Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[Rangers]

Yeah it was my first nightfall etheric light in 6 tries since HoW. The frequency doesn't seem bad, across all those runs I believe I've seen 3X of my teammates get etheric light as well (but I cant say I've paid perfect attention). In one nightfall this week both the guys I was running with got etheric, I was the only one who didn't, I got Hard Light. So I guess the grand total counting me would be 4 etheric light across 18 man-nightfalls.

How many light do you get for ToO 9-0? It must be a bucketload I gather.

Hard Light seems absolutely awful. I'm sure it's supposed to be a high ROF auto rifle, but it still hits like 3X less damage than Wolfslayers Claw and doesn't seem to fire THAT much faster. I'll vault it cause it's an exotic and maybe AR's will get buffed again one day.

It's weird how my priorities have totally changed since HoW. Before HoW I was all about bounties, it occupied a ton of my time. Since HoW, I really dont care about bounties. It's much less compelling for one since it doesn't upgrade weapon damage, only the perks which while nice are much less compelling. Also the great weapon parts shortage of 2015 has caused me to put the kibosh on all non essential gun upgrades anyway while I try to build my weapon parts back up (over 100 now). Another oddball thing I've noticed is I've been swimming in glimmer since HoW, without using any consumables. I've already bumped the cap a few times. I've taken to buying green guns from the gunsmith for weapon parts en masse since I have too much glimmer lately.

I guess I need to level 3 the Queen but it's just shaders and emblems I guess? No big.

Also how do you get Lord Variks XP since he doesn't have bounties? I dont even know. I'm assuming it's just by doing PoE but I haven't noticed.

 

[djskribbles]

I got a total of 9 etheric light by going 9-0 in Trials of Osiris on all 3 characters (3 per character), but even if you get 8 wins on a card (regardless of how many losses you have) you can get at least 2 etheric light. Then I got 8 from PoE so far (35x3, 34x5). I've upgraded 7 armor pieces (didn't like some of variks' gauntlets from week 1) and 8 weapons so far and I have 2 left.

You get XP with Variks by doing PoE. And the nightfall buff counts towards Variks, so I recommend doing nightfall before you do anything else.

 

[Rangers]

Yeah I kind of found that out...

I think I'm just going for Queens Rank 3 with one character...there's no benefit to doing it with all 3 chars? Anything I want I'll just buy with the rank 3 char and trade it to any other char?

All nightfall's, weeklies, and POE 32 and 34 done on all chars. So the next two days can just be trying 35 and bounties.

A lot of the HoW weapons really suck. I try to get three of each element at least primary/sniper/MG...the new snipers are almost all low impact, I found a decent impact one and replaced my nice void LDR with it, stupidly, it's freakin 3/12 on Ammo. Just awful. I could reroll it but then it probably will be hard to get void as well as field scout (or whatever it's called per weapon now).

Also I rerolled a Wolves Bane trying to get "casket mag" about 20 times. Knowing I've spent all this time saving weapon parts I blew about 60 of them. Never once did I get "Casket mag". I believe it's impossible even though Destiny DB shows it as an option. I also saw in some video Field Scout (under new names) seems impossible to roll? This goes with my wolves bane experience anyway. Not only that but now bungie seems to have attached field scout to some major drawback, IE, much less stability. So it's never just a positive thing anymore like it was in TDB.

Honestly just wish I'd have kept all my TDB guns. HoW guns suck.

The HoW guns (non exotics or POE) basically seem pretty nerfed. They seem to have similar stats to TDB guns but with a significant ammo decrease in every case. And the new perks are very confusing and difficult to know how good they are. Reforging is annoying because it changes the element too, which for me kind of defeats the purpose since I am always searching for a top 3 of any element, and it eats precious weapon parts. Honestly I'd rather just take any gun how it drops, I cannot afford any weapon parts period, so the last thing I need is a new thing to suck them.

Bungie has made everything in the game pretty easy to get and trade for EXCEPT weapon parts. There is NO easy way to get those. It's bizzare and maddening. Why did they make so many guns if they are going to have a built in hard bottleneck to upgrading very many of them?

Perhaps it's just time to just start carrying around one arsenal and switching it to each character instead of trying to build 3. The weapon parts just aren't plentiful enough to do the latter. That's really pathetic.

 

[djskribbles]

Why'd you dismantle your old weapons? Did you do it before we found out about being able to ascend old stuff? A lot of the weapons I use are old weapons ascended. There are some good weapons in HoW IMO.

Spent almost 3 hours beating Skolas... was much harder than last week without solar burn. Majority of the time was taken at Skolas.
Two of us used maxed Patience & Times but our third guy didn't have his leveled up yet. If it was, it probably would have made things a bit easier.
Basically same strategy: run to the left, kill the servitor, pop weapons of light and fire at skolas, but with arc snipers instead of rockets. Once the mines spawned, we got him pretty low and this is the point where we'd have our hunter go and disable mines while me and the other guy tried to finish him off. The other guy died and I (thankfully) got infected; being a Warlock I just let the poison kill me and self-res'd. Our hunter got the one mine but died so I was last one left standing. After self-reviving myself, I disabled the second mine while finishing skolas off. Then I JUST barely disabled the third mine and went for revives. Intense moments right there, but it was a hella fun and satisfying to finally beat it.

edit: managed to capture the latter part of the above.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Why'd you dismantle your old weapons? Did you do it before we found out about being able to ascend old stuff? A lot of the weapons I use are old weapons ascended. There are some good weapons in HoW IMO.

Spent almost 3 hours beating Skolas... was much harder than last week without solar burn. Majority of the time was taken at Skolas.
Two of us used maxed Patience & Times but our third guy didn't have his leveled up yet. If it was, it probably would have made things a bit easier.
Basically same strategy: run to the left, kill the servitor, pop weapons of light and fire at skolas, but with arc snipers instead of rockets. Once the mines spawned, we got him pretty low and this is the point where we'd have our hunter go and disable mines while me and the other guy tried to finish him off. The other guy died and I (thankfully) got infected; being a Warlock I just let the poison kill me and self-res'd. Our hunter got the one mine but died so I was last one left standing. After self-reviving myself, I disabled the second mine while finishing skolas off. Then I JUST barely disabled the third mine and went for revives. Intense moments right there, but it was a hella fun and satisfying to finally beat it.

edit: managed to capture the latter part of the above.

What exotic armour do you use for your Sunsinger?

 

[djskribbles]

Heart of the praxic fire, partly because the stats work well with my armor. Light beyond nemesis is probably more useful in PoE and ToO because of the faster revive, but my LBN has terrible stats. Apotheosis Veil and the new exotic chest armor are also good ones for sunsinger IMO.

 

[Rangers]

Why'd you dismantle your old weapons?

Not all of them, just a couple sniper rifles...I still feel a little burned though.

Can you get exotic armor from chests like POE chests? I cant even remember in all the time I've played this game...

I need Celestial Nighthawk and Crest of Lupi. One thing about this game is the bigger the exotics table becomes the harder it is to get the particular one you want through an RNG drop.

The Variks gear being strength really sucks, hate that. I still think I'm going to dutifully buy all three every week. With an exotic helm and the two easy to acquire pieces of variks armor already, all three character are nearly 34 without burning a lot of etheric, which is always more fun to spend on weapons. Once they're 34 I''ll slowly start worrying about getting them intellect pieces upgraded. Plus the Variks chest piece looks like it could have some quite valuable POE properties against hive.

 

[Nisaaru]

No Etheric Light yet but I have 5 HoW Exotic armors by now...

The Ram, Eternal Warrior, Celestial Nighthawk, Nothing Manacles and ACD/0 Feedback Fence.

This Nightfall solo with a 331 LDR/Spear was extremely painful. It took 3 shots to bring down a normal red shielded knight at the beginning instead of 1. Took me more than 90 mins and half of it was the last stage waiting the grenade spamming dregs to give me space for another shot/grenade at them. I've seen 4 grenades in a second falling for more than a minute, then you have breathing space for a grenade and maybe a shot and the cycles continues...

What a grind...

 

[Rangers]

I dont have any HOW exotic armor yet. Where are you getting them? Part of it may be that I dont bother farming keys.

I just watched Gothalion use up like all his shards for motes for xur engrams going for the hunter gloves. I dunno, I feel too stingy for that, and who knows I might get them in a nightfall or xur might sell them next week. Maybe I will try one engram....I tried several helmet engrams last week trying to get nighthawk to no avail. At least I think there are fewer guantlets so it's a better chance?

Man the new hunter exotic stuff is really great, Bungie showed love to the hunter. I didn't even realize it but the new gloves give the gunslinger crouch invisibility. The new boots give gunslinger four jumps (or bladedancer 3) and he can jump as high as a Titan. And of course Nighthawk.

Man Skolas is insane hard, I kind of dont even want to try this week. I dont feel very confident of success. But there's not a lot else to do.

It's nice you can get etheric light in more than one endgame activity, but still I finish nightfalls first thing so it hardly mitigates the problem of having not much to do to pursue endgame rewards after finishing POE. So it's a little better than the situation in TDB but not a panacea.

Iron Banner will probably let you buy an Etheric light at level 3 next week. Thought about it but apparently it's still like a 12 hour grind to hit level 3. Not worth it for a single etheric light.

Edit: Weee, got Khopri's Sting from an xur engram! Nice.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Just bought the Nothing Manacles from Xur to see if I can buy HOW exotics without buying HOW and turns out we can ! Played some crucible, the new maps feel great ! Funny, new gear, weapons, maps all seem to be free, do I really need to buy HOW?

I did have a lot of fun in crucible today, played after a loooong time as I usually only played PVP.

 

[orangpelupa]

No need to buy how. Even the prowling event is free for everyone.

How only gives you a wee bit of side Story, missions on OLD MAPS (the terminus is the only new map, king's watch has been there since beta complete with enemies), and repetitive Prison.

It's the quickest 20 dollar burn I ever had.

I think all reviews of house of wolves completely forgot to mention that many of the content they reviewed are not for house of wolves dlc. It's for free 1.2 update.

 

[Nisaaru]

I dont have any HOW exotic armor yet. Where are you getting them? Part of it may be that I dont bother farming keys.

PoE/28, Xur engrams last week and got another from my 2nd Nightfall this week.

 

[NRP]

Question: When on patrol and you see the "A pack of wolves is roaming" message and you kill that pack, a little timer pops up and says something about a key. What exactly am I supposed to do then?

Also, it's cool how you can upgrade exotic weapons and armor with just a shard without having to re-level the whole goddamn thing. Is it possible to get Etheric Light without buying HoW?

 

[orangpelupa]

@NRP you are supposed to look for glowing fallen chest that looks exactly the same as normal green chest but its glowing.

 

[Rangers]

Yeah, follow/watch other people, they're probably farming the chest and they'll know it's locations. It can spawn in only one of the same 3-4 locations for each event just a matter of learning them and finding which. Also there's online guides for where they spawn. It's kind of confusing I just stick to skywatch if farming (which I haven't really done yet).

It only takes 15 weapon parts to level out a legendary weapon now (I thought it was 25). That strikes me as very sustainable and less than half the former 32. I just got behind the 8 ball and then exotics requiring 25 parts a pop to ascend, and that Wolves Bane reforge experiment gone wrong, sapped my already few reserves. Eventually I should catch up though, although I'll probably have to effectively forget reforging for a while..

And I still say Wolfslayers Claw is pretty decent. The only tenable Auto Rifle I really know of right now. Most autos like Hard Light I feel like I'm using a pea shooter. Wolfslayers may not be as good as some other classes of guns but it feels perfectly fine for any daily 32 missions, patrol etc, which you cant say for most AR's. It feels good to go back to my first love the auto rifle again.

Liking those Khopri's stings too, although I'm just a little short of unlocking the invis. Primary weapon loader seems pretty darn decent. Combine it with chain of woe on the hunter and reloading primary is nothing to fear at all, really quick, which helps with guns like Wolfslayers Claw which only had 22 rounds before I just unlocked field scout. It's a shame they're strength but not a huge deal.

 

[Nisaaru]

Anchor of Light has 5 chest positions though.

 

[Scott_Arm]

Does House of Wolves actually have anything new in it? I've done a couple missions and it's basically retreading Venus and Earth fighting fallen again. I have to say, I'm incredibly unimpressed with the DLC. It's been a huge letdown. Despite the dumbs story, I was ok with the content in the original game. The DLC has been a huge ripoff.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

Does House of Wolves actually have anything new in it? I've done a couple missions and it's basically retreading Venus and Earth fighting fallen again. I have to say, I'm incredibly unimpressed with the DLC. It's been a huge letdown. Despite the dumbs story, I was ok with the content in the original game. The DLC has been a huge ripoff.

Yup, no new planets at all , even after two dlc packs. No new subclasses or new class either.
They are going stingier than any other game out there. A new subclass or a new class is very expected , at least new planets are ! I wonder what stingy content is planned for the Comet ? Love the game, butt he dlc plan is a rip-off , no doubt.

Also, the new Ram and Egyptian helms look atrocious in the game,IMO. They are just not the part of the Destiny's look n feel and feel like a clown costume party in a serious setting. I mean, it isn't a helmet with a theme of a Ram or Egypt but aGoat's head itself ! and same for Egyptian helm ! It looks stupid, at least it should be a helm a space warrior wears to battle. Look at those horns, there has to be a bit of constraint or practicality to the design ! It really sticks out as immersion breaking to me, honestly ! Destiny has this very unique look of a marriage between sci-fi and fantasy and this just doesn't fit in there ! Its as if they have already run out of ideas for their universe which is supposedly just beginning !

 

[djskribbles]

If you guys didn't like Destiny before or you were getting bored of it, then I'd just wait until the next DLC (which is supposed to be big). They basically just keep giving us more of the same, which is fine for us who enjoy Destiny.

Also, if you don't know many people that play Destiny, then it's not very fun to play by yourself. Destiny is all about playing with friends, whether it's PVP or PVE.

 

[orangpelupa]

and most of the content are free. no need to buy the DLC.

keep farming the treasure keys casually. Then when comet come as Destiny 1 complete GOTY edition + Comet DLC, you can enjoy HoW with lots of treasure keys.