Renegade Moose
CAGiversary!
You need to wait for the mission to show up. You get it from the FWC vendor. According to reddit if you did it yesterday you probably won't see the quest until next Tuesday after reset.
You sent me an invite last night but my group had just finished one. We usually do ours around 830-9 EST on Tues and Wed if you want to pop into party to see if we are setting up.Last night I raided with io and had some fun. Didn't get any upgrades, but it was a fun time. Switched to my alt expecting to raid again, and the leader kicked me to let in someone else. Thought that was a bit shady and gave her crap jokingly (because it's not the first time this has happened). Now I'm clanless and without a normal raiding group, because she went psycho.
So, uh, who needs a well geared Titan for raiding in the future? Hardmode raid comes out Friday. I'm wanting to crack at it. I'd love to join a consistent group that doesn't treat me like crap. Seriously, who the invites you to a small clan and then goes "Yeah, we decided to pull some LFG people despite you being on. Didn't even think to ask you if you wanted in."
Note: I don't mean this at io at all, because he's awesome. Just the leader of his group . . . ugh. So much bullshit. Really pissed about that.
Nice. Unfortunately that doesn't fit my work schedule very well, but I may be able to pop in on Wednesday occasionally. Thanks though!You sent me an invite last night but my group had just finished one. We usually do ours around 830-9 EST on Tues and Wed if you want to pop into party to see if we are setting up.
I'd like to get in a regular group to play with, but I have no raid experience currently.Nice. Unfortunately that doesn't fit my work schedule very well, but I may be able to pop in on Wednesday occasionally. Thanks though!
What is this level 30/level 40 weapon stuff? I mean, I play this game so much it is hard to believe there is something like that that I've never heard of .Yea, that Level 30 theory has just enough logic in it that it might be true. I'm not doing anything with my 310 Malice since it hits plenty hard and getting it back to 310 would be too time consuming, but I did buy a Level 40 - LL 280 NTTE just to try it out. If you infuse your 290 into it you are pretty much back to where you started so doesn't really cost you anything other than some glimmer a few marks and a couple shards.
We started at 930 today, that's usually the latest we'll start since we want to finish by 11.Nice. Unfortunately that doesn't fit my work schedule very well, but I may be able to pop in on Wednesday occasionally. Thanks though!
I posted it earlier today. I think I might have mentioned it when we were playing iron banner over the weekend, but it was so late I'm not even sure I mentioned it or not. You west coasters have me messed up still from when I was in Vegas last month.What is this level 30/level 40 weapon stuff? I mean, I play this game so much it is hard to believe there is something like that that I've never heard of .
Yeah I read that - still didn't quite understand it though. What I meant was I didn't even realize they had levels on them. I'll have to look more closely. However, it was my understanding that the levels mean nothing any more, other than gating when you can equip certain pieces (ie you need to be level 40 to wear most of the good gear). I thought all the nerfing was based on overall light level. That also means that the level (even light level) of any particular weapon does not matter - it is your overall light level, which is influenced by armor (and ghosts/artifacts/class items) as well as weapons, that effects your "nerf" level. That seemed pretty clear in the Raid early on when people in the 280's were doing half the damage at Warpriest or Golgoroth than people who were in the 290's (and again at 290's vs. 300's).I posted it earlier today. I think I might have mentioned it when we were playing iron banner over the weekend, but it was so late I'm not even sure I mentioned it or not. You west coasters have me messed up still from when I was in Vegas last month.
https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/345358-official-cag-destiny-thread-20-taken-king-91515/page-62#entry12980393
Dunno - I kind of gave up on it then, what do you know, tonight I run a Nightfall and get crap rewards from that (a 283 machine gun or something) but I did get the Void cloak (it drops right from the last Flayer as opposed to end-screen rewards). So now my Hunter is rocking that purple. I tried grinding Court of Oryx for a bit to get a high (297 or so) class item so I can make the jump up to Raid cloak levels and then use my 304 Raid cloak on it. But I don't want to try to jump from 293 to 304 as I'll lose a few crucial levels there. Unless I can find something quick I won't be able to wear it for the Hard raid...Ran strikes and a lot of Dust Palace last night trying to get a flayer cloak, but no luck. Seems like I see a lot of people running with them, so I figure the drop rate must be decent...right?
Lars: Last week, it was clear to us that you were frustrated by the Iron Banner reward drops, and rightly so! It turns out that, when we started digging into the issue, we uncovered a nasty bug that affected how Legendary drops happen throughout the Crucible, including Iron Banner.
Have you not beaten it at all yet? We need to get that done for you - normal is pretty easy now.I think I've done all my Taken King quests except finishing the Raid. Even well over a month in I still feel like I have a lot of options on things to do in the game.
I didn't think anyone had done it yet. The streamers the guys I was playing with were watching were struggling at Oryx.Really surprised Hard mode was beaten in less than two hours. Kind of a buzzkill really.
I was hoping for some major changes but from everything I have seen it is all just relatively minor changes that just makes everyone need to play on point even moreso than before is all.
If most of the people in the group are mid-300's and have Touch of Malice, the deathsingers and Oryx go quick.I've gotten up to the deathsingers with Chubby's group and that's about it. I will probably have time to commit more time this week to do a run and I think if I can level up my no time to explain that should help with the boss fights as well. The raid doesn't seem that tough as long as you are able to do damage.
Damn that sucks. My very first Raid item I think was a 304 ghost from the chest after the portal! And I've gotten several more (up to 309) since then. But yeah, 297 isn't bad. Even if just 3-4 people are mid-300's with Touch of Malice, it goes quick.We got pretty close with deathsingers but it was just getting too late. Unfortunately for me since I haven't run the raid a ton I am sitting at about 297 max light. Which isn't horrible. My ghost really brings me down since that is 280. I should probably run nightfall first and hope for a good ghost drop.
Bungie said if you haven't beaten a checkpoint on normal and you beat it on hard first you will get a chance at one drop from the normal's pool of rewards and a drop with a chance at hard's pool of rewards. You can only get a chance at each difficulty's pool once per character so if you beat it on hard there is no need to beat it on normal as you would have already exhausted that character's potential drops for the week.I should add that I got no moldering shards the entire time. I have 12 right now and would really like 20 for beating Oryx on hard. 8 is just a few too many to buy from Eris though (considering each one is 15 hadium flakes plus 2500 glimmer). But it looks like you don't get any more than you do from Normal.
I think the way the drops work in this raid is a little different than the others. It appears the chests are just normal mode drops and none have anything extra (unlike the one chest in VoG). We'll have to see what someone who hasn't done the raid on Normal also gets, but I read somewhere that you get Normal + Hard drops if that is the case. But is it like VoG where you got two drops from the hard pool, which included both normal and hard stuff (where, for example, you could get 2 Fatebringers from the same checkpoint), or is it truly a normal item + hard item?
Right but the issue is if it is like VoG where the "hard' pool included both normal and hard so you could get double-hard mode drops or like Crota where it was only hard mode drops.Bungie said if you haven't beaten a checkpoint on normal and you beat it on hard first you will get a chance at one drop from the normal's pool of rewards and a drop with a chance at hard's pool of rewards. You can only get a chance at each difficulty's pool once per character so if you beat it on hard there is no need to beat it on normal as you would have already exhausted that character's potential drops for the week.
Given that VoG and Crota are different nothing can be "just like" both of them . Also the exotic chest in VoG had more stuff in hard mode.Q: Do I get loot from Hard Mode if I ran Normal Mode already?
A: Yes. It's just like Crotas End and Vault of Glass. Either run the raid 6 times a week, 3 normal mode then 3 hard mode, or run it 3 times a week, 3 hard mode and get double loot. As far as chests go (immediately after portal into raid, Golgoroths maze, Bumper maze) it's just like VOG and CROTA. Only once a week.
On the run I was in, I managed to pull a 314 ghost (At least I think it was 314. I know it was over 310), and this was after completing normal already.One thing we didn't see from the Hard raid at all was a 310+ ghost. So I really wonder if running it on hard without doing normal can give you better ghosts from those chests that didn't drop anything for us this time.
I got nothing from Deathsingers either.On the run I was in, I managed to pull a 314 ghost (At least I think it was 314. I know it was over 310), and this was after completing normal already.
Death Singers, on the other hand, ed me and gave me literally nothing. But I also got a 317 sniper rifle and 314 boots. All in all, not a bad run. We didn't get Oryx either though.
What chest did you guys get those from though? All the chests that would normally drop those gave nothing to anyone on our team except the Harrowed fusion rifle for 1 or 2 people.yea 310+ ghosts are dropping like flies. except for me i got a 306
(and he complained about getting this stuff) Spoiled I tell you : PGot a 310 RL, 318 gauntlets, and 312 bond. I'm up to 309 now, we stopped at Oryx.
If you haven't done that run yet let me know - would like to get one in on my Hunter before reset. It seems like everyone at least gets a weapon from Warpriest (and one of these days he has to give me a sniper, right?) and an armor piece from Golgoroth. Even if I just did it up through there I'd be happy. Hell, I'd take a Warpriest/Golgoroth only run since the earlier and later parts have given me jack squat so far.I hope to do another Hard run tonight hopefully on my Warlock. Maybe then I can use that gear to boost my Hunter and have her high enough of a light level that I could join another 310+ group and at least finish off Oryx as that was like half of the LFG posts I saw the other night.
Anything 310 is an awesome pull from the Normal raid even if that was all you got the entire time. I've lost count of how many 300 items I've gotten... Like I said before, my Warlock made a huge jump when the HM gave me 318 boots because the best I could do before that was 296. Normal never gave me any sort of boots.All you hard mode people and your fancy 310+ gear and ghost shells. I ran normal up to deathsingers last night and all I got was a pair of 310 boots and a ton of shards. :???: Going to finish tonight or tomorrow, so hopefully the sisters and Oryx are a bit kinder to me, given that I got squat from the first 3/4 of the raid this week.
I know what you mean, it's pure tedium. At least the moon is one big loop you can run. By the end, I didn't even need my ghost to spot the deposits, I was just on autopilot running from place to place.I know I'm late to the exoctic sword party, but I've been putting it off because of the crucible (I'm not a crucible fan). Well, I got those 25 kills in about an hour. It was nowhere near as bad as I imagined. Beat Ecthar without a problem.
So yeah. I'm on the Rare materials/ability kills part. The kills are coming along okay, but I'm barely finding any Helium Coils to open. I have a ghost for every other material. It doesn't help that I can't get into an instance by myself. It seems like there's always someone else around and they're messing up my search.
Ugh. I know it'll happen and it just takes time.
/Rant