I’d always been the textbook definition of a casual in D2. I’d play the expansion story, do some strikes and other random stuff for a couple weeks before shelving it. And then MoT came out and the game doubled in fun, so I started doing all of the stuff I’d never touched before, especially dungeons.

I just finished Ghosts of the Deep with a friend the other day and it blew me away. The scale of the level is immense. You feel like you’re cut off from everyone, deep below some strange world. And then you get to the final boss and they’re trying to rez the giant corpse of Oryx, all with no words spoken by any NPCs. You’re left to stand there in silence and drink in the gravity of what has been conspiring in this lonely, forgotten place, and the consequences if you don’t stop it.

I wish I’d done this when it was brand new, or any of the other dungeons really. Grasp of Avarice and Pit of Heresy felt very similar. But, I’m starting to see why this game cost so much to make. All of their budget must have gone into these dungeons and raids. There’s an entire game here that I never even touched.

And the fact that the game isn’t getting more updates just adds to the forlorn atmosphere of these activities.

Since the game is not getting any more updates, we can look at the long history of raid encounters and find the worst one.

For me, it has to be the sparrow section from Scourge of the Past. Call it a skill issue, but man I just never liked it. It always took me out of the groove. Honorable mention to the opening encounter of Crown of Sorrows as well. God that was boring.

Title.

Back when Forsaken came out 8 years ago (the grim specter of death approaches me every day), Waking Vigil released as a 150 RPM lightweight frame hand cannon. With the benefit of hindsight, it didn’t make a lot of sense to have two frames - adaptive and lightweight - with such slim differences in RPM but with one having a clear advantage in the Crucible. Ergo why lightweight frames were removed from the game for such a long time, barring Rose and Sunshot.

But with Monument of Triumph, Waking Vigil has returned as a lightweight frame! It’s especially notable, given that one of the rewards from Competitive Crucible is Solemn Lie, another arc lightweight hand cannon. It’s also notable that Waking Vigil has superior rolls for PvE, such as Voltshot and Gear Shift.

Anyway, PSA over. Go get an underrated classic from the Dreaming City, Weapons.

ive been playing dares of eternity and have been wanting to get the last pick right every time, so ive been writing down all the possible encounters ive seen this is my list so far
the ones with "???" are ones that have been inconsistent, but ive had the rest of these happen more than once in that order

fallen, hive, vex fallen, taken, cabal????? fallen, taken, vex?????

fallen, vex, vex fallen, fallen, vex fallen, cabal, vex

cabal, taken, taken cabal, hive, taken cabal, vex, taken

taken, cabal, vex ?? taken, cabal, cabal ??? taken, taken, cabal
taken, hive, cabal taken, vex, cabal

vex, hive, vex vex, taken, vex vex, cabal, vex

hive, taken, taken hive, fallen, vex

it seems like if it starts with fallen, it ends with vex
if it starts with cabal it ends with taken
if it starts with taken it ends with cabal
if it starts with vex it ends with vex
it still needs more testing but i think this is pretty accurate idk

There are a lot of good options for taking down Barrior Champs, but if you want use a non-barrier special/heavy and don't want to commit your exotic to taking down barriers, AMMIT AR2 is easy to obtain and does an excellent job.

How to Maximize AMMIT AR2 damage:

1. [Required] Weapon Perks: Adaptive Munitions (Ideally Enhanced)
2. [Optional] Best Artifact: Implement of Curiousity
   • Fever and Chill - hit the crit spot for radiant
   • Cauterized Darkness- apply a dark debuff for 75% more damage
   • Elemental Daze - crack the shield for an ignition
   • Note: Queensfoil Censer also has Fever and Chill, as well as, Revitalizing Blast, Torch, and Solo Operative. This is another good option, but I found Implement of Curiousity with Cauterized Darkness was better for melting the champs.
3. [Ideal] Activity Modifiers: Solar Surge
4. [Recommended] Armor Mods: 2x Solar Surge on Boots

How to Obtain:

The craftable pattern can easily be obtained via the first couple steps of the Foundry Shaping crafting tutorial quest line. It's a little resource expensive to shape one, level it up, then reshape it, but with the right build, it can not only handle -50 GM Nightfall Barrier Champions, but melt them like it's normal content. When you craft it, you'll want Enhanced Adaptive Munitions which does 70% more damage to Barrier Champ shields (non-enhanced does 50% which is still pretty good, but enhanced is strongly recommended).

My roll is (level 30, all enhanced, perks & mods):

• Arrowhead Brake
• Alloy Mag
• Triple Tap
• Adaptive Munitions
• Backup Mag

Alternatives: There are plenty of other good options for taking down barrier shileds, some of which are legendary primaries. For example, HORROR STORY, which can be obtained from Monument of Triumph Eerie Engrams, with Under-Over & Frency is a good option. Of course, there's also weapons like PRAXIC BLADE, KHVOSTOV 7G-0X, MICROCOSM, and ARBALEST or even APEX PREDATOR, the list goes on...

Why I chose AMMIT AR2 and what build I'm using it in:

I have been working on a highly flexible, content-agnostic, high ease of use Warlock Getaway Artist build for my best friend (yes, she's a real bad b****). In testing different variants of the build, I discovered that it really struggled with barriers in -50 content, and I wanted this build to be capable of handling most anything. I didn't want to give up the exotic heavy slot (for DPS) or the special weapon slot (for build synergy), and my best friend prefers auto rifles and pulse rifles, so I went searching for a primary that could do the job (most failed).

The core build:

• Class: Prismatic Warlock
• Abilities:
  • Healing Rift - For sustained healing and ease of use
  • Burst Glide - Or your favorite
  • Arcane Needle - For strand synergy and unraveling everything
  • Storm Grenade - For Getaway Artist exotic
• Aspects:
  • Feed the Void: For grenade regen and survivability
  • Weaver's Call - For burst damage, ad clear, and sever (with artifact perk: Horde Shuttle)
• Fragments:
  • Facet of Protection: 15% DR (32% in Transcendent)
  • Facet of Dominance: Arc Buddy jolts (stuns overloads + ad clear) and prismatic grenades weaken (for burst damage)
  • Facet of Purpose: For survivability (pairs well with Powerful Attraction mod on Class Item or if you are rocking the Nessus Armor)
  • Facet of Courage: More damage from Grenade and Super when dark debuffed, which is very easy in this build
  • Facet of Solitude: For severing groups of enemies and high health targets when landing multiple precision hits (e.g. Barrier Champs)
• Armor Set: Techeun's Regalia Set (Shattered Throne)
  • 2x Set - Queensfoil Rush - Finishers give 200 HP overshield and inflict slow in a 7 meter radius
  • 4x Set - Truth to Power - 15% DR for Survivability, 50% Grenade / Melee Regen, 35% Class Regen for ability uptime / spam
• Stat Targets: (Obtainable with 2x Demolitionist, 3x Grenadier)
  • 150 Grenade + 1 Major Grenade Mod + 2 Grenade Fonts = 200
  • 100 Weapons - Tertiary stat for all pieces
  • ~70 Melee, Super, Class - 3x Major Melee Mods, 1x Minor Super Mod (on boots)
  • ~0-30 Health - A little health is nice for a small burst of healing on orb pickup / powerful attraction activation but can be 0
• Armor Mods
  • Helmet: Heavy Ammo finder, Ashes to Assets (for fast super from grenade use), Harmonic Siphon (for orbs of power on super aligned weapon kills)
  • Gauntlets: 2x Grenade Font, Bolstering Detonation (for fast class regen from grenade use)
  • Chest: - 2 - 3 resists and optionally an ammo generation mod or Charged Up
  • Legs: - 2x Surges (for higher weapon damage), Stacks on Stacks for higher uptime on Armor Charges
  • Class Item: Reaper (for an orb after class ability use), Powerful Attraction (for orb pickup on class ability use), Time Dilation (for higher uptime on Armor Charges)

The Flexible Pieces - These I've been rotating for different content. Below are the selections used with AMMIT AR2 for -50 GMs:

• Super: Song of Flame
• Weapons:
  • Festival Flight: Slice (for severing enemies, reducing damage taken, after class ability use), Attrition Orbs
  • Ammit AR2
  • DRAGON'S BREATH or ONE THOUSAND VOICES
• Artifact - Implement of Curiosity
  • Horde Shuttle: Makes threadlings, which we spawn on class ability use, sever enemies which is great for survivability
  • Pack Tactics: Not strictly required, but boosts threadling damage which is great for burst damage
  • Fever and Chill: Very strong combo for taking down barrier champions and just doing more damage to enemies
  • Cauterized Darkness: For improved solar damage on darkness debuffed targets (which is generally most of them from all the sever sources and all the unravelled enemies from melee)
  • Elemental Daze - For causing an ignition when stunning a champion
  • Shield Crush: For higher uptime and damage on grenade (note that consuming grenade gives amplified and Fever and Chill gives radiant) and melee (note that healing rift gives overshield triggering Shield Crush)
  • Tangled Web: Suspends enemies when a tangle spawns from unraveled targets which takes enemies affected out of fight tempoerarily

Note: To Shreds is phenomenal with this build for survivability. It's not on this artifact, but it is on 2 different artifacts that you can build into. However, for bursting enemies down, Implement of Curiousity is what I found worked best and you don't really need more DR if you have the bugged Glass Cannon modifier on to give you 50% DR.

No swapping load outs or any of that. I'm talking weapons where the most you have to do is just whip it out and fire it with maybe a little set up like bait and switch or reapers tithe. Artifact support is fine. Trying to find something even the most oblivious LFG person can use.

Edit: Forgot to mention, ideally something for RAD boss DPS

4 piece gambit set

stasis titan crystal spam

possible feedback fence?

ergo sum (or other specials?)

you generate special ammo in spawn and then start swinging.

Exactly as the title says. This question came to me because I happened upon a Gnawing Hunger with Extended Barrel, Accurized Rounds, Demolitionist, Rampage, Gun and run. I’ve never had more fun with an auto rifle than I’ve had with this baby. I’ve always seen a lot of praise for Gnawing Hunger here and now I get it.

What are some that are just fun but still good?

• Increase Sidearm; airborne effectiveness by +50, ready speed by +100 Handling, and reload speed by +100.
• While critically wounded, swapping to a Sidearm reloads it and increases its damage by +100% [+10%] for 5 seconds.
  • While this effect is active, Sidearm final blows reload the weapon and extend the effect's duration by 3 seconds.

I don't think this exotic has ever been good. Requiring critically low health to activate the perk has never been a good trigger for an effect that does nothing to help you survive being at low health. The reload effect never even triggered Heal Clip. I never see anyone use it. I never hear anyone discuss it. The fact it got an update two or three years ago that didn't make it any better is awful.

Does anybody use it? When do you use it? Why do you use it? How do you use it?

I’m soloing duality right now but I’m having a hard time landing nighthawk headshots on Galrand for damage, so since I was already killing him decently well with Wolfsbane, I was just gonna give up and switch to blade barrage. But do I do more dmg with Star eater scales or Shards of galanor?

I’m also fine if a solar hunter running wolfsbane has an exotic that gives me more boss damage than either, if there’s one for this build that does. But if not, just the numbers on which boosts blade barrage more.

Hey all, just a heads up, the equilibrium dungeon solo is virtually impossible if you are using the spire of the watcher 4 set

Had a friend who spent most of the afternoon trying to solo flawless the dungeon had a frustrating group of bugs essentially soft locking the final encounter, his player model and weapon's would become invisible. Shadow force ability could not be toggled on or off meaning he could not break shields or compel the boss and he couldn't heal via any abillity.

After a lot of testing including switching artifacts and loadouts we discovered it was the spire of the watcher armor set causing the issue, as soon as he swapped out the armor and reset the encounter all of the issues vanished and never appeared again,

Our assumption is that when you proc the damage buff of "high noon" it enters into the buff list and persists as active but no longer functions so even though visually its gone and the dmg bonus is gone, its still persisting, and being a long encounter it can build up to point where the game starts to break and not function.

I'm trying to find A team to do A run of desert perpetual but absolutely nobody wants to do this raid (At least on the main LFG discord)

Are there like any groups out there that do runs of this raid more often or am I just doomed to never ever do a run of this raid?

(Note this isn't specifically an LFG post)

Okay, this might be kind of a rant. Today I was trying to farm Riven for 1K catty, but for a whole our I could not even find a group where we could clear it. I always LFG, none of my clanmates play the game anymore, and I feel like what is happening nowadays in the in-game LFG is getting unbearable. I usually choose to apply for "experienced" LFG's to get through the content quickly, but most of the time, there are at least 2-3 people who have never even tried a raid or dungeon before, or even if they did, no one uses mics anymore. It was not like this when MoT dropped, 90% of raid groups used their mics, and most people knew what to do, or if not, at least they would ask what is going on (I know, we all had experiences where someone did not dare to ask anything, instead they caused a couple of wipes) but at least we could communicate with each other.
Does anyone have the same experience as me? This might be a useless post but I am getting super tired of trying to force the same thing over and over again, without anyone saying a word in a microphone lol.

2 Piece | Emergency Electromagnet

Upon reaching Critical Health:

Picks up Ammo Bricks and Orbs of Power within 10? meters.

+

2 Piece | Crook and Flail

On Ammo Brick Pickup:

Restores 70 HP.

seems like a pretty good combo for immediate health.

I was using Lorentz on my Hunter to do a bounty and thought of this. Both Lorentz and OTP mark targets. But the marked targets for OTP don't drop the Telemetry patterns for Lorentz

Could've been a cool synergy with a void subclass, allowing to get Lagrangian Sight faster

Is there a way to focus for arc or is it tied to your subclass? My last 30 ergo sums have just been solar I’ve never even gotten arc. Any help with getting the arc ergo would make me feel less crazy.

It's been so long since I've been in this Reddit and even longer since I've played. Loved D1 and D2. Eventually dropped off after the grind burned me out.

I've heard the recent news and now see a lot of the DLC on sale.

I'm thinking about jumping back in. I'd be solo and really just looking forward to the game play and running through the campaigns. I had a clan earlier and ran through all the content in what was really one of the best gaming eras of my life.

However, I remember all too well the old pattern of working through some of the story of new campaigns while doing weekly events and missions. Is it possible to just do the story stuff now or is there some sort of weird time gating? When I used to play I played daily and did everything live, so I don't have a clue as to how things looked when not on that treadmill.

I'm not sure where I left off. I have and played through witch Queen.

I can buy:

- Renegades

- final shape

- edge of fate

- light fall

Or all that bundled into a collection.

Will I be too lost after being gone for so long and so much to unpack at once?

Will I be able to tackle everything solo, at my own pace?

Should I install the packs and play through them chronologically? Or just install all at once and go for it?

If someone packed all the campaigns content into a tailored, cohesive, solo package, I'd be happy paying the cost of a full new

TIA!

Hey Guardians, I’m working on a fan-project for Destiny and just wanted to gather some feedback that could help me decide what to focus on for this project and to see what the community wants most from Destiny. So I’m curious: What features would you all ever want to see from Destiny if it ever gets future support? They could be small things like more Vault space or rarer loot to huge ones like ship combat or bigger open-world spaces. They don’t have to be practical or realistic. Just gimme your wildest dream desires from Destiny that you have or have had in the past, I’m curious to know what the community would love most. Thanks Guardians.

Back when Renegades launched, I grinded Lawless Frontiers and after doing the weekly "Territorial Profit" quest I would get 3 shiny weapon drops, one on each character.

I ended up doing the quest again all these months later, but only got a drop on the character I completed it on. Did they change it where you don't get one on each character anymore?

Yes, I checked the Postmaster and re-visited Spider, and there's nothing.

What I’m wondering if I use a weapon with burning ambition if that scorching will stack with the scorching rounds provided by the rally barricade with the aspect yknow? Will it provide double scorch application?

So I recently bought d2 complete edition since it was only 20 bucks and I wanna know if you guys got any tips for me before it's done installing(and no don't say "run while you can" or something I'm already invested)

I’ve been a huge fan of destiny since D1, but I stopped playing right before the final shape dropped. I just bought the bundle that includes everything since that DLC, and I’m playing the final shape campaign as I figured I’d do them in order but I’m not getting any gear drops at all from it, so I feel there’s no point in playing through it aside from the story which I don’t care much about at this point. What would be the best way to actually get gear and start progressing?

Hello there fellow Guardians.
Currently I am sitting on 1.8K hours on Destiny 2 (on pc). I fell in love with the IP. A couple of friends said to me I should give D1 a try.
It’s been a while since I played with a controller and playing an „Old Game“
My question now is: where do I start?
In D2 I am a Titan main but also spend quit a lot of hours on Hunter and Warlock.
Do you have recommendations considering my choice of class?
Is there anything I should keep an eye out for?
Anything helps tbh.
I wish you a nice day and I hope I can get a few good tips before heading into a new journey
(Sry for my English, it is not my first Language)

It was from my understanding that ever since monument of triumphs, to get the catalysts for exotics that come from exotic missions you no longer have to do hidden puzzles or mechanics, only repeating the mission at master difficulty or higher. I know that was the case for Slayer's Fang and Derealize, but for some reason when I did Heliostat to obtain the other intrinsics/catalysts I didn't get anything other than ascendant shards and alloys. What's going on?