Destiny General Discussion Thread

gimli2112

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Same here - got the same hunter helmet 3 times, same gloves 3 times and chest once - oh and one other set of gloves. No exotic weapon drops iirc.

And all the hunter exotics that i have got SUCK.

Just on this what the hell have they done with the celestial nighthawk, it used to do huge damage in D1 but seems to have been nerfed, it's basically useless.
Finding I'm going with Arc Hunter, Void Titan and Nova Warlock (really should look up the sub-class names)
Like the Striker Titan too.

Mitch Connor

ItsHoggie wrote: »

The tokens for npc's? They don't go higher than 265 and every other engram I've gotten besides exotics have been 265 as well.

They continue to level up, but slightly lower than your overall light. I'm getting them at 278 at the moment.

Mitch Connor

gimli2112 wrote: »

Just on this what the hell have they done with the celestial nighthawk, it used to do huge damage in D1 but seems to have been nerfed, it's basically useless.
Finding I'm going with Arc Hunter, Void Titan and Nova Warlock (really should look up the sub-class names)
Like the Striker Titan too.

Solar modifier and celestial is a massive damage dealer.

sniper_samurai

Mitch Connor wrote: »

They continue to level up, but slightly lower than your overall light. I'm getting them at 278 at the moment.

They decrypt to - 5 your max light excluding mods, except for "powerful gear" and exotics which are usually +5 max light.

ItsHoggie

Mitch Connor wrote: »

They continue to level up, but slightly lower than your overall light. I'm getting them at 278 at the moment.

Yeah I think my game was gliching or something cause there coming out at 272 now.

gimli2112

really surprised over how good pvp is
I'm terribad at pvp
1st two games came top albeit we lost the second
next game went 11-5 that's allright
next game went 1-17
can only hope I fell asleep

1 fur seventeen
jesus

sniper_samurai

gimli2112 wrote: »

really surprised over how good pvp is
I'm terribad at pvp
1st two games came top albeit we lost the second
next game went 11-5 that's allright
next game went 1-17
can only hope I fell asleep

1 fur seventeen
jesus

Finding the quickplay crucible to be hit or miss, switching to 4v4 from 6v6 has negatively affected the gametypes.

Control is still fine, but Clash and Supremacy always end by time out as 4v4 favours more conservative play than the 6v6 from D1.

wexdevil

Hit 300 today after doing the nightfall so I guess I'm finally ready to raid.

jcd5971

ItsHoggie wrote:

The tokens for npc's? They don't go higher than 265 and every other engram I've gotten besides exotics have been 265 as well.

They scale with you in jumps I'm 295 and blues are 280 now purples are 286ish same with NPC token vendors

jcd5971

Raid was very good really enjoyed it. Very mechanic heavy which was nice, love the revive system as well

Took a few hours to beat calus but got him easy enough in the end when it all came together.

Got ****e drops, also spent an age in the tunnels after looking around, found 2 of the exotic chests so far.

Grayditch

Can't be dealing with that nightfall. I'm no use with timed things.

gimli2112

Grayditch wrote: »

Can't be dealing with that nightfall. I'm no use with timed things.

I'm the same, it wrecks my head.

Grayditch

I'd prefer if it was far harder with no timer. Running by enemies just goes against everything I'm used to. Some people loved timed things, I just get no enjoyment from them.

Looking forward to giving the raid a go, though.

Wonda-Boy

It is what it is and its a nice change, but I would agree I hate all that timed ****e especially for exotic quests. I have done the nightfall with over 9 mins left...after that rat crew quest I have all the section nailed at this stage ffs.

Wonda-Boy

wexdevil wrote: »

Hit 300 today after doing the nightfall so I guess I'm finally ready to raid.

Dont need to be anywhere near 300 to raid but it will obviously help you, I started at 280 and its fine. But the higher light will deffo help you on the very last section with the mob waves of high ads.

The raid is very technical and communication is vital....so is patience!

Notorious

gimli2112 wrote: »

really surprised over how good pvp is

I've been surprised at some of the issues showing up on PvP. It's been a while since I was playing D1 actively, but they're not issues I noticed before.

Lag seems to be an issue, with hits not registering or taking a few seconds to register. Multiple times I've had my shotgun barrel pointing into the face of a warlock, only for the barrel to lower when I pull the trigger. Gun doesn't fire off at all. Queue me feeing like the spa who doesn't know how to use a shotgun.

goon_magee

Also not a fan of the timed Nightfall. Destiny's draw for me is the gunplay, so anything that encourages me to avoid gunplay when possible and bypass combat just doesn't sit well with me.

Grayditch

Was playing with a mate who was yelling "DON'T BOTHER WITH THE SNIPERS LADS" and he was immediately sniped off his Sparrow.

I get the challenge of a punishing clock, I do it's just not for me.

sniper_samurai

Grayditch wrote: »

Was playing with a mate who was yelling "DON'T BOTHER WITH THE SNIPERS LADS" and he was immediately sniped off his Sparrow.

I get the challenge of a punishing clock, I do it's just not for me.

The clock is a lot less restrictive this week. Clear the enemies then start the Vex gates and you should make it to the boss with a good 11-12 minutes left on the clock.

Grayditch

We were trying to clock up some time with those gates without stopping to kill the enemies around them. Needless to say it didn't go well.

sniper_samurai

Grayditch wrote: »

We were trying to clock up some time with those gates without stopping to kill the enemies around them. Needless to say it didn't go well.

The timer for the gates doesn't start until the first one is jumped through, clear/thin the ads as much as possible before starting allowing you to jump through the rest at leisure.

Grayditch

Ok, we'll give that a go today. Might make more sense then.

jcd5971

Yep definitely easier than last weeks nf

team shotting adds with the right weapon for the active burn costs substantially less time than dying and having to wait for res.

or worse if your team runs off waiting for timer to respawn back in, after which you now have to try and run past those same adds now on your own and risk another death, or pick off enough so you can get past wasting a load of time.


I just don't get it. As sniper said clear adds hit gates enjoy easy loot.

Kirby

Bathing Pools, Pleasure Gardens and Gauntlet all down. Only the emperor left now.

We have one day to try and get him down before the reset. Hopefully we do so we can get the Raid checkmark done in the Clan tab.

sniper_samurai

Destiny 1 and 2 will be down for maintenance from 3 until 7 which will be followed by a patch to version 1.0.1.3

Two weeks in and now a second long stoppage for server maintenance. This is getting ridiculous.

gimli2112

Back at 7, yeah right.
At least it's not on the Tuesday reset.

OptimusTractor

gimli2112 wrote: »

Back at 7, yeah right.
At least it's not on the Tuesday reset.

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Destiny 1 and 2 will be down for maintenance from 3 until 7 which will be followed by a patch to version 1.0.1.3

Two weeks in and now a second long stoppage for server maintenance. This is getting ridiculous.

Yeah. Hopefully downtime was only 3 to 5 but Bungie added an extra 2 hours to be safe.

Alas we all know there's a good chance between 5&6 maintenance will be extended to 9.

TitianGerm

Well guess I won't be doing the Nightfall tonight after work

gimli2112

I find the weekly PvP milestone a call to arms more enjoyable albeit longer than the NF. Got another merciless from one yesterday which was nice. Really like the Multi and Mini Tool combo although I was regularly forgetting which one I was pointing at the enemy which was problematic until I realised I should just put a shader on the mini.


Really want a 600 rate of fire legendary smg. Not sure of the name of it but I'll know it when I see it, not sure who drops it. Can't be the gunsmith 'cos I have all his guns I reckon at this stage.

Mitch Connor

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Yeah. Hopefully downtime was only 3 to 5 but Bungie added an extra 2 hours to be safe.

Alas we all know there's a good chance between 5&6 maintenance will be extended to 9.

They seemed to be in the habbit of doing that at the end of the D1 lifecycle, imo