Destiny (PS3/PS4) Official Thread

Yup.  Red-bar ogres/hydras count, but the yellow-bar ones don't.  Annoying and stupid really.

 
I had a ton of ogres for some reason, so I only needed like 25 to finish off. I just farmed the shrine of oryx mission. For hydras, I just sat outside the entrance to the black garden with an icebreaker.

And I have a hopscotch and love it. It rarely takes me more than two bursts to kill someone. Even at a distance it's super effective. A void messenger would just be awesome for anything with void burn.
 
I have a hopscotch...I want a messenger because its locked away behind a pvp wall I cannot climb not because I know if its better than what I have lol...

I just tried again with a couple guys who were not super good either, but I assume everyone is better than me. I was just getting offline when I got the invite and we literally got wiped out every round without getting a kill until one round I killed the whole team by myself. The guy we were playing with said "I cant believe that just happened" you and me both dude...He quit shortly after that.

 
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Big shout out to frosty to helping my lowly level 33 ass get though POE this weekend. Including running laps with Skolas! Couldn't have done it without you.

Oh and late last night I was doing the night fall with my Titan for the heck of it. And what drops...an exotic chest piece for my Warlock! The nightfall came though for me this weekend where XUR couldn't. Finally level 34 baby!
 
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I got it all set tuesday. Im going to go to my sisters around noon to download the 2.0 update so it will only take 2 or so hours instead of my home internet which would take more like 20 hours. So i should be on tuesday night for whatever. Probably a lot of running around the tower, or doing vanguard bounties! Cant wait!

For the Hydra kills dont camp the black garden portal, thats too slow. Watch this video its a lot faster. But i recommend that after you kill the hydra, if you jump down to the left (from looking at the hydra) there is water you can shoot your foot and kill yourself faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ2YHmSgwlo

 
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The 7th Number said:
I got it all set tuesday. Im going to go to my sisters around noon to download the 2.0 update so it will only take 2 or so hours instead of my home internet which would take more like 20 hours. So i should be on tuesday night for whatever. Probably a lot of running around the tower, or doing vanguard bounties! Cant wait!

For the Hydra kills dont camp the black garden portal, thats too slow. Watch this video its a lot faster. But i recommend that after you kill the hydra, if you jump down to the left (from looking at the hydra) there is water you can shoot your foot and kill yourself faster.
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It was a bit faster killing myself with a warlock. Put on Nothing Mancles and Scatter Grenades. After you kill the hydra, you get to the wall near the water, throw Scatter Grenades. It should kill you and you'll have another grenade ready.

 
daver16 said:
I got the emblem, Eth light, The messenger with void and patience and time think that was it
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The messenger with void :drool: . Man I am jealous, I love that gun and Void on it would make it damn sexy. Congrats on getting there man, and props to Stellar and his crew for taking yet another CAG to it.

Dangs looking at all the prep everyone is making to get ready for TTK I'm going to fall behind pretty badly. Haven't done anything just playing Batman and DAI.

 
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mars009 said:
The messenger with void :drool: . Man I am jealous, I love that gun and Void on it would make it damn sexy. Congrats on getting there man, and props to Stellar and his crew for taking yet another CAG to it.

Dangs looking at all the prep everyone is making to get ready for TTK I'm going to fall behind pretty badly. Haven't done anything just playing Batman and DAI.
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Dont worry I havent prepped any at all. I figured come Sunday/Monday ill grab ten bounties complete them all and thats my prep. Im not worried about leveling at all. Im going to mainly level through PVP.

I must admit im a little more excited for the patch tomorrow than I am for TTK. Besides getting the new subclasses of course.

 
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Yep I'm just going to level naturally. Might hold a couple bounties, mostly for weapons though. If I get any decent weapons right off the bat, it'll be cool to unlock a perk or two on them as soon as possible.

Patch comes out between 10AM and 12PM PST tomorrow.
 
Yeah I'm not doing any prep and definitely excited for the update tomorrow though due to class and work I won't be able to play till late. Rift seems like it's going to be a ton of fun to play
 
Has everyone seen this video? Its still my favorite one with how the beat goes with the clips.

http://youtu.be/KPYlGzZXPvA

 
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Stellar and his friend got me there last night...it took till 2am the final night but I got a solar jewel from the mercury chest.

I should have been playing sooner to get the other armor but I did manage to get all 3 helmets this weekend plus the boots on my warlock from the 8 wins package. In addition I got the autorifle, scout rifle, a solar jewel, and regular jewel. My only regret is not getting the regular chest with the painted eye on my hunter. Its cool looking...and the messenger eluded me.

Stellar got the whole forum to mercury lol...I told him he'll have to do it again once they release updated gear LOL

 
Yeah big props to stellar for helping everyone out. 

And I thought they said there would be no weekly/daily activities this week? As of right now there's a new nightfall, weekly strike, and daily story mission. So you might want to jump in and do those before the patch goes live.

 
Yeah I was surprised to see the nightfall so went ahead and did it on all characters got eth light, coins and give take equation hahah
 
AAAAAHHHHHHH!

WHAT IS HAPPENING!

Nightfalls are over? Trails is over? And I never even attempted to get to the lighthouse?!?!?!!???!!

Seriously, I'm never going on vacation again. 4 days gone and EVERYTHING CHANGES.

 
What time is the patch going live? I might be able to do nightfall or two at lunch...

Stellar and his buds are amazing at pvp...I was playing worse than my usual trash level due to how late it was and the fact that his friend would have killed me if I used final round. He made me not even carry the gun anymore after a few rounds. I even missed 3 shots on a guy standing 5 ft from me who would have died from one shot with thorn...disgraceful...

Also the lighthouse is nothing special...its an empty area with a couple things to look at and one chest to open...the loot is all that matters really. 

If you put the trials helmet and ruin wings on your titan along with the crota skirt you look like a bird.

p.s. this shit should give you a shader...

 
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Patch is supposed to go live sometime between 10-12 pacific time. Deej tweeted that it would depend on when Sony and Microsoft decided to release it, but it should be in that window.

 
I'll cross my fingers then...cause I can go to lunch around noon central. Anyone want to eat with me while we play summoning pits with void and solar real quick LOL

 
ProfessorStotch said:
Ok, it's here...and it's absolutely crawling. Everyone log off so I can download faster.
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I don't see it in my downloads yet. Lucky!

Edit: Looks like if you have Destiny running (i.e. the application is open) it will not add the update to your downloads. You need to close the application for it to start. This obviously will make it so you cannot connect to the Destiny servers until the update is downloaded and installed. Just a FYI.

 
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NJMane said:
I don't see it in my downloads yet. Lucky!

Edit: Looks like if you have Destiny running (i.e. the application is open) it will not add the update to your downloads. You need to close the application for it to start. This obviously will make it so you cannot connect to the Destiny servers until the update is downloaded and installed. Just a FYI.
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For me when big updates have rolled up they download by themselves even having my console off (this means that ps4 are never really off :whistle2:$ ) so when I get home and boot up destiny it's usually just downloading the last few megs of the update... weird right!

 
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Bah! Five days without any Destiny and I don't get back until later tonight. I'm kind of anxious to get back in again. Sounds like mostly everyone completed the few remaining things to do on their checklists. Congrats!

I never made it to the lighthouse either. Although I never seriously attempted to since I hate being killed by Thorn and the cheapness of snipers with final round. Maybe now that 2.0 is here with the weapon fixes I'll be more inclined to once ToO comes back.

Has everyone pre-ordered already for the most part? I can't wait for the new content.
 
Hmmm so I've had the update downloading and checked on it, was about 1/3 done and said 4 hours left. Whaaa? I decided I'd be smart and pause it, then start it again to speed things up. That makes sense. Now it says 28 hours left. Somebody shoot me with a level 2 AR, thanks.

 
Can't wait to try out Rift and Mayhem tonight, if the downloads ever finish ;)

Got loaded up on bounties for all toons.  Only came up short on Vanguard marks for my Hunter.  I didn't realize I was so low and only got it up to about 110. If they still work, post-patch, I run more dragon strikes to max that out.

BTW, saw 4 Hopscotch drop last night, all for other people in the fire team.  It was like RNGeezy didn't give a fuck  anymore :lol:

And it probably doesn't matter, but I made sure to get the last 3 HoW ghosts I was missing.  Bungie's message of getting your HoW grimoire, pre-patch, spooked me at the last minute.

 
Damn never mind about rest mode. I read some posts on Reddit saying rest mode usually downloads quicker than just having it turned on, so I got the patch started earlier and put it in rest mode. It did about 2 gigs in 90 minutes. I decided to just leave the PS4 on for a while to compare speeds. I've downloaded 6 gigs in about 30 minutes with it on. I probably would already be playing right now if I had just left it on from the get go.

 
Only Rift today. Mayhem opens up over the weekend. 

Rift is pretty dumb. People just camp the spark spawn area, and then if the other team gets it, they just run back to their rift and activate supers. I'm not sure why they wouldn't have made spark spawn locations random or something.

 
So, have we grouped up into bunches of 6 yet for the raid? I'll be home from work by the time it opens up and would be willing to bang my head against it for a few hours.

 
Wow they just made shotguns usable in pve and they just cut the damage almost in half...45%...so bye bye hand cannons and shotties it seems...I prefer autorifles all day long so I'm stoked, but will miss fellwinter and hawkmoon

LOL at final round on snipers...headshots are already one shot kills pretty much all the time.

OK now they are just being A-holes: 

  • Speed Reload: Reduced reload bonus by 80%
 
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ProfessorStotch said:
Only Rift today. Mayhem opens up over the weekend.

Rift is pretty dumb. People just camp the spark spawn area, and then if the other team gets it, they just run back to their rift and activate supers. I'm not sure why they wouldn't have made spark spawn locations random or something.
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Don't think they fully understand the point system since you still get points for picking up the spark and moving it towards the rift. They should use some of those supers to get the spark instead of just camping.

EDIT: and that sucks about Mayhem... wanted to try out both immediately.

 
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no need to delete a dude to replay the story maybe... 

  • You can replay the story for more experience and reputation by looking at the Quest Collections in the Tower
gotta love artificial difficulty 

  • Burn (Arc, Void, Solar) Skulls now only increases player damage by 2x (down from 3x). Combatant damage to player is unchanged at 3x.
 
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ludwigfrech said:
For me when big updates have rolled up they download by themselves even having my console off (this means that ps4 are never really off :whistle2:$ ) so when I get home and boot up destiny it's usually just downloading the last few megs of the update... weird right!
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It will only download if you have it in Rest mode (likely what you have your PS4 set for).

aFrostyONE said:
Can't wait to try out Rift and Mayhem tonight, if the downloads ever finish ;)

Got loaded up on bounties for all toons. Only came up short on Vanguard marks for my Hunter. I didn't realize I was so low and only got it up to about 110. If they still work, post-patch, I run more dragon strikes to max that out.

BTW, saw 4 Hopscotch drop last night, all for other people in the fire team. It was like RNGeezy didn't give a fuck anymore :lol:

And it probably doesn't matter, but I made sure to get the last 3 HoW ghosts I was missing. Bungie's message of getting your HoW grimoire, pre-patch, spooked me at the last minute.
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I have not seen a Hopscotch dropped in weeks. I only have a week left to get it before it likely gets dropped from the loot wheel (in favor of year 2 weapons). The last dozen or so Strikes have yielded no legendary weapons/engrams for anyone in the party. Nothing but rare's.

ProfessorStotch said:
Only Rift today. Mayhem opens up over the weekend.

Rift is pretty dumb. People just camp the spark spawn area, and then if the other team gets it, they just run back to their rift and activate supers. I'm not sure why they wouldn't have made spark spawn locations random or something.
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If Mayhem is locked to weekends like Trials, I am going to be pissed!

 
Oh man, they called out Hopscotch in the patch notes:

  • All Stable (low recoil) Pulse Rifles (i.e., Hopscotch Pilgrim) now use “Medium” Rate-of-Fire base stats
  • “Medium” Pulse Rifle’s Rate-of-Fire has slightly increased, but with base Damage reduced slightly (2.5%)
Well, I'll find out soon enough what this means in PvP.

I think they also nerfed my LDR:

  • Overpenetration perk now only works on bipeds (no longer works on environment materials)
No more teabagging Rockets McD-face from above his door... sad panda face :whistle2:(

Rumble has been tweaked to give you credit if you place in the top 3 instead of 1st place only:

  • Placing in the top 3 in Rumble playlists now counts as a win for Quest Step purposes
Wonder if that also counts for the grimoire.

And this note makes me think trials passage coins aren't gonna be useful when Trials returns:

  • Trials Passage Coins are now discarded by the stack rather than by the item
BTW, any word, from anywhere, that year 2 weapons are dropping early???

Curious to know since that happened when the HoW early patch dropped

 
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Weapon testing I've done in crucible so far:

Suros and Summoner were ok. Probably not worth using.

Hopscotch is still awesome.

Thorn doesn't seem that bad, you just do less DOT than you used to.

Shotguns don't seem that changed.

 
totallyjem said:
no need to delete a dude to replay the story maybe...

  • You can replay the story for more experience and reputation by looking at the Quest Collections in the Tower
gotta love artificial difficulty

  • Burn (Arc, Void, Solar) Skulls now only increases player damage by 2x (down from 3x). Combatant damage to player is unchanged at 3x.
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I was just about to post/complain about the burn change. fuck you Bungie.

Looks like a lot of the Year1 Exotics got a substantial buff, and Ahamkaras Spine gives a SECOND Tripmine?

Monte Carlo gets a straight buff, and it was already beastly. I'm looking forward to trying Thorn & NLB.

 
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Friend just told me that the new Ghosts have been dropping in PvP; hasn't seen new weapons yet.

 
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