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- [D2] Xûr Megathread [2019-10-25]
- Daily Discussion - Free Talk Friday!
- My wife jokingly took over my game, told her to try the tire game, she stumbled upon a perfect game first try and got me the triumph.
- To the Titan in Mayhem on Meltdown creating endless bubbles resembling a giant caterpillar through the map
- People keep asking why Bungie hasn't nerfed Striker/OEM. I don't think they're incompetent, so one possibly is because the data hasn't supported it. Titans have the #2, #5 and #9 (worst) KDA's on console. OEM/Striker do need to be adjusted, but Titans as a whole will need some help once they are.
- Please, no more Final Blow quest steps...
- Xur is in the Hanger
- so after almost completing "undying" and playing vex offensive for hours on end, 2 things were made abundantly clear...
- How About Rewarding Ascendant Shards for Raid Completion and Prisms for Encounters
- can we get an explanation as to why wormhusk and nova warp were nerfed hard shortly after being meta yet OEM and striker have been dominant for over a year
- Bungie pls, we need a plague doctor armor set for warlock
- Xur needs an Overhaul for Veteran Players
- The total cost of masterworking your armor
- Make sure you loot the second chest to get your Divinity!
- Nightmare Hunts (Essence + Master Time-Trial Infographic)
- Where and How to Use Divinity (Interactions with Bosses / Other Weapons)
- With Halloween rolling around and Festival of the Lost just around the corner, this is just a friendly warning to be careful when celebrating!
- New Crucible Game Mode: Shaxx Himself
- The pterodactyl ship from Festival of The Lost this year took me back over 2 decades. I will absolutely be putting a red shader on this thing.
- Essence Activity Percentages
- Next April 1st we should be given an exotic quest which is long, winding and satirical at every step
- With armor 2.0 and how ornaments work how many of you would want a chance to earn previously locked off ornaments like the iron banner ornaments and crucible ornaments?
- Bungie, you did a fantastic job with Divinity.
- When a fallen is asked who their leader with the amazing dancing/singing skills is, what is their answer?
- Leviathan's Breath: You're losing ammo.
- To the Clan team in Comp with "Spooky" in their names:
| [D2] Xûr Megathread [2019-10-25] Posted: 25 Oct 2019 11:12 AM PDT Xûr, Agent of the Nine Description: A peddler of strange curios, Xûr's motives are not his own. He bows to his distant masters, the Nine. Location: Tower Hangar, behind Dead Orbit Exotic Gear:
Consumables:
Invitations:
What's a Xûr? Xûr, Agent of the Nine, is a strange vendor who randomly appears in a Public Sector in each of the Worlds, depending on the current Flashpoint. Xûr sells Exotic equipment and only takes Legendary Shards in exchange for them. TL;DR: He's the Santa Claus of Destiny and every weekend is Christmas. Sometimes he brings you what you want, sometimes he brings you coal. Mostly it's coal. When does Xûr visit? Xûr visits every Friday at 17:00 UTC and departs at reset. If you would like to see all the live conversions of Time Zones, please follow this link here. Sort comments by New to join the conversation! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Daily Discussion - Free Talk Friday! Posted: 25 Oct 2019 06:00 AM PDT Hello Guardians! Today is Free Talk Friday! Talk about whatever you'd like! Your comments need not be related to Destiny. You can post memes, twitch streams, wallpapers, or personal stories about your life. We will still be enforcing Rule 1 (reddiquette/civility) in this thread. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 09:13 AM PDT So I was just getting some Eris bounties when my wife jokingly comes and sits on my lap and says she's taking over. I'm like "well then, try the tire game". She responds "I"m just kidding, I'm going to yoga in a min so I can't play". But I told her it's right behind her, "just try it", thinking to myself it should be fun to laugh with her as the tires fly off to the sides n such. Well, the joka was entirely on me. I literally am still chuckling. I've never been able to hit the middle crater and she did all 3 first try IN SUCH A SCUFFED WAY. I present the "full run". -EDIT- gif version thanks to Mblim771_Kyle -EDIT2- Well.....shit....wow. Thank you kind stranger for my first reddit gold ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 11:23 AM PDT i <3 you if i could stop and watch you all game i would. i tried to wave but you shot me. I tried to clap but you shot me. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 01:23 PM PDT I know this is probably going to be met with a (blade) barrage of downvotes, but hear me out. I don't think Bungie is incompetent, and I don't think they're biased towards any one class. (Although I think most players, myself included, are). I'm a Titan bottom tree Sentinel main on Xbox, so my experiences are colored from that POV. The majority of reddit likely plays on PC, and the majority of players in general play Hunter, so that colors the discussion as well. To avoid bias and subjectivity, let's look at the true data around subclass performance. I completely understand the frustration with Striker and OEM, especially on PC. The stats bear that out, Striker is the best subclass on PC if you're looking at win % and KDA. However on console, where the majority of players play, it is a completely different story. Here, Striker is the *only* above-average subclass Titans even have, and it's win % and KDA's are is still a good bit lower than Arcstrider's. I don't want to necessarily get too into it, but Hunter's agility combined with the FOV/input device play a huge role here in the platform differences. Yes, Striker's super is incredibly strong (and is getting rightfully nerfed) Yes, OEM is extremely powerful. And yes, they both need to be adjusted. But even WITH those broken things, Titans are STILL outclassed on console by Arcstriders. I know how frustrating playing against Striker/OEM players can be, I play against them too. I main bottom tree Sentinel and I just wish my goddamn subclass actually worked properly. So to answer the question of "why hasn't this been nerfed yet?!?!!?", it's because, objectively, it's likely one of the few things keeping Titans competitive. I only hope that when Bungie kills the only two reasons to play Titan they buff up some of the other subclasses and give Titans an alternative to OEM Striker. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please, no more Final Blow quest steps... Posted: 25 Oct 2019 06:17 AM PDT I would be fine with increased requirements, but final blows cause unnecessary competition between team mates. It feels contradictory to what Destiny is all about. Edit: for a bit more clarification, I don't want something easier or shorter. I just want quest steps to be something I do with my buddies, not against them. We the quest step in Vex Offensive the other night and I finished before them because every kill I got was one they couldn't have. I'd just like to see more collaborative (or at least somewhat mutual) steps, because playing together is always more fun than playing against each other. Also, thanks to whoever gave the gold and silver. That's the first I've ever received them and I don't even know what to do with it!!! [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| How About Rewarding Ascendant Shards for Raid Completion and Prisms for Encounters Posted: 25 Oct 2019 05:35 AM PDT So, we all know that the raids only give legendary gear as a reward (other than GoS), which doesn't exactly promote playing the older raids except for raid gear for their 2.0 versions. How about adding prisms for each encounter and a shard for completing a raid. I wouldn't make it farm-able each time, otherwise people would only do the quickest raids, but once per week per character would be fair. This would add another source for getting prisms and shards while still having the nightfall being the farm-able method. It may even encourage veteran D2 players to help the new light players get through the older raids. If that sounds like it is too rewarding and would make the nightfall useless because of guaranteed prisms and shards from raids, then maybe have a featured raid or 2 per week with the rewards. I just want to be able to do the old raids for fun, but still be able to progress in some way by doing them. As it stands, master-working just one set of armor for 1 character is extremely expensive or requires a massive time investment. And if you masterwork 1 piece and then get a better piece, or want to have different builds, you are either out of luck or Destiny is you job. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bungie pls, we need a plague doctor armor set for warlock Posted: 25 Oct 2019 05:22 AM PDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xur needs an Overhaul for Veteran Players Posted: 25 Oct 2019 10:50 AM PDT So I go find Xur today and I see that again, his lootpool for the week is the exact same as what you can reaccquire from collections. I understand that Xur is there to sell exotics people don't have and yes that is a very good thing but with the affinity tied to armor now getting the actual exotic is only half the grind. I guess I'm just confused why Xur can't benefit new and existing players with his lootpool. I don't think it'd be unreasonable if Xur would just sell exotics with random affinity's. And if it happened to be the same as collections here or there, then that's fine. But to have it every week be the same static roll seems kinda pointless to me. I think that this would be less of an issue if we had a way to reroll only exotic armor affinities. Have Xur sell an expensive consumable that would allow you to reroll an exotic armor piece once per week? I don't know. Just kinda sucks being a verteran player and not being able to look forward to Xur anymore besides a fated engram that has a 50/50 chance of giving me a weapon. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The total cost of masterworking your armor Posted: 25 Oct 2019 04:06 AM PDT Apologies in advance for the lengthy read everyone. I'll start this whole thing off with the raw data so you guys can view it right at the start. After seeing how important masterworking armor was in 2.0 I noticed it was taking a bit to mw my gear so i decided to get the raw total amount of items you would need to get solely thru banshee and it looks like this: enhancement prism:
for mwing armor you will need 3 enhancement prisms for legendaries, 5 for exotics. ascendent shard needed for tier 10 of mw:
so the total items needed for 1 ascendent shard is:
for legendary items you need 1 ascendent shard to mw 3 for exotics. so to mw one exotic you need:
so to fully masterwork a full set of armor with 1 exotic piece soley thru banshee you will need the following: Enhancement prism total cost:
Ascendent shard total cost:
grand total of:
furthermore that method is by no means a guranteed way of earning your enhancement prisms and ascendant shards needed for the final boost to your armor is only gotten from the final tier. Ya know the one in the above video. And the ascendant shards in tier 4 are by no means guranteed and are an uncommon drop. And like with all aspects of rng you could go through and never get one. Meaning yet again banshee n the battlepass are our best means to get these. Most can go hey the old system MWing wasn't to important so i don't see the need really to do it now. However Masterworking your armor at current if you do all 5 pieces of armor grants you +10 in all stats. That's a big difference thats the equivalent of having a single mod for each stat on. Furthermore you also get all 10 mod slots so your gear can statistically become better by having more stuff on it. Which leads us into the final problem. Polarities and the rng of armor 2.0 as a whole. Fellow redditor JpDeathBlade did a great writeup on how 2.0 rolls stats recently. This means your god roll armor is that much important and the question of should i invest or wait out getting that slightly better roll becomes an even bigger question. Plus polarities weighing the whole ordeal down. In what way does this astronomical cost which gives a statistical advantage in all content increase build diversity? Increase what we can do with our builds when we can truly only ever have one set of armor. The last question i'll leave off on is this: What of next season when we might need new armor with a new mod slot to do the new content? TLDR Armor 2.0 masterworking costs are incredibly high further restricting the concept of build diversity. As masterworked armor gives incredible statistical advantages to its peasant counterpart. This is further damaged by polarity system and everything else that goes with it and needs be addressed. EDIT 1: I posted this then yeeted myself to sleep but i've been browsing all the comments i can since then. IN regards to my tldr comment about peasant armor poorly worded I'll admit but I'd like to examine the benefits to masterworked armor real quick. You get a plus ten to all stats which seems small however what this does is raise your floor. Right now I have an int and strength mod attached to my gear to bring it out of the stat danger zone so to speak. As with my current preferred armor. I have less than 10 int. leading to a seven minute super time. Masterwork armor could save me 8 mod points at current as I wouldn't need to band-aid over the gaps. On top of actively saving me mod energy I now have an extra 3 points of mod energy to spend. Allowing me to consider additional enhanced mods, Ie: momentum transfer or enhanced ashes to assets. Or making higher tier nightmare hunts a tad easier. Bungie said its goal with this system was to allow more build diversity but due to the 2.0 polarities and masterwork system I have simply resorted to using a single build. Rather than have my raid armor, pvp armor, gambit armor etc. As they suggested in some of their vidocs and TWABs. And as for Nightfall grinding while i did slightly address it. Its still not a guranteed drop and that is my main issue with it. Having to run the same strike till my eyes bleed potentially 100 times for a puck for all my fav exotics n armor pieces simply doesn't respect my time or my desire to have fun doing the other content i enjoy in this game. EDIT 2: Bolded solely thru banshee for better visibility at start n total cost sections and added bullet points where i forgot them. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make sure you loot the second chest to get your Divinity! Posted: 25 Oct 2019 08:17 AM PDT Had a guy last night rage quit because he saw Divinity popping up for everyone else but him. Started cursing Bungie and the game and left the fireteam immediately. He was still in the party as we were all yelling for him to hold on and we asked if he popped the chest, he answered no. Once we explained that and he realized he couldn't rejoin because we already beat the boss he really went off. I'm sure this is Super Obvious Advice for most of you and yeah that guy did that to himself but just wanted to put it out there for other quick to temper Guardians. EDIT: I put this in a comment but I want it to be known the Guardian in question was a great raid team member. Helpful, encouraging, would make lighthearted jokes after a wipe, and no toxicity at all. I didn't make this post to call him out for rage quitting but rather to maybe help someone else out to not make the same mistake. I can definitely understand his frustration from spending hours trying to accomplish something only to feel shafted by thinking he didn't achieve his goal. Remember that we all struggle in different ways to find the Light in this crazy world. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nightmare Hunts (Essence + Master Time-Trial Infographic) Posted: 25 Oct 2019 10:57 AM PDT Eyes up, Guardians! I come bearing a new infographic for all of your Nightmare Essence and Time-Trial needs! Times will be updated as more Nightmare Hunts go into the rotation for Master difficulty. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Where and How to Use Divinity (Interactions with Bosses / Other Weapons) Posted: 25 Oct 2019 12:30 PM PDT Divinity is a really weird gun. Understanding the math behind it and all of its weird, one-off interactions is key to getting the best use out of this gun. In the right hands it makes DPS phases considerably easier for your entire team and is a solid gun in its own right; in the wrong hand it's a beam of -50% damage. Benefits of DivinityDivinity's main perk is that it spawns a bubble on a boss that causes all shots that hit it to crit, and buffs damage done to the boss by 25% (independent of all other damage buffs and enemy debuffs). +25% damage means that Divinity follows the rules of Banner Shield from the Forsaken era. You break even with a fireteam of 5, and gain about 5% total team damage with a fireteam of 6. Divinity is slightly better than Banner Shield was, however, because it actually does damage itself. This leads to two use cases:
As an actual gun, Divinity has slightly lower DPS than Coldheart, which puts it below most special weapons but above primaries and LMGs. A respectable placing for a gun you're mainly using just for a buff. The Double Crit BugI previously made a post describing a bug where Divinity was overriding the crit multipliers of bosses with doubled crit multipliers, effectively halving your DPS. There's one critical thing we've learned since then: only Divinity's crit spot overrides the crit multiplier. Turns out that the +25% damage buff and the crit spot are two separate effects. In other words, on affected bosses, you're fine if you can manage to shoot the boss's normal crit spot and not the Divinity bubble. There are 5 bosses with doubled crit multipliers, and whether or not divinity is safe to use on them depends on where the bubble spawns and if it covers a crit spot:
Basically, just don't bring Divinity to Last Wish and you'll be alright. OdditiesIn no particular order:
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| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 12:45 PM PDT Rumors are that people have been finding THESE in their Halloween candy. Just keep one eye out and be safe! I put a truly unnecessary amount effort into this joke [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Crucible Game Mode: Shaxx Himself Posted: 25 Oct 2019 05:57 AM PDT 7 Players. 7 rounds of 2:00 minutes. One player is randomly selected each round to be empowered meaning they can choose a roaming super and have it up the entire round. They also have increased ability regen, resilience, mobility, and recovery. The remaining 6 Guardians are suppressed and cannot use Supers or abilities. Guns only. The round continues until the time is up or the Empowered Guardian is killed. The player with the most kills as the Empowered Guardian wins. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 12:49 PM PDT I did a quick search and didn't see this data anywhere so I put together a quick chart of what activities on the Moon grant activity percentage for the essences:
Also forgot to mention a list of activities that don't count towards Activity Percentage: *Confirmed that the second round of the Vex Offensive does not give Activity %. EDIT POST: to add Vex Offensive (thanks to TheVenerated1 for the tip) [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next April 1st we should be given an exotic quest which is long, winding and satirical at every step Posted: 25 Oct 2019 01:19 AM PDT And after grinding for it for a day or so you finally finish it, and get the reward. An ancient exotic Sparrow, pre-Golden Age. A bicycle, with a speed of 20. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bungie, you did a fantastic job with Divinity. Posted: 25 Oct 2019 03:58 AM PDT Divinity is a very, very, very good weapon for support, the weapon damage itself is not bad but not great either and it's first function is support and DPS last. The quest was fun (especially the last puzzle) and the way you can you support the team by sacrificing your damage is worth it all the way by debuffing the enemy. Bungie, you really hit home with weapon and you really should make more unique weapons like this who have utility perks like this one. I expected this from Lumina from its healing function but alas it didn't do that much or should I say it was underwhelming and I hope you can rework the weapon. Not every exotic should be a DPS weapon and Divinity is a prime example of this point. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Leviathan's Breath: You're losing ammo. Posted: 25 Oct 2019 04:55 AM PDT Leviathan's Breath is weird, or at least the way it interacts with the heavy weapons ammo economy when you switch weapons. If you are using Leviathan's Breath, you can also use most of another exotic heavy weapon's total ammo supply (55%) before switching to Leviathan's Breath, which will be at full ammo. A large chunk of ammo from a previous weapon can be used (~55%), before switching to Leviathan's Breath which will have full ammo reserves. To calculate this, I first tested all exotic heavy weapons in the tribute hall. Procedure: Fill Test heavy weapon with ammo from Ammo Synth. Use X amount of heavy weapon ammo change to bow, If bow has full ammo, switch back to test weapon and refill, this time using slightly more ammo, inching the gap. If bow ammo becomes less than 10, I backtrack 1 ammo at a time to find the exact amount of ammo that can be used for free Terminology: Amount Free: I tested how much ammo could be used by taking Max Ammo – Remaining Ammo After Test = Amount Free, to calculate Amount Free as doing it this way resolves extraneous variables like Mulligan on Whisper of The Worm causing unintended variance in results. Mag Size: Total magazine size of the exotic (Some are MW'd) Total Ammo: Total ammunition capacity of the exotic Boring Stats (for Nerds): Using the Pearson's correlation coefficient, I measured the correlation between variables to test if there is a strict ratio as to how much ammo is granted "for free" depending on that weapon's total ammo capacity. I also tested Amount Free against Magazine size, but this proved to be an irrelevant variable (r=0.77862) In correlation with Amount Free. When comparing Amount Free to Total Ammo Capacity, we see an extremely strong correlation to Maximum ammo size (r=0.99948) From a look at the graph it is fairly clear to see that there is a strong correlation between how much ammo is allocated for free, and the mag size. From there I summed and averaged Free Ammo/Total Ammo Capacity, (9 .497622/17 = 0.558) Boring Data (for nerds): (Note: tests done with some weapons masterworked. Mag sizes represent that.) TOO LONG: TITAN CANT READ If you're using ward cliff at full ammo, and fire 3 shots, you can switch to Leviathans Breath and have full ammo for it. [link] [comments] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To the Clan team in Comp with "Spooky" in their names: Posted: 25 Oct 2019 08:04 PM PDT I was matched with a two stack whose clan name was in a foreign language. You guys just stomped us super hard. Like, embarrassingly, hilariously so. I was the last guardian standing, jumping in the air repeatedly to give you guys an easy shot, but instead, you all came over and we danced/huddled etc. When it felt like time, I shot at the ground, and your Titan graciously put me out of my misery. I just wanted you to know, that was the "one more" game I needed for Recluse. Thank you for making it quick, painless, and absolutely memorable. I shall name my new best friend "Spooky Recluse" in your honor. [link] [comments] |
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