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Post by ozthegweat on Sept 1, 2023 6:01:10 GMT
If some of you aren't at the pinnacle cap yet: Strikes/Crucible/Gambit giving out three easy pinnacles per week is a bug, these should be non-pinnacle exotics. So grab these before this is fixed.
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Post by Duffking on Sept 1, 2023 11:26:38 GMT
The disable list for the raid tonight is pretty lol, gonna be half the game at this point.
My friend will be streaming our attempt on www.twitch.tv/axelscythe, come watch if you want. Hopefully we can get this one done as quickly as the last one and get an early nights sleep. |
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 1, 2023 12:52:25 GMT
It's killed 3 of the 6 builds I put together for it. First time I've bothered actually planning all outcomes for a raid and that's what you get.
Hope it's not bullshit central to mask the fact that it consists of less arenas that your average strike. I can see 8 million shriekers firing from all sides in our immediate future.
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Post by Duffking on Sept 1, 2023 13:35:47 GMT
As a Warlock I'm bringing:
Briarbinds Void
Contraverse Hold Void
Osteo Striga Necrotic Grips Strand
Verity's Brow Solar
Geomags Chaos Reach Arc
I know a lot of people are going Sunbracers for warlock but fuck that noise, the restoration loop is a pain in the ass to get going again if you lose it. For day 1 you want minimal effort maximum impact builds. I have Cenotaph Mask and Aeons ready to swap to as well if we need more Heavy generation.
Weapons I'm bringing in are:
Kinetic: Arbalest, Conditional Finality, Malfeasance (if it doesn't get last minute disabled), Riptide, Pardon our Dust, Heritage, Chattering Bone, Adept Rufus' Fury.
Energy: Graviton Lance, Trinity Ghoul, Dead Messenger, Adept Acasia's Dejection, Hollow Denial, Techeun Force, Reckless Oracle, No Survivors
Heavy: Leviathan's Breath, Gjallarhorn, Lament, The Other Half, Commemoration, Avalanche, Cataclysmic, Apex Predator
I've never played base Crota, but I fully expect from watching videos that Deathsinger is going to be a totally new encounter and that Crota will have some kind of traditional DPS gate in there.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 1, 2023 13:58:12 GMT
Yep, I think Ir Yut is going to be a boss boss this time and Crota will be a DPS check on his health rather than his shields. Fuck knows how the sword will come into play but I'd imagine it will have some sort of twist like the Oryx bombs did in that reprisal.
I'm hoping Sunbracers/Sunshot will help with the enemy density in the first encounter but I've got Poison Strand in there as a backup. Then it's mostly support/ burst damage options. I've stupidly volunteered to be the guy to bring Gjallarhorn, Divinity and Tractor Cannon in the event they are needed so can see me spending most of my time in there wearing a 3 foot long helmet.
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Post by malek86 on Sept 1, 2023 16:35:39 GMT
Original Crota's End was basically a longer strike, I guess this time it's gonna be different. But I still don't expect a very long raid. Either way, raid day is always a good time for streams.
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Post by ozthegweat on Sept 1, 2023 17:11:19 GMT
Good luck to everyone, may you defeat Scrota, Sack of Oryx quickly.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 1, 2023 23:01:16 GMT
Raid race came down to seconds, pretty mental.
We gave up on the bridge earlier, playing with my proper team tomorrow. Assuming you have to send someone over with the sword guy to debuff the blue knight as you basically tickle him by yourself.
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Post by Duffking on Sept 2, 2023 2:33:24 GMT
Raid race came down to seconds, pretty mental. We gave up on the bridge earlier, playing with my proper team tomorrow. Assuming you have to send someone over with the sword guy to debuff the blue knight as you basically tickle him by yourself. We sent over someone with a void tether to just blast it then head back, yeah. |
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 2, 2023 18:21:30 GMT
Raid race came down to seconds, pretty mental. We gave up on the bridge earlier, playing with my proper team tomorrow. Assuming you have to send someone over with the sword guy to debuff the blue knight as you basically tickle him by yourself. We sent over someone with a void tether to just blast it then head back, yeah. Been watching you guys on and off today in between trying to play sessions of our own. Crota looks fucking rough to chain those DPS phases together. Will be checking back in later and rooting for you guys, some dedication. Bridge broke us. I called the correct strat in the first 2 or 3 runs today, others wanted to try other stuff and we ended up spending 3 hours down a dead end. Went back to the one I suggested and we had it done in 2 tries, I was too mentally drained to even act smug. Just having a break and back to Ir Yut. We had her down to a bollock hair before. I'd be absolutely over the moon just finishing the normal run in contest to be honest. I think I'll bow out of our team if we even get to challenges. They sure took "Crota is a strike" personally. |
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Post by Duffking on Sept 2, 2023 21:49:14 GMT
Had him down to about 2-3% health about 4 times now.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 2, 2023 21:51:21 GMT
Yeah I caught a heartbreaker of a last stand in between runs before
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Post by Duffking on Sept 2, 2023 22:25:13 GMT
fuuuuuuck
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 2, 2023 23:37:56 GMT
I wiped our team because my Chalice filled and killed me while I was watching you guys last stand 😬
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Post by Duffking on Sept 3, 2023 14:12:14 GMT
I wiped our team because my Chalice filled and killed me while I was watching you guys last stand 😬 Oof, I take no responsibility 
Anyways, suck my dick and balls crota
And no I am not even looking at challenge mode or even destiny 2 for another month
They 100% overtuned this shit out of reaction to RoN and they really didn't need to.
Was fun making the team sweat with last second oversoul kills tho |
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 3, 2023 17:05:37 GMT
GGs. I'd say very well deserved, I ended up watching you guys until about 1.30am. Made this contest feel like too much of a closed shop for the popular race teams and streamers.
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Post by Duffking on Sept 3, 2023 18:32:54 GMT
GGs. I'd say very well deserved, I ended up watching you guys until about 1.30am. Made this contest feel like too much of a closed shop for the popular race teams and streamers. How did you guys fare at Crota? I actually chucked in the towel at 4am and the rest got a ringer in and tried up to about 10am. Axel stayed on and finished with a other group, I was tempted back and got it with a few other friends, 2 of whom had just cleared it. They had some safer strats for getting to DPS but ultimately I think that final stand was just RNG because we ended up with only one well which got destroyed half way through and still somehow survived. |
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 3, 2023 18:52:11 GMT
GGs. I'd say very well deserved, I ended up watching you guys until about 1.30am. Made this contest feel like too much of a closed shop for the popular race teams and streamers. How did you guys fare at Crota? I actually chucked in the towel at 4am and the rest got a ringer in and tried up to about 10am. Axel stayed on and finished with a other group, I was tempted back and got it with a few other friends, 2 of whom had just cleared it. They had some safer strats for getting to DPS but ultimately I think that final stand was just RNG because we ended up with only one well which got destroyed half way through and still somehow survived. We swapped players a bunch of times at Ir Yut and every time it ended up being a new person, it also ended up being a new 4th Wizard runner on the 2nd damage phase as a few didn't fancy it. So that just took a frustratingly long time. By the time we had a crack at Crota the run was on life support. Figured out damage but we never chained DPS phases together and I eventually tapped out and tuned into Axel's stream to watch you guys for the rest of the night. I'm already working on putting together a more curated day one team for Final Shape's raid, few of us agreed that we didn't really have the right members for a serious crack at this sort of content. Our group are really good fun to raid with the other 361 days of the year off Contest but it was a bit too casual with too much time spent distracted and chatting off topic at the wrong times to ever threaten a Day One Clear. |
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Post by malek86 on Sept 4, 2023 15:26:08 GMT
Wondering what kind of raid we can expect for Final Shape. Not sure if it will really have the Witness as final boss, because Bungie's comments during the stream implied there would be something else after the raid.
Of course, being climatic or epic or whatever, doesn't mean it has to be balls hard.
On a side note, has there been any info on how expensive each episode should be?
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Post by wunty on Sept 4, 2023 16:28:22 GMT
Right. Lightfall is twenty quid. Do I buy it now?
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 4, 2023 16:36:36 GMT
Witness sounds like it will definitely be the Raid boss. If I were to guess I'd say it will be an Oryx type deal. Beat him in the campaign, put him to a final end in the Raid and the activity that will unlock after World's First they've hinted at.
That would be the best of all worlds. It can't not be a Raid boss but there also has to be a level of accessibility to non-contest/non-raid players to pop him for good.
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Post by ozthegweat on Sept 4, 2023 17:33:58 GMT
They hinted that the Witness will be fought in the raid, but it's not going to be the end of it and people who don't raid will be able to participate in its defeat.
I think the raid is more like a surgical strike by 6 Guardians to make it vulnerable/take away most of its power, and then it's something else like a community event to finish him off for good.
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Post by malek86 on Sept 4, 2023 20:18:30 GMT
I don't think people like community events anymore tbf, they feel detached from what you actually do (and besides, everyone knows Bungie will adjust the targets if not enough people are partecipating, which kinda defeats the point).
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Post by Duffking on Sept 5, 2023 14:29:39 GMT
There has been a rumour floating around for a while that we will "kill" the witness in a raid, but that it won't be enough to finish it off for good and that once the raid has been finished a finale mission will unlock for everyone which allegedly is planned to be like, a 12 player matchmade activity (which I assume will be scoped down as I imagine there's no way they could support high enough enemy density), so that non-raiders can still do the final final thing. |
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Post by Duffking on Sept 5, 2023 14:54:53 GMT
streamable.com/b4f1llSaved the clip of the group *finally* getting crota done in contest. Look how fucking slow that healthbar goes lol. Can't believe we only had one well for final stand and didn't die. Think me having the stag on helped a lot once the well died.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Sept 5, 2023 18:26:19 GMT
I bet that felt satisfying.
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Post by malek86 on Sept 5, 2023 18:37:27 GMT
There has been a rumour floating around for a while that we will "kill" the witness in a raid, but that it won't be enough to finish it off for good and that once the raid has been finished a finale mission will unlock for everyone which allegedly is planned to be like, a 12 player matchmade activity (which I assume will be scoped down as I imagine there's no way they could support high enough enemy density), so that non-raiders can still do the final final thing. That could be a bit of a problem, because 12 people without enough enemy density would be just boring, while raid mechanics would be near impossible for a matchmade team.
I have a feeling it might unlock a final mission for everyone which will just be single player and more cinematic than gameplay. |
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Post by Duffking on Sept 5, 2023 21:55:32 GMT
There has been a rumour floating around for a while that we will "kill" the witness in a raid, but that it won't be enough to finish it off for good and that once the raid has been finished a finale mission will unlock for everyone which allegedly is planned to be like, a 12 player matchmade activity (which I assume will be scoped down as I imagine there's no way they could support high enough enemy density), so that non-raiders can still do the final final thing. That could be a bit of a problem, because 12 people without enough enemy density would be just boring, while raid mechanics would be near impossible for a matchmade team.
I have a feeling it might unlock a final mission for everyone which will just be single player and more cinematic than gameplay. I mean, it's not impossible. There was a bug about 2 years ago where you could bring 12 people into a raid and it was funny as shit. They deliberately didn't fix it because the community was enjoying it so much. . |
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Post by Duffking on Sept 5, 2023 22:37:16 GMT
Reminded myself of this one this evening. Craziest day 1 I've had with Vault of Glass. Atheon went down at the 12 hour mark and we started run 2 with like 5.5 hours left after a 6 hour sleep break and somehow crossed the line of the challenge clear with just under 30 minutes left on the clock. I don't think any raiding satisfaction will ever top this one.
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Post by wunty on Sept 6, 2023 10:51:31 GMT
So I caved and grabbed Lightfall as it was half price. I get the current season with that and in I go once more. Once more after spending some time away to see so much has changed. Again. I'm lost. Again. Yet again I play it and revel in how fucking tasty the moment to moment gameplay is and wonder once more why i stopped playing it. Couple of questions though if anyone minds: I take it I've missed Season of the Deep completely? I can do the opening mission but after that, nothing. I presume I should have got the annual pass? Which brings me to my next point. Last years seasonal content, that I did have, all seems to have vanished. I take it it's gone for good? So I can't mosey about on Calus's Leviathan any more? That's why I wouldn't probably grab the annual pass as we're mid-way through this year and I don't fancy all that content fucking off again. Erm. What guns are good now? Have they changed the armour mod system again as all my mods were degraded and I haven't got a clue where I am with it now. Apart from that. It's rather nice to be back. Also. I still miss Titan  |
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