The Dark Below Stories and Impressions

DriedMangoes said:
The thirst for those new raid weapons/exotics is real. ;)
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The Necrochasm is calling me. Hard Mode tomorrow.:banana:

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A few little helpful hints to anyone that doesn't know. I have heard all kinds of misconceptions about the Shrieker chest, and the Deathsinger. First, the Shrieker chest door is not on a timer. The door will start closing as soon as the second Shrieker is killed. No need to bum rush the door like a herd of buffalo. You can take your time up until the second Shrieker goes down. Another thing, if you cheese the Totem Bridge, you have to wipe when you get the checkpoint or the door to the Shrieker chest will not be open. There is no excuse for not getting the Shrieker chest.

Now Deathsinger. The Deathsinger starts her song the second someone takes damage. You have 3 minutes to kill her after she starts her song. You have 30 seconds left when she goes into her Lithurgy phase. I have ran into numerous people that didn't know the difference between these two timers.
 
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Soda Jack said:
They fixed the de-spawn glitch at the Totem Bridge.
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You mean the despawning of Thrall? If so, we used that trick today. The only thing they fixed as far as I know was the Warlock resurrection trick. But once you form the bridge and get one person over after they kill the Gatekeeper all they have to do is jump around and not die. While that player concentrates on staying alive the other 5 snipe all the enemies on the other side of the bridge and after that you're done.
 
BUSTERMAN said:
You mean the despawning of Thrall? If so, we used that trick today. The only thing they fixed as far as I know was the Warlock resurrection trick. But once you form the bridge and get one person over after they kill the Gatekeeper all they have to do is jump around and not die. While that player concentrates on staying alive the other 5 snipe all the enemies on the other side of the bridge and after that you're done.
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You did the run after the update today and it still works?
 
DriedMangoes said:
You did the run after the update today and it still works?
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I think I did both Crota runs before the patch. When I logged on this afternoon I got the patch. So my guess is myself and others sneaked it in before the patch. Its not hard to do the totem bridge legit though.
 
Soda Jack said:
A few little helpful hints to anyone that doesn't know. I have heard all kinds of misconceptions about the Shrieker chest, and the Deathsinger. First, the Shrieker chest door is not on a timer. The door will start closing as soon as the second Shrieker is killed. No need to bum rush the door like a herd of buffalo. You can take your time up until the second Shrieker goes down. Another thing, if you cheese the Totem Bridge, you have to wipe when you get the checkpoint or the door to the Shrieker chest will not be open. There is no excuse for not getting the Shrieker chest.
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A little correction here. When you complete the Totem Bridge, and do not wipe, a 1 minute timer starts on the Shrieker chest door. You must get inside the door before the timer runs out. If everyone wipes after the Totem Bridge, the door will start closing after the second Shrieker goes down.
 
Soda Jack said:
A little correction here. When you complete the Totem Bridge, and do not wipe, a 1 minute timer starts on the Shrieker chest door. You must get inside the door before the timer runs out. If everyone wipes after the Totem Bridge, the door will start closing after the second Shrieker goes down.
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Is that just for Hard Mode or Both?
 
I've played 7 or 8 Crota raids now. Still don't have anywhere near the shards needed to level up, have yet to get a chest piece, and the only raid weapon I have gotten is the hunger of crota (3 times).

This is horse sh*t and even worse than the VOG.
 
Mr. Titan said:
I've played 7 or 8 Crota raids now. Still don't have anywhere near the shards needed to level up, have yet to get a chest piece, and the only raid weapon I have gotten is the hunger of crota (3 times).

This is horse sh*t and even worse than the VOG.
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If you don't have 3 characters you might want to consider creating one or two more. Some people create three of the same class to increase the chances of getting raid armor for a specific class. Even if you had a single character of each class, you would be tripling your amount of Radiant materials each week. I run 3 characters and at the least have enough Radiant mats to fully upgrade a weapon or piece of armor each week.
 
Mr. Titan said:
I've played 7 or 8 Crota raids now. Still don't have anywhere near the shards needed to level up, have yet to get a chest piece, and the only raid weapon I have gotten is the hunger of crota (3 times).

This is horse sh*t and even worse than the VOG.
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Damn, it sounds like you've just been really unlucky. I've ran the Crota raid quite a few times now with the two classes I have and I'm only missing one primary weapon and the helmet for the Titan. I think the drop rate for the Crota raid is much improved over VoG.
 
Mr. Titan said:
I've played 7 or 8 Crota raids now. Still don't have anywhere near the shards needed to level up, have yet to get a chest piece, and the only raid weapon I have gotten is the hunger of crota (3 times).

This is horse sh*t and even worse than the VOG.
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the drop rate for weapons in crota is much higher than VOG. so high that it's not good. i got the all the weapons arleady and there is no point of me doing hard raid except for the crux.
 
penguinpig said:
the drop rate for weapons in crota is much higher than VOG. so high that it's not good. i got the all the weapons arleady and there is no point of me doing hard raid except for the crux.
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How many times have you played through it though? 20 times playing the same thing over and over? How much is too much? Lowering drop rates is just a bs way of increasing the games longerivity without adding any content. 8 playthroughs for 3 armor pieces and one weapon is not high by any means.

You still need to play the hard raid to get primaries as well.

If Crota had any lower of a drop rate, I would have quit. I don't have time for that and there are too many other great games out there to play the same thing over and over.


BUSTERMAN said:
Damn, it sounds like you've just been really unlucky. I've ran the Crota raid quite a few times now with the two classes I have and I'm only missing one primary weapon and the helmet for the Titan. I think the drop rate for the Crota raid is much improved over VoG.
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I thought that too after my first 2 raids. Since then though, I've gotten nothing. I thought Bungie was supposed to make it so you wouldn't constantly get gear you already had. That's not the case for me. 8 raids, 3 hungers of crota, 3 gauntlets, 2 pegs, 1 helmet.
 
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Mr. Titan said:
How many times have you played through it though? 20 times playing the same thing over and over? How much is too much? Lowering drop rates is just a bs way of increasing the games longerivity without adding any content. 8 playthroughs for 3 armor pieces and one weapon is not high by any means.

You still need to play the hard raid to get primaries as well.
If Crota had any lower of a drop rate, I would have quit. I don't have time for that and there are too many other great games out there to play the same thing over and over.




I thought that too after my first 2 raids. Since then though, I've gotten nothing. I thought Bungie was supposed to make it so you wouldn't constantly get gear you already had. That's not the case for me. 8 raids, 3 hungers of crota, 3 gauntlets, 2 pegs, 1 helmet.
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it tooke me like 3-4 weeks to get all the guns on normal. and only 2 weeks to get all the guns on hard. most of the people i paly with either have all the primaries or are just missing one.
 
penguinpig said:
it tooke me like 3-4 weeks to get all the guns on normal. and only 2 weeks to get all the guns on hard. most of the people i paly with either have all the primaries or are just missing one.
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Yea but how many characters do you have. 3? That's 12 raids right there. Playing the same thing over. And another 6 times on hard.

If you had fun with it, there's nothing stopping you from playing it more and continuing to have a good time. If you are bored with it and are just grinding to get weapons, then the higher drop rate should be a good thing.

I really don't see any reason in favor of lowering the drop rate.
 
Ran into a random with the Necrochasm while patrolling the Moon today. I heard a gun that sounded a similar to the Eidelon Ally, but different enough to notice. Inspected him, and sure enough it was the Necrochasm. I didn't notice any exploding enemies in the small amount of time that I was around the guy though.
 
Soda Jack said:
Ran into a random with the Necrochasm while patrolling the Moon today. I heard a gun that sounded a similar to the Eidelon Ally, but different enough to notice. Inspected him, and sure enough it was the Necrochasm. I didn't notice any exploding enemies in the small amount of time that I was around the guy though.
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After watching this video on IGN, I don't have much desire to get that weapon.
 
Mr. Titan said:
After watching this video on IGN, I don't have much desire to get that weapon.
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I agree with those guys about the clip size. A 42 round clip is small for a weapon with max rof. I think Atheons Epilogue has a 70 round clip, and its not even an exotic. It is also difficult to get precision kills with one of the "bullet hose" weapons.
 
Soda Jack said:
If you don't have 3 characters you might want to consider creating one or two more. Some people create three of the same class to increase the chances of getting raid armor for a specific class. Even if you had a single character of each class, you would be tripling your amount of Radiant materials each week. I run 3 characters and at the least have enough Radiant mats to fully upgrade a weapon or piece of armor each week.
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Yea I'm working on a second Titan. I just don't have any desire to go play the campaign and start over again with no abilities. I'd rather play Far Cry or Dragon Age for those 10 hours.

I realize it's pretty much essential, but I feel it's a really poor design decision.
 
Mr. Titan said:
Yea I'm working on a second Titan. I just don't have any desire to go play the campaign and start over again with no abilities. I'd rather play Far Cry or Dragon Age for those 10 hours.

I realize it's pretty much essential, but I feel it's a really poor design decision.
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It goes by pretty quick on additional characters. If you play the story missions on Heroic, and do bounties it doesn't take as long as your first playthrough.
I can hear you though, I took a break from Destiny to play GTAV myself. If Bungie decides to make everyone re-level their exotics when THoW releases, like they did with TDB, Ill probably quit playing Destiny. Im not starting over with my gear every time they add content. They acted like they were doing everyone a favor when they done that. The truth is TDB didn't add enough content period. That is why they did it. I have put a ton of time into Destiny. I have legendary weapons that have the perks I want. If those legendarys become obsolete at any point, Ill stop playing for that reason as well.
 
Soda Jack said:
It goes by pretty quick on additional characters. If you play the story missions on Heroic, and do bounties it doesn't take as long as your first playthrough.
I can hear you though, I took a break from Destiny to play GTAV myself. If Bungie decides to make everyone re-level their exotics when THoW releases, like they did with TDB, Ill probably quit playing Destiny. Im not starting over with my gear every time they add content. They acted like they were doing everyone a favor when they done that. The truth is TDB didn't add enough content period. That is why they did it. I have put a ton of time into Destiny. I have legendary weapons that have the perks I want. If those legendarys become obsolete at any point, Ill stop playing for that reason as well.
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I read somewhere that they are going to do it differently for the house of Wolves. Hopefully for the better.
 
I forget where I read this from, but the piece did say a rumor was that Bungie will increase the damage for weapons again to something like 365 with the next DLC. If that’s true and they expect me to re-level weapons again I’ll also throw in the towel. If they do increase the damage cap but I only have to level up from where I’m at now to the new damage cap I’ll be ok with that. But totally starting over doesn’t sit well with me. I didn’t like it with the first piece of DLC and I don’t think I’ll be able to stomach it for a second time.
 
Just learned in my raid today that if you stay for 5-10 minutes after killing crota and let the game take you out, you have a chance of getting an exotic drop. I got the universal remote (already had one) and another person got the Dragon's Breath rocket launcher.

I'll make sure to do this from now on.

On a seperate note, finally had good raid drops. I got the chest piece, Black Hammer, and 12 radiant shards.
 
Mr. Titan said:
Just learned in my raid today that if you stay for 5-10 minutes after killing crota and let the game take you out, you have a chance of getting an exotic drop. I got the universal remote (already had one) and another person got the Dragon's Breath rocket launcher.

I'll make sure to do this from now on.

On a seperate note, finally had good raid drops. I got the chest piece, Black Hammer, and 12 radiant shards.
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Did you get it in the earlier drop right after you kill him? It should announce the exotic drops right after you down him although it tends to go quick, so I sometimes miss that I get an exotic drop too.
 
DriedMangoes said:
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I read somewhere that they are going to do it differently for the house of Wolves. Hopefully for the better.
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I hope so because I like Destiny. I don't want the gear that I spent hundreds of hours acquiring to become inferior. I mean the chances of getting a legendary armor/weapon is slim, but the chances of getting one with the perks you want is nearly astronomical.
 
DriedMangoes said:
Did you get it in the earlier drop right after you kill him? It should announce the exotic drops right after you down him although it tends to go quick, so I sometimes miss that I get an exotic drop too.
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Nope. It was not in my inventory, I was looking before hand during the downtime. And I got the black hammer and shards for killing him. And my inventory was not full.

Only 2 of us got anything at the end screen, but it was definitely not something we got during the raid. One of the guys in the party got an exotic drop after Crota, but I didn't show up for him in the end screen. I'm 90% sure bases on what I saw that this is an entirely new random drop, though not everyone gets it. It was weird, I really can't explain it though I do know it wasn't in my inventory beforehand nor was my inventory full.

There's this thread on reddit where the original poster says this doesn't work, however there were numerous replies counter to him from people who had the same experience as I did.
 
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Did CE Hard with one of my Titans earlier. Got shards, and yet another helmet. No Crux so far this week.

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Played through with my second Titan. Same as my first, shards, and another helmet. I did get the Revenant shader from lvling Dead Orbit tonight though. So it hasn't been all bad. Its weird because I got the shader from my second Titan that just hit Dead Orbit rank 16. My first Titan is Dead Orbit rank 28 and has never gotten a shader drop. I have gotten both the Bittersteel, and Revenant shaders from my second Titan this week.
 
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Mr. Titan said:
Nope. It was not in my inventory, I was looking before hand during the downtime. And I got the black hammer and shards for killing him. And my inventory was not full.

Only 2 of us got anything at the end screen, but it was definitely not something we got during the raid. One of the guys in the party got an exotic drop after Crota, but I didn't show up for him in the end screen. I'm 90% sure bases on what I saw that this is an entirely new random drop, though not everyone gets it. It was weird, I really can't explain it though I do know it wasn't in my inventory beforehand nor was my inventory full.

There's this thread on reddit where the original poster says this doesn't work, however there were numerous replies counter to him from people who had the same experience as I did.
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It does work but not all the time. It is random but it does work. I have seen someone get an exotic after waiting for the post screen to come up.
 
i see a lot of people get exotics without it popping up initally, that's probably what it is.
 
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