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  • ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    My warlocks powerful pooped out a wardcliff coil? Warcliff coil? Freaky rocket launcher exotic.

    I don't like this thing. Like at all the missle launch feels really wonky to me.

    Zunde on
  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    cncaudata wrote: »
    Got prestige down. Found a good group and it was literally not even a thing, 2 attempts. It is hard, but I didn't experience any BS or anything, just needing to shoot dudes really well.

    Aura looks cool I think, like a crown of fire.

    (got another bond, the only thing I'd already got through the rest of the raid)

    Got any tips for the Baths?

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    got any tips how to shoot dudes really well

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    i just want to plant my banner on people i've killed.

    like castellum slamming style

    It should totally be an emote.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    To the new players I would say either read this or watch this for a quick 15 minute summary to know the basic enemy factions and get a quick breakdown of the world, and then play the D2 campaign

    and then from there if you really get into it, check out the D1 Grimoire, etc.

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  • RemingtonRemington Registered User regular
    I'm hearing for the baths, having an auto rifle with high caliber rounds helps a ton because they insta-stun red bar enemies. I'm definitely going to give that a go on my next run.

  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    Zunde wrote: »
    My warlocks powerful pooped out a wardcliff coil? Warcliff coil? Freaky rocket launcher exotic.

    I don't like this thing. Like at all the missle launch feels really wonky to me.

    Wardcliff is very different from all other RLs

    It's good at like a very specific distance, not too close (you'll kill yourself) but not too far (the rockets will all whiff), but when you're in that goldilocks zone it annihilates

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  • cncaudatacncaudata Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    ObiFett wrote: »
    cncaudata wrote: »
    Got prestige down. Found a good group and it was literally not even a thing, 2 attempts. It is hard, but I didn't experience any BS or anything, just needing to shoot dudes really well.

    Aura looks cool I think, like a crown of fire.

    (got another bond, the only thing I'd already got through the rest of the raid)

    Got any tips for the Baths?

    Every single person should use Merciless. Grenade + 3 shots kills a bather, and then you get 3 shots back. You should always have the person relieving arriving when the bather is coming out to, so if they can shoot it some, that's extra ammo back. If you kill bathers instantly, the rest really falls into place. It's probably still harder than Calus, just because you don't want to move and the adds can be such shits hiding behind things and whatnot.

    Don't spend a bunch of time clearing the middle when swapping. Kill 1 add, or throw one grenade or similar, but get to your rotation quick.

    Then, because you're not having heavy ammo issues, feel free to use heavy to kill things, or pop your roaming supers, etc. when you run into trouble. Don't save it for the middle because you think you need it, if you die before damage phase it doesn't matter anyway.

    Some folks talked about a different method where you just run to the middle, then back to your plate. Tried this and it seemed horrible.

    cncaudata on
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  • AuburnTigerAuburnTiger Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    To the new players I would say either read this or watch this for a quick 15 minute summary to know the basic enemy factions and get a quick breakdown of the world, and then play the D2 campaign

    and then from there if you really get into it, check out the D1 Grimoire, etc.

    Those of us who were grimoire nerds were not rewarded in Destiny 2. So much of what I enjoyed seems to either be retconned, neglected or flat out ignored.

    AuburnTiger on
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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited October 2017
    Zunde wrote: »
    My warlocks powerful pooped out a wardcliff coil? Warcliff coil? Freaky rocket launcher exotic.

    I don't like this thing. Like at all the missle launch feels really wonky to me.

    Wardcliff is very different from all other RLs

    It's good at like a very specific distance, not too close (you'll kill yourself) but not too far (the rockets will all whiff), but when you're in that goldilocks zone it annihilates

    One day I shot the coil from like 50 yards away, forgetting I had it rather than Sins equipped. I'm pretty sure one of the rockets hit Saturn, another hit Mercury, 1 hit the ground 20 feet in front of me, and the rest are still sailing off towards Alpha Centauri.

    The direction you point the Coil is just a gentle suggestion as to the aim.

    Edit: the best part was one of my fireteammates giving exactly one very heavy beat before asking "...did you... just fire the coil at that Cabal?"

    I'm fairly sure one of the rockets hit my fireteammate.

    He was behind me.

    minor incident on
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  • Dyvim TvarDyvim Tvar Registered User regular
    GMaster7 wrote: »
    Lilnoobs wrote: »
    Lilnoobs wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    Looking forward to this launching for PC. As someone who hasn't played D1 at all, will I be lost in terms of story or systems or is it pretty straight forward?

    the game does a decent job of teaching you how to play it by just having you play it

    story is

    i mean the main story is pretty straightforward

    the deeper lore is just all over the place

    i actually don't know what you'd be missing out on by not having played D1, since i know all that stuff and just basically take it for granted hmm

    this is an excellent primer on the D1 story, though it is also 90 minutes long, but you can watch it in chunks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2avSq-82oI

    how the heck is the d1 story from the game 90 minutes?

    Because despite the running jokes, there is a TON of backstory and important sidestory stuff through Destiny 1. It's just that a lot of it is in the expansions and grimoire cards.

    oooooo, gotcha. It covers all the stuff that most destiny 1 players never encountered, just the sweaty lore folks. Makes sense.

    I... I feel like we've very quickly lost the thread on "sweaty." Sweaty is tryhard/intense, yeah? "Sweaty lore folks" is... uh... something else. Like Eris-themed Deviant Art drawn by pimply teens.
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  • Dyvim TvarDyvim Tvar Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    got any tips how to shoot dudes really well

    Git gud.

    Everyone is different. Everyone is special.
  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    To the new players I would say either read this or watch this for a quick 15 minute summary to know the basic enemy factions and get a quick breakdown of the world, and then play the D2 campaign

    and then from there if you really get into it, check out the D1 Grimoire, etc.

    Those of us who were grimoire nerds were not rewarded in Destiny 2. So much of what I enjoyed seems to either be retconned, neglected or flat out ignored.

    Yeah, I mean it's cool there's some in game stuff for Savathun and Quaria, but yeah not much (yet?)

    But for a new player, they may want to learn about the history of the Hive, Fallen, etc if they're interested, just because it's not in D2 doesn't make the fiction any less interesting

    Like, the Star Wars Thrawn novels are still rad to read even though the EU has been completely overwritten

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  • ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    Yeah that's why i'm not feeling the coil all that well there is no.. direction on the fire i managed to completely miss a FALLEN WALKER and i was aiming right at it from like thirty yards away.

  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2017
    Yeah with Wardcliff if you're not concerned for your safety, then you're not close enough

    Like there's gotta be a 50% chance you're about to nuke yourself for it to be effective

    Forever Zefiro on
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  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    Zunde wrote: »
    Yeah that's why i'm not feeling the coil all that well there is no.. direction on the fire i managed to completely miss a FALLEN WALKER and i was aiming right at it from like thirty yards away.

    They should have just stuck with calling it "Dubious Volley", it's way more appropriate.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • FiskebentFiskebent DenmarkRegistered User regular
    The sound the Wardcliff Coil makes is easily worth the danger you put yourself in when you use it.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    The best time I've found for Coil is protecting the glimmer on the heroic extraction event.

    It is also really good for triggering the taken blight heroic; though if you still manage to miss that thing, yeah, you might be best just quietly putting your coil in the vault for the safety of everyone.

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  • ElementWrathElementWrath Perplexingly Soft MichiganRegistered User regular
    Dyvim Tvar wrote: »
    GMaster7 wrote: »
    Lilnoobs wrote: »
    Lilnoobs wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    Looking forward to this launching for PC. As someone who hasn't played D1 at all, will I be lost in terms of story or systems or is it pretty straight forward?

    the game does a decent job of teaching you how to play it by just having you play it

    story is

    i mean the main story is pretty straightforward

    the deeper lore is just all over the place

    i actually don't know what you'd be missing out on by not having played D1, since i know all that stuff and just basically take it for granted hmm

    this is an excellent primer on the D1 story, though it is also 90 minutes long, but you can watch it in chunks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2avSq-82oI

    how the heck is the d1 story from the game 90 minutes?

    Because despite the running jokes, there is a TON of backstory and important sidestory stuff through Destiny 1. It's just that a lot of it is in the expansions and grimoire cards.

    oooooo, gotcha. It covers all the stuff that most destiny 1 players never encountered, just the sweaty lore folks. Makes sense.

    I... I feel like we've very quickly lost the thread on "sweaty." Sweaty is tryhard/intense, yeah? "Sweaty lore folks" is... uh... something else. Like Eris-themed Deviant Art drawn by pimply teens.
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  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    got any tips how to shoot dudes really well

    Remember your ABCs!

    Always be crit-ing.

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  • Hiryu02Hiryu02 Registered User regular
    Why can we use mods on armor to have an effect on an equipped weapon class, but not use that same mod on the gun itself to gain the effect?

    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.
  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Hiryu02 wrote: »
    Why can we use mods on armor to have an effect on an equipped weapon class, but not use that same mod on the gun itself to gain the effect?
    So you have to choose between it and other mods that can be equipped on that armor piece.

  • StupidStupid Newcastle, NSWRegistered User regular
    To the new players I would say either read this or watch this for a quick 15 minute summary to know the basic enemy factions and get a quick breakdown of the world, and then play the D2 campaign

    and then from there if you really get into it, check out the D1 Grimoire, etc.

    Those of us who were grimoire nerds were not rewarded in Destiny 2. So much of what I enjoyed seems to either be retconned, neglected or flat out ignored.
    On the other hand, those of us who were aware of the lore but not super "into" it, were rewarded handsomely with an extension of the base lore. I mean in sweeping general terms it's moderately self-consistent on the wider scale, or at least no worse than your typical comic book franchise.

    I agree that it would have been better if they had treated their own source material with a bit more respect though.


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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    What stuff was retconned?

  • President RexPresident Rex Registered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    What stuff was retconned?

    ...what is there even to retcon?


    As someone who did not play Destiny 1, Destiny 2 has virtually no story or characterization to speak of. Except Nathan Fillion; he's a kooky robot who loves chickens.

    I could update my half-way write-up to be a full write-up. I think it's missing giant glowing goo monsters.

  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Hiryu02 wrote: »
    Xur Titan.

    Sweet business
    Raider flux
    Doomfang pauldrons
    Winters guile

    50/50 on repeats. I just want Orpheus or nighthawk to show up so I don't have entire playstyles gated off :(

    Or Synthoceps. FUCK! I just want to punch mans and my eyes have been opened about the synthoceps, which naturally, I still dont have.

    Why are these so good? I Punch a lot but I use the AR exotic chest for maximum shootage

  • Dyvim TvarDyvim Tvar Registered User regular
    Hiryu02 wrote: »
    Xur Titan.

    Sweet business
    Raider flux
    Doomfang pauldrons
    Winters guile

    50/50 on repeats. I just want Orpheus or nighthawk to show up so I don't have entire playstyles gated off :(

    Or Synthoceps. FUCK! I just want to punch mans and my eyes have been opened about the synthoceps, which naturally, I still dont have.

    Why are these so good? I Punch a lot but I use the AR exotic chest for maximum shootage

    Pretty sure it gives you the longest melee range in the game.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Just unlocked the Nighthawk with a legendary engram!

  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    Goddamnit Destiny

    STOP GIVING ME URIEL’S GIFT

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Joolander wrote: »
    Goddamnit Destiny

    STOP GIVING ME URIEL’S GIFT

    HOW DARE YOU REFUSE A GIFT

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    I have gotten it 11 times in my last 16 Engrams

  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    Link for Bungie's panel (just starting)

    PSN: Holy-Promethium
  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    Stream barfed. Summary til that point:
    Seasons are to give new clans a chance to catch up or people would only join max level clans that have all of the clan banner bonuses unlocked.

    Four seasons in year one of Destiny 2. Each season will provide a more consistent plan so people know when new events (like Festival of the Lost or SRL) are going to be instead of being sprung upon people at a moment's notice,

    Each season will have sandbox tuning, new features, and more content.

    PSN: Holy-Promethium
  • squall99xsquall99x Registered User regular
    Error Code : Friendship Endgame

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    The Dawning is coming back, right after the start of Season 2.

  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    Working again.

    Caught the end of them saying something like events will be over a 3 week period.

    The Dawning will be coming back in Season 2.

    Ice Hockey will be enabled in the tower during The Dawning.

    and snowball fights too.

    Snow forts in The Farm (so it will actually get used for something)

    Muffinatron on
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  • Wraith260Wraith260 Happiest Goomba! Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    Working again.

    Caught the end of them saying something like events will be over a 3 week period.

    The Dawning will be coming back in Season 2.

    Ice Hockey will be enabled in the tower during The Dawning.

    and snowball fights too.

    Snow forts in The Farm (so it will actually get used for something)

    even better, SNOW BALL FIGHTS!!!

    EDIT: damn that edit wasn't in there when i hit quote. :lol:

    Wraith260 on
  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Snowballs will be out in the world and in strikes too, to use as weapons

  • MuffinatronMuffinatron Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    New dawning gear preview:

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    Edit: Iron Banner loot changes, you'll be able to direct purchase guns for Tokens and Legendary Shards.

    Edit2: Sounds like return of Armour ornaments as well.

    Muffinatron on
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  • squall99xsquall99x Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    Direct Purchase of weapons from IB in Season 2~
    Apparently also unlocking of perks/ornaments through gameplay on IB armor in season 2

    squall99x on
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