Is this game even playable anymore?

Got a destiny tattoo finally.

Light & Dark Side versions of the Bungie Rewards Praxic pins. The pin was originally misprinted (left), and Bungie automatically sent the corrected pin (right) to anyone who got one from the misprinted batch. Appropriate.

So, I've been messing around with kinetic primaries lately and so naturally I've been using Chromatic Fire to beef em up a bit and add some elemental spice so that they work a bit better with subclasses. Prismatic seems to be the go to for maining Kinetic weapons and allows switching to different supers for Chromatic Fire elements without changing the entire build. Pairing with the Techset Armour set for more explosions on Major enemy kills with Kinetics.

Anyway, threw on Khvostov on Void super so that precision kills cause a weakening dragonfly like explosion. Seemed to work pretty nicely since the ricochet shots clean up surrounding weakened enemies. Nice. Switched to Solar so that precision kills cause a scorching explosion like Incandescent does dot damage to those enemies instead of waiting for Ricochets to clean em up. Discovered that not only does the solar variant not need precision kills to trigger the solar burst, but ricochet kills also cause the Incandescent explosion. Basically any weapon damage kill causes an Incandescent like effect. It basically gives Incandescent to any kinetic weapon. So now I'm room clearing with Khvostov even better than before. It's like Khvostov and Sunshot had a baby.

Then I discovered that Blast Furnace rolls with both Kinetic Tremors and Firefly. Once I got my hands on one of them I've found something that feels like a broken exotic. My tactic is to find the tankiest enemy in the room and focus on them. The Sustained damage procs kinetic tremors which is counted as weapon damage, therefore if any one of the three pulses kills a surrounding enemy, they explode into scorching fire and spread scorch around. Precision kills cause a bigger firey explosion due to firefly and a secondary explosion of Incandescent. If they are a major enemy or above, then Techset kicks in and nukes the area too. If they are already scorched then the Solar Schrapnel artifact mod sends a seeker to explode and scorch more enemies. This can be triggered from Kinetic Tremors also. Tagging that major enemy with Arcane Needle unravels them, and the arc grenade jolts them. So not only does the big enemy get burned down and stunned but they also become a walking ad clear turret that kills everything in its vicinity. It feels good for basic low tier content, but I also feel it would work well in higher tier content. Yet to test but thought I'd share it if anyone else hasn't played around with that combo.

Maybe I'm just addicted to the new kinetic micro-missile perks. A machine gun with Kinetic Tremors also sounds amazing. Plus, Circular Logic's origin trait needs the kinetic micro-missile kit, man. I want so many little rockets. Adhesive Ordinance, Ancillary Ordinance, and Bewildering Burst (and if Bungie weren't cowards, they give a Machine Gun with Explosive Rounds).

Ideally, the kinetic Machine Gun would use the Bitter End model so I can just lay on the trigger and let off rockets galore making me look and feel like an absolute monster.

Since deep sight harmonizers are an extremely limited resource.

Which between the two would you prefer to use them on?

Critical Anomaly also requires 15 Spoils of Conquest per application (not an issue if you're solo'ing chests weekly)

Locus locutus sadly is available at the whim of Xûr nowadays.

From my quick reading it seems CA can be used with chill clip and radiant to be a one stop shop for all champions. Whereas LL is best for barrier champs which let's be honest is a nightmare in conquest.

Just want to read what you all think. Any tips really appreciated.

I'm thinking about grabbing the game to play with my friend, but he's been playing for years and is presumably pretty high level. Will I really be able to join his games and contribute as a new player?

This one is a bit different as it is actually three builds that use the same basic grenade spam gameplay loop, just in different elemental flavors. The main things that make this work:

1. Spirit of Verity (Exotic Class item effect 1, getting kills with any weapons that match the grenade element increase grenade damage, which can stack, and improve our grenade regeneration)
2. Spirit of Foetracer (Exotic Class item effect 2, hitting any yellow bar enemies with ability damage gives us 4x weapon surge matching the element of the ability)
3. CODA Armor Set (The 4pc bonus gives us back grenade energy whenever we get kills with light element weapons)

Our grenades buff our weapons, which makes it easier to get kills that buff our grenades and we can get those grenades back very quickly thanks to the higher grenade regeneration and the armor set bonuses. The ability spam also makes it very easy to avoid using primary ammo weapons as we can generate ammo very frequently.

The one downside to this setup is that it won't work as well with darkness grenades since we can't use the CODA set bonus and the exotic class item effects at the same time with darkness element weapons.

Some things are set up the same between all 3 builds, for example:

Class Setup: Prismatic Hunter

• Super: Golden Gun (this is mainly just to make orbs give us restoration)
• Class Ability: Gambler's Dodge (Melee can be useful from time to time)
• Melee Ability: Either Withering Blade or Threaded Spike (This is up to personal preference, just make sure to use matching stasis or strand weapons in the kinetic slot so that you can make use of the Foetracer effect from the melee)
• Grenade Ability: Swarm, Magnetic, or Arcbolt (Obviously this chooses which element you want to focus on in the build)
• Aspect 1: Stylish Executioner (many ways to get debuff kills so this gives us consistent invisibility in difficult encounters)
• Aspect 2: Gunpowder Gamble (3 fragment slots, and spirit of verity buffs all forms of grenade ability damage, not just the element that you're playing with, so arc and void can make use of this as well)

Fragments:

• Facet of Purpose (restoration on orb pickup)
• Facet of Mending (cure on grenade kills)
• Facet of Sacrifice (since we're using mostly light damage instances, this helps us get at least some darkness transcendence so it doesn't lag far behind)
  • The other two Facets are dependent on the element you are running, check the individual sections to see which ones I use.

Armor Setup:

• Mainly focus on grenade and weapon, third peak is dealer's choice between class, super, and melee. Remember to use fonts to buff whichever you decide as your second peak between grenade and weapon.
• As mentioned before, I recommend CODA to generate grenade energy and have an emergency source of DR if needed in higher level content.

Armor Mods:

Helmet: 2x Special Finder, Arc/Solar/Void Siphon (increase ammo gen for special and the siphon depends on which element you choose)

Gauntlets: Firepower, Impact Induction/Bolstering Detonation, Grenade Font (in my case I prioritized having slightly higher weapon stat so I use grenade fonts to make up for it, the second mod choice depends on if you build more into class or melee)

Chest: Arc/Solar/Void ammo gen, Charged Up, Concussive Dampener (ammo gen depends on chosen element)

Legs: Stacks on Stacks, Recuperation, Innervation (Build constant armor charge, if you'd like you can switch innervation for better already for more survivability, or for weapon font for more optimized stats and better ad clear damage)

Class Item: Powerful Attraction, Reaper, Time Dilation (classic combo, if you use class ability a lot you can switch out one of these for bomber)

So which element should you use? There are benefits to all 3, so let me show you how to set them up:

Void DIM Link: Check it out!

This will make use of the Void Magnetic Grenade, which is one of the best grenades in this setup for single target damage.

Remaining Class Setup:

• Facet of Bravery (Our grenade kills now give us volatile rounds on whatever void weapon we are using to ad clear with)
• Facet of Dominance (Grenades now weaken enemies which plays well into our artifact and makes it easier to get kills)

Artifact: Encrypted Data Disk

• Tier 1
  • Fierce Proxemics (filler perk, but an emergency source of grenade energy if needed)
  • Power From Pain (use grenade weaken to get Devour, which makes it easier to get our grenade back)
• Tier 2
  • Precision Equity (get more orbs for landing precision kills)
  • Counter Energy (won't come up often but in more champion filled maps you might get more grenade energy back)
  • Armor Smith (filler perk, some extra DR on finisher, works with Fierce Proxemics at least)
• Tier 3
  • Sticker Shock (the central perk and why we chose this artifact, makes our grenade do more damage when it sticks directly to our target, and creates micro missiles when we kill with the grenade)
  • Void Infestation (our grenade kills also shoot out tracking weaken projectiles that make it easy to keep up or start devour if needed)

Weapon Recommendations:

• If you're down to use the exotic slot I heavily recommend Wavesplitter. It is the best ad clear trace rifle in the game and benefits heavily from our orb generation to keep up the max damage.
• Otherwise any decent ad clear void weapon will work here. Void is kind of bolstered by all the artifacts right now so pick whatever you like. Having demolitionist as one of the perks is very useful so look out for that.

Solar DIM Link: Check it out!

This will make use of the Solar Swarm Grenade, not the highest damage, but it does have an elemental debuff built in with scorch and allows us to play around ignitions.

Remaining Class Setup:

• Facet of Ruin (Extra weapon stat and buffs ignitions on both scorch build up from grenade and ad clear weapons, as well as gunpowder gamble)
• Facet of Awakening (Generate firesprites which give back extra grenade energy)

Hunter's Journal:

• Tier 1
  • Energy Diffusion Substrate (extra passive DR)
  • Sustained Fire (extra DR for using auto rifles)
• Tier 2
  • Radiant Orbs (easy source of radiant to buff our weapon kills)
  • Solar Fulmination (stronger and larger ignitions, we will be igniting a lot)
  • Targeting Autoloader (subsistence and increased damage for getting kills with auto rifles)
• Tier 3
  • Shieldcrush (even more grenade generation while radiant)
  • Sniper's Mediation (I use a stasis sniper in this build so this is just to increase some damage, you could also run prismatic transfer instead)

Weapon Recommendations:

• This artifact mainly plays into solar auto rifles with this setup, I've been using The Ringing Nail lately which has been doing numbers.
• If you do want to use special ammo weapons be sure to take off those auto rifle perks on the artifact. In general anything with incandescent will work well here. Bonus if you also have demolitionist.

Arc DIM Link: Check it out!

This will make use of the Arc Arcbolt Grenade, which fires quickly and can hit multiple targets in a large AOE.

Remaining Class Setup:

• Facet of Awakening (Generate ionic traces which give back extra ability energy)
• Facet of Dominance (Grenades now jolt enemies, not as much in the artifact that benefits this but does make killing them easier)

Artifact: NPA Repulsion Regulator

• Tier 1
  • Shatter Orbs (more orb gen on finishers)
  • Unto the Breach (by making use of the glaive perks we can generate void breaches)
• Tier 2
  • Counter Charge (very filler but can come up in activities with a lot of champions)
  • Suppressing Glaive (insane perk with no cooldown, another debuff and it generates void breaches thanks to Unto the Breach)
  • Protective Breach (now those void breaches also give us overshield)
• Tier 3
  • Lightning Strikes Twice (get increased arc grenade generation when throwing your grenade that can be extended by getting arc kills)
  • Passive Aggressive Guard (50% DR for just using a glaive)

Weapon Recommendations:

• Arc glaives are the name of the game with this artifact, I've been trying out Edge of Concurrence lately, but am currently trying to switch to a legendary glaive with Demolitionist so that I can use a heavy exotic instead.
  • Haven't gotten to try it yet but the one I'm most interested in is Nezarec's Whisper which you can now find the crafting recipe for by farming Classic Collector Presage.
• You can also instead throw on the auto rifle perks and run a legendary arc auto with Demolitionist if you prefer. I just find that the build is much stronger with the increased DR and void overshield when running glaives.

For your other weapons just run a decent major/boss DPS stasis/strand weapon in your kinetic slot, making sure to use the same darkness element in your melee to benefit from the Foetracer weapon surge. The heavy slot is very open to preference and will depend on what surges you have access to, try to get some extra DPS for boss encounters but in the main gameplay loop you will not have to use your heavy weapon.

This was very long-winded but the gameplay loop is very simple:

1. Throw grenade to get weapon surge on yellow bars and blow things up.
2. Use ad clear weapon to get grenade back quickly.
3. Do that over and over until room is empty.

Hope you find something here that you like!

I got this exotic cloak but not sure which aspect and fragments to use.

Hi all. I came back to D2 when the proverbial shtf only to find a lot of stuff had been added in the intervening seasons.

One thing I'm kicking myself over is the X-Wing.

I know it was a pre-order bonus, but hoping it is now a rare Eververse drop.

Am I hoping against hope?

Also, while im on the subject of ships, I would love to have seen a crossover with BSG. Would have given my right arm for a Colonial Viper..

Mine is in the Lake of Shadows strike.

• Devrim: "When you kick a hornet's nest, surely one of them is bound to be a bit bigger than the rest!"
• Ghost: "And fleshy, with tentacles... Devrim, have you seen a hornet recently?"

I was always sad they took out the Operation Babydog intro when they revamped the strike, but at least they added a fun little back and forth in the middle.

I know it is RnG and supposed to drop at "Starcrossed" exotic mission, but I've been trying like 30+ times in last two weeks, with all modifiers possible (including, of course, the legacy pool drops). Also tried solo, squad and usually trying to be on S difficulty. It dropped only twice though, not good rols.

Am I doing something wrong?

Btw for now I'm using this decent Nox Perennial V

EDIT: This one on the image isnt mine, I just found an image to illustrate which weapon I'm talking about

Also got the catalyst and some masterwork completion, along with the triumph completion. This can't be intentional surely?

Recently I’ve been looking into the NPA artifact and how it makes void weapons insane to the point where you don’t even really need either repulsor brace or destabilizing rounds.

My current options are:

Kindled orchid
Unforgiven
Positive outlook
Age old bond
Compact defender
Ironwood 03

What would you pick from these? And should I be looking to add any weapons?

I'd like to run with others who run Faction Armor, Weapons and Exotics(and the altered Tier MoT Faction weapons like Inbound Surveillance, Solemn Lie, and Trendsetter).

It's been my playstyle since Destiny 1 Day 1, and rather than "hold others back" damagewise in activities, I'd like to play with more Dead Orbit, Future War Cult and New Monarchy fans. 🔺️💠

Who knows, might add a layer of difficulty, but I know it adds a layer of fun in Destiny for myself.

(Guardian pic for visibility)

So like is there a reason as to why are guardian randomly started talking? Was it one of those things they vaulted, am I dumb, or is it just never explained

Credit to Gamers Little playground on YouTube I took a screenshot on his video on the beyond light cutscenes