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Post by markopolo on Apr 7, 2015 9:49:33 GMT -5
Head back to the sand pit of Mars to deal with our good friend and bullet sponge, Mr. Valus Ta'aurc
Making things more difficult for you: Burn free!
Nightfall Mission Modifiers: Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers. Nightfall - If all players die, your Fireteam is returned to Orbit. Lightswitch - Minions of the Darkness deal much more melee damage. Angry - Minions of the Darkness won't flinch, even after massive damage. Juggler - No ammo drops for your equipped weapon
For the weekly, the modifers are: Heroic - Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive. Lightswitch - Minions of the Darkness deal much more melee damage.
Again, use this thread to brag about what you did and what you got, or bitch about what you didn't get
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Post by markopolo on Apr 7, 2015 9:51:10 GMT -5
And as always, the Polo Spot d' Fromage
My personal favourite
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Post by markopolo on Apr 7, 2015 9:55:46 GMT -5
"But Polo!!" you cry, "Cheese should be old, but that cheese is too old... too stale... too smelly... too splash damaged!"
Fine, mon ami's.... some fresh cheese for you! Because why not try the other side?
DISCLAIMER: I've never tried this spot. I will though (maybe not on the nightfall) It'd be interesting to see how the splash damage happens
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Post by markopolo on Apr 7, 2015 10:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by TheHawkNY on Apr 8, 2015 8:31:00 GMT -5
Another option is to stand at the opposite end of the room from where he enters, drop a Weapons of Light bubble, fire all of your rockets, use a heavy ammo synthesis, and fire all of your rockets again. With three players with Gjallarhorns and max heavy ammo going in there, you can easily take him down outright.
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Post by iw5000 on Apr 8, 2015 8:39:51 GMT -5
This strike really doesn't require any hiding spots. Just work the map like hawk said. The back corner tends to be very safe as it is.
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Post by markopolo on Apr 8, 2015 8:42:27 GMT -5
Another option is to stand at the opposite end of the room from where he enters, drop a Weapons of Light bubble, fire all of your rockets, use a heavy ammo synthesis, and fire all of your rockets again. With three players with Gjallarhorns and max heavy ammo going in there, you can easily take him down outright. Assuming that 1) all three players have max heavy ammo, and 2) all three players have a gjallarhorns, and 3) you have a titan... Is the viable for the nightfall or is this a good strategy mainly the weekly?
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Post by markopolo on Apr 8, 2015 8:58:15 GMT -5
Busy time this week for Polo, didn't do much PUG'd the weekly, did great up until Valus. Super great... I was a sniping god. I could turn the wrong way, aim down, and still headshot things 3/4 the map away. Didn't die once. Literally, it was like my icebreaker was modded so it only headshotted/1HK'd mobs. Disgustingly proud of myself. The other two hunters sniped, but it was all Polo, all the time. A sniping masterpiece and a thing of beauty. F%%k, I even got my timing down so that I rarely ever ran out of Icebreaker ammo... how often do I do that? Hellz if I know?!?!! Then it was Valus time. Decided not to eff around and went to the old faithful cheese spot... could not stick the first jump landing. It's happening more and more often and it's really really starting to annoy me. I want to practice it, and I've been in other similar areas in the cosmodrome, but I dunno if it's performance anxiety or whatnot, but even max agility, MIDA'd, I just can't nail the dismount of the first landing. The jump up to the chandelier, no sweat. It's that first one... I jump up, look down, see the landing, slide down... did it 4 times before Valus started to attack me. So annoyed. So I did the right side cheese spot that I never did before. Did well, crouched, moved, everything was fine. Got some hits on Valus. Then he looked up and saw me. And then, fellow Guardibros, then, to quote the Kentucky BlueGrass Goocher, The Belching Philosopher King himself, one bradman Montcalm Reginald Shatsworth the XVIIth... "$hit went sideways" Valus one shotted me. Which wasn't the worst part... the worst part was the 2 hunters I was PUGing with, could only get up to 85% to res me before they started to fall back down. "Dumb Polo," I can just hear TheHawkNY saying "Why the f$$k weren't you running Sunsinger?" Because I can't self res yet. So.... yea. And then 2 hunters stood in the side, scratching Valus to death with the Thorn. It was horrible. Once in a while, they'd jump and RL him, which was refreshing. But it was a whole lotta Thorning. I even tried to go into fireteam chat to tell them how to get up to res me, but they never did. The boss fight took 25 minutes. 25 minutes of watching them scratch Valus, watching them get up to 85%, then either fail and almost die, or try again and only get up to 85%. I felt so bad that this happened. Arg whatevz, I sent them a PSN message thanking them for carrying me and friended one of them who replied saying they actually liked the experience (hmmmm.... okay) Bunch of broken down blue engrams, plus 9 coins.... it was what it was. But eff me, do I gotta get Fireborn... I should have it done for next week's weekly.
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Post by TheHawkNY on Apr 8, 2015 9:02:05 GMT -5
It's pretty easy to make sure you have a Titan. Just don't spend any heavy earlier in the Strike and pick up ammo packs on the way, or pop a heavy synth more than 5 minutes before you get there. Even without three Gjallarhorns, you can still take down most of his health. Once you run out of heavy, snipe him, and when he starts to get close, bail for a safe spot. I did it in both the Nightfall and the Weekly multiple times without issue.
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Post by markopolo on Apr 8, 2015 9:09:23 GMT -5
It's pretty easy to make sure you have a Titan. Just don't spend any heavy earlier in the Strike and pick up ammo packs on the way, or pop a heavy synth more than 5 minutes before you get there. Even without three Gjallarhorns, you can still take down most of his health. Once you run out of heavy, snipe him, and when he starts to get close, bail for a safe spot. I did it in both the Nightfall and the Weekly multiple times without issue. true enough.... Mind carrying PoloIII through a nightfall so I can get the xp bonus, please and pretty please?
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Post by TheHawkNY on Apr 8, 2015 9:51:37 GMT -5
Sure, if we're on at the same time. Tonight I'll be on in the evening, but not later.
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Post by wings on Apr 10, 2015 7:34:16 GMT -5
'Winnings':
Universal Remote (third time the game has given this to me) Secret Handshake (different perks than last week's with Luck in the Chamber, Flared Magwell, Crowd Control) Venation (Rangefinder, Send It and Third Eye) 41 Strange Coins (12 from Nightfall, 27 as standard Weekly Heroic rewards, 2 Strange Coins from bonus engram rewards from the Weekly Heroic) 11 Motes of Light (9 from Eris, 1 from ranking up, 1 from a blue engram from the Weekly Heroic)
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Post by laneball on Apr 10, 2015 8:32:55 GMT -5
Hey all. Anybody playing 360 that can help me with the nightfall this evening? I have a level 30 titan (both subclasses maxed) but I got wiped a couple times and ran out of time. I hate wasting all that play time so help is much appreciated...
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Post by markopolo on Apr 10, 2015 10:25:51 GMT -5
Ran 2 weeklies last night, fo da coinz.
And for the first time ever in my history of PUGing in destiny, I encountered a douche.
See... in my destiny experience: most puggers if they don't want to play, just quit. This individual... total douche.
First off, he rushed ahead with the other member of the PUG... dunno why, don't care. I do the begining by myself. Then the other member of the PUG leaves. Whatever. They're so far ahead that I get warped past the first respawn area... cool... whateverz. Come 3 lieutenant, tank time.... I'm up on top, doing my normal Icebreaker snipe thing, taking name and shooting them in the head... when the other PUGger just can't make it up the jumps... which I can't figure out because he's a titan...
Then the PUGger (let's call them "F%%ktard S$$tonmyface-Pissupmynose") decides to get cute. At first, he'd just stand infront of me so I couldn't see who I was sniping. Annoying, but whatever... I just moved to the edge so they couldn't. They actually tried and fell off and almost dies. Then they spend some more time trying to get back up top. Whatever, I'm getting the job done, who cares about them. When F%%ktard finally makes it up, he decides to help out a bit.. a refreshing break from their BS... which was nice. I single handedly take out every yellow while he's hand cannoning reds and barely scratching them as he's half the map away. When I also see an icebreaker strapped to his back.
Starting to get annoyed... but whatever... maybe he has to level the handcannon up... who cares, so long as we get the coins. Then they start dancing in front of me again, I move closer to the edge... when they punch me off the edge.
M.O.T.H.E.R.F.%.^.K.E.R.
My patience is being tested, but whatever... it's tank time. Even though I'm not a quitter, I'm tempted to right now, but then F%%ktard S$$tonmyface-Pissupmynose has broken out their icebreaker and are taking shots at the tank... fine, let's just let bygones be bygones... I have a busy night as I have to mark and my marks are due and I'm just taking a break and need to destress.
I go back up and we work together on the tank... then he punches me off again.
I go back up, but on to the cliff to the left of the sniping spot and get some shots on the tank. Then F%%ktard S$$tonmyface-Pissupmynose just starts to punch me over and over and over again.
Then the Tank one shots us.
Then I don't rejoin.
Well, considering there's douchier douches who have done worse to others, and this was the first time... in what... 6 months of playing... I can accept it. I joined another group and it went smoother than smooth... I got my 18 coins and ready to buy me a Suros later on.. a couple of blues turn into a strange coin or two, I got 2 purple engrams that got me more mats for my purple guns. I got what I needed to get and that was that.
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Post by TheHawkNY on Apr 10, 2015 14:27:17 GMT -5
That's brutal. Also, not sure if you're aware, the reason you were warped wasn't that they were too far ahead. If everyone that's in the Darkness zone wipes, all of the players wipe and respawn in the Darkness zone. So if you're in a PUG (or with people you know), and you get ahead of them and they get stuck or you just want to hurry them along, you can just suicide, and it will bring everyone up to the beginning of the Darkness zone.
In related douchebaggery, this morning I was in a Defend the Conflux event in Ishtar Cliffs. The location was the one closest to where the Vex are. I had noticed a guy in the area right before it started, and was wondering where he went, looked around...he was by the gate in the direction of Waking Ruins where the Minotaur major spawns, just staring at me. He watched me solo it, I assume lest he risk dying and have to restart the 9,000 XP without dying bounty.
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Post by iw5000 on Apr 13, 2015 8:52:10 GMT -5
I got on and played this weekend.
I did this Nightfall. Did it solo. First solo NF run in like two or three months.
NOTE. At first, I was not intending to do this solo. I started it, because I wanted the "10 Major bounty during a NF" done. I needed motes of light for Xur. So I knocked this bounty off, and then realizing I was halfway through, kept going. So finished it. Took me 42 minutes.
I got Legendary Fusion rifle I had never heard of before. What a prize (it was shredded 20 second later) I did a few fist pumps and then turned off the game.
Good times.
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Post by wings on Apr 14, 2015 8:29:41 GMT -5
Not the Nightfall or the Weekly Heroic, but yesterday I killed Crota for the first time and I got the Black Hammer. I have been wanting a solar LDR from Nightfalls for a while now so this will do and I already had the Radiant Energies for it.
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