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KYUSS

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Hey chaps quick question. I am not a Titan Sunbreaker and I don't have nirwen's mercy, should I really be playing Irob B this week?

Do it.

Loads of people using Hawksaw.

Just got to Rank 3 and the package dropped a 310 Artifact.

Looks like it's a guaranteed drop.

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Mr Ben

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I agree that weapons should infuse weapons regardless of slot. Same with armour. That would ease some of the pressure. And yeah, even Exotics are of little use to me now. Sure I can almost guarantee a random drop three of coins drops at 310. On one character. But that's still lower than I need.

It's really painful today. I get the impression Bungie would tell me they're encouraging me to make "hard choices" when I have to Infuse my Raid Scout into my Nirwen's Mercy to play IB. And they are. But I worked hard for that Scout Rifle. It shouldn't be Infusion-fodder in the first place (I should want to keep it, and it's not very good) and I'll still be worse off for Light when I've done it.

Gah.

Then I have to make the same "hard choice" when I get to rank 5 this week and pick up the Hand Cannon. Only I don't have another raid primary. So I need to throw away my Jade Rabbit or Zhalo Supercell. Which I do not want to do.

Its a hand cannon though, and hand cannons are essentially rubbish nowadays. Keep your raid scout, and infuse Nirwens with something that pushes it to 300. I did fine with mine at that last night (I actually did far better after all those losses, and got the 2500 bounty pretty squarely in a game I came top with 29 kills and a k/d of 2.9).

I'm not a fan of clash in IB though, and to top it off the drops have been pish - 90% blue drops, and the only IB stuff I've seen were all 280-300 chest piece drops for other people at the reward screen.

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They can't drop legendaries in every game though! 90% blues is probably about what you would expect to see playing PVE too, so seems fine to me.

I only had a few (slightly frustrating) games last night and noticed that everyone seemed to at least be getting a drop now. Same old thing with the bottom players seemingly getting the best stuff, but anyway.

Apparently the Iron Banner stuff only drops after you hit rank 2?

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Nate Dogg III

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Had a few more games over lunch. Did a little better and hit rank 2, got the daily bounties done in an hour and even had more wins than losses, but it still really feels like I'm handicapping myself by not using Sunbreaker. I'm trying to learn Nightstalker for Trials, but I'm not sure I'm really learning anything. It's a weird mix of people that know how to play Destiny PVP but don't know how to play Clash (myself included). Just lots of people running around and being stupid waiting for cooldowns to finish, really. Might just get the Titan out this evening and be done with it.

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Mercury

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Do it.

Loads of people using Hawksaw.

Just got to Rank 3 and the package dropped a 310 Artifact.

Looks like it's a guaranteed drop.

Excuse my ignorance but is there anything particular about Hawksaw that makes it good for IB? I got some new full auto Pulse Rifle (Lyudmila-D) from the Gunsmith this week that seems okay.

Played IB for the first time ever last night and hadn't realised until today that there is a bloke with IB Bounties, gear etc. Hadn't ever noticed that area of the Tower before.

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Weavus

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Any changes will be too little too late for me. Gave up playing last week and I've not been missing it at all and I'm glad its out of my system now as I've not been enjoying it for the last few weeks since HM turned out to be such a dud and the RNG grind bit me.

I kept playing it trying to recapture that post TTK rush when the rise to 300 light was so fun but it never happened and I don't think there is anything now that could bring me back short of a new DLC (which I'm still convinced won't be happening).

TTK was amazing for the first few weeks, they really fucked up with the RNG/Light/HM/Weapon Parts/Stupid Crucible and Sword Grind though imo.

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mikeyl

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I wouldn't know, but I think it's a good thing that progress slows right the hell down after you go past 300? I'm at 307, going up a light level once every 3-4 days maybe - but know what I need to go up again.

You look at the 311s and think, Jesus that'll take forever, that's terrifying enough. And if the progress up to 320 was as fast as some would like, peasants like me would never get to sit with the cool kids.

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I wouldn't know, but I think it's a good thing that progress slows right the hell down after you go past 300? I'm at 307, going up a light level once every 3-4 days maybe

You are about to hit a wall though and then it becomes incredibly frustrating to have RNG light drops on RNG chances dictate further progression (just as bad as forever 29 imo). Huge swathes of the game are about to (or in some case at 300+ already) become redundant in the sense that there is no use for any of the drops you may get from it.

I think it would have been better to keep the max light at 310 and have all harrowed drops 310. I'd likely still be playing (although casually) and that's got to be better than the situation they have created now where they will likely be back-pedalling like mad in the December update to get people to keep playing or come back.

I thought they said they had learnt a lot of lessons from year 1 and wanted people to leave happy?

Until about 305 TTK was fucking amazing though, easily the best gaming I've done in years.

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mikeyl

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Sure, agreed mostly. And stopping at 310 would've been perfect!

I thought the etheric light thing and the Variks shop "fixed" the problems of being unable to rock your preferred gear or not reaching max level. I guess everyone stopped playing after they got to 34?

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Lyrical Donut

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Hey chaps quick question. I am not a Titan Sunbreaker and I don't have nirwen's mercy, should I really be playing Irob B this week?

Get Bad Juju out, shoot the mans, then pop your super and just roam around without a care in the world? That's what all the other Stormcaller Warlocks seem to be doing.

What is the point of having a 310 artefact from a rank 3 package when we all get one for finishing a quest? What are the perks on the IB one, and are they any good?

Infusing another artifact with better stats than the one you currently have. That's what I did with a 310 artifact I got from Trials last weekend.

IB Clash seems alright. At least it's a change from the last 12 months - but you're still as prone to getting paired up with a shit team of randoms as you were with Control as far as I can tell. I was hoping they'd do Rift, personally.

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KYUSS

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Excuse my ignorance but is there anything particular about Hawksaw that makes it good for IB? I got some new full auto Pulse Rifle (Lyudmila-D) from the Gunsmith this week that seems okay.

Played IB for the first time ever last night and hadn't realised until today that there is a bloke with IB Bounties, gear etc. Hadn't ever noticed that area of the Tower before.

The Hawksaw is a pulse for a start and that seems to be the meta.

It's easily gettable for 150 marks.

It's pretty stable. It's a low impact high fire-rate death machine.

It just feels nice to use and you seem to get 2 bursts into people before they can react and realise where it's coming from.

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LiMuBai

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Both Fin and Marmite got 308 chest drops last night ????

310 blue artifact from the rank 3 package as well as about 3 or so strange coins.

Bet the ghost is also blue, but as long as its 310 who cares I suppose.

Blue?? That's weird. I wonder if the etheric light use will be to turn blues into legendaries?

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Nate Dogg III

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As expected, took the Sunbreaker out for a fiery walk yesterday and absolutely wrecked the place. Mostly anyway. Breezed up to rank 2, got another chest piece because of course I did. To make myself feel less guilty about it I decided to also use the evening to learn how to snipe, and blow me down I actually did alright at that too. I'll stop now before this turns into a full-on Godzooki post, but it was a fun night.

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I've started to find myself coming up against teams with lvl 315s in them and the difference in light is really making a difference, I'm barely scratching them in one on ones. The hard mode grind and it's randomness in drops is starting to fuck up other areas of the game now.

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KYUSS

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Almost at Rank 3.5 in IB. I have has 2 Hand Cannons drop. One was a good roll but the other on got sharded straight away.

I've had 2 chest pieces drop at 98 and 99.

I had the sleeves drop also last night at 88.

So I'm getting drops but they aren't going to increase my light level, apart from the 310 Artifact yesterday.

Also... I got stuck in the vault menu again today and I couldn't back out.

Bungie are aware and are rolling out a fix today.

On PS4 you can click the touchpad to get out in the meantime.

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mechamonkey

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Exotic Sword Get! (Raze Lighter)
I know I'm always a way behind most but enjoyed that so much, really love the gear quest lines, I've done ToM, Sleeper, Spindle and the 310 artifact. Missed out on paradox yesterday so that'll have to wait, guess I'll do Boolean Gemini next or start on the alts swords.
Should probably give HM KF a go too as I'm up to 308 light now.

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mikeyl

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Well I spoke to soon about the drops.

5-6 games played this morning and I never saw a single IB item drop for anyone.

5/25 Crucible bit for my sword quest. I never rock the sword in the Crucible. :(

I'll let you stab me 25 times on Rumble if you let me shoot you with Last Word the 300 times I need for that shotgun megaquest
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