12-12: What Will Bungie Screw Up This Week?

[markopolo]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

[markopolo]

Again.... just as a reminder, the following will be arriving in the patch that's happening right now

Masterworks


- Legendary Weapons will drop as or be upgraded to become Masterworks versions Masterworks will have a few advantages over the baseline Legendary weapon:
- Track and display the number of kills with that weapon (with choice between total count or Crucible-only count)
- Generate orbs for you and your allies on multi-kills

- Add weapon stat bonuses that are selected randomly from a small pool and are re-rollable
- Masterworks drop from any source of Legendary weapons for characters above 250 Power
- Unwanted Masterworks can be dismantled into materials that can upgrade an existing Legendary Weapon into a Masterwork
- Raid and Trials of the Nine Weapons will have a very high chance to be Masterworks
- We have future plans to extend Masterworks to other gear and expose your kill counts in more places (e.g. Crucible kill screen)


Factions

- Faction Armor and Weapons will be unlocked for purchase for Legendary Shards and Faction Tokens on most Faction Vendors
- All five Armor Slots will always be present, and Weapons will rotate weekly on Factions that have them
- Slots will be unlocked by claiming Reward Engrams from the respective Faction
- You will get credit for engrams you may have already claimed since launch


Iron Banner

- Armor Ornaments will be added to some existing Armor sets for more visual customization without losing your Shaders or Mods
- These ornaments will be unlocked by completing objectives specific to each set, and are permanently unlocked account-wide, just like Exotic Weapon ornaments
- They will be applied to the base pieces that you may already have collected, and can now unlock on Vendors if not
- Armor and Weapons will be unlocked for purchase for Legendary Shards and Faction Tokens


Xur though not today, but when he comes on friday obz

- Xur has some new offerings for players collecting Exotics:
- Every week, you’ll be able to acquire one of the new Fated Engrams using Legendary Shards that will decrypt as Exotics that aren’t already in your collection
- A simpler Three of Coins that boosts Exotic drop rates from any source for 4 hours
- No obscure stacking mechanics or need to re-apply before every boss
- These cost Legendary Shards and you can have as many as you like

Gift Consumables

- Commander Zavala and Lord Shaxx will sell Gift consumables for Legendary Shards that can be used during a Strike or Crucible Match that will serve the following functions:
- Grant bonus rewards to everyone in that activity upon completion, friend or foe alike
- Award anything from Faction Tokens to a round of Exotics for everyone in the match


Chest/Resource Node Cooldowns

- Exploit safeguards on Chests and Resource Nodes are greatly relaxed and players should encounter them less frequently
- Even if they do, drop rates for Tokens is only reduced to 30% instead of 0%, and Glimmer will be unaffected
- We want to associate a visual indicator with this in a future update, but we weren’t able to pull that off in this update (but we hear you!)


Vendor Icons
- Vendors will now beckon you to hand in your Reputation Tokens only when you’re carrying enough to earn a Reward Engram

Ongoing changes
- Deepen Rewards for advanced players
- Provide More Player Control over obtaining rewards
- Make Shards Useful by adding things to use them for
- Provide General Quality fixes wherever possible

[markopolo]

No faction rally this week:

We will be postponing tomorrow’s (2017-12-12) Faction Rally, to ensure all of our players can access the activity and the appropriate rewards. Iron Banner and Faction Rally rewards that launched with Destiny 2 will still be accessible to all players.

[wings]

Well the Prometheus Lens will probably be garbage in PvE long after its buff after the emergency fix. It was fun to use it for the Argos encounter.

[bradman]

When do they patch in fun?

[wings]

Nope. They are The Architects as I've just read on Reddit.

[markopolo]

Flashpoint is Mercury

Eververse Inventory:
Full Eververse:
"Confused" S1 Purple emote: - 700 BD
"Dancy Dance" S1 Purple emote: - 700 BD
"Striped Abandon" S2 Purple sparrow: - 600 BD
"Sailing Shield" S2 Purple ship: - 500 BD
"Black Plague" S1 Rat King ornament: - 800 BD
"Catacombs" S2 Rat King ornament: - 800 BD
Omega MARK/BOND/CLOAK: - 800 BD
"Captaincy" S2 Purple ghost shell: - 400 BD
Pink guardian crest transmat effect: - 450 BD
"Frumious Blue" shader - 40 BD
"Metallic Sunrise" shader - 40 BD
Fireteam Medallion - 50 BD
Strike eververse gift token - 350 BD
Crucible eververse gift token - 750 BD


Nightfall is Savathuns Song with momentum + anomalies for the gagillionth time

[wings]

Interesting the Flashpoint is Mercury. Xur is always on the destination that is the flashpoint of the week and he has never been in a location that is only accessible to DLC owners.

Looks like Public Events have become useless for farming as apparently Bungie have double downed on nerfing them. I always thought the XP farm from them appeared to be decent only because of the x3 buff. I've grinded public events before and after the XP scaling issue and it took 4-5 hours to level up. Most Bright Engrams contained three shaders and a ghost. For four or five hours of grinding it's not that rewarding since the amount of Bright Dust accumlated from those is small anyway. Bungie forgot even solo players like me can act as walking billboards for their Eververse store by wearing their shaders and armour from their Eververse store and show it off to randoms in a low-key part of the game where randoms will notice me more than in strikes.

[markopolo]

afaik, Mercury is accessable to non-DLC owners.... it's just that you can't do $hit there


Aparently a trick to PE farming on Mercury is as soon as you are done it, use the fast travel point, and there's a decent-ish chance that you will be put into another PEvent

[markopolo]

Patch Notes:

Source: www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/46536

The one after Curse of Osiris.

Activities>Leviathan Raid
Brought the Prestige "Leviathan" raid back down to 300 Power, making it accessible to all players, regardless of Curse of Osiris ownership
Adjusted Prestige difficulty rewards no longer grant guaranteed 330 Power items
Adjusted the difficulty for the normal Calus encounter

Trials of the Nine
Players who do not own Curse of Osiris may now access Trials of the Nine when a Destiny 2 launch map is featured

Trophies and Achievements
Modified the achievement "The Prestige" and the associated trophy to remove the Nightfall component
This may now be completed, regardless of Curse of Osiris ownership, by completing the "Leviathan" raid on Prestige difficulty

General/Miscellaneous
Fixed an issue impacting Power level progression from level 289 to 300 for players who do not own Curse of Osiris
Fixed an issue that would prompt a Curse of Osiris purchase menu when players were attempting to acquire the Scout Report: Mercury item with insufficient Glimmer
Fixed an issue where the word "Nightfall" was not prepended to new Curse of Osiris strikes in the Nightfall Director node
Adjusted the functionality of Chest Reward Throttles
Players now receive reduced amounts of loot when opening large numbers of chests in quick succession, rather than nothing at all
Cayde's Stash chests now grant rewards via the loot stream to prevent items from disappearing into the ground
Fixed an issue where cannons on Mercury were not functioning properly for PC players when they were playing at over 60 fps
Fixed an issue that prevented the functionality of HDR settings for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro

Collections
Fixed an issue where players with over 84 emblems were unable to see all emblems they owned within the collection screen

User Interface
On player inspection, currency display is no longer visible
Vendor waypoints are only highlighted when players have enough tokens to earn a reward
Fixed an issue where some players could not interact with items when they had full inventory

Faction Rallies
Players can no longer loot the same chest multiple times in quick succession for Faction Rally tokens (lol, multiple!)
Fixed an issue where Faction Rally tokens were not being removed at the conclusion of the event for some players
Faction Rally emblems now display the correct pledge tracker stat
Fixed an issue where Faction Rally tokens were being removed from players' inventories when the players were creating a new character
Fixed an issue where some players would not receive a Faction Rally winner discount

Masterworks
Legendary weapons can now drop as Masterworks for characters above Power level 250
Masterworks provide bonus weapon stats and generate Orbs on multikills

Engrams
Legendary and Exotic Engram drop rates have been adjusted down for Public Events, and up for Strike and Crucible playlist activities
Reduced the chance of a Legendary engram rewarding multiple Legendary items

Xûr
Xûr now sells a three of coins consumable item that increases the drop chance of Exotics
Xûr now sells the Fated Engram

Exotics
Fixed an issue where Vesper of Radius, the Helm of Saint-14, Graviton Forfeit, and Gemini Jester were dropping with incorrect class mods
Fixed an issue where the Prometheus Lens Exotic Trace Rifle was outputting too much damage too quickly
Fixed an issue where Exotic weapons from Curse of Osiris were mislabeled within Exotic engrams

Gift Consumables
Zavala now sells a Fireteam Gift consumable that provides rewards to the user's fireteam on strike completion
Shaxx now sells a Fireteam Gift consumable that provides rewards to all players at the end of a Crucible activity
Tess Everis sells a Fireteam Gift consumable that provides rewards to all players on Strike or Crucible activity completion

Faction Vendors
Faction vendors now offer legendary gear for direct purchase with Legendary shards and faction tokens

Crucible
Added invisible physics to keep players from hiding in the Red Bay Box on the Pacifica map
Adjusted Power Ammo locations on the Eternity map

[markopolo]

Everything you wanted to know about Masterworks from RiseofBacon

www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/7jiiip/masterworks_how_to_find_stat_boosts_and/

[markopolo]

as per dmg04's tweet... Mercury is too bright for Xur to be there

[wings]

I''m going to get some popcorn ready in case he sells Celestial Nighthawk or Orpheus Rigs.

[markopolo]

Because I got a Stag from Cayde, I already know Xur's offering for the warlocks.

[markopolo]

www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/46547

The Dawning launches on the 19th, lasts until the 9th

[markopolo]

www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/7jswt3/this_week_at_bungie_12142017/

very early.... I guess dmg is more effecient than DeeJ?

Nothing of consequence... dropped masterworks, dawning is coming, they intend to do a better job of not locking out content, last one of 2017, blah blah blah

[markopolo]

ooooooop: one minor miss on my part

Mayhem is back for the crucible

[wings]

Dec 14, 2017 12:51:05 GMT -5 markopolo said:

very early.... I guess dmg is more effecient than DeeJ?

Seems like it. Last time I heard he barely plays Destiny 2.

[markopolo]

Dec 15, 2017 4:46:45 GMT -5 wings said:

Dec 14, 2017 12:51:05 GMT -5 markopolo said:

very early.... I guess dmg is more effecient than DeeJ?

Seems like it. Last time I heard he barely plays Destiny 2.

I mean, it was fairly thin on details. All of this could have been done yesterday or in the past few days and just put together

[wings]

Dec 15, 2017 10:46:40 GMT -5 markopolo said:

Dec 15, 2017 4:46:45 GMT -5 wings said:

Seems like it. Last time I heard he barely plays Destiny 2.

I mean, it was fairly thin on details. All of this could have been done yesterday or in the past few days and just put together

That's TWAB in a nutshell. DeeJ just tries to make it three times as long as if he was some school kid student trying to make the post count limit.

[malgato]

Someone's not doing their job, so I'll do it for them...

XUR

Tower, behind Dead Orbit on steel steps.

DARCI - 29 Shards
Celestial Nighthawk - 23 Shards
Hallowfire Heart - 23 Shards
Eye of Another World - 23 Shards
Three of Coins - 31 Shards
Fated Engram - 97 Shards

NOTE: Fated Engram is limited to one per account per week, so choose your character to use it wisely.

[markopolo]

Dec 15, 2017 12:38:34 GMT -5 malgato said:

Someone's not doing their job, so I'll do it for them...

XUR

Tower, behind Dead Orbit on steel steps.

DARCI - 29 Shards
Celestial Nighthawk - 23 Shards
Hallowfire Heart - 23 Shards
Eye of Another World - 23 Shards
Three of Coins - 31 Shards
Fated Engram - 97 Shards

NOTE: Fated Engram is limited to one per account per week, so choose your character to use it wisely.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU TOUCHED IT LAST, NOW YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!!

SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[malgato]

[markopolo]

Sorry Cat.... Xur's your bag now!!!!!!!!

[malgato]

[tooros]

I came back on after the patches. Ground out the first prophecy scout. It’s not good. Was hyped for the masterworks. Then I saw the grind for that. Then saw they’d stolen the public event loot away. Then I downloaded warframe again. Then I wondered why I stopped playing it. I love Love Love Destiny but they have Royally screwed D2 up beyond salvation I think. I’ll have another go in a week.

[tooros]

I mean why make special weapons that you need to work for and then they turn out to be shit? If the reward is fixed, with zero variation, why would I bother? They just don’t get it.

[wings]

Dec 17, 2017 17:04:44 GMT -5 tooros said:

I came back on after the patches. Ground out the first prophecy scout. It’s not good. Was hyped for the masterworks. Then I saw the grind for that. Then saw they’d stolen the public event loot away. Then I downloaded warframe again. Then I wondered why I stopped playing it. I love Love Love Destiny but they have Royally screwed D2 up beyond salvation I think. I’ll have another go in a week.

It's like as if they are ignoring Blizzard's advice out of spite. The advice was basically telling Bungie that players will eventually leave, so they might as well leave happy. Unfortunately I think Bungie are listening to the wrong people in design decisions regarding public event loot. It was only really great with the x3 buff. If they wanted exotics to be more scarce, perhaps they should have made quests to get hold of them that require a decent amount of effort like in D1.

[markopolo]

I really really really really want to like CoO.... but I can't.

* I really really really want to do these Raid layers... but I just don't like the raid and the concept of it is still a bit fuzzy to me.
* I really really really want to like the new Mercury weapons... but they're not worth it. ESPECIALLY since you can't customize or craft them how you want... this was a HUGE HUGGGGGGEEEHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHGE blown move by Bungie.
* I really really really was excited for the Infinite Forest, because I thought that it would be a patrol area that I could wander around... but unless I'm doing something wrong... it's not and I can't enter that big triangle anymore.
* I really really really want to like the ornaments... but they're just ornaments.
* I really really really wanted to do heroic strikes... and I have done more than pre-CoO... but there are no modifiers that made them any different than pre-CoO.
* I really really really want to like the new exotics... but most of them are from D1 and they really aren't that much better than pre-CoO
* I really really really wanted to like the masterworks concept... but I'm having no luck getting them and I think I've only seen 1 out of 20 legendaries broken down.

I will give them credit:
* The Mercury PE is undeniably by FAR the best one in the game. Flying, slamming, lots of killing... it's awesome... My fear though is because it is so dependent on teamwork, once the newness wears off, no one will do it and it'll sit there wasted.
* Mercury is an awesome place to be, in terms of activity and action... it's like we've been dropped into a warzone.
* At first, I hated that I couldn't sparrow around... but there are enough of those Interceptors to make it alright
* Brother Vance's character was very well done... yes, he can get annoying AF, but he's supposed to be a wingnut religious zealot, and the dialogue pulls that off very well.
* A great decision to allow us to spend shards to get stuff

Ultimately, CoO is like a trip to a moderately priced restaurant on a date:
* the food that tastes decent
* the restaurant looks nice

But:
* but the service is hit or miss,
* they screwed up my bill, and worst of all...
* I'm leaving the restaurant still hungry.


Now, in the past, that was fine because when I went to said restaurants, it was on a date and eating food wasn't really the top priority because there were other things that I wanted to do (nudge nudge wink wink)

Problem is that D2 isn't giving me anything I want to do. And I'm still hungry. And I'm not dating anymore.

And I f$$king hate leaving a restaurant that I've paid money at, hungry.

[tooros]

Download Warframe. It’s free. Deeper than the deepest thing ever. It’s a spec nerds paradise. So addictive but incredibly steep learning curve. But once you’re there,
Trading, modding, grinding, resource gathering a blowing everything to pieces with a flourish you’ll think ‘why Bungie, WHY!’