it wll be awesome if bungie more transparent. they should say from the pre order expansion pass era that "stop complaining, you will be able to buy level 31 from vendor in DLC".
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Also, I have to think it was pretty smart of Bungie to:
-Make new/refurb exotic weapons start at 302. So it's instantly a little better than your old one.
-Make new exotic/refurb armor start at 30. You lose nothing.
It still kinda sucks but those things do make me feel better.
-Make new/refurb exotic weapons start at 302. So it's instantly a little better than your old one.
-Make new exotic/refurb armor start at 30. You lose nothing.
It still kinda sucks but those things do make me feel better.
Can't see that 1h leveling even with telemetry(if weapon)+nightfall perk + some high level activity. I enabled about 170% circles in Armamentarium in about a hour with 2 PEs, PE War, 3 bounties and a few jobs. I did a little with Icebreaker+Thunderlord and that was crawling. Will take a lot time to enable them.
P.S. Got ATS/8 Arachnid, Helm of Inmost Light and Light before Nemesis for my Motes.
P.S. Got ATS/8 Arachnid, Helm of Inmost Light and Light before Nemesis for my Motes.
did the raid. 1st part alone, 2nd part skipped. 3rd part full team. 4th part unfinished.
while people seems very happy with the new raid. i am dissapointed. The new raid give no new "gimmick" in gameplay. the new-ish is only the invisible bridge that keep getting reused.
it also become tedious because its basically a "horde mode" with bullet sponge enemies that even more annoying than VoG.
but the most annoying thing is the traversal.
while people seems very happy with the new raid. i am dissapointed. The new raid give no new "gimmick" in gameplay. the new-ish is only the invisible bridge that keep getting reused.
it also become tedious because its basically a "horde mode" with bullet sponge enemies that even more annoying than VoG.
but the most annoying thing is the traversal.
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either on me refurbed Icebreaker. Maybe it's just on armor.
Anyways, got 31. It required some redundant leveling (of 33 gear) but oh well. Even better I have 2/4 pieces for 32. Time to raid. Time to stop leveling and catch up a bit.
Looking through the Tower roster a couple times I haven't seen many 31's, so maybe I am a little l33t. Actually I see a lot of mid 20's just now, I guess everybody on their alt.
I've leveled so much, I have like 200 glimmer left...
I wish I had more 300+ guns, just got Ice Breaker to 307.
The Pulse rifle primary I'm messing with cus it's one of my few 331's is actually kinda fun. It's only like 283 so far though.
So far still holding off on buying that vendor scout. I wont have time to level it past 300 for raid use this week anyway.
I thought ATS8/Arachnid was House of Wolves content...what kind of perks does it have? Is it intellect?
for me the move from 29 or 30 to 31 is easier in TDB than 29 to 30 in original destiny. It makes me feel all those struggle in original Destiny was in vain 
btw just completed the urn bounty from Eris. For all of that stupidly annoying work, ridiculus plot, lots of backtrack and awful amount of hive farming... she only give me a hand armor. Its a legendary hand armor that EXACTLY THE SAME as the armor that is sold VERY CHEAP in vendor at tower. It have different name, flavor text, and model, but the parameters almost exactly the same.
bungie open TDB bounty with Murmur and ends it with utterly useless hand armor :/
TDB is like all thats wrong in destiny packaged into one box.
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but not all is bad some awesome stuff
- Raid have more approach/method available (dunno which one is TWBMTBP)
- almost no "waiting ghost to open door". I think there's only 2 moment and TDB presented it as something with more flavor (basically its still waiting waves of enemies to open door, but better).
- Items drop is much better (i just played yesterday night and today and i already get exotics, new legendaries weapons)
btw just completed the urn bounty from Eris. For all of that stupidly annoying work, ridiculus plot, lots of backtrack and awful amount of hive farming... she only give me a hand armor. Its a legendary hand armor that EXACTLY THE SAME as the armor that is sold VERY CHEAP in vendor at tower. It have different name, flavor text, and model, but the parameters almost exactly the same.
bungie open TDB bounty with Murmur and ends it with utterly useless hand armor :/
TDB is like all thats wrong in destiny packaged into one box.
EDIT:
but not all is bad some awesome stuff
- Raid have more approach/method available (dunno which one is TWBMTBP)
- almost no "waiting ghost to open door". I think there's only 2 moment and TDB presented it as something with more flavor (basically its still waiting waves of enemies to open door, but better).
- Items drop is much better (i just played yesterday night and today and i already get exotics, new legendaries weapons)
It has Dis 61, Str 62. Unsure if the Golden Gun Zoom perk is useful.
About Pulse, I got this 123 Syzygy and though I try to enable it I don't really like it. Feels more like some SMP with bad visibility/control at the moment. If you're used to a heavy damage one like Fair and Square.
This Ruin Wings looks like a nice one for Defender Titans.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2p4pba/sga_ruin_wings_and_the_aggressive_defender/
has some discussion about it.
About Pulse, I got this 123 Syzygy and though I try to enable it I don't really like it. Feels more like some SMP with bad visibility/control at the moment. If you're used to a heavy damage one like Fair and Square.
This Ruin Wings looks like a nice one for Defender Titans.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2p4pba/sga_ruin_wings_and_the_aggressive_defender/
has some discussion about it.
Alright, I'm buying Ruin Wings based on that Reddit link, LOL!
By the way, which vendor scout rifle are you guys talking about that is supposed to be good?
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Regarding the helmet engrams from Xur, damn, I guess I just got lucky.
I guess I need to roll a Hunter so I'll have all characters covered. I really don't want to endure that 1-29 grind though.
By the way, which vendor scout rifle are you guys talking about that is supposed to be good?
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Regarding the helmet engrams from Xur, damn, I guess I just got lucky.
I guess I need to roll a Hunter so I'll have all characters covered. I really don't want to endure that 1-29 grind though.
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djskribbles
Legend
Beat the first stages and got to Crota. Got him down below half at one point but couldn't finish him.
What we did was have a person with icebreaker on each side of the start point to take out the knights that spawn in the upper sides of the map. Then everyone else groups up in the middle down below. Once they get the sword, we all fire rockets at Crota to take down his shield and the try to time it perfectly so when the sword carrier gets to crota, he can get a few clean hits on him. Rinse and repeat.
I dunno exactly what they were doing down below because it was my job to snipe the knights.
What we did was have a person with icebreaker on each side of the start point to take out the knights that spawn in the upper sides of the map. Then everyone else groups up in the middle down below. Once they get the sword, we all fire rockets at Crota to take down his shield and the try to time it perfectly so when the sword carrier gets to crota, he can get a few clean hits on him. Rinse and repeat.
I dunno exactly what they were doing down below because it was my job to snipe the knights.
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btw does anybody found the chests in TDB Raid? i only found one (in the 1st session, in the dark area)
tried solo-ing the 2nd part of Crota Raid. crossed the bridge, summoned the Phogoth... then i forgot to use heavy ammo synth lol
hopefully i can finish crotas end today, the last day before out of town again bah.
basically to solo the 2nd part:
1. wear the sword dropped by swordwearer
2. jump to the broken pillar on right of bridge (its quite tall)
3. aim to the other side of bridge
4. jump as high as you can
5. blade-dance using the sword you get
after reaching the other side..
1. go RIGHT ASAP.
2. kill the crawlers and acolytes, ignore other enemies (they wont hurt you and they have no relevance to game's checkpoint system)
3. now 2 witches will spawn. Kill ONE.
---- from this point, i have not tried but only watched a video ---
4. now mini-phogoth will spawn on right side. Quickly kill it before ANOTHER mini-phogoth comes from left-side.
5. kill mini-phogoth on the left-side. done
hopefully i can finish crotas end today, the last day before out of town again bah.
basically to solo the 2nd part:
1. wear the sword dropped by swordwearer
2. jump to the broken pillar on right of bridge (its quite tall)
3. aim to the other side of bridge
4. jump as high as you can
5. blade-dance using the sword you get
after reaching the other side..
1. go RIGHT ASAP.
2. kill the crawlers and acolytes, ignore other enemies (they wont hurt you and they have no relevance to game's checkpoint system)
3. now 2 witches will spawn. Kill ONE.
---- from this point, i have not tried but only watched a video ---
4. now mini-phogoth will spawn on right side. Quickly kill it before ANOTHER mini-phogoth comes from left-side.
5. kill mini-phogoth on the left-side. done
djskribbles
Legend
It's in Mars.
Managed to get Crota down to less than a quarter, but then the damn game glitched. Someone died but we destroyed the oversoul, yet we still all died.
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djskribbles
Legend
Beat the Crota's End raid on both of my Warlocks. Got gauntlets, boots, Black Hammer (solar sniper) and Song of ir Yut (arc LMG). Just need a chest piece to hit level 32. So far, my luck in the CE raid has been a lot better than VoG. Really hope I get the chest piece and Fang of ir Yut (scout rifle).
You bastard Skribbles! Black Hammer! I want it And all that gear...
Who's the lucky guy now...
That's it I quit this shitty game, it gave somebody on B3D loot before me...
Also you cannot get primaries from normal Crota's end.
Hmm, what my first and so far only Crota group did was all sit in the middle bottom room. But, the swordbearer complained a lot about knights killing him. So, I started thinking today about what went wrong, why not put two guys on the sides to snipe Knights? because I realized slowly as the attempts went on, it did not take 5 of us to drop Crota's shields...
So I guess I'm just proud I actually thought of a good strategy independently for once.
More than that went wrong with our group though. the other major problem was poor timing by the swordbearer/us, Crota would be kneeling often too long before he got there. But I think that could be solved by aggressive callouts of when exactly to smash crota by the swordbearer, boom, our two big problems solved...
People say this raid is really hard...to me it's obvious that it's probably not really hard, it will just take as few weeks for everybody to get it down. i doubt it's actually harder than VoG at all.
And all that gear...Who's the lucky guy now...
That's it I quit this shitty game, it gave somebody on B3D loot before me...
Also you cannot get primaries from normal Crota's end.
Hmm, what my first and so far only Crota group did was all sit in the middle bottom room. But, the swordbearer complained a lot about knights killing him. So, I started thinking today about what went wrong, why not put two guys on the sides to snipe Knights? because I realized slowly as the attempts went on, it did not take 5 of us to drop Crota's shields...
So I guess I'm just proud I actually thought of a good strategy independently for once.
More than that went wrong with our group though. the other major problem was poor timing by the swordbearer/us, Crota would be kneeling often too long before he got there. But I think that could be solved by aggressive callouts of when exactly to smash crota by the swordbearer, boom, our two big problems solved...
People say this raid is really hard...to me it's obvious that it's probably not really hard, it will just take as few weeks for everybody to get it down. i doubt it's actually harder than VoG at all.
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It's doable but I would suggest against it. Being 31 makes you a lot more desireable as most groups expect you to be 31 by now.
I finished all known loot points for my 3 characters this week.
The list for what I got is:
1. Hunter raid chest Relentless Harness
2. Black Hammer
3. Light of the Abyss
4. Swordbreaker
Also 24 radiant shards and 10 radiant energies
Also by the speed Eris is leveling up, It's probably going to take us 3 full weeks to hit 32. Radiant Shards are the real catch.
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djskribbles
Legend
Haven't been able to try either of the weapons yet. But yeah, I'm pretty happy.You bastard Skribbles! Black Hammer! I want it
Who's the lucky guy now...
I'm tempted to run 3 characters again so that I can run the raid 3x/week but I really don't want to manage a third guy again.
And
about the primary weapons only dropping in hard mode. I really want that scout rifle.Yeah, I think having at least one sniper helps the sword wielder a lot. Once everyone has the system down, it's just a matter of executing it consistently. After days and several hours of falling a bit short in finishing Crota, last night me and my buddy were fortunate to find a good group of guys. We used the same system and we beat him on the third try, very cleanly. We finished him so quick, we ran through the whole thing right after. We kind of agreed that we should group up on a regular basis to do the raid because we all worked well together, which is rare with randoms.
Our system was basically this:
-1 or 2 people snipe the knights on the left and right side. 2 people makes things a lot easier as I was solely on sniper duty the first time we beat him.
-If doing it solo, camp on the left side (left side when facing crota). You can see both sides from there. Try to avoid leaving the room you're in... stay inside as thrawls will rarely run in, and knights don't really shoot at you.
-If you have 2 snipers, obviously have one on each side.
-When the ogres start coming, snipers jump down and help take them out quickly. Grab the chalice to replenish health if needed because this is the only time that you can.
-When the ogres are down, make sure you see where Crota is and try to avoid him as you make your way back to your spot. Also watch out for thrawls/cursed thrawls.
-If people down below don't have enough fire power to take down the shield quickly, snipers try to help by firing a rocket or two.
For everyone else:
-Wait for the swordbearer to come and wait until Crota is in the middle before killing him.
-Once the sword wielder picks it up, he would call out when to fire at Crota to take his shield down.
-Once the shield is down, the sword wielder would immediately be there to get 3-4 hits on him then hides to the side.
-Others immediately fire rockets at crota again to take his shield down.
-Sword wielder gets another 3-4 hits on him then runs back.
With a clean run, you should be able to get over a quarter of his health down. Then it's just a matter of repeating that system.
It might be a good idea for the sword wielder to also take the chalice, but my buddy didn't think he needed it.
Also, weapons of light from the Titan bubble helps for the people firing rockets to take Crota's shield down.
Yeah, this is probably the biggest key... consistency and perfect timing every time. This was the issue we had with previous groups. Last night, we were all on the same page for the most part.
I do think it's a bit harder than VoG, but I agree... things will get easier once strategies become more common knowledge.
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RenegadeRocks
Legend
Just got the Murmur.....boy what an ugly weapon it is !
BTW, didn't Bungie say all would be able to level up to 30 with this expansion? So, how does that work? Do I level up via XP now, till I reach 30? I don't see that happening.
BTW, didn't Bungie say all would be able to level up to 30 with this expansion? So, how does that work? Do I level up via XP now, till I reach 30? I don't see that happening.
