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Destiny 2 |OT2| Leviathan Wakes (Spoiler Tag ALL Raid Discussion)
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MrS
Banned
Cool. I'm running Titan but you're cool to use anything you want. KanyeWest on PSN. We have 4 now including you.
Revolutionary
Member
Bungie nerfing MIDA would be hilarious, especially considering it's very own lore tab.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Hey, IKizzLE looks like no one else is joining up
I'll go help NF with other GAFfers
I'll go help NF with other GAFfers
Interficium
Banned
The power of hindsight can make anyone into an awesome game designer.
I haven't even made one at all because I didn't want to start it up, invite everyone, then have to close it to change the name, recreate it and reinvite everyone, making it a huge hassle and losing clan progress.
You can edit anything any time. You can't use the words sex, bastard, Jigga, etc.
This is pretty much the state of the game after 2 weeks of release. My usual fireteam has found that we're rewarded more for playing 3-4 hours on Tuesday night vs. the rest of the entire week (sans Trials). I guess this is what they wanted?
More time for other games I suppose. Mahvel here we come.
now that ain't fair. They had 3 years to get this formula right. They were actually on to something at the end of D1, and then they did a 180 and changed it up so much that we're back at square 1.
Kojirospath
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Need 1 for calus, dark realm pref
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I seem to recall this happening with both Taken King and Rise of Iron, and Bungie responded by folding in a number of other sources for peak light level gear in subsequent updates.
Odd that they didn't learn from that and have a wider array from the onset. That is a pretty short list of activities, and it's not like there's a shortage of activities the could have moved forward.
Really sorry you guys. My controller died and I couldn't find my charging wire. I can try again if you would like to. Really sorry about that.
Cool, cheers guys. Destiny Gaf is pretty nice, I asked on the Discord if there was a Nightfall going and within 2 minutes was in a fire team heading into one. Makes me wish I spent more time in Destiny 1 rather than giving it up.
The Nightfall got me to 276 my highest gear all equipped, getting there slowly but surely, so hopefully the reset will send me over 280 come tomorrow. I'll probably wait a bit before getting into the Raid, try and get into the 280s and will probably get my other two classes up to at least the first soft cap.
Thanks for the advice.
DreadfulOmen
Member
I'm not sure if they changed it, but every exotic engram that i have gotten has been higher PL.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
I had Gunsmith drop me one, but i have yet to have a legendary engram turn into an exotic and i spent 12 hours in the raid last week accumulating an ungodly amount of legendary engrams.
Exotics have dropped at my level or below since i hit 265. Mida and Strum dropped at 10-15 above my light level but since both are primaries, they cancelled each other out. couldnt infuse them into anything good like Auto rifles or pulse rifles either.
Sure, crucible quest makes you play crucible but once thats done, whats the incentive? I got that quest done on Wednesday and well now what? The drop rate for exotics is so low in strikes and crucible that its beneficial to just grind public events all day. I used the medallions three times this weekend and had a total of 2 exotics drop from public events. thats 12 hours and two exotic drops. None of Strikes and crucible. Something is busted.
Public events are a huge upgrade from the first but again once you get flashpoint and clan rewards, thats it. And they arent much fun. Especially solo when its pretty much impossible to trigger the heroic events in most events.
I have always loved running strikes with randoms. We start off low level and struggle to beat it. Then we get better and higher leveled and then it would turn into a race to see how fast we could finish it. Even in vanilla destiny when we got just 25 vanguard xp and 3 legendary marks for running strikes, it was fun. It was a lot of fun in year 2 and 3 when we ran it to get to the bosses asap and get strike gear and exotic engrams that were always higher than your light level. no matter what the cap was.
I guess I have just been really unlucky. I even had the highest level gear equipped yesterday. Which meant playing with a hand cannon i dont like and a pulse rifle i am sick of using, and trying to kill strike bosses with a stupid fucking shotgun instead of merciless, but it still dropped at 280 (plus a +5 mod) when i was clearly 285. My other drop was 277 when i was clearly over 282. I think it gets confused when i have an exotic in my inventory. i had zero exotics equipped and it still thought my max level was 282 and gave me a 277 exotic with a +5 mod.
If you all still need one I wouldn't mind joining. Just completed calus a few minutes ago with another awesome team! Psn jtran2003. Also was inside dark realm so familiar with that as well.
jasminlovesyoux
Banned
Then why is Destiny 2 still having the same issues that Destiny 1 had? The devs at bungie should've learned.
Given their previous form I wouldn't be surprised if they did a blanket nerf on scout rifles of that type.
I don't think gear mods contribute to your "true" power level. It's just a layer of padding. Legendary engrams and quest rewards have been dropping below my power level as well. The power level only makes sense if all my gear didn't have mods on them.
Hey so regarding titans in pleasure gardens
Also just an FYI, the destiny app is deleting items from my character and did so for a couple of my friend's characters as well (including a level 300 merciless). Really infuriating.
someone previously said titan's pulse grenades kill dogs with only 3 or 4 stacks. Is that true and is it for any subclass?
Also just an FYI, the destiny app is deleting items from my character and did so for a couple of my friend's characters as well (including a level 300 merciless). Really infuriating.
Check last page..me and other duder tryna get some dudes on our group
Even with one stack, my titan was able to take off a huge chunk with 2 pulse grenades and a few heavy rounds. Pulse grenade is very good.
If you post lfg stuff in the thread, you should also coordinate and finalize with everyone in the thread, but I'd also say that lfg stuff is far more suited to discord in general. I don't even look for lfg posts or make them in the thread anymore.
The biggest problem with how the game awards loot at the endgame isn't the number of viable activities, but the total ease of gearing up. I'm already 290 plus on two characters and there were a handful of people 300+ before even one weekly reset. Yes, they- and myself to some extent- are the bleeding edge of the player base, but I'd go so far as to say what we did should have been literally impossible and even getting 260+ prior to the raid should have been a really really hard thing to accomplish. Endgame folks catapulted past 260 so fast we invalidated tons of chunks of the game. Had we had smaller light jumps or needed to work longer to climb past 260, those non powerful gear awarding activities would have had their place. As it stands, I outgeared leviathan before it released despite spending 3 of the 8 available days beforehand away from the game moving and maintaining a normal eating/sleep schedule while continuing to make all my preexisting appointments. The only use for gear now is scaling up for trials and prestige raid/night falls. There's basically only 1 or 2 more exotic weapons I want and only 2 or 3 more Titan exotics i don't have period. This is crazy to be happening so early.
Personally, now, I don't mind. I don't really play the game for loot and I actually like finishing content, leaving the game, and coming back later, but if Bungie were interested in setting up an endgame that could consistently occupy semi hardcore players till the doc in Dec, I'd say they were way too rewarding.
The biggest problem with how the game awards loot at the endgame isn't the number of viable activities, but the total ease of gearing up. I'm already 290 plus on two characters and there were a handful of people 300+ before even one weekly reset. Yes, they- and myself to some extent- are the bleeding edge of the player base, but I'd go so far as to say what we did should have been literally impossible and even getting 260+ prior to the raid should have been a really really hard thing to accomplish. Endgame folks catapulted past 260 so fast we invalidated tons of chunks of the game. Had we had smaller light jumps or needed to work longer to climb past 260, those non powerful gear awarding activities would have had their place. As it stands, I outgeared leviathan before it released despite spending 3 of the 8 available days beforehand away from the game moving and maintaining a normal eating/sleep schedule while continuing to make all my preexisting appointments. The only use for gear now is scaling up for trials and prestige raid/night falls. There's basically only 1 or 2 more exotic weapons I want and only 2 or 3 more Titan exotics i don't have period. This is crazy to be happening so early.
Personally, now, I don't mind. I don't really play the game for loot and I actually like finishing content, leaving the game, and coming back later, but if Bungie were interested in setting up an endgame that could consistently occupy semi hardcore players till the doc in Dec, I'd say they were way too rewarding.
Awesome, thank you, My rockets generally are more than enough but if I can save the ammo thats even better.
Olengie
Member
Legendarys will drop lower to your LL. Exotics will be near your LL.
The World Quest rewards scale. All of them except Man o War.
For me anyways
2 stack (ie. 24x) is enough to kill a dog as a titan. One pulse grenade will take almost half health at that stack. You just throw 2 grenades back to back and pound the fist a bit. With 3 stacks (34x) a titan can actually kill 2 dogs. At 4 stacks (48x)...anyone can kill 2 dogs.
katsubento
Member
My app still says I have no characters.
Correct. After X amount of wins you stop gaining tokens to prevent you from farming the rewards NPC and getting all of the gear week 1.
Quoted for recent page...4 more dudes..vets are welcomed as well as dudes who've tried to bear calus but couldnt get the win...whatever gets us closer to glory the better
273 legendary (unless the legendary already has a legendary mod).
Cob32
Member
Hi it's my first time trying but I know the mechanics.
I'm up for it.
It does. Can I unequip it then dismantle?
KaKaRi
Member
giancarlo123x
Banned
I'm only 271 and have only done the pleasure gardens section and failed the puzzle after.
I don't understand why. No other vendors work like that. Maybe it's a carry over from the D1 Trials?
It was never this bad. At least since vanilla and VOG era where progression was locked behind rare Raid drops you'd get once a week.
Honestly, it's perplexing to me because they fixed this issue, and experimented with it as well, but never went back to it. And here we are.
I guess they really don't want new players feeling like they have to play more than a few hours a week to level, but that really shits in the pot of us players that play daily and look forward to even an inkling of progression.
Removing random weapon and armor perks is along the same idea and again negates any reason to play in the end game besides a few hours.
Bad Bungie. Bad.
I mean, technically the raid tokens/vendor works the same way.