the life of me find any arc weapons. I already have solar and void weapons leveled a bit. I need arc damage. I wouldn't mind trying the raid with a group from here if we can get a decent setup. I haven't really read up on raid strategy because I was hunting down weapons for elemental damage since I know that is helpful if not required for the raid and nightfall strikes. I never get exotic bounties to have a chance on a good elemental weapon. I may have to buy something from the venders.

 

[smackababy]

Did a couple Queen missions last night. Up to almost 26 now!

 

[mnewsham]

I am going to try to get on today to do a bit of easy farming runs, don't think I am dexterous enough to do anything too difficult yet though. Level 27 for now. Hopefully get that close to 28 after some farming.

 

[Qbah]

Fuck you Bungie, fuck you from the bottom of my heart for forcing people to do pvp for exotic bounties. I fucking hate pvp. Especially when you get minus points for dying!!

There should always be a pve path to such quests. I just abandoned two exotic bounties cause it was extremely annoying and furthest away from fun. And after 5 games I had ZERO progress since I died more than I killed

So again, fuck you Bungie!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Fuck you Bungie, fuck you from the bottom of my heart for forcing people to do pvp for exotic bounties. I fucking hate pvp. Especially when you get minus points for dying!!

There should always be a pve path to such quests. I just abandoned two exotic bounties cause it was extremely annoying and furthest away from fun. And after 5 games I had ZERO progress since I died more than I killed

So again, fuck you Bungie!

Yes exactly my thoughts when I saw some of those bounties people were getting. Keeping a good k/d ratio is very tough when people are running around 1 shotting you with things like fusion rifles, 3 shorting you with an auto rifle from distance and other such nonsense.

It is terrible to force PvP for these. You may need yo do more for the PvE quests but it would be better than forcing PvP IMO.

 

[blurredvision]

Just tested out loot cave 2.0 for about 20-30 minutes. Was by myself, judging by bungie.net, about 375 total kills when I minus the bad guys in the area you have to clear first. Sure as hell made the 200 fallen headshot queen bounty from yesterday easy to get. It's extremely simple to do by yourself, takes 5 bullets max if you aim right and start firing at their heads as soon as they show.

Overall, in this one session, I didn't get as many engrams as I did in the same amount of time at the first loot cave.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I might attribute that to RNG being against you that time. I haven't tried it myself. I am not against it because the chances of good stuff from it is low, I just want the rewards for high level challenges to be better than shooting level 7 enemies.