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super macho dude
Aug 9, 2014


Graviton Lance just seems so underwhelming as an exotic, aside from the large mag, it's perk doesn't seem to do much of anything.

Also, is there a reason to keep the eververse armor stuff that only had 10 defense aside from infusing it because it looks pretty?

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Zedsdeadbaby
Jun 14, 2008

You have been called out, in the ways of old.
The implications behind the sham speaker is more significant than most realize, he's the unreliable narrator for both d1 and d2. The intros to both were given by him. They're clearly horse poo poo, especially when different interpretations of the darkness exist in Destiny society. Who knows what the pyramid entities really are

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
That is the only reason, can't get those looks anywhere else.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?

super macho dude posted:

Graviton Lance just seems so underwhelming as an exotic, aside from the large mag, it's perk doesn't seem to do much of anything.

The gun sounds really cool but yeah using it in Crucible is pretty underwhelming. I don't quite understand it's perk either as yeah, doesn't seem to do anything? It says the 3rd bullet in a burst does high damage but it doesn't really seem to make a difference? Unless I'm reading it wrong.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Seems more of a PVE thing since enemies explode and take out others.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009


At least I can aim a sidearm, shitlord.


but really we cool because we like fusion rifles

kzin602
May 14, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Wazzit posted:

The gun sounds really cool but yeah using it in Crucible is pretty underwhelming. I don't quite understand it's perk either as yeah, doesn't seem to do anything? It says the 3rd bullet in a burst does high damage but it doesn't really seem to make a difference? Unless I'm reading it wrong.

It looks and sounds cool, the explosion does a little bit of damage but not as much as the solar hand cannon. Every 4th shot does do a bit of extra damage and you'll notice this if you chain headshots in PvE but the gun's damage is somewhat underwhelming so it's a wash.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

xzzy posted:

At least I can aim a sidearm, shitlord.


but really we cool because we like fusion rifles

did you have to unplug your keyboard from your XIM to type that!!!

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

No, I bought a one handed keyboard.

It's proven very useful for finding porn too. As long as the stuff I'm searching for only needs letters on the left side of the G key.

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.
So what class/subclass have other hunters been using in strikes?

I've been using nightstalker pathfinder because i like being able to smoke bomb (both mechanically and it's just fun to me).
Is gunslinger sharpshooter more optimal though, with practice makes perfect allowing you to use golden gun faster?

E: I've been using and infused sunshot with cayde's lucky pants (which i love)

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

You should always use nightstalker the orb generation is amazing

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

actionjackson posted:

You should always use nightstalker the orb generation is amazing

done and done.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog
A lot of Nightfall guides said to use an Arc subclass and dump Super DPS on the boss.

For a Striker Titan, which will do more single target Super DPS - Dunk - melee - melee - melee - melee - melee?

Or just Dunk Dunk Dunk till it's all gone?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
I would guess all dunks plus the sub-subclass that leaves behind a damage field.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

FishBulb posted:

So hey where's Eris

Where's Eris at?

Even though she died on the way to her home planet, it's like, where is she? She's so cool.

Carmant posted:

You have to pay 60 dollars for this game then they constantly try to goad you into spending more money and people who buy it on the PC and XBOX one get less content for the same price

Hmm. Tell us about God. Does He exist? Or are we all sheeple? What about eating meat? Is is morally correct or no?

Zedsdeadbaby posted:

Pluto isn't a planet you loving neanderthal

Yes it is. Sorry.

A minor planet, the most major of centaurs.

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot
so it's totally cool to just start dismantling garbo exotics for the shards right? infusing can only do so much

96 spacejam
Dec 4, 2009

mikeraskol posted:

I'm pretty new and still figuring stuff out but any way you can expand a little bit on the switching guns. Obviously I understand that you mean some guns are better for pvp and some are better for pve stuff. But which are better, in your view? And are you talking a specific gun in particular?

Don't know if someone answered this for you cause this thread is moving stupid fast. If you go into a Strike Playlist gear and weapons are normalized. You retain all the special perks on your gear but if a fresh 20 joined vs a PL280 the level fresh Guardian's gun would hit the same as as the exotics / legendary of the 280. So or example for PvP I use a high impact Pulse or AR, Scout w/ explosive perk or my Mida Mini-Tool and Sword or Rocket Launcher. Those are my mains but I swap depending on the map size, does it have long open areas? Is it mainly close quarters? These are things you want to think about.

Basically just use whatever you're comfortable with. It may take some time if you didn't play D1 but there is literally a perfect load out for everyone, you just gotta find it and maybe it'll include grey or green guns. For example some people think the first AR you get in the game, Pariah, is great for PvP. It's a pretty mid range impact AR. Personally I love hard hitting ARs that shoot slower but 1-2 head shots will down an opponent. Others like a AR that has almost no impact but may have a 60+ clip and insane rate of fire. Again just play around and don't worry about dying so much (play the objective anyways) and you'll figure it out.

The one caveat to this is Iron Banner or whatever they're calling it now. Gear for that event does matter and does not normalize.

If I got this wrong or if it changed from D1 someone please correct me. I'm operating under the above but as I was writing it out I realized I never looked up how D2 PvP was, I just assumed it was the same as D1. Feels like it so far.

Balthesar
Sep 4, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
Zavala was pretty annoying in this campaign with the constant oo-rah speeches and dumb dialog.

*loses light for like 5 days tops*
We got our light back!
Zavala: What? Impossible!

If he weren't voiced by one of my favorite TV actors I would really hate the character.

mikeraskol
May 3, 2006

Oh yeah. I was killing you.
I didn't quite understand why Zavala's next few sentences were not:

"How?"

"Ok guys let's get to this forest and check this shard thing out."

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Balthesar posted:

Zavala was pretty annoying in this campaign with the constant oo-rah speeches and dumb dialog.

*loses light for like 5 days tops*
We got our light back!
Zavala: What? Impossible!

If he weren't voiced by one of my favorite TV actors I would really hate the character.

"So where did you get your light? We could use some too"

"Not telling"

"Come on, don't be a dick"

hiddenriverninja
May 10, 2013

life is locomotion
keep moving
trust that you'll find your way

Ghost just keeps on interrupting you because it's the only way he feels better about himself.

Mr. Kurtz
Feb 22, 2007

Here comes the hurdy gurdy man.
Woah, that's pretty cool how when you get to LL 280 you can upgrade a bunch of your blue mods to purple mods. I was able to upgrade a bunch of my favorite guns/armors past 280 super fast after that.

What's up with all the drills? The tagline should have been Destiny 2: Drill Cadey Drill.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Turdsdown Tom posted:

so it's totally cool to just start dismantling garbo exotics for the shards right? infusing can only do so much

You can always buy another one later, they're all in your Collection.

Balthesar posted:

Zavala was pretty annoying in this campaign with the constant oo-rah speeches and dumb dialog.

*loses light for like 5 days tops*
We got our light back!
Zavala: What? Impossible!

If he weren't voiced by one of my favorite TV actors I would really hate the character.

Yeah. Same.

Your Ghost says something about there only being little bits of Light left in the shards but if I were Zuvuzela I'd want to know.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
The Cabal just loves drilling poo poo.

My light is in the high 270s but all my drops are around 272, what's the next step here? I already burned all my Powerful Gear drops so just grind heroic events and wait for the reset tomorrow?

INTJ but horny
Feb 3, 2011

AH, YES.
YOU FOUND MY
LAIR'S SECRET
ENTRANCE.
I do enjoy the voidwalker tracking orb
https://gfycat.com/MeanArtisticIvorygull

mikeraskol
May 3, 2006

Oh yeah. I was killing you.

96 spacejam posted:

Don't know if someone answered this for you cause this thread is moving stupid fast. If you go into a Strike Playlist gear and weapons are normalized. You retain all the special perks on your gear but if a fresh 20 joined vs a PL280 the level fresh Guardian's gun would hit the same as as the exotics / legendary of the 280. So or example for PvP I use a high impact Pulse or AR, Scout w/ explosive perk or my Mida Mini-Tool and Sword or Rocket Launcher. Those are my mains but I swap depending on the map size, does it have long open areas? Is it mainly close quarters? These are things you want to think about.

Basically just use whatever you're comfortable with. It may take some time if you didn't play D1 but there is literally a perfect load out for everyone, you just gotta find it and maybe it'll include grey or green guns. For example some people think the first AR you get in the game, Pariah, is great for PvP. It's a pretty mid range impact AR. Personally I love hard hitting ARs that shoot slower but 1-2 head shots will down an opponent. Others like a AR that has almost no impact but may have a 60+ clip and insane rate of fire. Again just play around and don't worry about dying so much (play the objective anyways) and you'll figure it out.

The one caveat to this is Iron Banner or whatever they're calling it now. Gear for that event does matter and does not normalize.

If I got this wrong or if it changed from D1 someone please correct me. I'm operating under the above but as I was writing it out I realized I never looked up how D2 PvP was, I just assumed it was the same as D1. Feels like it so far.

Thanks, this is very helpful.

96 spacejam
Dec 4, 2009

Mr. Kurtz posted:

Woah, that's pretty cool how when you get to LL 280 you can upgrade a bunch of your blue mods to purple mods. I was able to upgrade a bunch of my favorite guns/armors past 280 super fast after that.


Wait what how do you do that? I'm LL 273 and have gotten all of 1 purple mod. I need those +5s.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

haveblue posted:

The Cabal just loves drilling poo poo.

My light is in the high 270s but all my drops are around 272, what's the next step here? I already burned all my Powerful Gear drops so just grind heroic events and wait for the reset tomorrow?

You should run a second titan with me tonight

Javes
May 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.

96 spacejam posted:

Wait what how do you do that? I'm LL 273 and have gotten all of 1 purple mod. I need those +5s.

Gunsmith

96 spacejam
Dec 4, 2009

mikeraskol posted:

Thanks, this is very helpful.

Let's make sure it's 100% correct first. I'm pretty sure it is but again I never bothered to look up any PvP changes from D1 -> D2. However I've done quite a bit of PvP and it feels the same if not better.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

actionjackson posted:

You should run a second titan with me tonight

Nah I'm gonna do all 3 classes eventually. High 270s is almost certainly raid ready anyway so I'll try to get in on one this week.

96 spacejam
Dec 4, 2009

Javes posted:

Gunsmith

Hover over the mods in your pack or what? I thought the only way was from bright grams or randoming from his blue. I have basically a full inventory of blue mods going unused as the items I'm finding now all have had (luckily) decent mods.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

96 spacejam posted:

Hover over the mods in your pack or what? I thought the only way was from bright grams or randoming from his blue. I have basically a full inventory of blue mods going unused as the items I'm finding now all have had (luckily) decent mods.

Be 280, talk to Gunsmith. He has a feature where you trade in 3x of a blue for 1x purple.

Funkmaster General
Sep 13, 2008

Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob. :colbert:

I went back to the farm for the first time last night since beating the game and apparently all the NPCs that moves to the tower ACTUALLY moved there and are compeltely gone from the farm, rather than being at both places.

So, uh, I guess I was the one being weird and dumb a few days ago talking about using the farm instead of the tower. Didn't realize this.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

haveblue posted:

The Cabal just loves drilling poo poo.


It fits with their general aesthetic of being the guys who just obliterifuck everything to get the job done. Wasn't their a grimoire card that said their preferred way of dealing with one guardian that wasn't near something they wanted to keep was to just orbital strike the whole area and write it off.

VanillaGorilla
Oct 2, 2003

I mean if you hit a plateau this week literally just wait like 24 hours and you'll have easy access to like 3-4 powerful engrams that will shoot your poo poo up before raid time.

If you're 270 after week 1 then you're probably just fine and way ahead of the curve.

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.
Also, kinda random gripe: i didn't like how even though your character is imported (and you get the art of your accomplishments), nothing else matters.

Biggest, maybe easiest thing: You fly back in a pelican a nondescript ship and get shot out of the sky. Okay. Why couldn't they judt render whatever ship you had and adjust the impact point of the shot that blasts you out of the sky?
I know there might be some engine/graphics stuff, and the extra work with working the models for the old ships in (when they won't be used beyond that), but i feel like it would've been a nice touch that just added to the connection you feel, making it YOUR character with YOUR ship.

I liked my Quite Content Damsel, maybe more than the random drop legendary ship i have now (which is still pretty cool).


Thank you for listening to me thinking about this too much.

Funkmaster General
Sep 13, 2008

Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob. :colbert:

I got an exotic sparrow with the "transmats in faster" perk and I thought that was a real lame perk, but by "faster" they mean "instantly," and you don't even need to hold the button down, just tap it. You can summon it so fast that if you summon, jump off, summon again, you can manage to get three of them out before the first one finishes the fading away animation.

Still probably not the coolest perk a sparrow can have, but certainly nicer than I thought, especially with the much higher exotic sparrow speed, you can zip around planets like a regular hedgehog.

suddenlyissoon
Feb 17, 2002

Don't be sad that I am gone.
Anyone for nightfall on PS4? PSN: rememberforget

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limited
Dec 10, 2005
Limited Sanity

Balthesar posted:

Zavala was pretty annoying in this campaign with the constant oo-rah speeches and dumb dialog.

*loses light for like 5 days tops*
We got our light back!
Zavala: What? Impossible!

If he weren't voiced by one of my favorite TV actors I would really hate the character.
Ditto. From what I've seen, the 'head' guardians all seem to be hilariously inept in their own ways. I can't tell if it's just to make your character seem all the more awesome, or just bad writing.

The intro makes it seem like the entire city had spent some time just sitting around picking it's nose, paying no attention to the HUGE MENACING STORM OF DARKNESS outside the walls, or the fact all their radars and defences had been completely hosed as soon as it started.

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