Destiny [PS3,X360,PS4,XO]

[djskribbles]

Beat the hard raid with my level 29 warlock from start to finish with 4 30s and 2 29s and we beat it in like 80-90min. Wasn't too bad with 4 30s. What a difference a team can make. It took us like 3 hours just to beat hard raid starting at the gatekeeper when I was with a different group.

And I FINALLY got a piece of raid gear... some boots, AFTER I grinded hard for the IB boots. I swear RNG is mocking me.
Oh well, the raid boots have a better perk (carry more heavy weapon ammo). But damn, I wish I would have got a chest piece or helmet so that I can finally hit level 30.

 

[Rangers]

Good to see you got raid gear...but i know the feeling. Lately my raid pieces have been all strength which makes getting them pretty bittersweet. Hate strength and it's constantly way overweighted on my hunters since both hunter gunslinger exotic helms are all strength to start with.

 

[RenegadeRocks]

I disagree, it does feel pretty damn awesome, at least in some parts, the first time through.

It may feel a little contrived in that they obviously wanted to force teamwork and communication, through gameplay mechanics. I dont even know if that's a bad thing though.

It definitely feels like a separate game experience to itself, different from the rest of the game, and that's a big success imo. Heck that's why just the Dark Below raid itself will be in essence tons of new content. It's almost like "raid" is a different third of the game, or something, with standard PVE, and PVP being the other thirds.




Not calling you guys liars but, when the raid first came out there were all these top clans and stuff racing to complete it on twitch and stuff, and the world first raid clear took over 16 hours past it's release I think (which is always funny now that people know what to do how fast average Joe's beat it). So, I have a hard time believing people could go in truly cold and beat it in 4-5 hours. If so you could have easily cleared it first in the world by 3X faster than the actual record. Or for that matter you should go do the first clear on Dark Below when it comes out (although I'm wondering if DB will take as long for first clear now that people are familiar with Bungie's raid tactics) I'm guessing surely many of your team members actually knew about some of the raid by osmosis.

Your description of the Raid is exactly how i feel about it. It felt completely new, a separate amazing adventure on its own ! Can't wait for the new Raid now.

As for 4-5 hours,I am not boasting or anything at all. Like i said before, we had two guys who knew about it all. Its just that we asked them to not spoil anything for us. They did guide us through the Oracle stuff, we followed them through the stealth sections too, the raid would have been impossible without them. Especially, the Oracles part. Also, we were all real life friends, so that helped a LOT as communication was automatic and immediate. For example, when Atheon was teleporting randoms into Mars or Venus, we had no trouble instantly reforming teams and co -ordinating amongst ourselves. It was all natural.

Fantastic unforgettable LOTR+Interstellar adventure ! Thats what it felt like to me. Not knowing anyhting was the best part about it. It actually was a journey into the unknown and the level design helped a massive lot.

 

[NRP]

Like djskribbles said, the right teammates make all the difference in the world.

 

[orangpelupa]

right teammate and luck.

btw Atheon now did not give 0 seconds countdown after dead. Bungie really wants us to explore VoG post-atheon?

 

[Rangers]

right teammate and luck.

btw Atheon now did not give 0 seconds countdown after dead. Bungie really wants us to explore VoG post-atheon?

Edit: oh now I know what you are talking about. Yeah it did that for me last raid too. Does it always do that now??? Bug maybe???

Anyways I guess VOG will stay for sure as a progression point. Newcomers will still have to use it to get to 30.

And heck I'm sure I may grind it more. I really want Fatebringer for one.

As of now there's two guns I really want, Fatebringer (for arc) and Corrective Measure. My Void Zombie Apocalypse only has a 43 mag, and that really limits me. CM has 100, ginormous difference even if CM probably hits lighter. I also want Thunderlord, but maybe less than the others.

 

[djskribbles]

I was more of a rocket launcher guy, but I find myself using Corrective Measure the most since I've maxed it out. 100 bullet mag, 300 total bullets, great stability and fire-rate, and it has a perk that gives you more of a chance to find ammo drops, which saves you from using synthesis a lot. Each ammo pack gives you a bunch of ammo too... I think you only need two to refill your ammo to max.
It shreds through praetorians in the normal VoG, and it's an absolute beast in PVP. If the game ever glitches during teleports and only two people get teleported, I can take out oracles myself with ease. Even on Hard it's pretty easy.

edit: Just noticed that bungie tracks how many times you've cleared the raid. According to their site, I've cleared it 15 times between my 3 characters. 15 completions (and a bunch of partial completions)... 1 piece of raid gear.

 

[orangpelupa]

lol my raid keep giving Preatorian Revenge sniper again again and again. heck, tomorrow i got it 2 times in a row haha. weird

 

[iroboto]

Anyways I guess VOG will stay for sure as a progression point. Newcomers will still have to use it to get to 30.

Really?
Seems awfully terrible, if your gear doesn't drop you just never ever get to 30. I don't know any way around that. What is the minimal level requirement to do Dark below raid? And also are you sure the strike missions in DLC do not give you enough light to get you to 30 without raiding antheon?

 

[Rangers]

Really?
Seems awfully terrible, if your gear doesn't drop you just never ever get to 30. I don't know any way around that. What is the minimal level requirement to do Dark below raid? And also are you sure the strike missions in DLC do not give you enough light to get you to 30 without raiding antheon?

No not sure at all. Just a guess on my part.

Maybe they can do more Iron Banner type events to help people get 30.

Dont see how strikes will do it...

I'm assuming minimum level for DB raid will be maybe 28, with 30 being where you're not at a disadvantage.

Doing some HM raiding tonight since I'm all through with normal, so far have got Praetorian Foil, which seems pretty rare, and a raid helm, which is....a strength only roll, LOL. Oh well at this point I barely care what the stat roll is, just gunning for 30 on all chars...oh and got the raid sparrow that's kind of superfluous but eh.

I guess I should preorder the DLC for that trick sparrow...except I dont really give a shit, I'm not 18 anymore, and thus doing "sweet" barrel rolls in a video game isn't a source of great amusement to me, LOL.

I dont see how PF should be that much better than my Light Beware, by the stats it has slightly more impact but also a slightly slower charge time so it seems about even (but I'm not sure if you can compare stats across weapons??). it's also solar rather than a preferable void (my LB is arc though, so no victor there)...anyways we'll see. And joy, yet another gun to priority level up...I haven't even got my Gallahorn close to 300 yet! I'll probably rather level my PF than finishing my LB to 300.

And yeah skribbles, CM sunds awesome I want it bad. 43 mag on my Zombie Apocalypse! I only use it cus it's 300 and my only void MG

Did have a funny raid anecdote though, I was with a group and we got a bit bogged down, somebody left because it was late. So after a solid 15-20 minutes delay, we got another guy off DestinyLFG. This guy though, was extremely drunk. It was pretty hilarious things devolved pretty fast, and he kept going on about some "hobgoblin in the back" that was apparently supposedly spawning behind him and causing his routine deaths. And yeah, as things devolved the other guys just ran with it and it became a joke catchphrase "hey guys, I'm just gonna warn you now before we start, there's a hobgoblin in the back" and "Damnit, we could have got it that time except for the damn hobgoblin in the back!" "getting the hobgoblin in the back is key!" And so forth and so on. Things really went to shit and the guy ended up cussing us out (I think it was mostly in good fun) and everybody left but it was pretty funny.

Man I really lack boots. I have this theoretical lineup right this second:

Char 1 Exotic helm, raid boots, raid gloves, raid chest
Char 2 raid helm. exotic gloves, raid chest
char 3 exotic helm, raid chest, raid gloves

Just need two sets of boots for all 30. Damnit Iron Banner...now I have to play RNG roulette for them...

Edit: Just got another helm, this one is Intellect/disc so I'll level it...

Hard raid doesn't seem too bad anymore. In fact, we 5-manned Gatekeepers and Atheon in my 2nd run of the night because somebody had to go. Definitely think I will be running hard raid only going forward to consolidate and save time.

 

[Rangers]

Did you guys see this ? Game Informer Dark Below vid and it has gameplay of the raid...

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Vid doesn't appear to be on youtube.

 

[orangpelupa]

they cal that expansion pack? it reuse lots the same area and enemues....

 

[Rangers]

Looks like the exotic new weapons and armor will have higher start values

Planet Destiny has tons of info here http://planetdestiny.com/eris-morn-exotics/

Seems new legendary/exotics will max at 331 attack.

 

[orangpelupa]

the item description getting less and less descriptive...

 

[iroboto]

At this point in time you either love destiny or have left it. I like the game but I won't go back until the loot system and rewards system is changed. I left D3 and came back when ROS was released, it was so much better. I can wait for destiny to change too.

 

[NRP]

Yeah, I've played Destiny a ton but I'm not sure if I'll get the DLC.

 

[Strange]

There's reason to believe that you can "upgrade" your old exotic and legendary up to the new 331 attack rating and light.

First there's these four new mats that's all sold from the new NPC

Embalming Orb
Stolen from a Hive chamber, what this tiny orb represents is unknowable and terrifying. Used to upgrade weapons of Hive origin.
Runed Core
A weapon core inscribed with unsettling Hive sigils. Used to upgrade weapons gifted from Eris.
Radiant Energy
The light of particle-antiparticle annihilation, trapped in a stasis capsule.
Radiant Shard
A primordial singularity frozen on the edge of evanescence.

And also the two exotic ones that's not sold.
Exotic Armor Shard
For making ultimate improvements to high-quality armor.
Exotic Weapon Core
For making ultimate improvements to high-quality weapons.


It's pretty clear from these mats that at the very least we get to "improve" our current weapons and armor up to the new levels. Our exotics won't become useless.


Next is something that I've noticed while swimming in destinydb, and it's the layout of the database.

Anyone that has been taking note should have noticed that there are many multiple entries to weapons and armor. What's interesting is that some of the entries now look like this:

and this

the <I> sign obviously denotes DLC 1 items,. so this is a good indication that "upgrading" old armor/weapons is a go.

 

[Graham]

I dunno.
I still play this a bit. It's a shame the game doesn't encourage occasional play, things like the iron banner are so clearly setup for heavy grind. I've played a few matches (maybe 8?) and I've earned 80 points. Level 1 rank requires 100 pts, but I'd put money on level 2 needing something like 500. And you can't buy stuff until level 3 - and it's time limited. It feels needless, the items already cost ~ 10k credits, why can't that be enough grind?

I want to enjoy what the game has to offer, but I don't want to spend 50 hours doing the same things over and over in order to have a random chance to get mildly closer to unlocking that experience.

Sigh..

More positive note,
I did figure out that the Titan class has a perk that produces an orb of light for melee kills when the melee ability is active. You can abuse this quite a bit when a swarm of low level enemies spawn - I tried this playing the Earth strike, one of the other players picked up 31 orbs during the game.

 

[orangpelupa]

Yo,
Anybody have any idea who should I ask for DLC region lock in destiny?

I asked Activision support, they say I need to ask on bungie help Forum.

I asked bungie help Forum and Twitter but they ignored me.


I'm stumped.

Game disc Asia
PSN US.

 

[Strange]

Buy your DLC in the region you have your main disk. So if you're US PSN, buy the Asian DLC with an Asian PSN account and play on your US PSN. This also works with PS+.