Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[djskribbles]

I cancelled my season pass and plan on buying them individually too. I dunno if I'll still want to play after TDB.
I don't play MMOs so I dunno if this is the typical MMO model, but I'm not a fan of it. I'm actually questioning myself if I even want to get TDB.

And in regards to the changes coming up: so exotics purchased from Xur will be able to be upgraded to the new higher levels right? He's selling the helmet that I prefer over the one that I have now, but Xur will stop selling before the changes take effect, and I don't want to wait until he sells this helmet again. Anyway, I bought it in hopes that I'll be able to upgrade it on the 9th.

 

[orangpelupa]

how do you able to cancel the season pass after buying it and even getting the sparrow? im genuinely curious.

btw out of town again next week so i can wait patiently for the early adopters impressions of TDB

 

[NRP]

So, same goddamn exotic weapon for sale as last week? Sigh. Is Bungie fucking lazy or what? It's almost like to they want me to quit this game.

 

[djskribbles]

how do you able to cancel the season pass after buying it and even getting the sparrow? im genuinely curious.

btw out of town again next week so i can wait patiently for the early adopters impressions of TDB

I chatted with PSN support. You can cancel pre-orders.

First they credited my PSN back 34.99 without asking me how I wanted to be refunded. Then I said I would prefer to have my paypal refunded and he said he could do that too. I still have the sparrow but I prefer timebreaker from the raid.

 

[orangpelupa]

you simply say "please cancel my pre order" and they are good? wow. The page on PSN explicitly say that there is no refund except required by law.

and in my country there is no law for pre order
there's only a law for max 1 week after purchase of item you should be able to return it (and frankly, nobody followed this law at all)

 

[Rangers]

It's time for the DLC. I really feel like I've done everything the core game has to offer. Really hit a wall fast...

There's not even been much reason to run the raid except look for better stat rolls on armor I already have. Well, now that I got Fatebringer and Corrective Measure anyway.

Today I did nothing but screw around with scrawny bounties halfheartedly upgrading stuff, and it's not that fun.

I got the bug I've heard about where ammo synth doesn't work if you have too many consumables. I guess cause I bought those huge amount of heavy synth. I dont know if it never works, or just occasionally. Hopefully the latter.

That also makes me think my weapon telemetries I had on probably weren't working either...

The daily mission is supposed to give you 7500XP, is it bugged too? I ran it just to upgrade guns, nothing got a upgrade at the end. I didn't actually check perfectly, but it didn't seem to me like I got any lump of 7500 XP at the end of the mission. Yet another bug?

 

[orangpelupa]

you can screw around under map or jumping around into hidden, locked, areas
thats what i do most of the time when bored in destiny. Just strolling, glitching to someplace.

or just hitch a ride on various space ships in patrol. The cabal space ship is the best. it able to throw you up veeeeeeery high above

 

[Nisaaru]

I'm actually collecting Vanguard marks with my 3 characters as all legendary armor and weapons will be obsolete...

 

[Rangers]

I thought about doing stuff like that, to "prepare" for DB, but I'm not really that arsed with it. The difference will be 100 marks or so with the cap (meaning I have say 83 marks on one character currently, because I've been buying a lot of resources, with the weekly cap the most I could store is perhaps 70 more since I've already gotten ~30 this week, so it's just not that big a deal). I'm not concerned. Same with glimmer. But yeah I probably will cap up my glimmer and such a bit since there's not much else to do. I'm at only 13k glimmer, I guess because I've been upgrading so much.

One idea that seems kind of worth it is if you're close to a faction rep border, hold off on it until next week, you would presumably get a commendation for it next week.

Apparently the best glimmer farm method is the beginning of the exclusion zone on heroic. The spot to cheese cabal majors bounty. Pop the resupply codes there and farm it.

Oh another thing I hadn't though of that I'm gonna do is buy at least a few more exotic shards from Xur. Just so that I dont have to wait for Xur next time I have an exotic ready to finish off. Granted I doubt I'll have one leveled between next Tuesday and next Thursday. It'll be a good idea in general.

I feel like my strange coins could get limited fast now that I can only get 18 per week. Oh well, that's what I wanted!

An interesting thing is there will be a new strike playlist with DLC. "Dragon" strike playlist at level 28.

I havent used strike playlists in forever, they dont seem useful at endgame. However if vanguard marks become highly useful again (they already are with material buying) I may have to start again. Hopefully Dragon playlist will give you more than 6 marks.

I've noticed I have not farmed a single resource since the changes. So far I've been fine with just buying them, or getting a few more from daily strikes or patrol bounties. So, they accomplished what they wanted...

I would have been fine if they had just doubled resource spawns. So that everywhere you would have gotten 1 before, you'd get 2. And 2 would be 4. You'd still have to farm, but only half as much. So it's interesting how they chose to handle it, where seemingly they almost eliminated the need to farm at all.

OTOH they made Marks relevant again (maybe doubly so with new legendaries coming) with this way, which was probably a worthwhile goal.

Now that resources is fixed, the number 1 thing I wish they'd fix in the game is the disappearing ammo on respawn bug. That one is terrible.

 

[orangpelupa]

im sure its TWBMTBP so bungie wont fix it. i mean, look at atheon baby bumpers and loot cave. they fixed it so fast. but dissapearing ammo, atheon only teleport 2 ppl or to both portal at the same time, etc. bungie never fixed it although its already like that since release.

i simply cant find any other reason to answer why they did not fix it except its already TWBMTBP.

 

[Rangers]

I think "deej" or whatever (bungie guy) admitted the ammo stealing was a bug.

And yeah it's sad how fast they fix exploits but it takes them forever to fix bad bugs.

The Atheon not teleporting 3 was fixed in the new patch though.

I saw on youtube, you can still get under the platform of Archon Priest...seems pretty easy too. Haha that is funny.

I also didn't know this was a bug, but you dont get the 7500XP for the daily mission applied to your weapons. Apparently it applies fine to you armor and subclass progression, but not weapons (as I've discovered trying to use it to level weapons last couple days, then googled about it). So yeah, another stupid bug.

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[Strange]

I think "deej" or whatever (bungie guy) admitted the ammo stealing was a bug.

And yeah it's sad how fast they fix exploits but it takes them forever to fix bad bugs.

The Atheon not teleporting 3 was fixed in the new patch though.

I saw on youtube, you can still get under the platform of Archon Priest...seems pretty easy too. Haha that is funny.

I also didn't know this was a bug, but you dont get the 7500XP for the daily mission applied to your weapons. Apparently it applies fine to you armor and subclass progression, but not weapons (as I've discovered trying to use it to level weapons last couple days, then googled about it). So yeah, another stupid bug.

This game is very popular on Reddit

Weekly/Nightfall/story also don't apply to weapons either. Only way to get exp right now is though bounties, postmaster bonuses, or through brute force (killing enemies for +10~+25).

 

[Rangers]

Weekly/Nightfall/story also don't apply to weapons either. Only way to get exp right now is though bounties, postmaster bonuses, or through brute force (killing enemies for +10~+25).

You dont get a glob of XP at the end for weekly or nightfall anyway though do you? I'm a bit confused by your post. Killing enemies within weekly/nightfall still nets you the small 10-25 XP at least right?

 

[orangpelupa]

maybe after TDB they will have more time to kill the bugs.

for XP not applying to weapon... so thats the reason my legendaries did not levelup lol

 

[Rangers]

300'd Corrective Measure and Praedyth's Revenge. Not far from 300ing Fatebringer too, probably would be almost there except the last batch of bounties I turned in I forgot I had Vex Mythoclast equipped instead

Here's all my 300 weapons so far:

Praedyth's Revenge
Corrective Measure
Ice Breaker
Praetorian Foil
Vision of Confluence
The Swarm (solar)
Patience and Time
Gjallahorn
Zombie Apocalypse WF47 (void)
Atheon's Epilogue

In prep for DB, I have one char like 10 rep points from a vanguard level. He also has earned vanguard marks nearly at the 100 cap for the week (has I think 139 altogether). The other guy has a long way to go to anther faction level, about 2k points I think. Also like 60 mark short of the weekly cap. I didn't even start "prepping" until like today, so that explains it.

I wont have much time to play the next 3 days, I would have liked to have both chars near a vanguard level, hit their VG marks weekly cap, and with ~25k glimmer, and I would like to have Fatebringer 300 by then too. I doubt I have near enough time to do all that...60 marks is ten strikes.


It's all fairly minor stuff though, so I dont mind that much.

 

[Nisaaru]

I thought the potential engrams you get through leveling awards are just selected by the Cryptarch so why wait? If you accidentally and very unlikely receive a legendary engram just wait with the decryption when TDB is enabled. Only decrypt the blue ones..

 

[-tkf-]

Isn´t likely that the VG Mark cap is raised from 100 and the prices will see a hike as well?

Anyway, i bought some Green Shards from XUR, not going to spend money ehmm Strange Coins, Mote´s of Light, Ascendant Energy, Vanguard Marks or Glitter on anything else until the expansion is released

 

[NRP]

Finished the hard raid just now. Got Praedyth's Revenge, ascendant shit, and some kind of sparrow that explodes if you stay on the throttle too long. Not bad I guess, but considering the current raid weapons will be worthless (no upgrade path, correct?), I'm still a bit underwhelmed. No one else in my fire team got anything other than shards, energy, and Chatterwhite, and they were pissed. Bungie's stupid ass loot system is creating a bad impression.

Edit:
Praedyth's Revenge is actually a pretty good sniper. It has nearly identical specs as my random legendary void sniper, but PR feels worlds better. It's more stable, has a better scope, and much better handling. It also carries more ammo. Too bad it's going to be rendered irrelevant in a couple of days.

So does anyone think they will offer Ice Breaker again, or is that weapon effectively done as well, and will be replaced/superceded by something else? It would be a damn shame to never have been able to enjoy that weapon.

 

[Rangers]

Yeah, PR is very very smooth. even more so than Patience and Time imo. As such it's pretty fun to play with, and is the only legendary sniper I normally bother to use.

It is a very light hitter though (compared to Icebreaker, not sure vs other legendaries). If you arent getting crit hits you may as well not bother.

I hope they dont offer IB again in a way, selfishly Although it's by far the weapon I need for my 2nd char to be basically autonomous

I dont think our old legendaries will be useless in the expansion. Bungie has said as much, and all content except the new hard raid will be 30 or less anyway and we already have 30 content in the core game.

IB should be upgradeable to the new higher attack cap, and it will definitely be one that will be worth going to the trouble for, along with Gallahorn.

 

[djskribbles]

Grr, according to people on reddit, the new legendary gear maxes at 33 light, meaning our current raid gear is worse than regular legendary armor now... that's pretty depressing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheG...dark_below_legendary_weapons_and_hunter_gear/
I think you can hit level 31 without an exotic. Good thing I already got a few legendary engrams (gauntlets and a primary). Also just completed another pocket infinity bounty. Gonna cash them all in after Tuesday and hope for something good.

I guess the only good thing about having raid gear is you're not at a level disadvantage in the new raid as soon as it's available. I'm both nervous and excited to try it. It will probably take forever to complete on the first go.

On the sniper rifle discussion, personally my favorites are:
1. Icebreaker - ammo regen, high impact
2. Praedyth's Revenge - very good stability and fire rate, is a legendary so it doesn't take an exotic slot.
3. Patience & Time - better stats than PR, but it takes an exotic slot. Don't find the invisibility very useful.