Official CAG Destiny Thread - Rise of Iron

[paintballers]

It is guaranteed once per gamertag.

Damn that sucks

 

[ajh2298]

If I did "hard mode" Crota first can i still go back and play "normal mode" and get the chests and drops?

 

[paintballers]

If I did "hard mode" Crota first can i still go back and play "normal mode" and get the chests and drops?

No when you do hard mode you get the double drops already. You need to do normal first if you want double chances of exotics at death singer and crota

 

[chubbyninja1319]

I ended up ascending a pair of legendary gloves on my hunter to get to 34. I was hesitant since they had a garbage roll, but it got me to 34. 15 mins later I got a legendary helmet out of a blue engram that would have been a better spread. Figures. But it's still cool to have my newest and favorite character to 34 and it's not as strength slanted since I ascended the gloves vs all Variks gear.

 

[simosaurus]

[grumble grumble]

I was all set to run the other 34 PoE I've been wanting to do all week when my internet went out last night.    I was so angry.  But, at least it got me thinking that I'm not missing much.  I mean, I have 3 toons to 34 and months to go before The Taken King.  I guess there's no rush to do anything.

That being said:  If anyone is up for a mid-afternoon PoE or something post Game of Thrones tonight, send me a message.  

 

[ajh2298]

[grumble grumble]

I was all set to run the other 34 PoE I've been wanting to do all week when my internet went out last night. I was so angry. But, at least it got me thinking that I'm not missing much. I mean, I have 3 toons to 34 and months to go before The Taken King. I guess there's no rush to do anything.

That being said: If anyone is up for a mid-afternoon PoE or something post Game of Thrones tonight, send me a message.

I might be up for a quick run on level 34 PoE I already did it this week but I got another key last night. I should be on little bit this afternoon around 3:30-4:00ish EST.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

Yay! Lighthouse finally! Steamrolled kids. My buddies and I didn't lose a round until our 4th game. Heck we didn't even lose a single match.

Got Jewel of Osiris! With Arc though. Not gonna complain though.

 

[io]

Yay! Lighthouse finally! Steamrolled kids. My buddies and I didn't lose a round until our 4th game. Heck we didn't even lose a single match.

Got Jewel of Osiris! With Arc though. Not gonna complain though.

You bastard - I saw the emblem!

I got CLOSE to flawless myself tonight. Friday and earlier today I tried 4 times just to get the stupid helm and couldn't get past 3 wins. One time we were 3-0 and I bought the 2-for-1 boon twice and we lost and then we won when I didn't buy it but then we lost on 4 wins. So frustrating... I went through like 30 coins.

Later I was commiserating with a friend in chat and he said he had someone that could help. This guy was working on Flawless and had a few wins already so that made me pretty nervous. But they communicated well and I didn't do too bad and we got to 5-0 without a loss. Then we got the forgiven loss and pushed to 7-0. That guy got his Mercury visit (I was so glad I didn't screw it up for him) and then came back to help us and then we lost one more before getting to 8 wins (we then played one more since the 3rd guy was still at 7 and we lost 5-4). So at least I got all the packages and now I have the complete Osiris armor set for my warlock. I'm hoping he's up for doing it again tomorrow night so I can get some Titan gear.

I went from one extreme to the other. I was really frustrated and down on the game all weekend - such that I considered taking a couple of weeks off of it. But now I'm excited to try again tomorrow night but I'm not sure if the guy will be available. It would be so sweet to get that Titan helm and now I know I have at least some small chance to visit the Lighthouse.

What kind of sucked about the run was that I didn't get a single drop even in the later matches. I was hoping for an emblem or the Warlock class item. I didn't even get any of the Watcher armor (which is like the consolation stuff for lower ranks). I still have one more loss to go on my card - I wouldn't mind playing one round on my 8-2 card win or lose just to see if I can get a drop (since the better stuff drops once you pass 5-6 wins). Vendetta - if you are up for that tomorrow let me know - just one quick round.

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

How did I know I would come in here on Monday and see that io was back working on ToO? 

I am interested to see what they announce at E3 because I think we can all agree that while we had some fun times with TDB and HoW, neither have really lived up to our high hopes as game "expansions", 

TDB offered a raid and not much else, but at least the new loot drops were pretty nice. In HoW, one of the major draws is a competitive multiplayer mode that isn't accessible to a large portion of the player base and is unfortunately the only way to get any of the top new weapons.  Prison of Elders had some fun moments but we are just a few weeks in and we have seen all the variations already.  The arenas and waves are pretty repetitive and unfortunately outside of the exotic bounties there isn't much of a chance at getting any type of good loot.

Once I finish these 2 active exotic bounties to get the other new weapons I can see myself just doing the NF and 34 or 35 PoE weekly, maybe not even that much.

 

[twztid13]

So at like 3am the one guy who was playing ESO said he wanted to do Trials so we gave it a shot. Couldn't get past 2 wins in 2 attempts, though we were close on a lot of our losses. But playing that late is never good. I actually didn't do too badly myself and even turned a couple of +1 K/D matches. We are going to try one more time on Sunday. If we can't get to 5 wins then I will probably be done with Trials for the foreseeable future.

Also, everyone plays with Thorn + shotgun. I see a Thorn nerf coming sooner or later.

Played ToO with friends on 360 that invited me, but we did horrible (but got 3 wins). They kept rushing (as does every bad team I play with, cuz they want that k/d up, but usually end up dead out of revive range), even though I told them that's what the losing teams did everytime. They didn't know what map it was this week yet, so I just figured they were that good (one of them is, but I had to tell him to stop inviting me when he was playing with his other 2 friends that I had to mute. They were "squeakers". I don't mind playing with kids as long as they're good, & don't start drama). I thought since they had perfect emblems from week one, it would make people quit out like I had heard happens so often (since people can avoid getting a loss by dashboarding, amd the team they were scared to play gets a win). Didn't happen, and they kept rushing (my team). Quit when I would revive, and they were texting on phones & didn't notice.

Fast forward to last night. Played with 2 randoms from LFG. Played few games with my worst character, Titan, but he had the best helm with best stats (health/orb, discipline, looked coolest). We went 8 and 2. I actually got kicked twice, once when we were up 4-1, and team came back to win since it was 3 vs 2 the rest of the time. Such BS!!

Got 2 more etheric light, a non burn pulse rifle (messenger...of course I get a stinkin' pulse rifle. SLOW fire rate, and not reforgable, but would be very decent legendary if I used pulse rifles in PvP) and the heavy machine gun. Finally found guys that stayed back, assessed the enemy strat, found what worked for us, and kept doing it. I like sniping on that map, even when others had shottys. None of us outshined each other. We always had our fair share of kills, but ignored k/d in favor of winning. Every other team was 3 lone wolves, basically. I hate that. I would hang back, snipe, revive. So excited. Love the helm. I wish I could play Sunsinger, as I know that would be easier to do. I hate the hunter helmet, as it's strength, but that's my best character. I may try again tonight with my warlock, as there's nothing else to do

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

Game supposedly going down soon to implement the Skolas Changes:

1.2.0.3 - The one about Skolas

 
Perks

• 'Ashes to Assets’ and ‘Quintessence Transfer’ can now no longer be stacked (they now have cool-downs that can only be used every 10 seconds)

 
Prison of Elders

• Fixed a bug where players cannot pick up a quest from Variks to continue the Elder Cipher chain
• Adjusted difficulty of Level 35 Skolas Challenge Mode
  Burn Skulls are now replaced by non-elemental skulls
• Skolas' health reduced (from 27000 to 15000) to compensate for lack of burn skulls
• Reinforcement spawns are now based on Skolas’ health instead of a timer

 

[io]

How did I know I would come in here on Monday and see that io was back working on ToO?

I am interested to see what they announce at E3 because I think we can all agree that while we had some fun times with TDB and HoW, neither have really lived up to our high hopes as game "expansions",

TDB offered a raid and not much else, but at least the new loot drops were pretty nice. In HoW, one of the major draws is a competitive multiplayer mode that isn't accessible to a large portion of the player base and is unfortunately the only way to get any of the top new weapons. Prison of Elders had some fun moments but we are just a few weeks in and we have seen all the variations already. The arenas and waves are pretty repetitive and unfortunately outside of the exotic bounties there isn't much of a chance at getting any type of good loot.

Once I finish these 2 active exotic bounties to get the other new weapons I can see myself just doing the NF and 34 or 35 PoE weekly, maybe not even that much.

That was pretty much my last-ditch attempt at Trials and I'm glad it worked out. Otherwise I would have put the game aside for a few weeks and then just done NF/some amount of PoE from then on. As it is, I'm done running Trials with my Warlock (except maybe for a Flawless run another week if I can get the same two guys on my team). Now I need to try my Titan today if possible.

I thought since they had perfect emblems from week one, it would make people quit out like I had heard happens so often (since people can avoid getting a loss by dashboarding, amd the team they were scared to play gets a win). Didn't happen, and they kept rushing (my team). Quit when I would revive, and they were texting on phones & didn't notice.

Two observations: 1) a lot of people who got the emblem week 1 are not very good. It was much easier then to get then. 2) Bungie had started banning the people who dropped out a week or two ago so there is much less (if any) of that happening any more.

All the teams I were on rushed - at least to the middle room. If you can get there first it works, but if you are constantly running into the other team and losing it doesn't. I think the latter happened on one of our losses last night but otherwise we were for the most part able to get in there and hold it. Then if we'd get a kill outside one of the doors we might rush to guard that orb and take out his teammates. But we were semi-coordinated about it. On the team I couldn't get to 5 wins with earlier one guy was really quiet and did his own thing and would often be dead way out on the perimeter and we'd be 2-on-3.

• Fixed a bug where players cannot pick up a quest from Variks to continue the Elder Cipher chain
• Adjusted difficulty of Level 35 Skolas Challenge ModeBurn Skulls are now replaced by non-elemental skulls
• Skolas' health reduced (from 27000 to 15000) to compensate for lack of burn skulls
• Reinforcement spawns are now based on Skolas’ health instead of a timer

Two of my characters have that Variks bug so I'll see if I can finally get the 3rd exotic bounty done (I already have 2 of the weapons).

With Skolas having half the health I can still see Gjallarhorning him to death. But also these changes will make it much easier to do it in stages as it is intended. We'll see what the other modifiers end up being though.

 

[LinkinPrime]

I'm excited to take another crack at him.   Having no Gjallahorn has made me a useless player when it came down it.  Everything is so dependent on that weapon, or the easy way of it that it just pisses me off. 

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

Two of my characters have that Variks bug so I'll see if I can finally get the 3rd exotic bounty done (I already have 2 of the weapons).

With Skolas having half the health I can still see Gjallarhorning him to death. But also these changes will make it much easier to do it in stages as it is intended. We'll see what the other modifiers end up being though.

I'm excited to take another crack at him. Having no Gjallahorn has made me a useless player when it came down it. Everything is so dependent on that weapon, or the easy way of it that it just pisses me off.

Actually don't these changes make the GH strategy even more prevalent? GH strategy only worked for Solar burn in week 1 because very few people were at light 34 and exotics were all pretty much at 365 since you didn't need Etheric Light to ascend them. This week I think most people were using a mix of GH & 365 Black Hammer. On the Arc and Void weeks people were using high impact arc/void snipers to stun lock him and take advantage of the burn damage. Either way it was always about taking him down in a minute or two. The reason it took forever was that if you didn't get him immediately you would have to wipe and wait for 1 or 2 synths of rockets to try again and for the titan to get his bubble back.

They want to to run it legit and whittle down his health while doing the mines and dealing with adds, but I can still see groups just trying to burn him with GH right off the bat instead of running in circles around the arena.

 

[io]

They want to to run it legit and whittle down his health while doing the mines and dealing with adds, but I can still see groups just trying to burn him with GH right off the bat instead of running in circles around the arena.

I was looking at a post on the Bungie forums and they said the burn gives you 3x damage. His health is not quite half now. So if that is true, you won't be able to Ghorn him right off the bat like last week.

Though I'd point out that I was able to get one kill last week with 2 Ghorns and one guy using Icebreaker and Truth (!). So depending on how it goes it might still be possible.

But it should also be a lot easier to do legit now since the adds will only come at certain health percentages instead of continuously (on a timer). So you can move as a group (swapping the poison), do the mines/take out adds, then work on him again when he is around half dead. So maybe you can do it now with two rounds of Ghorns (or other rockets). But either way it should cut down on waiting for synths.

I still wish they would eliminate synth cooldowns at the start of each round (in all of PoE). What is the point in making people wait for that crap?

Also, I'm guessing we'll have Uxxor again as the 34. I'll still knock out the 32/34's and maybe a 35 or two this week. I'll be doing the 32's for sure since Cult of the Worm should be cake at 32 and I still have 5+ weapon cores so getting those armor cores will give me 3 Judgment's Chances (since I'm assuming Variks will just be back to strength gauntlets like the first week - we'll see, though - if he offers Int/Disc ones I'll just replace my old ones).

As for my overall game time, I have a group trying to pull me into ESO. I'm really tempted to pick it up. If I do that, I'll have to cut back somewhere and that somewhere will be in Destiny . I guess Bungie's conference is tomorrow - so hopefully we'll know a lot more about the future of Destiny by then unless they are just too vague about it all and leave us guessing yet again.

 

[LinkinPrime]

I'm guessing more PS first/exclusive stuff.   SMH

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

You bastard - I saw the emblem!

Yeah me and illzor and Epic were doing some work last night. We basically held the middle room and bullied every single team we played. All three of us were destroying people with the Last Word. We seriously didn't lose a single round till like the 4th round of our 4th game. I still have the forgive your first loss boon active on my hunter :lol: We actually had one game where none of the three of us died in the 5 games we won.

I still have a few things to get in before reset.... 2 weeklies (shouldn't take too long), 32,34,35 on my Warlock and then hopefully get one more Trials run in with those two since we were a destructive force last night

 

[io]

^ If you don't mind running one quick match with me (win or lose - just want to get a class item or emblem to drop on my 8-2 card) I'd appreciate it.

Meanwhile, I bought ESO from Best Buy tonight... We'll see how the struggle for time plays out between that and Destiny .

 

[chubbyninja1319]

With all the insane stuff coming this fall, I seriously considered *not* getting the Taken King in September.  Then I saw this. 

 

[io]

Oh crap... I was going to use my soon to expire Xbox Live bucks to buy it but I can't if I get that. But then a lot of that is the original game + the expansions we already bought. Hmmm....

So we have the Sept. 15 release date now. Did any other details come out?

 

[LinkinPrime]

With all the insane stuff coming this fall, I seriously considered *not* getting the Taken King in September. Then I saw this.

Ah ....now I HAVE TO get this!

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

The Taken King be "Taken" yo loot.... trolololololo      

 

[LinkinPrime]

VIP!

PlanetDestiny.com has some good stuff too:

http://planetdestiny.com/taken-king-analysis/

 

[io]

Oooh, I bet Vendetta will be a little salty about that PS exclusive Jade Rabbit scout rifle. I want it - but we won't get it till Sept. 2016. BS, man...

And not a word so far about current armor/weapons and progression past level 34/365 damage.

It also seems like we do not get a new planet - just a big ship that will have missions on it. But no Europa, Titan (since Oryx's ship is at Saturn), or Mercury? That will be a major letdown if so. The PlanetDestiny piece questions whether Saturn will be a location. Saturn itself probably wouldn't be since it doesn't really have a surface - but it has several moons that would be perfect. Titan, in particular, has an atmosphere the same pressure as Earth and liquid hydrocarbon lakes. They could do some cool stuff with that if they were so inclined.

 

[gotdott]

would have been nice if it had included exp III and IV. i also hope that steelbook is just a placeholder, is it me or does it look like the one we got from the initial LE??

 

[ajh2298]

I wonder if TDB and HoW are going to be codes or if they are redoing the a Destiny disc to include them. That way you could buy the newer version and than sale your original disc with the DLC for the expansions since most of us have them already.

 

[io]

So the 34 is actually a new one and not Urrox. I think it is the Cabal guy whose shields change - actually he may have been the 32 the first week now that I think about it.

The 32 is probably the easiest yet since Cult of the Worm dropped down there.

Variks actually has gauntlets with different stats this week! Well, for the Titan and Hunter he does... They both have a pure Int roll while the Warlock gets screwed with another Strenth roll. WTF!? I ran it on my Titan and replaced those strength gloves immediately. At least with the other perks all being the same you can immediately delete the old ones - no need to keep multiples around like the helms with their different perks. One of my few Judgment's Chances that turned into armor was a Disc roll for my Hunter so I'll probably pass on getting the Int ones and take my chances with yet another Judgment's Chance.

I thought I was on my way to an easy Osiris helm for my Titan just before reset but it wasn't meant to be. I bought all 3 boons and we got to 3 wins right off the bat with an easy opening round. Then we lost, then got to 4. So I'm still 4-0. We couldn't get to 5 and I think we lost two of those matches 5-4. It really sucked. But there were some hardcore pro groups playing right before reset, which we've seen in previous weeks. It is definitely better to play during the week and perhaps Sunday evening/night over any other time.

But at least I have the complete Osiris gear set for my Warlock now.

They also fixed the glitched bounties from Variks. I was able to select one now for my Warlock. However, on my Titan it just seems to have gone away. It is a good thing I only needed one more anyway (I already have Dreg's Promise and Queenbreaker Bow).

Oh yeah, Nightfall is Omnigul with Void burn. As usual with Omnigul it is just a pain in the ass and slow to get through. I did it 3 times and got 12 strange coins twice and a legendary auto rifle the 3rd time. I have yet to get an etheric light from NF. Also, apparently Variks can give them out with his weekly rep package. I got 3 of those (one on each character) and it was just special ammo synths and planet mats. Yay RNG!

In any case I have lots of 32/34's left to run if any CAGs want to run them Tuesday night.

 

[twztid13]

That was pretty much my last-ditch attempt at Trials and I'm glad it worked out. Otherwise I would have put the game aside for a few weeks and then just done NF/some amount of PoE from then on. As it is, I'm done running Trials with my Warlock (except maybe for a Flawless run another week if I can get the same two guys on my team). Now I need to try my Titan today if possible.


Two observations: 1) a lot of people who got the emblem week 1 are not very good. It was much easier then to get then. 2) Bungie had started banning the people who dropped out a week or two ago so there is much less (if any) of that happening any more.

All the teams I were on rushed - at least to the middle room. If you can get there first it works, but if you are constantly running into the other team and losing it doesn't. I think the latter happened on one of our losses last night but otherwise we were for the most part able to get in there and hold it. Then if we'd get a kill outside one of the doors we might rush to guard that orb and take out his teammates. But we were semi-coordinated about it. On the team I couldn't get to 5 wins with earlier one guy was really quiet and did his own thing and would often be dead way out on the perimeter and we'd be 2-on-3.


Two of my characters have that Variks bug so I'll see if I can finally get the 3rd exotic bounty done (I already have 2 of the weapons).

With Skolas having half the health I can still see Gjallarhorning him to death. But also these changes will make it much easier to do it in stages as it is intended. We'll see what the other modifiers end up being though.

Exact opposite on ToO for us. We did amazing on outside left, as it gave us that 8 times in a row. When we got in center, we got sniped from all directions w final round snipes. Happened again last night. I needed one win with hunter to get 5, and couldn't do it. Can't findteams that don't f'ing rush. I hate not being able to find people that play like me. We always end up 2 v 3 cuz one bada** thinks he has the other guys first (which is fine when it works, but if i fails 80% of the time, QUIT TRYING IT). UGH! I did better than my teammattes, yet they lied & said they had to go to hook up with a third that would carry them (I couldn't do that). That other was on my friends', too, but they were all from LFG and had gone flawless every week. Wouldn't help me get one more win. Up to 3 am, had to be at work at 730am, and didn't get a thing accomplished. I hate that. DOne with that crap til I find people that I can play with on a regular basis.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

So since my team in Trials didn't lose a game, I didn't know what would happen with my boon forgiving a loss, well it appears that I still have the boon so maybe it was just tied in with the new card I purchased from Brother Vance after we went to the lighthouse. 

The Taken King CE is gamestop exclusive it appears:

http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-one/games/destiny-the-taken-king-collectors-edition-gamestop-exclusive/122690

Ran all my nightfalls and wow.... my RNG kills me sometimes....

-Nothing Mantacles...

-Nothing Mantacles again...

-Strange Coin x11

So last night since we didn't have much time to do Trials, nor were both of my buddies on, we decided to smash crota's face in.  3 runs Deathsinger and Crota:

-Red Death

-No Land Beyond

-My 2nd Crux

-Gjallarhorn

Crux & Gjally were from the same drop.  And yeah check my video out.  Sorry simo. 

And as for Trials, I'm never playing defensively ever again.  My buddies and I were very aggressive and obviously it worked well for us.  Helps that we have played MP FPS since Halo 2 together though.

 

[io]

And as for Trials, I'm never playing defensively ever again. My buddies and I were very aggressive and obviously it worked well for us. Helps that we have played MP FPS since Halo 2 together though.

If he has the chest piece this week I may ask to do a quick run with you and Illzor. Again, I'd just be happy with just 5 wins . Rushing all together is great. Some of the teams I was on one guy would rush one way, and the other a second way and I'd either have to try to take middle or follow one of them but I was never sure what they were going to do. It can be painful.

I was in on 2 of the Crota smashes last night. I didn't even realize all the weapons I had gotten till I looked in the post later. I had an Oversoul Edict, Word of Crota, and Fang of Ir Yut all waiting for me there. But no crazy exotic/crux drops like you had!

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

If he has the chest piece this week I may ask to do a quick run with you and Illzor. Again, I'd just be happy with just 5 wins . Rushing all together is great. Some of the teams I was on one guy would rush one way, and the other a second way and I'd either have to try to take middle or follow one of them but I was never sure what they were going to do. It can be painful.

I was in on 2 of the Crota smashes last night. I didn't even realize all the weapons I had gotten till I looked in the post later. I had an Oversoul Edict, Word of Crota, and Fang of Ir Yut all waiting for me there. But no crazy exotic/crux drops like you had!

I didn't check but DOA said this morning that he has Arms. Strength roll on warlock I think is what he said too. Don't know about Hunter or titan though. Pulse Rifle is the weapon

And we don't totally rush but we take the middle whether they are there or not. On the occasions they were in the middle room, we absolutely destroyed them with Last Words. I felt like Cauldron with Thorn isn't a good idea because it is mostly at range for easy revive unless you were out of position. Hence why all of us used Last Word this past week.

I'm honestly hoping for Anomoly on the moon or Asylum on Venus this week.

 

[britton_draws]

I'm honestly hoping for Anomoly on the moon or Asylum on Venus this week.

Asylum is the worst map given the current situation with shotguns. That would be miserable. Though I will be busy moving all this upcoming weekend so I suppose if they have it, might as well be when I am not going to be playing! : P

In regards to the Taken King physical edition, this is the biggest thing that intrigues me and I am curious what exactly it entails:

• The Taken King Collector's Edition Digital Content: Includes three Exotic Guardian Class items featuring XP bonuses, three class-specific emotes, and three armor shaders to customize every Guardian class.

Emotes I imagine is the emblems? But it sounds almost like we will get multiple d-pad actions, which would be kind of cool if they handle it like Dark Souls where there are a bunch you can get and maybe even then faction specific movements.

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

I never got a Ghost Edition so of course I am considering the CE even thought I have all the content...

I know we have talked about the lack of new achievements in this game along with Bungie's apparent disdain for achievements/trophies.  It sure seems like they will continue this trend with this new content since it is just an expansion and not a new game like some had thought (Destiny 2.0 or whatnot).  So looking at it from a former achievement whore standpoint, you are getting 1000 points from destiny and its expansions for $140, while you get 10,000 points for the $30 Rare collection...

Also since this is expansion is coming out on the 360 and PS3 apparently we will be stuck with the same amount of vault space until they find a way around that issue...  that would be a good idea for a CE bonus or something you could buy in game.... more vault space!  please

 

[AFrostyOne]

I never got a Ghost Edition so of course I am considering the CE even thought I have all the content...

I know we have talked about the lack of new achievements in this game along with Bungie's apparent disdain for achievements/trophies. It sure seems like they will continue this trend with this new content since it is just an expansion and not a new game like some had thought (Destiny 2.0 or whatnot). So looking at it from a former achievement whore standpoint, you are getting 1000 points from destiny and its expansions for $140, while you get 10,000 points for the $30 Rare collection...

Also since this is expansion is coming out on the 360 and PS3 apparently we will be stuck with the same amount of vault space until they find a way around that issue... that would be a good idea for a CE bonus or something you could buy in game.... more vault space! please

Their disdain for cheevos/trophies is explained thru Grimoire

And the vault's gonna continue to be an issue until they cut off the old-gen systems or pull their head outta their @$$.

They could at least give us the option to remove gear from out inventory, but still be able to access it again. Sorta like an inventory list of stuff we want to keep. Trade off would be that we'd have remove our current-access piece of gear in order to get access to the item on our list. Current total inventory slots wouldn't change, but we'd have this itemized list of gear we could keep access to.

So that extra Suros I dismantled (since I ran out of room) could've gone on this list for the one day that they decide to buff auto-rifles again.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

I never got a Ghost Edition so of course I am considering the CE even thought I have all the content...

I know we have talked about the lack of new achievements in this game along with Bungie's apparent disdain for achievements/trophies. It sure seems like they will continue this trend with this new content since it is just an expansion and not a new game like some had thought (Destiny 2.0 or whatnot). So looking at it from a former achievement whore standpoint, you are getting 1000 points from destiny and its expansions for $140, while you get 10,000 points for the $30 Rare collection...

Also since this is expansion is coming out on the 360 and PS3 apparently we will be stuck with the same amount of vault space until they find a way around that issue... that would be a good idea for a CE bonus or something you could buy in game.... more vault space! please

Yeah their hatred of achievements is quite obvious. Hell I bet the only reason Halo got them when Bungie ran the show was because Microsoft made them.

I'd be fine with a microtransaction fee to get more vault space. That would be a quick way to get a nice cash grab for Bungie & Activision.

Going back to the MS thing.... I'll be honest with the constant exclusives, if they ever offer a way to seamlessly switch platform to platform, I would seriously entertain the idea to switch over to the PS4. No way in hell am I going to grind away again on a different platform to get all my loadouts and gun/gear collections again.

 

[io]

• The Taken King Collector's Edition Digital Content: Includes three Exotic Guardian Class items featuring XP bonuses, three class-specific emotes, and three armor shaders to customize every Guardian class.

Good lord - and of course the problem here is the lack of freaking Vault space. I'd maybe consider getting this stuff but it would mean I'd have to delete some of my hard-earned faction shaders and legendary ships. As it is I can't use my Tokens in HoW to get any of the Variks stuff because I don't have room for it.

They have to make more Vault space. The problem is icon and/or gear rendering on the old systems, right? It certainly isn't storage since the items take up trivial amounts of system memory compared to everything else in the game. So maybe they could make it take up multiple pages - and just have it be slow as crap on the old systems. Screw them, they need to ing upgrade. Or perhaps keep the Vault as is but give us more slots in our inventory (instead of 9 for each item - maybe make it 12).

Hey wait, didn't Bungie have an event today? Any more rank/gear details?

As for tonight, I'm totally up for PoE's but I'll be watching the NBA Finals first - so if anyone is on after that I'll be around.

Edit: Didn't get anything done in Destiny except the Daily Crucible. The game crapped out on everyone for an hour or so - so I was glad I wasn't in the midst of a PoE. If any CAGs want to run some Wednesday evening just let me know.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

Glad I wasn't running any PoE last night when the game took a ginormous shit on everyone. 

I was about to get off the xbox for the night and decided oh why not try it again.  Magically started working so I managed to get all my daily crucible shit done before reset then did one of my 3 after reset.  I also finally got the Grimoire card for Thieves Den.  That map screams camp corners with shotguns.  I absolutely went off on that map though.  Hip fire w/Last Word and man that BTRD Machine gun

What was odd about last night is that some of my friends didn't get kicked & were able to continue playing while the rest of us kept getting error messages.  On top of that party chat was only working for a couple of us... Really odd stuff.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

I think getting the Lighthouse once ignited something in me and my 2 buddies.  We've been PvP'ing a lot this week and none of us really give a shit about PoE right now it seems.  I think we are shooting for 2 Lighthouse trips this weekend

Oh and I finally got this last night.

Now if I could get that damn Nineveh and/or Tyre shader, I could move on and run 2 people on New Monarchy.

 

[io]

Did all my 32's and 34's. I got 2 Judgment's Chances and got two crappy duplicate weapons - thanks Destiny. Yeah, I'll be playing more Elder Scrolls Online now.

I haven't even viewed the Trailer for Taken King and don't really have any desire to - it isn't even worth watching the YouTube ads for. But their lack of specifics (as gleaned from write-ups about it and threads on other sites) is troubling. Here's what I gather from their info so far, as plus or minuses.

+ Cool new subclasses for each character
- No increase in Vault space (Deej's comments about us needing to make tough decisions about what to keep)
- No (or very limited) further ascension of current gear (so the grind for Trials/PoE gear and etheric light is ultimately pointless) - also gleaned from Deej's comments.
+/- Collector's edition that costs $80 an has cool stuff in it but is redundant and a slap in the face for those who already bought the base game + expansions. Why is there not a $60 version for Destiny veterans?
+/- Shaders/emblems/etc from the new CE and from being an original player but nowhere to store them because of lack of Vault space
- The Raid they said "don't worry, we removed it from House of Wolves but are working on it for you soon" is really just part of the $40 expansion like we expected all along
+/- Yay, a third set of Iron Banner gear. I mean, it looks cool (especially for the Titan) but that is even more stuff we can't collect because of the space issues.
+/- New PvP modes. Yeah, not interested since HoW is too much of a turn towards PvP as it is (though I suppose some will be which is why I didn't make it just a minus).

Complete unknowns:
* Light level and how it works in Taken King (new base level, new max, how you upgrade, etc)
* Future of Trials and Prison of Elders - will they still have the current rewards or new stuff?
* If anything (even current exotics let alone the legendaries) can be upgraded to the new levels
* Story length/intricacy?
* New areas (and I don't mean the ship they talked about as part of the story - but an actual new planet location with Patrol and everything).

The biggest disappointment was the lack of any substantial details. I guess we wait and see...

 

[Renegade Moose]

[quote name="io" post="12754937" timestamp="1434660993"]Did all my 32's and 34's. I got 2 Judgment's Chances and got two crappy duplicate weapons - thanks Destiny. Yeah, I'll be playing more Elder Scrolls Online now.

I haven't even viewed the Trailer for Taken King and don't really have any desire to - it isn't even worth watching the YouTube ads for. But their lack of specifics is troubling. Here's what I gather from their info so far, as plus or minuses.

+ Cool new subclasses for each character
- No increase in Vault space (Deej's comments about us needing to make tough decisions about what to keep)
- No (or very limited) further ascension of current gear (so the grind for Trials/PoE gear and etheric light is ultimately pointless) - also gleaned from Deej's comments.
+/- Collector's edition that costs $80 an has cool stuff in it but is redundant and a slap in the face for those who already bought the base game + expansions. Why is there not a $60 version for Destiny veterans?
+/- Shaders/emblems/etc from the new CE and from being an original player but nowhere to store them because of lack of Vault space
- The Raid they said "don't worry, we removed it from House of Wolves but are working on it for you soon" is really just part of the $40 expansion like we expected all along
+/- Yay, a third set of Iron Banner gear. I mean, it looks cool (especially for the Titan) but that is even more stuff we can't collect because of the space issues.
+/- New PvP modes. Yeah, not interested since HoW is too much of a turn towards PvP as it is (though I suppose some will be which is why I didn't make it just a minus).

Complete unknowns:
* Light level and how it works in Taken King (new base level, new max, how you upgrade, etc)
* Future of Trials and Prison of Elders - will they still have the current rewards or new stuff?
* If anything (even current exotics let alone the legendaries) can be upgraded to the new levels
* Story length/intricacy?
* New areas (and I don't mean the ship they talked about as part of the story - but an actual new planet location with Patrol and everything).

The biggest disappointment was the lack of any substantial details. I guess we wait and see...[/quote]
Don't worry, they said the story would be improved and have more cutscenes (which they are working on making skippable). Of course, they have been saying this with every expansion. I really hope the rumors of new areas aren't true... At least the time to get the bonus content goes into next year so I'm going to take a wait and see approach before buying.

 

[AFrostyOne]

The biggest disappointment was the lack of any substantial details. I guess we wait and see...

Yup, can't say I'm stoked for TTK. My current thoughts are to pass on TTK because, well... Star Wars Battlefront!!!

Hey Bungie, do you seriously expect me to care about grinding to a new light level with Star Wars BF coming out this holiday. Especially at that price???

 

[LinkinPrime]

Heres a positive preview of a story chapter of TTK, along with some info on the new enemies.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-the-taken-king-s-story-soars-to-new-height/1100-6428332/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

1,230 hours later....

https://twitter.com/DRUNKZ_27/status/611720178888519681

 

[LinkinPrime]

Congrats man!  

 

[io]

1,230 hours later....

https://twitter.com/DRUNKZ_27/status/611720178888519681

So did you really get Flawless Raider in the PoE?

I could have "completed" Destiny 4-500 hours ago if I just played some Salvage to get that trophy. I got Flawless on Crota a long time ago with Vendetta.

So tonight my old DLP TV's red LED apparently blew out (everything is green/blue now). I had to move my Xbox One to the downstairs (family room) TV and I can't play Destiny at all on that. It is too small, too far away, the sound is muffled and weird (though for TV it is fine - just like this for the One), and everything is just off. I can't believe how attuned I was to that other TV with this game. I guess that's what 1200 hours on a particular setup gets you!

I need to order a new red LED (about $100) and fix it using a Youtube video. It seems like a common thing that happens to these sets after a few years (mine is 5 years old). It is a great TV otherwise and after playing tonight on the Vizio (downstairs TV) I appreciate it even more.

I'm not even sure I'll be able to do Trials this weekend because of this. I'd like the damn chest pieces though - too bad this couldn't have been a boots or gloves week.

 

[chubbyninja1319]

Just saw this and thought it was touching. Dads of Destiny memorialize a fellow member that passed away.

http://kotaku.com/destiny-clan-honors-member-who-passed-away-1712420158

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

So did you really get Flawless Raider in the PoE?

I could have "completed" Destiny 4-500 hours ago if I just played some Salvage to get that trophy. I got Flawless on Crota a long time ago with Vendetta.

No, a group over at Trueachievements have been setting up flawless runs on Crota and I got in on one of those sessions. They had run it flawless 10+ times so it was a pretty straightforward clear. Considering you can still cheese the first 2 sections it isn't nearly as daunting as it once was. If anyone is still looking to get that achievement I recommend going that route.

As for getting that achievement from PoE, I'm not sure that is possible. Some people claim you can get Flawless on PoE, but others say that only the Raiding Party is possible. This Crota run only took like 30 minutes so probably just as quick as a 32 PoE clear and you aren't in the line of fire for the first half of it.

Of course the achievement didn't unlock at the Crota kill so that made it a bit anticlimactic, but after logging off and back on I had my 1000/1000 finished up.

You should finish up that Salvage achievement. From what I remember it only took 2 or 3 games to get it done.

 

[ZxT Vendetta]

No, a group over at Trueachievements have been setting up flawless runs on Crota and I got in on one of those sessions. They had run it flawless 10+ times so it was a pretty straightforward clear. Considering you can still cheese the first 2 sections it isn't nearly as daunting as it once was. If anyone is still looking to get that achievement I recommend going that route.

As for getting that achievement from PoE, I'm not sure that is possible. Some people claim you can get Flawless on PoE, but others say that only the Raiding Party is possible. This Crota run only took like 30 minutes so probably just as quick as a 32 PoE clear and you aren't in the line of fire for the first half of it.

Of course the achievement didn't unlock at the Crota kill so that made it a bit anticlimactic, but after logging off and back on I had my 1000/1000 finished up.

You should finish up that Salvage achievement. From what I remember it only took 2 or 3 games to get it done.

Now go rent the 360 version from redbox and get your 2nd 1K

Also....

https://account.xbox.com/en-us/gameclip/eb26865d-5838-4e54-815e-b2d8a3dc1780?gamerTag=Vendetta%20X360&scid=37770100-f9ae-4b80-9dad-7c1d0ec14469

:lol:

 

[io]

You should finish up that Salvage achievement. From what I remember it only took 2 or 3 games to get it done.

I did try one game once and I couldn't even get the relic/point thing once and isn't it 20 or 25? I didn't really know what was going on though.

Now go rent the 360 version from redbox and get your 2nd 1K

Also....
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/gameclip/eb26865d-5838-4e54-815e-b2d8a3dc1780?gamerTag=Vendetta%20X360&scid=37770100-f9ae-4b80-9dad-7c1d0ec14469

:lol:

Just getting an "oops" page from Microsoft. Are you showing us the Lighthouse or something?

 

[GLOCKGLOCK]

Now go rent the 360 version from redbox and get your 2nd 1K

Also....

https://account.xbox.com/en-us/gameclip/eb26865d-5838-4e54-815e-b2d8a3dc1780?gamerTag=Vendetta%20X360&scid=37770100-f9ae-4b80-9dad-7c1d0ec14469

:lol:

I did the digital upgrade deal so I have both 1k'd now. I think it took longer to download all the updates to get the game to run on the 360 than it did for the entire flawless run, lol

I refuse to shard any of my GH. All 6 are safe and sound. I'm sure when they give us more vault space in Destiny year 4 and allow me to dual wield the GH I will be satisfied that I kept them all.