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Destiny |OT38| The 0.04% of the 4%
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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Why?
JohnOfMars
Banned
The Skolas fight is probably the best boss in the game. Invididual raid encounters may be better (Gatekeepers, Templars), but as an individual boss man that you're taking down, Skolas is GOAT.
Just imagine, you're fighting a boss, and you're not standing in same place continually shooting at a glowing bit. That the encounter can be tackled in a variety of different ways. That you can move around. That you'll never say "well, that's a wipe" and start over just because you didn't have a perfect run.
Also, for those of you who care, I'm getting close to finalizing my 1200+ word post about Year Two's end game problems. Thinking Monday.
Raven117
Member
A big "expansion" in the same universe? Sure...that could and probably will happen.
But my hopes of a completely overhauled Destiny 2 with only current gen support with all new areas, maps....etc...is dimming.
This is really closer to Destiny 1.5...but I feel ya.
Can't you just spam him with 300+ snipers and heavy now and kill him before the first taint transfer anyway? As in the original cheese methods but much easier because you take less damage and don't need specific OP weapons.
Or are you proposing lowering your LL and doing it the old intended way.
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Come on Deku, it's in the quote!
I honestly don't know why I want to pay him a visit.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Bungie probably doesn't want to announce Destiny 2 too soon if it's a whole new game becayse it will cause the player base to start asking some potentially uncomfortable questions. What will transfer over if anything? If emotes don't transfer then expect microtransactions to drop off heavily. If no gear transfers then that drastically reduces the loot encouragement, not that there is any good loot right now. E3 to October is a plenty long press cycle. If there isn't a new game in the fall then Destiny is officially dead. There simply isn't enough content to justify making us wait so long just to get more Dlc with worthless events being used to string us along until then.
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Come on Deku, it's in the quote!
I honestly don't know why I want to pay him a visit.
I've never fought this Skolas guy in PoE. It says so in my Moments of Triumphs.
I really wish all this stuff you can see in the tower was accessible.
Wouldn´t it be cool if we had a trophy room up there?
With all our raid gear on the wall?
That door is such a tease. Been waiting for it to open for a long time now.
brianjones
Member
there really is so much stuff they could do with the hub world
hoping destiny 2 really goes for it
hoping destiny 2 really goes for it
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Geez all this hate for Thorn on the last page. If I didnt know better I would think Thorn shoots salt at people!
Liquidsnake
Banned
Anyone!
Raven117
Member
We will get SOMETHING in the fall. I just don't think it will be the overhaul that some of us were thinking it would be (i.e. Destiny 2).
Obviously they have had a lot of resources being dedicated to making "Destiny 2" even before Vanilla shipped, so my bet that it would have been in development for 3 years at least...but still.
I just want to see what they can do without last gen holding them back
bagandscalpel
Member
Only based on personal experience, but I've run into the Mars warsat event most often in the Scablands.
Only once at the starting area, though.
TheAquaticApe
Member
I went through the same thing. It's RNG. It took over 8 hours for the Mars Warsat to drop for me. Good luck.
Seriously, I was hoping it would have opened when they were showing off 2.0 in the early reveals.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Buried city, Scablands and starting patrol area are whee you'll get warsat events.
The public events website is mostly accurate, you just have to wait for 4-5 minutes extra in that area and get lucky with the required event.
xplicitone
Member
I'm down for some Trials
Put me down as a backup, I'll arrange to get off work earlier just in case.
Just joined
Liquidsnake
Banned
What a joke man, I waste so many hours of my life.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
We will get SOMETHING in the fall. I just don't think it will be the overhaul that some of us were thinking it would be (i.e. Destiny 2).
Obviously they have had a lot of resources being dedicated to making "Destiny 2" even before Vanilla shipped, so my bet that it would have been in development for 3 years at least...but still.
I just want to see what they can do without last gen holding them back
They really need to cut the last gen cord that has been holding Destiny back from day one. I definitely agree that something will release this fall, but it's a lot harder to justify the current state of affairs if all we get is a DLC pack.
Raven117
Member
That is what will make it Destiny 2 IMO...and all i'm saying is that you would think we would have heard some sort of rumor by now.
But who knows? Bungie works in mysterious ways.
Looks like we have a solid group down for Flawless Raiding on Monday 1/11 @ 8pm CST:
1. Me
2. Jakfu
3. Nicodemic
4. Shiv47
5. Boguester
6. Pandora012
Alt
1. SpecX
If you haven't already, please add yourself to the following clan:
https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Detail/1248776
There's always room for Alts just in case someone doesn't make it.
Bungie is very tight lipped recently.
xVaalbarAx
Member
I'm on the same boat with Hammon on this, I just feel like this game just makes me leave with a bad taste in my mouth but when I go play Battlefront or Black Ops 3, I am actually having a great time. Playing Iron Banner just to get a 310 Rocket Launcher with shitty perks ain't fun.
There's still not a clear path like there was last year, we know TDB and HOW was coming. The Taken King has events, I don't care for events, I want content. They still weren't clear about it in that weekly update a month back when SRL launched.
Real content > Micro Transaction Events.
There's still not a clear path like there was last year, we know TDB and HOW was coming. The Taken King has events, I don't care for events, I want content. They still weren't clear about it in that weekly update a month back when SRL launched.
Real content > Micro Transaction Events.
I talked about this months ago with friends - I want an apartment in the Tower where I can mount weapons and armour on a wall with wooden plaques.
And there, above the bed in prime position, sits the Gjallarhorn.
Someone needs to do this to you.
bagandscalpel
Member
Pssh, peasant scum. I sleep on a bed of Gjallarhorns.
But no, not really, because I'm a year 2 babby.
Fine gentlemen of GAF, one of our own has never completed the Vault of Glass.
Let's amend this so the world may be just and beautiful again.
I haven't done the level 34 and 35 PoE yet. Would be fine with tomorrow, I'll probably be online all day. Your talk about the boss mechanics intrigues me, I thought it was just another "shoot until dead" boss fight like in lvl 28/32.
Subtervotion
Member
Me too.
bagandscalpel
Member
Actually did it for the first time, myself, the other day in a two-man fireteam.
Unless you deliberately handicap yourself to whatever light level is average for level 35, Skolas is still very much a "shoot until dead" boss. Of course, it did help that Small Arms was in effect and the first mine appeared where the second Servitor was. Your experience may be different.
TheAquaticApe
Member
TheAquaticApe
Member
That works for me Senpai Todd.
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Something I really wish Destiny could do: Add zones without telling anyone.
I was a week+ late into dipping my toes in the Dreadnaught patrol. I had 3 characters to make raid ready and had no idea Court of Oryx would make that all much easier. I had to tear through the new campaign. All that time I kept hearing about these new twists people were discovering like the worm scent chest, wormsinger runes, and the relic chest. It all sounded much cooler and more mysteroius until I finally went through it. Right now the feeling of exploration is largely limited to the Raids and missions that use old Raid content. I want to get a bigger taste of that in Patrol. The Sleeper Simulant ghost pickup is a great start with what I am looking for and I'm hoping they keep going down that path. What if we got a 2Gig patch with no notes? What if someone says, "Hey the buildings between Scablands and the Buried City are now open! New zone!"
I'll be available most of the day tomorrow. I'll definitely be free tomorrow around this time to run it.
No you don't
*does Jedi mind trick*
And here I was thinking I was late.
Robdraggoo
Member
I think the most interesting thing about the oryx fight is that no matter how high your level is you cant finish the fight any faster. Right now you can kill atheon and crota in one cycle. You'll never be able to do that with oryx because of the bombs do the damage. Which will always require 4 cylces.
DrDrizzay101
Member
Lol have no fear, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I've always been pretty good about scaling my playtime relative to my actual enjoyment to stave off burnout. I still enjoy what little I play and the community here will keep me engaged.
The two biggest issues reducing my playtime are (1) skill-based MM has tanked my Trials enjoyment and (2) nearly all my usual PvP dudes have ~quit. I'd still gladly play 100+ Trials games per week if I had partner-in-crime and we could get reasonable connections.
Like LT, I really miss doing the regular Friday runs w Wicked and Stabie but it doesn't seem like anybody has the interest. It's hard to find the balance of playing seriously without taking the BS seriously. Destiny PvP is so rife with nonsense that it becomes a war of "frustration attrition"
Frustrition!
I don't know what the solution is, or if there even is one.
Mass Appeal
Member
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Now would be a great time for Bungie to add custom games to revitalize the game a bit, but that isn't going to happen any time soon. I wonder if they don't have them because of loot concerns (easy fix: don't give any) or because of some nebulous notion that it wouldn't fit right within the feel of Destiny.
Sweaty and ready
Robdraggoo
Member
Is such a thing even possible?
Its probably the only map i let out an audible groan when it comes up in any playlist
DrDrizzay101
Member
I can help w a VoG run if we get a group going.
What time? I could probably do some since I've only done Oryx CM this week.
Of course the odds of getting a single worthwhile drop are infinitesimal so if it doesn't happen then no big deal.
TheAquaticApe
Member
No way. The party doesn't start with out Nami.