Destiny

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by Blu-Kyle

Patch Notes for today's patch

http://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=12433

F@ck, no more pushing-off the Templar! Looks like our Oracle checkpoint tonight may take longer than 30 minutes after all...

Weapons

Exotics
Exotic Weapons are designed to look, feel, and sound overpowered. At the same time, they are not supposed to break the balance of the game. We hope these weapons challenge the way players think about their loadouts. Exotics will be a constant work in-progress!

General

• In preparation for the Dark Below, Exotic Armor and Weapons no longer require Ascendant Materials to upgrade
• The final upgrade node of all Exotic Gear will require an Exotic Shard
• Exotic Shards can be obtained by one of the following means:
  • Dismantling unwanted Exotics
  • Purchased from Xur for 7 Strange Coins
• Exotics now start at a higher base Attack value and have a narrowed upgrade range to compensate

And I just spent 18 energy yesterday fully upgrading my Hawkmoon. Assume our upgraded exotics will remain upgraded?

[BruceWayne]

Originally Posted by Jafo

http://youtu.be/qr65ePWPfP4
For all you 29s out there...

I'm going to be singing that every time I play now...

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by My_Two_Cents

I'll start the list:

Thursday evening, Hard Raid

1) Ric
2) Mike
3) Jon?
4) Andy?
5) Casey?
6) Josh?

Mega?/Ken?/Casual?/Donald?/Jose?

We'll need 4 30's, as Mike and I are still 29's. Due to my travel schedule, I'm not available Tue/Wed night this week, nor Saturday night this weekend, but would love to get in on more normal/hard raids this week. I have to get a chest piece or helmet for both my Titan and warlocks. I'm praying to RNGesus that he blesses me tonight so that future planning is not so difficult.

Also, I'll be on tomorrow morning from ~7:00-9:30AM before I need to head to the airport. If anyone is on and would like to run a couple nightfalls/weeklies, hit me up (**cough** Jose **cough**).

I think I'm good for that. And I'll be on by 630 central tomorrow morning, for at least an hour.

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

My schedules fairly flexible so I usually leave LFG as a last resort. We have built a fairly solid community here, it's nice to support that

I was not suggesting it to you in particular, or anyone else, and I'll keep helping out (or hindering) until the reset, if I can, but I wanted to suggest that those who could not find a forum party at a good time do not need to miss out. There are still good times to be had.

[CasualKiller]

Fixed an exploit where the Templar could be forced off its platform

[varmintx]

reputation reward packages now have an increased chance for Legendary Engrams

Well, it would be kind of hard to have less of a chance than the 0% it's been.

[jsteinhauer]

OK! So, we all need to readjust to the old method. It's going to take longer for a little while. And that fifth chest...

varmintx, what time of night is good for you? We can make a new group. I missed out on a Friday slot, because I was at lunch.


If I can't preschedule something within the forum before then, like last week, I'll probably give it a try with some randoms on Wednesday afternoon. If anyone wants to team up, that would be cool, too. It's not as bad as it sounds, and I ended up playing Iron Banner with a group of randoms I raided with from LFG.

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

I think I'm good for that. And I'll be on by 630 central tomorrow morning, for at least an hour.

I'll hit you up and we can run 1-2 nightfalls, and possibly the same weeklies. Hopefully we can get a third, as I have a feeling it will be Nexus with void damage this week.

[varmintx]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

varmintx, what time of night is good for you? We can make a new group. I missed out on a friday slot, because i was at lunch.

7-10 est.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

At least we can still Cheese the Oracles on Hard. The Templar on Hard is rough.

[Mavrick]

Damn, no more cheese makes me sad, but on the plus side Vex has been buffed! Now I can get to feel its true power.

[Bizdady]

No more cheeeeeeese!! Lol

1.1 : The one about Exotics. And the Raid!

Today's patch includes the long-awaited arrival of Exotics weapon buffs, additional acquisition paths for destination upgrade materials, along with additional changes to exotic gear node upgrading in preparation for the soon-to-be-released expansion, The Dark Below. We're also correcting issues induced by our more recent update to the Raid.

Weapons

Exotics

Exotic Weapons are designed to look, feel, and sound overpowered. At the same time, they are not supposed to break the balance of the game. We hope these weapons challenge the way players think about their loadouts. Exotics will be a constant work in-progress!
General

In preparation for the Dark Below, Exotic Armor and Weapons no longer require Ascendant Materials to upgrade
The final upgrade node of all Exotic Gear will require an Exotic Shard
Exotic Shards can be obtained by one of the following means:
* Dismantling unwanted Exotics
* Purchased from Xur for 7 Strange Coins
Exotics now start at a higher base Attack value and have a narrowed upgrade range to compensate
Thorn

Projectiles now briefly highlight targets on impact
Mark of the Devourer DoT (damage-over-time) upgrade increased against PvE enemy targets
Reload Speed increased
Magazine Size increased
Ammo inventory size increased
Stability and Weapon Handling increased
Bad Juju

Magazine Size increased to 8 bursts (was 5)
Ammo inventory size increased
String of Curses now also decreases the cooldown of your Super on kill
Adjusted effects to not block first person reticle
Hard Light

Stability increased
Perfect Balance upgrade replaced by Fitted Stock (increases maximum possible weapon Stability)
Suros Regime

Lowered total damage at the end of the mag on SUROS Regime upgrade to be more in line with the Glass Half Full perk on Legendary Auto Rifles
Monte Carlo

Stability increased
Range slightly decreased
Monte Carlo Method upgrade now also has a chance to fully charge melee ability on kill
MIDA Multi-Tool

MIDA rounds now have increased knockback against targets in both PvE and PvP
Hawkmoon

Send It upgrade (which was redundant) replaced by Speed Reload
Red Death

Rate of Fire increased slightly, but Burst Damage reduced to compensate
Plan C

Weapon Handling speed increased
Player Speed increased while Plan C is in hand
Pocket Infinity

Speed Reload upgrade replaced by Extended Clip which allows the option to increase magazine size (5 bursts)
Vex Mythoclast

Attack Power increased to 323 (from 300)
Base Damage increased, fixing bug we introduced in previous patch
Enhanced Battery upgrade by Extended Mag (this change still allows for a significant upgrade to Magazine Size, but less than before)
Invective

Reload Speed increased significantly, auto fires slightly slower
Ice Breaker

Send It upgrade replaced by Lightweight (which was redundant as Icebreaker already had maximum range)
New effects for enemies killed by Ice Breaker upgrade
Patience and Time

Snapshot upgrade replaced by Custom Optics (provides a lower zoom option)
Super Good Advice

Stability increased
Truth

Magazine Size increased to 3 (was 1)
Activities

Raid

Fixed an issue we introduced in a previous patch, in which Atheon did not correctly send 3 players through the time gates
Fixed an exploit where the Templar could be forced off its platform
Daily Heroic Story

Destination Materials now drop from completing the Daily Heroic
Bounties

Removed the ‘Relic Hunter’ Bounty
Destination Materials now drop from completing the Daily Patrol Bounty
Vendors

Reduced Cryptarch reputation gain from Engrams, but reputation reward packages now have an increased chance for Legendary Engrams
Players will now be able to use Vanguard Marks and Crucible Marks to purchase Spinmetal, Relic Iron, Spirit Bloom, and Helium Filaments from the Vanguard and Crucible Quartermasters in the Tower
Xur now sells a new material, Exotic Shards, to upgrade the final node of Exotics for 7 Strange Coins
Faction Class Items (ex: FWC Cloak, Dead Orbit Mark, etc.) are now replaced by Faction Emblems in the rank-up reward packages from Faction Vendors
Technical

Networking fixes, which should reduce the instance of the Bee family of KTOs
Fixed an issue in which using Xbox One party chat induced a slower frame rate

[JJ]

Another Hard Raid Completed!

No Mythoclast. Another Thunderlord. Got my Fatebringer. Still just Hawkmoon and Vex left to get so my Exotic Collection can be complete.

Three L30 Hunters with their own weapon sets ready to rock! (Except GHorn)

INCREASE CHANCES OF HAWKMOON AND MYTH PLS BNGIE

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

If any of you guys are on UK times we could do with a few lvl 29-30 around 10:30pm/11pm tomorrow.

So far it's me and Dudemyster at lvl 30, so preferably 2 more 30s to join would be great for a hard run.

Tomorrow I can't, but Wednesday and after I could make your time.

[Bizdady]

I like being able to buy materials now!! my guys have been capped at 200 for weeks lol

[jsteinhauer]

It's getting complex, so to summarize and take some liberties I'll fix it if it's wrong.

Tuesday, Normal 830CST
Blu-Kyle
Blu-Benny
liljseck
Mega
Casual
Stuck

Wed 10 EST
KenKeith
jstein
Casual
Pickles
Mega
rat

Thursday night
ricshoe
Macruz
jstein
scarlet
lizard

Friday 8CST
grovey
Mega
Casual
ricshoe
lizard
burn

Another night and time like 7 central or 8?
jstein
varmintx

[CasualKiller]

LOL, I just farmed like 250 relic iron in the last few days and blew all my marks on stuff to shard to clear up my points lmao. Oh well.

[Bizdady]

Damnit! 20 materials for 10 crucible marks!

I hate crucible.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Bizdady

Damnit! 20 materials for 10 crucible marks!

I hate crucible.

Crucible Marks, 3 per win, 2 per loss. Crucible games take around 10-15 minutes. Farming might still be faster.

What about Vanguard?

[Bizdady]

Originally Posted by JJ

Crucible Marks, 3 per win, 2 per loss. Crucible games take around 10-15 minutes. Farming might still be faster.

What about Vanguard?

Nope nothing for Vanguard but the patch notes said Vanguard. Logging on as different guy to recheck.

Oh well guess Ill farm crucible once in a while.

[PA_Kid]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

It's getting complex, so to summarize and take some liberties I'll fix it if it's wrong.

Tuesday, Normal 830CST
Blu-Kyle
Blu-Benny
liljseck
Mega
Casual
Stuck

Wed 10 EST
KenKeith
jstein
Casual
Pickles
Mega
rat

Thursday night
ricshoe
Macruz
jstein
scarlet
lizard

Friday 8CST
grovey
Mega
Casual
ricshoe
lizard
burn

Another night and time like 7 central or 8?
jstein
varmintx

Now that I popped my raid cherry (and didn't completely embarrass myself I don't think... ), I'd like to try and get into a Normal at least if possible with my 29 'lock if at all possible. I can be pretty flexible and available most nights after 8pm central except Thursday.

If anyone's interested in running in running the raid Saturday morning @ 8am central, I can guarantee a 29 Titan and 28 Hunter also.