Official Destiny Thread

[cmdrdredd]

I am happy for the marks to planet material. I hate running around a planet trying to find the materials (which take way too much to upgrade, btw). I had been relegated to spending my time logging on, doing a few strikes and never progressing past level 26 and a half, and logging off. I don't want to run around a planet hoping to find one or two spots to get some materials to upgrade after 6 hours of farming...

On every planet there is a loop you can run and get 80 materials in under an hour easily. It was boring but that's really the only thing.

As for the update... they didn't fix any of the 5 or so glitches I can name in the raid but they won't let you push the templar off. So what that means is now nobody will be getting the extra chest on hard mode because the fight will take way longer than 5 minutes. They also made it harder to rank up cryptarch. Even with the increased chance for legendary, I would rather have 2 blues that could be coins or potentially legendary than to take 500 turn ins(exaggerate) to get 1 rank. Exotic weapons require new materials to max out. This screws anyone who upgrades their weapon before xur is available. 7 coins for 1 shard is ridiculous as well. That's too many IMO. I mean yeah coins are pretty easy to get and I appreciate ascendent materials not being used for any of the exotic weapon upgrades(even though I have a ton of those too). I think expecting people to get one shard per weekly strike run is a little much. Especially if you have 5 or so of the weapons on that list that got buffed. It even applies to exotic armor. So lets say you get a horn in nightfall, are working on mida and plan c, and have a new exotic armor you didn't max before this update. You need to spend 28 coins to max all of those. That's a lot of coins, so hopefully they are semi-generous with the drop rate. I have a lotof coins myself as I'm sitting on 57, but I found ascendent materials much easier to get. I guess they just want to make people spend more time in the game to upgrade their stuff since it was not too difficult to get stuff maxed. I suppose you're lucky if like me there's only one item xur can sell that you will ever buy at this point. You can hoard exotic shards every time and just keep enough coins to buy that item that you want. For me it's Gjallarhorn. SO I'll always keep enough coins on hand to buy it.

I feel bad for anyone starting this game fresh. The amount of time sink Bungie has added to the game since launch is just ridiculous. All they really do is exchange one RNG for another RNG while removing strategies from boss fights. I have over 300 hours into this game and I would still play, if I had an incentive. Bungie seems to want people to just stop playing. They go all QQ when people figure out how to beat their challenges quickly. It's like the kid who changes the rules for the kickball game because "it's my ball and you'll play how I tell you to".

 

[chimaxi83]

I have not touched this game in a month. Man I'm so behind there is no point now lol.

Not really. I just leveled a second toon to 20 this weekend. I have friends who are always playing though. This game isn't solo friendly IMO. It'd be boring as hell if all I did was solo play.

 

[Schfifty Five]

On every planet there is a loop you can run and get 80 materials in under an hour easily. It was boring but that's really the only thing.

As for the update... they didn't fix any of the 5 or so glitches I can name in the raid but they won't let you push the templar off. So what that means is now nobody will be getting the extra chest on hard mode because the fight will take way longer than 5 minutes. They also made it harder to rank up cryptarch. Even with the increased chance for legendary, I would rather have 2 blues that could be coins or potentially legendary than to take 500 turn ins(exaggerate) to get 1 rank. Exotic weapons require new materials to max out. This screws anyone who upgrades their weapon before xur is available. 7 coins for 1 shard is ridiculous as well. That's too many IMO. I mean yeah coins are pretty easy to get and I appreciate ascendent materials not being used for any of the exotic weapon upgrades(even though I have a ton of those too). I think expecting people to get one shard per weekly strike run is a little much. Especially if you have 5 or so of the weapons on that list that got buffed.

I feel bad for anyone starting this game fresh. The amount of time sink Bungie has added to the game since launch is just ridiculous. All they really do is exchange one RNG for another RNG while removing strategies from boss fights. I have over 300 hours into this game and I would still play, if I had an incentive. Bungie seems to want people to just stop playing. They go all QQ when people figure out how to beat their challenges quickly. It's like the kid who changes the rules for the kickball game because "it's my ball and you'll play how I tell you to".

They fixed one really important glitch, not teleporting 3 players each time on Aetheon.

 

[cmdrdredd]

They fixed one really important glitch, not teleporting 3 players each time on Aetheon.

Yet they forgot about the portal not teleporting you out when you walk through it, the relic not cleansing you, supplicants following you into the time portal, stepping on certain areas of the stairs would kill you instantly like a fall, oracles chiming but not spawning which results in a wipe, atheon not teleporting anybody and freezing in place unable to receive damage, the shield not doing its job when you have the relic so everyone can still take damage.

Not teleporting 3 people was easy to deal with anyway. keep both portals open, call where you are at, request help, someone goes in to assist with oracles.


There is a silver lining though. If you have an exotic item you won't use, dismantling it gives an exotic shard. So if you are like me and have a few weapon types you don't use and have a couple items for classes you don't play(or duplicate items), you can get ahead of the game and bag a couple exotic upgrade mats. I'm sitting on 10 exotic shards now. I had a lot of stuff I got but would never ever use over my other options.

 

[Subyman]

On every planet there is a loop you can run and get 80 materials in under an hour easily. It was boring but that's really the only thing.

As for the update... they didn't fix any of the 5 or so glitches I can name in the raid but they won't let you push the templar off. So what that means is now nobody will be getting the extra chest on hard mode because the fight will take way longer than 5 minutes. They also made it harder to rank up cryptarch. Even with the increased chance for legendary, I would rather have 2 blues that could be coins or potentially legendary than to take 500 turn ins(exaggerate) to get 1 rank. Exotic weapons require new materials to max out. This screws anyone who upgrades their weapon before xur is available. 7 coins for 1 shard is ridiculous as well. That's too many IMO. I mean yeah coins are pretty easy to get and I appreciate ascendent materials not being used for any of the exotic weapon upgrades(even though I have a ton of those too). I think expecting people to get one shard per weekly strike run is a little much. Especially if you have 5 or so of the weapons on that list that got buffed. It even applies to exotic armor. So lets say you get a horn in nightfall, are working on mida and plan c, and have a new exotic armor you didn't max before this update. You need to spend 28 coins to max all of those. That's a lot of coins, so hopefully they are semi-generous with the drop rate. I have a lotof coins myself as I'm sitting on 57, but I found ascendent materials much easier to get. I guess they just want to make people spend more time in the game to upgrade their stuff since it was not too difficult to get stuff maxed. I suppose you're lucky if like me there's only one item xur can sell that you will ever buy at this point. You can hoard exotic shards every time and just keep enough coins to buy that item that you want. For me it's Gjallarhorn. SO I'll always keep enough coins on hand to buy it.

I feel bad for anyone starting this game fresh. The amount of time sink Bungie has added to the game since launch is just ridiculous. All they really do is exchange one RNG for another RNG while removing strategies from boss fights. I have over 300 hours into this game and I would still play, if I had an incentive. Bungie seems to want people to just stop playing. They go all QQ when people figure out how to beat their challenges quickly. It's like the kid who changes the rules for the kickball game because "it's my ball and you'll play how I tell you to".

I was already drowning in stuff I had to do to get my guy competitive in a raid. I've pretty much given up. After the third week of doing material runs for vanguard marks, I looked at my steam library and asked myself why the hell am I doing this? I love the feel and ambiance of the game and really want to like it, but they have way too many barriers.

A lot of MMO games lock out the top 1% of gear to the hugely dedicated that can get a consistent group of people together. Destiny requires a dedicated group of friends to do even the most basic activities that give decent gear like Nightfall or the weekly strike. Without gear from Nightfall, you can't solo Nightfall, so people are pretty much locked out until they can get friends together to do it.

I'm fine with not having the top 1% of the gear, but I'd like to at least get out of blues without grinding for weeks.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Hard raid gave me a second helmet, 3rd timebreaker sparrow, and energy. That's it. /sigh

 

[KentState]

I was already drowning in stuff I had to do to get my guy competitive in a raid. I've pretty much given up. After the third week of doing material runs for vanguard marks, I looked at my steam library and asked myself why the hell am I doing this? I love the feel and ambiance of the game and really want to like it, but they have way too many barriers.

A lot of MMO games lock out the top 1% of gear to the hugely dedicated that can get a consistent group of people together. Destiny requires a dedicated group of friends to do even the most basic activities that give decent gear like Nightfall or the weekly strike. Without gear from Nightfall, you can't solo Nightfall, so people are pretty much locked out until they can get friends together to do it.

I'm fine with not having the top 1% of the gear, but I'd like to at least get out of blues without grinding for weeks.

What I realized today also. Put the game away and decided to move on. I've done everything in the game at least once if not 50 times so there isn't anything new at this point. Grinding raids to get gear so you can just grind it more is rather pointless.

 

[sze5003]

Most of my friends are level 28 or higher and usually would let me tag along but I'm not high up there to do the raids and strikes they want to do. All of them still play it. When I play I usually just do bounties and go on the Destiny lfg site to look for people to do strikes or daily missions. But even then I'm not so good at grinding.

I'm keeping the game for those days where I'm bored and just need something to play to pass time.

 

[digiram]

Finally finished the crucible requirement for Thorn, and there's another mission now? At least, I'm done with the crucble part I guess.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah you gotta do a lv26 phogoth strike and kill a special wizard that spawns at the third wave of enemies in phogoth's room

 

[metaphors]

Wait so you're saying you're done with the game dredd?

 

[exar333]

This game sounds like a job where you don't get paid. Am I missing something?

 

[PimpJuice]

Yet they forgot about the portal not teleporting you out when you walk through it, the relic not cleansing you, supplicants following you into the time portal, stepping on certain areas of the stairs would kill you instantly like a fall, oracles chiming but not spawning which results in a wipe, atheon not teleporting anybody and freezing in place unable to receive damage, the shield not doing its job when you have the relic so everyone can still take damage.

Not teleporting 3 people was easy to deal with anyway. keep both portals open, call where you are at, request help, someone goes in to assist with oracles.

I don't know about anyone else, but I've never experienced ANY of those issues except the portal not teleporting you out at times. Personally, I'm happy with the update. It seems some people will never be happy regardless of what bungie does and they are free to quit playing. I don't understand why people complain over and over and yet continue to spend hundreds of hours in that same game. If it was me, I'd quit and play something else.

 

[Qbah]

I don't know about anyone else, but I've never experienced ANY of those issues except the portal not teleporting you out at times. Personally, I'm happy with the update. It seems some people will never be happy regardless of what bungie does and they are free to quit playing. I don't understand why people complain over and over and yet continue to spend hundreds of hours in that same game. If it was me, I'd quit and play something else.

I stopped playing this POS. And I did everything the game offers. Can still complain about all the lies Bungie and Activision have been feeding us, so that others hopefully don't buy it and get cheated. I have experienced all the bugs Cmdrdredd wrote about multiple times.

 

[metaphors]

I've experienced most of the issues he listed minus the stairs kills and supplicants following you in portals, I also don't raid every week because honestly it takes too long sometimes especially with half your team being random people, people switching characters after the templar to open chests and of course some of the glitches he listed.

I do agree though it the game bugs you you should stop playing or at least stop playing the parts that bug you.

 

[PimpJuice]

I'll consider myself lucky then, but I do see how that can be frustrating if it happens over and over. Supplicants going into the portal, that's one I hope to never see.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Didn't see this posted yet, but this week's weekly heroic and nightfall is Nexus Mind strike:

https://www.bungie. net/en/Forum/Post/81743675/0/0/1

You'll have to remove the space between the "e" and the .net

 

[chimaxi83]

I don't understand the grind bitching. Its like Diablo. Or WoW. Both games I know some of you play. You play and level up and grind for meaningless digital items for whatever reason floats your boat. Yes the story is a letdown so far. The content is average I guess. But the grinding? Its no different than any other game.

 

[Subyman]

I don't understand the grind bitching. Its like Diablo. Or WoW. Both games I know some of you play. You play and level up and grind for meaningless digital items for whatever reason floats your boat. Yes the story is a letdown so far. The content is average I guess. But the grinding? Its no different than any other game.

Uhm, yes it is. Hugely different. The loot cycle in Diablo is very fast. New stuff drops quickly and you cycle through gear at a nice pace. Dungeons scale to your level so you can progress without friends. Friends make the game better but they aren't absolutely required to progress.

Wow gives players access to a ton of upgrade options. The top 1% of gear is locked away to the hugely dedicated, but casuals can gear up easily. There is a great LFG system that works with any dungeon and awesome stuff drops from heroics. There are literally hundreds of ways to get decent weapons or gear.

Blizzard knows how to reward a player for their time spent. Bungie does not. Destiny is like a mini MMO with all the grind but very little variety. On top of that a good weapon drops and then you have to spend the next few days grinding materials to make it good. :|

 

[cmdrdredd]

Wait so you're saying you're done with the game dredd?

Feels like I should be. I still do nightfall/weekly, raid, and check Xur. That's almost it anymore.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I don't know about anyone else, but I've never experienced ANY of those issues except the portal not teleporting you out at times. Personally, I'm happy with the update. It seems some people will never be happy regardless of what bungie does and they are free to quit playing. I don't understand why people complain over and over and yet continue to spend hundreds of hours in that same game. If it was me, I'd quit and play something else.

I have experienced every one of those bugs. Bungie never addresses them. It's on their own forums too.

I still like the game but seriously after so much time in the game, you can definitely find things that need fixing and adjustment. Bungie ignored a lot of the important ones so they can make atheon randomly teleport people and remove strategy and remove safe spots from strikes. As I said before it is because Bungie never expected everyone to find ways to win so quickly and easily. They sold the raid as being some impossible task and they made a big deal when it took the first group like 10 hours or something. Then people passed around strategy ideas and hey some of them work. So we start speed running it in 45min and getting a lot of the loot quickly and Bungie starts to QQ and changes the rules.

 

[metaphors]

Feels like I should be. I still do nightfall/weekly, raid, and check Xur. That's almost it anymore.

Well those are the main things I do anyways except instead of the raid i'm more likely to spend an hour in the tiger strike playlist.

As far as what they patch and don't that's what I've always said is they are trying to patch out strategies/glitches that help players but creating more and or ignoring the ones that break the game.

So it's finally solar damage this week?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well those are the main things I do anyways except instead of the raid i'm more likely to spend an hour in the tiger strike playlist.

As far as what they patch and don't that's what I've always said is they are trying to patch out strategies/glitches that help players but creating more and or ignoring the ones that break the game.

So it's finally solar damage this week?

Yep...gonna hop into nightfall when I get home.

Vision of Confluence, Ice Breaker, solar zombie apocalypse combo.

You interested in teaming up for a run? I need both the weekly and nightfall on each of my two characters.

 

[metaphors]

As long as you're on when I am sure, I find it best to get it done as early as possible. Besides I have to do it on 3 characters lol.

 

[Anubis]

Feels like I should be. I still do nightfall/weekly, raid, and check Xur. That's almost it anymore.

That's all ive been doing since the latest WoW expansion came out

TBH that will prob completely stop as well as the raid just opened up

I can prob hop on for the nightfall as well with you guys

I got full maxed solar stuff and I can max the Mythoclast see if its any good now