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Post by markopolo on Dec 15, 2014 13:51:54 GMT -5
we'll figure it out tonight... I also have the moon mission for Eris to do.
Like I said, I'm all about the New Monarchy now... I need that high impact AR.
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Post by mannon on Dec 15, 2014 14:10:15 GMT -5
I think it's more a mid impact AR, but I wants it too!
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Post by mannon on Dec 15, 2014 14:33:58 GMT -5
Some Reddit advice on the new weapons: www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2pd0la/what_are_the_best_new_legendary_weapons_from_the/I might have to consider some of these, particularly sniper. I have two legendary and one exotic fusion rifle (on top of that with Murmur I probably only need 2 fusion rifles now, murmur and void damage, but I'm hanging on to Plan C for now), but my sniper rifles are all old... Two rares and one green for feck's sake! Still... getting level 31 is a higher priority for me.
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Post by mannon on Dec 15, 2014 22:27:19 GMT -5
I'll be late, but still aiming to get some Destiny time in. Had to work late.
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Post by markopolo on Dec 16, 2014 14:53:37 GMT -5
Now that I found about that the NM AR I want requires crucible marks... it's not looking like it'll enter my arsenal any time soon. So Eris will be more focused on, as well as events for marks/AM
Effin' New Monarchy.
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Post by mannon on Dec 16, 2014 15:04:04 GMT -5
You might get it as a gift just for raising your NM rank so there's always that. In the meantime you still get Vanguard marks if you change your mind about buying any Vanguard weapons, and I'll do Crucible with you for the marks and help show you the ways of controlling capture points. (Though I'm a tad rusty so don't hold that against me.)
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Post by mannon on Dec 16, 2014 22:00:57 GMT -5
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Post by mannon on Dec 17, 2014 9:26:51 GMT -5
all work and no destiny makes mannon something something...
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Post by markopolo on Dec 17, 2014 9:56:31 GMT -5
So... what did Polo do last night?
Well... Eris was being far too whiny for my liking... "Polo... yuno kill Hive 4 me?"
So I did.
Did the moon mission at 25 (I took it very slow and did quite well) then I got the 2 reward quests, killed the 25 knights and wizards (spoiler: there's a typo.. there's no "and" but a "and/or" ... just kill 25 knights and screw the wizards... easiest place is the patrol area when the Devil's Lair strike begins... kill the knight fighting the servator, jump over, kill the knight fighting hte fallen, run, kill the knight by the bridge... run back... do it again!) and killed the eyes, hand, and heart of crota in the cosmodrome. super easy to do too... I had a harder time remembering where those locations were in the cosmodrome, than killing the baddies. So, I unlocked the strike, and now am waiting for Xur to sell me the urn, and for mannon to get on so we can do the strike together
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Post by mannon on Dec 17, 2014 10:08:06 GMT -5
Sweet! We'll have to run it vanilla instead of weekly so no coins, but it's probably best that way. The end was a fecking doozy with arc burn. Note: There are lots of wizards at the end and while they have solar shields what'sherface the boss has arc. Of course this also means Murmur is your friend since you can swap elements without losing ammo. Over all I had lots of fun up until the end then just slogged it out for like another hour. I think I spent more time on the wizards just before the boss than on the boss herself, because I kept trying to kill them with void damage for the Urn quest... FUCK THAT. Hell I died so much I erased all 71 of my progress anyway. But it's no worries. I'll go rerun the 1st Eris mission with void FR and RL now that they added the replay node and probably get nearly all of it. Lord I should have finished that before trying to run the weekly, but meh. It's all good.
It'll be fun to run it together and get some revenge on that bish! ;3 I do still want to do some IB, but I think just gonna do easy bounties until the weekend.
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Post by markopolo on Dec 17, 2014 10:24:30 GMT -5
Done.....
I am so close to level 30 it's barely even funny.... 1 maybe 2 armour upgrades and I'm there... then I get to cheeze out that raid chest.... much excite! such cheeze!
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Post by mannon on Dec 17, 2014 10:28:02 GMT -5
Yeah I think I just need more helium to get mine. My brother is farming vanguard marks. If he can get the marks, some coins from Xur, and maybe those gloves from Eric's Mom and Xur the Resaler then mebbe he'll be right there with us soon. Exciting!
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Post by malgato on Dec 17, 2014 11:03:19 GMT -5
Yeah I think I just need more helium to get mine. My brother is farming vanguard marks. If he can get the marks, some coins from Xur, and maybe those gloves from Eric's Mom and Xur the Resaler then mebbe he'll be right there with us soon. Exciting! Gloves from Eric's Mom? Lolz. I love autocorrect.
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Post by markopolo on Dec 17, 2014 11:08:38 GMT -5
Waaa..... a 3rd?
tell him to add me as a friend!
Look at us, our own little slacker fireteam... soon we'll be able to do the VoG!
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Post by markopolo on Dec 17, 2014 11:09:32 GMT -5
Yeah I think I just need more helium to get mine. My brother is farming vanguard marks. If he can get the marks, some coins from Xur, and maybe those gloves from Eric's Mom and Xur the Resaler then mebbe he'll be right there with us soon. Exciting! Gloves from Eric's Mom? Lolz. I love autocorrect. You leave Eric's Mom out of this!!!! She is a very nice lady!!! A pillar of the community and you shall not besmirch her name for your enjoyment!!!! A pillar, I say!!!! A PILLAR!!!!!!!!
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 18, 2014 12:39:47 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Dec 20, 2014 14:29:44 GMT -5
So... What did Polo do last night?
Well, it was good to be wanted. The Vanguard came to me and said, "Polo, you've been doing sone good work for us." " Thanks," iI said, "But I need to keep going to buy a helmet of yours... Kinda annoyed but hey..."
The Vanguard cut me off and said,"I'm sure things will work out" and walked away.
Rude, I whispered under my breath. So, I did their bounties, got my commodation... And the helmet I wanted to get but wouldn't have the marks until next week (more like 2 with all the busyness of the holidays) and I didn 't even have to use the commendation
A bit more grinding and I'm right back to where I was before I bought my new exotic 36 gauntlets... With a higher ceiling because i still have all my upgrades to do.
Oh, and I didn't need to be worried: the Gauntlets look just as good with all my shaders, as the Helm did/does.
Things are coming up Milhouse!!!
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Post by mannon on Dec 22, 2014 9:47:51 GMT -5
Picked up gloves. Pretty much a MUST BUY for me given that my only other exotic armor is voidfang vestiments. Sadly I can't equip them right now, and not just because I haven't upgraded them. I don't have a legendary chest piece to replace Voidfang or the marks to purchase one. ;3 Oh well, I'll get it later. I'm doing IB right now anyway so I'd prolly stick with voidfang anyway.
Also found voidfang useful for Eris' kill X majors on a nightfall. It was a tough damn job. I kept clearing the room of acolytes and thrall, but the wizard and knight were just really good backup for each other and kept pinning me when I tried to play cautiously. Eventually I gaveup and zerg rushed since it wasn't a darkness part of the mission. Basically I would clear the room then rush in and try to get two grenades on the wizard to take out her shields then shoot her a bunch to whittle down her health, then die and do it again. Once I got the hang of it I could kill the wizard in about 3 runs plus x number of random deaths where the knight got me first or I whiffed my 'nades. Once the wizard went down taking out the knight's shields with murmur was not difficult. So yeah... yay voidfang?
Speaking of IB. I played a good bit... not as much as I hoped, but I have been doing really well and having lots of fun. If only normal Crucible were this fun. Bungie should definitely improve the rewards for Crucible to be more in line with PvE, both to get more people playing it and just to improve it in general. So far I'm just under 1k into rank 2... lot of work left to do, but maybe I can at least get to rank 4 and pickup that sniper rifle. Looking forward to it.
Marko if you want to tag along you're welcome to. Just bring a good auto rifle, fusion rifle or shotgun, and machine gun and we'll give 'em hell! ;3
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Post by mannon on Dec 22, 2014 14:24:27 GMT -5
I'll be doing IB tonight and trying to get at least rank 4. I kinda doubt rank 5 is doable since I didn't really get to hit it like I intended to, but maybe 4. If you play this week and weekend maybe we could sneak into CsE sometime or whatever's on the todo list. (I need helium, iron, AS, have the last couple legs on the Urn quest, and some 23 odd strikes for Bad Juju, could also use coins... I'm broke. heh Xur demands we farm coins!)
Wonder at what point my Hunter could start doing weeklies... I need to get back to farming Vanguard on her. But... dat grind! uhg...
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Post by wings on Dec 22, 2014 15:08:22 GMT -5
Also found voidfang useful for Eris' kill X majors on a nightfall. It was a tough gosh darn golly gee whiz job. I kept clearing the room of acolytes and thrall, but the wizard and knight were just really good backup for each other and kept pinning me when I tried to play cautiously. Eventually I gaveup and zerg rushed since it wasn't a darkness part of the mission. Basically I would clear the room then rush in and try to get two grenades on the wizard to take out her shields then shoot her a bunch to whittle down her health, then die and do it again. Once I got the hang of it I could kill the wizard in about 3 runs plus x number of random deaths where the knight got me first or I whiffed my 'nades. Once the wizard went down taking out the knight's shields with murmur was not difficult. So yeah... yay voidfang? Yeah you can barely get beyond the Gatehouse because the Wizard just suppresses the doorway with arc rockets. It was a pretty hard Nightfall as I've run it with two characters and I swear the splash from the arc rockets is stronger than the last arc burn with The Pits. Speaking of IB. I played a good bit... not as much as I hoped, but I have been doing really well and having lots of fun. If only normal Crucible were this fun. Bungie should definitely improve the rewards for Crucible to be more in line with PvE, both to get more people playing it and just to improve it in general. So far I'm just under 1k into rank 2... lot of work left to do, but maybe I can at least get to rank 4 and pickup that sniper rifle. Looking forward to it. Crucible really needs a buff to rewards to make it worth playing, especially for PvE players who mainly use Crucible to get some specific gear, like from the Future War Cult. Win in team games = 6 Marks, loss = 4 Marks Top scorer in a team game = 2 bonus Marks Rumble: 1st - 7 Marks, 2nd - 6 Marks, 3rd = 5 Marks, 4th = 4 Marks, 5th = 3 Marks, 6th = 2 Marks. Rumble sometimes slows to a halt if first place has a large lead because everyone bar the winner gets the same Marks at the end of the match. Buff the rep gains from wins and losses by five times to match Vanguard. A Nightfall equivalent for Crucible giving 25% extra rep, a lump sum of Marks etc.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 22, 2014 15:17:03 GMT -5
If you are a PvE player and just want to use Crucible for earning stuff, right now the best way is to stick to the following plan:
1)) farm Crucible bounties; 2) play Iron Banner and farm IB bounties;
IMHO the key is to spread out your play time over multiple days to get the most out of bounties. Let the ranks/marks come naturally.
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Post by mannon on Dec 22, 2014 15:28:55 GMT -5
Yeah the combination of the wizard and the knight just made it very difficult. I could manage to drop the shields on one or the other, but often wasn't able to do much damage before either dying, or getting pinned in and then their shields would regenerate. Ultimately I could ping away at them and be cautious enough to stay alive, but when I did I ran out of ammo and grenades and had to sit and wait for more. Turns out going Leroy Jenkins and Zerg rushing the wizard worked and then 1v1 with the knight wasn't a problem. I just put murmur on arc and popped his shields in one burst. It's probably doable without Zerg rush if I take the Knight first and just be really careful and conserve ammo.
I did poke at the next segment a couple of times, but never made it through it, mostly I just let it send me to orbit then loaded back up to work on my bounty. I was able to kill off the thrall, but the knights were a little tough. I didn't try all that hard, though. I've yet to complete a nightfall and I'm still convinced that I'm underarmed for it soling it.
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Post by markopolo on Dec 22, 2014 18:21:32 GMT -5
Cheesed the first Crota chest as well and some easy bounties tonight.
Interested in raiding before the reset and the hollidays start!
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Post by wings on Dec 23, 2014 5:14:27 GMT -5
Yeah the combination of the wizard and the knight just made it very difficult. I could manage to drop the shields on one or the other, but often wasn't able to do much damage before either dying, or getting pinned in and then their shields would regenerate. Ultimately I could ping away at them and be cautious enough to stay alive, but when I did I ran out of ammo and grenades and had to sit and wait for more. Turns out going Leroy Jenkins and Zerg rushing the wizard worked and then 1v1 with the knight wasn't a problem. I just put murmur on arc and popped his shields in one burst. It's probably doable without Zerg rush if I take the Knight first and just be really careful and conserve ammo. I did poke at the next segment a couple of times, but never made it through it, mostly I just let it send me to orbit then loaded back up to work on my bounty. I was able to kill off the thrall, but the knights were a little tough. I didn't try all that hard, though. I've yet to complete a nightfall and I'm still convinced that I'm underarmed for it soling it. Are you at least level 30 with fully upgraded weapons? If not, then that is an issue with The Pits when arc burn is on. You could have waited for this week's Nightfall because there are a fair amount of Majors at the beginning and it is void burn this time, so no arc damage being a nuke. The hardest part of The Pits is that room you went into because five Wizards rush together and hang out in the hallway.
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Post by mannon on Dec 23, 2014 9:45:31 GMT -5
There was only one wizard and two knights. The wizard and one of the knights had yellow health bars. I just wanted to get the quest done, and it worked okay. I didn't pursue trying to actually do the Nightfall because I figured if that room was that hard I would have no hope at the end. No worries...
As for my progressions I am level 30, but my only maxed out legendary is TDYK. Iron Banner did nearly max out Murmur for me last night which is nice. Can't finish it until rank 3 with Eris though. buuu
As for Iron Banner... it went really great Saturday and Sunday. Monday was a goddamned catastrophy, but oh well. I also didn't get to put nearly as much time into it as I wanted to and only made it to rank 3 so no legendary sniper for Mannon... T_T
In fact I really didn't get much for all my work. I went ahead and bought the boots even though I have 33 light boots already, but these do have more discipline so if I don't replace them with 36 light boots anytime soon maybe that'll be a thing and I can break down the old ones for shards since they came from the Vanguard. I also picked up a few rare weapons to fill out some slots. Scout rifle and a new AR that are better than what I had and a new void sniper.
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Post by mannon on Dec 23, 2014 10:01:31 GMT -5
Oh yeah I also picked up a new exotic bounty even though I haven't finished Bad Juju. It was either Pocket Infinity or Super Good Advice so I went with PInf.
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Post by mannon on Dec 23, 2014 10:05:59 GMT -5
Nexus... Void Burn... hey Marko it's a repeat of our first weekly, only now we have some nice void weapons. Wanna go rape the Nexus sometime this week? ;3 I think we could even pull off the Nightfall.
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Post by markopolo on Dec 23, 2014 19:30:56 GMT -5
Gotta get ready for christmas eve tonight... But it's doable fo sho
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Post by wings on Dec 23, 2014 20:04:00 GMT -5
So who counters the anti cheese mechanic?
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Post by markopolo on Dec 23, 2014 20:34:57 GMT -5
So who counters the anti cheese mechanic? Huh?
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