Official CAG Destiny Thread - Rise of Iron

Jiggles on CAG here.. SlickJiggly on Xbox One / Destiny..

I have 2 personal friends who are 40 and maxed out playing. I just got a Xbox One and started playing. I used the boost on a Warlock to 25, realized quick I don't know what the hell I'm doing. So I started a Titan which I got to 14.. almost 15 to learn the game. Having a ton of fun. Feel free to add me to your friends list, I also applied to join the Clan. :D

 
Damn you Bungie!

Planned on spending the day on the Black Ops campaign, so I could get it out of the way before Fallout.
So of course The First Firewall has to pop up today, Ha Ha.

I guess the SABER thing will be tomorrow, after a reset? If anyone wants to team up for that, let me know. From what I understand, its pretty difficult. I'm up to the Warsats right now, but I'm taking a little break first.
 
That would be great but so far I haven't had much luck finding a group that just wants to let me do a partial run. I had a friend who might have if there was an opening Wednesday night, but that didn't work out. I might try next Wednesday since I have the day off.
 
I might not even get on Destiny this weekend to run Trials at all so probably not unfortunately io, sorry. I want to run the Raid, I want to get the Trials gear... but I would rather just play Halo or BLOPS3... haha and then with Fallout coming Tuesday poor Destiny won't likely see me much until they drop a new hidden mission or some more dlc stuff. I do need to remember to jump on at least once before the event ends though so I can use my glue on some random masks then since I never got Atheon or Crota : (

 
io said:
Still have my Warlock to do so I'll save that for it. Let me know - maybe Saturday or Sunday night? Or if daytime is easier I will be around a bit Saturday evening and part of the day Sunday. I did the bounties on my Hunter and Titan and got crap for the Silver and the scout rifle and rocket launcher for gold. Scout rifle is like 303 and full auto - I forget the other perk. Rocket launcher was 300 and had crap perks. So all in all kind of disappointing other than getting the scout rifle since I missed out on it last week.

We did have one fun round where one person got disconnected as we flew in for the match. Seriously the game should not start it if that happens since it was before we even loaded in. But we decided to give it a go and damn if we didn't win 2-on-3. I screen capped it.
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Bad news. My friend got a communication ban till Tuesday. She never talks smack either. She thinks it is people reporting her for smacking them around in trials last week. And everyone else is so engrossed in Black Ops and Halo it might be hard for me to find a third. My team is back to COD after our third run :(
 
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I certainly hope not. I deleted all my extra masks including the Crota one and the only part of the bounty I had left was like 2 more sword kills as Crota. I just figured there was no discussion of it anywhere and I rarely see people doing these bounties any more so it wasn't going to give me anything other than another mask I couldn't keep. If I find out each character can earn a legendary by finishing the mask quests I'll be back on trying to get a Crota mask again and finishing that up!
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Yeah, the quests don't give you any guaranteed purples and they don't give you more glue. It's just another way to get more blue masks, to complete the collection.

And, from what I've seen and read, the skull mask only drops from the SILVER purchased bags. Or if you were lucky, from your very first intro bag. Same goes for other purple masks and glue.

Started out as a fun little event, then it showed itself to be BS. Although, I do have fun wearing the Cryptarch mask. I just stand in his spot and slow clap everyone that goes to decrypt stuff. Really funny when you're friend's looking for a 310 exotic and he gets a 290

 
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Started out as a fun little event, then it showed itself to be BS. Although, I do have fun wearing the Cryptarch mask. I just stand in his spot and slow clap everyone that goes to decrypt stuff. Really funny when you're friend's looking for a 310 exotic and he gets a 290
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I used the 200 silver I had left over from my freebie silver (since I only bought one emote) to get a package. I think I got like a green engram mask in it. I also broke down the exotic engram one I had glued earlier. So I kept my original Atheon, and then I "glued" Skolas and the Warden (Servitor). Those last two are the ones that are full masks that cover the back of your head also and thus actually look like armor at first glance. Plus it took forever to get the Servitor one (I got like every other one multiple times first) so I kind of felt like it was more rare - though probably it is not at all.

Wasted 3 hours in the game tonight trying to get the Crucible bounties done for the weekly stuff. Man, that shit is endless. I did a whole bunch of bounties and completed two quest lines that gave me crap green weapons. And now I'm simply supposed to win two control matches for Dead Orbit. I played like 6 in a row and kept getting put on crap teams - it was horrible. So I gave up - not feeling like putting too much more into this game right now though I would like to knock out the Trials bounties on my Warlock (if not go for the helm or more) and get at least a Normal Oryx kill on my Warlock (if not hard).

But there has definitely been a drop-off of players this weekend no doubt due to CoD and Halo. It will only get worse the next couple of weeks.

 
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I definitely forsee a giant drop off come Tuesday.  Hell, I don't know if I'll even raid next week come Fallout 4!  I finished my raid for this week and then went to Halo 5, because i'd like to beat the single player before Fallout comes out . . . but it's not looking too promising at this point.

 
Wow - I really should play Trials during the day and not at 10pm-4am Pacific like I usually do.  I did my Control matches for the Crucible quest and got 2 wins no problem at 5pm on Sunday.  So much easier then.  I should have equipped The Last Word for the Chaperone quest while I mowed down an entire team with my machine gun ;).   But now I have to get Rift wins.  Does this quest ever end!?

By the way not a single person on my friend's list playing Destiny (though a lot more than usual were online).

 
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I don't know if this was mentioned, but it's been reported that 320 exotics are dropping from the Silver trials bounties rarely . . .

Guess I'll be doing trials in the morning before work tomorrow!

 
I ran a partial HM last night and got a pair of 320 gloves to drop! I went from 296 to 320 in gloves with one drop. We did great up to Oryx and, yeah, with us all under 310, it wasn't happening.
 
Need some weapon advice if you guys dont mind. I got in a lfg group at Oryx this morning and ended up getting the Scout at 300 and the Hand Cannon at 309. The Scout has full auto and I like it so far and the Hand Cannon has firefly and it is a beast up close since the range is kind of lacking on. I also have a 296 Hung Jury that is my go to weapon since I bought it from the Dead Orbit vendor. Now my question is should I just keep the hand cannon or infuse that 309 into on of my scouts and which one should i do it to?

Also i ran the daily twice and did not get any marks this morning did that happen to anyone else?

 
ajh2298 said:
Need some weapon advice if you guys dont mind. I got in a lfg group at Oryx this morning and ended up getting the Scout at 300 and the Hand Cannon at 309. The Scout has full auto and I like it so far and the Hand Cannon has firefly and it is a beast up close since the range is kind of lacking on. I also have a 296 Hung Jury that is my go to weapon since I bought it from the Dead Orbit vendor. Now my question is should I just keep the hand cannon or infuse that 309 into on of my scouts and which one should i do it to?

Also i ran the daily twice and did not get any marks this morning did that happen to anyone else?
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If you infuse the 309 into anything you will drop the max light level a couple at least based on the light levels you said. I personally (in the Raid) run with my Hung Jury up until the Sisters and then put on Touch of Malice. Then the only time I switch is during the teleporting phase of Oryx, here I put on my highest level Raid weapon for the extra damage against taken.

The real draw of the Raid weapons are the Cocoon ability and the extra damage against Taken. In the Raid in particular you only actually fight the Taken a handful of times; in the very beginning, last rounds of Warpriest, last rounds of Golgoroth and then at the Sisters and Oryx. Most people though will use the Touch of Malice at the last two leaving just a very small handful of encounters where you get the most out of the bonus damage to Taken.

Like I said for this reason I have infused my Hung Jury to like 314 or something whereas I still just revert back to my 309 Raid Scout during that single point of teleporting during the Raid. What it comes down to is which gun do you like better and feel you are better with? I personally did not like the Raid Handcannon, mine too had Firefly but it just wasn't doing it for me at anything beyond mid-range. I really do like the Raid Scout but again if I personally had to choose I would go with the Dead Orbit Vendor Rolled Hung Jury 95% of the time.

 
The raid hand cannon would be good, if it had better reload speeds.  Right now, it's to slow to be of any use other than as infusion material for another gun.  If you like the raid scout, then put the hand cannon into that.  If you prefer Hung Jury, then put the scout and hand cannon into it.

But as Broly said, cocoon is a really useful perk.  Basically, unload the clip, then instead of reloading, switch to another weapon and unload that clip.  The clip on your first weapon should be reloaded by the time you switch back to it.

Now imagine having a couple raid weapons equipped... you can pretty much switch back and forth without ever reloading either gun.

 
Fearia said:
I don't know if this was mentioned, but it's been reported that 320 exotics are dropping from the Silver trials bounties rarely . . .
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Yeah, if and when they do drop... But keep in mind they aren't 320 exotics, they are up to 320. They can be anywhere from 310 to 320. I've gotten 5 Silver packages so far, and only the very first had a 310+ and that was a 313 Light Beyond Nemesis. The other 4 have given me blue freaking engrams.

Sometimes I really hate this game. I got a final Trials run in last night with a friend and a rando from LFG. We actually worked pretty well together and on our first card got up to 4 wins pretty easily. But like so many times before, we just couldn't get that fifth win to get the stupid helmet. That was all I wanted - not looking to go flawless or even make it to 7 wins for the sniper rifle. But no... And of course we lost those games like 5-4 and 5-3 so as usual it was so close but no dice.

Then to top it all off I finally got some armor from a gold package (first time in 5 tries) but of course it was a duplicate of the one and only armor piece I've gotten so far from the new Trials: boots for the Warlock. That was the only piece I managed to get last week when Broly and his friend helped me get to 5 wins. At least this pair was 307 vs. the 303 I got before so I infused these into the older ones. I also got another Warlock bond that actually dropped at our first win - didn't think that was possible. Of course that is also the only class item I already had - nothing dropped on my other two characters. My friend also got a class item and it dropped at 310 while mine was 303 or something. Sigh...

And despite all this I'm thinking of picking up the $35 Taken King for PS4 from the Black Friday sales. I know Target will have it for that price and usually these stores all have the same deals, so if I can get it at Best Buy with GCU (and online) I might just do that,

ajh2298 said:
Need some weapon advice if you guys dont mind. I got in a lfg group at Oryx this morning and ended up getting the Scout at 300 and the Hand Cannon at 309. The Scout has full auto and I like it so far and the Hand Cannon has firefly and it is a beast up close since the range is kind of lacking on. I also have a 296 Hung Jury that is my go to weapon since I bought it from the Dead Orbit vendor. Now my question is should I just keep the hand cannon or infuse that 309 into on of my scouts and which one should i do it to?

Also i ran the daily twice and did not get any marks this morning did that happen to anyone else?
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Are your marks capped out at 200? That happens to me all the time. I couldn't even cash in my Trials bounties until I went and bought my last remaining Year 1 upgrade: Bad Juju.

As for the weapons, I know I'm in the minority, but I love the Raid hand cannon (with firefly) and it was the first weapon I infused up to 310 and I use it for the middle parts of the Raid. Firefly is great for the Totem and Warpriest because you can take out groups with one shot. Though the range and lower ammo capacity can be a bit of a problem at the Totems. I just got the full auto Scout rifle from hard mode (at 319 - my best drop so far) and I was using it in strikes last night. I really don't like it - it doesn't seem to do very much damage. I think I can take things out much faster with my hand cannon.

My loadout for hard mode is this:

Portal: Zhalo Supercell (310), Raid shotgun (308 - though I think I got a 314 one last week), Raid rocket launcher (318). I like Zhalo here because the chain lightning is awesome for the groups of Taken at this part.

Totems: Raid hand cannon (310), Black Spindle (314), Raid rocket launcher (318). As I said above, sometimes the range causes problems but being able to take out 2-3 thrall with one shot is nice. It also staggers the Knights whereas I don't think the scout can do that. I do occasionally run out of ammo during this part though - just have to try to run out of the way sometimes when switching to pick it up.

Warpriest: same as Totems. Since the enemies are usually much closer here, the hand cannon is great. Being able to stagger the yellow knights is nice. The hand cannon is the next best thing to having a shotgun which you generally don't have equipped here because you need a sniper for Warpriest.

Golgoroth: same again. Firefly is good here, too, for taking out multiple thralls/acolytes.

Sisters/Oryx: This is where everyone switches to Touch of Malice of course. For a secondary I use a 1000-Yard Stare at 315, and then same 318 rocket launcher I used for the rest of the Raid. Though on my last hard mode raid, I did switch to a 317 raid machine gun. It is nice having the machine gun for the shade of Oryx as it can be dangerous to fire rockets in there with people jumping around and the occasional Taken thrall up in your face. So I will probably do that from now on.

I have one more Raid clear (just Oryx) to get on my Warlock. I'm debating just using LFG for a Normal clear (to get a helmet possibly) or to just try for hard mode. It worried me a bit that if I try hard mode this late in the week I'll end up with a group that has had trouble and I don't want to spend hours on it.

 
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I finished all my raid stuff in the first night or two after the rest last week.  Figured there would be a drop off so wanted to get done early with the other games that are hitting shelves now.

Went on to do trials Friday and Saturday just for the packages.  I have no real friends who play this so I almost always have to LFG for a team (unless I stay up super late and catch on with some of the west coasters here).  Always post that I'm just doing bounties but still seem to get invited to serious groups for some reason.  This is really why they need some type of matchmaking for ToO.  I spend more time trying to find a team that I do playing I swear.  90% of the people posting now are trying for lighthouse runs and the rest are posting about bounties but deep down are try-hards who want carried to the lighthouse.  For example, got invited to a game by a guy and we went out and lost the first game so the 3rd guy just quit to find another team and while waiting to find a new 3rd the leader proceeded to tell me he just wanted to get bounties done and blah blah blah.  He invites a guy with a flawless emblem and we actually went on a decent roll. before I knew it we were up to 5 wins.  At around that point the leader starts turning into a bit of a douche, bitching at us it we had a bad round and getting told we need to "pick it up or he will find others to replace us".  At the end of one round I asked the guy what happened to just wanting to get bounties done and if we win, then we win?  Even funnier was he kept complaining while we kept winning games.  So we get to 7 wins and end up losing a really close match 5-4 even though we were up 4-3.  So the leader loses it and just starts bitching up a storm about us sucking and we were being carried, etc.  So lame.   I usually keep cool during games but I pretty much told the guy to go fuck himself.  His antics really ruined what should have been a fun ToO run.

So of course I got 2 Artifacts from my gold packages and some 310 warlock gloves on the 3rd.  Lo and behold when I cracked open those silver packages I pulled a Hawkmoon, which had me super stoked until I looked and realized it was only a 310.  What a kick in the nuts that was.

I actually really like the sniper rilfe, but man the perks I got suck.  Never would use it over my 318 1000 yd stare though.

 
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^ As bad as that sounds, you got way better stuff than I did.  Though our game last night was pretty chill and the 3rd rando we picked up was pretty cool about the whole thing.  It helped that all 3 of us were on the same stage of the bounties, so we all needed the same number of kills, points, and most of all, matches (since we had to do like 4 more after we got everything else done).

I already see a bunch of people playing Fallout and it isn't even Tuesday yet.  Of course being cheap I'm not paying full price for the digital download.  I don't think mine will come until Wednesday.  I've actually never played any of the Fallout games (though I own multiple versions of 3 and New Vegas on PS3 and 360 that I got through cheapass means).

I might hop on to see if it is even possible to get a Normal raid clear (just Oryx) in at this point.  Oh crap, and I think I have a few Trials legendary marks bounties to turn in on one of my characters.  I feel like it gives those out too easily.

 
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Got a last minute Normal Oryx kill in.   Game was glitchy as hell which cost us a few wipes.  I used 20 moldering shards and got 2 shards and 300 boots back.  Yay Destiny.

At midnight each character got 5 "worn sacks" (cue immature laughter here...) which had Jackolytes, the spawn changing items, and/or something like moldy candy.  Non-legendary masks turned into "crumpled masks".  Odd that this happened at midnight and not reset.

I still had a bunch of the limited-time consumables in my Vault so I thought maybe I could use them until reset.  I took them all out and went to kill some Cabal and when I got to Patrol I noticed I didn't have any in my inventory.  So when I took them from my Vault apparently they just disappeared into thin air.

 
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I hopped on to Destiny last night just for a bit to hopefully score more masks to use my glue on. The very last bag I tried and was going to quit gave me Crota! I was hoping for Crota and Atheon but I will take Crota at least. I ended with I believe Skolas, Legendary engram, Xur, Oryx, Crota and the Speaker as my legendary masks to keep. 

Unfortunately while playing the game I just wanted to be playing something else... I equated it to going out with a girl for a while and things feel like they just are in a boring routine and then you go out for a few nights with friends and meet some new people and then when you go back to your old girl it just feels super stale? Sorry girl, I have moved on.

: P

That being said if people want me to hop on and play with them I probably won't say no, I just however will not likely be the one to bring it up. I will be back Wednesday though at least to pick up my Armsday stuff, my fingers have been crossed on that Omolon Sniper he sold.

 
BrolyB593 said:
I hopped on to Destiny last night just for a bit to hopefully score more masks to use my glue on. The very last bag I tried and was going to quit gave me Crota! I was hoping for Crota and Atheon but I will take Crota at least. I ended with I believe Skolas, Legendary engram, Xur, Oryx, Crota and the Speaker as my legendary masks to keep.

Unfortunately while playing the game I just wanted to be playing something else... I equated it to going out with a girl for a while and things feel like they just are in a boring routine and then you go out for a few nights with friends and meet some new people and then when you go back to your old girl it just feels super stale? Sorry girl, I have moved on.

: P

That being said if people want me to hop on and play with them I probably won't say no, I just however will not likely be the one to bring it up. I will be back Wednesday though at least to pick up my Armsday stuff, my fingers have been crossed on that Omolon Sniper he sold.
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It's not like you're going to be crawling back or anything when you hear rumors about her next boob job and see her pretty face in town a couple of months down the line ;)

 
Nineteen strange coins and some blue 276 gloves as my rewards for the Nightfall thanks Bungie. My comrades who ran it with me both got 300+ heavies which would have helped me a ton.

 
Finally some good drops from Hard Raid.

HM:  318 Boots, 319 Chest

Normal: Helmet, Arms

Guns: Thunderlord, Normal Scout, Normal Fusion, Normal Machine Gun

Nightfall was booty.  Shitty auto rifle but I will keep it so when I have to dismantle guns for my Fabian Stategy I will have some :)

Hopefully I can get my raids done ASAP so I don't have to touch the game till Arms day on Wednesday and Trials on Friday.  I want to play Tomb Raider for most of the week.

 
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Another run through the raid and another run without anything useful. I'm going to try nightfall and maybe a partial hard run today and if I get nothing I'm taking a break. It gets old pouring time in and not having anything to show for it.
 
I was thinking they should really allow you to infuse items across different types.  Like if you have a glut of higher Secondaries and Heavy weapons let you infuse your primaries with them and instead of getting 80% of the light gain, maybe you only get 50%.  That would at least give you some options when you get stuck like many of us are.  I have a ton of Boots/Class Items/Secondaries/Heavies/Ghosts and cant get any high Primaries/Helmets/Chests so all my characters are stuck in the 312-314 range now.  Think I am getting like 1 or 2 tenths of a light point per HM raid now if I'm lucky.  Hardly seems worth it.

 
No ghost from nightfall either. If anybody is doing a hard run and willing to let me tag along for the first part I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I think I'm done with destiny for the week. Might so a few things here and there but I'm off to Fallout mainly.
 
Renegade Moose said:
Another run through the raid and another run without anything useful. I'm going to try nightfall and maybe a partial hard run today and if I get nothing I'm taking a break. It gets old pouring time in and not having anything to show for it.
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I did 2 full hard mode runs last night and pretty much ended up with nothing better. The game keeps giving me hard mode gloves, but no chest or helm. And I have only gotten one 310+ primary out of 4 completions.

My only upgrade was a Titan Mark that was 5 better than my previous one (313 vs. 308). Meanwhile it seemed like everyone else in the group got 319 or 320 stuff. I still have my Hunter to run through it tonight so hopefully my luck will change.

And yeah, Glock, I'm in exactly the same situation. Once you start running hard mode, it is "forever 314" as all my characters are in that 312-314 range too. I have a ton of secondaries and heavies around 313-315 that I would love to be able to infuse into primaries. And the same with boots/gloves into chest/helm.

 
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It seems like there is always one item holding somebody back. For me it is a ghost, others I've heard gloves or boots.
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Well, helms are definitely at a premium, especially in hard mode, since they only drop from Oryx. You can get the other items from Golgoroth (with a second chance again from Oryx since he can give you those instead of a helm). I'm pretty sure I got two glove drops from those two points on one of my runs last night.

The good news was that on our second run we killed Oryx first try. That fight went from being impossible to relatively easy in just a few runs (I've only done it 4 times total so far). I had a much harder time doing normal Oryx with an LFG group on Monday night (though that was mostly due to lag).

 
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Yea, I actually did get a Titan helmet last night, but it was a 300 light normal version from HM Oryx.. wtf.  and a 312 Assault Rifle.... 

I think my only improvements were a 317 ghost (+1 better than what I had).  

 
Well, so much for the easy Oryx run.  What took us one try Tuesday night (on our second run - first run only took a few tries) has turned into two unsuccessful hour+ runs last night and this afternoon.  Hopefully we get it done tonight.  I guess it is good that Dell screwed up my Fallout 4 shipment (won't get it till tomorrow) so I have nothing better to do anyway.

I think it's because everyone in our group is on their 3rd characters.  I remember back in the Atheon days we made sure to stagger everyone's mains vs. thirds so that not everyone was on their "last" character at the same time.  But this one is too new to do that.  We keep getting close of course.  It also doesn't help that both times the 6th we picked up from LFG wasn't very good.  We had a self-res Warlock who kept dying multiple times today.

 
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https://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Weekly-Update--11122015/en/News/News?aid=13977

Iron Banner changes are interesting and welcomed, the Refer-A-Friend definitely sounds intriguing and could possibly greatly help balance the community so that there are more people helping and then finally WTF about those swords?! I busted my ass earning each sword on each character and took forever doing so and now people can just go buy the other two?! I do not see why this was added and is pretty much a slap in the face to everyone who put in the work for each sword.

Bah. Oh well, back to Halo, Black Ops, Fallout and Battlefront for me! ; P

 
You still have to complete the exotic sword quest to get the option.  And even then you're only able to buy the legendary swords, so not really much of an issue. 

EDIT(unless, there's some glitch that instantly gives you the other exotic swords, then yeah... I'd be pissed ;) )

Getting the legendary sword was pretty easy, just meant you had to start a fresh quest on another toon.  Now you'll be able to have all three legendaries on each toon, if you wanted.

 
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This game is such a troll with its drops my hard mode drops this week

Ghost shell 300
Ghost shell 303
Fusion rifle 300
Sniper rifle 307
Chest plate 318 (I have a 320)
Boots 300
Boots 303
 
aFrostyONE said:
You still have to complete the exotic sword quest to get the option. And even then you're only able to buy the legendary swords, so not really much of an issue.

EDIT(unless, there's some glitch that instantly gives you the other exotic swords, then yeah... I'd be pissed ;) )

Getting the legendary sword was pretty easy, just meant you had to start a fresh quest on another toon. Now you'll be able to have all three legendaries on each toon, if you wanted.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOH

I misread it, I thought you could buy all the EXOTIC swords from him after just doing the one! I completely retract my last statement about the swords!

 
[quote name="aFrostyONE" post="13026142" timestamp="1447379677"]You still have to complete the exotic sword quest to get the option. And even then you're only able to buy the legendary swords, so not really much of an issue.
EDIT(unless, there's some glitch that instantly gives you the other exotic swords, then yeah... I'd be pissed ;) )

Getting the legendary sword was pretty easy, just meant you had to start a fresh quest on another toon. Now you'll be able to have all three legendaries on each toon, if you wanted.[/quote]
That's good news for people like me who just play one character.
 
Yup, but doesn't help you get the other exotics... unless they change that with the patch. 

As far as I know, the exotic sword quest only pops up once per toon.

 
Didn't I say my Titan was cursed in Trials?  So I ran with him again tonight and got in a pretty good group via LFG.  We lost our first game, unfortunately, but then we ran off 3 in a row so we got to 4 wins the hard way (without the 2-for-1 boon) and thus were 4-0 with the mercy used.  So I'm thinking I might finally get an armor piece as we had 3 chances to get that 5th win.  But no, it was not meant to be.  We lost a couple of matches 5-3 or so and then got wiped out on the last one.

But the silver lining was that that last match got me my gold package.  Yep, got screwed again: this time with a 300 artifact.  WTF!?  And my silver package just had the standard blue engram. 

So that makes 6 Trials bounty completions: just 1 exotic from the silver tier, and 2 artifacts, 3 weapons, and a duplicate of the only armor piece I managed to get from 5 wins (Warlock boots).  No new armor at all which I'd just like to get so I can be done with it.  At least the Scout rifle I got last week seems decent though it is similar in stats and perks to the Raid one (both the Trials and Raid ones I got are full auto).

At least I did get the Titan mark from one of the wins, though, of course, it was just 300. It is at least an Int/Disc roll so there's that.

Sigh... I would really like to get the chests for all 3 characters but it seems like it is just not meant to be for me.  I started Fallout 4 just afterwards and got sucked into that for 3 hours.  I'm not sure how compelling dealing with the bullshit in Destiny will be after that.

 
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Got 2 Flawless Runs in yesterday.  Running a team of 3 Hammer Bros is so much fun.

Lighthouse was 319 Water Star (HC) and 319 Inward Lamp (Scout).  The scout has shit perks so I'm going to infuse that one into my 314 Inward Lamp that has Outlaw on it.

Got a 310 Truth from Lighthouse Chest and my gold tiers were poop.  300 Sniper and 300 Rocket with shit perks.

Just have my warlock left to do and I think I'm done till Tuesday unless I feel like bothering with Crucible Quests, been too lazy to unlock my weekly quests :lol:

 
Anyone interested in a regular Thurs/Fri night raid crew?  I'm planning one with some of the Federation of Fathers crew, but ... you know, CAG 4 Life and all that.  I figure, we'd start about 9:30 or 10 EST on Thursdays, get as far as we can before it gets too late, then pick up on Friday or Saturday.  We could start fresh or at a CP, doesn't matter to me.  I just need a regular crew that runs at a time I can join.  It seems I am either a hair too late for the 8:30 starts or can't stay up for the West Coast crew. 

Let me know and I can reserve spots on my FoF slack event.  Looking to get started this week Thursday.  Oh, and I figure light isn't a big deal.  I'd like to run hard mode, but we can start with NM's to get some loot so everyone is HM worthy.  I'm at 308 myself, thanks to a 317 titan mark last night.  :D/

 
So fuck ing happy about buying weapon parts.  Did a lot of infusing of all the shit raid weapons.  Only thing I'm interested in aside from the heavies is a pulse with firefly.

 
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Anyone interested in a regular Thurs/Fri night raid crew? I'm planning one with some of the Federation of Fathers crew, but ... you know, CAG 4 Life and all that. I figure, we'd start about 9:30 or 10 EST on Thursdays, get as far as we can before it gets too late, then pick up on Friday or Saturday. We could start fresh or at a CP, doesn't matter to me. I just need a regular crew that runs at a time I can join. It seems I am either a hair too late for the 8:30 starts or can't stay up for the West Coast crew.

Let me know and I can reserve spots on my FoF slack event. Looking to get started this week Thursday. Oh, and I figure light isn't a big deal. I'd like to run hard mode, but we can start with NM's to get some loot so everyone is HM worthy. I'm at 308 myself, thanks to a 317 titan mark last night. :D/
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I wouldn't mind running with CAGs again since my "regular" crew is a little flaky. A casual Normal run might be kind of fun - haven't done that in a while. I don't even know if we are running hard mode tonight like we usually do on Tuesdays. I'm feeling the pull of Fallout 4 anyways... And I need to get to the Microsoft store to pick up my Star Wars Battlefront (still cashing in on their trade anything for $10 deal of a year and a half ago!).

Unfortunately this particular Thursday is just not going to work for me as I'll be watching the kids then. I probably could have run it tonight that early though. Otherwise, 9 or 10 is perfect for me - but PST, not EST!

Oh yeah, got a second Trials run in on Sunday. Got with a decent crew on LFG again and once again we got to 4-0 (but with the mercy used). So we had 3 chances to notch that 5th win and get the armor. Of course we did not get it done and it was even more frustrating this time because we were up 4-2 in one match. And I didn't even get the class item for the one I really wanted it for (Hunter). The "win" rewards were utter crap - like blue engrams and shit. Over two cards I had at least 5 or 6 wins so it sucked not to get the Hunter cloak in all those chances. I did end up with the Trials hand cannon from the gold tier package which is nice if I'm going to get a weapon I guess. I just want the damn armor though (and the pulse rifle I suppose - though I have so many different pulse rifles I don't know what to do with them!).

What is the Iron Banner armor for this week? Let me guess - stupid arms? I still have several daily and weekly Iron Banner bounties to turn in from last time. I could probably wait till the end of the week and rank up to 3 or 4 just from turning the old stuff in!

I'll also be interested to see how the Crucible weekly bounty changes manifest. I was in the middle of the one step which required 5 Elimination wins. Will that change to being just completions, or am I stuck with that since I already started it?

 
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[quote name="chubbyninja1319" post="13036100" timestamp="1447810881"]Anyone interested in a regular Thurs/Fri night raid crew? I'm planning one with some of the Federation of Fathers crew, but ... you know, CAG 4 Life and all that. I figure, we'd start about 9:30 or 10 EST on Thursdays, get as far as we can before it gets too late, then pick up on Friday or Saturday. We could start fresh or at a CP, doesn't matter to me. I just need a regular crew that runs at a time I can join. It seems I am either a hair too late for the 8:30 starts or can't stay up for the West Coast crew.

Let me know and I can reserve spots on my FoF slack event. Looking to get started this week Thursday. Oh, and I figure light isn't a big deal. I'd like to run hard mode, but we can start with NM's to get some loot so everyone is HM worthy. I'm at 308 myself, thanks to a 317 titan mark last night. :D/[/quote]
I would love that, I just wouldn't be available to finish Friday so we'd have to do it in one go (or get a sub). I probably could start that in two weeks or could MAYBE squeeze in a partial hard run on Thursday. I was about to post next week but Thanksgiving travels will keep me unavailable.

I did a normal run tonight. No ghost as usual. I managed a worse pair of gloves and a slightly better sniper (and same level sniper). Infused those into my Spindle. I managed to snag a 310 bond so it wasn't a total loss. And after 12 3 of Coins I got my first exotic engram which turned into a 2nd year Last Word. I guess RNGesus was feeling bad and turned a legendary engram into a Monte Carlo. Is that even any good? I haven't seen much chat about it.

So I guess not a total loss, but I think I may trim my time to raid runs and helping out a friend. Debating if I want to even bother with Iron Banner.
 
Hey Moose, I was thinking of you when I started trying to pull this together. I was just throwing out Thursday/Friday. We could do any combo, really. With the holiday next week, it might be hard to lock something in, but maybe we shoot for the week after or just plan something for this week only? I'll save you a spot for tomorrow juat in case you can join and we'll shoot for knocking it out in one run or just partial for the loot.

Io, I'll keep you up to date too. I would love to get a regular CAG crew together again.
 
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If you guys are doing Thursday night normal run ivwould love to get in on that. Now just a warning I am beyond horrible at the ship jumping part. Which sucks because the fragment before the gravity lift would be my 45th one. I do have a normal Daughters checkpoint if you want me to hold on to that till Thursday if you want.
 
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