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Robot Carnival
Member
god, I wish they at least fix the freaking heavy grenade launcher bug or just let us use the OP stuff for this contest mode. I can understand locking it for world first, but after that's done, what's the point really? anyway, did a few runs of King's Fall and got to Golgoroth. hopefully I can get that and the rest of the raid done later tonight or tomorrow.
Robot Carnival
Member
me and Dr. Samuel Hayden are in a clan along with a few others. have him send you an invite or something next time he's on.
as for Shadowkeep and Beyond Light, they're sort of worth it I think, at least Beyond Light. in any case, if you're interested in those, they have a collection bundle on sale right now I think.
Robot Carnival
Member
finished Oryx with a pick up group. all I can say is, Whisper Of The Worm was putting in work with the boss dps. with a Well and a Divinity on Oryx, and in Whisper Breathing, I'm doing 57K a hit, and no need to reload. highly recommend for that fight. and you can also put on another sniper for the Ogres and Knights too, so the sniper ammo finder would be extra useful.
Dthomp
Member
You should try Triple Tap / Firing Line Taipan LFR, same idea but I believe I was doing more per hit then that. I tried Whisper at Warpriest on Day 1 for a run and it was pitiful how much it was doing, it was less then my Taipan even before I unlocked Firing Line.
Robot Carnival
Member
I have the Taipan crafted, but didn't get around to leveling it up. I'll test it out once I do thou. but even then, you still need to reload with Triple Tab and Firing Line. with Whisper, I literally went the whole dps round without reloading and just shot after shot of 57k dps non-stop. thanks to the change to Whisper two season or so back that gives it Triple Tab but only pulling 2 shots out of your reserve and 1 shot out of thin air. so I would say give Whisper a try.
Robot Carnival
Member
looks like Rick did a test and Whisper slightly edge out the god roll Taipan. of course it all depends on how well the dps part goes, as in if you miss any shots or not and stuff like that. but yeah, I would say double sniper set up would be a good pick for Oryx for sure.
Vindicator
Member
Finally got an Explosive/Incandescent Zaouli's Bane, my Titan still needs to run KF this week so it's gonna be put to work.
sainraja
Member
They are and they won't be sunsetting anymore campaigns. Forsaken missed the boat it seems!
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Nankatsu
Member
Yeah, I read about that. I had no idea they nuked Forsaken.
In the end I decided to postpone my return to Destiny 2. While I truly love the core gameplay, I don't wanna embrace myself in another grind game fest like Destiny 2.
I have less and less time to play and don't want to focus all of it mainly in one game.
sainraja
Member
Yeah, I can understand that. Although, I would still say check it out...the current season is awesome and you can do things at your own pace. That's how I was with Destiny for a long time. You can do the weekly strikes/nightfall, crucible challenges and then just hop off until the following week.
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Robot Carnival
Member
I kinda agree with this. I'm mostly just doing all the weekly stuff when possible on my Warlock and call it a day. I might go into catching up on my Titan/Hunter later on down the season, but I'm honestly not in a hurry on it. just start again with some of the story stuff and getting yourself to the soft cap, see how you like the new stuff first. then you can work on if you want to grind for specific gears and what not.
Dthomp
Member
A big issue that people who play all the time don't see is that in order to have really decent stuff you gotta grind like hell to get the 5 red bordered guns to craft the one you want, and if you want that great exotic, gotta LL grind and sit in Lost Sectors til it drops. I came back after a couple seasons of barely checking in and it's overwhelming how much I gotta do to be caught up with endgame clanmates and the simple fact that when you come in with no clue what is going on, there is nothing pointing you in the best direction to get there
sainraja
Member
But there is no need to rush to unlock everything....I have (almost) everything now and I wasn't really chasing after 'em. The only guns I chased after are about 4-5: Hawkmoon (my first), Dead Man's Tale (second), Eyes of Tomorrow, Fatebringer (Timelost) and Gjallahorn. Only two of the ones I went after I had to grind for.
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I am forgetting about Eyasluna (love hand cannons now haha).
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Robot Carnival
Member
yeah. I mean, consider they pretty much give you the 2 red border LFRs (and the ARs) you need to craft the new Taipan LFR, it's really not that bad. you can also get guarantee red border weapon of your pick from the H.E.L.M. every week once you upgraded the stuff needed. personally, I'm only focusing on crafting a few of the weapons myself. the rest I'm really just going with the "I'll get them when I get them" mindset. I mean, my vault is close to 600/600 again now so I REALLY need to spend time on managing my stuff anyway and don't need weapons I don't really use to take up more space again.
Jebron
Member
I haven't played in forever, started again almost two weeks ago. As a solo player this game is so fucking boring. None of my friends play, so I'm basically just doing the campaign content and the weekly powerful/pinnacle stuff to get my power level up and I'm bored out of my mind. Solo'ing hard content seems like it would also get boring pretty quick, so it seems like the only reason to stay engaged with the game long-term is if you have a friend-group or clan you socialize with while playing? I just can't see myself playing for more than another week or so as a solo player.
Dthomp
Member
This has been my issue with D2 going on 2 years now. From a solo experience, it's abysmal, and "just use LFG" is not a good response to this because LFG is still 75% kids using language that normal people don't use. I found a clan of older gents that have been mostly helpful, but you still end up with cliques because Bungo wants the content to be "git gud hard" more then fun like it was in the first game so it creates a weird imbalance of the haves and have nots, and in my experience there are no where near enough of the types who want to help others learn to even things out. Just my 2 cents
Otre
Member
I get you. Being a solo player is tough in this game. Still, the best thing for pinnacle loot is the destiny app or LFG (their answer to matchmaking) on their site. Its no substitute for human interaction and friendly banter but it gets the job done. Just know what to do. If you dont, like the dungeons, you can find guides all over youtube like this one.
Robot Carnival
Member
yeah. I had done all my stuff through the Bungie LFG. and while there are certainly bad ones, for the most part they all went pretty good. I had done all the raids through the LFG and there were some really fun raids where everyone are chill and fun to talk to.
Otre
Member
Did not know raids were doable. Might try one after watching a guide
Balboa
Member
Have they just slowly been turning PVE into PVP so that they can axe Crucible? Every activity is nothing but people pushing, shoving, climbing over eachother fighting for kills or objectives to complete whatever arbitrary chore they're working on, like rats fighting to the death for some cheese
sainraja
Member
After having played through an encounter once, most people go back through for seasonal goals and farming weapon perks, so they try to do things as quickly as they can. So, nah, Crucible isn't going anywhere.
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Dthomp
Member
It's worse this week because in order to get the upgrade for the Star Chart you need the 5/5/10 objective things in the Ketchcrash activity. So you have a 33% chance to get the door you want/need, then 5 other people all fighting for the same thing. This is just another in bizarre mission steps Bungie puts out there to draw out this awful seasonal model. Introduce season, have those weapons drop from ANY activity because it's that season and move on, but no we have to level up vendor #2569 by doing weekly seasonal activity for time 300, so we can then do other thing a bunch to get upgrade module, it's tedious.
Honestly in PVE, my biggest gripe is the fucking glaives and swords. I play this for the excellent shooting mechanics, but then I'm competing with brain dead apetards that are unkillable thanks to broken setup #2 or 3 just swording or glaiving while I'm trying to compete gun bounties with primaries that take 12 shots to kill something. Sword ammo needs to be cut back by like 60% to be honest, this isn't fucking Warframe. Glaives need to have much slower swings for the melee, and drain ammo while using the overshield.
Robot Carnival
Member
looks like if you do Master ketch, you can pretty much get it done in 1 run since there's bonus progression in there or something.
Warnen
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead / Hey, there, there goes the Spider-Man
gonna try lfg later tonight give it a go. Would be easier if shit was just in game.
Confusing why they have the casual story content locked behind a master end game stuff. That should be for the triumphs not the weekly story mode. like they mixed them up.
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PonyStation4
Member
Read the description of it, there's no grind here at all. One master ketocrash will get it completed, plus you get your pinnacle engram.
Raven117
Member
Yes. There is a grind. I have to go find the champions, and rinse and repeat.
Isn't master ketocrash 1600? So yeah...its a grind.
PonyStation4
Member
So you skip the pinnacles for Ketocrash and Wellspring every week? You need to be at least 1580 to do a 1600 activity, most people are above that.
50 champions is less than a 20 minute run everyone is doing anyways for a weekly pinnacle engram.
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
I eat Champions for dinner.
Raven117
Member
Yeah, not high enough to run it. Because I didn’t grind.
They auto-completed it because they thought it was too much… so there ya go.
Warnen
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead / Hey, there, there goes the Spider-Man
Don’t get me wrong they provide little to no challenge. Just forces you into builds in a game that supposed to let you play the way you want. Every season random if weapons I enjoy even get mod support…
Champions are the destiny fun police…
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Where did you see that we gotta kill 50 champions anyway?
Warnen
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead / Hey, there, there goes the Spider-Man
it was for the weekly story mission. Bungie auto completed it for everyone because they knew it was bullshit
After I did it of course
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sainraja
Member
That is kinda the point lol. And you still have choices in how you engage enemies.
Warnen
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead / Hey, there, there goes the Spider-Man
in a game about finding weapons and gear with rolls tuned to your own play style kinda breaks that point when forced into 2-3 weapon types for entire season.
Whatever, the fact they auto completed it and the community's general being feed up with them all the proof I need.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Oh... I was wondering why I couldn't find it.it was for the weekly story mission. Bungie auto completed it for everyone because they knew it was bullshit
After I did it of course
sainraja
Member
If you just play the game, not just the seasonal content, the 50 champion thing was achievable or as someone else pointed out, by doing the master difficulty. Another way to look at it, it's not just about finding weapons and gear with rolls tuned to your own play style, you also have to adjust how to engage with enemies. The mods are probably also a way for them to encourage people to try out other weapons.
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Trogdor1123
Member
Are the “story” quests the reflection things?
Those two truths and two lies thing are pretty great imo
Those two truths and two lies thing are pretty great imo
Warnen
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead / Hey, there, there goes the Spider-Man
That’s some witch queen story stuff, current story missions are from the pirate seasonal stuff.
Trogdor1123
Member
I thought so. I completed the last of the stories from the witch queen today. It’s a great little story I think.
There is so much to do this season it is crazy. Should be interesting when plunder overlaps with Halloween too
Robot Carnival
Member
had a long day yesterday so I spent most of today just resting and napping. figured I would do a LFG King's Fall run before going to bed. was a pretty smooth run and got the bonus chest and all (we also did the challenge but for some reason the 2nd chest didn't pop even thou none of us saw the challenge fail message). after Oryx, I was picking up some loot that's all around before going to the chest, and sure enough, I heard that sound of an exotic drop. so, it's after almost exactly one month since King's Fall came out on Destiny 2 that I got Touch Of Malice. now I'm gona need to look around and see if anyone is doing the catalyst run for this thing so I can join in on it
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Vindicator
Member
Not sure if 6x ToM still works for dps after the bugfix, really hope that Bungie buffs the weapon a bit like they did with Vex.