Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Lost Virtue

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Pretty much anywhere is a good spot as long as you don't jump down into his arena. The key is not staying in any one spot for very long. The splash damage radius on his rocket is ridiculously large. There's at least several seconds between shots, so you have plenty of time to break an engine after each. Assuming you have an arc sniper rifle of course.
The spot you can hide definitely makes the fight more trivial. The only issue I forsee doing it solo is the damn Psionics. Those bastards and their "psionic wave" move suck and have a stupid amount of range (possibly one-shots you too). Add to the fact that they have a Void shield when the Nightfall is Arc based, makes it even more fun with the weapon swaps to get rid of them.

EDIT: Nevermind... Didn't realize this was about the big tank guy.
 

Vorph

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The spot you can hide definitely makes the fight more trivial. The only issue I forsee doing it solo is the damn Psionics. Those bastards and their "psionic wave" move suck and have a stupid amount of range (possibly one-shots you too). Add to the fact that they have a Void shield when the Nightfall is Arc based, makes it even more fun with the weapon swaps to get rid of them.

EDIT: Nevermind... Didn't realize this was about the big tank guy.
Switching for psions isn't necessary. Two arc sniper shots killed the red ones, one arc rocket for the yellows. They'd have less hp when soloing too, could probably kills the reds pretty easily with a Suros and just snipe the yellows to save on heavy ammo.

Going in with 2-3 is definitely safer though. There's a lot that could go wrong when you have to leave the safe spot to go make him move back, you can abuse the leave and rejoin fireteam thing if someone dies in a shitty spot, etc. I did all three runs on my titan for lightning grenade and fist of havoc, and because the alts are only L27's. It's convenient to be able to switch characters at the very end when the boss only has a couple pixels of hp left.

Bleh, get exotic weapon missive and the 2 choices were bad juju/super good advice... and already have bad juju. /sigh
Super Good Advice is extremely easy at least. I did the whole thing in a couple hours, probably could have cut that in half but I wasn't willing to use any heavy ammo synths to do it. In the end it's a terrible weapon compared to my Zombie Apocalypse which holds 75 in the magazine and 150 in reserve (SGA's reserve is tiny for some stupid reason), and has much higher stability.

Maybe someday they'll buff it along with Thorn and Bad Juju.
 

spronk

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i finished solo'ing 28 heroic (not nightfall) to practice for nightfall, that little cubbyhole behind the boxes is hilarious. i also found you can hide behind the "shield" right next to the entrance when you run back to make him move, you will get 1 or 2 legionnaires every now and then as you take him down but nothing else. the run back to the hiding spot though is crazy, lot of shit shooting at you and it would suck to die on that and lose the mission in solo nightfall. I did the whole thing with just ice breaker and a blue handgun, would have to use an arc weapon in nightfall but could still switch to ice to resupply ammo.

can't do stuff from outside the room like in pits, it spawns 2 elite shield guys as anti-camp mechanics

on tank guy there is also a nice little spot on the left side by the little cave where you can sniper him and he won't hit you back at all. i only shot 1 leg and it took a long time but he died eventually.
 

a_skeleton_03

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i thought if you did normal you can't get loot from hard mode? or did i read that wrong
You don't get loot from the chest from opening the door and the right hand side maze one. You get loots from the left hand chest and all the checkpoints from the bosses.
 

Xexx

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4th chatterwhite from Aetheon and my 3rd ship earlier, the people in charge of loot may be the biggest pile of fail ever. Ive yet to get anything but ships and chatterwhite from him.
 

Xexx

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I dont think theyve heard of smart, loot, and dare they used the "this isnt an MMO" argument because i'd just say how illogical it is to not have a method of avoiding douchbaggery on loot. If you spend hours in any event you should not be getting the same thing endlessly.
 

Column_sl

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Dupe Apotheosis Veil for me, and a useless No Backup Plans for my friend. Another week without the one item that completely changes the game, awesome. Unless of course Xur sells it, which will mean everyone has one, and then it will almost certainly get nerfed once it starts being used on that sort of scale.

Red Death is the best of the pulse rifles, but that's not really saying a whole lot. You're better off with the best legendary you can find anyway. Suros Regime is just about the only primary weapon worth using up your exotic for. Maybe Hawkmoon too, but I haven't found one of those yet.
Incentive is a good backup if you don't have icebreaker. It regenerates a tad less ammo, but you can just switch out any sniper rifle, and get 3 rounds.
 

colossalFISH

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I just completed the Invective bounty. Was kinda pumped because I'm desperate for a new shotgun as I'm still using a rare one. But the reload on this thing is fucking garbage. Does anyone know if the ammo regen goes directly into your clip or does it go into ammo storage? There are no +reload upgrades on it at all.

I like the auto fire even though it's got substantial recoil, and it does have a stability upgrade.
 

Noodleface

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The guy at Gamestop last night was really sad and confused that so many people were returning Destiny. Said he would need to build a new shelf just for the used copies.
 

ZyyzYzzy

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I just completed the Invective bounty. Was kinda pumped because I'm desperate for a new shotgun as I'm still using a rare one. But the reload on this thing is fucking garbage. Does anyone know if the ammo regen goes directly into your clip or does it go into ammo storage? There are no +reload upgrades on it at all.

I like the auto fire even though it's got substantial recoil, and it does have a stability upgrade.
Invective is terrible. I prefer my blue shotgun to it.
 

Muligan

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The guy at Gamestop last night was really sad and confused that so many people were returning Destiny. Said he would need to build a new shelf just for the used copies.
Been the opposite around here. Still people try to get the console package. I've heard a lot of people saying the XBONE is unplayable due to connectivity but I have no way of knowing if that's true. I may get disconnected on PS4 1-2 a week but not daily.
 

kaid

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If you want a ps4 and don't have one the destiny combo is not a bad deal its basically the console and the game with 20 bucks off the game and I have gotten more than 40 dollars worth of enjoyment from destiny. It may not be all that and a box of crackers but its pretty fun sci fi shooter type game and who knows maybe they wind up adding a lot of stuff to it over time like ME3 did.
 

Utnayan

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I am overcome with joy right now. Because I forgot that I received my Destiny copy from Amazon and didn't buy it digital after all. I cannot wait to trade this piece of shit in for anything other than this. I hope with all the people trading the game in the value doesn't go below $40. I wonder if I should do it now and just get a voucher. Going to buy Evil Within or Alien Isolation. Even if isolation comes out as bad as colonial marines. Which I do not think it will do. Or I can just save the trade in for the sure thing: Far Cry 4.

I just hope the trade in doesn't plummet because everyone and their mom is dumping this crap off faster than Enron stock post accounting scandal.
 

spronk

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yeah I'd trade in now, both Best Buy and Gamestop are $40. In six months after both xpacs are out and a bunch of patches I am sure the game is gonna be better, but it took more than a YEAR for bf4 to fix all its problems (big patch was yesterday, verdict still out?) and by then the game will be on sale for $30 all the time. Shadow of Mordor is really good and fun, playing it now.

also sometimes amazon warehouse sells the white destiny ps4 bundle for $375, it goes fast so you gotta run a page checking app or something on your phone to catch it. Its currently out of stock but here is the link. Its used but its always packages that got returned or box damage during shipping, so basically new units amazon is clearing out.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...ilter=1&sr=1-2
 

Utnayan

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Ok that will work then. Alien Isolation it is so I can hit the timeline. So I can mitigate the damage of purchasing this. Trade it in for $40, buy Isolation for $19 with the credit.

I have a gut feeling after the 8th of October they will have so much stock it will shoot down to about $15 bucks on trade.
 

Soygen

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I really wish I didn't already apply the CE codes to my PSN account.