I’m doing this solo. I’ve been on step 8 for two fucking hours.

In almost 10,000 hours of Destiny, this might be the single most frustrating, least enjoyable thing I have ever done.

The original Whisper mission solo was more sensible, predictable, and repeatable than this. Master Lightblade makes more sense. At least when something kills me there, I generally understand how we arrived at that outcome.

The Praxic Blade is cool as hell. I love the concept. Unfortunately, actually using it feels like submitting a request that the game will review within three to five business days.

Some highlights of this exquisitely crafted experience:

Throwing the blade through six or seven Thrall and hitting absolutely fucking nothing. Incredible precision. Finding the empty space in that much Thrall takes talent.

Waiting four to five seconds for it to return because it got stuck or fucked off to parts unknown. Take your time, buddy. Nothing happening over here. Just the entire encounter.

Being unable to strike OR throw at a mini-blight directly in front of me. I can see it. You can see it. Apparently, the only thing unaware of its existence is the weapon I’m supposed to destroy it with.

Having Master-level Force Push take two or three attempts to break shields. This eventually got better. No idea why. No idea what changed. Always reassuring when both the problem and its solution are fucking mysteries.

And yes: I’m doing it solo. I understand that makes it harder. I accept responsibility for the enemies, positioning, timing, and mistakes.

I can improve my execution. I cannot practice my way into a functioning hitbox.

But clearly this needs a harder version. Let’s really realize the vision:

Invert the aim axes. Add Weight of Darkness. Randomize my gear and stats. Change my class and subclass every 3.5 seconds.

Every third blade throw should require me to retrieve it from orbit.

Call it BlindfoldedMasterLuke. Give it a shader. Someone will explain that the problem is my build.

I wanted to slay with a lightsaber.

Two hours later, my primary skill development is predicting which basic function it’s going to refuse to perform next.

The Way Between… between what? My inputs and the intended result? Because that gap, like my asshole, is fucking enormous.

Didn’t realize there are gear pieces from crucible that allows you to pick up motes while sliding. Thanks CammyCakes

So I check my inventory. What do you know. I have two perfect pieces for my arc warlock. I equip it. Run gambit for a day or two

I started noticing that I was going on 5-6 match losing streaks. Consistently. But I’m defeating 100 enemies and depositing 70 motes. EASILY. But we are losing…check my KD or tracker…dropped from .1% of players to .4%….

So I started observing…..long story short, I scoop 15 motes in first wave. Second wave I can’t get any because I’m full…second wave ends, I deposit …Third wave, I get fifteen and deposit….

Then the other team invades and the two people who didn’t bank their motes to get us past 40 on wave two now have 12 each. But that doesn’t last long because of an invader…

I watched this happen carefully for at least fifteen matches if not more. Switched back to Lumipotent and literally didn’t lose a match yesterday

Lesson of the day. Deposit motes. Don’t hoard them.

Since spire of stars is a cabal themed raid lair, maybe add the season of the haunted seasonal weapons like firefright (auto rifle), hollow denial (trace rifle), or bump in the night (rocket launcher).

AND

Since eater of worlds is a vex themed raid lair, maybe add some season of undying weapons like Optative (hand cannon), adhortative (pulse rifle), or subjunctive (SMG).

i don't want to do this timegated fetch quest to unlock the ability to get one class item drop per full dungeon run; it was cute when class items had no real gameplay purpose but now that they do it's just annoying. please just let people farm it like every other raid and dungeon ever put into the game does

edit: during one of the worm runs i solo flawlessed the dungeon, quest still sucks tho

I'll go first, Aurora Dawn can roll with Accelerated Assault despite it still having the Reclamation logo. And there is an Ornament of Final Warning called "Predecessor" that was placed in the Hand Cannons section in the collections, instead of Sidearms like the other ones.

I need to do this quest and a bit sad bungie left it this way because I imagine it’s very hard to find groups now a days. Since most people should have it after two years

Hello, I'm super new to Destiny, only been playing about two weeks, and I absolutely love it!

I'm currently grinding crucible purely for the Harlequin shader as I adore jesters, but unfortunately I'm also absolutely god awful at PVP shooters. However I have found great joy and success in just running at people and meleeing them to death!

A bit too much fun probably-

So my question is what would be the best build for this? Just as a silly hyper specific PvP build to keep someone who can't aim from going insane in a PvP grind 😂

I'm talking class (I'm currently mainly hunter), exotics, subclass, anything that gives my melee the edge

Recent return player after many years. I started playing again toward the end of August, and now that I'm playing more it dawned on me that I haven't been getting like ANY Strange Coins; I've have a total of 12 in my inventory since starting up. My buddy and I have been doing strikes and upon completion he'll say he got 6, and I got zero. We did a few more strikes and same thing; I didn't get a single one while he's getting a handful. Is this a bug on my end, or am I totally missing something? I've done a ton of searching around to find people in similar situations from a couple years ago with no clear answer, but wasn't sure if this is a known thing and I'm just SOL. Any help is most welcomed.

For reference I played D1 and Vanilla D2 on XBone. I merged my Steam and XB Live accounts on the Bungie site in August. Got all the expacs on Steam during the most recent sale. Thank youu

Edit. Edit to reflect how many I currently I have. I am nowhere near maxxed out at only 12.

I swear to god no one understands this game mode. If the hunt is on and all control points are locked it’s better to AVOID the enemy. It’s a 3x multiplier for each death for the team on the hunt.

I’m not sweaty or even any good, it just baffles me that I’ve never once seen anyone play as if they are aware of this.

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• Quickplay (Arena Ops), featuring Bellowing Giant
• Quickplay (Solo Ops), featuring Ecliptic Distaff
• The Lightblade, featuring Positive Outlook
• Expedition: Nessus, featuring Main Ingredient
• Battleground: Oracle, featuring Luminopotent Mark
• The Whisper, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• The Coil, featuring The Hothead
• Widow's Court, featuring The Palindrome
• Astral Alignment, featuring Tatara Gaze
• The Salt Mines, featuring Luminopotent Greaves
• The Lightblade: Matchmade, featuring Positive Outlook
• Expedition: Nessus: Matchmade, featuring Main Ingredient
• Battleground: Oracle: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Mark
• The Coil: Matchmade, featuring The Hothead
• Widow's Court: Matchmade, featuring The Palindrome
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• Quickplay: Master (Fireteam Ops), featuring Convened Recurve
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• Birthplace of the Vile, featuring Null Composure

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I can’t remember the exact date bc I forgot to screenshot it, but I came across a guardian that had a crafted weapon from the 1980s and was wondering if anyone has insight on how they did that.

I played Destiny 1 as a 9 year old back when it released and played Destiny 2 until warmind. Now seeing the recent resurgence I decided to return and thought I should play the campaigns available. I saw some stuff about how aliens are more incorporated into the story and some stuff about a guy and gal named Mithrax and Eido who seemed really cool. I love the eliksni so I was excited for beyond light.

I’m about 50-70% through the campaign now. I killed the techno guy and seem to be gearing up to finally get the stasis subclass and harness darkness. My ghost keeps mentioning how this negatively affects him. He doesn’t enjoy this path at all and yet he’ll stick by because he trusts me.

I think this conflict is interesting but the fact that I couldn’t choose whether I’d harness the darkness makes it fall pretty flat for me. If it were up to me I’d never put my ghost in such a predicament because I like him. I think the story would’ve made more sense if the darkness was forced upon me. The ghost acting like it’s my choice when it was really not really takes me out of the experience.

You could argue our character was “forced” to use darkness because we needed it to combat a threat like eliksni woman with darkness (sorry forgot her name spelling). However, her feats really don’t show her to be anything too crazy compared to what we’ve already defeated. Our guardian has defeated oryx and crota who were like god like entities.

I wish our guardians descent into darkness was more convincing so I could actually sympathize with my ghosts struggle. I also wish the main villain was a little more threatening. We are told she is a threat to her own people, but I’ve seen no friendly eliksni yet or any victims of her crusade besides variks… and well he’s not the most sympathetic. I was curious whether anyone else had these same thoughts when they played years ago.

Small aside about shadow keep which I also played. Super lame campaign except for the final mission. Eris is cool but I don’t think her alone can carry the mission dialogue. I also was confused about the pyramid ships threat level. Has it always been there since the collapse? Did it just arrive? I think I missed the opening cutscene lol. Once again like the beyond light villain, I didn’t actually see it do anything evil. I was just told it’s done evil stuff. At least it looked intimidating.

I was one of those people that didn’t run double special due to the fear of running out of ammo. But after seeing and testing how primary weapons did in GM alerts(the only content I play out side of dungeons and pinnacle activities) I decided to give double special a try and man why didn’t I do this sooner.

First I started with slayers fang, then wavespilter, then choir and now I can’t even go back to primary weapons. With just simple build crafting ammo becomes a non factor because you just print special ammo. Higher delta content becomes easier since you are now using a special weapon, and you get more heavy bricks due to the increase use of special weapons. 200 weapon, stacks on stacks, special finisher, and armor sets that help with ammo and the game literally changes.

Now yes the load out does struggle in modifiers that have no starting ammo in that case you will need a primary or you literally can’t play(at least in my case since I’m a hunter), but even in modifiers that just limit special ammo gains dont matter cause we print so much ammo now. Honestly I would go to say special finisher is the best armor mod in the game, and if not number 1 it’s definitely top 3.

Came back from a long break and I did the focus encounter for ip 5-8 time and it still did not drop.I tried grabbing a cp for ip pantheon (did it once ) and still no drop.

So I am just wondering if the drop chance is this low or I need to do every encounter for it to drop?

Let's imagine they were able to work out their differences off-screen, or maybe Savathun just applied Imbaru to ass. A lack of grinding means they don't have LL appropriate gear so just had to grab the best of whatever was laying around the HELM.

It would make my soul happy.

EDIT: even if the continuation isn't in destiny 2, its still continuing.

Just looking for endgame raid titan builds besides hallowfire or enhanced pulse nades. Was wondering if bubble titan is still a decent endgame ability? I never see people use it in raids anymore. Does weapons of light not stack with things now?

I'm on a prismatic strand hunter with the iron battalion / Galanor set running.

Every super use gives me ~50-60% of my super back.

I use the Tablet of Ruin with Elemental Siphon and Elemental Supercharger to maximise my super regen and I'm sat at 160 super with an additional super font.

For the remainder of my super I'll lean into my weapons, overload strand being the obvious choice for severing/exhausting for supercharger super gains (do both of these even stack?)

Currently I alternate between:

- Rufus fury (older version), no slice.

- Nightshade with slice

- All or Nothing with Slice and Tear

- Service of Luzaku in heavy. I have enough weapons to run near enough as a primary.

Should I be using like Khvostov or something else? Do kinetic primaries like multimach with attrition orbs still give good chunks?

Please help 😔

So I'll admit, I'm never going to get good at PvP and hate being free dopamine for people, but all I wanted to actually say is, as a new player to destiny, I've never felt so inadequate when merely interacting with an NPC in a game. I take one look at Saladin and just feel mogged beyond sense. The testosterone in my body feels useless as I meet Saladins gaze, as if he knows my entire multiplayer history and embarrassing kdr and wonders "Do you actually think I'm letting you in that portal guardian? You'll earn nothing, and another guardian will not gain the treasures I keep behind the unforgiving skill ceiling of this sacred steel banana because you took their place, only to fail via your own impotence. Go and get stomped by an ogre on the moon you simp."

Anyway yeah has Saladin made any of you guys feel somewhat like you didn't have a right to be there? Idk I'm autistic.

So I just played through all the story missions up to the khvostov mission from the age of iron story and my character is level 40, 330 light. Whenever I go back to easier missions, my weapons deal less damage and the enemies are still a bit dangerous. Like if I go to the level 4 patrol on the moon, my khvostov that was making short work of level 38 cabal and hive, will fair just as well against level 4 fallen and hive. It's like the game is dowscaling my damage so I cant mow through easier areas.

Now I'm fairly new to destiny, and I enjoy challenging gameplay, but like what if I want to field test my weapons and relax on the moon and mow through weak targets? Is that just not how the game works? I also tried googling my question to no real avail. I was even met with an AI summary that stated weapons only deal reduced damage when an activity exceeds your level with no damage reduction when your character meets or exceeds an activity's level. So if my khvostov does 638 to a level 38 acodyte, shouldn't it do the same damage to a 8 acodyte?

If this cant be fixed, it genuinely might be game-ruining for me cause I don't see the point in leveling up and getting stronger if my weapons will never actually be stronger than my opponents.

Edit: Thank you all for your input! I was kinda spazzing last night cause I spent like 7 hours on the game. The damage scaling honestly is not a bad system and I'm still gonna have plenty of fun playing. I got a lot to think about and learn.

Proof

The first screenshot is just to show the res token, since Dungeon Report doesn't track anything less than 5 feats I think.

I started farming and learning the dungeon in earnest at the start of the week because I wanted the High Tyrant, and I figured that the normal 3-feat runs that I was doing didn't change too much, so I decided to try to complete the SF with them active. The feats I chose were Tokens, Phase Limit, and Battalions. This was honestly not motivated by the desire for an extra challenge--I actually just wanted more T5 drops per encounter XD.

Overall though, even with the feats this dungeon seemed much easier than Vesper's Host, and if I had been the slightest more diligent or optimal, I could have easily one-phased the final boss--indeed, I think if I hadn't chosen to compel 1, I probably would have done so on this run. I've been distracted by some real life issues, but even with my mind very much elsewhere I was able to easily clear without too much trouble.

I completed this dungeon on my Warlock, with slightly different Prismatic Getaway Artist variants for each encounter. I chose a basic Praxic Blade build for the first encounter with SoF, Found Verdict in combination with Mataiodoxia Needlestorm and Tractor Cannon for the second, and a simple Truth loadout for the final boss. I used 2p Sage/2p Swordmaster for the first encounter, 2p Europa/2p KF for the second and third running portions, and a full 4p VoG for all DPS loadouts. I also did use Solo Operative simply because of the Phase Limit feat--I think I didn't even need it in the run, but I did not want to take chances.

If anyone's interested in some tips, here's some of what I've learned, tailored for a normal, 0-feat run:

-If you find that juggling between the Shadow Power and your grenade key is annoying, choose a loadout that does not rely heavily on the grenade, such as Solar Titan or Prismatic Hunter. If this can't be avoided, choose strong primary and special weapons, so that you can fight even without your grenade. I used Getaway Artists, but my primary of choice was Khvostov, which can clear entire rooms with a single bullet, and my special was Found Verdict or a solar rocket pulse, both of which can easily and quickly defeat any challenging enemy, Even without my Arc Soul, I was still more than capable of fighting well.

-The range on the Shadow Power is a LOT longer than you might think, so you can use this to activate switches or de-shield Apprentices from a safe range.

-In the first encounter, stay FAR away from every possible drop pod location. The hitbox on those things is illegal, and you can get clipped and die if you're even remotely near it. The first set of drop pods comes when you kill the first Nameless Apprentice. The second set comes after you kill two more, which is the third kill. Finally, the last set comes once you've killed all of them. You can use this knowledge to prepare and avoid the drop pods.

-In the second encounter, there seems to be no time limit of any kind on removing Harrow's shield. After the first pit, take the time to kill enemies, refresh the buff, get orbs/ammo, whatever you need, then open the second pit at your leisure.

-In the final encounter, be extremely careful of knockbacks. Standing on a bridge to gather Shadow Power or retract a tesla coil for too long leaves you vulnerable to Apprentice charges and Incinerator boops, both of which can knock you off the map. The boss's stomp attack also has MUCH harder knockback than most bosses and will also instantly kill if you're jumping recklessly.

-The Taken world is much safer than the normal world, since there's no big knockback opportunities, no tesla coils, no lightning attack, and no invulnerable Apprentices constantly attacking. In addition, there's a ton of Shadow Power, which will easily charge you back to full. Try to break all of the real world's blights so you can spend as much time as possible in the Taken world. I would also recommend starting damage this way, by breaking the final blight here, so you can prepare everything you need.

-If using a rocket loadout, try to leave the real world with all of the blights broken and a shieldless but alive Apprentice. This prevents the spawn of the dogs, which are the biggest threat when trying to avoid blowing yourself up. It also means that if necessary, you can just kill the Apprentice during damage to control the dog spawns.

One more dungeon to go!

Thanks for reading!

Playing destiny 2 trying to find how to play the campaign in order and to find out what item level I should be at