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I had bought two bunches of those coin things, 1 exotic heavy engram because I thought for 31 coins it was going to be a year 2 weapon and after I got a 160 dragons break I bought 2 helmets and got the the new hunter helmet that glows purple flames and an updated nighthawk helmet. Saving the rest of my coins for next week's Xur. Still haven't got a proper day off since Tuesday to grind for more gear so I won't be doing the new raid this weekend. :(

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I had bought two bunches of those coin things, 1 exotic heavy engram because I thought for 31 coins it was going to be a year 2 weapon and after I got a 160 dragons break I bought 2 helmets and got the the new hunter helmet that glows purple flames and an updated nighthawk helmet. Saving the rest of my coins for next week's Xur. Still haven't got a proper day off since Tuesday to grind for more gear so I won't be doing the new raid this weekend. :(

 

 

The new raid is amazing.

 

After 4.5 hours I've made it past the first boss. Then my team were in the UK so they had to go. It's so fun. But also... incredibly challenging. Yikes.

 

Let me know if you want tips on the bosses. I'm still trying to find people to do the rest of the raid blind with.

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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Ok so on Saturday I started King's Fall with some randoms.

 

4pm-9pm: Stages 1, 2, 3 complete.

 

Sunday:

4pm-9pm: Stages 4, 5 complete

 

Sunday:

1:30am-3am: Stage 6 complete!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

OH MY GOD

Ending clip BECAUSE GODDAMN IT HYPE HAS BEEN FULFILLED.

 

 

Bye bye, Oryx!!

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I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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My brother got off the MGS5 craze and got The Taken King now. Due to my vain and wasted efforts of upgrading my armor I made it over light level 30. So I got the veteran tour rewards.

 

Got Monte Carlo as well. One of the real strong Bladedancer cheese weapons. One of the last originals I wanted and never got. The year 2 version is even better and cheesier too.

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Yay! Monte Carlo is sooo fun.

 

 

Protip: to any and all doing the Chaperone Bounty: Get a friend, go to a corner in a rumble match, take turns getting 5-6 kill streaks on each other. You'll have 100% renown in about 15 minutes. The points build up exponentially. So 1 kill is 1%, 2 kills is 2% for the kill, 3 killstreak is 5%, then like 10%, then 15, then 25 then some craziness. I found two guys on the r/fireteams subreddit to do, and for example, on Widow's Court, I got from 60% to 100% in less than 2 minutes. They both just ran up to me, double kill headshot, respawned and ran right back up to me. 

 

Very awesome, seeing as I spent my entire weekend livid at my computer because I couldn't get past 20%. 

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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I was in rumble and people were doing it. Made the whole match suffering. My pvp K/D tends to sit above 2.0 so I wouldn't even need to cheese the bounty really.

 

I threw my sapphire wire and weapon parts at Dead Orbit and got the Heliopause Cloak from the package. It looks really good.

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We always did classic rumble, because we figured most people would be in normal rumble.

Everyone, you can get a guaranteed lvl 310 exotic BLACK HAMMER Sniper rifle from the mission today. It's called the black spindle, and some are saying it took them over 20 tries to get. Yikes! It involves boarding the ketch in the daily story mission, and killing everything on board including a boss named Dreviks in less than 10 minutes.

For proof, dismantle your normal hammer, and it'll give you a rune that hints at it - funny thing is no one made the connection until after it was discovered.


God everytime I think I'm done with this game and ready for runescape again, it switches things up

 

 

Edit 10 hours later: Man, that mission is HARD. we beat it on the 2nd try with 20 seconds to spare.

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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My light was <200 so I didn't even think about doing that part when I did it. You didn't have to kill anything bar damaging the ogre so I just invisibility cheesed the daily.

 

Xur, it's time to come home! Bring Sealed Ahamkara Grasps, please.

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My work schedule is finally lighting up again for the time being so I'll be getting some more time with Destiny again. I'm currently at 249 light. I'm hoping I grind out the gear to get 290 before Tuesday's reset.

 

I just found out you can infuse gear using other classes gear! (this makes sense, as it's not explicitly barred in the infusion rules, and bungie spent the time combining materials, I just didn't think about that.) so keep that in mind when you're levelling up

 

Also, @poppet, hah, yes it is!! I finally got my younger brother (he's 22) hooked on Destiny, so now I bug him instead of spamming this thread lol. He doesn't get how epic it is that hawkmoons are being sold so early into ttk.

 

That said, I got a hawkmoon drop last week, so I bought a legacy engram hoping for hardlight, the last that I need, only to get... Year 1 hawkmoon. Doh!

 

Guys, the exotic swords are so OP. They're like abyssal whips combined with multi cannons, combined with overload potions. They decimate everything.

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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It's an Xursday miracle. Grasps and Hawkmoon.

Batman it up with nightstalker

 

Interesting post from reddit, posting it here in case it stops someone from making the same mistakes here's to hoping that the format keeps..

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3mcyj8/hindsight_after_2_weeks/?sort=confidence

 

Hindsight after 2 Weeks:

• I didn't need to buy a bunch of red bull to hit 40

 

• I shouldn't have rolled my factions over on day 1 to get 245 light gear

 

• I should have decrypted my engrams one at a time

 

• I should have tried to infuse my gear with gear from my other classes sooner

 

• I should have bought ghosts to detect all elements to make the exotic sword quest not terrible

 

• I should have spent the whole weekend farming draksis

 

• I shouldn't have decrypted my exotic engrams until I was at least light 300

 

• I should have bought more engrams from Xur last week to turn them into 310's

 

• I should have killed myself to get three black spindles instead of raiding on Tuesday to infuse more guns before they nerf it and will never drop at 310 again

 

• I should have known the suros weapons would be junk greens and not expect free legendaries

 

• I should have just levelled one class quickly and then transfer gear instead of grinding on all three

 

• I shouldn't have infused a firefly pistol that crashes my game to desktop during heroic strike boss fights (PS4, double down and vanity both do it)

 

• I shouldn't have bought any vendor gear with marks because now I have to do dailies like it's a job to get them back and 280 light really isn't that great

 

• I shouldn't have tried to do mini crota in the court with randoms that pick up the sword and then fail miserably

 

• I should have remembered how useful my Titan bubble is and not pretended like throwing hammers was a better option on that vex boss and his minotaur and hydra buddies, and basically any other hard encounter because hammers don't make that many orbs and a hunter bow super is way better crowd control anyways

 

• I should have taken a whole week off work to level up because this expansion is absolutely fantastic and I hate being an adult with responsibilities when I'm really still the 8 year old kid at heart sitting in the basement playing Nintendo until his eyes bleed

 

Edit 1: Popular question is about engrams and light. Blue/Purple/Yellow engrams decrypt in alignment with your current light level, so you want to be your maximum possible light level every time you open an engram (cryptrach) or pick up a pre-rolled item (court of oryx, end of a strike, raid drops). Yellows can open to 310 once you exceed light 300 (proven somewhere else and corroborated below.)

 

Hammers/Bubbles: I agree hammers are great for clearing a room but generally being able to not be dead for a minute or do bonus damage for a minute, along with your entire team, in any location of your choice, is a better perk for your team/self. WOL + black spindle is bananas DPS specially adding a hunter snare. Hammers are also not 1 hit KO against shielded yellow bars (from my experience). Hammers are way more fun though and are my go to skill ...

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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Batman Nightstalker is really Monte Carlo forced. I've just been running Bladedancer's stealth as it isn't so dependent on it. The melee augment is better for proc'ing the primary reload anyway.

 

One of the cool things about Grasps no one is talking about is the Universal Remote the primary shotgun reloads its whole 5 clip immediately on a melee hit. The dps is insane. Just wish it was Year 2.

 

Feels good to only have done only like two of those the one at a time engram and putting higher light on. Bladedancer super is like worst super in the game right now compared to all these nice new ones. At least you have a "nicer" super that will help contribute. Not to mention swords actually do more damage and have so much ammo.

 

Got Telesto from exotic buff. It's like a lower damage secondary rocket launcher. It's so good I'd use it with Nightstalker if Monte wasn't a better choice.

 

The Echo Chamber strike makes me feel so useful as Hunter. You can cheese the "whole thing" for your team.

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I got my light as high as 278 this weekend, infused a few items which dropped my light down to I think around 275 running the gear I like. Hopefully I can grind out a few more heroic strikes tomorrow night and get gear to push me closer to my goal of 290.  I also got a few exotic engrams to drop but both turned into the chest of something something aka the medic chest for hunters.

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http://www.twitch.tv/krystal_ann

 

Twitch is going crazy is about a secret room discovered in King's Fall. Hours upon hours and two twitch streamers finally got into the room. It's full of relics, and hours later no one can figure out the pattern. It's freaking crazy.

 

 

It's also 5am. God, I need to sleep.

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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The weekend is over, and still no luck on what to do, however one Twitch person, Krystal_Ann, seems to think that the person who activates a specific spike to gain entrance into the room, is then in charge of the designated rune that corresponds, or something. Interesting stuff..

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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I finally got a bunch of engrams to turn into high 290 gear last night after like 5 days of all my engrams turning into nothing higher then 275, so I finally hit 290 light. I'm crazy excited to finally get a chance to have a try at the new raid. 

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Got Jade Rabbit, it's really fun to use.

 

A flayer cloak is all I ask. I've got tread upon stars from sitting in the heroic playlist hoping for the solid vanguard bonus chance trying to get one. It's apparently a clone of the VoC which was amazing.

 

Ended up getting the special warlock helm from the sleeper saber strike. My warlock will look fabulous now. Sleeper feels weird it's like Gjallahorn but it's not a sword. People are totes going to waste their exotic slot in PvP for it.

 

Supercell tomorrow. Please, Xur.

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I cannot stand the fact that hitting backspace on your keyboard sends you back a page, and erases your goddamn post. This happens too damn much typing on my laptop. I had this long, rambly, saru-esque post that's gone. Ugh.

 

tl;dr: gl Steve, the Raid is awesome. Sorry about the no Supercell Poppet, gl on that. Also go for Hung Jury, if you're looking for a new VoC, it's from Dead Orbit for 150 marks.

 

 

lastly, Mayhem Rumble is still the weekly activity - gives 10 marks for top 3 placing for first 3 wins. You can get 75 marks per character in IB by completing the weekly IB bounties. Also the Pulse Rifle from IB sounds amazing, absolutely amazing.

 

Also, [bleep] this material nerf Bungie, completely unneeded.

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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I got the Hung Jury a while ago from a Dead Orbit package, not the same roll as the vender but decent: Rescue Mag, Snapshot, & Underdog. I'll probably get the pick up the vender version soon though. I really just wish we could re-roll guns again.

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Have you run the raid yet?

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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OMG. I finally got Phantom!!!!! I had to .gif it. 

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Meanwhile, on my hunter, I've not won an Iron Banner match in two [bleep]ing days. My IB rank or whatever on Destiny Tracker has gone down from 25 to 16. wtf. No idea why I just can't get any kills as a hunter :|

I have all the 99s, and have been playing since 2001. Comped 4/30/15 

My Araxxi Kills: 459::Araxxi Drops(KC):

Araxxi Hilts: 4x Eye (14/126/149/459), Web - (100) Fang (193)

Araxxi Legs Completed: 5 ---Top (69/206/234/292/361), Middle (163/176/278/343/395), Bottom (135/256/350/359/397)
Boss Pets: Supreme - 848 KC

If you play Xbox One - Add me! GT: Urtehnoes - Currently on a Destiny binge 

 

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Hunter is the worst class in PvP right now. Stormcaller and Sunbreaker have such broken supers. Nightcaller's super and kit is really bad in PvP, Bladedancer is inferior Sunbreaker with cloaking, Gunslinger is the only true subclass that isn't too meh. The super isn't all that amazing anymore but the kit is still really good.

 

If only Year 2 Spine was good compared to Year 1. Which wouldn't matter if it wasn't Iron Banner.

 

Glad to see Hunter still feeling inferior to the other classes. Hunters are hating on everything with the Nightstalker super bug though.

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it's kinda not surprising Hunters are losing out in pvp they very clearly hyped up that the 3 new destiny 2.0 subclasses are us becoming stronger and better than the previous subclasses we had and Hunter didn't have a "good" pvp subclass left to be released.

 

After all in general Solar classes are about full frontal assault with massive damage. Arc are all about speed and chaining to achieve mass damage and Void, well, they are about support roles really with the shield bubbles, tethering enemies and the 'glass cannon' Voidwalkers who will clear a room but will usual die doing so.

 

Unless they decide to wedge in a 4th element to create a 4th subclass or buff up the destiny 1.0 classes a bit I can't see Hunters fairing all that well in pvp for quite some time.

 

In other news after doing feck all for ages my Warlock is now lvl 39 and I'm getting a bit further through Taken King might actually get to play some end-game before xmas at this rate. Though with new Assassins Creed on friday who knows...

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