Bungie's Destiny

I was one of the assholes that got the GH from Xur, which was fine in my mind after running the VoG a bunch of times and getting squat.

I dismantled my Mida because I disliked its rate of fire and the lack of exploding rounds. My Y1 Badger CCL Scout had that and it was a great weapon in PVP and PVE once leveled up. The Mida just didn't feel the same. The 701 feels more like the Badger CCL than the Mida.

Never did get a Vex, wanted that fucker soooo bad!

I hope this expansion sees some more creative and worthwhile exotics.

 

Haha.... Getting a GH from Xur doesn't make you a asshole. For the longest time he didn't sell it after week 2 (IIRC). I've bought several different things from him, weapons and armor. The very first thing I bought from him was the Suros the first week he was in the tower. I thought it was cool.

Honestly I "think" there are going to be way better heavy weapons than the GH in the expansion. Thinking about it there has to be otherwise everyone will have the GH and nothing to go for. The GH was king in year 1. There was no better RL (Hunger of Crota was a close 2nd). But with TTK RL's took a back seat because the raid was a DPS race and RL's just didn't do the damage needed.

Who knows what are going to be the best weapons now? The meta will change. I personally think they are pushing sidearms since very few people use them. I got lucky and picked up The Trespasser on my first secondary exotic engram and I will say it is amazing in the crucible (if used correctly). Shotgunners now have something to fear if I'm using The Trespasser as it melts them before they can get too close.

But from the looks of it, I think at first glance Bungie has done a good job with this expansion with a lot of different options available to us. I damn near quit after Crota because the raid sucked balls. Then the piece of shit Prison of Elders came out and I did quit for a while. There was nothing to do in the game.

The Taken King brought me back and although I have almost everything I can possibly get out of that expansion it has kept me, and my friends, quite entertained which, of course is the object. I feel like I got my monies worth and more. So with that said I expect the same level of entertainment for the foreseeable future with this expansion.

 

That wasn't the general consensus amongst players on the Bungie forums at that time. Those guys that ran VoG and PoE expecting to score it over and over again were pissed when you could just walk up to Xur and buy it for a measely 23 strange coins. LoL

 

Eh... Fuckem

Like I said, it took me 52 times to finally get a Fatebringer. Then I didn't get another one until well after my hundredth time through VoG. I got the Praetorian Foil, which is arguably the rarest weapon in the game, just a few weeks ago. So I've collected every single weapon, armor piece, speeder, shader, and ship that I can get out of VoG. GH wasn't exclusive to VoG. I watched a number of times as people collected it from doing the NF or rarely from random strikes.

 

It's funny. When I got the GH on my second run through VoG (out of the chest after the Templar fight) I shredded it not long after. At the time I didn't use RL's and I didn't realize what a god weapon the GH was. Took me months to finally get another one. I had to make due with The Hunger of Crota until I finally got another GH. I didn't shred that one lol.

I've kept at least one piece of everything that I've gotten out of VoG in my vault mostly for nostalgia. Crota... I shredded everything but the Black Hammer. We still run VoG and Crota once a week just for easy motes of light. And VoG is still fun. Crota we can complete in less time than it takes to do a normal strike. Quick and easy.

 

I heard XB1 was affected pretty bad with the grain? PS4 the grain was there but not overly distracting. Seemed like it was very bad the first day after that patch but got better a few days later. Either way I'm glad it's gone also.

 

Nope, i heard it the other way around.

Lets see if I can tell after the update im pulling down now

 

Woohoo, getting geeked!

 

That's where I noticed it the most also. Looks perfect now though.

Cleaning up my vault and leveling each faction up to almost 100% to turn them in tomorrow morning. Sad thing is... I'm 45yrs old but I'm probably gonna wake up early in the am to play a video game. How sad is that lol?

 

Hey, 41 here and it is a way to unwind and forget about all the real adult bullshit we all have to deal with. It's also therapeutic wrecking people in PVP...

 

Agreed

 

I love the new clan tab when you pull up the roster. Makes finding your friends so much easier than flipping through multiple pages to find your friends that have signed up for whatever activity you have planned.

 

can someone remind me why its good to stock pile encrypted engrams and wait until ROI comes out to upgrade? Is that because it betters the chance of getting a never before seen item with the update?

EDIT: and how do you go about ordering the new ROI? I googled it and the bungie website had me list a gamestop to get it...but I just want to purchase a code and not drive anywhere to pick it up. Will that gamestop option of buying provide me a code or do I need to go into the store to get it?

http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-one/add-ons/destiny-rise-of-iron/131432

 

Exotics. Yea those you can keep for tomorrow.

I unfortunately really wont get a chance to geek out until the weekend

 

I was like, clean tab?

 

You want to get as many legendary and exotic engrams as you can and put them in your vault until tomorrow. Play through the main story mission tomorrow and as you are playing you will get drops anywhere from green, blue, purple, to exotics. Those drops "should" be of higher light value than you have right now. Meaning a blue engram "might" decrypt to above 335 and so on. If you pick up a weapon / armor piece while playing that is a higher light value then infuse it into whatever piece you get (unless you like the new piece more then just equip it). Once you finish the storyline and run a few strikes or Arkon Forge start taking the engrams you have stockpiled in your vault and start decrypting them. Make sure you have equipped on your character the highest light level items (whether you like the items or not) and start decrypting one at a time. They should decrypt anywhere from 3 to 7-8 light levels higher than the piece you have equipped. Keep equipping the highest light level items and rinse and repeat. That is why you stockpile engrams and how you level your character up fast.

I assume the XB1 is the same way as the PS4. Just go to the XB store in the menu and order directly from there. IIRC the download is around 18GB? Once you purchase it, it should start the DL since the DL actually happened last week. Everyone that has pre ordered already has the game installed on their machine. Now we just wait until they flip the switch. As far as I know... you can't buy a disk copy of the expansion but I could be wrong. I never looked into it. I figure the next physical disk that we can buy will be when Destiny 2 comes out.

 

I keep that next to my laptop when I'm watching porn