Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[Rangers]

I'm sure a bunch of lucky guardians will get lots of etheric light. Just like with crux, gjallahorngjetc, etc. The lucky person will keep repeatedly got those.

Yeah but is it like one per nightfall or a small chance at 1 per nightfall? Same for Prison of Elders etc.

I hope they are pretty hard to get. Probably will be. Armor itself will no longer be a bottleneck.

I'm really glad they're making endgame not limited to the raid equivalent. They probably have stats that most players dont even raid (I think it's 15% of high level players have beaten the raid or something)

 

[shredenvain]

Yeah but is it like one per nightfall or a small chance at 1 per nightfall? Same for Prison of Elders etc.

I hope they are pretty hard to get. Probably will be. Armor itself will no longer be a bottleneck.

I'm really glad they're making endgame not limited to the raid equivalent. They probably have stats that most players dont even raid (I think it's 15% of high level players have beaten the raid or something)

They added yesterday in the Trials of Osiris stream that there is a chance of getting etheric light in normal crucible matches as well as the iron banner.
They also said that crucible rewards will double for marks and reputation after HoW launches. They also took steps to make sure winning players receive good rewards in the crucible.
From the forums I visit people seem to be upset by the fact that all armor can hit lvl 34. They think it should only be prison of elders armor as well as Trials that can hit 34. The problem there is you get stuck with all lvl 34s looking exactly alike again.
I have even heard people say that prison of elders players will be the only real lvl 34s. What is with this kind of attitude?
If end game modes are required to earn etheric light what is the issue? I don't get why people think their way of playing destiny is the only right way. I am extremely happy with all the changes coming to destiny thru House of Wolves.
By the way Planet destiny has found evidence that points to gun shaders being available in HoW. They have an image showing the fang of ir yut with an orange colored pattern. They also found an auto rifle with the same color and pattern in recently released images from Bungie.

 

[djskribbles]

You always felt a sense of accomplishment by reaching higher levels with special raid/iron banner gear in Destiny. All armor being able to hit the max level takes that away.

To be honest, I sort of feel the same way, but it doesn't bother me much. There's the Trials of Osiris gear (which I'll definitely be doing with my buddies), and there's still a chance that there will be unique PoE gear.

 

[Rangers]

You always felt a sense of accomplishment by reaching higher levels with special raid/iron banner gear in Destiny. All armor being able to hit the max level takes that away.

To be honest, I sort of feel the same way, but it doesn't bother me much. There's the Trials of Osiris gear (which I'll definitely be doing with my buddies), and there's still a chance that there will be unique PoE gear.

Yeah, but lets say it's still about the same difficulty to reach max level under the new system as before. You have easy to acquire vendor gear (or VoG gear or whatever), but it still may be fairly difficult to obtain Etheric light to upgrade it.

OTOH if Etheric light is easier to come by, then it's easier to hit 34. We will have to wait and see.

If you think about, the gear itself was not really the bottleneck in TDB anyway. It was more the ascendant shards to upgrade that gear.

My sense is they may be lessening the grind a bit, and I dont mind, depending on how it's implemented. I feel some parts of Destiny are too grindy, but OTOH I want a certain level of grind to be required.

A part that needs to be reduced is upgrading exotic weapons. Takes too long. Bring them in line with legendaries. And maybe reduce the amount of XP required to upgrade legendaries a bit as well.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Watched some of the reveal stream and boy those matches are really fun to watch ! I know I won't have a dedicated Crucible team but this is looking really good. Even a compilation of best matches this month will be super engaging. Proper use of supers and on the fly quick thinking seems to be very very vital to winning !

Very excited about the Prison of Elders reveal next week, as thats what I will be playing. The way Bungie is handling HOW seems really well done uptill now.

 

[Rangers]

I got this...more Destiny playing equipment

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...-Signature-Edition-Laptop/productID.311268400

It's an Asus eeebook, only $179, has Windows 8.1, most important for me, 10-12 hour battery life. 2GB RAM 30 GB solid state storage (which is 14.5 GB available out of the box)

Laptops like these are basically Microsoft's answer to Chromebooks. They give manufacturers Windows for free if the MSRP is under $249, to blunt the price advantage of Chromebooks. I thought about a chromebook, but with a similar price I'd still rather have full fledged Windows (even if you cannot do that much with 2GB/30GB).

Anyways so far I love it, it was exactly what I need. I had an few years old clunker Dell laptop before, big, heavy, 15.6", and around 2 hour battery life. Meaning I essentially had to keep it plugged in. Certainly the Dell would be better as a desktop replacement, but for what I need this Asus is much better. Small, light, lasts forever on battery. I just keep it on coffee table for easy access to Destiny LFG and Tower Ghost with a mouse (I despise trackpads and always have, find them unusable). I bought a tablet for the same reason, but it's not nearly as effective as typing on LFG is not as good.

I dont like charging cord clutter, so my plan is to run it on battery, and just charge/stow it in the other room when sleeping/not playing. That's why the extremely long battery life was key for me.

HP makes a similar more popular type thing called the HP Stream 11, I liked this better based on reviews, it has a better screen and longer battery life (10-12 hrs vs I think ~6 for the HP). The HP has the advantages a bit more chipset power (but not even that much) and USB 3.0 (The Asus only has USB 2.0). I definitely prefer this one. Besides the HP looks a bit like a cheap kids toy IMO.

Great coffee table Destiny playing aid!

 

[Rangers]

A bunch more hard VOG, AGAIN no Timepiece, Epilogue, or Fatebringer...even as several others scored Timepiece. SIGH. Getting ridiculous. I still have Oracles and Templar on one character left.

Almost time to start prepping for HoW. In fact I may already stop using ascendant energy. I have stacked up 82 right now. Also have about 8k in glimmer consumables stocked. Plan to max my regular glim at 25k shortly before, it's easy.

I was reading on reddit people saving PE rewards every day starting yesterday so they have 20 PE packages ready when HoW hits, for experience and marks. I dunno, seems kind of overkill to me, but I'll have to think about it more. I guess I will save cryptarch/vanguard packages though, since those sometimes contain weapons and you dont get them that much anyway.

 

[orangpelupa]

i hope Trials of Osiris can cast the end of these stuff from crucible/iron banner
- huge time investment for nothing (you need minimum rank 4 or 5 to get something from IB)
- huge fail on matchmaking (most of the time is matched with stronger enemy or utterly useless team mate)
- super long "evaluating guardians" loading <--- super annoying when they finally found like 11/12 and then suddenly its back to 0/12.

because in ToO all team member will be personally your own selection.

 

[rekator]

At Rank 3 in IB you have one weapon (actually sniper) and a armor piece (actually chest), and reach rank 3 is not to hard.
The only problem is quality of connections.

 

[Rangers]

I only wanted rank 5 (Timurs Lash with Field Scout). That's one of the highest DPS primaries in the game.

But as usual I'm screwed because I dont have much time to play either on Saturdays, Sundays, or Mondays!

I probably wouldn't have done it anyway, still chasing 3X Epilogue+Fatebringer first. If I had already got those, then I might have tried.

It's unbelievable how bad luck I've had getting those in VOG this time. Just getting absurd now.

BTW, I said all that stuff about VOG>Crota, but after going back to VoG I'm not so sure it's true. Some negatives on VoG, oppressive atmosphere and sound effect (if I hear that templar groan/roar one more time)...mainly it just takes too long, it's typically a 2 hour time investment. There's also too many areas where you just snipe and wait (templar/oracles) which is boring. Crota is a lot more fast paced, dynamic, action packed, and with cheeses is also run in a much more reasonable time, .5-1 hrs. I think Bungie should shoot for somewhat shorter raids than VoG in the future. Am I saying Crota raid is superior? Not yet, but I think both have strengths and weaknesses.

 

[orangpelupa]

i have spend around 6 hours and still stuck on rank 2. IB is hard.
doing PvE i will already get a bunch of legendaries and/or XP.

but i guess for those extremely unlucky with the PvE drops, IB is much better (you do the effort, you will rewarded. Not random).

 

[rekator]

Already got Timurs Lash, don't really use it, interested but not the most useful in PvE (Fatebringer rules!! Or Hawkmoon) and in PvP, preferred the MIDA. So reach rank 4 so can take the helmet, and stop. Time to up the Hunter in IB, Chest and Helmet target!!!

 

[orangpelupa]

@rekator what the benefit of IB helmet compared to other helmet?
EDIT:
oh it have random perks

 

[djskribbles]

Yeah rank 3 isn't too hard to get to. Took me 2-3 days of casually playing IB. Hit rank 5 yesterday. I played IB A LOT last time and got 2 of my characters to rank 4. Mind you, I'm almost always playing with my regular group and we win a lot of our matches.

Debating whether or not to buy Timur's lash (had it before but didn't keep it for some reason... probably ran out of vault space).
Bought 2 Efrideet's Spears (love this sniper, impact is as high as black hammer) and got 2 Jolder's Hammers as rewards (also love this MG). Re-rolled my snipers to get field-scout and rodeo (will be mainly using them in PVE). Re-rolled my Jolder's several times but got greedy, ran out of motes and got a crappy roll on my last attempt. Also got Similar's Wrath but dismantled it.

Today was pretty interesting as we were matched up with teftyteft from PlanetDestiny. He was with a group of 6 and I was with 2 others. We got smoked pretty bad, but my excuse was that I was REALLY tired (it was like 5AM).

I don't think the IB armor perks are random but I could be wrong. I think people just want them to hit 32 and/or they want to collect them because they like how they look. Other than that, there's nothing particularly special about them. You can reforge weapons though (which I've spent a lot of motes on doing so).

 

[orangpelupa]

tranner, where do you get the energy to do that omg

it seems you able to tap the power of Light directly off the traveler

 

[rekator]

Helmet got "super increased when kill darkness sbires", and also 'cause is cool to have!!

@djskribbles: 80 motes of light on the Timush lash… And don't use it… I'm missing out The Joldier, don't have time last IB, a really interested machine Gun it seem, dying a lot against it this morning!!!!

 

[orangpelupa]

ugh 700 points more for rank 3... omg i feel like gonna puke or something. so tired...

 

[djskribbles]

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[rekator]

Already got all the MGs in different variants, only Joldier's missed. But not important.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

I see no point in IB ranks either. Rank 4 or 5 required for anything worthwhile and ranks don't carry over....bleh !

But I really enjoy Iron Banner over regular Crucible for some reason. Love it, in fact. But no way I can go past Rank 1 in the given time. I have a life !