Sorry Dan, I'm getting a bit fed up carrying people.

Prestige Nightfall is reasonably easy this week. Recommend Arc weapons, Especially Rockets for the Lieutenants before the dig site and having at least one super available platform you drop in to after the first burner jet jumps, 2 if possible as you'll get two waves there that can make up some time for you.

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The PvE is a bit shite, that's true enough.

Actually (raid apart) it's magnitudes better than vanilla Destiny. No bullet hose bosses, no empty worlds and repetitive, pointless patrols. Genuine use of themes in the campaign (losing your power), interesting lore in the adventures etc .

What speed suggests is that the guns and characters are underpowered for PvE. That's only true as a comparison of you compare playing vanilla with rare drop primaries with an elemental effect, in practice mostly fatebringer, or gjallahorn, black hammer etc. First of all it's clear that in destiny vanilla badgers only got to that position about two months in. I saw one poster arguing with djr about fatebringer's utility in November, before he's got it. Made me lol.

So really this is a complaint about not having crutches like last time. Now to succeed in tough content requires fire teams to coordinate, eg the titan wall and warlock rift, to work together on their supers etc. Bungie clearly wants this for hard content. But some of its following doesn't want to do this. They wanna grind for two months or more, and after that they want to feel powerful without effort. They want to fatebringer and gjallahorn everything, camping back of map and clearing mobs and tap tap tapping at that yellow bar for five minutes until he's dead. That is fun endgame for them. Bungie rightly adjudged that catering for such people was not the way to grab people. A fast striking squad rolling together and meeking enemies at strategic points, using all tools in their arsenal, that was their design aim. It's only been a mixed success I think, but it was the better thing to aim at in my view.

If you need an Antiope the Sondok-c is the blue equivalent. For all intents and purposes it's the same gun with the same perks. It's a guaranteed drop from the Exodus Siege adventure on Nessus.

I completely suck with smgs, I just can't handle the recoil well enough.

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I completely suck with smgs, I just can't handle the recoil well enough.

Mr neither; where I'm close enough to use one, it feels like a sidearm would be more effective. There's a small window where it's definitely more effective than either an auto or sidearm, but it's very difficult to engineer that range.

They are glorious, luxury weapons.

I like going Rambo.

No, that's First Blood.

I'm going to run origin story and last hope tonight, with transversive steps for the speed boost. It's ludicrous how much you have to miss out on to replace mida as your primary.

I agree mida/last hope is the most effective loadout for me, but I'm not sure it helps me improve generally except by giving me the ability to push and cover ranges. Mainly this is because mida's third eye is a crutch and I really badly miss it on other loadouts, which means I almost feel blind just running Pleiades or Uriel's. Another thing is the aim assist at 100 is not the best practice for shot accuracy using other scouts, autos or handcannons.

Nothing is good practice for shot accuracy with handcannons since it's RNG anyway.

Shotguns are rng as to spread, was watching Cammy's steam yesterday they were in a private match testing range. 7m kill is rng. 5/6m is closer to guaranteed

Does Banshee-44 ever drop 300 engrams? Been waiting on the dude ever since I hit 305 with my Titan at the beginning of the week and nothin'.

Yeah that were a good run lads.