Destiny General Discussion Thread

cavemeister

nevelator wrote: »

From the patch notes in the weekly update:
"Fixed an issue in which clan engrams would grant Trials of the Nine and raid rewards at only 10 Power "

I thought that was a design choice rather than a bug!

I logged in last Sunday morning and the Prosecutor was waiting for me. Felt bad for doing SFA to get it but it's such a PvP beast!

CDBWhoop

Its been posted before no doubt but I saw this elsewhere (here) and there were a few I wasn't aware of so thought it might be useful.

1) The Blight - trigger this by stepping into the shadows of the little blights and then stepping out and firing at the big blight (you'll have a buff for about 4 seconds that allows you to damage the big blight before you'll need to step back into the little blight to re-buff). Do this enough and the big blight will "die" and you'll have a boss to kill.

2) Cabal (the drill) - There will be a ship that flies in, watch for it (usually around 30% and again around 60%). Unload on that thing, destroy it, and trigger the heroic.

3) Cabal...again... - For the one with the big extractor where every time you kill a psion, it starts burning you inside the bubble....after each psion dies, watch the extractor for a vent to open. First vents will open at the top (there's one on each of three sides), destroy those (they share damage - destroy one, destroy all). After those are destroyed, vents open in the middle of the extractor, if you destroy those, there will be a single vent randomly opened on a single side of the bottom - destroy this to trigger the heroic. Vents are open briefly at the beginning of the event - you can damage/destroy them at that time too

4) Glimmer extraction - At each glimmer extraction site, there will be a smaller thing on the ground that looks a little different from the other mechanical looking things. I like to think of it as the energy source - destroy it. Destroy that at each site to trigger the heroic. Don't stress if you miss one earlier - any not destroyed in earlier sites will be present at the next site

5) Vex Conflux - while you're stopping vex from sacrificing themselves, look for the wispy tendrils that are coming out from the conflux, those are leading to three different spots where you can stand in a circle and capture those points. Capture all three as quickly as possible to trigger the heroic. You have to capture all three with about 1:06 remaining to safely trigger heroic

6) Servitor - Watch for the baby servitors that feed the big one, kill them quickly to spawn the heroic (there should be one initially, and then three...need to kill all four quickly)

7) Fallen Walker - When you bust a leg, the walker spits out orbs, pick them up, put them in the holes on either side of the containment fields that unlock the cannons. Unlock all three containment fields to trigger the heroic.

8) Witch ritual - So you know how you have to stand on those circles to be able to hit the witches? Well, after you kill the witches, do the same thing and the little crystals on top of either side of the portal can be shot - destroy them to trigger the heroic.

gimli2112

The Blight one is so annoying when people join and start killing the taken. Stop it I scream STOP IT!!.... but nobody listens

Angron

gimli2112 wrote: »

The Blight one is so annoying when people join and start killing the taken. Stop it I scream STOP IT!!.... but nobody listens

When I was doing the Ether Extraction one, and there was one of the little generators left to trigger the heroic, some git dived in, blasted their super, killed everything and ended the event without getting the heroic started. To say I was annoyed would put it mildly.

I also find it a particular pain in the arse to get people to do the Vex plates properly.

SolvableKnave

[QUOTE=CDBWhoop;1048241291) The Blight - trigger this by stepping into the shadows of the little blights and then stepping out and firing at the big blight (you'll have a buff for about 4 seconds that allows you to damage the big blight before you'll need to step back into the little blight to re-buff). Do this enough and the big blight will "die" and you'll have a boss to kill.[/QUOTE]

Until today, I have been one of those fuppin eejits killing the little blights. I now know what I have been doing wrong and repent all my transgressions and sins.

ItsHoggie

My clan rewards were only 286 but I was 289

Mitch Connor

ItsHoggie wrote: »

My clan rewards were only 286 but I was 289

Which clan rewards? Your stuff for other people doing things or you doing things?

Engrams from others completing activities will drop below your light level. You get a power legendary engram for getting your own weekly contribution done though, i believe.

Generic Dreadhead

That reply can be read in a variety of tones

ItsHoggie

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Which clan rewards? Your stuff for other people doing things or you doing things?

Engrams from others completing activities will drop below your light level. You get a power legendary engram for getting your own weekly contribution done though, i believe.

Yeah.

Have they? I could of sworn mine were always higher until today.

syboit

gimli2112 wrote: »

The Blight one is so annoying when people join and start killing the taken. Stop it I scream STOP IT!!.... but nobody listens

Was doing that myself last week. I thought you had to kill those smaller blights, probably 5 other lads around the world shouting the same thing at me

Grayditch

After levelling up the Hunter I'm not sure I can go back to the Titan. Hunter is just so much fun.

Angron

Got my Rat King tonight, NF was a much nicer prospect this week for it. Nade spam was kind of hilarious at times. Did the prestige NF too, so can get up to 301 LL now.

ItsHoggie

My brother picked up the Pro and Destiny bundle today, he’s no interest in Destiny. He’s already traded the game in but if anyone here hasn’t got the Expansion Pass yet and would like it he’ll sell it for €25. PM If your interested.

PetKing

Ishtar Commander had been updated for Destiny 2 now, for anyone that uses it.

DeSelby83

When do we find out who has won the faction thingy? Is there a way of tracking it or will bungie just tell us when it's over?

sniper_samurai

DeSelby83 wrote: »

When do we find out who has won the faction thingy? Is there a way of tracking it or will bungie just tell us when it's over?

After reset. Bungie will show the stats in next weeks Bungie update.

OptimusTractor

PetKing wrote: »

Ishtar Commander had been updated for Destiny 2 now, for anyone that uses it.

Updated on the sly. Clever, clever creature.

DeSelby83

How do I know where the weekly flashpoints are. I thought it was supposed to be in my milestones tab? Have finished the game and am at 20. Do I have to speak to cayde every week to open it

sniper_samurai

DeSelby83 wrote: »

How do I know where the weekly flashpoints are. I thought it was supposed to be in my milestones tab? Have finished the game and am at 20. Do I have to speak to cayde every week to open it

You have to complete the mission to reopen the patrols, then return to Cayde before you can access the flashpoints.

gimli2112

DeSelby83 wrote: »

How do I know where the weekly flashpoints are. I thought it was supposed to be in my milestones tab? Have finished the game and am at 20. Do I have to speak to cayde every week to open it

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OptimusTractor

DeSelby83 wrote: »

How do I know where the weekly flashpoints are. I thought it was supposed to be in my milestones tab? Have finished the game and am at 20. Do I have to speak to cayde every week to open it

Have you done Caydes patrol mission in the EDZ?

gimli2112

Saw a video earlier testing a 265 AR v a 289 AR and a difference of 3 in the light level. Apart from the Raid where it was marginal there was no difference in damage. You'd wonder why we bother. That said I did find myself playing PvP last night for no reason.

Generic Dreadhead

Took 6.5 hours to get my Titan through the campaign, 1 hour later he was 290 and that was without doing anything for Powerful Gear.
The game is wasting considerably less of my time than it's predecessor thankfully, aside from the grind from lvl12 -> lvl15

gimli2112

yeah there seems to be two points were you can't progress in the game due to level. I now know just to do a couple of heroic events but at the time it was annoying.
My alts always seems to be higher than my main which I fixed this weekend by running a NF with the master race

SeanHarty

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Took 6.5 hours to get my Titan through the campaign, 1 hour later he was 290 and that was without doing anything for Powerful Gear.
The game is wasting considerably less of my time than it's predecessor thankfully, aside from the grind from lvl12 -> lvl15

just about finished the campaign on my first alt, think I have 2-3 missions left, already level 20 I ran public events with wonda for about an hour and went from lvl 8 - 12 or 13 pretty handy which means I was able to blast through the story and not have to stop to level.

Generic Dreadhead

SeanHarty wrote: »

just about finished the campaign on my first alt, think I have 2-3 missions left, already level 20 I ran public events with wonda for about an hour and went from lvl 8 - 12 or 13 pretty handy which means I was able to blast through the story and not have to stop to level.

Also, once you complete the story and do a victory lap of the tower it jumps you straight to level 20. I think I was level 17 or so at the time.

SolvableKnave

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Also, once you complete the story and do a victory lap of the tower it jumps you straight to level 20. I think I was level 17 or so at the time.

This is very handy indeed. Just do the bare minimum required to complete the main campaign, and not worry about anything else. I cleared all missions and adventures on each planet first play through, but for the Lock, just did minimum required, and slowly doing same for Hunter.

SeanHarty

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Also, once you complete the story and do a victory lap of the tower it jumps you straight to level 20. I think I was level 17 or so at the time.

yep I knew that alright, handy bit of advice for people who don't already know it though!

just wanted to few levels so I could blast the story, finding the hunter very weak compared to the titan, in terms of taking hits, I know that's to be expected but I feel the difference is bigger in D2 than it was in D1.

PetKing

Generic Dreadhead wrote:

Took 6.5 hours to get my Titan through the campaign, 1 hour later he was 290 and that was without doing anything for Powerful Gear. The game is wasting considerably less of my time than it's predecessor thankfully, aside from the grind from lvl12 -> lvl15

Thankfully you added the part about the grind there to 15. Thought it was just me. My warlock struggled through the campaign last night. Hitting 15, I could equip legendaries and a few bits and it bumped me nicely.

gimli2112

Apart from the odd mishap like a Warsat falling on me or Raid jump puzzles I hardly died at all in D1 compared to this one. Constantly getting killed in Public Events and even bog standard strikes.