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17 minutes ago, J.T. said:

I thought it was Void Singe the week before last and Solar Singe should be up this week?  Or was it Solar Singe the week before and the trauma of The Pyramidion strike is still haunting me and throwing off my sense of time?

My brain is remembering solar singe was two weeks ago but clearly I have now set myself up for disappointment

I am almost positive it was because I remember getting The Arms Dealer with Solar Singe and whatever the fuck the modifier is that increases Power Weapons and Ammo. All of us had solar rocket launchers and we killed Bracus Zahn before he flew off the first time. It was the easiest that strike has ever been for me.

Yeah - prepared for heart break now

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You may be right. 

In my hazy old man memory, I seem to recall running Heroics the week before last and Solar Singe was up.  We did Tree of Probabilities and the fireteam I was in melted Brachus Thuun during the final health gate fight with simultaneous Sleeper Stimulant and Merciless blasts.

Or was that a month ago when you, I, and my DARPA homie, Dubz, went for our Rat Kings and beat the Nightfall?

I CANNOT REMEMBER~!!

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On 6/18/2018 at 7:43 AM, J.T. said:

Why is everone's "proof" coming from an old interview with a guy that doesn't even work for Bungie anymore.  CJ quit back in 2016.

The recently leaked concept art for Forsaken of the mysterious gender neutral Awoken armed with a sawed off shotgun is a more convincing argument.  Could be the Queen or maybe another character?  Who knows?  Nothing conceptual necessarily has to make it into the final game.

Personally, if this turns out to be true:

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There is allegedly a leaked script that has some of the suggested dialogue in it including Cayde-6's badass last words.

Cayde-6:  "So,....  How's your sister?"

Uldren:  "You'll find that out soon enough.  Give her my regards when you see her."

Cayde-6:  "Don't worry.  If I know my Guardian friend, you'll be doing that for yourself in due time."

It would be a terrible idea for her to turn out to be alive.  TBH, I'd rather have that be true than the Queen turning out to be among the living.

Oh, and that sawed off shotty turns out to be a player weapon, I may actually have embrace the D2 Forsaken broken weapon slot insanity and arm myself with three shotguns.

They never retracted. 

 

Uldren lived, he was on the front lines of the blast. 

Queenie was in the rear, with the gear.  

 

And space magic.  

 

Who do you think was the Queen that Eris "talked" to at the very end of the taken king?  Crota's mom? 

 

Also, spoiler, cayde's not dead

 

Spoiler

He will live in our hearts forever

 

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On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 11:47 AM, misanthrope304 said:

Who do you think was the Queen that Eris "talked" to at the very end of the taken king?  Crota's mom? 

Nope, it's Crota's aunt actually:  Savathûn , the Queen of Final Shapes.

  • We've heard the blah blah blah about how Eris hates the Hive, but is she really telling the truth?  Who is left alive from her old fireteam to refute or verify her version of the facts?  Nobody!  First rule of committing the perfect crime?  No Witnesses!  What was she REALLY doing all that time on the Moon?  Being converted into an agent of Savathûn.  She's AWOL in D2 because she's keeping tabs on things for her mistress..  Eris's bullshit story only makes sense if your base assumption is that she's not lying and we know from the final cutscene from TTK that honesty is not one of Eris's virtues.
  • Why was Eris so devoted to the destruction of Crota and Oryx?  Because they stand in the way of Savathûn's ascendance and they are rivals to her rulership of the Hive and control of The Taken.
  • Why does Eris mobilize the Vanguard to fight Crota?  Because Savathûn knows that the Vanguard are strong enough to defeat Crota and when Crota falls Oryx will come to avenge his son.  No matter who wins the battle. the victor will be weakened in the process..  Ripe for the picking.
  • Why does Eris convince the Queen and the Vanguard to attack Oryx when he arrives in our solar system.  Because three of the most powerful factions would be fighting against each other and either weaken or destroy one another, clearing the way for Savathûn to easily establish her domain. 
  • Why is there a side mission AND a strike where the plot involves the Taken and the Hive respectively trying to tear holes in the space / time fabric or rip open portals to the Ascendant Realm through things like sacrificing Guardians in Void light rituals that create mammoth Shriekers?  They are attempting to either jailbreak Savathûn immediately (and prematurely) or modify current conditions to the point where she can eventually liberate herself.
  • Why is the finale of the Warmind story mission campaign so significant?  We've destroyed the last remnants of the House of Xol just as we wiped out the House of Oryx in TTK.  We're getting rid of Savathûn's rivals in the Hive for her.
  • Why did the Traveler suddenly chose now to reawaken?  It knows that Savathûn can threaten it.  Remember that the Hive can corrupt shards of the Traveler and use the energy for their own rituals  just like they did on the Moon..  What would happen if a powerful Ascendant Hive like Savathûn went to the EDZ to absorb the energy of the corrupted Traveler shard?  Could she then gain enough power to corrupt and absorb the Traveler itself?

So far thanks to the Vanguard's war, we're slowly weakening or wiping out every major rival faction that could keep Savathûn from taking over as we've dealt several major blows against the Vex, the Hive, the Fallen and the Cabal, but we've also suffered force degradation in this new phase of the War.

So to sum up:  Queen dead.  Eris bad.  Shit hits the fan when the Glowy Hive Pyramid Fleet Of Doom finally arrives in Season 5 to unleash The Queen of Final Shapes on an unsuspecting galaxy..

All yours for the low low price of eighty American dollars.

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2 hours ago, misanthrope304 said:

They never retracted. 

They never re-confirmed either and you're still trusting the words of a guy whose not with the company anymore and the voice actress of a character who could very well appear in flashbacks when she was still alive rather than present day Destiny 2.

You're also trusting in a concept which could very well be scrapped or used for something entirely different.

Remember when this happened in D1?

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Neither do I because it never did.

This happened instead.  We slayed a Gate Lord.

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Mara and Uldren weren't even Mara and Uldren when they first appeared in the game. 

They were just The Queen of the Reef and The Queen's Brother.

They didn't get actual names until House of Wolves.

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The Nightfall for this week has officially been changed to Tree of Probabilities

If you already did it for this week you can't go back and get credit for a 2nd Nightfall

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52 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

The Nightfall for this week has officially been changed to Tree of Probabilities

If you already did it for this week you can't go back and get credit for a 2nd Nightfall

if you ae 370+ LL, run this as a Prestige with Solar Singe and Heavyweight and bring your Sleeper Stimulants and Merciless fusion rifles.  Bracus Thuun should melt before your eyes n seconds. 

If you do this, mind the melee attacks of Cabal Gladiators and Vex Slap Rifles (Goblin guns) and Line Rifles (Hobgoblin guns) as they are Solar weapons.  I am tempted to take a crack at this to see if I can get the DFA Hand Cannon to fall into my lap even though the drop rate is insane.

And yeah, your Weekly / Daily Milestones won't refresh if you are planetside.  You have to either be in orbit or log out / log in. 

You can, however, get a soft reset of your DCs if you are planetside.  I have played many afternoons where I was about to clear a Lost Sector for a DC only to find out that the DC's had reset before I killed the boss.  I hate that shit.

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2 minutes ago, J.T. said:

Flashpoint is on Mars this week.  That's awesome because it gives me an excuse to farm a few more SIVA nodes.

Well I need EPs on my Warlock so hopefully I can kill two birds with one stone

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25 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Well I need EPs on my Warlock so hopefully I can kill two birds with one stone

One member of the DARPA clan has Seraph equipment and I think that Slimy and Mis do too, so I will be helping out any stacked fireteams with EPs during the week in the hope of backing in to some 370+ gear since I have three Decrypted Cache Keys on me.

It would also be awesome if I got some Perfect Fifth Explosion kills towards my Polaris Lance MW.

And fuck.  The longstanding rumor that you could get the final Bray / Arctic weapon by looting 40 out of 40 SIVA nodes has been debunked.  The only way to obtain the BrayTech Osprey rocket launcher is through doing one of the Warmind Nightfalls as Prestige and crossing your fingers and hoping that RNG is kind that day.

How depressing.

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Yep.  Heroics are Solar Singe this week.  Thank God that I didn't draw The Pyramidion when I was chasing the HS engram yesterday.  Mars SIVA node farming while grinding the Flashpoint netted me an 18 Kelvins sidearm that I decided to keep and use in tandem with my White Wolf. 

It's now Masterworked, equipped with a Legendary Void Mod, and up to 366 LL thanks to us finally getting through a Prestige Nightfall and Zavala giving me my second fucking sidearm of the night after gifting me a 364 LL Last Call after I beat all of my Heroics.. I infused the 364 Last Call into my Rat King.  SWEET~!

My poor Drang gets no love, though.

As predicted, Solar Singe + Heavyweight + Famine + Sleeper Stimulant + Merciless = Dead Bracus Thuun in seconds.  Sadly, the DFA did not drop for anybody and we didn't really feel like trying to farm PNs with the IB going on.  The PN emblem is quite badass.  I have it on my Hunter..

DARPA crew and I went 2-1 in the IB yesterday, I knocked out the IB Daily Challenges, and my Efficiency went up to 1.47, so I was happy with how that went and when I turned in my weapon parts to Banshee after handing over my IB tokens to Saladin, I got a Rare power weapon loader mod for Arms armor.

That stacked with the other two I had in my inventory so I converted it to a Legendary mod and upgraded my FWC arms armor piece  One FWC armor upgrade down; four to go.

I also cracked the code on getting Perfect Fifth Explosion Kills with the Polaris Lance without doing all of the Raid bullshit that the YouTubes suggests.  I started off at 5 total yesterday and am now up to thirty as of this morning.  I should have this catalyst done pretty soon.  This thing should be 100000% More Beast once the completed catalyst adds the Dragonfly perk.  Solar explosions for days.

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Played long enough to do the Flashpoint on Mars which took way longer than I wanted to since it was taking forever for PEs to spawn.

I did start thinking yesterday about how they are going to handle Flashpoints and Treasure Maps in lieu of what is happening to Cayde.

I could easily see them dropping the Maps. I guess they could easily move Flashpoints to like Amanda (or maybe Ikora)

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31 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Played long enough to do the Flashpoint on Mars which took way longer than I wanted to since it was taking forever for PEs to spawn.

I did start thinking yesterday about how they are going to handle Flashpoints and Treasure Maps in lieu of what is happening to Cayde.

I could easily see them dropping the Maps. I guess they could easily move Flashpoints to like Amanda (or maybe Ikora)

I totally forgot about Treasure Maps.

TBH, I have no idea what will happen.  All of the features of the game have to be accessible to all players regardless of whether or not they have the DLC.  Cayde-6 should still be alive and smiling for the players that don't have Forsaken installed.

I can't imagine that they'll take maps away since they are a good source of revenue for all players whether you be a lowbie or a tryhard.

My guess is that after the events of Forsaken go down, Hunters will get a new Vanguard patron like Shiro-6, or Flashpoints and Treasure Maps will get moved over to Hawthorne since she's a recon specialist and she just stands there selling Green equipment that nobody buys.

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6 minutes ago, J.T. said:

My guess is that after the events of Forsaken go down, Hunters will get a new Vanguard patron like Shiro-6, or Flashpoints and Treasure Maps will get moved over to Hawthorne since she's a recon specialist and she just stands there selling Green equipment that nobody buys.

The issue with moving it to Hawthorne is that she would then be in charge of two "powerful" engrams a week.

Right now everyone has one except Zavala and both of his are strike related so they make sense

Ikora doesn't have anything but the stupid memories so at least her getting Flashpoints would make sense

Poor Amanda is the one really screwed in the game

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7 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Poor Amanda is the one really screwed in the game

Well, it does not make sense that she cannot sell Legendary or Exotic jumpships and sparrows, other than Bungie wanting to keep all of that stuff under Tess''s purview because they want all cosmetic items to be covered by microtransactions.

Ikora is in charge of The Hidden who handle all of the clandestine operations and intel gathering for the Tower, so it does sorta make sense that she'd be in charge of Flashpoints after Forsaken.  My agents have detected blah blah blah threat on [insert name of planet], so go and deal with it.

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I got zero IB done yesterday thanks to the TARDEC meeting that nearly all of the DARPA crew had to attend.

I did, however, have an epic day of PvE.  I finished masterworking my Polaris Lance and I hit a Nightfall with Mis and Slimy and got a fucking DFA to drop for me!

FUCK YEAH~!

I also got two new shiny Rare emblems after finishing up my Treasure Maps.  I find myself hanging out with Cayde-6 more often now that I know he's going to Robot Heaven in a few months.

Now I have to work on this dumb Sunshot catalyst...  I guess I'll be haunting Mars for a bit and blasting  groups of Thralls during EPs.

I should be on at the usual time this afternoon if anyone wants an extra gun for the IB.  I could stand to win a couple since the PvP counts towards CTA and I'm at 71% thanks to Tuesday's run. 

This weekend coming up is my Custody Weekend, so play time will be scarce until Sunday afternoon.  I think we're going to see Incredibles 2 on Saturday afternoon.  If anyone else is on, I will be up for running more IB on Sunday evening after I get my kid to her mom's place..

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IB was the pure definition of agony and ecstasy yesterday.

Rippa and I got mercied in our first match because we were allied with cowards who would not push.  BE BRAVE, MOTHER FUCKERS~! 

It got so bad that the enemy team capped the zone five feet away from us while those gutless wonders huddled in a corner.  I died a lot while trying to gain ground.  It was like playing on a modern NBA team who just gives the fuck up in the third quarter because they're down by seventeen. Now I know how LeBron feels.  I AM NOT DONE FIGHTING, BITCHES~!  YOU YELLOW EGG SUCKING DOGS NEED TO FUCKING RALLY~!  WHERE IS YOUR COURAGE~???

It is worth noting that the opposing team was loaded to the gills with major talent.  One guy even wore his Trials emblem and proudly showed off his seven Flawless runs.  Our gutless uncoordinated randos were outclassed, but I still believe in the James Ellsworth philosophy that any man with two hands having a fighting chance.  Your bullets aren't doing you any good if they are sitting in your gun magazine and not slamming into your opponents..

Second match was the mirror opposite of the first and that was a good thing because we needed the morale boost..  We almost mercied a team where most of the members were from two of the sub-clans for Bad Parents Of Destiny.  Obviously those guys play for fun and camaraderie; they were not ready for Rippa and I in serious mode.  I love playing on Vostok.  Scout Rifle kills for days.  I nearly had a 5.0 efficiency rating.

Third match was a hard loss because Rippa and I ended up being the meat shields who captured flags and got gunned down while our teammates came to murder the zone defenders we'd softened up during the push.  It wasn't until five minutes into the match that I figured out that we were up against Slimy's team.  ("Where have I seen that Titan before?")  If you're going to get your ass beat, at least let it be someone you are cool with.

Slimy and I traded kills and deaths twice.. I hardscoped him with my Scout Rifle after he wrecked one of my teammates with a Shoulder Tackle only to get the short end in a battle of Supers five seconds later.  The Strikers held their heads high while the Arcstriders averted their gazes in shame.

The score was lopsided because if Rippa and I weren't capping, no one was.  I got seven lousy kills but I had a crap ton of caps and still managed to escape with a 1.0+ efficiency.  I may not have killed a lot, but I didn't die a lot either.  Stats seem to suggest that I barely fired my guns and it did feel like I did more running around than fighting.

Fourth match we were back on lucky Vostok, but we were up against a fireteam of serious randos who were very sweaty.  Score was tight until the very last minute, but we pulled out a win.  Rippa got miffed at me for nabbing some poor schmuck's dropped purple just as he was about to grab it.  IT ONLY GAVE ME ONE FUCKING SNIPER FILE ROUND~!  I was happy that I didn't fuck up and miss the shot while wheeling around to my camping spot near C.  Poor warlock got one in the back of the dome.  2.25 efficiency.  Lucky Vostok is still lucky.

We had to play another match because Rippa bleeds a lot and could not get to 100% for his Call To Arms in four matches.  He stalled at 99%, so here we fucking go again.  The trend of Loss - Win could not be broken unfortunately and we got beat, but Rippa got his last 1% and I did not go below 1.0 efficiency with the loss so there you go. 

After that we bailed to the Tower to cash in our Crucible and Iron Banner tokens.  Shaxx gave me an arms armor upgrade as my Call To Arms reward.  Irony.  I didn't get much in the way of good loot from Saladin.  I kinda hate the Season 3 ornament for the IB cloak..

After Rippa went to walk the dog. I spent the rest of the night on Mars and Mercury farming Glimmer, trying to get Sunburst kills with Sunshot, and trying to figure out what was going on with the NBA Draft..  It is bullshit that I can blow up four or five Thralls at once in a chain reaction Solar explosion and barely register any catalyst progress. 

The Lost Sector on Mercury is the best place I've found so far to farm Sunburt kills and line your pockets with Glimmer ant Tokens while you're at it.  One day the devs will figure this out and lock Lost Sectors after you complete them, so that you can't just go back over and over again at will.

I won't be on much this weekend since it is my custody time and we may try to go and see Incredibles 2 tomorrow afternoon.  I should be on Sunday after I get my kid back home to her mom's place.

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Weather was total ass in the 804 and Rippa's XB1 shit the bed so I spent the night doing some much needed Glimmer farming.  I tacked Legendary mods on my FWC helmet and leg armor pieces, so I think only the arm armor piece needs upgrading.  My Doubt auto rifle is also masterworked. 

Any MW cores I get will go towards upgrading my FWC energy and power weapons unless I score on a pair of Took Offense leg armor to masterwork and slap an ornament on.  I am still very annoyed that New Monarchy has a sword as one of their faction weapons and FWC does not.

If no one else is on, I will get in another peaceful night of Glimmer farming before I knock off to watch RAW.  If anyone wants to run in the IB for some last minute player murder, I'm in.

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Yeah - it would be really nice if my XBOX would fucking stupid fucking my messages up

Apparently - Mis sent me a couple of request to do the Nightfall that I didn't get till last night.

And then it took me 3 attempts just to respond to you.

No shit XBOX - your "We are having problems giving you all your messages" message was real helpful.

Grr...

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I will say I got the perfect mix of modifiers when I was doing my Heroic Strikes on Saturday

Solar singe with Heavyweight. I had Sleeper Simulant and another guy had Prometheus Lens

We got to Protheon and he was dead before the floor dropped out the first time which is literally the first time I have ever done that.

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26 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

Solar singe with Heavyweight. I had Sleeper Simulant and another guy had Prometheus Lens

Yeah, we evaporated Bracus Thuun in a Prestige Nightfall this past Tuesday with Solar Singe / Heavyweight / Famine active. 

I was a Gunslinger packing a Sleeper Stimulant.  The Dawnblade used a MW Polaris Lance and the Sumbreaker had a Prometheus Lens and a Solar Damage Curtain Call rocket launcher.. 

We saved our Purple and our Supers for the boss stage and melted everyone in seconds.  We probably should've added more modifiers to boost our scores, but we just wanted to get through the Strike.

I have only been on a couple of strikes where the boss died way before Bungie wanted him to.  I was with a fireteam on the Arms Dealer strike with Void Singe active where the Voidwalker Nova Bombed Bracus Zahn and held him in place for me to shoot him in the head with the Frigid Jackal.  He died before he got to the first tower to call adds..

I also did the Spire strike with Arc Singe where I used Arcstaff to interrupt Protheon's firing sequence while the other two players Coldheart-ed him to death before we dropped to the third floor.

I am beginning to hate strikes like Tree of Probabilities, Savathûn's Song , and A Garden World where adds are clearly tied to boss health gates and there are obvious damage sequences that you can't avoid.

Arc Singe should be coming back into the HS rotation this week, so it would be a good time to spam strikes to get that Coldheart catalyst now that the Longest Winter perk got a buff and the gun doesn't suck anymore.

I have 33% complete on the Sunburst Kills criteria for my Sunshot catalyst and I have chain reaction asploded a lot of enemies.  The grind is real.

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The IB left with a whimper instead of a bang for me, but that's okay.  Rippa wanted to speed run through the IB DCs and I felt lazy, so I chose a peaceful evening of Glimmer farming instead.  Not much came of it since Brother Vance insisted on giving me Kairos armor instead of more Prophecy Weapons that I could pass on to my Warlock. 

Banshee-44 also decided to rip me off, so my FWC arm armor still has a shit Blue mod. 

I now have seven MWCs but if I get a new set of Took Offense boots to slap the Season 3 Vanguard armor ornament and my last remaining Xenosilver shader on, five of those cores are going into that leg armor and the Scout Rifle and Shotgun of my FWC arsenal will just have to wait.

As the night drew to a close, I tried to back in to an EP completion, but the group I was hanging around stalled at Wave 4.

I did take comfort that my Sunshot's Sunburst Kills % is up to 70% now.  I'll break it out for the Flashpoint this afternoon, but It's getting tucked away in favor of the Kibou when I start chipping away at the the Arc Singe modified Heroic Strikes..

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