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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 20, 2015 12:11:17 GMT -5
As bros get ready for raid, note that complete the "Taken War" meta quest will unlock the "Road to King's Fall" quest, which is a good thing to do before raid. Upon completion the quest rewards a 310 artifact. This sounds like a good thing to do right after the "Neverending Battle" (5 vanguard -> 5 heroic vanguard -> Nightfall for a 300 attack FR or Shotty)
Source: Datto's YouTube video (basically spoiler free, but don't watch if you want to be completely blind when going into Raid for the first time)
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 1:26:45 GMT -5
SGA: when turning in exotic armor engrams, make sure to know how many Y2 armor pieces the class already has. I turned in 3 exotic chests from my Hunter, all 3 come back and Crest of Alpha Lupi. Turns out that's the only chest piece Hunter has for TTK. hebbnh: what source did you use to look up Y2 exotic armor pieces by class?
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 1:32:35 GMT -5
On the ToC front: if you have time to go through quests in proper order, you don't have to farm Gatelord/Scourge of Winter. Just pop one each time before an Ultra kill (story, strike, patrol, etc).
Today hebbnh/theb22/I went through some quests and encountered our fair share of ultra bosses (many of them are Taken champions in public area). I popped somewhere between 20-25 ToCs, got the following:
1 chest 1 gauntlet 1 special 2 primary
I want the primary the most, and today did not disappoint. Engrams came back as Monte Carlo and Zhalo Supercell, both fantastic AuotRs. Monte Carlo feels like an SMG in CoD, while Supercell looks like AK-47. The special came back as Hereafter Sniper Rifle.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 21, 2015 4:01:12 GMT -5
Do the sword quest. Do the sword quest. Do the sword quest.
Jump + RT for uppercut consuming 2 ammo. Mash RB for ground comboing and pushing enemies where you want them to go and stun locking. Jump + RB + RT for high damage air combo consuming 3 ammo (repeatable to stunlock even ogres) RB in the air for momentum shifting in the air. Block in the Air to almost entirely eliminate fall damage.
Anything staggerable will instalose to a combo savy swordsman.
Staggerable Ultras like the sunless cell strike boss are killed in seconds by a team of swords.
Running around in 3rd person is fantastic in all conceivable situations.
I'm currently running the following to take full advantage of the sword:
Ruin Wings + Bad Juju + Defender Titan + Armor of Light. I call it.... "Danger Zone" I also run sword in the Raid as a my team's main add cleaner throughout the raid. There I use Sunbreaker as it is a bit more flexible than defender.
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Post by hebbnh on Sept 21, 2015 9:33:27 GMT -5
Do the sword quest. Do the sword quest. Do the sword quest. Jump + RT for uppercut consuming 2 ammo. Mash RB for ground comboing and pushing enemies where you want them to go and stun locking. Jump + RB + RT for high damage air combo consuming 3 ammo (repeatable to stunlock even ogres) RB in the air for momentum shifting in the air. Block in the Air to almost entirely eliminate fall damage. Anything staggerable will instalose to a combo savy swordsman. Staggerable Ultras like the sunless cell strike boss are killed in seconds by a team of swords. Running around in 3rd person is fantastic in all conceivable situations. I'm currently running the following to take full advantage of the sword: Ruin Wings + Bad Juju + Defender Titan + Armor of Light. I call it.... "Danger Zone" I also run sword in the Raid as a my team's main add cleaner throughout the raid. There I use Sunbreaker as it is a bit more flexible than defender. Tonight's agenda: - Nightfall - Sword Quest - ?? - Profit!
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 9:40:56 GMT -5
hebbnh: for the " ?", I just went to reef and the "Lost and Found" quest was indeed at Petra waiting for me. We should complete that and get Boolean Gemini exotic Scout Rifle. After that, maybe get through the Court of Oryx quest? Question: I just got a 298 legendary ScoutR called "Not Like the Others", with "Eye of the Storm" (more accurate as health gets lower), Perfect Balance/Injection mold, and Grenadier. Is this a keeper?
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Post by Dumien on Sept 21, 2015 10:33:01 GMT -5
Eye of the Storm is not good. The fact it is a good 298 means it might be better to use it just for the light level and then use it to either an exotic primary or better perked legendary at the 290ish range.
Boolean is very good. Teched out with a good light level it will carry you through the raid.
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Post by hebbnh on Sept 21, 2015 10:40:30 GMT -5
SGA: when turning in exotic armor engrams, make sure to know how many Y2 armor pieces the class already has. I turned in 3 exotic chests from my Hunter, all 3 come back and Crest of Alpha Lupi. Turns out that's the only chest piece Hunter has for TTK. hebbnh: what source did you use to look up Y2 exotic armor pieces by class? I just looked at the exotic armor blueprints thing on Bungie.net and the companion app. It's under the vendors section, toward the botton. You can do it in-game to, but you'll only be able to see what's out there for you current character. You can swap between all characters easily on the app.
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Post by Dumien on Sept 21, 2015 10:50:43 GMT -5
I posted some completely spoiler free hints in the Raid thread. In the next few days I might also be posting some spoiler filled videos to that thread.
One thing people must absolutely know before entering the raid is that once you load up the raid eris will give you a quest that requires you to kill the raid bosses. I wish I had known this beforehand because my group actually beat most of the raid in one play sesh and thus missed out on completing a part of the quest on the first go. Therefore I recommend loading upo the raid at least once and then going to talk to Eris before going "for real."
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 11:47:19 GMT -5
Q: One thing that starts to bother the hell out of me is on the director I have the "purple indicator" above Tower suggesting that I need to do something, but I could not figure out what. There is no way point when I land at Tower, and I talked to every vendor and nothing interesting. Anybody else has the same issue or know any secret things that would have resulted this?
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Post by bradman on Sept 21, 2015 11:59:33 GMT -5
Q: One thing that starts to bother the hell out of me is on the director I have the "purple indicator" above Tower suggesting that I need to do something, but I could not figure out what. There is no way point when I land at Tower, and I talked to every vendor and nothing interesting. Anybody else has the same issue or know any secret things that would have resulted this? Been getting the same thing. Don't know what's up. Of course, I barely know what's going on, anyway, so...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 12:10:02 GMT -5
Q: One thing that starts to bother the hell out of me is on the director I have the "purple indicator" above Tower suggesting that I need to do something, but I could not figure out what. There is no way point when I land at Tower, and I talked to every vendor and nothing interesting. Anybody else has the same issue or know any secret things that would have resulted this? Been getting the same thing. Don't know what's up. Of course, I barely know what's going on, anyway, so... Have you tried to talk to every vendor in the tower (especially the ones in the Vanguard hall, and the Faction vendors)? There appear to be quests that don't have waypoints (most famous is the sword quest at Lord Shaxx).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 13:39:17 GMT -5
I posted some completely spoiler free hints in the Raid thread. In the next few days I might also be posting some spoiler filled videos to that thread. One thing people must absolutely know before entering the raid is that once you load up the raid eris will give you a quest that requires you to kill the raid bosses. I wish I had known this beforehand because my group actually beat most of the raid in one play sesh and thus missed out on completing a part of the quest on the first go. Therefore I recommend loading upo the raid at least once and then going to talk to Eris before going "for real." Dumien: I have been to raid once to see what the opening looks like, but did not unlock any quests. Is there another quest that I need to complete?
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Post by Dumien on Sept 21, 2015 14:05:21 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it is the second part of the "Hunger Pangs" questline with Eris Morn (unlocked after completing the first part and also entering the raid). It requires you to kill the first, third and fourth boss in the raid.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 21, 2015 14:23:06 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it is the second part of the "Hunger Pangs" questline with Eris Morn (unlocked after completing the first part and also entering the raid). It requires you to kill the first, third and fourth boss in the raid. Thanks. With the name I found the details all the way to get the exotic weapon "Touch of Malice": www.gamepur.com/guide/20459-how-getunlock-touch-malice-rifle-destiny-taken-king.htmlSpoiler free quote of the Pre-Raid preparation part (quest/step names highlighted):
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 22, 2015 8:19:07 GMT -5
Q: One thing that starts to bother the hell out of me is on the director I have the "purple indicator" above Tower suggesting that I need to do something, but I could not figure out what. There is no way point when I land at Tower, and I talked to every vendor and nothing interesting. Anybody else has the same issue or know any secret things that would have resulted this? I now have a theory about this rather interesting phenomenon, it might be a hint on the semi hidden quest Eris has that involves finding Calcified Fragments: planetdestiny.com/touch-of-malice-quest-guide/The quest line starts with "Shattered Past" to find 5 fragments, then goes into hidden mode, then pops up again, so on and so forth. Maybe this is causing the directory to show the puple indicator all the time, but no waypoint at the tower? Just a theory.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 22, 2015 10:27:00 GMT -5
Q: has anybody fully completed "Blighted World" quest?
I know that I need to complete the Taken War Earth/Venus/Mars, is that all there is to it, or there are more steps after that?
What reward will I get upon completion?
Reason why I ask is to see how I should prioritize this entire quest line.
EDIT:
To answer my own question: Blighted World will complete once Take War Earth/Venus/Mars quests are completed. Taken War Petra is a separate quest and is not needed.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 23, 2015 11:26:48 GMT -5
I've gotta collect all 3. This will be the motivation for me to get my secondary characters to complete TTK story quest.
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Post by hebbnh on Sept 23, 2015 11:49:52 GMT -5
Same here. The new RT abilities are just awesome.
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 23, 2015 17:58:07 GMT -5
Some SGA...you get a reward package for hitting rank 2 with the gunsmith.
Got a 284 scout rifle, 294 hand cannon, and a 300 auto rifle on my characters after doing the test weapons today.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 23, 2015 20:03:11 GMT -5
Some SGA...you get a reward package for hitting rank 2 with the gunsmith. Got a 284 scout rifle, 294 hand cannon, and a 300 auto rifle on my characters after doing the test weapons today. How did you get the 300 AutoR? From Gunsmith package?
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Post by snes chalmers on Sept 23, 2015 21:09:17 GMT -5
Some SGA...you get a reward package for hitting rank 2 with the gunsmith. Got a 284 scout rifle, 294 hand cannon, and a 300 auto rifle on my characters after doing the test weapons today. How did you get the 300 AutoR? From Gunsmith package? Yup, the reward package from hitting rank 2.
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Post by tooros on Sept 24, 2015 3:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 24, 2015 15:45:05 GMT -5
If you are hunter and can reach Gunsmith rank 3, you will be able to the Hunter class specific hand cannon Ace of Spades. It has the same archetype of Hawkmoon with a little bit less range and stability (rest are the same).
Perks (from Gunsmith drop):
3rd Eye Firefly High Caliber Rounds / Perfect Balance / Reinforced Barrel Maverick (precision kills move one round from your ammo reserves)
Shaped out to be an excellent gun.
The SGA part of this post is this: when getting the reward, I forgot to max my light so did it at 279. This resulted in a 280 version of the weapon. I suspect that if I did it at max light, I'll get one with higher attack..
Can any bros confirm the above suspicion?
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Post by malgato on Sept 24, 2015 16:51:32 GMT -5
The SGA part of this post is this: when getting the reward, I forgot to max my light so did it at 279. This resulted in a 280 version of the weapon. I suspect that if I did it at max light, I'll get one with higher attack.. Can any bros confirm the above suspicion? I did the Warlock version for the exotic scout rifle. It came out as 280 light even though my gear was at 294 when I turned it in. So I don't think you missed anything.
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Post by malgato on Sept 25, 2015 13:10:01 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 25, 2015 13:16:04 GMT -5
Beautiful. Weekend tasks: get through quests on first sword, and acquire the other 2 swords. Hopefully by next Raid Thursday I'll have all 3 exotic swords! While advancing advancing my 2 alternates along the quest line, I am planning to draw a detailed quest dependency diagram so every bro can benefit. If such thing already exists, please let me know so I don't have to waste my time.
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Post by hebbnh on Sept 25, 2015 13:41:21 GMT -5
Fantastic thought I just had for everyone who hasn't gotten an exotic sword yet: Hold off on running the Darkblade special strike to finish that quest and get your exotic until you acquire all 3 legendary swords and have all three of them to the final stage in the questline. Why? You might be able to finish off all three of them by doing just the one strike. Hmmmmmmmmm.
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Post by malgato on Sept 25, 2015 14:22:34 GMT -5
Fantastic thought I just had for everyone who hasn't gotten an exotic sword yet: Hold off on running the Darkblade special strike to finish that quest and get your exotic until you acquire all 3 legendary swords and have all three of them to the final stage in the questline. Why? You might be able to finish off all three of them by doing just the one strike. Hmmmmmmmmm. Genius. Worth a shot for sure.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 25, 2015 15:55:10 GMT -5
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