Destiny - Bungie's Next Big Project

[Phil_SS]

My level 20 female Awoken (Defender) Titan is only about half way through Venus and Mars isn't open yet. Been having too much fun just rolling around; collecting bounties, doing patrols, public events and strike missions. I also started a new character: a male, EXO, Hunter. And I've decided to play him as if he is part of a clan of EXO hunters that have restrictions on what kind of weapons can be used.

EXO Hunter clan build:

Subclass: Bladedancer
Primary: Hand Cannon or AutoRifle only
Secondary: Sniper rifle only
Heavy Weapon: Machine Gun only

For those that don't know, once you have any character to Level 15 you can begin any new character and pick the subclass from basically the beginning. I think you have to wait til you finish the first mission to have access to your character. So at Level 2 I could change the subclass.

And here is cool site where you can check out your character with different shaders before buying them. (http://db.destinytracker.com/Character)

[novicius]

Verra' cool. :up:

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I also deleted my Human Hunter and remade him as a Human Titan. Dennis & I chatted about changing the Subclass but I'm going to leave him as a Striker.

Since levelling happens *so* friggin' quick, when I started receiving pieces of standard Titan red armor @ level 7, I just deleted them. I like the look of the early Titan blue armor @ levels 2-3 better. Keeping it until something better looking comes along. :lol: #papertitan

[Kchrpm]

Can I make a female character with a large, heaving bosom, and long, flowing, brown hair?

[21Kid]

Sorry Keith, you can only change the face & hair.

Thanks for the tip about the sub-class. Now that my daughter's Bday is past I should be able to get online a bit more.

[Kchrpm]

:down: not buying it. SAVE ME SAINTS ROW!

*seriously, though, I like the ideas of this game so much, but I think I'll like them implemented in The Division more.*

[21Kid]

I am honestly a little let down by the limited amount of options.

I wish there were more guns. I know it's not Borderlands, but maybe it should try to be, a little bit.
I wish there was a bigger story. I thought this was supposed to be an epic adventure, but it seems to mostly be just "go here and shoot stuff".

I love the feel and gameplay of it. To me though... it just needs something 'more'. :|

[novicius]

It is very much like an updated version of SEGA's Phantasy Star Online: colorful and fun but with some absolute limitations.

[21Kid]

Ahhh the memories. :cool:

Maybe I just haven't gotten to the really cool weapons and toys like in PSO. :shrug:

[JSGeneral]

Got my Warlock to level 15... Then I went and completed 4 bounties (still as the Void class).

Back at the Tower, I switched to the newly unlocked Sunsinger class, turned in those bounties... and with that XP, leveled up four new abilities without even playing as that class. Now Sunsinger is useful because I can throw a grenade, double-jump, and use the Sunsinger special ability in combat when I first try it out. :up:

[novicius]

The Azure Blue Crew rolled hard last night, fulfilling bounties and regulating justice. :up: :up:

Not sure how crazy I am about using the Shaders but I'm sure glad that they're not permanent or one-time-uses only. They're incredibly uniform, whereas matching individual pieces of armor generally looks more detailed. Eh, it's something to try. :)

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I've picked up a new habit for Destiny (idiosyncratic gaming tics, I haz 'em!): I sit my character down to review gear. Instead of just standing there, staring off into space, I like to park my 'toon down on his butt while I work my Inventory. Typically I do this in the closing moments of a mission or after taking down some Big Bad. When I'm done, I stand back up. Weird, eh? ;)

[Cam]

Back at the Tower, I switched to the newly unlocked Sunsinger class, turned in those bounties... and with that XP, leveled up four new abilities without even playing as that class. Now Sunsinger is useful because I can throw a grenade, double-jump, and use the Sunsinger special ability in combat when I first try it out. :up:
:lol: Sweet moves. :up:

novi, I do that too. :lol:

[novicius]

I like to think about it as reflecting upon the carnage I hath wrought upon the alien menace. #oooshiny

Also, great work with the kill counts, Cam -- doing all of that with a Hunter, too? Achievement Unlocked: Hunter Baller Status! :cool: :toast:

[novicius]

Bungie: Destiny’s Vault of Glass Raid Open, Progress Saved for One Week (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bungie-Destiny-s-Vault-of-Glass-Raid-Open-Progress-Saved-for-One-Week-458949.shtml)


In an official Twitter message, the studio explains that the Vault of Glass content is not limited in terms of the time it will be available and all players will have a chance to test their skills against the challenge when they feel they have the necessary skills and items. At the same time, progress will only be saved for one week, which means those who enter it should try and complete it within this time frame.

The company adds, “Bungie Specialists have confirmed that, while you may be able to access the Raid before you reach Level 26, such acts would be very foolish.”

Vault of Glass is part of a range of late game content aimed at those players who have already managed to quickly level up their character and want to experience a tough and challenging fight.
:lol:

So this is the first six-player/two-team raid that's open, correct?

[21Kid]

You don't dance while checking stuff out? :assclown:

[novicius]

Kid, you are awesome. :up: #literallol

[thesameguy]

Dude, it's only weird if you make it weird. Just try to act natural.

[Phil_SS]

Bungie: Destiny’s Vault of Glass Raid Open, Progress Saved for One Week (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bungie-Destiny-s-Vault-of-Glass-Raid-Open-Progress-Saved-for-One-Week-458949.shtml)


:lol:

So this is the first six-player/two-team raid that's open, correct?

Correct.

And a little info for ya, an enemy that is 1 level above you does 30% more damage and you do 30% less. 2 levels below and it is 40% for both. So that's why I got housed by a level 22 Dreg lastnight. :lol: So yeah, don't even try the Vault of Glass til you are Level 26.

Another little tidbit. Increasing the armor rating of a piece of armor with Light also increases the Light rating.

[novicius]

I haven't gotten to the end yet, but if Bungie hasn't changed things, this game has a 10-year story arch. So there will be more content released. This is simply a different kind of game than a traditional Halo or CoD in terms of story and progression.
This. :up:

I've been dwelling a little bit about Destiny and trying to project mentally why we should keep playing. This damn good article posted on GamesRadar.com tells me why. (http://www.gamesradar.com/if-youre-worried-about-destinys-longevity-or-level-cap-you-dont-understand-destiny/)

It's more than just "more story is coming!!1!", it's about piecing together the clues that we've got even now. :cool:

[21Kid]

Nice! That makes me more excited than a number score that they could give the game.

[21Kid]

BTW, I went on to Bungie dot net and it shows that I'm part of the group, but not the clan? Did I do something wrong? It says only Tyro (really?) and Scott are clansmen. Do I have to do something else?

[GreatScawt]

Yeah you have to apply to that so Carlo can accept you. In order to get it started we need more people. I believe there's a tab for the XBox clan on the same page.

I may try and get some friends to join, Carlo... just a heads up. :D

[novicius]

Coolio. :up:

[Cam]

BTW, I went on to Bungie dot net and it shows that I'm part of the group, but not the clan? Did I do something wrong? It says only Tyro (really?) and Scott are clansmen. Do I have to do something else?
I was experiencing the same thing.

[21Kid]

pretty sure I did that. :?



edit:
Ah, now I'm in. :cool:

[novicius]

Sorry fellas, I clicked to approve on my phone, guess they didn't go through? Should be good now! :D

[JSGeneral]

Sorry about bailing on the invites yesterday. Last night when I booted up, I was planning on picking up where I left off on my "Get 9000 XP without dying" Bounty. (I was doing this by doing the Earth Strike mission 2+ times.) Yes my progress is the story is still slow. I'm still NO farther than the Moon. I still have NOT played Crucible. And I'm still having a BLAST!

I would of joined up when I got the multiple invites on boot except that... as awesome as it is to roll with you guys.... I die... a lot :lol: And there was that big white whale of a bounty I was chasing. I did get it... and even found a few blue and a bunch of green encrypted items along the way. Back at the Tower, the Cryptarch gave me a pair of Legendary Boots for one of those blues! (I can't wear it yet.... and it doesn't have much in Light stats... but still :up: ) I know I was incredibly lucky... The Cryptarch is a notorious bastard.

Proof: https://twitter.com/TheCryptarch

A couple of farming runs later... a random community event... and I ended the night going from level 16 to 18.

[novicius]

Had a good time farming Venus with Dennis last night -- I picked up two new Rare items and an absolute mess of green drops that I converted into dozens of Weapon Parts and Hadronic Essences. #nerdstuff

Also, congrats to Phil & Dennis on achieving Level 22 & 21 respectively! :up: :up:

[21Kid]

I played the Crudible last night to get a bounty. Kind of dissapointed in the scoring on the territories game (forgot the name). You only get 25 points for neutralizing and 75 points for capturing the area? :(

Out of the 5 games I played (to complete the bounty) the point leader was always the one that had the most kills. :( I was between 0.33 and 0.75 in K/D because I was trying to play for territories instead of kills. My bad. I guess since total points count more I shouldn't martyr myself to capture the territories. :| Just promotes team deathmatch gameplay in a non TDM game. :(

[novicius]

Doesn't it also keep scoring your team points based on how many territories you have captured?

On a fleetingly related point, Phil, his buddy Chris, Dennis & I played in a Crucible match to start the game. We lost. :lol:

[21Kid]

I don't remember actually. I didn't see a counter going up with the time though. It would make sense, but the team with the most kills always seemed to win, no matter who had the most captures.

Maybe it's not that bad. But, I was always in the bottom of the rankings even though I had the most captures and the least amount of kills, usually.

[novicius]

Destiny's Vault of Glass Raid Already Shattered: Clan Primeguard Claims World First Success (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Destiny-s-Vault-of-Glass-Raid-Already-Shattered-Primeguard-Claims-World-First-459080.shtml)


Vault of Glass statistics

Primeguard, the clan that managed to finish Vault of Glass before any other players in the world, clocked their time at 10 hours, 42 minutes and 3 seconds, which speaks to their dedication. The high-level raid went live yesterday, and a lot of fireteams were patiently polishing their rifles waiting for the doors to open, in the hope of finishing it first.

Primeguard was a six-person team, comprised of three Titans, two Hunters and a Warlock, and they all died 1,606 times during their ordeal, with a KDA (kill / death ratio average) of 3.59, which means that they scored 5,733 enemy kills over the 10 hours.

They reported that their average lifespan was 2 minutes and 22 seconds, so you don't have to feel bad for dying often either, as it happens even at the highest echelons of play. *Developer Bungie acknowledged Primeguard's impressive feat in a tweet, challenging the team to try mirroring the achievement on hard mode, which is reportedly much, much tougher.
W T F ? ! *Whoa boys, we got us some work to do! *:D

[21Kid]

Whoa... :eek: You don't have to do it straight through, do you?

[novicius]

No but it'll only save your team's progress for 1 week.

[JSGeneral]

I reached level 20 last night! :up:
Put on those Legendary boots and my Light level almost got me up to level 21. :up:
Still haven't moved past the Moon on story mode... nor done any Crucibling. I'm a slacker and I love it :lol:

So for all of you level 20+ players... what's your strategy now? I'll probably start attempting the daily and weekly strikes (but I'm not Raid material just yet.) I'm wondering if any of you have picked a Faction (in the Tower) to align with? What are the benefits of it? I'm thinking of just sticking with Vanilla Vanguard and not joining any of them. Jeeze, I feel like I might be playing this game all wrong... that the game is LETTING me do that... and that I'm having fun and perfectly fine with it.

[GreatScawt]

Jeez, you got Legendary boots already? Nice!
I honestly would recommend just burning through the story quick. You get some nice stuff along the way.

Then there's plenty of ways to farm engrams (which I have been doing). Do the Dark Side of the Moon mission at lvl 9, go the Temple of Crota where the doors open up and enemies spew out (after scanning the Guardian). Kill them (except the Hallowed Knights) and let them kill you. It'll spit you back out at the beginning of the stream of enemies. Great way to grab some blue or maybe purple engrams. Stay outside the doors, just in case. Any rare engrams you miss are mailed to you, I believe. There's plenty of videos on that and other farming techniques as well, if that's your thing.


I just hit 21 last night, with blue-tier items for every slot. Some grinding, some strikes, some missions, some patrols, some bounties :up:
Loving the scout rifle I have - Acheron SR5. Potential to do 230 damage from the base of 213. :up:

[novicius]

Dennis, Phil & I have been farming the Academy on Venus successfully (without self-terminating :lol: ). I've picked up six blue engrams there over the past two days (in addition to dozens of green engrams).

Also, Rocketland in Old Russia has a circuit of chests that you can do at lower levels but I don't think I've ever picked up a blue engram there...

[Phil_SS]

So for all of you level 20+ players... what's your strategy now? I'll probably start attempting the daily and weekly strikes (but I'm not Raid material just yet.) I'm wondering if any of you have picked a Faction (in the Tower) to align with? What are the benefits of it? I'm thinking of just sticking with Vanilla Vanguard and not joining any of them. Jeeze, I feel like I might be playing this game all wrong... that the game is LETTING me do that... and that I'm having fun and perfectly fine with it.

For now I'm not joining a faction because it isn't worth it to join one of the factions unless you play a lot of Crucible since you only gain experience for that faction through the Crucible. Where as with the Vanguard you gain experience playing PvE.

I got up to Level 23 last night but I don't think I will be able to get any higher without at least one piece of Legendary gear.

[Yw-slayer]

When you are Level 12, it is quite rewarding being 3rd in a PvP match with a higher K/D ratio and points score than Level 22 and 24 guys.

[Cam]

I was playing my level 19 Warlock and did a level 18 strike. By the time I finished the strike, put on my legendary boots and did my business at the tower I was 1/4 of the way to level 22. :hard:

Just started watching the Reef cut scene and I got discoed. Voila, I'm past the cut scene! :lol: So if you don't want to watch the Reef and you're by yourself, try unpluging your internet momentarily.

[novicius]

EVERYBODY is having much better luck than me at gaining Light gear. Despite playing just as much as you guys, it was only at the end of last night that my grinding paid off with a level 21. :smh:

Maybe Bungie has heard of my work on the GTA Online servers? :lol:

[GreatScawt]

I've been farming the "Dark Beyond" mission on the moon for a while and still haven't had a legendary drop. A couple buddies have, however. JUST finally got a decent chest piece with light, which bumped me to 22. To get beyond that would require legendary gear I think :\

Try some farming techniques like Dark Beyond. Do it for maybe 1/2 hour to 2 hours. You should get loads of blues. That will level your cyptarch. Whenever you level him he sends you more items to decrypt in the mail. I think level 5 should get you a legendary engram. Also, upping your vanguard and crucible ranks also give you gifts in the mail.

[Denetti]

After doing some reading this morning it looks like we'd be much better off doing the strike playlist then anything else. It's the best way to get Vanguard rep and not have to reply on random drops. Sure, we might get a lucky drop in the strike playlist too, but this way we have a better chance of success. I think this is also the best way to get strange coins (for Xur) too, but Im not sure about that yet.

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In addition we need to be sure to do the daily heroic, but I think we've mostly been hitting that every day.



Buy Legendaries from the Vanguard, Crucible, and/or Faction vendors.

Buy an Exotic armor piece from Xur on the weekend, and/or an Exotic weapon.

In 8 days you can have 130 of each Mark, that's enough to buy a helm and two other armor pieces for 250 marks total, or if the Exotic you get is a helm, you can buy three other pieces for 195 total and save the extras for Legendary weapons/armor going forward (or a rare Sparrow that you can upgrade to Legendary with Xur!).

I see so many people getting frustrated with farming engrams, only to be consistently disappointed by the Cryptarch when he decodes engrams into other classes legendaries/exotics, or (more often) more blue items or materials.

I also see people despairing that they're stuck at light level 24.

The Marks are there as your primary, guaranteed means of gearing up in full legendary gear, and Xur guarantees you'll get at least one Exotic a week. If you're lucky with Strange Coins or you farm a lot, you can get a weapon and armor from him on the same day. It's 13 coins for armor, 23 for a weapon. If you have spare Motes of Light, you can gamble 23 of those on an Exotic Engram... but don't be surprised if you get another classes Exotic with it (no big deal, it's Motes of Light for that).

I absolutely agree that the current loot/reward system and the psychologically hateful and pointless identifying of Legendary Engrams into blues/other classes items is really terrible design, but you are not at the mercy of the RNG for your Legendary gear - the Marks system will get you what you need in a little over one week of effort, and minimal grinding.

You can earn Vanguard Marks from Vanguard Strikes and completing Public Events (which also award you some Ascendant Materials, both in the mail from your daily gold reward, and from simply completing them).

More details here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2gmi8z/100_guaranteed_full_legendary_exotic_armor_no_rng/

edit - to remove the word 'farming', I think it was confusing

[Cam]

Farming? Bah. I just want to play the game.

Oh yeah, and no pausing to take a phone call. :down:

[21Kid]

Cam :up:

[GreatScawt]

Farming is far from guaranteeing anything. But it's worth a shot here and there. Don't do it 24/7, because you're not getting other things, like marks and ranks and strange coins (unless you can get some bounties done in there in the process).

The key way I justify it is this: even if I don't get legendary engrams ever, I'm still getting loads of blues to decrypt. Which level up your cyptarch and ALSO still give the chance for a legendary item. It's just another game to play occasionally... the RNG game :lol:

[JSGeneral]

Destirn G :up:

[novicius]

Farming? Bah. I just want to play the game.
If they were making things easier to get at the new content (raids, level 20+ add-ons, etc.), I wouldn't sweat it. It's one (more) knock against the game. :|

[novicius]

After doing some reading this morning it looks like we'd be much better off doing the strike playlist then anything else.
Agreed -- even tho' there are apparently only six different Strikes in the playlist right now. It's that, Patrol missions or Crucible from what I've read.

Good Reddit post re: Legendary gear, Dennis. :up: :up:

[21Kid]

Neat.

If you check the back of the grimore cards, there are bonuses for killing each enemy more times,... collecting so much of one type of element... playing one type of PvP game type, etc...


All characters earn more Glimmer when this combatant is killed with a Glimmer-drop consumable active.
Rank 1 47/100
5 points
Rank 2 250
5 points +
Rank 3 500


Cloaks, marks, and bonds can now drop in this Playlist. Tournament Tickets also become more common.

[Cam]

Seems I've hit the maximum amount of glimmer I can hold, 25,000. Why is there even a limit? :? :erm:

[GreatScawt]

Yeah I hit that a few days ago. Makes no sense at all. Considering something like a shader costs a little under 10% of the cap, why is the cap so low? Weird.

[Cam]

After a quick internet search about it, I read a pretty good tip: buy a bunch of encrypted engrams from the Cryptarch to level him up.

[Cam]

Although, buying engrams doesn't level him up nearly as much as the ones you find.

Tried doing some level 18 strikes with a level 17 character. It kept teaming me up with level 16-17 players that were completely inept/underpowered and would quit less than half way through. It happened like four times in a row. :rolleyes:

[novicius]

Yep, I hopped in the Level 24 Strike hopper, got the Old Russia strike and my two teamies promptly quit. Me? I carved through there solo, even through the Hive vs Fallen fight in the mines solo, and only when I got to Sepkis Prime did I get joined with two others. #hosslikeross

I did have a good run of luck this weekend and gained quite a lot of decent gear through the Strikes. Level 24 now. :shocker:

[Cam]

Just before that, I joined a strike that was already nearly complete. Just had to finish off the final boss. :lol:

[JSGeneral]

Thanks for the fun matches over the weekend guys! I finally finished the story last night. It was horrible... and I still love it. I can totally see that the story had to get rushed or rewritten or chopped. The key point for me was when my ghost said after beating the Black Heart and the huge fade to white... "We're back on Mars!"

Actually, no. We're not. We're still in the same green lush place ("beyond time" as you described it). Not an iota of red sand to be seen. Ah well... it was still fun.

I got my Warlock to level 25! :up: I kept finding better blue gear with more Light that I would switch out too. My Legendary Boots still has MUCH leveling to go. That's going to be a grind/farm task. Where does one find "Ascendant Energy"? (I THINK that's what I need... that and the Blooms from Venus... but at least I know where to find those.) I'm going to need copious amounts of both to boost those boots.

[Edit]

Oh... and I forgot to mention that I'm luckier than all of you. My first Legendary Weapon Engram.... netted me NOT a Legendary weapon... but instead an EXOTIC. I never liked Fusion Rifles until I met the PLAN C. Has a helluva kick, but it works like a hot knife through butter. :) :up:

[GreatScawt]

Very awesome! Extremely jealous. :up:
What level is your cyptarch dude?

I had a 4-5 hours to burn last night. Ended up grabbing two legendary engrams. One for a heavy weapon, one for a chest piece. The purple heavy turned into a (pretty decent, albeit) blue launcher, and the purple chest turned into ascendant material

MFW :|

[novicius]

I'm finally close to being able to buy Vanguard gear which should push me up to 26 tonight or tomorrow night.

Do we have enough folks at/above 26 to make a run at the Vault of Glass on any system? :lol:

[Yw-slayer]

"Only 4-5 hours to burn", wtflul

[JSGeneral]

Very awesome! Extremely jealous. :up:
What level is your cyptarch dude?

I had a 4-5 hours to burn last night. Ended up grabbing two legendary engrams. One for a heavy weapon, one for a chest piece. The purple heavy turned into a (pretty decent, albeit) blue launcher, and the purple chest turned into ascendant material

MFW :|

I think my Cyptarch is at level 4... not sure... but he's no higher than 4. I'm not really a fan of the Rocket Launchers anymore now that my exotic secondary weapon is much stronger than ANY fire-and-wait-for-the-missile-to-hit type of weapon.

Novi, I'm a Level 25... but BARELY. It's going to take some time to get into 26+ range. Time I don't have because I'm going to be AFK for the next two weekends. You'll all probably be done the Raid 17 times by the time I return... and probably would of done something else crazy by then like take over The Reef or killed the Cyptarch and shared wearing his white hoodie.

[GreatScawt]

"Only 4-5 hours to burn", wtflul

Hey, time is scarce nowadays. I've been wanting to play a lot more this weekend and that's what I got ALL weekend. It ended up turning into 3-4 hours and it was the afternoon, not evening. My bad. :P :assclown:

[novicius]

Novi, I'm a Level 25... but BARELY. It's going to take some time to get into 26+ range. Time I don't have because I'm going to be AFK for the next two weekends. You'll all probably be done the Raid 17 times by the time I return... and probably would of done something else crazy by then like take over The Reef or killed the Cyptarch and shared wearing his white hoodie.
D'oh! I'm still Level 24 but I've got enough Vanguard Marks to buy two pieces of armor (since I'm not getting anywhere near the quality drops that the rest of you folks are!), which should be enough to eventually push me up to Level 25, I'd think?

Maybe purple engrams will start dropping for me once I'm wearing some purple gear? No clue but I've never had a purple drop or a Legendary drop yet. :|

[Cam]

I have one legendary set of boots for the warlock that came from a purple encrypted engram. That's the best I've got so far, and I have two characters at level 22 and one at 18. Everything else is blue or green. :( My best gun so far has been a hand cannon called, "Sir Issac."

That said, I think legendary items should be as rare as they are. Blues are called "rare" but they are obviously quite common.

[JSGeneral]

I have one legendary set of boots for the warlock that came from a purple encrypted engram. That's the best I've got so far, and I have two characters at level 22 and one at 18. Everything else is blue or green. :( My best gun so far has been a hand cannon called, "Sir Issac."

That said, I think legendary items should be as rare as they are. Blues are called "rare" but they are obviously quite common.

I use Sir Issac too! It's my primary weapon of choice. It's explosive bullet upgrade is wonderful.

I currently am wearing all blue gear (except for the purple boots). Some blue gear I've found has MUCH more Light than others. I swap out any item I'm wearing for extra light. All the blue gear I'm wearing has been maxed/leveled-up as that usually only takes Glimmer and is fairly easy to do.

As for weapons, I'm only holding blue weapons (and the one gold PLAN C). Anything else gets broken down into spare parts. Most of my blue weapons are fully leveled, but I'm still working at getting the Gold one optimized.

[novicius]

Another vote for Sir Isaac. :up:

(Although my best/most damaging gun is either my Level 20 shotty or my Level 20 Rocket Launcher. :D)

[GreatScawt]

Here's a hint that I personally didn't know until yesterday: You can only have one exotic (gold) item on each side of your gear display. So basically, you can only have one exotic gun equipped and one piece of exotic armor equipped.

[Phil_SS]

My current loadout (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018432193793/2305843009215596612#gear&lc=1033)

I have received (5) Legendary engrams but only one of them has turned into a Legendary Item. Four came from drops during general gameplay and the other was from the Cryptarch for Leveling him to Level 4. The one Item I have that is Legendary, as you can see, is a Heavy Machine gun aka Zombie Apocalypse WF47. It hits hard and anything with a blue shield stands no chance even higher level guys. just chews right through them.

I have enough Vanguard marks and Vanguard level to buy a Legendary piece of equipment but I'm not going to until I get the Vanguard to Level 3. Supposedly at that level they give you a Legendary item. So I don't want to buy a chest armor and then be given one. So I'm just going to keep collecting marks and leveling up the Vanguard until then.

I almost have enough strange coins to buy an Exotic from Xur. Hopefully he'll have something next weekend from my Titan. And speaking of Exotic, I received a package from the postmaster that has sent me on a quest for an Exotic weapon. Currently I have to finish five strikes without dying. Looks like all the scrounging I do during story, patrol and strikes has paid off since the quest is received due to finding a ghost fragment.

[Kchrpm]

I'm going to need links to everyone profile, kthx.

[novicius]

Yeah Phil, you are currently the GTX Forums Boss with the drops -- you get better drops than anyone I've heard of. :up: :up: #superjelly

Luck is a significant determinant of how well one does in this game, unfortunately. It's disheartening to play as much as I do and not even get a whiff of the good stuff. :| #whaaambulance #keepgrinding

[JSGeneral]

I have enough Vanguard marks and Vanguard level to buy a Legendary piece of equipment but I'm not going to until I get the Vanguard to Level 3. Supposedly at that level they give you a Legendary item. So I don't want to buy a chest armor and then be given one. So I'm just going to keep collecting marks and leveling up the Vanguard until then.


This is a GREAT idea. Thanks Phil. I still only have 80+ Vanguard marks... but this will be useful information when I start my search for more gear.

My current loadout. (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018430167328/2305843009217658304#gear)

[Denetti]

Here's my gear: http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018434153030/2305843009217029713#gear

The helmet was a very lucky item for me -- the Cryptarch was feeling generous. He decrypted a blue drop (rare) into a purple (legendary). That helm is normally only available via Crucible rep.

I've only gotten 3 other purple/legendary drops -- 2 of those decrypted into blue, and the third decrypted into a legendary Hunter Cloak.

The gauntlets I bought with accumulated Vanguard points. I'm like level 2.25 now.

Next step for me is to get Vanguard level 3 and be able to buy a purple/legendary weapon. Plus I need to get a lot more materials from the Moon and Venus for leveling the helmet and gauntlets.

[Yw-slayer]

Farmed my way from level 17 to 20 at the cave just now.

[Kchrpm]

Looking beefy, Dennis. What's the difference between Exo and Human?

[novicius]

Farmed my way from level 17 to 20 at the cave just now.
Yep, I slagged it at first but if I want to have a chance at purple gear drops (and farming mega amounts of Hadronic Essense) I'm gonna have to get off my high horse and get in on the jam. :lol:

My end mission kill stats are the only things that keep me warm in this cold and brutal online future... :smh:

[21Kid]

I'm a lowly lv 13 (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429636096/2305843009218038630#gear). :( Not as much fun playing by myself. :| Looking into other playing options.

Keith, it's just the appearance, AFAIK.

[Kchrpm]

Exo = beefy? I guess I should just do an image search...

[GreatScawt]

The beefy bro is a Titan. Exo is just the race. Which AFAIK is strictly aesthetic. There's no passive abilities in there like there is in - say - Skryim.

[21Kid]

Exo = Robot
Awoken = Alien (human-esque)
Human = Human :p

You are always wearing armor in the field, though. The only time you even see it is during cut-scenes or in the tower (general hangout area). So, it doesn't really matter at all.

[JSGeneral]

I'm a lowly lv 13 (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429636096/2305843009218038630#gear). :( Not as much fun playing by myself. :| Looking into other playing options.

I was actually in a state like that last week... when I felt a bit alone and under the level of others in my friends list. (Other than farming "The Cave"--which I still have fun at...) You should try:

Strike Missions. Do this! They have matchmaking that will place you with like-level randoms. Have a fun romp, get some great loot, and then be done with them and never see them again.

[Kchrpm]

I just want to make a Gina Carano ass kicker.

http://kotaku.com/destiny-the-kotaku-review-1637735501

That review is so well done.

[novicius]

Heh, probably have to make a Male Human Titan with lipstick & long brown hair because I think the Female bodies in all classes are still Anime-small. :lol:

[Kchrpm]

BOO!!!!

[GreatScawt]

Also, since we're posting our space-magic wizard-bros, here's mine (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429797789/2305843009217785196#gear)

Nothing special to see here. Not yet </overly optimistic>

But I will say the Jester Apogee shader is so much better in-game with the proper lighting. Also, my Warlock bond looks like rave glow-sticks :lol:

[Yw-slayer]

Yeah, now I'm 20 I think the game begins.

[JSGeneral]

Yeah, now I'm 20 I think the game begins.

:up:

Last night for me, I did a couple of strike missions... got the achievement for collecting a week's worth of Vanguard points (100)... and then turned in some engrams. I ended up getting a Legendary item... but it was Hunter gloves. No matter, I'll just break down my first purple gear and see what I get. Lo and behold... 3 ascendant materials that I needed for my Legendary boots! Hot damn. Now all I needed were some Venus blooms. I quickly do a patrol down on the greenest planet in the game. Down there scavenging, I end up getting drawn in to a public event where my Level 25 Warlock really helped dominate the hill so that we gold star it. I finish up finding enough blooms and then add in the first level of upgrades to the boots...

That gear only raised ONE smidgen on it's Light stat! It went from 22 --> 23 Light :down: :(

This barely moved my overall level meter on my Warlock. Apparently this is actually normal, and the NEXT upgrade on these boots will give more Light. Still, it was a tough discovery.

Then as I wrap it up... I realize that I hadn't gone and set ANY bounties. All my previous bounties were already collected. Wasted XP opportunity :smh:

[JSGeneral]

Also, since we're posting our space-magic wizard-bros, here's mine (http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429797789/2305843009217785196#gear)

Nothing special to see here. Not yet </overly optimistic>


That handgun looks amazeballs! Skip Rounds!? I want that!

[GreatScawt]

It's awesome. When I posted that link I didn't have that pistol yet. Just all boring blues. Got this late last night. It's friggin' superb :up:

[novicius]

Yeah, that's supa-sweet, Scawt -- nice find! :up: :up:

In other HIGHLY IMPORTANT news, I finally received my first Legendary Engram! :sing: :sing: :sing: :rawk: :sing: :sing: :sing:

(It turned into a pair of blue boots but that doesn't matter! I finally got one!! :lol: )

::

Also tried leveling-up a Level 20 Auto Rifle last night and discovered after firing a few thousand rounds that they've been nerf'd to the bejeezus now. I'm glad I came to my senses and didn't spend any of my precious Weapon Parts on it. :smh:

[Denetti]

Nice hand cannon. What do the skip rounds do? Or are they mainly for being able to carry more ammo?

[Kchrpm]

It looks like they bounce off walls and allow you to carry more ammo, but slow down your weapon handling.

[GreatScawt]

Yeah, apparently it really makes the weapon feel sluggish. So we'll see... I do like the sound of that, though. I've yet to unlock anything on it yet, just did a couple bounties on Mars last night before calling it quits around 2am :lol:

[GreatScawt]

Yeah, that's supa-sweet, Scawt -- nice find! :up: :up:

In other HIGHLY IMPORTANT news, I finally received my first Legendary Engram! :sing: :sing: :sing: :rawk: :sing: :sing: :sing:

(It turned into a pair of blue boots but that doesn't matter! I finally got one!! :lol: )

Indeed, same happened to me on my first couple. Where'd you grab the engram? You'll grab some more eventually. Keep leveling the cryptard too for more chances to get sent purple engrams.

[21Kid]

Yeah, it feels like Halo3 levels of ineffectiveness with the auto rifle. Where an entire clip probably won't kill something, without a few of them being headshots. :|

Wait... Legendary Engrams sometimes just give you rare items? :(

[GreatScawt]

Yup. Or materials. People are not happy about that.

[JSGeneral]

Or an actual Legendary piece of armor... that is of a different class so you cannot wear it.

[Phil_SS]

I've also received Strange coins and Mote of light from them, as well as from Rare Engrams. It's all good. I find it fun that there is a bit of mystery even when you get one. And it's not like that is the only way to get Legendary gear. The best way is to; play strikes/participate in public events/play heroic story and collect Vanguard marks.

And I have an Auto rifle that does pretty damn well. Shingen-E with full upgrade. It has an upgrade that when in ADS it will slow down the rate of fire but do more damage. It is very effective. I would like to try a Rare Scout rifle but I haven't seen a single one yet.

[Denetti]

I wondered how many Shaders were in the game. The answer is "a lot": http://db.destinytracker.com/character/xbox/denetti/shaders/2305843009217029713/

You can look at your own characters with the different shaders here: http://db.destinytracker.com/character

[JSGeneral]

Great time running through the Queen's Strike Challenge with Novi... and was it Denetti? (Sorry, it was late and I forgot).

I had just spent most of my evening, clearing out my previous bounties so I could make space for Queen bounties. After tackling a couple of hers, I could then try out one of her Strikes. I was solo at the time, so I wanted to get a mission I could actually beat. (Being Lvl 25 soloin a rated Lvl 24 strike match is no cake-walk... and then they add buff to it too!) So I would enter a strike and then just RTO (Return To Orbit) if it was a mission that I would be dominated in. Apparently the selection of the Strike mission is random (and maybe the buffs are too?). I eventually got a Moon mission to destroy a shrine. Hunt and Pecked my way through that and was able to beat it.

Thank you Exotic Fusion Rifle "Plan C"... Thank you.

I ended up getting some Legendary chest armor called The Queens Robes :up: Put that on and was going to call it a night when I checked the Orbit map and saw a Friends Icon on the Queen Strike. I checked the Roster UI in the game and saw Novi and Denetti (at least I hope it was you Denetti or I'm gonna owe someone here an apology for forgetting them) was in a Queen Strike. I decided to see what would happen if I joined their fireteam.

Sure enough, there was a slot... and I joined them. They were doing the same mission I just accomplished (though my pistol wasn't as strong this time... that's why I think there are alternating buffs. Side Bar: Does ANYONE know how to identify what those buff icons represent? I find no where before the match where they explain what the little skull icons mean. Anyhow... I digress...) So since I had just accomplished this strike, I felt pretty useful. I knew where enemies were probably gonna be and where to go on the map. Even knew of a nice camping spot at the final boss :)

Anyhow, we beat the shrine and I got ANOTHER Queens Robes! I could disassemble this one for more parts to upgrade my original set. And I witnessed that each fireteam member got Legendary equipment. #nomorecryingNovi #IsawNovigetLegendarystuff :up:

Also, someone got a Legendary Spaceship. Extremely jealous about that... but happy to help be a part of it.

[GreatScawt]

Sweet, I was just gonna jump on and say, the Queen's missions will give you legendary gear. I did four missions last night (three of which were the same :|). I finally got some purple stuff. Helmet and robes. I got robes three times total, breaking down the next two pieces for shards. Very productive evening :lol::up:

[GreatScawt]

Well this is brilliant

http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hazxs/xbox_users_snap_destinypubliceventscom_in_ie_app/


And for non-X1 players, grab a laptop and go here: www.destinypublicevents.com

[novicius]

Great time running through the Queen's Strike Challenge with Novi... and was it Denetti? (Sorry, it was late and I forgot).
Yep, it was Denetti. :)

We had a good night rolling through Patrols and Strikes, focusing on fulfilling bounties and earning Vanguard Points. I'm pretty well decked out in Purple gear now. :twisted: :up:


Side Bar: Does ANYONE know how to identify what those buff icons represent? I find no where before the match where they explain what the little skull icons mean.
Put your cursor over the skulls on the screen, a pop-up will show and you can read what "Heroic", "Flame", etc. all mean.


Anyhow, we beat the shrine and I got ANOTHER Queens Robes! I could disassemble this one for more parts to upgrade my original set. And I witnessed that each fireteam member got Legendary equipment. #nomorecryingNovi #IsawNovigetLegendarystuff :up:
Yep, 'tis true! But keep in mind that I was wearing a Legendary Chest Armor I had purchased from my Vanguard Warlock patron beforehand so it wasn't my first piece of purple gear. :D Everybody else is getting free swag and I had to burn my Vanguard Points to keep up! It was my first free Legendary gear, however, so yes I will definitely stop whining now! ;)


Also, someone got a Legendary Spaceship. Extremely jealous about that... but happy to help be a part of it.
Yep, Dennis now has a pink spaceship for the toughest Exo Titan this side of Phil. :lol: #money

[Denetti]

Yep, Dennis now has a pink spaceship for the toughest Exo Titan this side of Phil. #money

Get with the program, it's...Magenta??? Very manly.

832

I guess the legendaries are guaranteed drops for completing the Queen's Strikes. And you get one run for each of her bounties you turn in. The Supremacy (http://i.imgur.com/B0n7Kea.jpg) sniper rifle is a possible drop in there too. That would be nice.


Thank you Exotic Fusion Rifle "Plan C"... Thank you.

And after seeing the way you tore through everything I need to take another look at fusion rifles.

[Phil_SS]

I did a few of he Queen's Bounties last night til my wireless game adapter decided to go on the fritz. I need me some purple gear.

So, does anybody have a Xbox 360 USB wireless network adapter they aren't using? I think my Linksys may be dieing.

[thesameguy]

I have a D-Link DAP 1522 which you're welcome to for the cost of shipping. It's a wireless bridge, so it connects to your wireless network and then connects via Ethernet to the xbox. It's 802.11n and plenty quick, but doesn't have the best reception so if your wireless signal is weak at the xbox, it may not help. Of course, you can always run a 30' Ethernet cable between it and the xbox and put it in a more optimal location. ;)

[21Kid]

Get with the program, it's...Magenta??? Very manly.

pink-ship.jpeg :lol: Dennis.

I keep my systems hard-wired, for a better connection. :hard:

[Phil_SS]

I have a D-Link DAP 1522 which you're welcome to for the cost of shipping. It's a wireless bridge, so it connects to your wireless network and then connects via Ethernet to the xbox. It's 802.11n and plenty quick, but doesn't have the best reception so if your wireless signal is weak at the xbox, it may not help. Of course, you can always run a 30' Ethernet cable between it and the xbox and put it in a more optimal location. ;)

So what you are sayin is I can plug any wireless bridge into the back of my X360 and it will work the same as my Linksys WGA54G (http://support.linksys.com/en-us/support/adapters/WGA54G)?

I've thought about running a cable to my system. Wouldn't even be that far. But I am moving to a new house and that kind of connection will be much harder to setup.

[Kchrpm]

Any wireless bridge should work, yes.

[Phil_SS]

Interesting. I have one of the obligatory WRT54G Linksys routers in my basement just collecting dust. Might have to give it a try.

[Kchrpm]

? A bridge and a router are different things.

[Phil_SS]

You can set a router up to be a bridge.

[Kchrpm]

I did not know that :up: That's a money saver, wireless bridges have traditionally cost more than a simple wireless router since I started looking.

[thesameguy]

Yes, but no.

A router in "bridge mode" is not the same thing as a "wireless bridge." The former is still only a wireless access point, whereas the latter is a wireless client. It's possible that you could use tomato or DDWRT or something like that to change the behavior of the WRT54G, but a) I've never tried that and b) I don't think so.

Edit: Unless you're talking about the super-old, 1st gen WRT54G, in which case it *can* do that. But only the first ones - from ~10 years ago. The subsequent releases of the product lost that feature.

[Phil_SS]

This link is what I am referencing and in no way am I an expert like TSG. I have awesome google search skills though. (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2007/10/02/how-to-cheap-wireless-for-your-xbox-360/)

#tsgmagic

[thesameguy]

ROFL!

Looks like DD-WRT can indeed transform host to client, so if you have a DD-WRT compatible router, you can swap firmware and make it do what you want. But, if you really have a ten year old WRT-54G, it can actually perform the function out of the box. Of course, you could also run DD-WRT on that old WRT-54G and have DOUBLE THE POWER, but it's probably an unnecessary step. ;) I'd personally be surprised if there were any first gen WRT54Gs still working (all mine failed after five or six years), but who knows? In any case, DD-WRT (and thus probably Alchemy and tomato) seem like they will get you sorted on newer hardware.

[Cam]

Picked up the bounty to get gold tier in three public events, but left the one to kill three walkers. Whuddya know, I encounter two walkers in public events while on patrol. :thppt: :lol:

[Yw-slayer]

Gold tier in 3x events should be super-easy if you roll with a bunch of 20+s.

[GreatScawt]

Got lucky for the hour I played last night and got a legendary fusion rifle from a blue engram. It's called LIGHT/Beware. Very cool.

[novicius]

Yep I also left the Three Fallen Walkers bounty alone.

I was up early today and did clean up three other bounties tho'. :up:

[Yw-slayer]

Killing Walkers is super-fun. That is, as long as you have 2-3 guys in the team.

[21Kid]

I was on for a few hours last night and didn't find any walkers. :(

[Cam]

There's a walker in the Sepkis Prime mission in Cosmodrome. All the public events I encountered yesterday were walkers. Just do patrol duty for a while until they show up. I didn't have to frig around more than about 10-15 minutes. Dennis and I were doing some patrols on the moon last night, hoping a public event would show up. We did six patrols to get the bounty, but gave up on waiting for an event. Dennis was taking us back to orbit and with less than about two seconds on the countdown to orbit, a walker showed up. :lol:

[Phil_SS]

Carlo,

I implore you not to move onto Xbone land til we take on the Vault of Glass.

Thanks,

Camegaladon
Denetti
Bergkoenig
Prairie Fire
6th guy

[novicius]

It's too late, Phil -- things are already set in motion! Soon I, too, shall be an XBONER!

[Cam]

Carlo,

I implore you not to move onto Xbone land til we take on the Vault of Glass.

Thanks,

Camegaladon
Denetti
Bergkoenig
Prairie Fire
Rypien GT
Fixed that for ya. :)

Carlo = Sheep. ;)

[novicius]

Don't hate the player Cam, hate the 'Boner! :D

[GreatScawt]

'Tis a sad time boys, the loot cave has been nerfed. :lol:
http://www.bungie.net/7_Update-1015---Patch-Notes/en/News/News?aid=12190

That doesn't bother me too much.
But it looks like you cannot dismantle the Queen's legendary items into ascendent material anymore. Looks like there's no point to that now. :down:

[novicius]

Oof! No more dismantling the Queen's gear?? Harsh! :smh:

Re: losing the Loot Cave, that's no bigs -- farming Venus offers more variety and action with similar number of drops.

[Cam]

Level 5 Cryptarch turned a legendary engram into a blue item. :(

[21Kid]

Is leveling him up supposed to do anything?

[novicius]

Reddit folks say that the Cryptarch level has no bearing on how successful he is at converting an engram into a Legendary or Exotic item. It is only tracking the next time he gives you free engram swag.

[GreatScawt]

I'm pretty sure I've got 4 or 5 purple engrams. And all but one were blue / material when he decoded them. Bungie has since nerfed the popular farming techniques, but apparently they plan on adjusting drop rates and decoding chances to be more beneficial - according to the dev notes.

[Cam]

Seems that level has nothing to do with it. At level six, he turned another legendary engram into a blue item. :(

[Cam]

Just soloed the queens story mission. That was tough. Got a legendary piece of chest armor for the hunter out of it. :)

[GreatScawt]

Yup, Cryptarch level really doesn't mean much besides showing you when he will give you a gift in the mail.

Xur is in da house. Now's your chance to use Exotic Coins to buy legendary stuffs. And Motes of Light to buy an exotic engram.
http://www.ps4.sx/2014/09/xur-new-weekend-location-september-26.html

I'm considering pulling the trigger on the Big Daddy-esque Warlock helm :lol:

[Cam]

Thanks for the tip! I bought an exotic helmet engram from Xur for 23 motes of light (all I had) and the Cryptarch turned it into an exotic titan helm. :up:

[21Kid]

Geez. I really need to get to lv 20. :(

[Cam]

Although, I need some help with the level 22 weekly strike to get 3 more strange coins so I can buy an exotic item from Xur.

[21Kid]

Loot cave 2.0 (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/26/rejoice-loot-cave-2-0-surfaces-in-destiny/?ncid=rss_truncated)

I didn't even get a chance to visit the 1st one.

[novicius]

Farming drops? Who does this?? That's so last week. :lol:

Now farming Vanguard Rep and maxing the weekly amount of Marks, that's where it's at... :D

[GreatScawt]

Yup. I tried the idea of snapping "destinypublicevents.com" to IE on the X1 last night. Lets you know about when what event is happening where. Patrol Earth, do bounties/patrols between Public Events, profit. A lot of fun!

I should say, it's particularly fun because of how efficient it feels. :lol:

[Cam]

I put the Helm of Inmost Light on my titan and he jumped two light levels. :lol:

http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Helm_of_Inmost_Light

[GreatScawt]

Nice, Cam. My buddy has that. The flames are badass :lol::up:

I'm really thinking about picking this up...
http://destiny.wiki.fextralife.com/Apotheosis+Veil

I kind of love it and I kind of hate it. I want more Halo-esque, sharp-edged helms like what Dead Orbit has...
This thing looks... ornate, which I don't necessarily like. But it ALSO reminds me of Bioshock... which I do like.

Bah, decisions.

[Cam]

The flames are badass :lol::up:
Um, hello? It's light. ;) :lol:

[Cam]

Dennis and I got our asses handed to us on a Queens Wrath mission last night. We were level 25 and 27. We kept getting consumed by the darkness. We became quite frustrated so I returned us to orbit. We needed a third player, I think. Makes me wonder how I soloed a mission earlier. :?

[GreatScawt]

I do think more people slightly increase difficulty. Did you guys get a different mission? Did you use proper elemental weapons for the extra shielded enemies?

[GreatScawt]

YAS

http://www.bungie.net/7_102-Patch-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12202


The 1.0.2 patch will go live next week, and includes several changes to the Cryptarch and Engram experience. These changes guarantee that Engrams will always decode into items at or above the quality of an engram.

Only Engrams that drop after 1.0.2 are subject to this change.

Cryptarch Changes 

Cayde-6 took the Cryptarch aside and showed him a sack of doorknobs. He decoded that mystery pretty quickly.

•Legendary Engrams will always produce Legendary or better quality items, including Materials or Exotics

•Rare Engrams will always produce Rare or better quality items

•Rare engrams will have an increased chance to produce Legendary quality items

Activity Changes

•Daily Heroics, Weekly Heroics, and Vanguard: Tiger Playlist activities will include Rare and Legendary Engrams in addition to their existing rewards

Item Changes

•Ascendant materials have been promoted to Legendary to closer associate them with the gear they are used to upgrade

•Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest--even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already...

[Cam]

Just played three queen's missions in a row with Rypien. I played my hunter (lvl 25) for the first two and they were really tough. Then I switched to my titan (lvl 23) and it seemed like a cakewalk by comparison. :? It must adjust the difficulty to your level.

[GreatScawt]

Looks like my next class will be a Titan. I got enough Motes of Light to buy a helm and got this:
http://destiny.wiki.fextralife.com/An+Insurmountable+Skullfort

STILL debating if I want to burn my strange coins on that helm. I think I'll grab the vanguard one and see if he has an exotic chest or gauntlets next weekend.

[Cam]

In other news, I completed the Super Good Advice (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Good_Advice) quest. :)

[novicius]

In other-other news: WOW! The graphical fidelity is insane!! :D

Also, my Destiny 'toons were readily available once the updating to the XBONE was complete. :up:

[novicius]

Kid, Denetti & I had a good opening evening run last night on the XBONEs. :up:

We fulfilled some bounties and took Kid to locations he hadn't seen before. Having even just two Warlocks in the Fireteam makes for some sick action and massif splash damage thrown around, it was great. The visuals and details are still *staggering*, I think my eyes are going to be popping out of my head for more than a few years to come, even with the 2nd place horsepower of the XBONE. :twitch:

I'm inching closer to my final piece of Vanguard Legendary gear that'll push me up to Level 27 and then I can stop grinding this Awoken Warlock so hard and play around with other 'toons. :up: :up:

[Cam]

We... took Kid to locations he hadn't seen before.
Thinking about that gives me an Xboner.

[Cam]

All three of my characters at the level 25 barrier. The legendary armor pieces I have need spinmetal or relic iron to upgrade. I'm not looking forward to tediously scouring planets for them. :thppt:

[GreatScawt]

Dude, Cam, if you can find an area to farm enemies and grab materials/chests, do it. Then you can pick up patrols and public events along the way. I personally think it's a really fun way to play the game :up:

For instance, if you need spinmetal, go to the Rocket Yard on patrol. And do a loop around the outside looking for spinmetal and checking all the rooms, crevices, and corners for chests. There are chests EVERYWHERE. And they are constantly respawning.

[GreatScawt]

So one of the guys I will jump online with once in a while bought the Suros Regime from Xur this weekend. Badass auto rifle... hits like a tank. He was up until 2am grinding the last couple of coins he needed to buy it. Last night, we were doing Tiger strikes and along the way he grabbed a purple engram. What does the Cryptard give him? Suros Regime.

F*cking LOL :lol:

[novicius]

Hey, at least it's a superweapon that you can use between 'toons. :D :up:

::

I ended up painting in Forza 5 for most of the day. By the time I had my first car done, the Lizard Gang had struck the Destiny servers. Denetti & I were able to play a little bit but really accomplished nothing -- just as Phil & I had tried to take out the Nexus on Heroic by ourselves, Dennis & I failed equally in the task as well. :smh:

[21Kid]

We... took Kid to locations he hadn't seen before.
Thinking about that gives me an Xboner.
It was glorious!!!

We lost Carlo a few times... He got mesmerized staring at the wall. :lol:

"Dennis, look at this wall!!!!" :eek:
"Dennis, look at this lighting!!!!" :eek:
"Dennis, look at this wall!!!!" :eek:
"Dennis, look at this area, It's complete darkness on the 360!!!!" :eek:
"Dennis, look at this wall!!!!" :eek:
"Dennis, look at this bloom effect!!!!" :eek:

I hope your eyes stopped bleeding. :cool::up:

[novicius]

Nope, I was still calling Dennis back to look at some leafy vines on an old wall or some LED lights reflecting in a pool last night! :lol:

Dennis mentioned how it looked when you watch your own feet walking through water and that sent me off on a vis-gasm for a few minutes. :sing: :up:

[GreatScawt]

It really is purty. Especially when you and a couple friends are on your Seekers, kicking up water along the Forgotten Shores, at dusk. Gorgeous.

[Cam]

YOU WILL NOT CONVERT ME!



I'll be over here... all by myself. :(

[novicius]

It's gorgeous, Cam -- they're just Xbox games but now truly gorgeous live-action Xbox games. :cool:

It's time: sell your 360, sell your games, sell some other old gear you're ready to part with and upgrade to the XBONE. :up: :up:

[Cam]

If I get rid of my Xbox, I will not be replacing it with anything.

[novicius]

Sad to read and I hope it (eventually) isn't true. :(

[Cam]

Dude, Cam, if you can find an area to farm enemies and grab materials/chests, do it. Then you can pick up patrols and public events along the way. I personally think it's a really fun way to play the game :up:

For instance, if you need spinmetal, go to the Rocket Yard on patrol. And do a loop around the outside looking for spinmetal and checking all the rooms, crevices, and corners for chests. There are chests EVERYWHERE. And they are constantly respawning.
I was aware of how to do it. I'm just not looking forward to it. One person's fun is another person's monotony. :|

[novicius]

Destiny's Story and Gameplay Were Drastically Changed in 2013 – Report (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Destiny-s-Story-and-Gameplay-Were-Drastically-Changed-in-2013-Report-460229.shtml)


Plenty of changes were made to the game last year

The report appeared on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hqmkb/how_destinys_content_completely_changed_over_the/) and claims that, in 2013, Destiny's story and its gameplay were shaping up to be much more impressive, but in the mid- to late-2013 period, a series of drastic changes were implemented, culminating with the departure of Joe Staten, Bungie's lead writer, presumably due to these actual modifications made to the initial script.

Some changes include plenty of characters and factions that got pulled out of the whole game, including Crow, someone who represented a new party interested in exposing the Traveler, the mythical being that protects Earth, as being responsible for bringing forth the Darkness and all of its evil factions.

What's more, the actual factions that are present in the game's Crucible Player-versus-Player competitive mode were supposed to play much bigger roles in Destiny's story, but that was also cut, alongside other parts of the narrative.

Mission progression was also changed due to the overhaul of Destiny, as players were initially able to plot a different course through the four major environments in the game, as well as explore new areas of Earth, like Old Chicago, besides Old Russia.
This makes a lot more sense -- the game does not feel deep enough for it to have been in development since Halo: Reach (2010). Destiny has obviously been cut-down and shipped to satisfy. As much as they want to develop the title, I would not be shocked to hear about a full Destiny 2 sooner rather than later.

[21Kid]

yeah... It's a very fun game. But, the story is definitely lacking.

[Cam]

Just like the supply of Xbox 360 players. :(



*sob*

[Cam]

Soloed a couple of the Queen's missions the other day with the Titan. I got to the Kell on the ketch and died a half-dozen times. I just couldn't fight off the shielded Shanks and damage the Kell. I said to myself, "There's no way I can survive that. I need to kill him quick." I stood outside the room until my grenade and special charged. I ran at the Kell, stuck him with a grenade, did my special, shotgunned him in the face, then meleed him. Fight over in two seconds. :lol:

[21Kid]

Like a boss!

[novicius]

Rock it, Cam! :hard:

[Cam]

Getting pretty tired of turning legendary engrams into rare items. :|

[Cam]

There I was, battling Sepiks Prime in the strike playlist with one random. The other guy quit or dropped out. Dennis decided to join us and showed up half way through the final boss battle. After the game was over, he got a random reward of Universal Remote (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Remote)! :twitch: :lol: I got a green helmet or something. :angry:

[Denetti]

And it happened about that fast too. In the span of less then 5 minutes I went from playing Forza Horizon to pondering how to handle a shotgun as a primary weapon.

My first Exotic weapon, sweet. Though it looks like this gun is better at Crucible matches then it is for strikes.

Carry 2 shotguns for crucible? That could be interesting.

[novicius]

I would *love* that! :D :up:

Otherwise Shotgun & Sniper Rifle all day...

[Kchrpm]

Shotty snipes :up:

[Kchrpm]

http://kotaku.com/destinys-baffling-engram-system-is-finally-fixed-patch-1641250586

Legendary engrams will only give Legendary items now.

[GreatScawt]

Awesome, I was hoping that patch would drop soon. Saved a Cryptarch envelope for today... hopefully he'll deliver a purple.

[21Kid]

I thought they deleted any that people were holding onto... to avoid that?

[GreatScawt]

Well, because it's technically not in an engram form yet (still in the "envelope"), I was going to risk it. And apparently people are reporting that they are getting purples from unopened mail.
Fingers crossed!

[Cam]

I wish I'd saved my purple engrams now. :mad:

[GreatScawt]

I mean, just to clarify, if you had purple engrams sitting in your inventory, they were definitely going to turn into blues. But apparently the Cryptarch's packages could be saved and un-packaged post-patch with a chance to get legendaries. But of course, including last night, the Cryptarch has never given me a purple. Through 11 ranks. Sad face.

[GreatScawt]

But I DID hit level 27 last night. Finally. No Ascendant Shards will be used until I have non-Queens Wrath gear and an exotic chest/helm.
Lord High Fixer is still holding court at 277 dmg (first Ascendant Energy upgrade). :up: I could do one more but I'm sooo, so frugal with ascendant materials.

Also did the Level 28 Weekly Heroic (not the nightfall... yet :|) last night. 1xLVL28 and 2xLVL27. That was rough. But you can cheese the boss pretty easily. LOTS of major adds waltzing around that don't go down easy.

[Kchrpm]

I always like when a game's high end weapons have fancy names and descriptions, instead of just better stats.

Makes me want to go back and pull the sword from the stone in Fable again.

[GreatScawt]

Indeed, some of the unique names are pretty cool. Makes them feel a little more special.

Then there's these (http://destinydb.com/items/921478195-radiant-dance-machines#1.MmBS02h8) :lol:

[Phil_SS]

I was able to play acouple strike playlist missions with Dennis and Cam last night, before losing internet connection for some reason, and both missions dropped a Legendary Engram. One was a Primary (Pulse rifle) and the other a Secondary (Sniper rifle). I was waiting for Cam to strangle me through the TV when I called out a second Legendary Engram.

Now I have a Legendary for each weapon slot. Though I'll have to try the pulse rifle. I'm not a huge fan of how they shoot. I typically roll with a Autorifle or Scout rifle.

[GreatScawt]

Ahhh, luckyyy. I'm hankering for a legendary/exotic sniper.

Did the Nightfall last night. The rep and leveling bonuses are better than the rewards (got legendary Titan arms, though).

[21Kid]

Too bad you can't trade items. Pulse rifle is my favorite.

Not that I have anything to trade with right now anyway. :D But, my point still stands. :p

[Kchrpm]

You can't give something you have to someone else? Hmmm...

[Cam]

I feel like I'm not very lucky with the loot drops. The three exotic items I've obtained from playing are not from random drops. I bought two helmets from Xur and got Super Good Advice from an exotic bounty that everyone seems to get. I've bought a few pieces of armor with Vanguard points, got all my chest armor from the Queen's missions and gotten very few of my legendary pieces by luck. I've had several purple engrams turn into blue items. Only once did I get a purple item from a purple engram. Once I had a blue engram turn into a purple item. Almost all of my good items have been obtained through elbow grease. :hard:

[Cam]

In other news, I was forced to solo Phogoth in the strike playlist when my team mates quit at the start. My reward? Nothing. :|

[Yw-slayer]

You could have, well, quit.

[Cam]

Normally, it adds new players mid-game if people drop or quit, so I was hoping to get more team mates. I noticed at least one team mate join mid-game, but they quit too. Normally, you get a reward for finishing a strike, so I was hoping to get something.

[Cam]

Bought Sunbreakers (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Sunbreakers) from Xur. This week, he's in the Vanguard mentor hall on the upper right side.

Now all three of my characters are level 26.

[novicius]

Yep, I also bought Sunbreakers, they look totes neat. :up:

[Cam]

Correction: My hunter is now level 27. :)

[GreatScawt]

Waiting for a warlock chest piece. Or something better than the Veil helm. They've had sunbreakers for 3 out of Xur's 4 weeks. :down:

[GreatScawt]

Opened the vault Saturday morning, got to the first boss. Got close to beating him but we ran out of time - people had to leave. Blah.
Really awesome, though. Mechanics keep it really interesting.

Got my first exotic bounty - Toland's Legacy. It'll give me Bad Juju. I have a feeling I won't be able to do 25 strikes + heroic/nightfall before Xur this weekend. We'll see... excited to get this gun, because they specifically targeted it (and Thorn) as exotics that need a buff. :up:

[novicius]

Yeah, I'm close to giving the high level stuff a run -- 27 and inches away from 28. #needmoreshards

I also would love to come across some other Exotic gear other than the Sunbreakers. I've still got no love for the Sunsinger subclass. :| Looking forward to finishing this off and going back to Voidwalker permanently, so I'm kind of leery to shard-up these gauntlets. I don't have enough Strange Coins to get anything from Xur anytime soon, tho', so I'm at the mercy of the RNG. :smh: I do like my Queen's Hood however, so that's where my shards have been going. #shrug

Overall it's been a good run; Destiny is still a good time and I'm almost got my 'toon just where I want him, numbers/gear-wise. I like my Awoken Warlock, he's fun to play and I've also got my hands on a popular Auto Rifle, Forcing Function. :up: Its crazy rate of fire plus a 59-shot mag makes for a veritable fire hose of lead. :D Epitaph 2261, a Legendary Sniper Rifle I found during some random Strike but is also available from the Vanguard Weapons Dealer, makes for a very effective pair combined with my Chest Armor's boosts to Auto & Sniper Rifle ammo. My alt Secondary Weapon is a Void-infused 5-shot shottie that I'd pull out against the Vex but lately I've been thinking that I need to get on the Fusion Rifle bandwagon.

I use basically the same gear for every outing -- anyone here have different sets of gear depending upon the type of play they like? A friend of my cousin has different sets of gear for boosting different stats depending on what he wants to do, something I find to be an insane degree of min-maxing and gear-switching... :twitch:

[Kchrpm]

In what ways is this game better than Borderlands 1/2/Presequel? In what ways is it worse? Other than story/acting.

[Yw-slayer]

I don't know, why don't you just buy the game and play it and find out, rather than asking endless questions about it? :finger: :assclown:

Re: Switching gear, for PvE I usually use the strongest weapon (usually a Scout Rifle) and a sniper rifle. For PvP I usually swap over to an Auto rifle, and obviously whether I use a shotgun or sniper rifle depends on the map. I tend to stick with an MG for both PvP and PvE, but that may be because my current rocket launcher is da suxx0rz (178 damage when I'm level 24, WTF :down:). If I get a better rocket launcher I'll probably use that sometimes for PvE but will still stick with an MG for PvP.

[21Kid]

In what ways is this game better than Borderlands 1/2/Presequel? In what ways is it worse? Other than story/acting.

I don't know about the Borderlands presequel yet... But, the graphics are top notch. The controls are more precise. It has PVP, if you want to. And there are a lot of new missions, events, equipment, etc... being added constantly.

It's more along the lines of a MMO, where as Borderlands you either play solo, or with a group. In Destiny, the main trading city is always full of other people. And you will come across them while playing a story mission too.

You can't trade weapons, gear, money to other people. Which is kind of disappointing, since I don't care much for scout rifles and if I get a good one, it would be nice to trade for a burst rifle, for example.

The gear in Destiny can be leveled up. But, there is more variety of weapons in Borderlands. Which can be a plus or minus. I feel like I'm switching weapons a lot more often in borderlands and get more attached to them in Destiny.

Borderlands has more distinction between classes. Where in Destiny, you are all gunners... just with different special abilities. Everyone can use all weapons in both games. But, the classes in Borderlands have better bonuses per class for using specific weapons. I wish Destiny would add something like that. The sniper class in Borderlands has bonuses to accuracy, ammo, damage for the sniper rifles. There aren't any sniper bonuses for the Hunter class in Destiny. In fact, their melee weapon is a knife and their special weapon is a golden gun (pistol). Quite the opposite. :(

Both games have pretty good AI.

[21Kid]

Are any of the factions worth joining? They seem sort of pointless, unless you really want one of the items that they are selling.

[novicius]

In what ways is this game better than Borderlands 1/2/Presequel? In what ways is it worse? Other than story/acting.
I've only played Borderlands 1 for all of 60 minutes by myself, that's all I've got to go on. Kid's experiences with the class- and weapon-specific differences are much more helpful than my input.

From what I saw, B1 has more style than Destiny. More character. B1 is also significantly more over-the-top and campy than Destiny.

In Destiny you have good core gameplay, decent resource management & level upgrade mechanics and a serious tone throughout. This game is a literal mish-mash of Halo/Terminator/WH40K/Doom, all wrapped together in a "box" whose overall size, shape and dimension you cannot fully see. Activision's meddling, Bungie's whoring and the defection of key Bungie personnel over the past 12 months have resulted in a smaller-than-expected title with a rushed, vague story. There are things in this game that I want to see expanded upon: personal spaceship use, expansion of the personalities of the Tower/Fallen/Vex/Cabal/etc., the story of (and entrance to?) The City, the natures of the Traveller/the Darkness, hundreds of more missions, etc. These things are not yet in this game nor won't be for months or potentially years, if ever.

IMO, the Story chapters are painfully singular experiences. You're re-killing the same specific bad guy over and over again, as though your earlier runs through never happened. Just like replaying Halo: Reach or Halo 4 chapters over and over again with friends or matchmaking buddies, looking to get a better score or maybe find a new hidden secret. Bungie did not build the game with a random name generator for the baddies. There is no attempt to give the semblance of unique experiences here. You play through a chapter on Easy, get experienced and better gear, now you're ready for that same chapter on Hard. :rolleyes:

So you have to play through each Story mission and Strikes to beef up your character to take on the highest level challenges; in the process, you've beat the storyline to absolute death. This is not Skyrim-in-space. This is a singular on-rails storyline that you repeat over and over again at increasing difficulties, period.

Yet even with this egregious black eye, Destiny is still a lot of fun IMO. The action is fun, the concept is awesome, the enemies are quality, there IS variety to be had in your builds, there are free-roam areas to explore through, there are jet-bikes, it's a fun game. But don't go into Destiny thinking that it's this deep, dusty tome of a book that's going to keep you guessing all winter 'cause it's not. It's a comic book, just a very beautiful comic book and one that makes you flip back through the pages repeatedly. You put it down and walk away thinking you're done after you've read it 20 times -- yet wait awhile and you can't help but think about the next time you're going to re-read it.

[GreatScawt]

Got part way through the Vault of Glass. Still less than halfway, apparently.

Ended up getting some really good fortune:
-Praedyth's Revenge (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Praedyth%27s_Revenge) from beating the Templar (purple snipper that only drops from the raid apparently)
-Suros Regime (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Suros_Regime) from the left chest in Gorgon's labrynth (exotic Auto Rifle)

And this is a day after I max out the Lord High Fixer... but I absolutely cannot complain. First exotic I've got my hands on. This thing is going to take ages to level.

Started the bounty for the Bad Juju. Heroic Weekly finished (Nightfall is REALLY hard - we couldn't do it, even cheesing the boss :|). Now to do 25 strikes :lol:

[Cam]

Got another exotic weapon bounty. "Kill 500 guardians in the Crucible." :down:

Edit: Correction, it's "Use Void Damage to defeat Guardians in the Crucible. Death will slow your progress." Well, I might as well delete the damn thing. :|

[Yw-slayer]

My Bros and I keep getting murdered in the Crucible (I'm talking 20K v 8K points). It's hilarious, though, afterward we look at our 5 ships flying together in formation and fall over ourselves laughing.

[Cam]

At the rate I'm getting shards, it will take me years to upgrade all my good stuff. :(

[Phil_SS]

We just have to start doing the Nightfall strikes. Plus the weekly Heroic also gives ascendent material, Level 26 gives +2.

[Cam]

Maybe this exotic weapon bounty won't be so bad after all. I played one Crucible game, got 10 kills with a K/D of 0.67, yet credited me with 14 guardian kills toward the bounty. :?

[novicius]

:up: :up:

Crucible kills aren't too tough as long as you play Control. You can then at least camp a cap spot for keels. :D

[21Kid]

Maybe assists count towards kills?

[Denetti]

Your first Gold rating in a public event each day also gives ascendant materials or a strange coin. So I try to get an event when a do the day's patrol bounty.


Maybe this exotic weapon bounty won't be so bad after all. I played one Crucible game, got 10 kills with a K/D of 0.67, yet credited me with 14 guardian kills toward the bounty. :?

From Destinypedia:
Use Void Damage to defeat Guardians in the Crucible. Death will slow your progress.
Must get 500 points. 5 points gained per kill with Void damage. 2 points lost per death.

So it's not 500 kills, it's 500 points. Sounds like the bounty doesn't make that clear.

[GreatScawt]

Pretty sure assists count as kills. In contrast, my Bad Juju bounty will eventually require 10,000xp in crucible. Crucible based, but in a different way.

[Cam]

Thanks for clearing that up, Denetti. That's a relief.

Edit: Void damage rocket launcher works pretty well. :)

[Cam]

I'm calling in a couple of tough hombres to take on a level 26 Phogoth strike for the Thorn bounty. I need to:

"Kill Xyor, the Unwed in a level 26 version of The Summoning Pits Strike.
The level 26 version will only become available when this bounty is active.
Xyor spawns amongst the waves of enemies, so Phogoth must remain alive for her to spawn.
Once she is dead, it is not necessary for Phogoth to die."

I couldn't even get in the door solo. Prairie Fire and I tag-teamed it, but got stymied in about the same place. Lots of blue-shielded knights with yellow health bars. :eek: Most certainly a toughie. Any guardians handy with a gun willing to help me out this week-end some time? You'll need your ultimate diesel bad-ass face on.

[Phil_SS]

I should be around after finalizing the move to the new abode. Just need to arrange some stuff and get the X360 hooked back up.

[Yw-slayer]

No time to play until November.

[Cam]

Yw, do you play on the Xbox 360?

[GreatScawt]

Xur is up and he has very tempting wares...

Finally a warlock chest piece... but I JUST got a raid legendary chest yesterday. Oh, the choices.
He's also got the exotic sniper, the Ice Breaker. I'd recommend buying that for folks who don't have anything there yet.

[JSGeneral]

If you see me on any time this weekend Cam, I'll drop what I'm doing and help you out. I owe ya. Sorry about not getting you there last night. I'm still a bit rusty after being afk from Destiny for about 10 days.

So who and where is Xyor the Unwed anyhow? I want to make sure that it is *you* that gets that kill. I think some of these challenges are player specific... NOT team specific. So if you have that bounty, it is YOU that has to do the deed. (At least that's how it was for the Queen's Bounty of "Kill 3 Walkers".)

[Cam]

It's not your fault. It is a freakin' hard fight. :eek: If I understand correctly, Xyor will spawn in Phogoth's room. It seems like we would just have to eliminate all the bad guys around Phogoth until there's nothing left. From what I've observed, it seems to count kills from the team toward bounties like this. That's what happened for the get 500 points thing in the crucible, as well as "Kill Sepiks Prime" or "Kill Riksis" etc.

[Cam]

Here's a pretty good video about eliminating Xyor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXo7Jtl34gY

[GreatScawt]

Yeah, he's a tough one. Good luck. I (arguably) helped a buddy do this. I was mostly just cannon fodder :lol:
It's hard enough fighting the enemies off just waiting for him to show up. A good flame sniper would be useful on the wizards, which means someone may want to consider buying the Ice Breaker for Xur. 6 shot flame sniper with regenerative ammo = :up:

[Cam]

Super Good Advice makes very short work of wizards. :hard:

It's the shielded knights with the yellow health bars and rapid-fire grenade launchers that are the problem. :thppt:

[Cam]

Ice Breaker is all kinds of amazin'.

[Denetti]

It's the shielded knights with the yellow health bars and rapid-fire grenade launchers that are the problem. :thppt:

I just got an arc damage legendary machine gun. Ready when you are to give that bounty another try.

[Cam]

Cool.

[Denetti]

Ice Breaker is all kinds of amazin'.

My prediction is they remove the unlimited ammo perk, or slow down its regeneration.

In the strike I was just in we all had it. It made rather quick work of the Archon in Winter's Run. I don't think his head ever stopped snapping back.

[Kchrpm]

I like to read about the guns you guys are using, and I just like the idea of this perk.


Mulligan: Missing a shot has a chance to return ammo directly to the magazine.

[GreatScawt]

Keith, there's a lot of interesting weapon perks in this game. Maybe not as creative as Borderlands, but they're neat. I had a perk on a scout rifle that let me shoot ammo to pick it up. Very cool.

About nerfing Ice Breaker, I'm not sure. It's an apparent issue now because everyone has it. Bungie seem to be more interested in buffing the bad exotics first. Still nothing on Thorn or Bad Juju yet, though.

[21Kid]

Where do you get different ghost shells? I still haven't gotten, or even seen any.

[Yw-slayer]

Got three due to my pre-order, but they don't change anything apart from the colour of your ghost. Waste of time.

[21Kid]

Sounds like a perfectly good use of time. :finger:

[GreatScawt]

http://www.bungie.net/7_Hotfix---10142014/en/News/News?aid=12283

Hot Fix update for today

[Cam]

I favour the scout rifle more often than not. This pleases me. :)

[Cam]

I got another exotic bounty with the titan. Now, I'm working on getting Thorn (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Thorn) and Invective (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Invective).

[Phil_SS]

I favour the scout rifle more often than not. This pleases me. :)

I want a Legendary+ scout rifle even more.

[GreatScawt]

Aye. I really want the MIDA Multi-Tool. Really bad. Or the raid scout, Vision of Confluence. Argh.

[novicius]

Completed Nightfall last night with my baller cousins -- fine, fine, so they carried me across the finish line. :lol: :up:

I was gifted Light/Beware Fusion Rifle (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Light/Beware) from the run, tho', so that's nice. :cool: :toast:

[Yw-slayer]

Waiting till November before I play again. Way too busy with work and other personal stuff. Should be easier to get some serious gaming in once my son arrives though. ;)

[Phil_SS]

Completed Nightfall last night with my baller cousins -- fine, fine, so they carried me across the finish line. :lol: :up:

I was gifted Light/Beware Fusion Rifle (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Light/Beware) from the run, tho', so that's nice. :cool: :toast:

Yeah, I think we have to start doing the Weekly Nightfalls and the Raid. On the X360 I think we may have enough to give it a try. I know we are high enough in level.

The Raid gear allows for a higher light level than standard Legendary. In fact I haven't upgraded any of my Legendary gear because of that fact. Plus you supposedly get copius amounts of weapons and ascendent materials in the chests along the way.

Camegaladon
Denetti
Bergkoenig
Prairie Fire
Rypien GT
Reilly Escobar (My buddy Chris) Or if someone knows someone else.

[Cam]

Unfortunately, Rypien is down under so he's online at odd times compared to us. :( I usually only see him early in the morning. We would certainly have to coordinate it.

[GreatScawt]

Got super lucky after completing the Nightfall tonight... Multi-Tool acquired :D

[novicius]

I found Truth (http://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Truth). :devil:

[Biggdogg]

Just got an xbox one and destiny a couple weeks ago, level 16 but i swear I dont feel like I know or understand anything about this game. I love it but it seem like there are so many things you guys are talking about that seem like its not the same game I am playing.

[21Kid]

I don't know much either. The game itself doesn't explain anything very well. I accidentally did the last story mission before two of the others. It played out pretty weird. :| And there are no instructions on what you're really supposed to do or where to go.
I think most people have just learned what to do from others or reading online.

[Cam]

I was playing The Nexus strike earlier with a couple of other randoms. We encountered a group of Vex on the edge of a cliff. My titan team mate whipped up his special... right off the edge of the cliff. I nearly fell out of my chair. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Cam]

The next part of the Invective bounty is to get a +25 K/D in Crucible. After about five games in a row, I've worked myself up to a grand total of... +1. :|

[novicius]

Yeah that sounds impossible. I was rolling with cousins again last night and I got absolutely stomped: K/D Ratios of 0.3, 0.6 and only once did I hit 1.75.

I was working on the bounty for "Bad Juju" but since I was gifted the Exotic Rocket Launcher "Truth", I'm going to delete it to free up the slot. #fuckthatnoisebungie

[Cam]

I'm considering deleting it too. I seem to have a good game, then a bad game, then a good game, then a bad game... Can't get anywhere that way. :(

The Thorn bounty, however, is still waiting for the right moment for a few guys to be online with the right weapons. Need to have a combo of good weapons that do solar (red) and arc (blue) damage. I've been trying to get my titan up to level 28 without much success. Shards are few and far between. #addingahashtagsocarlowillunderstand #thisisthelasttimeiuseahashtag