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Mr Ben

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Secrets in today's Daily Heroic. No exotic sniper on offer though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfWI3l1xTlI

This is the VoG thing I posted earlier in the thread, but some guys had found the last section only, and then only via a glitchy method.

Cheers for posting, saves me looking through bungies forums for anything for today's daily.

Does anyone know what boss is at the T3 court this week btw?

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Harsin

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I know most people are already booked up for later starts, but does anyone fancy doing a raid for tonight, and tomorrow starting from 8pm? There is already a thread under online but I don't want to steal those fine gentlemen's thunder. Unless those guys need an extra body.

Plus already named my thread in the online folder as being on the weekend, so posting there will just confused everyone.

Especially that Siri guy. That guy's a dick.

I'd be up for it.

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Mr Ben

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Its a super-sized Ogre standing in-front of a Wizard. There's no trick or gimmick, and a lot easier than the other T3's.

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Ah think that's the 1st T3 we got in week one. Looks like the 3 Calcified Fragments no-one has found will not be from Court of Oryx then. I suspected as much, but wasn't sure.

If you want to solo the daily for the ghosts, then Red Death is a godsend. I was trying to use my ToM, but it isn't levelled up yet, and didn't want to risk failing after getting the first 2.

Sorry to Kyuss who joined, but then left when he found out what I was doing. I tend to go for anything lore related in video games (I like to get my money's worth), but know that isn't for everyone.

Also, the ghosts from the daily give some more background story, like the Books of Sorrow. Worth a quick read if you have the time.

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Gorf King

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It's woefully written

Odd - I thought it contained the best writing in the game! There are a few patchy bits, but overall I thought it was an actually decent (if derivative) piece of writing, and the way it's framed within the context of the game proper is quite nice, too, as are some of the subtler touches - the way you're warned by graffiti in the margins that the narrator is unreliable is quite cute, for example.

I think they missed a trick by not including a slim volume of the Books in the collector's edition. It feels like the first time a proper, coherent story has ever been constructed that explains the history and nature of one of the races in the game, and the fact that it's essentially a myth rather than a dry, quasi-'factual' account probably helps its collectability. They should have commemorated a minor storytelling breakthrough like that really. It's quintessentially Destiny that they hid it in fragments all over the world, doubtless knowing full well that few people would bother to read it all, but it might have been a nice reward for collectors to get the whole thing bound up in a thrallskin tome or something.

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I enjoyed the Books of Sorrow too – as Gorf says, it was pretty derivative, but it did a really good job of adding some depth and colour to the world, and it made the Hive much more interesting than the space vampire / Quake monsters they were previously

Most interestingly of all – for me, anyway – was the fact that the Books were overtly modelled on some of the terminals from the Marathon trilogy, and even directly quote them at times. I don’t think this means that they’re merging the Marathon and Destiny universes or anything, but it’s a nice acknowledgement of the developer’s history, and it shows how incredibly effective this method of storytelling can be.

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Mr Ben

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After reading one of the grimoire cards in today's mission, I'll feel a bit bad about killing Fallen from now on*.

They were a peaceful race with amazing technology when they had The Traveller. Nothing like they are now.

*Not really.

Its still a shame that the grimoire is not present in the game, even if it was only in text format.

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Harsin

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Pretty bleak stuff in those hidden Grimoire cards.

Ol' Praedyth is chilling outside space and time and he's seen the Vex conquer the Earth and the remnants of humanity hightail it in a rag-tag fleet of ships Battlestar Galactica style.

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Raid nailed in 80 minutes. Nice one guys. Only one wipe too.

Got some nice shoes....twice and a fusion rifle fit for nothing but infusing. Oryx took my 20 moldy shards and swapped them for some mouldy shards. Cheers dude!

Was awesome fun though, still think it's the best raid and now we can run it that quick, it's time to get that Titan alt up and raid ready.

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I got 12 moldy shards and two ghosts which I already had & Oryx took my 20 shards and gave me two back. Didn't even get a three of coins to work during the raid :facepalm:

Was still bloody good fun though. Touch of Malice and Black Spindle are amazing for the raid :wub:

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Gorf King

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Aye, the new raid RNG seems a lot like the old raid RNG - in fact, a bit more VoG than Crota. I've had the ghost three times now, and the cloak twice. But only one piece of armour has ever dropped. You wouldn't expect to never get duplicates, but it doesn't really seem to be a system that's all that heavily weighted in favour of items you've not had already.

Unless... it's just chance, because RNG. Could be! Could be.

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