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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 13, 2015 15:50:46 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 13, 2015 18:38:22 GMT -5
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Post by markopolo on Oct 14, 2015 0:42:06 GMT -5
And all of their gear is 280.
Pfffffffff
If it was 300, I'd be in like a dirty shirt. 305 and I'd take time off work to do it
But 280? Pfffffggffffgfffffffffffffgf
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Post by wings on Oct 14, 2015 2:57:11 GMT -5
And all of their gear is 280. Pfffffffff If it was 300, I'd be in like a dirty shirt. 305 and I'd take time off work to do it But 280? Pfffffggffffgfffffffffffffgf That has always been the case. However, these will be handy for those who do not have any 280 defence boots as the ones sold by Lord Saladin are discounted at 40 Marks instead of being sold for 75 Marks. That said, I have found the stock underwhelming and I don't know how good the drops are from the matches. I liked the appeal of Iron Banner that RNG was less prevalent than in other areas of the game.
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Post by tooros on Oct 14, 2015 3:10:40 GMT -5
I'm not much of a crucible player (as mentioned) but dove in to IB last night and there are a lot of shit players in it. Either not used to 'control' of just drawn in to the whole IB thing. Came top three in nearly every match - I was amazed. I guess it'll get harder through the week Suros PDX-45 helped a lot!
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Post by tooros on Oct 14, 2015 3:15:21 GMT -5
I liked the appeal of Iron Banner that RNG was less prevalent than in other areas of the game. I quite like the appeal of the unique weapon drops. Not sure how they stack up but, hopefully I'll get a few. That Pulse rifle does look really good and the PR's do seem excellent at the moment.
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Post by qupie on Oct 14, 2015 3:18:17 GMT -5
That pulse rifle dooo...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 4:09:45 GMT -5
I am planning to play IB mainly for that new Pulse Rifle. But since I have decided to play IB anyway, I might as well go all in (have at least 1 character reach rank 5, and the other two to at least rank 3) for: 1) weekly bounties for marks; 2) new emblems; 3) whatever armor I like and can afford;
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 4:35:46 GMT -5
Last Tuesday, I failed an epic clutch of last minute Oryx slain right before the reset. Today, I made it up somewhat with a clutch on sword bounties, here is my story for bros who have the time to read : So I have both Arc and Void exotic sword requests on my Hunter (could have put Solar on it too but stupidity got in the way so that sword is on Warlock). On Monday night, I got the Arc one ready for Armsday. Tonight, it is Void's turn. I started playing at 10pm, 4 hours before reset, should have way enough time to complete it, right? Turns out a string of unfortunately events made it difficult: 1) I enrolled in the XOne new experience preview program, and MSFT decided tonight is the night to give me access. I have no choice but download the system update and install, which took an hour to complete; 2) The new experience offers a great new feature: controller button remapping. So I decided to give it a quick test and see how well it works. However, the feature has a big problem in that once you change something, it can't be easily reset back to default. Took me 15 minutes to sort that out; 3) Tried to start Destiny, and realized that today is also the day that Bungie decided to release a new patch. A few more minutes to get that installed, and I just had to visit Tess to get my two free emotes ("Formal Bow" and "Sorrow" are my choices BTW); 4) 2.5 hours before the reset, and I finally landed on Mars to start my Iron farming, I had 3 so need 7 more, took me 70 minutes to get that done. Stopped a couple of times for Champion kills, turned out these almost cost me the clutch; 5) 80 minutes before reset, and I arrived at the Siege of Warmind for 89% more void ability kills. Turns out nightstalker is not the greatest subclass in the world to do this (still way better than Defender I guess), so I was progressing rather slowly. Fast forward to 1:56 am PT, and I was 3% away. I have been avaeraging 2 minute per run so if I can get 3% in 1 run I would then have enough time to go see Lord Shaxx before reset; 6) But I screwed up and only got 2%! 1:58am and I still need to do another run. I hurried up and threw all I had (nade, smoke bomb with toxin, 3 arrows) on the first way of enemies, and went to Orbit immediately upon the notification of quest step completion; 7) 1:59am! Can I make to the tower in time? I was nervously checking the clock while my ship was going through the glorified loading screen, and 2am arrived before I reached the tower. Did I just suffer another last second fail at racing against the reset?! Fortunately, the world did not get reset when I reached the tower seconds after 2am! Talked to Shaxx, back to orbit and then tower again, and Shaxx was happy to hand me the final steps of both exotic sword bounties! Whew...
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Post by qupie on Oct 14, 2015 4:48:06 GMT -5
Just throwing this in here, its for IB www.bungie.net/pubassets/44495/level_delta.jpg10 light seems to be 1 level in this chart. This is true for both attack values for individual weapons, and overal light level. So 170 old weapons, will do about 70% damage, even if you can still bump up your light to 300 with armour and stuff. Great news
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Post by wings on Oct 14, 2015 6:25:33 GMT -5
I liked the appeal of Iron Banner that RNG was less prevalent than in other areas of the game. I quite like the appeal of the unique weapon drops. Not sure how they stack up but, hopefully I'll get a few. That Pulse rifle does look really good and the PR's do seem excellent at the moment. Yeah it looks good but I'll probably use Red Death over it since I'm not going to use an exotic special or heavy for IB/ToO anyway.
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Post by markopolo on Oct 14, 2015 7:35:23 GMT -5
And all of their gear is 280. Pfffffffff If it was 300, I'd be in like a dirty shirt. 305 and I'd take time off work to do it But 280? Pfffffggffffgfffffffffffffgf That has always been the case. However, these will be handy for those who do not have any 280 defence boots as the ones sold by Lord Saladin are discounted at 40 Marks instead of being sold for 75 Marks. That said, I have found the stock underwhelming and I don't know how good the drops are from the matches. I liked the appeal of Iron Banner that RNG was less prevalent than in other areas of the game. And destiny has it wrong Look at me, hardcore pve at timers anti pvp- er: give me a carrot and I'll reach for it. I got 5 of 6 etheric lights last IB. The incentive for me this time? The cool looking stag skull emblem... Which I got the first game. Done? Give me an elemental primary for 200 and someglimmer. Gimme a 300 chest piece. No Ram + no Thorn + no incentive = tbnt Bungie... You lost all the momentum you got from me last banner
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Post by qupie on Oct 14, 2015 7:44:28 GMT -5
Anybody got any information on the weapon drops from armsday? I am very curious what kind of gems are among the auto rifles!
@ Marco, there are actually some pretty nice rewards, but they are more PvP focused this time around. (great pulse rifle, great boots, and there should be more drops after each game as well)
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 11:06:11 GMT -5
Anybody got any information on the weapon drops from armsday? I am very curious what kind of gems are among the auto rifles! @ Marco, there are actually some pretty nice rewards, but they are more PvP focused this time around. (great pulse rifle, great boots, and there should be more drops after each game as well) planetdestiny.com/armsday-recommendations-2/
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 11:24:29 GMT -5
This week's field tests:
AutoR: precision kills HC: Crucible kills HC: precision shots PulseR: Hive kills SniperR: double kills
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Post by bradman on Oct 14, 2015 11:45:48 GMT -5
IB seems like it has worse players right now. I'm playing in the low 290s and don't feel underpowered at all.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 15:43:54 GMT -5
Promising news:
If you have been procrastinating on getting through the PvP quest line to unlock weekly bounties (like me), you may want to consider picking it up in case NF rewards suddenly become a lot more attractive.
I can settle for 100 weapon parts as NF rewards actually, not being sarcastic at all.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 15:49:24 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 14, 2015 15:51:28 GMT -5
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Post by qupie on Oct 15, 2015 2:48:22 GMT -5
I don't get why people advice PoE for 3oC farming. It was clearly stated that it is a timer that gives you less chance. The timer is hypothesized to be ~8-10 minutes before you get your full chance on another exotic. Therefore strikes seem to be the best way to do 3oC farming. If you really want to have a fast bosskill, go for gatelord (with risk of burning more 3oC), otherwise strikes. I really don't see the benefit of PoE here.
You can also just do gate lord once every 10 minutes, and use the rest of the time to do something else (like the dishes).
Personally, I like to use them during strikes. You get some other rewards as well, and you don't burn through them in a few hours. Sure you get some strange coins back, but you can also get some from strikes, and you get actually nice rewards as well.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 15, 2015 9:39:31 GMT -5
I don't get why people advice PoE for 3oC farming. It was clearly stated that it is a timer that gives you less chance. The timer is hypothesized to be ~8-10 minutes before you get your full chance on another exotic. Therefore strikes seem to be the best way to do 3oC farming. If you really want to have a fast bosskill, go for gatelord (with risk of burning more 3oC), otherwise strikes. I really don't see the benefit of PoE here. You can also just do gate lord once every 10 minutes, and use the rest of the time to do something else (like the dishes). Personally, I like to use them during strikes. You get some other rewards as well, and you don't burn through them in a few hours. Sure you get some strange coins back, but you can also get some from strikes, and you get actually nice rewards as well. The main attraction of PoE, is that it rewards coins at the end. So its like getting exotic engrams for free.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 15, 2015 9:44:29 GMT -5
Lost to Light is today's Heroic Daily, if you haven't gotten the Black Spindle then plan accordingly.
Sadly the mission will only reward one with 290 light after this week's patch, so I have no incentive to do it again.
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Post by tooros on Oct 15, 2015 11:05:32 GMT -5
IB seems like it has worse players right now. I'm playing in the low 290s and don't feel underpowered at all. After my day #1 success, dove into day #2 pumped up like a bantam c0ck. (Rooster) Today.... ...I'm having trouble sitting down. NOT a pleasant evening.
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Post by bradman on Oct 15, 2015 17:55:31 GMT -5
No-one likes their stool pushed in...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 16, 2015 2:06:02 GMT -5
Starting this week, I am putting BWU related topics into weekly thread as well. This week's BWU: www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update--10152015/en/News/News?aid=13762Highlights: 1) Shadow Shot glitch forced Bungie to delay the return of ToO. Short term fix targeted for some time next week; Translation: have fun with it in PvE, get proper emotes ready against douchbags using it in IB. 2) Raid hard mode open next Friday 10/23, at 1pm ET / noon CT / 10am PT. Recommended Light = 300 - 320, loot drop = 310 - 320. More details on what pain hard mode will bring will be released next week (most likely in next BWU); 3) Sunbreakers OP? Currently evaluating 4) A solution are put into place to battle lag, by banning players with "unreasonable" network conditions (basically the un-killable dudes you saw occasionally in PvP), be it intentional or unintentional; 5) Nightfall rewards will get a buff after next week's patch; 6) Evaluating weapon parts nerf due to community's outcry;
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Post by qupie on Oct 16, 2015 4:49:08 GMT -5
Good stuff right there. Really pleased they delayed ToO, even though I was really looking forward to it. If they would have simply released it this weekend, allot of players could have been scared away from ToO for good.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 16, 2015 5:47:23 GMT -5
Today for the first time I finally saw some exotic drops from 2 Nightfall runs: I got a 310 gauntlet, Pegasus Actual got a 310 helmet, and Dumien got a 290 something that I can't remember. I also saw for the very first time an exotic drop from the exotic raid chest (for a player we found thru LFG), a 310 Thunderlord which is superb.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 16, 2015 6:01:53 GMT -5
Xur is hanging out near the Curcible Quartermaster this week, and has:
Titan - Gauntlet: No Backup Plans Hunter - Gauntlet: Don't Touch Me Warlock - Helm: Stag Hereafter SniperR
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Oct 16, 2015 6:18:12 GMT -5
Not to mention the brand new uhhh.. Snappy Needles.. that re-needle your uhhh armorspikes to your uhhh... space-liking. I'm pretty sure I could make a career writing sci-fi fantasy.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Oct 16, 2015 6:23:11 GMT -5
Not to mention the brand new uhhh.. Snappy Needles.. that re-needle your uhhh armorspikes to your uhhh... space-liking. I'm pretty sure I could make a career writing sci-fi fantasy. Oh, right. Xur is selling a new item this week: "Glass Needles". It will let you re-roll your exotic armor, while keeping its XP progress. The cost is 1 exotic shard, 3 coins, and 3 motes. Still don't know how it would work exactly, I am sure there will be a Reddit post up soon.
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