g.man wrote:

You're playing Destiny alone?

I am too, I don't think anyone else on my friends list has it.

What format you on, Moe? This place will populate your friends list very quickly indeed.

revelthedog wrote:

TheDJR wrote:

@rev

I'll consider doing the VoG with you if you promise not to mention anything you've said in this thread.

ill do the vault of glass with you if you promise to do your Nicolas cage impression again.

I didn't know about this nice cage impression, feel iv missed out now.

I'm always willing to help on vog etc.

Add all of us! Immediately if not sooner.

ah, so that's who you are!
I think you are on my list.

So another nightfall has been and gone for me.

The good: burns make different enemies tricky/easier.

There's always a room/section that is particularly tricky that probably can be cheesed, but generally isn't. It's just a good solid challenge with a party of 2-3.

Nexus probably has 2 spots, depending on burns, first room with servitors, and/or minatours before the nexus. Summoning pits has the three stage wait for dinklage.

These are the best bits of the nightfall for me. They lack the specific teamwork of vog, but there's different ways to do them, and you're not necessarily hiding in a corner with icebreaker.

BUT. Every single boss in nightfall is basically an invitation to cheese. The threat of boot to orbit is too much, and, on things like phogoth with arc, fuck a wizard, I'm staying in the entrance.

Definitely needs to be a rebalance of the difficulty and risk/reward so that every boss battle isn't cheese.

Thoughts?

Not fussed about nightfalls anymore really, the modifiers kept things interesting for a while but I got bored of those missions ages ago. I only do them if others want to and I'm happy to help because the combats good, but yea, done.

I dont think it's possible to do a nightfall properly.

Billy wrote:

Agreed cheese should go, at the same time the bosses need to have less ridiculous health bars. The Templar is a much better boss than Sekrion the nexus, it's not about the health bar it's about making it interesting.

Actually I don't agree.

I want to keep the raids separate from the strikes, and intricate mulit-faceted puzzle-bosses belong in raids. Nexus etc fit the arcady fun of Strikes. They become boring bullet-sponges when you cheese them because there's no peril, but when you're crouched behind a rock desperately trying to hide from the splash damage I think they work really well. Maybe could do with slightly less health I guess. Maybe.

Love Templar, but love Nexus too.

LOVE ALL OF IT!

Why don't we all not cheese it next week then? We can report back after.

Bets on another Xur type merchant selling new DLC gear in the Reef social hub when HoW drops.

My guess is new vendor gear will get you up to 32, new raid gear will get you up to 34.

I hope to fuck they've spent their time coming up with some sort of transmogrification ((c) WoW nerds) thing instead of producing just one set of identical level 34/36/whatever armour for each class.

The game is crying out for more customisation options rather than having every bugger running around in identical Crota gear.

Which is why they should give you the option to upgrade existing armour, or transfer raid levels / perks to other armour.

Say you complete the next raid and it gives you a new chest piece. If you had the choice between keeping it, or paying say 100 ascendant shards to transfer its properties to another piece of armour, then everyone could reach max level whilst keeping some individuality.

regmcfly wrote:

Aye but they explicitly said that the new dlc won't make Crota stuff redundant.

In which case they are dumb. Vendor gear should get you up to 32, so you can start the new raid. Raid gear then gets you to 34 or whatever. That's how it works for everything else like this, and no one ever had a problem with that.

They really do need visual options though. I fucking hate a lot of the top level armour.