WRT 2/28- 3 out of 4 Faction Reps Agree!!!

[markopolo]

Spinmetal is a part of a balanced faction diet.


Nightfall: Fallen S.A.B.E.R.

Old Russia, Earth Rush to the aid of the AI Warmind Rasputin as he broadcasts a plea for help across the system.

Modifiers

Epic - Heavily shielded and highly aggressive enemies appear in great numbers.
Brawler - Guardian melee damage is greatly increased.
Grounded - Players take more damage while airborne.
Chaff - Player radar is disabled.
Fresh Troops - Some enemy squads have been fortified with additional reinforcements.

Heroic Strike Playlist
Modifiers
Heroic - Enemies appear in greater numbers and are more aggressive.
Void Burn - Void damage from any source is greatly increased.
Brawler - Guardian melee damage is greatly increased.
Ironclad - More enemies have shields.

Vendor Planetary Material Exchange WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE TRAVELLER IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Eris Morn - Wormspore
Future War Cult - Spinmetal
Dead Orbit - Spinmetal
New Monarchy - Spinmetal

I can't even.....

Raid Challenge Mode: Aksis


Iron Lord Artifacts

Memory of Gheleon @79%
Grants a detailed radar. Radar persists when sighting with primary weapons.

Memory of Skorri @79%
When your super is full, nearby allies' supers recharge faster.

Memory of Radegast @92%
Gain the ability to reflect energy-based projectiles when Guarding with a Sword. Increased Sword Ammo capacity.


Shiro-4 Vanguard Scout Bounties


Pull the Plug
Kill Fallen Majors and Ultras.

Shock It to Me
Use Arc damage to kill Fallen.

Archon's Forge: Vandals
Complete Vandal encounters in the Archon's Forge.

Archon's Forge: Dregs
Complete Dreg encounters in the Archon's Forge.

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


A Hunt for Glory
Exercise your skills in the Supremacy match type.

[markopolo]

OF course, in a few short hours, IB will start up

[markopolo]

IB vendor rolls

Titan
Vendor Name Type % Int Disc Str Perk 1 Perk 2
Iron Banner Iron Saga Greaves Leg Armor 99% 56/79 55/78 - Sniper Rifle/Rocket Launcher Ammo Solar Double-Down/Second Wind
Iron Banner Iron Saga Greaves Leg Armor 100% - 56/79 56/79 Sniper Rifle/Rocket Launcher Ammo Arc Double-Down/Capture King
Iron Banner Iron Saga Helm Helmet 98% 45/64 45/64 - Ashes to Assets/Angel of Mercy Infusion
Iron Banner Iron Saga Helm Helmet 99% - 45/64 46/65 Second Thoughts/Angel of Mercy Invigoration


Warlock
Vendor Name Type % Int Disc Str Perk 1 Perk 2
Iron Banner Iron Saga Steps Leg Armor 100% 56/79 56/79 - Fusion Rifle/Rocket Launcher Ammo Arc Double-Down/Capture King
Iron Banner Iron Saga Steps Leg Armor 98% - 55/78 55/78 Shotgun/Machine Gun Ammo Void Double-Down/Capture King
Iron Banner Iron Saga Hood Helmet 98% 45/64 45/64 - Ashes to Assets/Angel of Mercy Infusion
Iron Banner Iron Saga Hood Helmet 99% - 45/64 46/65 Second Thoughts/Angel of Mercy Invigoration

Hunter
Vendor Name Type % Int Disc Str Perk 1 Perk 2
Iron Banner Iron Saga Boots Leg Armor 100% 56/79 56/79 - Fusion Rifle/Rocket Launcher Ammo Arc Double-Down/Capture King
Iron Banner Iron Saga Boots Leg Armor 98% - 55/78 55/78 Shotgun/Machine Gun Ammo Void Double-Down/Capture King
Iron Banner Iron Saga Mask Helmet 98% 45/64 45/64 - Ashes to Assets/Angel of Mercy Infusion
Iron Banner Iron Saga Mask Helmet 99% - 45/64 46/65 Second Thoughts/Angel of Mercy Invigoration

The Laughing Heart - Sniper Rifle
Vendor Burn Scopes Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3
Iron Banner Solar Linear Compensator/Accurized Ballistics/Field Choke Hand-laid Stock/Oiled Frame Speed Reload/Single Point Sling Firefly/Army of One


The Lingering Song - Hand Cannon
Vendor Scopes Perk 1 Perk 2 Perk 3
Iron Banner Iron Lordy Sights/Iron Warrior Sights/Iron Vigor Sights Reinforced Barrel/Hand-laid Stock Lightweight/Explosive Rounds Third Eye/Firefly

[hebbnh]

Great rolls on the IB armor if you're somehow still in need at this stage of the game. Unfortunate that the weapon rolls are pretty awful -- hopefully I'll get some nice drops on the way to rank 5. Should be a good week for messing around with my invis Bladedancer build. Might have to throw on Khepri's Sting for extra backstab shenanigans.

[snes chalmers]

Hmm...this seems like a perfect week to farm for primary and special infusion fodder (unless it has a really good roll).

[TheHawkNY]

Feb 28, 2017 14:34:11 GMT -5 hebbnh said:

Great rolls on the IB armor if you're somehow still in need at this stage of the game. Unfortunate that the weapon rolls are pretty awful -- hopefully I'll get some nice drops on the way to rank 5. Should be a good week for messing around with my invis Bladedancer build. Might have to throw on Khepri's Sting for extra backstab shenanigans.

I'm definitely buying some of that armor, as I try to build out my collection of Tier 12 builds.

The Lingering Song for sale is a really good roll for PvE.

[TheHawkNY]

The SBMM in Destiny is absolutely ridiculous. Yesterday I was playing Iron Banner with a guy who recently got the game, doing pretty well, then his friend joined up, and with the two of them in the party, the game became ridiculously easy. Over 9 games, I had a 2.88 K/D and averaged 22 kills per game (and that's with 2 games ending early because we mercy-ruled them). I might start hitting up LFG trying to find players who are just terrible in order to have fun in this game.

[TheHawkNY]

Also, according to Guardian.gg, Auto Rifles were the weapon type with the highest percentage of kills in Supremacy yesterday. I honestly barely remember seeing any Auto Rifles at all, which makes me question whether there is another enormous set of lobbies that are even worse than the ones I saw yesterday.

[bradman]

The vast, dark, seamy underbelly of Crucible. K/Ds under .5 need only apply.

[hebbnh]

Ha! Wish I could get some lobbies like that. I played 17 games last night and only won 5, with a cumulative .97 k/d for the night. I think only a couple games were close, the rest were 30+ point blowouts. Granted, running around invisible with Khepri's most of the time looking for 1 shot melees didn't exactly help matters, but still. Constantly being thrown on teams that wind up getting stomped isn't the most entertaining thing in the world.

[markopolo]

Mar 1, 2017 11:07:32 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I might start hitting up LFG trying to find players who are just terrible in order to have fun in this game.

Why hit me up on an LFG site when I'm on your friends list?

[snes chalmers]

Well, finished off my Hunter and got some nice drops in the process...even though I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn thanks to this cut on my finger.

Even with that, Gunslinger was working well for me these last few days.

[wings]

Another issue with strict SBMM is that it can make Trials run have a harder jump in difficulty than necessary because players haven't been exposed to better players more often in regular Crucible. Factor in attrition to the playerbase and it gets worse. When I watch some streamers do Trials runs, I see far fewer teams that are on the boundaries of either side of my skill level. They are usually bounty runners who have a remote chance of getting five wins or they're stacked, and it's worse on Xbox from what I could tell. That might be reporter bias but that does seem to confirm normal distribution on a platform with fewer players.

[TheHawkNY]

Mar 1, 2017 22:25:13 GMT -5 markopolo said:

Mar 1, 2017 11:07:32 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I might start hitting up LFG trying to find players who are just terrible in order to have fun in this game.

Why hit me up on an LFG site when I'm on your friends list?

Mark, bubula, of course I always send you an invite when you're on. But sometimes daddy Hawk needs to pwn n00bs when you're not around.

[TheHawkNY]

Mar 2, 2017 4:21:39 GMT -5 wings said:

Another issue with strict SBMM is that it can make Trials run have a harder jump in difficulty than necessary because players haven't been exposed to better players more often in regular Crucible. Factor in attrition to the playerbase and it gets worse. When I watch some streamers do Trials runs, I see far fewer teams that are on the boundaries of either side of my skill level. They are usually bounty runners who have a remote chance of getting five wins or they're stacked, and it's worse on Xbox from what I could tell. That might be reporter bias but that does seem to confirm normal distribution on a platform with fewer players.

Not only do you not get to play against significantly better players, but you also don't get to practice things that you're not good at against significantly worse players. For example, I absolutely suck at sniping. But I can't practice it to get better, because playing against people of roughly my skill level, I just get destroyed trying to use it.

[markopolo]

Mar 2, 2017 9:37:48 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

Mar 1, 2017 22:25:13 GMT -5 markopolo said:

Why hit me up on an LFG site when I'm on your friends list?

Mark, bubula, of course I always send you an invite when you're on. But sometimes daddy Hawk needs to pwn n00bs when you're not around.

But Schatzie... I thought I was your only?

It's since you've been hanging out with those Filthy Sweaty Dualshockers... isnit?

[wings]

Mar 2, 2017 9:42:33 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

Mar 2, 2017 4:21:39 GMT -5 wings said:

Another issue with strict SBMM is that it can make Trials run have a harder jump in difficulty than necessary because players haven't been exposed to better players more often in regular Crucible. Factor in attrition to the playerbase and it gets worse. When I watch some streamers do Trials runs, I see far fewer teams that are on the boundaries of either side of my skill level. They are usually bounty runners who have a remote chance of getting five wins or they're stacked, and it's worse on Xbox from what I could tell. That might be reporter bias but that does seem to confirm normal distribution on a platform with fewer players.

Not only do you not get to play against significantly better players, but you also don't get to practice things that you're not good at against significantly worse players. For example, I absolutely suck at sniping. But I can't practice it to get better, because playing against people of roughly my skill level, I just get destroyed trying to use it.

Yeah, there are too many drawbacks with sniping in this game. I struggled to use Saladin's Vigil a while back partly because of the slow charge time so my opponents aren't fooled into walking into my bolts I'm guessing. So I use Mayhem to bust out Plan C and Queenbreaker's Bow. We don't even have bots to practice against. I think the last time I sniped for a fair bit was during Iron Banner ages ago because that was my highest valued special and I probably had a few more easier opponents to play against since they tried to challenge my bubble and my heavy was a Raze Lighter. Even in my lobbies for Mayhem I am seeing meta weapons. Shame really because I'd happily use Bolt Caster in less competitive lobbies. Some of my favourite weapons in shooters aren't always the better ones. I used the SCAR-H in Black Ops 2 a fair amount instead of spamming the FAL or the AN-94, and in MW3 the M4 has the most kills out of assault rifles instead of the ACR. I felt less punished in using non-meta weapons in COD than I do in Destiny.

[markopolo]

Bungie's big announcement of wtf is going on for the next few months (or who really knows) is happening... tomorrow @ 9 pacific.

To paraphrase GnR's live version of the intro to Nighttrain...

You wanted new news?
Well it didn't f$$king make it
So here's what you get!

Wait another f$$kin' day!

[wings]

Yeah Bungie, people are really going to stop playing Zelda for your fluff....

[markopolo]

Xur's in the Tower by the big black gate by the fashion Ipads. he'selling:

Legacy Helmet Engram for 29 SC
An Insurmountable Skullfort @ 89% with a 40 Int // 42 Str roll for 13 SC
ATS/8 Tarantella @ 89% with a 57 Int // 51 Disroll for 13 SC
Voidfang Vestments @ 92% with a 60 Int // 53 Dis for 13 SC
The 4th Horseman for 17 SC

Nothing remarkable but not a turd week

[hebbnh]

Holy shit, updated VoG hype incoming: www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/45708/7_The-Road-Ahead

[wings]

Never saw that coming. /s

[markopolo]

Sequels represent the start of a new adventure for every player, with new worlds to explore, new stories to tell, new powers to acquire, new loot to earn, and much more. This led us to a decision that would enable us to serve both the game and the player’s best interests: Destiny 1 power, possessions, and Eververse-related items and currency will not carry forward. They will, however, remain accessible to you in Destiny 1.

Good.

I'm glad they had the balls to do this, and not cave to the unwashed masses that a new game would not allow them to keep their old hoarded gear that they never use but is so special that they'll whine to the high heavens that they should be allowed to keep because they've "earned it" or some other bs.

We know that, just like us, you have grown fond of the Guardians you’ve created, so we do plan to preserve your character personalization. We are going to recognize the dedication and passion you’ve shown for this world. Specifically, the class, race, gender, face, hair, and marking selections for all characters that have achieved Level 20 and completed the Black Garden story mission will carry forward. We also plan to award those veteran accounts with honors that reflect your Destiny 1 accomplishments.

That's just great... so my $hitty looking exos, made in a shockingly $hitty character creator that I wear helmet in public spaces so people won't see... I get to keep. The one thing I was actually looking forward to, was a new character creation maker in destiny2, because the one from destiny 1 is just so piss poor.

thanks bungo


As for the VOG stuff, well, whatever. VOG doesn't hold that special place in my heart that it does for others, because while everyone was running it, I was busy doing patrols in the Cosmodrome without even unlocking Venus yet. And my first time doing VOG, my hand was being held so hard, I still have a broken wrist from it.... all I remember is watching hawk and the others 5 man it and I think someone got mad at me for getting a drop that they wanted "for being dead 90% of the f%%king raid" I will probably laugh my dick off when reddit is full of "why did bungie get rid of the elemental damage on the new VOG primaries?!?!?!?" threads. although, I never did get a Vision of Confluence, so there is that.

I got 120 reasons to play TC:GRW (how much $ I spent) and 3 for Destiny right now... and those 3 reasons are the empty vault space that I have for stuff. I'm not one to play the postmaster game, and if they don't include a vault expansion sooner than later, Destiny better give me a reason to play it... WotM didn't hook me because f$$k that Aksis chalenge mode and the rest of the mechanics... I've done enough IB to have good gear... VoG never hooked me... I'm tier 12 with almost 6 different exotic setups... The only possible thing I could do is delete 2 characters and make a hunter and a titan for the Grimoire... but f$$k that because all of my accomplishments are spread over all 3 of my warlocks.

So right now... I don't have much of a reason to boot up Destiny unless it involves something to do with Destiny 2. And VOG won't do it.... crackheads don't smoke pot; they find more crack

[wings]

Mar 3, 2017 13:47:12 GMT -5 markopolo said:

That's just great... so my $hitty looking exos, made in a shockingly $hitty character creator that I wear helmet in public spaces so people won't see... I get to keep. The one thing I was actually looking forward to, was a new character creation maker in destiny2, because the one from destiny 1 is just so piss poor.

In all seriousness may be they will make customisations changeable in Destiny 2? I was hoping cosmetic stuff would carry over because I know they will just re-use those assets in Destiny 2 and you will need to grind for them again anyway. As long as Destiny 1 is still around when Destiny 2 so they are treated like separate games, like COD and Battlefield, then that suits me fine because I still play older editions of games from time to time.

[snes chalmers]

I think I got at least 10, if not over a dozen artifacts from Iron Banner this week.

Not that I'm complaining or anything...

[TheHawkNY]

I created my Warlock without putting any thought into his appearance, under the assumption that I could go back later at any time and change it. I couldn't be less attached to his appearance. I have 1,127 hours on him and that's the only thing getting transferred?

I understand that in order to have the best experience, they're making us start with a fresh slate in Destiny 2. I don't really have a problem with that. I do find it annoying that they said the characters would carry over, and they're not. I have 2,481 hours played, and for all that, instead of anything that I've earned carrying over, they're going to give me an emblem or something, for having done the Black Garden, which I did 4 days after the game launched.

[iw5000]

Mar 6, 2017 11:19:11 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I created my Warlock without putting any thought into his appearance, under the assumption that I could go back later at any time and change it. I couldn't be less attached to his appearance. I have 1,127 hours on him and that's the only thing getting transferred?

I understand that in order to have the best experience, they're making us start with a fresh slate in Destiny 2. I don't really have a problem with that. I do find it annoying that they said the characters would carry over, and they're not. I have 2,481 hours played, and for all that, instead of anything that I've earned carrying over, they're going to give me an emblem or something, for having done the Black Garden, which I did 4 days after the game launched.

2,481 hours?

Is that a typo?

[TheHawkNY]

Mar 6, 2017 13:02:23 GMT -5 iw5000 said:

Mar 6, 2017 11:19:11 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I created my Warlock without putting any thought into his appearance, under the assumption that I could go back later at any time and change it. I couldn't be less attached to his appearance. I have 1,127 hours on him and that's the only thing getting transferred?

I understand that in order to have the best experience, they're making us start with a fresh slate in Destiny 2. I don't really have a problem with that. I do find it annoying that they said the characters would carry over, and they're not. I have 2,481 hours played, and for all that, instead of anything that I've earned carrying over, they're going to give me an emblem or something, for having done the Black Garden, which I did 4 days after the game launched.

2,481 hours?

Is that a typo?

Nope, I've played a lot of Destiny.

[markopolo]

Mar 6, 2017 13:02:23 GMT -5 iw5000 said:

Mar 6, 2017 11:19:11 GMT -5 TheHawkNY said:

I created my Warlock without putting any thought into his appearance, under the assumption that I could go back later at any time and change it. I couldn't be less attached to his appearance. I have 1,127 hours on him and that's the only thing getting transferred?

I understand that in order to have the best experience, they're making us start with a fresh slate in Destiny 2. I don't really have a problem with that. I do find it annoying that they said the characters would carry over, and they're not. I have 2,481 hours played, and for all that, instead of anything that I've earned carrying over, they're going to give me an emblem or something, for having done the Black Garden, which I did 4 days after the game launched.

2,481 hours?

Is that a typo?

Negative... Hawk's in the top 3% And that doesn't even include time in orbit or in social spaces

I'm just shy of 1800... top 8%