TheMightyEthan Posted November 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 I also have to complete a weekly for invective, which I was going to try to do today. I'll probably be on on a few hours if you want to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 Is that 'a few hours' worked out correctly, Ethan? Â I'm looking to do the weekly Heroic at 26, and try the Nightfall too, if you guys are around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 If you ever find yourself back in Destiny, ride your Sparrow in style. Â 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 I'm sure you guys noticed I've still been playing Destiny for an hour or two most days. I've actually made two alts so I can say I've squeezed every ounce of the game's content by playing the different classes. Â Thought I would put it down because I'll have new games like Smash for Wii U and others I obtain from Black Friday. Â Except, well, Xur has come back to the Tower. Sure, Exotic Armor we've seen before, no big deal. The Exotic Weapon he has this week... Â THE LAST WORD Â It has been the Exotic I've been wanting from the game for weeks. I have seen teammates obtain the weapon in front of my eyes, but RNGesus has sought to bestow other Exotics to my Hunter. All of that doesn't matter as now my goal for the game is to earn 5 Strange Coins in this limited time frame. Â I will not be denied my birthright as a Hunter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 I had also been waiting on Last Word, so I now officially have all the weapons I wanted in the game. I have also done the raid about 5 times and have yet to get a full set of raid armor. Just need boots. I think I might be done overall. I still haven't decided if I'm getting the expansions or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 Just do the weekly strike, get 6 strange coins easy (9 if you play at level 28). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 I'd been saving up for The Devil You Know with my alt (I say 'saving up' but really I need to reach Vanguard Rank 3) because I wanted a decent handcannon for a change (only good Warlock stuff I could buy was for assault rifles) while always hoping to get Hawkmoon or The Last Word, so this was great. Â Having given TLW a quick go without any upgrades, it is still totally awesome. The look of it, the animation for the weapon switch, the fanning the hammer action, the sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 So, there's been another update, this time one that I'm not entirely happy with. Mainly because I have to do most things solo or in two-player co-op. Â On the plus side, it's meant to cut down on farming, since 'destination materials' are far easier to come by and can now be bought with vanguard marks. However, they've removed the ability to exchange fifties of destination materials for vanguard/crucible marks and rep, which kinda sucks. Â On top of that, Exotics now don't require Ascendant Shards or Energy (hooray) but you need a new Exotic Shard for the last tier... which can either be bought from Xur for 7 strange coins or from dismantling unwanted exotics ('cause they're just falling out of the sky, huh...). So you'll need to make sure you're doing the weekly heroic more... which is tricky when you can only find one other person to reliably play with. Â Annoyingly, engrams don't level up the Cryptarch as much anymore. On the plus side, purple packages have an increased chance to award legendary engrams... which will probably turn into ascendant shards or energy... of which I won't need much anymore since I don't have a chance to get anything new and decent anyway. Â I guess I can say I'm done with Destiny... for a week at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 At least they finally buffed exotic weapons. Â Most of them anyway. Â Thorn especially really needed it, and I'm glad to see they re-buffed Pocket Infinity after they over-nerfed it earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 I'm happy with it because of all those Exotic fixes. One they didn't mention is that The Last Word is now holstered on your leg like other handcannons (when playing Hunter). It always looked goofy hanging off your back. The change in upgrading Exotics too because I always saved my Ascendant Energy for Exotic weapons. Â Â Also, I've been capped at 200 Vanguard Marks, so buying materials is fantastic. I only ever had 50+ material when farming for weapons. Well, technically I've had 50+ Relic Iron twice by casually picking it up and turn it into Rep and Glimmer. It's not worth it for the time you put in dorkin' around the surface. The Cryptarch thing does bother me a bit as I had ranked up recently, but at least there's a better chance of Legendary stuff because the rate on those was ridiculously low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) So before a lot of people were satisfied with the new patch.  And then this happened today.  Game Informer Preview: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/12/03/stare-into-the-dark-below-new-details-on-the-destiny-expansion.aspx  Official Bungle Update Preview: http://www.bungie.net/7_The-Dark-Below-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12442  TL;DR  Current Exotics have the opportunity to be buffed for DLC. The process requires Xur (who's only at the Tower on weekends), the old version of your Exotic, and the new Exotic Shard. Well, Xur also has to be offering that upgrade in his limited selection of the week. Also, you'll probably spend 7 Strange Coins for the Exotic Shard, unless you feel up to dismantling an Exotic. Also all progress, that includes glimmer, planetary materials, and ascendant materials, is lost and you have to level up the Exotic again. It's stated as being faster, especially without the need for planetary materials.  One more thing, all your current beloved Legendaries are obsolete. Edited December 4, 2014 by Atomsk88 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) Yeah, everything I've heard about the upcoming stuff does not sound good. Â On top of that exotic thing, there's an extra bit with the legendaries. Â New, more powerful legendaries, great, but you need vanguard or crucible commendations to purchase them... which you only get when you level up rep. Fuck that. The game is grindy enough without adding more to it. Â There is simply not enough stuff to make it worthwhile if you can't get a regular 3 or 6 player fireteam. Â And another thought, based on that screenshot, am I seeing that Xur no longer sells exotic engrams? So Motes of Light, the thing that replaced ascendant materials from public events, are useless for anything besides some cosmetic things (or the Iron Banner gear perk rerolls?). FFS... Â I'm hoping there's still some great surprise to come... Edited December 4, 2014 by Hot Heart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 So are they retroactively giving me all those commendations I would have gotten for ranking up my Vanguard level? Â Because fuck that, I've already ranked it up so much that it takes for-fucking-ever to get a new rank. Â *Edit* - The Exotic upgrade system doesn't bother me though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Current Exotics have the opportunity to be buffed for DLC. The process requires Xur (who's only at the Tower on weekends), the old version of your Exotic, and the new Exotic Shard. Well, Xur also has to be offering that upgrade in his limited selection of the week. Also, you'll probably spend 7 Strange Coins for the Exotic Shard, unless you feel up to dismantling an Exotic. Also all progress, that includes glimmer, planetary materials, and ascendant materials, is lost and you have to level up the Exotic again. It's stated as being faster, especially without the need for planetary materials. [/b] That doesn't sound quite right. Based on the image, it looks like it'll be for whatever exotics you're carrying (says 'Equipped' but might have been for demo purpose). Otherwise you'd be screwed over on PS4 exclusives and exotic bounty ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Also, it does require planetary materials, it just doesn't require ascendant materials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Sorry, I goofed on that part. I meant to say Ascendant as all you do need is planetary material and a good amount of glimmer. The final power node requires an Exotic Shard, so technically you'll need two Exotic Shards if you want your old Exotic to be new and improved. The first for the trade-in and the second for the final power node.  However, in the Bungie Update Preview, it says (as a bullet point under New Exotic Upgrading):  Each week, Xûr will possess a selection of upgrades for existing Exotics in his inventory It sounds as if you may not be so lucky if Xur can only have, say, X amount of Exotic armor and Y amount of Exotic weapons available to view. Truth be told there are not that many Exotics yet, but it has people worried over the PlayStation exclusives. It all comes down to how there were players excited with the new Exotic changes earlier this week so they went crazy with upgrading their improved Bad JuJu, Thorn, and etc.  Now they feel like the should have left them in the Vault because all that progress will be reset if they want to upgrade for the DLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Yeah, Xur will only upgrade specific exotics at any given time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Was reading all this on my phone so missed stuff. Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty dumb if it is just a selection every weekend. Fuck, why not make the Gunsmith useful for a change instead? There are simply not enough ways to get strange coins or exotics without playing constantly and with alts, and it'll be a slog at first when they bump up the heroic and nightfall stuff too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Yeah, they really need two tiers of heroic and nightfall, at least for a while. Â Making the gunsmith do it is a really good idea. Â Works thematically too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 So, the latest Bungie weekly update has a bit more to say. Â Cool that "An upgraded Exotic is more powerful right out of the box" as demonstrated by an 'upped' Thorn starting at 302 damage. Â And apparently the missing Daily Public Event reward packages thing was a bug... or at least it not being delivered by the Postmaster is anyway. Maybe it's still meant to be useless Motes of Light. I say useless because, yep, Xur's appeared with no exotic engrams. Great... Â Other than that, things are sounding a bit more positive, but I guess we'll see. I just think most of the changes have ruined its more casual appeal for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 DeeJ commented in the subreddit that Engrams are now a sporadic occurrence in Xur's inventory. The Exotic Shard will be the consistent item each week. Â As for Public Events, I swear even the completion of Public Events is bugged because I haven't received nearly as many Shards or Energies as I use to after a successful Gold Tier rating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 How many of you big Destiny uberfans pony up $20 for the DLC so you could play this week's raid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Shows what you know, raids don't change each week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Oh, heroic strikes aren't raids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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