Destiny 2

Sadly no, you can't completely melt everything as it seems to scale with you. I wish that wasn't the case, haha. Doesn't mean its hard though. Really, it's the mechanics that get you, not the ads.

If you're around on Friday at ~10AM, you're more than welcome to join as I'd be relieved to have someone else with experience run with us. As for Prestige, i've only cleared that version once myself and i'm not sure i'm up for explaining it.
 
Is there a particular load-out I should be ready to use? I'm around LL 575 with a mishmash of gear that is mostly just whatever is good right now. If there are any particular weapons that are helpful, I have like 95% of the good weapons prior to Forsaken.

For Last Wish, Ikelos SG + Sleeper/whisper are almost required tbh. For your kinetic weapon, you can really use anything you want, but I would suggest something you have masterworked because the extra orb spawns are nice to have.

My general load out is:

Midnight Coup (masterworked)
Ikelos SG
Sleeper/Whisper/Thunderlord (depending on boss)

Lunafaction Boots for armor exotic
Rest of gear all has transcendent blessing or Riven's Curse for the bonus damage.

Edit: Riven cheese strat used to require a cluster bomb rocket launcher, but Thunderlord works now as well. If you have either of those you're fine.
 
Edit: Riven cheese strat used to require a cluster bomb rocket launcher, but Thunderlord works now as well. If you have either of those you're fine.

Hell... Merciless, Rat King, Telesto and even Edge Transits work for the Riven cheese at this point.
 
If you're around on Friday at ~10AM, you're more than welcome to join as I'd be relieved to have someone else with experience run with us. As for Prestige, i've only cleared that version once myself and i'm not sure i'm up for explaining it.
Normally 10am would be out for me but it just so happens Thursday is the American thanksgiving (we celebrate ours earlier) and the NFL is a much superior product to our CFL and there are 3 games on Thursday … there is a chance I could use a personal day on Friday. 10am EST?
 
Normally 10am would be out for me but it just so happens Thursday is the American thanksgiving (we celebrate ours earlier) and the NFL is a much superior product to our CFL and there are 3 games on Thursday … there is a chance I could use a personal day on Friday. 10am EST?

So far that's the plan! We'd need 3 more. I'd rather not have to use the app to get some randoms in to fill as a bad egg can ruin what is supposed to be a chill run for those who haven't run it before so hopefully we get some interest. If you guys know anyone else maybe on your friends list who hasn't run it that you play with, they're more than welcome.

  • Myself (GuiltySpark#11607)
  • Domingo
  • Draax
  • -
  • -
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Hmm Friday 10am could be possible but I’ve got to work that day. If it ran past three hours I’d need to leave to prepare for work.
 
Just hit 600 on my Titan character while playing solo, quite casually and with only having one character. Never felt like it was a grind at all, never felt like I needed to create alts to loot share, never did a raid, never did a nightfall - just casually doing the quests offered at end game.

Even though there's no doubt Bungie balanced a lot of the end game around teams/guilds/clans, they still did an ok job in ensuring accessibility for solo/casual players to hit max light level (even without event items like the Horror Story it's very doable).
 
Hmm Friday 10am could be possible but I’ve got to work that day. If it ran past three hours I’d need to leave to prepare for work.

I can't imagine standard Levi taking anywhere close to 3 hours so you should be good.

So again, tentatively, this is what we have:
  • Myself (GuiltySpark#11607)
  • Domingo
  • Draax
  • Averox
  • -
  • -
I'll shoot everyone a Discord link on Friday after you add me on BNet.

If anyone is familiar with normal Levi, please feel free to join this run as i'm not an expert!
 
Just hit 600 on my Titan character while playing solo, quite casually and with only having one character. Never felt like it was a grind at all, never felt like I needed to create alts to loot share, never did a raid, never did a nightfall - just casually doing the quests offered at end game.

Even though there's no doubt Bungie balanced a lot of the end game around teams/guilds/clans, they still did an ok job in ensuring accessibility for solo/casual players to hit max light level (even without event items like the Horror Story it's very doable).

Absolutely. Problem I see a lot of people struggling with, especially those that say they're "stuck" at the imaginary 520 cap, is they aren't focusing Powerful Gear drops. I'm not sure if this is Bungies fault for not better explaining this or some just aren't getting it and just playing what they want. Its likely a bit of both. I know when I was leveling, if it wasn't going to give me a powerful reward, which the Director clearly told you it would with the bright gold star, I wasn't doing it. Trouble was, I'd get all that done in 2 days so running 3 characters made more sense in my particular case.
 
Side note.. worst thing about being 600LL. Prime drops aren't as exciting anymore. :(
 
For you guys trying to put together a raid group, I have been using the D2 PC LFG Discord server for a while now, and I have had great luck with it. I've always found groups or filled groups in less than 10 minutes. The have channels specific for each raid as well as gambit, crucible, nightfalls, and even stuff like Whisper of the Worm farming. Literally everyone I've grouped with from there has been chill, too. Definitely check it out.

https://discord.gg/4xvxrwV
Go there and follow the instructions for setting yourself up on the server. It runs through Warmind.io, so it will keep track of all kinds of stuff about your characters (ex. Number of clears of the raid).
 
Yeah I use that from time to time. However this was specifically because a few in this thread expressed interest in normal Levi for the first time so I was (trying) to get people from here if we could. We'll likely resort to that if we need to fill, however. Thanks.
 
Yeah I use that from time to time. However this was specifically because a few in this thread expressed interest in normal Levi for the first time so I was (trying) to get people from here if we could. We'll likely resort to that if we need to fill, however. Thanks.

Yeah, I was thinking you could use it to fill a few spots if you needed to.
 
Thunderlord is so fun it hurts.



also.. RAGE

One more Heroic Adventure on Titan and I gotta wait for the Flashpoint. Ugh.

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I can't imagine standard Levi taking anywhere close to 3 hours so you should be good.

So again, tentatively, this is what we have:
  • Myself (GuiltySpark#11607)
  • Domingo
  • Draax
  • Averox
  • -
  • -
I'll shoot everyone a Discord link on Friday after you add me on BNet.

If anyone is familiar with normal Levi, please feel free to join this run as i'm not an expert!

Added you on Bnet, anytime on friday as i am retired. I have only done single player stuff so my gear is what ever the game gave me. Light Level 521. Thanks i am on west coast at this time.
 
Added you on Bnet, anytime on friday as i am retired. I have only done single player stuff so my gear is what ever the game gave me. Light Level 521. Thanks i am on west coast at this time.

Great! I got the request and accepted it.

  • Myself (GuiltySpark#11607)
  • Domingo
  • Draax
  • Averox
  • acairman
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Sweet. Looks like we're getting close to a full team. Once you know what Discord channel we're using, toss it up here. I'll do my best to be ready at least 15-20 minutes before we're ready to go as well. I'm on mountain time, but I tend to wake up early whether I like it or not.
 
I'd rather not link the discord here so if everyone adds me on BNet I'll shoot everyone the invite link when I get home tonight. I believe a couple people already did so well be all set.
 
I sent everyone the discord on BNet though some of you were offline so I think you'll get it when you sign back on? Not sure if that works. Either way, just let me know.
 
Excellent stuff. I'm glad we were able to get it done!

If any pick-up raid gets done again I'll note that Draax and Criccio did an excellent job of being sherpas. It really only came down to execution and woo boy that can be tough even on folks with previous experience.
 
I can not thank every one enough. Completed my first raid and only screwed up 10 times.

Draax and Criccio did a perfect job of calling every thing out for me. I was only one without mic.

Haha, dude i was right there with you at the end a few times. That's what raiding is like! All in good fun though. Glad you had a good time.
 
Excellent stuff. I'm glad we were able to get it done!

If any pick-up raid gets done again I'll note that Draax and Criccio did an excellent job of being sherpas. It really only came down to execution and woo boy that can be tough even on folks with previous experience.

The first raid lair, Eater of Worlds is much shorter and IMO easier. We could run that one at some point once we can get everyone together again.
 
EOW is easier for sure, the mechanics are very similiar for the last 2 encounters not nearly as complicated as Levi. Now prestige for both ...that’s another story but completion does reward you with a crown aura ... that only last for 2 weeks from the time you complete your last prestige.
 
EOW is easier for sure, the mechanics are very similiar for the last 2 encounters not nearly as complicated as Levi. Now prestige for both ...that’s another story but completion does reward you with a crown aura ... that only last for 2 weeks from the time you complete your last prestige.

I did EoW Prestige for the first time last weekend and boy, trying to match your Hardlight to the correct element constantly while also staying alive is rough sometimes. Normal mode is a cake walk in comparison.
 
I am down for more raiding of any sort. It's more or less why I still play the game. The end game content is like nothing else in any FPS game.

And yeah Acairman that's what raiding is like. It's tough as nails sometimes but oh so very rewarding when you complete it.
 
I am down for more raiding of any sort. It's more or less why I still play the game. The end game content is like nothing else in any FPS game.

And yeah Acairman that's what raiding is like. It's tough as nails sometimes but oh so very rewarding when you complete it.


Ordered this mic.

https://antlionaudio.com/products/modmic-5-usb-soundcard

Never owned a set of headphones before, that will have to be researched.

I am down for raids anytime.
 
I'll assume I need Forsaken to get in on this with you guys??

Did you get D2 when it was free? That was just the base game which technically was only Leviathan which we ran yesterday.

Eater of Worlds came out with the Curse of Osiris expansion so I'm not sure you'll have access to it.

Go to Nessus in the Director/Map Screen. Bottom of Nessus you'll see Nessus Orbit. In there are the three raids. When you hover over them does it say anything?
 
I'll happily do that again. I had a blast. The neat thing about it is how different it is from the entire rest of the game. It's 1/3 puzzle, 1/3 communication, and 1/3 execution. Some parts are pretty frustrating (mainly that final battle where heavy ammo doesn't want to drop), but I still had fun. I'm definitely interested in the raid lair in the coming weeks.
 
Lack of heavy ammo was making it tough. I even had sniper reserves and heavy ammo finder on. You could tell on which failures that I had heavy ammo or not. Of course go figure on our successful run I ended up with maxed out heavy ammo so constantly shooting was no issue. Other times I'd be lucky to have 3 shots which would require my precision shots be perfect or 6 which would give me room for error.
 
The Raid Banners you can by from Petra for the Last Wish raid are incredible to get full ammo/super before each attempt.. It's a shame there is likely no plans to add them to the Year 1 raids.
 
I wish I'd been able to join in the fun. I've got a lot of company here for Thanksgiving, so can't get online for more than a few minutes at a time atm. I mostly solo, but am 600 with pretty decent gear. I'm having to travel out of town next week, but hopefully you'll still be doing some runs when I get back.
 
I'm sure there'll be future raids organized. Only reason I was able to hop along with this raid is because I worked Wednesday and Friday so I just had a Friendsgiving.
 
Did you get D2 when it was free? That was just the base game which technically was only Leviathan which we ran yesterday.

Eater of Worlds came out with the Curse of Osiris expansion so I'm not sure you'll have access to it.

Go to Nessus in the Director/Map Screen. Bottom of Nessus you'll see Nessus Orbit. In there are the three raids. When you hover over them does it say anything?

Nah, I bought it at release but all those CTD bugs drove me away....

I waited to come back, then started hearing not to bother.

Then Forsaken came out and everyone's like: "Destiny is SAVED!"

So, if I have to toss $30 more dollars at this game, I will. (sale ends the 27th)
 
Nah, I bought it at release but all those CTD bugs drove me away....

I waited to come back, then started hearing not to bother.

Then Forsaken came out and everyone's like: "Destiny is SAVED!"

So, if I have to toss $30 more dollars at this game, I will. (sale ends the 27th)

Luckily the only Raid you'd need Forsaken for is Last Wish which you really can't attempt unless you're 560+ but I would suggest 570+ or you're a Destiny god.

So if you at least have Curse of Osiris you can run Leviathan and Leviathan, Eater of Worlds. You'd need Warming to run Leviathan, Spire of Stars.

However, without Forsaken, I'm not sure how fun this game is anymore. With it, it's the only thing I play now apart from the occasional Golf with your Friends rounds. Forsaken is that good if you love Destiny.
 
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With it, it's the only thing I play now apart from the occasional Golf with your Friends rounds. Forsaken is that good if you love Destiny.

That's all you had to say friendo (y)

I've been needing a "primary-focus" title and this'll do niocely....
 
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