1-31-17 WRT - Do you like these 8" Pythons, Brother?!?!?

[markopolo]

Nightfall: Winter's Run

Ishtar Sink, Venus As the Vex march to claim the Ishtar Sink, the Fallen House of Winter is raising a powerful Archon, stolen from the Prison of Elders in the Reef. Find the Archon before they fully restore his soul.


Modifiers

Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers.
Berserk - Minions of the Darkness won't flinch, even after massive damage.
HULKAMANIA BROTHER!!!!! - Primary Weapon damage is favored.
Chaff - Player radar is disabled.
Match Game - Enemy shields are resistant to all unmatched Elemental Damage.


Heroic Strike Playlist

Modifiers
Heroic - Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive.
HULKAMANIA BROTHER!!!!! - Primary Weapon damage is favored.
Chaff - Player radar is disabled.
Airborne - Players deal more damage while in the air.

Here's the List of Faction Who Hate Spinmetal, and What They Love Instead

Eris Morn - Wormspore Not Spinmetal, foxtrot you
Future War Cult - Relic Iron Not Spinmetal, foxtrot you
Dead Orbit - Wormspore Not Spinmetal, foxtrot you
New Monarchy - Spirit Bloom Not Spinmetal, foxtrot you

Raid Challenge Mode: Aksis

Crucible Playlists:

Mayhem Clash
Inferno Rumble


Iron Lord Artifacts

Name Primary Talent
Memory of Perun (highlights enemies who are hurt/super) @ 103%
Memory of Skorri (when your super is full, you recharge your nearby allies' faster) @ 78%
Memory of Felwinter (lose your super but who the foxtrot cares because you lose your super so yea) @ 313% but really, who the foxtrot cares?


Shiro-4 Vanguard Scout Bounties


Anti‑Splicer
Complete Patrols in the Plaguelands.

Archon's Forge: Captains
Complete Captain encounters in the Archon's Forge.

Shock It to Me
Use Arc damage to kill Fallen.

Stay Down
Defeat Fallen.


Titan Vanguard Bounties

Strike Elite
Earn "Gold Tier Achieved", "Silver Tier Achieved", or "Bronze Tier Achieved" Medals.

Sunrise
Earn a Gold Tier Achieved Medal in the Nightfall before time expires.

Merciless
Get 9 rapid enemy kills to earn "Rampage" Medals in SIVA Crisis Strikes.


Lord Shaxx Bounties

Back To Basics
Exercise your skills in the Clash match type.

[markopolo]

If you don't have the Nanophoenix, it's not a bug... it's just rare:

www.bungie.net/en-us/Forums/Post/220845953?sort=0&page=0&path=1

[snes chalmers]

Mayhem Clash...woo, time for killing Guardians with swords

Took me (quite) a decent bit of time, but I'm finally one step closer to Raze-lighter. Now I have until next Tuesday to try and get the PvP kills for Dark Drinker, and possibly even Bolt Caster.

[wings]

Jan 31, 2017 21:17:40 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

Mayhem Clash...woo, time for killing Guardians with swords

Took me (quite) a decent bit of time, but I'm finally one step closer to Raze-lighter. Now I have until next Tuesday to try and get the PvP kills for Dark Drinker, and possibly even Bolt Caster.

If you don't get them complete by this week, just wait until the 15th and Mayhem Rumble should be back in rotation.

[malgato]

Jan 31, 2017 21:17:40 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

Mayhem Clash...woo, time for killing Guardians with swords

Took me (quite) a decent bit of time, but I'm finally one step closer to Raze-lighter. Now I have until next Tuesday to try and get the PvP kills for Dark Drinker, and possibly even Bolt Caster.

Once you do the PvP portion on one character, you don't need to do it again. Just buy the other swords on the same character and skip to the material farming.

[wings]

SABRE-2's first attack is buffed by Small Arms.

[snes chalmers]

Feb 1, 2017 3:33:30 GMT -5 malgato said:

Once you do the PvP portion on one character, you don't need to do it again. Just buy the other swords on the same character and skip to the material farming.

Thanks for the tip Mal, had to look it up on Reddit to get the specific details on how to do it...so now I have all three exotic quests on my Warlock.

Now to get a load of void, solar, and arc ability kills and materials.

[malgato]

Feb 1, 2017 20:31:13 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

Feb 1, 2017 3:33:30 GMT -5 malgato said:

Once you do the PvP portion on one character, you don't need to do it again. Just buy the other swords on the same character and skip to the material farming.

Thanks for the tip Mal, had to look it up on Reddit to get the specific details on how to do it...so now I have all three exotic quests on my Warlock.

Now to get a load of void, solar, and arc ability kills and materials.

Glad I could help! That Crucible kill part of the quest sucks! Material gathering is a chore, but just a time suck instead of giving you herpes like the Crucible does.

[snes chalmers]

Feb 1, 2017 23:47:26 GMT -5 malgato said:

Glad I could help! That Crucible kill part of the quest sucks! Material gathering is a chore, but just a time suck instead of giving you herpes like the Crucible does.

I only worked on the swords while Mayhem game modes were active, mainly due to more frequent heavy ammo spawns and enemies drop heavy bricks. Unfortunate that Mayhem only pops up every couple of weeks. Also, memory of Radegast is wonderful, I have no regrets bumping that up to 400 light.

Luckily I've kept a few 390+ ghost shells that detect the three materials needed for this part.

[wings]

Feb 2, 2017 2:20:30 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

Feb 1, 2017 23:47:26 GMT -5 malgato said:

Glad I could help! That Crucible kill part of the quest sucks! Material gathering is a chore, but just a time suck instead of giving you herpes like the Crucible does.

I only worked on the swords while Mayhem game modes were active, mainly due to more frequent heavy ammo spawns and enemies drop heavy bricks. Unfortunate that Mayhem only pops up every couple of weeks. Also, memory of Radegast is wonderful, I have no regrets bumping that up to 400 light.

Luckily I've kept a few 390+ ghost shells that detect the three materials needed for this part.

If you are not aware already, you can pick a node multiple times until someone else joins your instance. So for Mars I went to The Buried City, pick some Relic Iron, and then sparrow my way up that hill where the occasional Vex spawn and then turn back. As you are on Playstation, you can alter your system's clock so that you are always alone apparently.

[TheHawkNY]

I think I did the swords using Arcbolts, just toss the nade and hit them with the hilt.

[markopolo]

The PVP part was, for me, hellaeasy in IB control. Each sword took no more than 3 games each, just hilt smashing the f$$k out of every living thing

As for the Mats, get a ghost that detects stuff, then equip a NLB and climb to the nearest peak/tallstructure, and ADS, the NLB will detect the mats in the iron sights better and easier than say, a sniper scope. Then just sparrow around. If you're broke, pop a glimmer consumable and make glimmer. Don't do the whole PSN time change thing; each sword should take 30 minutes just sparrowing around the patrol areas.... do bounties too. The key to this part is that is can get really really boring and doing other stuff on the side helps with your sanity.

Let me know when you want to the Hellacool part; John Rando's can really screw this section up as you need to kill the elemental guys within 30 seconds (less than a minute for sure) of killing hellacool and John Rando will just kill em all and not give a crap about you and your quest. You need kiters for this section and doing it in a FT definitely helps

[malgato]

I think the material gathering portion of the quest typically takes a couple of hours each. You need to gather about 150-200 (so roughly 100-150 nodes) of the material in question (on average) to get the necessary special material.

[snes chalmers]

Feb 2, 2017 11:30:46 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I think I did the swords using Arcbolts, just toss the nade and hit them with the hilt.

How long did that take?

Took to some Mayhem Clash to see how quickly I could rack up ability kills in PvP...seems that even an average game of Mayhem PvP is a fair bit more effective for racking up those ability kills than patrols (though I might use Dark Beyond or Siege of the Warmind to finish off the abilities part). Another plus with doing this half of it in PvP, I can always pop a 3 of coins every match.

And thanks for the NLB tip and offer Marko, I'll shoot you a message when I get to the final part of the quests.

[markopolo]

Xur is on the ledge by the speaker selling....

Legacy Helmet Engram for 29 SC
Helm of Saint-14 @ 39 Int // 44 Str for a 90% stat roll
Radiant Dance Machines @ 47 Int // 51 Dis for a 88% stat roll
Skull of Dire Ahamkara @ 82 Str for a 89% stat roll
Invective for 17 SC

[snes chalmers]

So now I'll be able to go through the Sunless Cell strike for all three swords...after this Wednesday. Farming the materials might have been the most boring thing I've ever done in this game. I mean, running Siege of the Warmind for an hour to get ability kills for 2 of the 3 quests was more entertaining than that...

No Land Beyond was actually quite useful in the search for mats. And as an added benefit, it's up to 390 just in case I want to goof around with it and a sidearm or fusion rifle in PvP.

[wings]

Feb 5, 2017 16:44:10 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

So now I'll be able to go through the Sunless Cell strike for all three swords...after this Wednesday. Farming the materials might have been the most boring thing I've ever done in this game. I mean, running Siege of the Warmind for an hour to get ability kills for 2 of the 3 quests was more entertaining than that.

You didn't play the game at lauch did you?

[snes chalmers]

Feb 6, 2017 5:53:18 GMT -5 wings said:

You didn't play the game at lauch did you?

Not quite at launch, bought the Destiny PS4 bundle about 5-6 weeks after release. Didn't get heavily invested into it until the end of 2014/beginning of 2015 when I couldn't stand playing Advanced Warfare any longer started on my Warlock and Titan.

Though now that I remember, the grind to get from level 20 to level 25-27 on my first character was more tedious and boring than material farming.

[wings]

Feb 6, 2017 20:17:23 GMT -5 snes chalmers said:

Feb 6, 2017 5:53:18 GMT -5 wings said:

You didn't play the game at lauch did you?

Not quite at launch, bought the Destiny PS4 bundle about 5-6 weeks after release. Didn't get heavily invested into it until the end of 2014/beginning of 2015 when I couldn't stand playing Advanced Warfare any longer started on my Warlock and Titan.

Though now that I remember, the grind to get from level 20 to level 25-27 on my first character was more tedious and boring than material farming.

Then it sounds like you missed out on running laps around Scablands to get Relic Iron to upgrade armour. Good times. /s