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Destiny |OT5| New patch out Tues., Master Rahool reportedly crying into his robes
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Waiting for the Helm of Saint-14 like myself?
I have the Defender gauntlets which are more suited for PvP. I want the helm for Strikes though the exotic chest from Xur most recently may be one of the best for team play. I didn't have enough for it, will have to rely on a drop.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
It's definitely not better than The Last Word and probably worse than the Hawkmoon too.
You're right and it's a goddamn shame. I sit on the Titan ones forever!
Fixed1979
Member
Can't watch at work, but will later. I felt like a idiot yesterday while trying to get through that section.
He jumps up really high and does the striker super with death from above (aiming) to land it. I wonder if this is also possible with a high thrust and a melee burst.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Can't wait to fully upgrade my Pocket Infinity. If the first shot doesn't kill you the next 9 will.
Question on that as I am preparing any day now to begin my quest for a melee / shotgun Titan build. What / how did you do it?
I am thinking Striker, Skullfort helm that overemphasizes melee as well as melee attack speed +, as well as "Juggernaut" skill in the tree. Either that or Defender.
Blue Ninja
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That would be preferable, but in the mean time I'll just save up for a Vanguard helm. :lol
Already got the Helm of Inmost Light equipped on my Striker and also have the Crest of Alpha Lupi, so I can mix and match if I choose.
super-famicom
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I dunno if it's the best, but it is really good. Thorn is a lot better than people make it out to be. Sure it doesn't have as high an impact as a Big Chief, but the DoT makes up for it. Slow reload and small ammo count are what hurts, but if you play smart and don't run around on you own (stick with your team), you can do fine. Hopefully they address the reload time when they buff it.
Twilight Gap
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the whole right side of that particular graph is nearly useless considering that you can switch subclasses on the fly. all it really shows is that most people may be under level 15.
davidbloop
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If anyone is organising a raid, me and a friend, both Hunters level 28 and 27 would be keen to join in about an hours time. Otherwise we might start a party see who's keen 
Trying to get people some raid gear before the reset.
PS4: davidbloop
Trying to get people some raid gear before the reset.PS4: davidbloop
It's dumb to just mash r1/r2 because you loose it faster. It's best to blink to them because they have a hard time getting a fix on your location. I don't think blade dancer is OP, but I will say a skilled player with blade dancer & blink is OP(I think my highest kill streak was 24-25)... But so is every other class. I kill lots of blade dancers running up to me, I find myself saying "haha idiot" because they act like it's an easy button. I start the engagement with a area denial grenade as I start hitting the with my weapon kitting(warlock). They either don't even make it to me or the funniest is when they start to retreat and walk backwards into their fiery death. Also blink is an effective way to by more time. You know where your blinking to they don't.
This FOMO thing could have been exploited by Bungie more if they added new things to the world everyday. Like a brand new area where two races are fighting each other, or a new public event, or something.
Was kinda hoping for a more living breathing dynamic world
It is a real question lol. And I thought about him hanging it up later, but that sounds like a complete hassle. And hassle is something that doesn't exist in scifi.
Public events were supposed to be like that, but they seemed to have really taken the scale down a notch. Remember how they demonstrated public events at E3 2013?
madmaxx350
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Playing as a hunter, I cannot agree more. Warlocks can do sooo soo much, they teleport like hunters, can do be area damage with their specials like a titan, can pull up a secondary shield like the titans, spam grenades, revive themselves... and there's more im sure.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
This is why I'm glad I powered through to 28. Now I feel like I can sort of coast for a bit. It sucks, but there's always that fear of falling behind in games like this.
GuitarAtomik
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Barely...
Yuuup. Nice to see some stats sort of confirm it considering how many people here were downplaying Bladedancers. Don't get me wrong, it's not the most OP thing ever (especially considering how many one hit kills are in the game). But like I said before, it's probably the easiest super in the game to rack up large numbers of kills compared to others.
Titanfall Smash, Voiduken and Sunsinger Ball all kill bladedancers relatively fast. Lots of times where I'm Arc Blading someone and they use their invincibility Supers and kill me in one hit.
Not to mention the incredibly wide AoE for Titanfall and Voiduken; there were many times where I was behind a wall, in a different room and I would still die.
The Lamonster
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I have legendary boots, helm, chest and gloves. None of them are upgraded very much and I'm still level 25. I assume weapons don't give light and I now need to gather materials to upgrade all these legendaries if I have any hopes of leveling up past 25, right?
Seems like a weird design choice to me, or maybe I'm missing something?
Seems like a weird design choice to me, or maybe I'm missing something?
I have never understood why so many people enter panic mode whenever they see bladedancers, their super is one of the easiest to avoid, as you can see and hear them coming from a mile away, and their overshield isn't anywhere near as strong as the Defenders or Sunsingers.
Stop jumping around like you're Mario in some futile attempt to get away and instead, hold your ground and shoot at them, they can't do shit to you until they get into melee range, unlike the Voidwalker and Striker supers which you can't do shit about due to the excessive AoE. If you don't panic like an idiot, in the worst case scenario you and the bladedancer will end up killing each other.
Honestly, I think someone had it right when they said that the misconception of the bladedancer super being more OP than the Voidwalkers and the Strikers comes from the fact that you actually have time to think and panic when you see a bladedancer running towards you, whilst you just die whenever a Voidwalker or Striker uses their instant win move. I'm thankful that I at least have a chance to fight back when facing a bladedancer lol
Are some people arguing that Bladedancer isn't OP in Crucible but Sunsinger is?
What?
Bladedancer Super grants a mobility boost, auto-aim-OHK-AOE-melee, damage resistance and third person view.
Sunsinger Super grants regular single-target OHK-melee and fast grenade cooldown ( which isn't even all that useful in Crucible ); no mobility boost, no third person view, no built-in damage resistance
Bladedancer Hunter also has Blink, a Helmet that lets them see the radar while aiming, invisibility and the quickest melee in the game.
Bladedancer is OP.
What?
Bladedancer Super grants a mobility boost, auto-aim-OHK-AOE-melee, damage resistance and third person view.
Sunsinger Super grants regular single-target OHK-melee and fast grenade cooldown ( which isn't even all that useful in Crucible ); no mobility boost, no third person view, no built-in damage resistance
Bladedancer Hunter also has Blink, a Helmet that lets them see the radar while aiming, invisibility and the quickest melee in the game.
Bladedancer is OP.
Confidence Man
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Maybe I suck at it but I find myself getting killed all the time with arc blade active (and I've killed plenty myself). If you don't activate it at the right time/distance you're screwed.
Fixed1979
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Here's a GIF:
Shit, that's perfect. Thanks!
I think every class has a workaround now, I know that hunters can bladedance across, and warlocks have some sort of way to do it.
Yes, hopefully Bungie sees that in their data and doesn't listen to baseless complaining. Warlocks truly are the most dangerous with their magic.
That's exactly what I did. Take care of the weeklies and dailies and then can just clean stuff up. Though with Halo coming out, I don't know how it will work with my time management.
Levelling mine now!It's a shame so little play as Titan's defender subclass.
Ward of Dawn with Armor of Light upgrade and rechargeable force barrier
easy control/salvage wins
It's a shame so little play as Titan's defender subclass.
Ward of Dawn with Armor of Light upgrade and rechargeable force barrier
easy control/salvage wins
That's my next upgrade for Ward of Dawn. Taking a while to level it up. Then I'll be using a Defender a lot more in PVP.
The melee range for bladedancers is enormous. They practically teleport across the room.
No thats pretty much it.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Really? I feel like I've tried this and the only thing that respawns are the resource points. I've never had a chest respawn in an area I've cleared without going back to orbit. That's with doing whole loops of the map.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I see Titan's miss with FOH a lot lately. It isn't nearly the sure kill Nova Bomb is.
Trailer from 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dgt-RwBx9Y
It does look like the narrative did change. No mention of the darkness, we see views of Saturn and what looks like the Reef.
If the Narrative did get scrapped I wonder when and if we'll go to these places. We know the reef is confirmed from the DLC stuff, but I wanna go beyond the asteroid belt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dgt-RwBx9Y
It does look like the narrative did change. No mention of the darkness, we see views of Saturn and what looks like the Reef.
If the Narrative did get scrapped I wonder when and if we'll go to these places. We know the reef is confirmed from the DLC stuff, but I wanna go beyond the asteroid belt.
super-famicom
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This. Understanding when to activate Arc Blade is quite difficult. It's not an "oh shit" button you can press like Fist of Havoc. There's an animation that you go through when activating Arc Blade and if an enemy shoots you at that time you die. If you're too far from someone and can't close the distance you'll likely die.
madmaxx350
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so many ways to kill them, I've died plenty of times in that super. A shotgun shell and a melee attacks down them instantly... oh I wished I could put up a secondary shield at any point of time when im about to die... Don't get me started on that burning melee or the energy drain melee.
Quoted for truth.
No one is as powerful as the Cryptarch, too bad he's getting nerfed next patch. Going to be a lot easier to defeat him now.
Sunsinger with Radiant Skin does have damage resistance, plus flame shield, which means being able to take one arc blade hit and then get a melee hit to get the shield, and finish the bladedancer with literally any other attack. grenade spam not being useful in crucible is mindboggling too
Offensively specced sunsinger < bladedancer < Defensively specced sunsinger, this has been my observed experience very consistently.
neither bladedancer nor sunsinger are OP, or really both are OP and can be more or less effective against one another depending on spec.
You need 87 light to get to Level 27. If you level each of your legendary pieces to Light +22 (without the upgrades that require shards) you'd get to 88 light. So you can hit 27 relatively easy.
If you fully level each piece you have with shards to get +27 Light each piece that is 108 light and Level 28, just missing Level 29 by just 1 Light so you need an Exotic piece or Raid gear. Raid and Exotic will top out at +30 Light.
lyrick
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Your first two upgrades on each piece of equipment will get you to 22 light on each piece Getting you to level 27, these upgrades only require Planetary Materials {Spinmetal, Helium Filaments, etc}. After that it's all Ascended Shards (+ planetary Materials) which are a BS progression system.
The Engram God King had to be taken down one day. It's better to be nerfed than shot to death by millions of Guardians anyway.
madmaxx350
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aliencowz7
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It's so popular because its fun to use and the "cool" melee / rogue class with a "badass" cloak. It is a powerful class but so are the others. The classes aren't really that far from being balanced, the bigger issues lie in how fast supers charge in general and in certain gun types. Supers could really use some tuning to charge about half as fast in crucible.
If anything gunslinger is the more powerful hunter subclass, particularly with the helmet that gives them an extra golden gun shot.
Last night I stuck one with a fusion grenade and shot him with the Invective and he still didn't go down. I've only managed to kill a bladedancer once as a Sunsinger and that was with two rockets.
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