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Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game?
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May 5, 2024 04:27
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You could play an Arc Hunter with Assassin's Cowl or Liar's Handshake which allows you to mostly ignore guns and depending on how far into endgame activities you go you might never need to play anything else.
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May 5, 2024 04:32
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Potato Salad posted:Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game? Sounds like you want to play a Titan; they have the most melee friendly abilities. While the game is primarily a shooter, there are swords and glaives you can equip, and with the proper builds you can use your melee abilities almost 100% of the time. The solar subclass' hammers are probably the easiest to get started with.
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May 5, 2024 04:39
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There are ways of playing hunter and never running out of knives as long as you keep hitting stuff with them, and also bonkhammer 40,000 if you're a titan. Solar warlocks can get silly fast refresh on their melee if they have an incandescent weapon, and void can get a funky loop of gods / grenade / melee recharging each other, but nothing really on the scale of solar titans & hunters.
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May 5, 2024 05:12
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First time running Warlords Ruin. 4 drops. 4 arm armor. What the gently caress. Armor is the most useless drop in the game, I've been using the same set for years. I dont want anymore. I want guns.
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May 5, 2024 05:35
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Potato Salad posted:Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game? It's very possible to do a fully melee oriented build, especially nowadays with Strand Titan. You'll want SOMETHING that can hit at range to compliment it, but you can do most content by just beating the hell out of things. Just be aware that it'll take some doing, and it'll be a bit before you have all of the parts needed that such a build requires.
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May 5, 2024 06:00
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I’ve had a good time with vexcalibur as a melee only build. Once it gets going the overshield complements you being in the middle of everything.
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May 5, 2024 06:13
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Vexcalibur should really be a sword, even if just visually
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May 5, 2024 06:26
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Mustang posted:Armor is the most useless drop in the game, I've been using the same set for years. I dont want anymore. I want guns. Don't let them hear you talking this way, you know what happened last time. RBA Starblade posted:Vexcalibur should really be a sword, even if just visually Absolutely baffling decision.
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May 5, 2024 06:35
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Potato Salad posted:Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game? off the top of my head: If you're talking about true, pure melee and actively not shooting: Titans have four exotics: Insurmountable Skullfort that fully refunds arc melees on kill and Stronghold that boosts swords stats and allows you to heal after blocking Warlocks: Winter's Guile: boosts damage after each melee kill Necrotic Grips: poisons enemies that spread said poison when they die Aside from the mentioned Liar’s build, there's a sword focused Void Hunter add clear build that uses Gambler's dodge, Radiant Dance Machines with invis dodge and shadow dive. Essentially, the loop is: - dodge near an enemy to get smoke bomb back and activate multi dodge - shadow dive to apply weaken - kill enemies to extend multi dodge timer and refresh smoke (a sword like Goldtusk that can get tireless blade/chain reaction is good here) - go back to step 1 It's been fun to use in Onslaught so far. Is triton vice good now? I remember it being straight trash when it released.
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May 5, 2024 06:39
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Potato Salad posted:Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game? To build on my above post: You're going to want to unlock Strand by doing the Lightfall campaign, get the Banner of War Aspect and then pick up a glaive. Glaives have improved melee attacks and aren't that difficult to come by - you can get a very solid craftable one (which means you can pick any perks you want) from the Witch Queen campaign. Eventually you'll probably want to trade it out for one of the Exotic Glaives, likely Vexcalibur or Winterbite, depending on how dedicated to Melee you are. As for Exotic Armors, you'll want either Wormgod Caress or Synthoceps, both of which are unfortunately random drops but can be purchased directly from a vendor in the Tower (although not cheaply). These things combined will make you into an extremely tough and very damaging melee combatant.
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May 5, 2024 07:01
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hiddenriverninja posted:Is triton vice good now? I remember it being straight trash when it released. Another melee build I've played around with was Vexcalibur with ACD-10 Feedback Fence with a void subclass build. You can either use the shield generation from Vex, use a Bulwark finisher to get a void overshield you maintain with more melee kills, or you can use the "when you have low health, kills grant you an overshield". Add to that devour and you're usually running around surviving a lot while punishing whatever trash hits you with melee attacks. Main problem I have with these builds is you're often missing the means to deal with champions, which, while a glaive shield lets you tank some pretty serious punishment (unstoppable ogre stomps, stuff like that) any concerted fire from other directions or splash damage (surrounded or getting assailed by wizards) will kill you pretty fast. Though a glaive is a special ammo weapon, it can't crit and doesn't have splash damage, which makes its shooting damage profile pretty meh. Also, even with the full auto melee setting, occasionally the glaive will do 3 strikes and "hang"
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May 5, 2024 07:05
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Just gonna mention it, Throwing Hammer + Severance Enclosure absolutely rules this season. It's a melee build with pretty great red bar clearing in the form of chain reaction explosions from a single throwing hammer that you can pick back up and toss again almost instantly! Toss in Sunshot for ranged backup and you're basically golden.
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May 5, 2024 08:22
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Finally got Buried Bloodline after a month of running the boss checkpoint x3 (with all the drop bonuses except solo clear). Knocked out the catalyst right after. Now I gotta power up the catalyst by getting kills. Congrats, I finally got one doin my master clear last week and then got one again this week helping someone out. Now i just need to finish off my hunter armour to be done with it forever.
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May 5, 2024 08:44
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I need to do a master Warlords for my rank 11 too. Do you need to do the whole thing or just the last boss?
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May 5, 2024 10:16
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Whole thing, but it can be done with a team.
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May 5, 2024 13:20
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I’m stuck on getting commendations for guardian rank because literally no one gives a poo poo about those anymore and stopped giving them out to others. Real cool system. I’ll eventually get it from giving out commendations but it’s really loving slow Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 13:39 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 13:35
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Kith posted:Whole thing, but it can be done with a team. Yeah ticks off per encounter
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May 5, 2024 13:39
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I’ve had a good time with vexcalibur as a melee only build. Once it gets going the overshield complements you being in the middle of everything. I really like caster swords, shame the arc & solar ones aren't available any more. The arc one (temptation's hook) is loving broken if you can hit a boss with a charged projectile and have boss spec and vorpal, something breaks in the calculations and takes off a huge chunk of health over time. Switching between that and Witherhoard + catalyst is one of my favourite non-legendary loadouts because it does so much DoT burn.
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May 5, 2024 14:10
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I’m stuck on getting commendations for guardian rank because literally no one gives a poo poo about those anymore and stopped giving them out to others. Simply farm them by having immaculate drip
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May 5, 2024 14:18
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I haven't had a tonne of chance to play this season compared to others, but the highest rank requires a commendation score of 1800 and I have nearly 2000. I very rarely finish an activity without some sort of token commend being throw at me and to others as a minimum. Maybe just lovely luck because yeah, they be getting thrown around everywhere I'm at.
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May 5, 2024 14:40
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syntaxfunction posted:I haven't had a tonne of chance to play this season compared to others, but the highest rank requires a commendation score of 1800 and I have nearly 2000. I very rarely finish an activity without some sort of token commend being throw at me and to others as a minimum. Maybe just lovely luck because yeah, they be getting thrown around everywhere I'm at.
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May 5, 2024 15:17
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Whoever's top of the leaderboard gets the colour that's not red, then whoever's barbie is prettiest gets best dressed. E: loading times on last gen were so abysmal I have only been able to do this since moving to current gen - ps4 doesn't seem to be able to handle the lineup and the scoreboard so by the time the commendation screen loads the timer has run out Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 15:24
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I almost always get Best Dressed 
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May 5, 2024 16:00
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Left guy gets left commendation, right guy gets right commendation
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May 5, 2024 16:10
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Left guy gets left commendation, right guy gets right commendation
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May 5, 2024 16:21
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Think carefully about who gets best dressed, whoever’s left over gets the others at random Not putting best dressed in the endgame activity commendation menu is a big mistake
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May 5, 2024 16:23
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You should get one commendation per activity, Best Dressed should be the only option, if you don't give it out you get a 24 hour ban. If you give it to someone with bad fashion, lifetime ban.
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May 5, 2024 16:25
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Orv posted:If you don't give it to someone with
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May 5, 2024 16:27
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No, no I don't think so. To be clear, eye searingly terrible outfits are their own kind of good. Orv fucked around with this message at 16:38 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 16:28
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Grinding Onslaught is so loving boring, and you don't nearly get enough drops to justify the duration of it.
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May 5, 2024 17:55
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haveblue posted:Think carefully about who gets best dressed, whoever’s left over gets the others at random
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May 5, 2024 18:09
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haveblue posted:Not putting best dressed in the endgame activity commendation menu is a big mistake this was actually done in the name of saving raid groups. can you imagine the drama over the actual important commendation?
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May 5, 2024 18:14
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imho onslaught should be 30 waves, I think the loot is good but the double chests should be at 30 and that being the last wave. An hour to complete an activity like this is just entirely too long.
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May 5, 2024 18:51
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EVGA Longoria posted:this was actually done in the name of saving raid groups. can you imagine the drama over the actual important commendation? I only consider Hunters best dressed if they're wearing the Security Officer outfit Black and spiky is an instant lose
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May 5, 2024 19:17
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I'm definitely by far having the most fun I ever have with Destiny, though I did much prefer older expansions stories and settings. It's amazing not having to care about the pinnacle grind. In the past I never had much time to chase after guns I wanted because I was so busy each week trying to raise my light level (and the frustration of not getting the slot you need.....). If anything were to happen to Destiny, there is nothing out there even remotely close to replace it with. Especially with loadouts now, there are just so many ways to build your science fantasy shooter guy, with vert different styles of play. Wish I could get a couple friends to play with me again, but they haven't played much at all in years and I think "what should I do first?" is still pretty overwhelming for some new and returning players. No idea how Destiny could improve this though.
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May 5, 2024 19:26
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RBA Starblade posted:I only consider Hunters best dressed if they're wearing the Security Officer outfit If a hunter equips Superblack it should delete their account
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May 5, 2024 20:05
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I'm thinking of getting back into this game just to beat the main campaigns. I started witch queen but I am lost with how to just follow the campaign. Is there a guide or recommendation on what to play to get the story. I am a Day 1 D1 player.
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May 5, 2024 20:09
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Orv posted:If a hunter equips Superblack it should delete their account 
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Potato Salad posted:Are there any melee specialists in the game, like someone who would rarely draw a ranged weapon? Or is this just not that kind of game? My favorite solo casual loadout is stasis hunter with radiant dance machines. I get lots of uptime on duskfield grenades and am constantly throwing melees. I like RDM on strand as well.
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