[8128]

i'm in to raid but not until ~~830 est

gonna have +1, maybe +2
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[rye]

well, we didn't get to clear, got stuck on the set of relics/gates at the end. I feel like a bad raid leader and that i waisted everybody's time. i think i just need more practice. so be glad you missed it, maybe?

hopefully miscreant_pie does not hate me. I know you guys can breeze through it so I felt kinda bad.

(but i'm really bummed because i wanted to finish it too… it's so hard to get people together… :[ )

also psn messaging is really frustrating to use yeah

man i feel so dissatisfied
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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

yeah sorry yesterday was one of those 'came home from work and immediately fell asleep' days

having weird sleeping habits actually gets in the way of playing with y'all sometimes!

what was the problem specifically?



i imagine that interest in this will pick up again next week

[chocolatecoffin]

Hope my message went through last night Rye, but yeah, was about to go to sleep when you messaged. Time zone woes...
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[boojiboy7]

rye, don't worry about it. we had a new guy on the raid and he was only lvl 27 (which as i recall brings some negatives in the final fight) and we only had about an hour and a half to run it. These things happen, and we can finish it out soon. You did a pretty good job explaining things, but that final boss fight is rough if everyone isn't leveled up and on their game, which i think was a problem last night. Again, no big thing.

I felt bad because I was a little rusty from taking a week off to play Diablo, so there's that too.

[8128]

hey rye, i can confirm that there are no hard feelings from pie

also yeah, sonford and i were just talking about that part. i feel like it's been some combo of he and i and analogos pretty much handling the portal worlds ourselves, and i know that part can be confusing as hell when nobody's very practiced at going in and popping out. i've heard of people sending like four dudes into one portal at a time, then everyone coming out and switching to the other portal - but then at some point that makes oracles start appearing outside, i think. i dunno

anyway yeah there's a pretty good chance i'm gonna try to get a raid going tonight from the beginning, if anybody's gonna be around!
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[rye]

uhh whoa, this sounds like a horrible idea:

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

[rye]

Chairtax, I accidentally switched my clan back to my old one. I requested to join PMOD again, if you would kindly approve me :3
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[Dracko]

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[Kabbage]

Are you shitting me
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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

So the crucible/vanguard vendors now sell 33 light sets in place of the old stuff but you need a 'commendation' which you get every rank up

doing the three new story missions unlocks the raid and gives you an arc/solar switchable fusion rifle (with bad perks, but still)

[boojiboy7]

so yeah, bought this expansion.

[ChairTax]

Same. Still lvl 28. Would like to raid with y'all if you can wait for me (no pressure)

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

heads up that if you're <30 and have vg/crucible marks you can buy the 31 arms/legs without a commendation

they've kinda obsoleted the old raid besides it having some nice weapons

[allensmithee]

desntiy.
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[ChairTax]

So how's the new raid

Screens?

I saw y'all were running it last night. Is it doable with the two 29s you had on your team?

[8128]

we only had one 29. you might have happened to look when someone was moving armor around?

the 29 didn't seem like a liability whatsoever in the first section, and we didn't finish the second section, so! i think it's well within range if we can figure itout

the first section is hilarious and dope!
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[allensmithee]

i fuckn deletied this game bc i have n ofriends.
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[boojiboy7]

Man I want to run that raid so bad. I can maybe do it Thrusday at 8 EST if I hustle home from work.

[Adilegian]

I am a big fat liar! Looks like I bought this.

I am saving my first-time raid for Saturday.
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[boojiboy7]

I can't do Saturday probably, but Sunday is possible. I hope I can hit 29 or 30 tonight with some focus.

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

yyyyyyyo I've been running around rumble with a void shotgun to do the crucible step of the thorn bounty, almost done - anyone up for the last bit? is it as annoying as i've heard?

seems like thorn is legit now???

[8128]

thorn is cool

sonford and rye need it, if you can catch up with them - maybe tomorrow or the next night?

i have sworn to never do that again
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[Adilegian]

I need it too! I would love help/to assist.
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[boojiboy7]

I need it as well, argh.

[8128]

it is the worst

though maybe now that we're all like 30 it won't be so bad?
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[boojiboy7]

i'm actually nowhere near my 500 points, i thought that was what you were talking about, but I will join in for the final stage as well.

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

i watched someone solo it on youtube, have they patched it since this was a thing?

[ChairTax]

[rye]

[boojiboy7]

[Adilegian]

I picked up some of the 33 Light max armor, which will be a huge help in bumping my character up to 30 in time for raiding. The extra bounties available through the Eris person who showed up in the Tower should help to speed along levelling up the 33 Light gauntlets I picked up. I noticed them just at the end of last night's session.

Destiny's fun to get back into. I guess I'll be checking out the new story content tonight.
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[boojiboy7]

Anyone planning on running anything today? I should be down for some.

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raid2 bridge...

...solo

[Adilegian]

My clan team went in with two 31s, three 29s, and one 28. I had to leave early, but I don't think my group ultimately got past the bridge. I was one of the 29s and expressed doubt wrt the likelihood of success, but we gave it a go anyway. I'm definitely going to get up to 30 (ideally 31) before trying it again.

I'm sure I've got the right equipmwnt for at least 30. I have a 36-boosted Exotic, a 33 Legendary, and other equipment besides. I could upgrade some of my 30 max Legendary pre-Dark Below, but I'd rather save the upgrade materials for the Dark Below equipment.

Is there any way to customize the likelihood of certain kinds of missions appearing during patrols? I'd much rather spend time shooting things for relics/kills than driving to a place to look hard at a thing -- or burrow deep into a place that's a pain to extract out of once I've killed Arbitrary Target X.

I don't enjoy those because they exceed the amount of time I'm willing to give to something with such low rewards, and Destiny isn't much of a game without rewards to balance out time investment. It's a lot of fun with others, but on its own it's the elevator music of videogames: inoffensive and bland.

I've taken a couple of weeks off from it, and my overall reactions to its design are more lucid upon re-encountering the game.
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[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

pre-expansion it had become something i played once or twice a week and i was happy with that

i'm getting a bit burnt out on the grind to 31/regrinding exotics, mind

[analogos]

[Adilegian]

[Adilegian]

[analogos]

i still haven't done the second strike or any of the new crucible stuff, but i guess i more meant that even what i have done hasn't worn out its welcome yet. also maybe everyone's done this already and i was just slow on it, but there's at least one story mission after the first three that you can only get to by following eris' quest bounty line. the way eris' whole deal is structured is definitely more engaging than the disparately presented content pre-dlc, yeah.

edit: oh also unless kill-target is on the other side of the planet there is actually some incentive there as iirc you get more vanguard rep for those and ranking up is a lot more useful now