So I picked up a shiny new Origin Story and it seems really underwhelming... Slow ROF and kicks like a mule? I'm missing shots all over the place.
Are you using flared magwell? Not a big boost to stability, but still a boost.
It is the precision archetype, though, so manual control of the recoil should be fairly doable.
Enable its stability option, and then get some kinetic counterbalance mods on your armor. It's pretty much D2's Suros. It's really good at mid+ range and is viable at all ranges. It does seem to lose pretty hard to SMG's and Sidearms at close range, and loses to MIDA at long range like everything else.
It's so weird they put the 3 best PvP abilities all on the same gun:
Best in Class Radar hardscoping
Best in Class Range / TTK
Best in Class Mobility
It's like three exotics in one. My transversive steps primary perk is useless in PvP because MIDA has that as its THIRD BEST FEATURE...
Relatedly, I really wish they would cut Shaxx's token requirements in half. 20 tokens takes nearly an hour and a half to generate, assuming no challenges or milestones and also assuming you get into and out of games quickly.
The crawl to 20 tokens plus the RNG for faction items has driven me to give up the grind for the Crucible arms, and now I just pop in to get challenges and milestones done and pop out, which is depressing for me because normally PvP is my fav
I don't view shaxx or zavalas faction stuff in the same way I do other areas. I just turn in when I feel like it.
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So I recommend not letting your PS Plus subscription lapse by accident unless you want the game to be buggy and unusable for an annoying amount of time after re subscribing
edit: it's been like an hour and I'm still getting kicked out of zones with errors like 15 seconds after loading into them, and even when I get in npcs won't appear. This sucksss
So it's the next day now and the game is still busted for me. Last night it was a weird sort of busted where it failed out a ton trying to log in, but sometimes was able to, then failed a ton trying to get into a planets, but sometimes was able but would load me in without npcs before kicking me out. Today it just won't let me log in at all. It's been giving me a whole mix of networking errors, sometimes just saying the servers aren't available, last night giving me 'lettuce' and others, today giving me 'centipede'. Everything worked totally fine before and I have no clue what to do. I already pulled the power for a cache clear
It took me a bit to get the hang of origin story, but now I'm using it more frequently than even Uriel's Gift, which is nice because it's also my PvE kinetic primary so I don't have to swap as often.
Is there a way to search up specific clans on Bungie.net that I'm just not seeing? My own clan is floundering at 3 members... never gonna get engrams or clan levels that way, so I was thinking I'd try to search up the community outreach clan that Gabe and Tycho set up. I figure if it isn't full, it would still probably have a bunch of people in it.
Can really find any helpful info on the website though...
I mean we have clans here...
I thought they were all full or something. I managed to find a casual clan with open enrollment, and a decent amount of members. I'd love to join a PA clan if there's room somewhere! I'm on PS4, but I don't think that matters as far as XP contribution and rewards.
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
Origin story is pretty solid. I was getting savaged last night by the Scathelocke and it was making me rage. I don't know if I was just playing against a series of savants or if that gun is just OP but I was getting downed at what I would consider scout rifle ranges by that stupid auto rifle.
I did stupid upon a sidearm Last Hope that seems pretty amazing at close quarters as long as you don't ADS. It was consistently winning me close quarter fights against SMGs and if you have the aim its TTK seems really short.
Now that everyone has geared up it's fairly easy to 1 cycle the dogs.
Quoted but looking for general recommendation. For those of us behind the curve, what PL / weapons should I be targeting so that I won't be a burden (well moreso) to the raid group who takes pity on me and lets me tag along to pet the puppies?
Is there a way to search up specific clans on Bungie.net that I'm just not seeing? My own clan is floundering at 3 members... never gonna get engrams or clan levels that way, so I was thinking I'd try to search up the community outreach clan that Gabe and Tycho set up. I figure if it isn't full, it would still probably have a bunch of people in it.
Can really find any helpful info on the website though...
I mean we have clans here...
I thought they were all full or something. I managed to find a casual clan with open enrollment, and a decent amount of members. I'd love to join a PA clan if there's room somewhere! I'm on PS4, but I don't think that matters as far as XP contribution and rewards.
There are two clans for PS4 that have opening, iirc. There is an overflow clan here with like 30-ish people or something? And there is a SE++ clan that should have space as well.
Merciless and Sweet Reason are the best pure burn guns I think (gotta make sure you're getting precision shots with the latter though) but really all you need is to switch to a spec that has a pulse grenade equivalent. With enough stacks that alone will almost kill a dog.
Now that everyone has geared up it's fairly easy to 1 cycle the dogs.
Quoted but looking for general recommendation. For those of us behind the curve, what PL / weapons should I be targeting so that I won't be a burden (well moreso) to the raid group who takes pity on me and lets me tag along to pet the puppies?
merciless or a sword that reloads itself every 3 ammo spent is strong. Locks using empowered wards helps. Titans with double pulse grenades melt dogs.
You want to be getting 36 stacks or 48 if you can to ensure it happens.
Knowing where the dogs will run to also helps a lot and having people run there as soon as they howl.
270 or higher is recommended
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Now that everyone has geared up it's fairly easy to 1 cycle the dogs.
Quoted but looking for general recommendation. For those of us behind the curve, what PL / weapons should I be targeting so that I won't be a burden (well moreso) to the raid group who takes pity on me and lets me tag along to pet the puppies?
PL 270+ should be able to one shot their dog with Pulse/Vortex/Solar grenades, Super (specifically Nova, Gunslinger, and Titan Slam), then finishing off with a fast firing Shotgun, Rockets, or Sword. Hunters might benefit from going Nightstalker to get the Vortex grenade and then finish off with Power/Energy weapons.
Looking through the top 25 trials players on destinytracker, almost every single warlock is using transverse steps. Maybe I need to give those another try.
Now that everyone has geared up it's fairly easy to 1 cycle the dogs.
Quoted but looking for general recommendation. For those of us behind the curve, what PL / weapons should I be targeting so that I won't be a burden (well moreso) to the raid group who takes pity on me and lets me tag along to pet the puppies?
PL 270+ should be able to one shot their dog with Pulse/Vortex/Solar grenades, Super (specifically Nova, Gunslinger, and Titan Slam), then finishing off with a fast firing Shotgun, Rockets, or Sword. Hunters might benefit from going Nightstalker to get the Vortex grenade and then finish off with Power/Energy weapons.
To add to this, if you don't have Nighthawk for Gunslinger, pick the lower Nightstalker tree, throw Vortex or Voidwall 'nade, then spam arrows on your dog. It will die quickly.
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Like our team got to calus on Tuesday. Is that tied to the raid leader or do each of us have that checkpoint that we can separately use or do each of us have that checkpoint but if they use it without me then I would only zone in to see nothing?
Like our team got to calus on Tuesday. Is that tied to the raid leader or do each of us have that checkpoint that we can separately use or do each of us have that checkpoint but if they use it without me then I would only zone in to see nothing?
And can I go into a fresh instance?
You will each have the checkpoint (although this raid is different and you still spawn at the front, meaning you have to do the flag event or use the underbelly to get there). If you want to reset your raid you can hold a button when selecting the raid (on ps4 I believe it is square) and it will start the raid fresh for that character. You will, obviously, however not receive loot from encounters that you have beaten on the same character again.
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Like our team got to calus on Tuesday. Is that tied to the raid leader or do each of us have that checkpoint that we can separately use or do each of us have that checkpoint but if they use it without me then I would only zone in to see nothing?
And can I go into a fresh instance?
everyone who was there has a checkpoint that expires on reset
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if you go in with a fireteam that hasn't done the raid, and you aren't the leader, you'll start at the beginning
Looking through the top 25 trials players on destinytracker, almost every single warlock is using transverse steps. Maybe I need to give those another try.
I'd imagine it's just like D1 where top tier players tend to prize mobility above all else in regards to flanking and maneuvering. Also the fact that some of the top weapons in the game are in the energy slot and you can unload, sprint and unload again without actually having to slow your movement to reload.
I picture someone laying down fire with a Prosecutor and sprinting back around a corner and already ready to unload again into someone when they turn the corner to chase.
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I opened two engrams yesterday, a legendary and an exotic
two fucking dire ahamkara spines
Wait, so a regular legendary engram can still drop exotics?
Sev: Your gameplay is the most heavily yomi based around. Usually you look for characters that allow you to force guessing situations for big dmg. Even if the guess is mathematically nowhere near in your favor lol. You're happiest when you have either a 50/50, 33/33/33 or even a 75/25 situation to go crazy with. And you will take big risks to force those situations to come up.
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I opened two engrams yesterday, a legendary and an exotic
two fucking dire ahamkara spines
Wait, so a regular legendary engram can still drop exotics?
Yep, I’ve had it happen a few times once for Sweet Business and the other for a Vigilance Wing
Someone out there is going to want to murder you over your loot luck. I just want you to know.
Haha, that’s where my luck ends. I feel like my luck has been weapons heavy. I have hardly any exotic armor pieces.
Meanwhile, I've gotten a single unique exotic weapon out of engrams. The rest of mine have all been armor, with like two of those being ones I ever wanted. Eventually our luck has to break, right?
Ok so Dunemarchers are pretty ok if you want to run marginally faster and slide way farther (this is a thing that is relevant to my interests) but it's hard for me to justify using them over an exotic that's got a tangible benefit like the Actium War Rig or Doom Fang or Synthoceps (if I ever get them, praise RNGesus, giver and destroyer of hope).
Ok so Dunemarchers are pretty ok if you want to run marginally faster and slide way farther (this is a thing that is relevant to my interests) but it's hard for me to justify using them over an exotic that's got a tangible benefit like the Actium War Rig or Doom Fang or Synthoceps (if I ever get them, praise RNGesus, giver and destroyer of hope).
Yeah the charge up punch aspect is pretty shit. Like against dregs it didn't really have much of a noticeable effect. And if you're a striker you'd want to use skullfort anyway for a way better proc.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Synthoceps are very nice for the melee reach, absolutely. War Rig is helpful with the +5 to ammo every few seconds, but I'm not a fan of how they look. I've been basically wearing the Mask of the Quiet One for the past week. Helpful during the raid for recharges, even if I'm not using Void for the health regen effect.
Oh speaking of jumping, I forget who was mentioning it, but there is absolutely an instakill area in the ceiling above the room with the glitched Inspect point in the hangar. If you're facing the "back" of the tower (like, outside towards the mountains, with the Traveler at your back), the left corner of that room will kill you if you jump into it while you have the Quickness perk active from the hot lava game. Don't know if it's out of bounds or something, but it's strange that it only seems to happen right there.
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Enable its stability option, and then get some kinetic counterbalance mods on your armor. It's pretty much D2's Suros. It's really good at mid+ range and is viable at all ranges. It does seem to lose pretty hard to SMG's and Sidearms at close range, and loses to MIDA at long range like everything else.
It's so weird they put the 3 best PvP abilities all on the same gun:
It's like three exotics in one. My transversive steps primary perk is useless in PvP because MIDA has that as its THIRD BEST FEATURE...
I don't view shaxx or zavalas faction stuff in the same way I do other areas. I just turn in when I feel like it.
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So it's the next day now and the game is still busted for me. Last night it was a weird sort of busted where it failed out a ton trying to log in, but sometimes was able to, then failed a ton trying to get into a planets, but sometimes was able but would load me in without npcs before kicking me out. Today it just won't let me log in at all. It's been giving me a whole mix of networking errors, sometimes just saying the servers aren't available, last night giving me 'lettuce' and others, today giving me 'centipede'. Everything worked totally fine before and I have no clue what to do. I already pulled the power for a cache clear
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I thought they were all full or something. I managed to find a casual clan with open enrollment, and a decent amount of members. I'd love to join a PA clan if there's room somewhere! I'm on PS4, but I don't think that matters as far as XP contribution and rewards.
I did stupid upon a sidearm Last Hope that seems pretty amazing at close quarters as long as you don't ADS. It was consistently winning me close quarter fights against SMGs and if you have the aim its TTK seems really short.
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Quoted but looking for general recommendation. For those of us behind the curve, what PL / weapons should I be targeting so that I won't be a burden (well moreso) to the raid group who takes pity on me and lets me tag along to pet the puppies?
There are two clans for PS4 that have opening, iirc. There is an overflow clan here with like 30-ish people or something? And there is a SE++ clan that should have space as well.
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merciless or a sword that reloads itself every 3 ammo spent is strong. Locks using empowered wards helps. Titans with double pulse grenades melt dogs.
You want to be getting 36 stacks or 48 if you can to ensure it happens.
Knowing where the dogs will run to also helps a lot and having people run there as soon as they howl.
270 or higher is recommended
PL 270+ should be able to one shot their dog with Pulse/Vortex/Solar grenades, Super (specifically Nova, Gunslinger, and Titan Slam), then finishing off with a fast firing Shotgun, Rockets, or Sword. Hunters might benefit from going Nightstalker to get the Vortex grenade and then finish off with Power/Energy weapons.
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To add to this, if you don't have Nighthawk for Gunslinger, pick the lower Nightstalker tree, throw Vortex or Voidwall 'nade, then spam arrows on your dog. It will die quickly.
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Like our team got to calus on Tuesday. Is that tied to the raid leader or do each of us have that checkpoint that we can separately use or do each of us have that checkpoint but if they use it without me then I would only zone in to see nothing?
And can I go into a fresh instance?
You will each have the checkpoint (although this raid is different and you still spawn at the front, meaning you have to do the flag event or use the underbelly to get there). If you want to reset your raid you can hold a button when selecting the raid (on ps4 I believe it is square) and it will start the raid fresh for that character. You will, obviously, however not receive loot from encounters that you have beaten on the same character again.
everyone who was there has a checkpoint that expires on reset
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I'd imagine it's just like D1 where top tier players tend to prize mobility above all else in regards to flanking and maneuvering. Also the fact that some of the top weapons in the game are in the energy slot and you can unload, sprint and unload again without actually having to slow your movement to reload.
I picture someone laying down fire with a Prosecutor and sprinting back around a corner and already ready to unload again into someone when they turn the corner to chase.
Yeah, the raid is hardly required to hit max PL anymore. Its more of just a place to get unique gear and maybe a faster track to max PL.
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DIM works and Bungie's doesn't most of the time.
And really the correct answer will be Ishtar Commander once they get it updated. (At least it was my preference)
I have the Vanishing Point and it has like orange wings or something when I drive it. It's... slow.
Wait, so a regular legendary engram can still drop exotics?
I can try to knock it out with ya
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Yep, I’ve had it happen a few times once for Sweet Business and the other for a Vigilance Wing
Its the best place to feel mildly creeped out the whole time. It's like an entire raid of me leering at you.
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I keep thinking about that, but realistically, with no character transfer there's no way I can justify dedicating that much time to this game TWICE.
The Vault, an app on Android (and probably iOS?) currently works with D2. It's a decent stopgap while you wait for Ishtar to update.
Someone out there is going to want to murder you over your loot luck. I just want you to know.
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Haha, that’s where my luck ends. I feel like my luck has been weapons heavy. I have hardly any exotic armor pieces.
Meanwhile, I've gotten a single unique exotic weapon out of engrams. The rest of mine have all been armor, with like two of those being ones I ever wanted. Eventually our luck has to break, right?
Xbox Live / Steam
Meanwhile, I have yet to get an exotic from a legendary. Shocking developments, tonight at 11!
Yeah the charge up punch aspect is pretty shit. Like against dregs it didn't really have much of a noticeable effect. And if you're a striker you'd want to use skullfort anyway for a way better proc.
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