just found out about the loot cave
now I KNOW the system is broken
you shoot this cave of spawning level 5 scrubs on earth patrol and they drop blues and rares about as regularly as literally any other enemy in the game :lol:
lol they're practically all shitty drops. The rare engrams they do drop usually turn into uncommon weapons and when you do get a rare it's a low level rare. That shits basically only good for leveling your cryptarch rep if you're done with everything else in the week.
Do the strike playlist or bounty mission or daily/weekly heroics on higher difficulty. Take about the same amount of time, the drops are better and you get strange coins/ Ascendant material that are super important late game. Farming material is a more worthwhile use of your time than that cave or other exploits.
That's just a good way to make you not want to play another videogame that whole day.
well once I hit 26 I won't really give any fucks anymore, when they inevitably drop HOUSE OF FIRE AND ICE aka raid 2 with a level cap of 32 I'll be done. I can't get that high, don't have enough fucks. So right now my end game is just 26, raid, then straight to gamestop.
:ugeek:
:ugeek:
well once I hit 26 I won't really give any fucks anymore, when they inevitably drop HOUSE OF FIRE AND ICE aka raid 2 with a level cap of 32 I'll be done. I can't get that high, don't have enough fucks. So right now my end game is just 26, raid, then straight to gamestop.
:ugeek:
Wait til you can just buy legendary/exotic weapons and it becomes "grind to improve your gear"...just you wait.
Anyone else waiting for the inevitable rebalance? Something along the lines of RoS for Diablo 3 that does a big change on the economy and loot drop percentages.
Either way, @thecryptarch is one of the my favorite parody twitter accounts right now.
Either way, @thecryptarch is one of the my favorite parody twitter accounts right now.
Anyone else waiting for the inevitable rebalance? Something along the lines of RoS for Diablo 3 that does a big change on the economy and loot drop percentages.
Yes
Game is very similar to vanilla Diablo 3 at launch
A lot of the powers and Special weapons need to be tweeked too imo.
Shotguns being almost default one shot kills needs to go, Warlock/Titan special needs smaller radius, take that extra shield off of blade dancers among other things.
Shotguns being almost default one shot kills needs to go, Warlock/Titan special needs smaller radius, take that extra shield off of blade dancers among other things.
Happy I didn't jump on the bandwagon. I ain't about the grind life. Speaking of grinding, h3ro, when we gonna get Antico?
My gear is such shit. I'm utterly useless in MP. Seeing my precision kills only doing 35-45 damage and light up green is depressing while the guy across the map is one-two shot killing me with a pistol.
A lot of the powers and Special weapons need to be tweeked too imo.
Shotguns being almost default one shot kills needs to go, Warlock/Titan special needs smaller radius, take that extra shield off of blade dancers among other things.
All of this is true. The majority of MP games has half the players sliding around with shotguns, and you have to use them just to compete. And yeah Blade Dancer is OP as shit. Unless you got some space or a heavy weapon taking one down (especially solo) is really fucking hard and it doesn't help that a shit ton of players use Hunter. For the specials I wish there was a feed notifiation that "X has earned their super" just for some more information to help with awareness.
It's kind of weird to see Bungie not following their own advice. In one of the Halo 3 vidoc's they talk about how the weapon you spawn with determines your play style and how that effected Halo 2 where they said that spawning with dual wieldable weapons reduced nades and melee usage. Now in Destiny peoples secondaries are determining their play style. If you pick a fusion rifle you hang around corners and cheese with the radar. If you use pick the (piss easy to aim with) sniper you hang back in some obscure ass area of the bigger maps. If you pick a shotgun you slide around like an asshole and cheese with the radar. It is so frustrating to get one shotted by all the different things in this game, even when you try to play cautious and smart. It's like looking both ways before you cross the street but getting hit by a car that comes out of nowhere at 300 MPH.
This game needs a stripped down playlist where you start with an empty secondary and the special weapon ammo boxes spawn on a timer, and maybe reduced supers or something because the MP has it moments but it is man is it unbalanced.
think im officially done with the game
maybe not
maybe
i'm so fucking salty after finally hitting level 2 crucible, buying two purples and....level 25. My only blue is a helmet. The only thing preventing me from going straight to gamestop right now is the fact that I hear these queens missions offer helmets/chest pieces.
not farming crucible rep ever again though...what a fucking blessing, i'll do strikes all day in comparison to that trash
maybe not
maybe
i'm so fucking salty after finally hitting level 2 crucible, buying two purples and....level 25. My only blue is a helmet. The only thing preventing me from going straight to gamestop right now is the fact that I hear these queens missions offer helmets/chest pieces.
not farming crucible rep ever again though...what a fucking blessing, i'll do strikes all day in comparison to that trash
I'm back to Diablo 3 until they retool the loot system. My level 3 Warlock is in the freezer til then.
The problem is that they can't really retool it. You think people are doing the same lame ass strikes over and over again because they are well designed? They are doing it for the shitty marks, vanguard points, etc. The entire economy is based on just grinding ridiculous shit over and over again. If they start giving loot away like skittles then there will be no impetus for the player to abuse themselves over and over again with the same tired shit. Most of the vendors will lose their purpose and players will be standing there with no reason to play thinking, "lul, now what" as they wait for expansions.
The whole system is in place to take long as fuck to tide them over long enough that they can generate more content for the player to repeat the process again.
#whyistayed
#whyileft
The whole system is in place to take long as fuck to tide them over long enough that they can generate more content for the player to repeat the process again.
#whyistayed
#whyileft
Upcoming changes to Destiny. Some highlights:
http://www.bungie.net/7_Destiny-Dev-Notes/en/News/News?aid=12188
Destiny's near-term solution will be to allow players to opt-in to voice communication during matchmade activities. Work on this feature was underway at launch and should be rolled out this year in Strikes and the Crucible.
Not all our Exotic Weapons currently live up to this promise. In particular those weapons received from completing exotic bounties including Thorn and Bad Juju have disappointed many of us who have gone through the great effort to obtain them because, despite looking and sounding amazing, they feel underpowered. We're here to offer some advice: don't shard those guns. Their time will come.
Scouts just aren't hitting hard enough today when compared to other precision weapons. We'll be addressing this soon.
Today shotguns are effective beyond their intended range, especially when upgraded with that intention. Expect changes soon to address shotguns which push the envelope of what it means to be close quarters.
http://www.bungie.net/7_Destiny-Dev-Notes/en/News/News?aid=12188
I don't know if those changes can fix some of this stuff. The shotgun is strong because of the radar and the map design and the AR wins in most encounter because of the rate of fire advantage it has over the other weapon types.
Incoming rant because I need to vent:
I am so close to being done with this game. The repetition and grind is un-fucking-believable. This Queens Wrath "special event" encompassed everything wrong with this game right now. First off it being listed as event is fucking laughable. It is doing some bounties so you can then do the same story missions and watch the same (unskippable) cutscenes and get the same legendaries. And then they reduce what you get from breaking down those legendaries so now doing those missions is worthless. Really you're gonna fix that and the cave before addressing anything else? Good call ass wipes.
And those bounties are a fucking joke. The event has already ran for a few days and you couldn't even create enough unique bounties? You want me to get 200 fallen headshots and get some sniper headshots for like three days in row? Jesus Christ how fucking lazy are they that they couldn't even think of anything but grafting the shitty bounties onto a purple background, repeating those ad nauseam, and calling it a day? Eat a dick.
The loot system is also a complete joke, especially compared to it's contemporaries. In Diablo 3 when a legendary drops and I identify it, I get what's on the tin. I get a fucking legendary. In Destiny you bring cryptarch a purple and he gives you a blue and smile and tells you to shut the fuck up. Even their fucking raid doesn't guarantee legendary gear. They must think their story and flat mission design would be worth playing just to get trash greens.
And the grind. The grind is fucking real. There are about a million different factions, you need different rep for all of them and the only way to do that is hang around for public events, play the crucible or as you guessed it, playing the same goddamn missions. Oh and these don't carry over between character either, so that's some more grinding right there. And the loot doesn't even make the grinding worth it. So you're telling me to get this exotic bounty (which apparently rewards you with a gun so shitty they have to buff it in an update) I have to grind out more of your shit missions and then play your unbalanced mp shitfest and get some arbitrary amount of void damage AND I lose progress towards that if I get killed by any one of your out-of-fucking-nowhere ways to die in that mode? Fuck off.
And the multiplayer is just a fucking unbalanced mess. Even when I'm doing well I feel awful because I know half the shit needed to do so is fucking cheesy. And when you're on the receiving end it feels like you didn't get outplayed but out-cheesed. The map design is terrible and the small amount in the rotation doesn't help either. Also it feels like more than half the player base is just running and sliding around like assholes with shotguns because the range on them is fucking huge and the maps support it. The supers are all pretty much unbalanced just for the fact that there is no indication that someone you're fighting has one. Nothing worse than fighting someone 1v1 only to have them pop their super and kill any kind of skill that may have gone into that encounter. Warlock bomb has a huge radius. Bladedancer has too much health and herky-jerky movement. Titan smash gives a crazy amount of health and the bubble shield wrecks objective modes AND give the people inside extra shield. What the fuck were you thinking Bungie? How did this mp come from the people who made Halo?
Also the story is more of a fucking travesty than Andrea Barnagni's defense.
I have seen so many posts in numerous forums and comments saying "the game just came out, god ppl are so impatient they just want instant gratification!" no fuckwit I want a game that is rewarding outside of its combat loop. Some of this shit should have been fixed or implemented since day 1. What's even worse is they had a beta and they still didn't fix some of these things.
Man that felt good to get off my chest.
Incoming rant because I need to vent:
I am so close to being done with this game. The repetition and grind is un-fucking-believable. This Queens Wrath "special event" encompassed everything wrong with this game right now. First off it being listed as event is fucking laughable. It is doing some bounties so you can then do the same story missions and watch the same (unskippable) cutscenes and get the same legendaries. And then they reduce what you get from breaking down those legendaries so now doing those missions is worthless. Really you're gonna fix that and the cave before addressing anything else? Good call ass wipes.
And those bounties are a fucking joke. The event has already ran for a few days and you couldn't even create enough unique bounties? You want me to get 200 fallen headshots and get some sniper headshots for like three days in row? Jesus Christ how fucking lazy are they that they couldn't even think of anything but grafting the shitty bounties onto a purple background, repeating those ad nauseam, and calling it a day? Eat a dick.
The loot system is also a complete joke, especially compared to it's contemporaries. In Diablo 3 when a legendary drops and I identify it, I get what's on the tin. I get a fucking legendary. In Destiny you bring cryptarch a purple and he gives you a blue and smile and tells you to shut the fuck up. Even their fucking raid doesn't guarantee legendary gear. They must think their story and flat mission design would be worth playing just to get trash greens.
And the grind. The grind is fucking real. There are about a million different factions, you need different rep for all of them and the only way to do that is hang around for public events, play the crucible or as you guessed it, playing the same goddamn missions. Oh and these don't carry over between character either, so that's some more grinding right there. And the loot doesn't even make the grinding worth it. So you're telling me to get this exotic bounty (which apparently rewards you with a gun so shitty they have to buff it in an update) I have to grind out more of your shit missions and then play your unbalanced mp shitfest and get some arbitrary amount of void damage AND I lose progress towards that if I get killed by any one of your out-of-fucking-nowhere ways to die in that mode? Fuck off.
And the multiplayer is just a fucking unbalanced mess. Even when I'm doing well I feel awful because I know half the shit needed to do so is fucking cheesy. And when you're on the receiving end it feels like you didn't get outplayed but out-cheesed. The map design is terrible and the small amount in the rotation doesn't help either. Also it feels like more than half the player base is just running and sliding around like assholes with shotguns because the range on them is fucking huge and the maps support it. The supers are all pretty much unbalanced just for the fact that there is no indication that someone you're fighting has one. Nothing worse than fighting someone 1v1 only to have them pop their super and kill any kind of skill that may have gone into that encounter. Warlock bomb has a huge radius. Bladedancer has too much health and herky-jerky movement. Titan smash gives a crazy amount of health and the bubble shield wrecks objective modes AND give the people inside extra shield. What the fuck were you thinking Bungie? How did this mp come from the people who made Halo?
Also the story is more of a fucking travesty than Andrea Barnagni's defense.
I have seen so many posts in numerous forums and comments saying "the game just came out, god ppl are so impatient they just want instant gratification!" no fuckwit I want a game that is rewarding outside of its combat loop. Some of this shit should have been fixed or implemented since day 1. What's even worse is they had a beta and they still didn't fix some of these things.
Man that felt good to get off my chest.
Good rant. Not too far off, but I'm of the believe that it's not unfixable.
DY chilling in orbit doing nothing smh
DY chilling in orbit doing nothing smh
I kind of saw the writing on the wall and cut my losses after the Earth missions so I'm not too invested. Haven't even gone to Venus or Mars. The nature of the game and the BS I experienced in Crucible was all I needed to let it sit until at least a patch of some kind hits.
An interesting development with the latest patch notes: http://www.bungie.net/7_102-Patch-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12202
Hey that sounds alright so far...
Fuck you too Bungie.
Legendary Engrams will always produce Legendary or better quality items, including Materials or Exotics
Rare Engrams will always produce Rare or better quality items
Rare engrams will have an increased chance to produce Legendary quality items
Hey that sounds alright so far...
Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest–even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already…
Fuck you too Bungie.
nice game but i aint got the time for all that shit
on to MCC
:geek:
Legendary Engram items that exist in your inventory will be demoted to Rare quality when the patch goes live, so decode them while you can. But let’s be honest–even if you don’t, we all know they were blues already…
Such a trolling remark to make lol
they pulled me back in ;-;
to be fair its because im a level away from 26 and i really want to raid this weekend
dy you good for a raid on friday night? I've got another guy so we'd just need 3. Moris maybe?
to be fair its because im a level away from 26 and i really want to raid this weekend
dy you good for a raid on friday night? I've got another guy so we'd just need 3. Moris maybe?
I'm lvl29 right now, got a friend down for Friday night who is almost lvl28.
We can probably get Devo as the 6th.
We can probably get Devo as the 6th.
did two strikes
no legendarys, cryptarch engrams are such a fucking tease...of course they were blues
game is so abusive...i'm completely done with it after i finish the raid
no legendarys, cryptarch engrams are such a fucking tease...of course they were blues
game is so abusive...i'm completely done with it after i finish the raid
been playing like all day.
Feels like engrams drop more frequently but have only gotten 1 legendary after lik 12+ strikes. It turned into 2 ascendent shards.
Good thing about more engrams is that cryptarch levels a little faster, but its not some huge improvement on the old system.
Feels like engrams drop more frequently but have only gotten 1 legendary after lik 12+ strikes. It turned into 2 ascendent shards.
Good thing about more engrams is that cryptarch levels a little faster, but its not some huge improvement on the old system.
did two strikes
no legendarys, cryptarch engrams are such a fucking tease…of course they were blues
game is so abusive…i'm completely done with it after i finish the raid
yet you keep going back you're the worst :geek:
Easily witnessed the worst of this game in the past hour:
Twilight Gap 3x in a row
Crashed the game
Level 7 owned everyone on my team (high score for the map)
Shitty drops
Lag
Edit: game crashed for a second time
Edit 2: I am playing Twilight Gap for the 4th time in a row now
Twilight Gap 3x in a row
Crashed the game
Level 7 owned everyone on my team (high score for the map)
Shitty drops
Lag
Edit: game crashed for a second time
Edit 2: I am playing Twilight Gap for the 4th time in a row now
The Vex Mythoclast broke PvP. It's a possible drop for doing vault of glass raid on hard.
Fusion rifle that actslike a scout rifle and equips as a primary weapon. Google it, it's nonsense.
Fusion rifle that actslike a scout rifle and equips as a primary weapon. Google it, it's nonsense.
Warlocks are so useless in MP. Up close and personal face melee barely gets the shield down, while I get one hit meleed EVERY fucking time. Warlock super in any closed quarter combat situation because any sort of wall or obstacle renders it useless, and the fact that in an attempt to make it "cinematically cool", they added a bullshit two second animation that basically makes my character a wide open target becauseI am literally unable to control my character until the micro-split second chance I get to somehow "aim" it.
was just driving around in circles on earth collecting spin metal and i just stop and think...what in the fuck am I DOING? Goddammit
Warlocks are so useless in MP. Up close and personal face melee barely gets the shield down, while I get one hit meleed EVERY fucking time. Warlock super in any closed quarter combat situation because any sort of wall or obstacle renders it useless, and the fact that in an attempt to make it "cinematically cool", they added a bullshit two second animation that basically makes my character a wide open target becauseI am literally unable to control my character until the micro-split second chance I get to somehow "aim" it.
This why I liked Sunsinger (especially the super) better than Voidwalker. You could spam nades with you super and your melee gets strong (may be a one shot on a basic foe w/ no buffs, not sure) and you get flame skin(?) which is a decent buff to your shield. It is not that offensive 'pop' you get with Voidwalker but if your timing is good with the activation you can pick up a few kills and lock down an area.
my story in destiny is rags to bitchesi got two exotics today
GAME OF THE YEAR
Bitch hasn't given me ahit. Had to buy all my shit so far.
went from praying for legendaries to 4 exotics in two days. i got 7 total exotic pieces right now
life is good
I got a single L20 item... My auto rifle that has zero Impact rating. Everything else is below L20. My best leg armor is L14.
my story in destiny is rags to bitchesi got two exotics today
GAME OF THE YEAR
Bitch hasn't given me ahit. Had to buy all my shit so far.
went from praying for legendaries to 4 exotics in two days. i got 7 total exotic pieces right now
life is good
I was there when you got that hand cannon, I was ready to flip.
I have an exotic helm and chest armor that I bought and they're alright. Using a legendary AR from New Monarchy that is solid but it's outclassed by that exotic that was on sale a week or so ago that I couldn't afford =(
Been tearing through bounties, strike playlist, crucible and farming. Destiny ain't shit to me.
in the game that i finished my exotic bounty for super good advice, i got the gjallahorn
can't even be mad. just need some time for the raid and i can hit 30 easy
can't even be mad. just need some time for the raid and i can hit 30 easy
i just realized for the first time that ive never gotten a purple level primary my entire time of playing this game
no wonder i wasnt doing shit to the raid boss
fuck
no wonder i wasnt doing shit to the raid boss
fuck
i just realized for the first time that ive never gotten a purple level primary my entire time of playing this game
no wonder i wasnt doing shit to the raid boss
fuck
Game finally gave me a legendary drop and I've been playing like crazy. It was a rocket launcher, which I never use.
Was running around with a bunch of purple and exotic machine guns/rocket launchers, purple specials/icebreaker, but...blue primaries. lol
so i busted my ass off for the thorn exotic bounty and of course as soon as i get it the cryptarch gives me an awesome purple autorifle :lol:
im not sure if i should even bother playing anymore...i'm 28 but i dont want to waste shards on armor i'll inevitably swap out for when the DLC hits, and raid armor is to RNG based for me to bother trying to get a set of that is just...no.
happy to put the timesink away, will get on once a week for weeklys to collect shards but thats it
so i busted my ass off for the thorn exotic bounty and of course as soon as i get it the cryptarch gives me an awesome purple autorifle :lol:
im not sure if i should even bother playing anymore...i'm 28 but i dont want to waste shards on armor i'll inevitably swap out for when the DLC hits, and raid armor is to RNG based for me to bother trying to get a set of that is just...no.
happy to put the timesink away, will get on once a week for weeklys to collect shards but thats it
You got a legendary autorifle? I'll take it! That would be such a step up and I am L25. I finally made it FWC Rank 2 last night. I ended up buying my first Legendary gear.
always just go for vandguard reps/marks--strikes give you better rewards and the quartermaster has better weapons most of the time
getting dead orbit rank 2 was a complete waste of my time honestly, would have gotten much better faster by playing vanguard exclusively
getting dead orbit rank 2 was a complete waste of my time honestly, would have gotten much better faster by playing vanguard exclusively
Factions are so much better than vanguard/crucible. You just gotta pick the one with the weapons you want and do it the second you hit level 20.
Patrols and story bounties go to vanguard rank, crucible bounties go to crucible rank. With a cloak or arm band or ass flag from a faction, all bounties go towards 1 place, your faction.
I chose New Monarchy cause their AR is dope for a legendary. I'm level 8 with New Monarchy and have gotten 3 legendaries as gifts from leveling with them as well as some ascendent mats. But you're gonna have to level at least 2 or 3 factions to maximize your character.
I'm doing a hand cannon build. So I'm using my exotic helmet, vanguard chest piece that gives more handcannon ammo, vanguard gauntlets that reload handcannons faster and now I need to level Dead orbit for the leg armor that allows even more hand cannon ammo.
Already had an AR build with new monarchy gear.....yea expect to have a couple sets of armor depending on your load out.
Game was fucking me in the worst way. Played hours and only had a fusion rifle legendary that I never use.
Patrols and story bounties go to vanguard rank, crucible bounties go to crucible rank. With a cloak or arm band or ass flag from a faction, all bounties go towards 1 place, your faction.
I chose New Monarchy cause their AR is dope for a legendary. I'm level 8 with New Monarchy and have gotten 3 legendaries as gifts from leveling with them as well as some ascendent mats. But you're gonna have to level at least 2 or 3 factions to maximize your character.
I'm doing a hand cannon build. So I'm using my exotic helmet, vanguard chest piece that gives more handcannon ammo, vanguard gauntlets that reload handcannons faster and now I need to level Dead orbit for the leg armor that allows even more hand cannon ammo.
Already had an AR build with new monarchy gear.....yea expect to have a couple sets of armor depending on your load out.
Game was fucking me in the worst way. Played hours and only had a fusion rifle legendary that I never use.