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Destiny 2 |OT2| Leviathan Wakes (Spoiler Tag ALL Raid Discussion)
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I'm down again. Will bring a Titan this time instead. 290~ can't remember exactly what without putting my guns back on but should be about 295. Gein789 from the last raid run.
Flying Toaster
Member
What exactly is the cheese? My understanding is that it is still situational.
During his invisible phase he's crawling on the walls; Shooting him off will make him fall to his death ending (and completing) the nightfall.
Young Liar
Member
There's a post on here a while back criticizing the endgame of Destiny 2, saying there's not much reason to keep playing it with how progression is faster and also limited to the milestones. Decent number of people agreed, mentioning how they spent 2-3 months just playing Destiny 1 even before the first expansion hit.
It's to be expected that posters making long, critical posts are probably hardcore Destiny players. They're the ones who had the first game be that one game for them they would play non-stop, and hoped for a similar experience with Destiny 2.
I played over 200 hours of Destiny 1. Vanilla Destiny 1. I was also one of those people who played it almost every day for 3 months straight.
I dropped it the moment the first expansion came out after learning that the gear I had spent so much time maxing out had to be reset. It felt like such a big middle finger to all the effort I put into the game, that I had to start the grind again. Before it got to that point, I was already hate-playing the game by the second month. I was constantly questioning myself why I would spend hours playing the same content over and over every day, running the same tedious farm routes for the chance to get mats to upgrade my gear, and just constantly hoping I'd get good drops from the same mechanically simple strikes and the same (albeit engaging) raid, coming out empty-handed more often than not. I had already long forgotten about the non-existent campaign.
Destiny 2 has been a totally opposite experience. I enjoyed the campaign and its spectacular set pieces. The adventures, the lost sectors, and the much improved public events sparked an earnest interest and joy in exploring the levels. The exotic quests, the strikes, the nightfalls, and now the raid, have all been a blast to play and conquer. I have gotten a ton of legendary and exotic loot just playing all this content, and I zoomed past the soft 265 power cap without engaging in any power leveling or boring grinding. I'm at 296 power now from just doing the milestones.
Once I clear the raid and maybe help some other friends do the same, I will probably stop playing Destiny 2. And you know what? I'm satisfied! I've had such a great time with it these past 2 weeks. I'd be perfectly okay just booting it up every weekly reset to hit the milestones then stop again once I'm done, which would take maybe a day or two disregarding the raid. I'm fine with moving on to another game until the expansion drops.
Clearly it seems that's not what other very vocal players want. They want even more to do and repeat over longer periods of time to acquire even more loot. That's fine too. I just felt the need to put this opinion out there as a sort of reminder that Destiny 2 is still a very good and satisfying video game, respecting my time way more than Destiny 1, now that there seems to be a growing resentment over D2 not being the game you can keep playing continuously for months and months. It's been a fun, smooth 50+ hour ride, and one that I'd take over 200+ hours of banging my head against a wall for that "sweet loot hit".
It would be great for everybody if Bungie could introduce either more content or changes to existing content to give players more reasons to keep playing. I'd welcome that, but I'm also good with what I have played!
It's to be expected that posters making long, critical posts are probably hardcore Destiny players. They're the ones who had the first game be that one game for them they would play non-stop, and hoped for a similar experience with Destiny 2.
I played over 200 hours of Destiny 1. Vanilla Destiny 1. I was also one of those people who played it almost every day for 3 months straight.
I dropped it the moment the first expansion came out after learning that the gear I had spent so much time maxing out had to be reset. It felt like such a big middle finger to all the effort I put into the game, that I had to start the grind again. Before it got to that point, I was already hate-playing the game by the second month. I was constantly questioning myself why I would spend hours playing the same content over and over every day, running the same tedious farm routes for the chance to get mats to upgrade my gear, and just constantly hoping I'd get good drops from the same mechanically simple strikes and the same (albeit engaging) raid, coming out empty-handed more often than not. I had already long forgotten about the non-existent campaign.
Destiny 2 has been a totally opposite experience. I enjoyed the campaign and its spectacular set pieces. The adventures, the lost sectors, and the much improved public events sparked an earnest interest and joy in exploring the levels. The exotic quests, the strikes, the nightfalls, and now the raid, have all been a blast to play and conquer. I have gotten a ton of legendary and exotic loot just playing all this content, and I zoomed past the soft 265 power cap without engaging in any power leveling or boring grinding. I'm at 296 power now from just doing the milestones.
Once I clear the raid and maybe help some other friends do the same, I will probably stop playing Destiny 2. And you know what? I'm satisfied! I've had such a great time with it these past 2 weeks. I'd be perfectly okay just booting it up every weekly reset to hit the milestones then stop again once I'm done, which would take maybe a day or two disregarding the raid. I'm fine with moving on to another game until the expansion drops.
Clearly it seems that's not what other very vocal players want. They want even more to do and repeat over longer periods of time to acquire even more loot. That's fine too. I just felt the need to put this opinion out there as a sort of reminder that Destiny 2 is still a very good and satisfying video game, respecting my time way more than Destiny 1, now that there seems to be a growing resentment over D2 not being the game you can keep playing continuously for months and months. It's been a fun, smooth 50+ hour ride, and one that I'd take over 200+ hours of banging my head against a wall for that "sweet loot hit".
It would be great for everybody if Bungie could introduce either more content or changes to existing content to give players more reasons to keep playing. I'd welcome that, but I'm also good with what I have played!
Flying Toaster
Member
Will Rockets, GL or supers work to knock him off?
gamechanger87
Member
Nah. But there is a box covered in a tarp in the top left you can stand on when he has his swords out and he can't hit you. He runs away but you just drop down and he charges
GuitarAtomik
Member
It's a great scout rifle with high calibur rounds (causing flinch) in a PvP meta that favors long range encounters that also has third eye in a game that's nerfed the radar from the previous game on top of other perks (movement speed boost etc). Plus it's main shortcoming from D1 (being stuck without decent mid range weapon) is gone since you can run an auto rifle in your second slot.
Yeah without prism you can bring whatever you like best it's nice. had over 11min left on my first successful run when i got to the boss and that was just from knowing where most of the oracles are.
if 1 person grabs the oracles while the other 2 kill everything and push forward you should have plenty of time to kill the boss. I also recommend people spread out a little to the other platforms, seemed to get the boss to re-appear faster. it really isnt that difficult of a nightfall, its just the boss goes hiding.
I was doing terrible at Trials until I switched from Mida to Does Not Compute, just use the hunter exotic helmet that gives me my radar and everything's bless.
Best of all, EVERYONE I played against was using the Mida.
Apocryphon
Member
I kept looking for him and scanning the walls but I couldn't see him. Sucks too because we got to the boss with about 8 minutes left each time and ran it 6 times but couldn't kill him. The guys I was playing with were 260-ish though so perhaps a little under-leveled. Part of me wants to skip it because it's a terrible strike anyway but I also don't want to give up.
I miss my Gjallarhorn.
Twilight Gap
Member
This. It's not OP - everything else is just weaker.
Future PhaZe
Member
Future PhaZe
Member
With the top tree of Dawnblade, it's typically my go to crucible class.
Only problem is the Dawnblade super itself is absolute ass for pvp. So there's a significant tradeoff there obvs.
I would like to roll if you still have room. Psn Branaghs
Per account I believe
neoism
Member
If you've done all the milestones this week your best bet is just play next Tuesday any tokens you get this week save until you do the milestones next week after your those few LLs
Gotcha, thanks.
neoism
Member
Cuboid Aru Is my all time fav looking gun from d1 fucking loooove it's look with a black leg shader
Maybe my instinct is wrong but I feel that MIDA's dominance has a lot to do with the Trials map especially favoring it, with massive open lanes to scope and vulnerable approaches to the objective demanded by the game type. And Trials somewhat sets the tone for the current week of Crucible. It's a little funny because while the meta at play here has been heavily derided, I was actually able to enjoy myself in Trials at least, whereas this map in D1 would have meant instant constant sniper gallery and a hard nope from me.
Per account- you can actually even open the chests on any character you choose after buying the maps.
Flying Toaster
Member
Per account... womp womp. At least it stops some of the grind.
Captain_Cold
Member
We're trying again to get a blind raid going tonight at 6PM EST on PS4. If anyone hasn't ran the raid yet, we're looking for 2 more people. Reply or PM me your PSN ID if interested.
Have you done all the exotic quests?
Once you get past 265 your primary sources of level up material are the four weekly milestones that reward powerful gear, random exotic engrams that you get and possibly infuse, raid and trials.
There are also the three exotic quests on the world map that Hawkian mentioned.
Any other source of gear is usually going to be lower or at your current level.
Looking to run a fresh raid starting in about an hour (6:30 PM). Obviously not a blind raid, and we will be going into the underbelly to get all the chests people may need. It's preferable if you know the encounters to make this run as fast and smooth as possible, but if you don't then you do need to be able to listen and have a mic.
1. SilvardCT
2. Baloonatic
3. Bandiger
4. OwensboroEsq
5. Raidenshugelaser
6. KefkaVI
1. SilvardCT
2. Baloonatic
3. Bandiger
4. OwensboroEsq
5. Raidenshugelaser
6. KefkaVI
Strangelove77
Member
Grinding for bright engrams really isn't worth it. It takes me forever to level up. I really want the Optimacy armor for my warlock, but fuck that.
In general there's not really anything Im chasing after anymore. Exotic gear is so damn underwhelming. I dont feel like collecting all of them like I did in the first game.
It sucks when you're basically the only one of your friends who plays this. I used to know tons of people during the first game. I had several groups of people I could join to do raids or crucible any time I wanted.
I think I'm moving this into my "only play on reset day" category.
An RDR replay sounds really good about now.
In general there's not really anything Im chasing after anymore. Exotic gear is so damn underwhelming. I dont feel like collecting all of them like I did in the first game.
It sucks when you're basically the only one of your friends who plays this. I used to know tons of people during the first game. I had several groups of people I could join to do raids or crucible any time I wanted.
I think I'm moving this into my "only play on reset day" category.
An RDR replay sounds really good about now.
You have to get the powerful/luminous engrams as they have gear several light level above a characters light base to get past that cap or be really lucky in getting legendary gear with a purple mod or an exotic. I feel for you I'm pretty much stuck at 290-293 without doing any raids/nightfall/trials.
MastAndo
Member
On a related note, does anyone know how to trigger the "Well-rested" buff? It's supposed to have you level up 3 times as fast for your first 3 levels of the week (i.e. 3 quicker bright engrams). I recall getting one last week but not sure how, and I sure as hell want a new dance for my Awoken Warlock. I'm not digging any of Eververse's offerings either. The newest one is the wrong dance from Arrested Development. Have any of the developers ever even seen a chicken?
The game clearly doesn't want me to get higher than 301 lol.
Every powerful gear engram I get gives me a helmet. However since I got a 300 helmet from the raid (305 with mod), and every powerful engram helmet is 297, they're worthless...
YET THE GAME KEEPS GIVING ME THEM.
It's really annoying.
I need leggings and chests but nope. All helmets.
Every powerful gear engram I get gives me a helmet. However since I got a 300 helmet from the raid (305 with mod), and every powerful engram helmet is 297, they're worthless...
YET THE GAME KEEPS GIVING ME THEM.
It's really annoying.
I need leggings and chests but nope. All helmets.
It's a weekly reset thing. You automatically get it each week.
Strangelove77
Member
You get it automatically after each reset on Tuesday.
Sorry, Just got home from work... sounds like we have a quorum
5:00 PM PDT, 8:30 PM EST, 1:30 AM BST
1. free_the_slaves 296 titan
2. Maximilian128 293 titan
3. commish
4. Future PhaZe 282 warlock, possibly 290 by raid time (PSN tag iStrangePixeL)
5. gein789
6. branaghs
I'll start sending out invites around ~ 8pm EST
Twilight Gap
Member
im on the wall of shame
fuck
fuck
MastAndo
Member
Played for 3 hours last night and noticed no such buff. Oh well...
Wall of shame?
Top posters. TG has beaten me. Never thought I would see it happen.
Yo dawg I heard you like helmets
