Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

Making up for the fact that yesterday was fucking Black Garden.

spronk_sl said:

p&t is not that good and only useful for one specific situation, arc damage nightfalls. so yeah if you aren't drowning in coins i'd save em for ice breaker, gnarlyhorn, and/or must-have class armors like praxis, this weeks titan chest, etc.

sadly none of the bounty exotics are any good, they are just things to do and then you will store the weapon in your vault until they make them better.

todays daily heroic is worth doing at 28 though, its the "that wizard came from the moon!" story and takes 10 minutes to knock out. get 2 ass shard/energy and an engram and some rep for little work

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Plus if you need an arc sniper the Vanguard vendor sells one and it's actually pretty good.

Well, got 28, maxed sunsinger, VoC and my Epitath (arc sniper)... just need atheon dead, still have his checkpoint in normal and hard, heh.

For me this game would be great if Raids and Heroic Strikes allowed matchmaking.

Warrik_sl said:

For me this game would be great if Raids and Heroic Strikes allowed matchmaking.

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Agreed.

I got my Titan to level 24 but I realized that I'm bored with the game. There's just not enough to do right now though I haven't done the raid yet (see Warrik's post). I can't complain too much because I only paid $30 for the game and put far more hours into it than is normal for a FPS game.

Warrik_sl said:

For me this game would be great if Raids and Heroic Strikes allowed matchmaking.

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Yes, it would be much better. It's stupid you can't use matchmaking for whatever activity you want.

Also, why isn't there a res timer for the daily and weekly stuff? Just annoying to deal with, especially if you are doing it just as a duo.

increased difficulty. The nightfall sends you to orbit if everyone dies so you have to start from scratch

Kreugen_sl said:

Well, got 28, maxed sunsinger, VoC and my Epitath (arc sniper)... just need atheon dead, still have his checkpoint in normal and hard, heh.

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I have one hard mode Atheon left to kill, done the other 2 this week. Just have not been able to force myself to login past few days, DLC needs to come real soon. I hope they add some real content and systems rather than just more artificial roadblocks. So sick of farming materials and redoing bounties so I can level guns I'm going to replace again with the next DLC just to re do it again. The real kicker is they are adding 3 story missions and a strike or 2. What pisses me off about that is they didn't even have to create any new content for those, they just add a few new scripts to the current maps and maybe a enlarged version of a thrall or something in a new color.

When did the video game industry get so shitty we pay for a DLC that actually doesn't have (almost)any new content, just using the stuff already there? The only thing they probably spent any time on is the new raid. I'd still wager these strikes and raid were originally planned for release but were either not quite finished or the MBA's did the calculations and decided to milk us.

Usha Starchild_sl said:

I'd still wager these strikes and raid were originally planned for release but were either not quite finished or the MBA's did the calculations and decided to milk us.

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I'd bet the first 2 DLC's were originally going to be part of the initial release but they pulled them back to milk more $.

and another rant about obvious dumb stuff...why aren't legendary weapons/armor made lore for each character when on person (meaning you can store stuff in the vault and the lore tag goes away if you so choose)? I finally hit Vanguard rank 4 and my reward was a Shadow Price...which is exactly what I got as my Vanguard rank 3 reward (and the first one I got had better mods). Game would be so much more fun if you didn't have to worry about stupid crap like duplicate item rewards and items that aren't even usable by your class.

Talenvor_sl said:

I'd bet the first 2 DLC's were originally going to be part of the initial release but they pulled them back to milk more $.

and another rant about obvious dumb stuff...why aren't legendary weapons/armor made lore for each character when on person (meaning you can store stuff in the vault and the lore tag goes away if you so choose)? I finally hit Vanguard rank 4 and my reward was a Shadow Price...which is exactly what I got as my Vanguard rank 3 reward (and the first one I got had better mods). Game would be so much more fun if you didn't have to worry about stupid crap like duplicate item rewards and items that aren't even usable by your class.

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Lets see, I bought the shadow price when I hit rank 3, next day Suros was on sale, I bought it, an hour later I got a suros from an Engram. Later bought a Icebreaker, next day got one from drop. Got the titan chest from drop, few day later zurs selling it with better stat, buy that.... following week zur is selling with better stats buy that, following week hes selling it again with better stats. Same shit has happened with so many items, I have 2 hawkmoons, 2 vex mythoclast, 2 truth etc. I've also gotten 3 devils handcannons after I bought one. I really wish I could do something with them like trade em, but hey, I heard they cut trading last minute also so it would take longer to hit level cap.

We used to get a pretty much guaranteed purple in Vanguard and Cryptarch packages, I have not seen one since the engram patch. I've had 3 purples multiple times in a package prior to that patch, the only reason they patched the engrams (and loot cave) was to slow down progression. I also believe they made raid gear drop less around the time when they made queens bounty items useless(no shards or energies) It's so blatant they are trying to drag out the content they have its almost sad. (Random class) items are the same, so you might think "hey i got a hunter exotic, i should roll one of those.

Anyone think this game has legs? Will people keep buying the bullshit or move on? Unfortunately I bought the pre-order with 2 DLC's included, so I'll probably still play when those are released. If I didn't have that I wouldn't be shelling out more money unless some drastic changes are made. Gamers are played on so many levels now, they ask for pre-order money and can deliver a turd, why are we doing this? For a free item in game? I won't be pre-ordering games from now on, the marketing departments/pr companies they hire are just too good at shining turds and selling them as gold.

The main issue, like many point out, is that there is so little 20+ content.

I do 3 raids a week (I did not opt in for the 3x one class to max loot, but my warlock is now 30 so no reason to raid with him really), that raiding provides me with all the shards/energy needed for now. 3x weekly for the strange coins even tho I have 80+ already and I dont really see Xur selling something I need.

My personal issues with the game is:

1) No matchmaking for the raid. Seriously Bungie, I know you think its "too hard" to PuG but you left in so many ways to exploit it that it really really is not. Only hickup now is Atheon and you fixed that by making sure we will never bring new players again due to the random teleport. Why even waste your time fixing a raid that has already been cleaned out by exploits so many times and will be a dusty memory in about a month when your new raid comes out? Make sure the new raid does not contain so many loop-holes instead, that is where you should focus your energy.

2) The exotic system. Why can I only equip one armor and one exotic weapon at a time? Most exotics are not better then legendarys (hi raid weapons!) so there is no reason for this. All it does right now is cloggin up a very VERY limited bank that has way to few bankslots, maybe we could work on trippling the storage space? I trash the exotic bounties as they come out now, they are not worth the time or effort to finish just to get another weapon I cannot use without going through weapon switching (meaning my Icebreaker is always equipped and fuck the rest of the exotic weapons).


Oh and fix shotguns for PvE, the chance of someone wanting to cuddle up to a boss to be able to shoot him with a shotgun is about zero due to the retarded melee damage output the bosses have.

So just hit level 28. I've never done the raid. Call of duty is out today. Should I continue to play? Is it worth it?

DMK_sl said:

So just hit level 28. I've never done the raid. Call of duty is out today. Should I continue to play? Is it worth it?

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Depends. If Bungie provides a way besides the raid to hit 30 for the DLC (I guess they have to) I would say "no".

If they go full retard and require us to gear up in VoG to be able to normal mode the new raid in the DLC, then "yes"



Edit: Also, the next PvP event thingy will allow you to buy 2 armor parts that are the same as the raid level stuff. Guessing that plus an exotic armor part would put you at 29.5-ish if you care to PvP.

DMK_sl said:

So just hit level 28. I've never done the raid. Call of duty is out today. Should I continue to play? Is it worth it?

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Do the raid at least once on easy, its has some fun parts. The massive list of bugs can make it annoying on hard mode with a PUG though.http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGa...long_time_now/

Anyone up for Atheon normal mode tonight? Still have his checkpoint and would like a shot at some weapons

Any time after 3pm est and before Matlock comes on.

the raid is fun doing once in normal all the way through (and lets you unlock hard mode to launch yourself). after that its not worth doing all the way, instead take all 3 chars and solo open the vault door for 2 ass shard/energy from the first chest. join oracle/templar HM cheese groups on tuesday to get 1-2 more boss drops and 3 more chest drops (1 can have gear). do it on all 3 chars.

< 2 hours a week and you have gotten 70% of the raid done per week on 3 chars - just missing gatekeeper and atheon, but fuck them. i think you can hit 30 this way too, you definitely won't get a raid helm (exotic from xur) but not sure about raid chest piece.

I'll be on around 7 or 8 est.

So we have me and you Jonnie (29) and Kruegen (27?)