The Wraith
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Whats the general consensus on nightfall difficulty this week?
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Destiny 2 |OT2| Leviathan Wakes (Spoiler Tag ALL Raid Discussion)
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f@luS
More than a member.
Give me 15 minutes and Im here
MythicReclaimer
Member
Failsafe also dropping 300 PL engrams. 20+ minutes remaining.
Cornbread78
Member
Orochinagis
Member
Might fall under number 2, but find a common color or visual element among all your classes and use a shader with it.
For example, all of my classes feature gold in some way- Golden Trace, New Monarchy, Caius' Selected- so I use whatever shader looks best on the weapon and also features gold.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Took me 7 tries. the final boss spawns a million adds who dont stagger and take you out in 1-2 hits.
the trick is to wait for solar burn and pump him full of merciless shots at the very start of the fight with no adds. if you get it right, you can take out 2 out of 3 health bars right at the start and then you have 4-5 minutes to chip away at the rest of his health.
Honestly, the raid and trials clan rewards should be "trial weapons". Random 305 gear once the clan beat the objective for the week, but they disappear on reset and can't be used of infusion.
Sort of D1 gunsmithy hybrid. Let's you play around, but gets you invested in doing the activities to get the non ephemeral ones.
JohnOfMars
Banned
FWIW, Trials and Raid clan engrams drop only weapons. If you want the armor, you have to raid.
And 300 PL isn't that big a deal to me. If you're 300 you've played a ton of the game already and blues drop at 300. A 2x 300 level / week is nothing. It also means that after you get all the guns, the engrams are still valuable since they're infusion fuel.
What shader have you found works best? The gold parts aren't all the same gold but I guess it can work out.
You dont have to pick them up, or you can always think of it as a extra drop. Its a mind thing.
If there's only static loot and no activities specific loot across all most activities, they need about 10 times as much loot as we have. An order of magnitude more loot.
80-100 hours in, and you'll have just about everything with the small loot base and lack of diversity.
I'm happy content wise. I'm not happy with the gameplay loops at end game, especially the dearth in PvE.
Cornbread78
Member
Daedalus Code yay or nay?
What else are the best hand canons? ( I can't find Hawk's post
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What else are the best hand canons? ( I can't find Hawk's post
)JohnOfMars
Banned
Daedalus Code yay or nay?
What else are the best hand canons? ( I can't find Hawk's post
I linked it in the OP.
Also, DC seems to be a yay? Everyone's still figuring out what works, so give it a shot.
What's burning up your time? Dying? That's what kills my runs. There are 32 anamolies in this strike, so that's an extra 16 minutes. Slow steady progress is the key to Nightfalls so far in D2. Specific tips for this week are having an Arc Scout for dealing with Knights. >.<
Daedalus Code yay or nay?
What else are the best hand canons? ( I can't find Hawk's post
i only like better devils so far. dire promise is the other one people like.
cuphead is amazing!
Also if you play for ten hours straight without turning off your PS4 there will be a NPC guardian following you telling you to go to sleep.
hemo memo
Gold Member
Teamshoot the big guys and clear all ads and it's not too bad. Me and my team managed to finish it with around 7 minutes left on our best run.
Having a healing rift Warlock really helps, but if you don't have one just find cover and run in a circle gets you healing, Titan Wall shield or Hunter invisible bomb should give you enough time too.
You get most of the anomalies? You should easy have enough time then. I did it even with a LFG group with no mics. Focus on Knights with arc weapons, focus on Ogres and the rest is roaming super time and get the anomalies. Even with the LFG group i got 3 min left.
f@luS
More than a member.
Ready. Adding you in 2min
Cornbread78
Member
I'll look it up, Thanks!I linked it in the OP.
Also, DC seems to be a yay? Everyone's still figuring out what works, so give it a shot.
I don't think I've ever gotten one before, but I'm trying to find a different set up. The recoil of the side arms makes them pretty useless IMO.
MythicReclaimer
Member
I think it's about time we get some Speaker-like class items in the game which are classified as Exotics with The Life Exotic perk.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Fucking co-signed. Make em cost 500 legendary shards too.
My group beat it in two tries. It's annoying, but very doable. Save your ults for those ogres, there are some silly situations with them.
Happened last night to me
. I used guided games and waited half an hour for it. I was with a good team and we all knew what we are doing and had 12 mins left while we were at the crystals part. With my limited time that sucks because I don't want to queue up for half an hour again. I'll try the D2 app LFG tonight.
Cornbread78
Member
Happened last night to me
Try to link up with some GAFfers on discord as well. Many guys have multiple characters, so they are always looking to run through it several times a week!
This is much tougher than last week's, though not bad with some preparation.
The biggest factor by far is whether or not someone knows where most of the anomalies are. It's worth checking out a guide or so in advance.
Carry either an Arc or Solar energy weapon and the other in your Power slot to deal with Knights and Wizards respectively. Wardcliff Coil is an excellent choice for melting stubborn enemies or clearing tight groups.
The yellow bar ogres are incredibly deadly and high HP. A Sharpshooter Gunslinger with Celestial Nighthawk is a huge advantage to be able to blast them, especially if the other fireteam members have good orb generation.
First try made it with 10 seconds to spare.
Second try failed and then time cheesed it.
MythicReclaimer
Member
Concerning the Nightfall this would be my suggestion, just go through the first run with the idea of locating most of the anomaly locations allowing you at least enough time to reach the boss. Then on the next run you should be able to extend the time enough to allow your fireteam to defeat the boss in time.
Ran it twice this week with two other random players and this was our first method and approach to it so it took two runs. The other group we did it first try as I already knew most of the anomaly locations.
Duplicate rewards turned me off from running it a third time on my Warlock.
Ran it twice this week with two other random players and this was our first method and approach to it so it took two runs. The other group we did it first try as I already knew most of the anomaly locations.
Duplicate rewards turned me off from running it a third time on my Warlock.
nighthawk also chunks off like an eight of the boss hp
I knew I wasn't crazy. Crucible can still get so one sided that Shaxx calls the end of the match. It just takes so long to trigger that it's almost pointless. Ran a Supremacy match where the team I was with was dominating so much that we mercied them with about a minute left on the clock. The final score: 31-1. Probably didn't help that the opposing team had several sets of people quitting the match.
Yeah... happened to one of our attempts during a prestige NF run, a good one at that. Completely deflating to have to restart the mission because of random glitches like that.
Yeah... happened to one of our attempts during a prestige NF run, a good one at that. Completely deflating to have to restart the mission because of random glitches like that.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, it's unhelpful to say, but last week was probably the surest bet for Rat King as well.
B_Spooky13
Member
Even when we cheesed the anomalies it only maxed us out at like 18 mins at the first orge behind the 2 doors. Still ran out of time twice with 1/3 of the bosses health left
hemo memo
Gold Member
I believe with the time glitch it is easy to do?
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Steve.1981
Unconfirmed Member
Ikora really doesn't want to give me the Beta armour :-(
And Cayde's treasure chests only give me the blues...
I'm really liking True Prophecy (FWC hand cannon). High impact and every bullet explodes after a short delay.
And Cayde's treasure chests only give me the blues...
I'm really liking True Prophecy (FWC hand cannon). High impact and every bullet explodes after a short delay.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Hopefully this NPC has kadey voice-over
So it basically sounds like "end game" to you is having to play stuff over and over to get the same weapons but with better rolls.
Yeah, no thanks. While I agree there should be more loot than there is now, claiming they got rid of the end game is simply false. It's the same as it was in Destiny 2, minus the dumb grind.
Good idea. I will try it out tonight.
My experience with nightfall this week
1 - Glitching - 4 minutes left
2 - Glitching - 7 minutes left
3 - No glitch - third guys kept dying over and over so it was pretty much a 2 man nightfall.- 34 seconds left
Team shoot knights and ogres, save supers to clear adds in the boss room, don't rush, don't forget to run to regain health. I believe the majority of our deaths were due to us forgeting to run.
1 - Glitching - 4 minutes left
2 - Glitching - 7 minutes left
3 - No glitch - third guys kept dying over and over so it was pretty much a 2 man nightfall.- 34 seconds left
Team shoot knights and ogres, save supers to clear adds in the boss room, don't rush, don't forget to run to regain health. I believe the majority of our deaths were due to us forgeting to run.