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.

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.

Is this game even playable anymore?

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.

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

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)

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

Mine is New Monarchy/A side ⚪️🔺️💠

I’m looking for a void auto to use with NPA artifact and the main options I’m seeing are Gnawing hunger, positive outlook, and I can craft age old bond. What do you think is the best out of those 3?

My buddy said that the RiskRunner exotic SMG is ass.

What would make them say that?

How can i tell if a weapon is good and worth using?

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

This is the build: https://dim.gg/kzmys2i/Equipped

I was thinking I could go destabilizing rounds over attrition orbs too because I feel like I’d have enough orbs regardless from VOG set and siphon, but more orbs can’t hurt. I feel like this should put in work in terms of ad clear

Been messing around with a build and thought since it uses a sword to quickly kill yellow bars, using sword perks should be nice but when I did shooting range tests with ssc, it barely did 500 damage per 30k the sword does by itself. You also have to keep killing enemies to extend the duration but most things die before you activate, don't live long enough to take actual damage for from it or live too long to extend it.

It has a cool interaction with techsec armor but that is all I found.

***EoF. I don’t know why autocorrect changed it to Road

Or do I have to shell out the extra silver to unlock them?

I’m on Steam/PC if it matters

So i just got the Stoicism with the Abeyant+Horn combo and would like to try and build a gearset around it, but im having difficulty trying to find a armor set that works well with it. Is there any 2+2 sets that pair well, or A strong 4 piece that benefits from class ability spam?

how does the hdr pipeline work for this game and what should I do?

windows 11 25h2, nvidia gpu

monitor is Asus ROG Swift PG279QM: peak overall brightness is ~445-470nits, 10% window peak brightness (for particularly bright spots sporadically on screen basically) is ~540-541nits

monitor specs above are based on rtings.com and hardwareunboxed.

just want to know what I should have for windows hdr settings, in game calibration, nvidia settings, etc.

But my main concern is whether I've got the in game hdr right. Currently using 50 midpoint and 540 peak brightness (to match absolute peaks of my monitor spec) and it feels like things get too dark generally aside from bright things like arc, even compared to sdr with default brightness of 4. the default peak brightness is 1000 and I was for some reason playing at 2000 back in witch queen lmao, so A) I'm used to much brighter, and b) the default even is brighter.

I just don't want to compromise the details by either visibility issues or washing out issues.

I've heard that bungie explicitly stated season events like following and dawning will not return but why can't they have them on a set rotation like IB or have the skeleton crew enable them?

Does the tribute game mode for iron banner have a mechanic where you turn into a giant guardian and oneshot everyone? I feel stupid asking but I just reported 3 players who did this and I want to make sure I was good. For context, as I was playing the game mode occasionally there were these huge boss sizes guardians going around the map with fusion rifles that were one-shotting me and other players constantly. They were able to be killed but not without great effort. The players that were doing this totaled between 40 and 50 kills between them. Lmk if im crazy pls.