RiccochetJ
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Heh, I could see it. Makes for an easy gear check.
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Destiny: The Taken King - Year 2 Reveal - Stream (Summary in OP)
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Heh, I could see it. Makes for an easy gear check.
I think that we can infuse it still to bring the damage up, it just want have any new year 2 perks like some of the others.
Yeah I don't like that UNLESS you could use infusion for aesthetic class items. Use perks from an ugly class item to a pretty one.
Seriously. I guess this is a lot of player's first "MMO" expansion.
I spent MONTHS in Vanilla WoW raids getting maxed out with stuff like Sulfuras and AQ40 gear, and you better believe as soon (within reason) as I stepped through that portal I knew my old stuff was going by the wayside.
I don't understand what people expected to happen.
Kor of Memory
Member
This is still leaps and bounds better than the current Gjallarhorn restriction thats out there now.
Diablohead
Member
only year 2 items can be infused.
Assuming you can't infuse exotics (cause you can't infuse y1 legendaries. Or else they wouldn't bother remixing some old ones.
John Caboose
Member
So... I'm guessing the stuff that I've dismantled will have to be re-earned before it shows up in the collection? Or is it tracking every weapon/emblem etc I've had (and no longer own) for that?
Another question: Do I need to sacrifice the item in order to add it to the collection or does it show up immediately when earned?
Another question: Do I need to sacrifice the item in order to add it to the collection or does it show up immediately when earned?
Well that's what MMOs are about. A constantly changing world/experience. People complain about having to do the same monotonous stuff in destiny but as soon as devs want to push them to not do the same monotonous stuff rage spreads like wildfire.
Seems like it's actively tracking everything. Probably shows up immediately.
On one side doing the Hammer Dance is awesome, on the other we still can't Whip or Nae Nae. I'm conflicted.
My understanding is the collection is everything you have ever earned, added when you got it.
WHAT ARE THOOOOSE lmao
Terrible moves but I hope those aren't the "collector edition" dance moves but "free" ones included in the TTK
Not having all exotics carry over into year 2. Bungie seems to have this design philosphy of merging that which is in the way. I'd rather they improve other things instead.
Is it retroactive?
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
It makes sense for the weapons because those are in the Grimoire, but I guess they were tracking other things that we don't see anywhere?
John Caboose
Member
But what if I dismantled it now before TTK? I'm guessing that collection tracking hasn't been added to the game yet? Or maybe we just don't know. Because I know I have destroyed several shitty exotics and emblems etc long before today.
"Congrats on killing Oryx! Here, take this new can of paint and manual for moving your hips slightly differently!"
Karak
Member
It looked like the player had to go and remove them from their old places. In the video he had shaders and someone said "pop them here" and they go to the collection. If thats what you meant.
JetBlackPanda
Member
my cousin absolutely hates those emotes too.
I think they are pretty sweet, I really like the female titan one.
Don't know For sure. Hopefully it's retroactive
Learn2read
Member
What's the best path for upgrading from original vanilla Destiny to Taken King (if I might happen to decide to)?
Kor of Memory
Member
Buy the Legendary edition for $60. It includes Vanilla, Dark Below, House of Wolves, and Taken King.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
There actually is an item in WoW called "Supreme manual of dance"
class items have infusion,yes.
Shalashaska161
Member
I haven't gotten a new exotic weapon for awhile, but don't all of those have grimoire cards attached to them? For them at least there is an easy way to track those items. Plus who knows Bungie could have easily been tracking stuff behind the scenes since the beginning.
John Caboose
Member
That's true. Maybe they use that for unlocking at least the exotic stuff in the collections.
Kor of Memory
Member
I'm sure they have another method of tracking if a character actually got an exotic, but this would not be one of them.
Namely because throwing this "HC3-H44-DKC" into Bungie.net gets you the Gjallarhorn grimoire.
Yes, account wide.
CraigerGamer
Member
I cannot wait to see this again. Its been soooooo long since I earned a level.
Have a screen grab for that?!
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
What do you guys think of someone playing Destiny again but without purchasing The Taken King? You see, I bought the first expansion, not the second, and I really REALLY don't want to have to purchase both just to play again. However all of these new changes sound great. Am I crazy to want to play the same old content but with quality of life improvements? I just can't justify paying another 60 bucks to play the game I already own.
I mean the entire purpose of 'light' was to simplify the concept of item level requirements to the general masses. It was just poorly-received because, well, it kinda sucks being stuck at 29 forever because of RNG. But you're still going to need the gear to do shit and you're still going to be dependent on drops (albeit less so - I myself just hit 34 in barely a week and I was 29 before).
Destiny moving to a more traditional level/ilvl system is still interesting because the nature of the game allows for certain approaches to boss encounters that might let people get away with certain things if they aren't hitting enrage timers/getting instagibbed. Maybe some players will be able to clear the toughest content with utter shit gear thanks to pure skill or, uh, 'creative use of game mechanics'.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Addition by subtraction.
Kor of Memory
Member
If you like to play a lot of PvP, it could be worth it.
If you like to play a lot of PvE, then definitely not worth it.
I got back into Destiny like 2 weeks ago, and while I've found that with the current design of things I'm enjoying the game a hell of a lot more (Level 33 now thanks to the help of the amazing peeps at DestinyGAF and a hell of a lot of work), all of these changes -- and I mean *all* of them -- sound like a godsend. I love the quest focus, the changes to the marks, the fact that you can make your favorite guns stronger by breaking down ones you don't use, the separation of Year 1 and Year 2 gear, and a focus on adding value to characters through the ghost and accessory slot.
And these are just mechanics. There seems to be a lot of actual content on the horizon, which makes it even more exciting for high level people with 3 characters who have basically run out of content to enjoy.
Great time to get into Destiny.
And these are just mechanics. There seems to be a lot of actual content on the horizon, which makes it even more exciting for high level people with 3 characters who have basically run out of content to enjoy.
Great time to get into Destiny.
They specified that the kiosk with the emblems showed everything you'd ever unlocked, not just what you had on you. It would be weird to do that with emblems but not exotics; if they were tracking emblem unlocks, I imagine they'd track exotics as well. Speculation as they did not specify, but that's my thinking.
Speculation on my part, but technically all they have to do is run a query on their database to run all your recorded games to figure out every emblem and shader you've ever worn, and for exotics, they can just run grimoire query and/or look at your weapon kills from your game history.
Kor of Memory
Member
Saw somewhere a day or 2 ago that Kmart was selling PS4s for $200 and people had Walmart price matching them successfully.
Can't run Grimoire query because throwing this "HC3-H44-DKC" into Bungie.net gets you the Gjallarhorn grimoire.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Just finished watching it. Lots of great stuff really looking forward to it.
Here's the sword details:
Wait when was this from? Did I miss it during the livestream?
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Yea, it was. I don't have the timestamp on hand unfortunately.
Right. Uh, then I need to rewatch the entire thinggggg to find out how it workssss.
Thanks though!
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
It's when they show the upgrade to your vault. Starts at around 56:50 on the twitch stream.
Sweet! This is better!
Oh my gosh, thanks. That explains how I missed it. That is super cool and just ignited hypehypehype!
Thank you very much!
SRTtoZ
Member
I completely disagree. I can't think of many next gen games that will offer more value for $60 than Destiny the base game + 3 expansions. Its a lot of content with both PVE and PVP.