IB is such a feast or famine for me. I don't run into too many 4+ person premades, but I always am with or against at least one 2-3 person group. It's extremely rare that a match feels balanced. Nearly every match has one side that will dominate the other, and it's just a matter of luck which side you're on. I've had one or two matches out of 25 where one team was ahead for the majority but somehow fell apart and lost in the end. Overall I've lost more than I've won but it's not nearly as bad as normal quickplay crucible where I lose the vast majority of my matches.
I've been playing with the mentality of getting my daily bounties done, trying to play well enough, and not really caring all that much whether I win or lose because winning or losing is a total crasphoot regardless of how well I play. If my team gets mercy ruled that's fine. It means I get my end of match rewards faster and can move on to what hopefully be a better match. In my mostly solo queue I've been mercy ruled 2 or 3 times and mercy ruled someone else once. Of course the match after I mercy ruled someone my team got completely obliterated but just not enough to get mercy ruled ourselves.
Holy god. The heal lock with wall hack chest is so amazing. Heal nade and rift means you literally have nearly 100% uptime on your rift. I often had anew rift available well before the old one vanished
So I’m pretty much always able to see through walls and I can just move my rift to a new spot once I need to. I went 30-3 with three deaths all being to enemy supers while providing my team with non stop rifts and heal nades.
The ult sucks though for PvP
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Slowly working my way through Forsaken campaign, and when that's done I'll probably be on here a fair amount asking how all this endgame stuff works and which dumb decisions I should avoid making.
I think one of my bigger complaints with matchmaking for PvP is that the game pretty much leaves you with all the other people who don't back out if it doesn't consider the game too lopsided, even though it might be, forcing me to back out and re-queue to have a chance of all new opponents.
Even that doesn't work all the time.
That and for some reason I am decent / I daresay good at 6vs6, but am actual trash at 4vs4 modes (except Gambit, that's different). I know that's a more "me" problem, but I don't know why.
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4v4 throws off my kill rhythm. Because I play kinda aggressive and that's just asking to get shot to shit with group shots. But like you said that's a me problem
I never played the original Destiny and originally blew this one off too after briefly giving it a try when the base game became free. However I wasn't really giving it a fair shot so I decided to revisit it last night with an open mind. I am glad that I did because I had alot of fun! I've been feeling an FPS itch and this scratches it nicely along with some fun rpg / loot stuff. Cool! Titan is fun because I'm space captain american sometimes! Also the punching in this game is hilariously strong.
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Despite what the internet may lead you to believe, Destiny is a pretty good game
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Despite what the internet may lead you to believe, Destiny is a pretty good game
I dunno, except for some insane vids or commenters, for the most part people agree that the actual mechanics are superb. Lots of praise for Forsaken, too.
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I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on masterwork cores, but I absolutely refuse to give up my 4 round burst pulses and Trust/Ace of Spades. Gunna be a lot of running around at 550 light with 565 weapons in my inventory soon.
I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on masterwork cores, but I absolutely refuse to give up my 4 round burst pulses and Trust/Ace of Spades. Gunna be a lot of running around at 550 light with 565 weapons in my inventory soon.
I am down to 80 and inwardly twitching, but my vault is almost to 500 items. I am hoping the Great Cleansing of weapons / armor with bad perks gets some.
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I dragged my relapsed friend through Whisper and the heroic version on Saturday night and hoo-boy that encounter sure is interesting with no heavy ammo drops.
After an initial struggle on the first attempt, I ran with the subtle calamity bow and saved all whisper ammo for the bosses at the end. We knocked out the regular version with 1 minute remaining and then the 2 following heroics went right down to the wire but he got his catalyst and first weeks progress all done.
I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on masterwork cores, but I absolutely refuse to give up my 4 round burst pulses and Trust/Ace of Spades. Gunna be a lot of running around at 550 light with 565 weapons in my inventory soon.
I am down to 80 and inwardly twitching, but my vault is almost to 500 items. I am hoping the Great Cleansing of weapons / armor with bad perks gets some.
80?! What’s it like in this magical land of milk and honey in which you reside (kidding, just to be clear). I have 8. I’m actually dreading this week’s reset because of it. Hopefully it mostly give me armor and allow me a week of spider purchases to rebuild a useable supply.
I blew through basically my whole MW core surplus in the first week before I realized I really should not be infusing up my gear, much less actually masterworking stuff.
Then yesterday I accidentally spent... like a thousand legendary shards on cores because I didn't look at the tooltip in the Spider's inventory so didn't realize I'd bought some the day before but the same 'day' as far as his prices are considered.
I've discovered a (very slow) way to infinitely farm legendary shards or planetary mats involving Spider. Requires the following:
1. Spider is trading planetary mats for 1 shard
2. You have earned at least two rank ups with the relevant planetary vendor so that you can purchase armor from them
Then it's simply:
1. Buy armor for 10 planetary mats
2. Shard armor for 3 shards
3a (to farm shards). Buy 10 planetary mats from Spider for 2 shards (net +1 shard)
3b (to farm planetary mats). Buy 15 planetary mats from Spider for 3 shards (net +5 mats)
4. Repeat from 1 as desired
I haven't actually used it because it seems REALLY SLOW but it's something I noticed when trying to buy the last bits of armor on Io so I could complete my Year 1 collection. You could make it go faster if you have a huge stockpile of shards or mats.
I haven't actually used it because it seems REALLY SLOW but it's something I noticed when trying to buy the last bits of armor on Io so I could complete my Year 1 collection. You could make it go faster if you have a huge stockpile of shards or mats.
Good find. I am not shocked at all that that would've been missed by the Dev team. Seems a bit tedious, as you said, but, it's a good find.
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What does everyone think of the current Exotic drop rate w/regard to Y2? I've played a ton, gotten four or five exotics, one of which was a Y2.
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I haven't actually used it because it seems REALLY SLOW but it's something I noticed when trying to buy the last bits of armor on Io so I could complete my Year 1 collection. You could make it go faster if you have a huge stockpile of shards or mats.
Good find. I am not shocked at all that that would've been missed by the Dev team. Seems a bit tedious, as you said, but, it's a good find.
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What does everyone think of the current Exotic drop rate w/regard to Y2? I've played a ton, gotten four or five exotics, one of which was a Y2.
I like it; I was excited when I got my first exotic the other night...which is how exotics should be.
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I think the current rate would be fine if Xur would sell some Forsaken exotics. The fact that he's not going to sell them for awhile makes the low drop rate feel bad. I've gotten exactly 2 of the new weapons and 0 new armor pieces.
Had the opportunity to grind out some bounties on my lunch break. Walked away with my first bow, a Hawthorne Shotgun (a gun which eluded me during my vanilla stint) and a Black Talon. That'll do pig?
I am scraping the bottom of the barrel on masterwork cores, but I absolutely refuse to give up my 4 round burst pulses and Trust/Ace of Spades. Gunna be a lot of running around at 550 light with 565 weapons in my inventory soon.
I am down to 80 and inwardly twitching, but my vault is almost to 500 items. I am hoping the Great Cleansing of weapons / armor with bad perks gets some.
80?! What’s it like in this magical land of milk and honey in which you reside (kidding, just to be clear). I have 8. I’m actually dreading this week’s reset because of it. Hopefully it mostly give me armor and allow me a week of spider purchases to rebuild a useable supply.
The magical land of milk and honey is over here with my 740+ masterwork cores.
Had the opportunity to grind out some bounties on my lunch break. Walked away with my first bow, a Hawthorne Shotgun (a gun which eluded me during my vanilla stint) and a Black Talon. That'll do pig?
Black Talon is actually the only Y2 exotic I have so far. Unsure on my thoughts on it.
I think the current rate would be fine if Xur would sell some Forsaken exotics. The fact that he's not going to sell them for awhile makes the low drop rate feel bad. I've gotten exactly 2 of the new weapons and 0 new armor pieces.
It's a little too low I think. Or a little too randomly distributed. Given Bungie, probably the first, definitely the second I'd say.
It's definitely too random. I got one MW the first week when I was off work and playing like 10 hours a day. In the subsequent... 3? weeks? 4? I've gotten probably 10 more exotic drops. Of those I think my only Y2 ones are Chromatic Fire (my first post-Forsaken drop that first week) and whatever the void PS4-exclusive trace rifle is called. The overall rate of drops seems fine to me but is probably pretty low for anyone who plays casually rather than a lot and the fact that I got like 3 in one day and none for days at a time implies to me that it's purely random rather than weighted to some timescale, which seems bad.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
Finally got my Warlock into the Dreaming City. Christ that's a grind even after Uldren is in the ground.
But I zoned in, ran straight to Blind Well and found a group instantly doing Tier 2. It took the second run through Tier 3 though to get my Seed of Light to drop though. Grabbed the Warlock Solar support tree and man, this is gonna be rough to level. I ran around a bit with Starfire Protocol but since I wasn't soloing, it's rough getting it to work.
Then I ran into the raid, did the tedious thing to cheese my way to the free chest and picked up The Supremacy. It rolled with Rampage/Genesis which I was all like "Neat!" cause I like Genesis on snipers but then I realise it's kinetic and apparently drops are super fucking bugged or something because Genesis doesn't work with kinetic weapons and afaik is not supposed to roll on them. So it's a big hunk of useless that only ticks a box in my collection. Also the scope seems stupidly large.
It's definitely too random. I got one MW the first week when I was off work and playing like 10 hours a day. In the subsequent... 3? weeks? 4? I've gotten probably 10 more exotic drops. Of those I think my only Y2 ones are Chromatic Fire (my first post-Forsaken drop that first week) and whatever the void PS4-exclusive trace rifle is called. The overall rate of drops seems fine to me but is probably pretty low for anyone who plays casually rather than a lot and the fact that I got like 3 in one day and none for days at a time implies to me that it's purely random rather than weighted to some timescale, which seems bad.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
Wow.
A guy in our raid group got three or four in one night which put him close to the top power levels just prior to the raid coming out (he was 545 the night before the raid released), but for the rest of us, I'm at five exotics total, one of which is Y2. I have played a ton. On the bright side, he's only gotten one or two since then.
I kind of like how rare they are, which is good, but given how few Y2 ones there are, getting Y1 is a kick in the butt.
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An exotic engram!?
... Oh, its another Cerberus, jesus this thing sucks.
It's definitely too random. I got one MW the first week when I was off work and playing like 10 hours a day. In the subsequent... 3? weeks? 4? I've gotten probably 10 more exotic drops. Of those I think my only Y2 ones are Chromatic Fire (my first post-Forsaken drop that first week) and whatever the void PS4-exclusive trace rifle is called. The overall rate of drops seems fine to me but is probably pretty low for anyone who plays casually rather than a lot and the fact that I got like 3 in one day and none for days at a time implies to me that it's purely random rather than weighted to some timescale, which seems bad.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
I've played a shitton since Forsaken dropped and I've only seen 3 exotics in that time. 2 really since I don't count Lord of Wolves since it seems to have a very high droprate from Spider bounties. I got the Trinity Ghoul and the Heart of Inmost Light chest and that's it. It's kinda ridiculous.
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It's definitely too random. I got one MW the first week when I was off work and playing like 10 hours a day. In the subsequent... 3? weeks? 4? I've gotten probably 10 more exotic drops. Of those I think my only Y2 ones are Chromatic Fire (my first post-Forsaken drop that first week) and whatever the void PS4-exclusive trace rifle is called. The overall rate of drops seems fine to me but is probably pretty low for anyone who plays casually rather than a lot and the fact that I got like 3 in one day and none for days at a time implies to me that it's purely random rather than weighted to some timescale, which seems bad.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
I've played a shitton since Forsaken dropped and I've only seen 3 exotics in that time. 2 really since I don't count Lord of Wolves since it seems to have a very high droprate from Spider bounties. I got the Trinity Ghoul and the Heart of Inmost Light chest and that's it. It's kinda ridiculous.
It's definitely too random. I got one MW the first week when I was off work and playing like 10 hours a day. In the subsequent... 3? weeks? 4? I've gotten probably 10 more exotic drops. Of those I think my only Y2 ones are Chromatic Fire (my first post-Forsaken drop that first week) and whatever the void PS4-exclusive trace rifle is called. The overall rate of drops seems fine to me but is probably pretty low for anyone who plays casually rather than a lot and the fact that I got like 3 in one day and none for days at a time implies to me that it's purely random rather than weighted to some timescale, which seems bad.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
I've played a shitton since Forsaken dropped and I've only seen 3 exotics in that time. 2 really since I don't count Lord of Wolves since it seems to have a very high droprate from Spider bounties. I got the Trinity Ghoul and the Heart of Inmost Light chest and that's it. It's kinda ridiculous.
I'm 0 for 42 over here.
I just got it this week. This means you've struck out on all bounties on two characters for both weeks? Or 1 character first week and 3 this week? That's harsh.
Unless I'm running into some kind of bug, 580 might be the start of another soft cap. All my Dreaming City weeklies are done so I can’t check those, but all my raid rewards are now +1 power drops. And speaking of raid rewards, I got the one I wanted most.
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I've been playing with the mentality of getting my daily bounties done, trying to play well enough, and not really caring all that much whether I win or lose because winning or losing is a total crasphoot regardless of how well I play. If my team gets mercy ruled that's fine. It means I get my end of match rewards faster and can move on to what hopefully be a better match. In my mostly solo queue I've been mercy ruled 2 or 3 times and mercy ruled someone else once. Of course the match after I mercy ruled someone my team got completely obliterated but just not enough to get mercy ruled ourselves.
So I’m pretty much always able to see through walls and I can just move my rift to a new spot once I need to. I went 30-3 with three deaths all being to enemy supers while providing my team with non stop rifts and heal nades.
The ult sucks though for PvP
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Even that doesn't work all the time.
That and for some reason I am decent / I daresay good at 6vs6, but am actual trash at 4vs4 modes (except Gambit, that's different). I know that's a more "me" problem, but I don't know why.
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Maybe now I'll be able to contribute to raid boss damage effectively.
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that's one exotic off my list. i don't suppose anyone feels like being my guide through the whisper of the worm quest?
I need to get Whisper done on PC. I've made it through the jumping part, and got wrecked trying to solo the fight. The time limit is a pita for sure!
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It's a group thing. Ask on the Discord and people will help for sure. Me and Fondor have run like 10 people through at this point.
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I dunno, except for some insane vids or commenters, for the most part people agree that the actual mechanics are superb. Lots of praise for Forsaken, too.
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Yup.
So they're among the most important things.
Destiny's harshest critics are the people who love and play it the most. The community is, um....passionate.
I'm 2/4 on exotic ships and gonna buy the 3rd before reset tonight if it doesn't drop.
The last piece of the puzzle is the big ass Fallen one.
I am down to 80 and inwardly twitching, but my vault is almost to 500 items. I am hoping the Great Cleansing of weapons / armor with bad perks gets some.
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After an initial struggle on the first attempt, I ran with the subtle calamity bow and saved all whisper ammo for the bosses at the end. We knocked out the regular version with 1 minute remaining and then the 2 following heroics went right down to the wire but he got his catalyst and first weeks progress all done.
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80?! What’s it like in this magical land of milk and honey in which you reside (kidding, just to be clear). I have 8. I’m actually dreading this week’s reset because of it. Hopefully it mostly give me armor and allow me a week of spider purchases to rebuild a useable supply.
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Then yesterday I accidentally spent... like a thousand legendary shards on cores because I didn't look at the tooltip in the Spider's inventory so didn't realize I'd bought some the day before but the same 'day' as far as his prices are considered.
1. Spider is trading planetary mats for 1 shard
2. You have earned at least two rank ups with the relevant planetary vendor so that you can purchase armor from them
Then it's simply:
1. Buy armor for 10 planetary mats
2. Shard armor for 3 shards
3a (to farm shards). Buy 10 planetary mats from Spider for 2 shards (net +1 shard)
3b (to farm planetary mats). Buy 15 planetary mats from Spider for 3 shards (net +5 mats)
4. Repeat from 1 as desired
I haven't actually used it because it seems REALLY SLOW but it's something I noticed when trying to buy the last bits of armor on Io so I could complete my Year 1 collection. You could make it go faster if you have a huge stockpile of shards or mats.
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What does everyone think of the current Exotic drop rate w/regard to Y2? I've played a ton, gotten four or five exotics, one of which was a Y2.
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I like it; I was excited when I got my first exotic the other night...which is how exotics should be.
The magical land of milk and honey is over here with my 740+ masterwork cores.
Black Talon is actually the only Y2 exotic I have so far. Unsure on my thoughts on it. Nice. I was never far above 200, but I quit for awhile.
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It's a little too low I think. Or a little too randomly distributed. Given Bungie, probably the first, definitely the second I'd say.
Edit: I lied; I've gotten 3 Y2 drops. I got the mag boots the same day as the trace rifle.
But I zoned in, ran straight to Blind Well and found a group instantly doing Tier 2. It took the second run through Tier 3 though to get my Seed of Light to drop though. Grabbed the Warlock Solar support tree and man, this is gonna be rough to level. I ran around a bit with Starfire Protocol but since I wasn't soloing, it's rough getting it to work.
Then I ran into the raid, did the tedious thing to cheese my way to the free chest and picked up The Supremacy. It rolled with Rampage/Genesis which I was all like "Neat!" cause I like Genesis on snipers but then I realise it's kinetic and apparently drops are super fucking bugged or something because Genesis doesn't work with kinetic weapons and afaik is not supposed to roll on them. So it's a big hunk of useless that only ticks a box in my collection. Also the scope seems stupidly large.
Wow.
A guy in our raid group got three or four in one night which put him close to the top power levels just prior to the raid coming out (he was 545 the night before the raid released), but for the rest of us, I'm at five exotics total, one of which is Y2. I have played a ton. On the bright side, he's only gotten one or two since then.
I kind of like how rare they are, which is good, but given how few Y2 ones there are, getting Y1 is a kick in the butt.
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... Oh, its another Cerberus, jesus this thing sucks.
I've played a shitton since Forsaken dropped and I've only seen 3 exotics in that time. 2 really since I don't count Lord of Wolves since it seems to have a very high droprate from Spider bounties. I got the Trinity Ghoul and the Heart of Inmost Light chest and that's it. It's kinda ridiculous.
I'm 0 for 42 over here.
I just got it this week. This means you've struck out on all bounties on two characters for both weeks? Or 1 character first week and 3 this week? That's harsh.
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