MurkyZebra2417
Member
Nice, found some poeple over the destiny app and cleared nightfall prestige with 1:24 on third try. First two tries the boss was at 5% left...
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Destiny 2 |OT3| The Token King
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JohnOfMars
Banned
Did you miss Xur when he was selling both of those?
Yeah I had the Ps4 Pro crashing issues until FW 4.74 came out. I didn't know Coil was available through Xur though.
Pandora012
Member
I never really notice/pay attention to that stuff. I guess I'm just used to gimping myself for fashion. Dark souls and nioh comes to mind.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Rough. I bet he'll offer either of those again soon. Bungie never offers all the exotics through Xur, so you can bet there'll be repeats.
Here is Xur's history for future reference: http://destinyxur.com/
I had been playing all week on a Warlock and switched over to my Hunter, and noticed I was getting absolutely demolished at every single PE I did despite being a higher PL than before.
After spending all night thinking maybe something went wrong with PEs after an update/ hotfix I finally checked my stats and saw I was running max Mobility, min Resilience and Recovery.
I check every armor piece I get now and scrutinize whether I can make it work with anything else.
tearsintherain
Member
I just don't understand why bungie didn't drop IB armor from end match boards, and why the engrams Saladin offers isn't 100% IB drops. 7 packages turned in, 0 armor pieces. It also means that if you start a game down a lot, its far more efficient to just join a new game since 2 tokens/loss is bad compared to 5 tokens/win and tokens are the ONLY way to get armor. Everything about IB is soul crushing and all the mistakes Bungie were ones that were in D1 IB but got fixed over time, so the whole thing is just baffling.
As soon as I get the 10 turns in package I am done with IB, and it looks likely I will finish with zero armor pieces received.
As soon as I get the 10 turns in package I am done with IB, and it looks likely I will finish with zero armor pieces received.
Cornbread78
Member
So, we would have three "Newbie" raids running this weekend to get more people the ability to experience them, but we need some help from the greater DGAF community. We need both Sherpa's to donate a few hours of time, as well as some newbs that want to learn the mechanics and how to communicate effectively to complete the raid!
Do we have 2 other Sherpas available in the DGAF community to lead the below newbs through the raid this Sunday?
Sunday Newb Raid:
Starts at 7:00pm bst sharp. (NA Folks: 2pm EST/11am PST)
Sherpas:
- Ruthless_Barbarian
- Balphon
Newbs:
- Mazzbags
- Dark1421
- Hugstable
- Rehsa (psn?)
Noob Raid 9pm EST/6pm PST Friday (10/13): *full*
Sherpas:
- Palaniri
- NeoNightmare
Newbs:
- Japanmanx3
- LooneyLMD
- ArkkAngel007
- Alfebit
Noob Raid 10pm EST/7pm PST Saturday (10/14):
Sherpas:
- Pandora012
- Wiesga01
Newbs:
- Badgerst
- Hunter8472
- ori0n378e
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If you can help lead any of these and share your raid experience, please let me know! Hawkian can get everyone all the time, so this is for him as well, lol.
Also, if you want to be a newbie and learn the raid, post up and let me know and I will reserve a spot for you! Make sure you give me your PSN!
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Here is a great video to watch as pre-work for the raid. It will help if you have a base knowledge of what is to come. Trust me, it is still surprising to play through it yourself at full speed, lol.
https://youtu.be/OzkxpLkEkfE
Do we have 2 other Sherpas available in the DGAF community to lead the below newbs through the raid this Sunday?
Sunday Newb Raid:
Starts at 7:00pm bst sharp. (NA Folks: 2pm EST/11am PST)
Sherpas:
- Ruthless_Barbarian
- Balphon
Newbs:
- Mazzbags
- Dark1421
- Hugstable
- Rehsa (psn?)
Noob Raid 9pm EST/6pm PST Friday (10/13): *full*
Sherpas:
- Palaniri
- NeoNightmare
Newbs:
- Japanmanx3
- LooneyLMD
- ArkkAngel007
- Alfebit
Noob Raid 10pm EST/7pm PST Saturday (10/14):
Sherpas:
- Pandora012
- Wiesga01
Newbs:
- Badgerst
- Hunter8472
- ori0n378e
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If you can help lead any of these and share your raid experience, please let me know! Hawkian can get everyone all the time, so this is for him as well, lol.
Also, if you want to be a newbie and learn the raid, post up and let me know and I will reserve a spot for you! Make sure you give me your PSN!
_____________________________________________________________________
Here is a great video to watch as pre-work for the raid. It will help if you have a base knowledge of what is to come. Trust me, it is still surprising to play through it yourself at full speed, lol.
https://youtu.be/OzkxpLkEkfE
The Iron Yuppie
Member
Just go Warlock.....
Don't mind me..
No problem, you're getting an all-star Sherpa crew! What's your PSN?
PSN is: Hunter8472
JohnOfMars
Banned
It gets confusing down there, but once you spend a little time in the area it becomes easier. Also, all the dogs are on loop, so you can learn their patterns and it becomes easier. You only need a 36x stack to comfortably kill them, even 24x is most likely enough if you're high level.
Here's a great map!
LunaticLMD
Member
I'd like to give the raid a shot. I've only done the baths and Calus fight. Either Friday or Saturday is fine for me.
LooneyLMD on psn.
Cornbread78
Member
ArkkAngel007
Member
BigJonsson
Member
How is the nightfall this week?
Cornbread78
Member
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Working as intended.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Easy peasy. Just kill all the adds.
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Don't die to the drill. Kill first phase & third phases of the boss quickly. Ya done.
We killed 200-240 adds / run and finished with 5+ minutes on the clock every time. And that was pretty scrubby.
I love that the Nightfalls are all so different. The Anamoly weaks are all hustle and this week is the opposite. Slow roll, kill everything. Feels good.
Cornbread78
Member
So glad that could be solo'd. I kept dying, so I stayed back and killed adds, then got pulled through at the boss.
BigJonsson
Member
If anyone needs 1 for the nightfall on PS4 I'll be around for a bit
JohnOfMars
Banned
You can do the same thing with the Cabal drill that ticks up a %. Leave one guy at the top who is always shooting down. The other two guys can drop down and clear adds. If they die, it's nbd.
noomi
Member
Tokens.... oh wait.
ArkkAngel007
Member
Always Control. That's about it.
Picked up your exotic engram from Zavala?
Ooh didn't know about this site, thanks! It's funny how I got the later two weapons before Xur brought them but not first two
Sweet thanks for the map! Trying to get as studied up as I can before the newbie raids on the weekends so I don't go in conpletely clueless lol. Dog place feels like something I'm gonna hsve to go through myself before I really get it
JohnOfMars
Banned
If you're being guided through in a newbie raid I wouldn't sweat it too much. If you're new you'll probably be on the bottom. Someone will guide your group through the bottom to get the spore damage stacks. Even if you're on top running prism, it's not a big deal.
The only time you need to be on point is once your group decides to start damaging dogs, so you'll need to run to your dog at their flower by yourself. So before the encounter, just spend a little time orienting yourself from the other flowers to your flower. And call out if you need help killing your dog. There's enough time for others to come over and help.
It's actually a very forgiving encounter.
I'm down for the Saturday Raid!!! As a newbie of course. My last raid, WOTM, was with Pandora, Weisga, and you... 😉
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
If your an average player, solo
You can get 100 Tokens, everyday, roughly 5 Rank Packages
+63 are from the 3 Guardians of Daily IB Challenges, +15 from Daily Bundle after completing the 3 Challenges for +6
So the other 37, is roughly going At least 5-6 Wins with a few losses, which is roughly 1.5-2 hours worth of IB games
Only thing is the Won/Loss can tip it to like 7 Wins and 1 Loss or 1 win and 16 losses (yeesh)
So at least by end of week if you put in 2-3 hours daily and get challenges done on all 3 and collect wins or losses, that's 700 Tokens, which is roughly 35 Rank Packages
Then RNG comes in to play
At least can get hopefully 1-2 Guardians decked out in Full IB gear and all weapons
After that then it's just how much you want to grind, at least weekend their hopefully will be a huge influx to the IB pool with weekend warriors but also Trials ripping away the pubstomping teams going to go do their flawless runs and IB at least plateaus to others getting wins more easily
You can get 100 Tokens, everyday, roughly 5 Rank Packages
+63 are from the 3 Guardians of Daily IB Challenges, +15 from Daily Bundle after completing the 3 Challenges for +6
So the other 37, is roughly going At least 5-6 Wins with a few losses, which is roughly 1.5-2 hours worth of IB games
Only thing is the Won/Loss can tip it to like 7 Wins and 1 Loss or 1 win and 16 losses (yeesh)
So at least by end of week if you put in 2-3 hours daily and get challenges done on all 3 and collect wins or losses, that's 700 Tokens, which is roughly 35 Rank Packages
Then RNG comes in to play
At least can get hopefully 1-2 Guardians decked out in Full IB gear and all weapons
After that then it's just how much you want to grind, at least weekend their hopefully will be a huge influx to the IB pool with weekend warriors but also Trials ripping away the pubstomping teams going to go do their flawless runs and IB at least plateaus to others getting wins more easily
I think the most obvious indication of how they missed the mark with exotic weapons in Destiny 2 (especially for Crucible) is that on my Warlock, if I'm not using MIDA I don't even bother using an exotic weapon at all, the legendary options are just kinda better. Pretty sad, since I think exotics are really cool, but most of them just aren't worth the slot.
It'd help a bit if I could at least change the energy type of energy/power exotics via mods. I can pick whatever element I need with my legendary weapons, but my exotics are all locked, makes them much less adaptable when they weren't that strong to begin with.
It'd help a bit if I could at least change the energy type of energy/power exotics via mods. I can pick whatever element I need with my legendary weapons, but my exotics are all locked, makes them much less adaptable when they weren't that strong to begin with.
The dogs always start their patrol from the same spot so it's pretty easy to pick up on where they'll be after a few tries.
Shit, maybe not. Which one is Zavala and where are they located?
Cornbread78
Member
Baldy boss guy. Dead ahead when you spawn into the Tower, standing at the edge, gazing at the Traveller. After you finished the main story you should have had quests to speak to everyone, ending with him. At that point he gives you a magical prize and the post-story stuff unlocks.
Exotic weapons haven't been very viable in PVP with Destiny 1 for a long time either.
The only exotic worth a slot probably were MIDA and TLW.
chancellor
Member
Is anyone up for trying this weeks nightfall?
Depends what era we're talking about. Pre-TTK Suros Regime and Red Death were both very strong at points, and I post-TTK got a lot of mileage out of some of the heavy weapon exotics, such as Truth (damn rocket orbiting the earth and homing in on someone hah) and several of the heavy machine guns.
Oh what am I talking about, I didn't even mention the absolute king of all D1 crucible weapons, the god damn Thorn. Thing was so OP people used it in non-trials/IB crucible through most of year 2.
So yea, lots of viable exotic weapons in D1 PvP. There are plenty more that I'm not mentioning. And even more that may not have been broken, but were at least equal or better than legendaries. In D2 most of the exotic weapons are straight worse than legendary alternatives in PvP. Aside from MIDA and maybe Vigilance Wing I can't think of any exotic weapons worth using in D2 crucible.
DamagedInc
Member
I'm very new to destiny but can someone explain why last night there were loads of people doing the public events on the rig and tonight hardly any,probably a daft question but it seemed odd?
Jest Chillin
Member
Suros and Red Death weren't exceptional. They were just AR exotics that people used when ARs dominated early on (primarily because people hadn't figured out what was strongest yet; ARs are familiar). Everything else you mention only came into power as the balance passes changed the meta.
As for D2.. I'd say viable Exotics in Crucible are MIDA, Sunshot, Coldheart, Hard Light, Riskrunner, Skyburner's Oath, and Sweet Business. Vigilance Wing can work well in a pre-made too.
I've either done well with or witnessed others do well with all of these weapons in Crucible.
It is one of the best team shooting weapons, not really useable otherwise. Though it is incredibly consistent, basically a 3 burst kill regardless of how many precision shots vs body shots you get. Has the exact same oTTK as MIDA but more forgiving (less precision shots needed), and a faster TTK than MIDA if you hit all body shots with both.
The main issue with it is that it doesn't have the other benefits MIDA does like flinch and radar, and has a lower optimal range. But it is very good to use if you aren't the one getting hit (and if you're just bored of the MIDA).
lolwat
It's kinda random...just fast travel back to the spawn point and you will find an instance with other players...may take a time or two
TotalMackerel
Member
It's really awesome that you guys are doing this. I'm definitely interested in doing one so I can learn the ropes of doing a raid. Unfortunately, I can't do any of these specific ones but I'll keep my eyes open for a guided run in the future!
PedroLumpy
Member
I am. Psnid pedrolumpy