Destiny: Rise of Iron 9.20.16

StoiCynic_sl said:

Not in the context with which he was speaking. The difference in dmg between 29 and 30 was 30%. Thats pretty significant considering when I played there was only 4 pieces of gear, when combined, that would get me there.

Unless your privy to hard numbers it's just too early to tell how light effects us in the end game.

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I dont need to see hard numbers, I can clearly see it in Dattos run on court of oryx. I can read it in todays patch notes.

If you can't complete an event because you can not do enough damage, or can no longer damage anything it doesnt matter if its a 10% to 90% debuff.

They put these hard limits in there just like the hard limits they had in year 1, but there is way more numbers to work with for the end user.

That translates into we are still at the mercy of light levels which is given only through gear.

wormie_sl said:

Now light levels are a measurement of your strength instead of your strength being tied into levels. So its just a cosmetic change and it makes things more obvious imo.

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eh? light levels are soley based off your weapon , and armor scores. All they did was move it to an average of weapon and armor which is no different then year 1 to be honest because you needed capped weapons to do any type of significant damage on the level of mob you were trying to kill.

It was as obvious before as it is now. I'm telling you guys this is just to calm down the casuals that constantly complained they could never get to the max light level.
Now they can say they attained max level even tho the system knows they have not because they will not be able to complete high tier events.

The Taken King)
Character Level and Light are now separate stats
Light is now calculated by the average of the Attack and Defense scores of all your gear
Weapons, Ghosts, Class Items, and Artifacts now all contribute to Light
Grimoire Score has been moved from the Character Nameplate and now displays in the Character Screen

Outgoing and Incoming damage has been changed to reflect new Light system
Ability Damage is directly computed from your Light Score
Player Health is directly computed from your Light Score
Weapon Damage is heavily weighted by both your Light score and the Attack value of the weapon

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Patch Notes up on Reddit. the Bungie site is dead to me at the moment:

Patch Notes

Looks like the Armory has been updated with all the new TTK gears:

New Gear

patch is 18 gigs for me on ps4, had to pause/resume a bunch of times before it got to a fast download speed. i finished the nightfall 3x right before the servers went down with a buddy, was fun blasting through with non stop gally. RIP thorn, gally and black hammer

Lots of stuff in there, people with an Elder Cipher get their choice of one of those exotic weapons.

Incomplete Year 1 Exotic Bounties are auto-completed at their respective Vendors

Does that mean I'll have a shiny newly nerfed thorn waiting for me? Got stuck at the pvp part of it and never finished

mkopec_sl said:

So say if I were to get back into this and having basically a lv29 lock, and both 28s titan and hunter what would I need to do to prepare and hopefully level up some? I have all of the good exotics, well what was good like gjallahorn, suros regime, thorn, icebreaker and others...

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With the new questing system you will be able to redo the main Story line for XP / Rep, so I would probably do that, along with bounties.

Zindan_sl said:

With the new questing system you will be able to redo the main Story line for XP / Rep, so I would probably do that, along with bounties.

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SHIT! Bought all the dlc over the weekend and figured I was being slick holding off on the story quests for the xp....

patched and logged in for a bit, everythings different but everythings the same. nice vault changes, 72 weapon slots and a ton of armor slots too now. all the conversions aren't in place until next week I guess, I still have 200/200 vanguard and crucible marks, I still have titan/warlock/hunter armor components instead of a single unified one (although gear I disassemble turn into the new armor pieces component).

they've removed all the HoW/TDB bounty quests from the NPCs so you can't rep those factions this week. If you are on the edge of a faction you don't have to worry, you can login and go to the tower without rolling anything over by accident. You are given two quests upon logging in, something to do with your class trainer. I didn't turn them in yet because I'm 2990/3000 rep in vanguard so don't want to roll that over until next week.

Nightfall strike and weekly (26/28/32) is still there, however all the other PVE strike lists are gone except for level 20. By gone I mean the icons are locked, presumably until next week. PVP maps are there and everyone is playing the new Rift mode. Gunsmith doesn't have bounties in place yet, I think they go live tomorrow.

Lots of cool little new vendors and stuff where you can check out emotes (I only have 1, point), weapon blueprints, etc. Lot of people PVPing.

The bounty robot guy has all new bounties to hand out, the old ones seem gone and the new ones are either 2500 xp or 3650 xp doesn't seem to be any more 5k xp ones. You can hold 16 bounties at once and more main story quests too. All exotic bounties got auto completed.

This update is rather large. Kinda silly they didn't have a pre-load or something before it went live.

Anyone happen to have done the new Path of the Sunsinger series of quests? Step 8 is a bitch...you have to get 20 kills in a strike while under Radiance, and it resets if you don't get all 20 in one go. Can't think of a Strike with tons of mobs, easily killed with grenades (guns?) in like 10-15sec.

Edit: Seems grenades work. Doing the Nightfall right now, just staying up top killing shit with grenades and the counter is keeping the kills. Also, the new voice for Ghost is...worse. lol.

Just go to the tunnel part of the nexus right before the boss. If you don't complete it just throw yourself off the ledge, and you can repeat as many times as you want.

Bunch of vex all stacked up in there.

I dunno, I like Nolanbot a lot more than Dinklebot. They changed a few of the most cringeworthy lines and the delivery is much more even on the old content. I imagine the newer content will be even better since they will have had a chance to iterate on it.

I cant stand the new actor, at least with Dinklebot I could tune him out since he was so monotone. The new guy is so high pitched it bugs the shit out of me.

The Ghost voice change is not an upgrade - it sounds weird and off - and its funny it just sounds human but in beta people bitched because Dinkle sounded too human and not like a ghost.

If you want to hear how bad it can be go to the Temple of Crota mission and listen to him do " We've woken the Hive!"

What a fag, and this is who they got for a replacement. /cringe

So after the consolidation of resources i had 30 armor materials and over 900 weapon.... i feel something screwy went on.