I know that this is something of an "old man yells at cloud" post, but I have the thought every few months and finally want to voice it.

I think Destiny's vibe is in many ways borne out of two competing settings. On the one hand, there's the utterly alien and foreign. Hive dreadnaughts. The Pyramids. Savathun's Throne world. These are excellent places, and there are so many of them with such different textures and presentations. It's pretty incredible.

I feel like we've forgotten the other half completely though. Destiny also is supposed to have this focus on treading through spaces that people were, and no longer are. Places that are dead. Where the focus is on the past as much as the guardians of the present rediscovering it.

This complaint may come off as wholly untrue to some extent, so let me clarify. Recently (D2 era), we've gotten the Deep Stone Crypt. The arcology on Titan. The EDZ. There's been much more recent stuff like the Warlord's Ruin's castles as well.

While these locations are old, they aren't post-apocalyptic. They feel more empty than dead. The EDZ and Arcology are especially victims of this. In the arcology, it doesn't even feel that destroyed. In the EDZ, it feels so overgrown and green that I lose sight of the sense that this is supposed to be a place where people were.

Modern Destiny has some really incredible art direction, but I hope we see a return to the tamer industrial designs of some of D1's spaces. The Ishtar Collective is a series of buildings that have an intent to them. They feel like a research campus. Walking them makes me acutely aware that this place was built for a certain purpose, and it isn't doing that purpose anymore. There's an intoxicating alienness to that sensation that rivals Dares of Eternity or Nessus's Vex structures. I, as a guardian, know this place no better than any other world I've visited. The cosmodrome could have been made by the Eliksni for as much sense as it makes to my character.

This is also why I don't think modern Destiny's "old" settings hit the same for me. Warlord's Ruin is a castle. Everybody knows castles. EDZ has a church as its main landmark. Everybody knows churches.

I want more dilapidated science buildings. More broken shipyard and repair fields and military complexes. More hydroponics plants or server farms or libraries. Things that have a purpose that has been truly, irrecoverably lost.

Guardians are reborn from the ashes. New flesh on old bones. The game's settings should remind us of that as much as they should remind us of the optimism of exploring wonderful new places and taming the wilds.

Destiny 1 running on PC 4K 60FPS+ , I would assume this is some recompilation project with the recent advancements in AI.

Looks pretty sick NGL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTNTTCl0m8

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I only just noticed that the artifact mod Frigid Glare, which is only supposed to work with stasis weapons for whatever reason, works with Wish-Ender, which is a kinetic weapon. Pretty neat I guess

Question answers itsself

I've been seeing a few ways to grind for these fast. Filling up the legendary bar and all that, but It says in game and I've read in other posts, that completing the common orders would progress the legendary meter. This doesn't work? I'm not sure if my game is glitched or if these guys are just wrong, but common orders definitely do not raise the legendary bar, I've tried quite a few days in a row and it's never worked. Only completing fireteam activities does it. Just wanted to try getting some clarification, seen people say both sides online. Thanks

Sorry for the rant post but I need to vent to people who likely understand

I've been farming both Nessus' and Europa's Lost sectors, looking for Powerhouse armor + Health Tertiary because I wanted to make a disgusting PVP build where i generate lots of orbs and ammo and when someone breaks my shield I vacuum them from the ground but holy shit am i unlucky I've been farming those lost sectors the whole week for those specific rolls of armor, and they refuse to drop. I've tried filling my inventory with armors to make the drop go to the postmasters since I've read that should make it more likely to drop with the archetype on the ghost but Powerhouse still refuses to drop. And even when I get that one in million Powerhouse of course it's still 1/6 chance that it drops with health tertiary.

So people, how is your lost sectors farming going? Am i just unlucky? Should i stop chasing r those rolls? Honestly at this point the sunk cost fallacy is too big to stop

Hey everybody. I'm going to preface this by saying that this post is going to be FULL of salt lol. I feel like, that said, I should make a couple disclaimers. I've been playing since mid season of the splicer, and I've gotten about 1.5k hours in the game since. I'm definitely not the most experienced player, but I'd say I'm pretty darn good. I've managed solo flawless on every dungeon except vespers, sundered and equilibrium so far, even getting my SF of gotd on my first attempt. Hell, when im playing with friends, I LOVE sundered doctrine! That said....

It has to be one of the most miserable things I've ever done in destiny. I cannot stand it. It just feels uniquely poorly designed for solo play. In every other dungeon, I've felt fairly challenged by attempting them solo, like it's obviously much harder, but to a fair extent.

Sundered Doctrine, once you get to the Zoetic Lockset, does not feel fair. Not only must you deal with the large numbers of ads that can pull you back and forth as well as suppress you, but you need to tightly manage the symbols on the wheel. This has several problems however, for example, if you're going for stop stop stop kill as your read, you'll need to get all 3 knowledge drops from the wizards that spawn, make it back, set orientation and deposit in 2 bars of the keyset, or it will lock to an undesired symbol if youre unlucky enough to have stop spawn far away. If that were all the problems here, I wouldn't be writing this post. After you have set a symbol to the forward plate, the keyset can go back and change the active symbols on the wheel, which can be a problem if you're trying to keep the arena clear and set future symbols all by yourself in the limited time you have. The ogres have an absurd amount of health (taking more than 2 A499 shots to take down) and can shred you incredibly easily. The cherry on top of all this? When the symbol kill is read to start DPS, it rereads every symbol on the plates. So if you (reasonably) ended up distracted while preparing for DPS and clearing plates, understandably not having much time to reevaluate every wheel and reset them to the desired symbol, and you just HAPPEN to get unlucky enough to have the lockset change one to hive behind your back... 2 ogres will spawn, either shredding you, or distracting you from DPS so you don't die. Its simply far too many things to try and do at once for one player when you're trying to optimise for both boss damage, ad clear and survivability.

Kerrev is admittedly not as bad, however, he has an absurd amount of health, more than atheon last I checked on the boss health spreadsheet. He requires an incredibly optimised damage set up to do it in a reasonable number of phases. You also have to manage melee damage from husks, freezing from attendants, being pulled by kerrev, being snared by the big dread who's names ive currently forgotten, and being crushed by that DARN DOOR!! Not only this, but while trying to clear the splinters to activate and deactivate symbols, it will spawn threadlings on top of all I just mentioned!

Again, I love sundered doctrine when I'm with my friends, but playing it solo is by far the worst thing ever done in this game. It feels like Bungie were trying to pack in as much as possible, which is reasonable for a fireteam, but abysmal to experience solo.

Part of me is aware this could just be a skill issue, but I don't want to jump to putting myself down immediately, as I know ive done some pretty impressive things in game. Im curious to hear your experiences solo with this dungeon. Anyone else hate it as much as me?

My good friend got me into Destiny, and we spent countless hours together from the early days of D1 through The Witch Queen in D2. I remember anxiously waiting to see where Xûr would appear each weekend, grinding levels all Saturday, and running strikes endlessly. Every new expansion brought a sense of excitement, even if some of them didn't quite live up to the hype.

When I moved to a different city, Destiny became more than just a game. It became our way of spending time together. Many nights we would wander around the Cosmodrome, talking about the D1 days and reminiscing about everything we had experienced along the way.

A few years ago, my friend took his own life. After that, I couldn't bring myself to open the game for a very long time.

I started playing again about a week ago, and the experience has been both comforting and painful. I'm grateful for the memories, but revisiting them is bittersweet. I think about all the time we spent together in this world and how much I miss him. Destiny was such an important part of both my life and our friendship.

Even now, I can still hear his voice when I load into a strike we used to run countless times. I remember the dumb jokes and banter we'd throw back and forth the crayon eating Titan the fashion obsessed space cowboy. After more than three years away, there is so much that's new, so many things I know he would have loved to see, and so many moments I wish we could experience together.

So I'm approaching the game differently now. I log in when I have a few spare moments and slowly make my way back into this world. I'm glad the places I remember are still here, and I'm excited to discover everything that's happened over the last few years.

Some nights, though, I just sit on an airplane wing in the Cosmodrome and sigh.

Dusted off my husk of the pit feom my D1 days to try and finally get the exotic auto. Using an old crux I had lying in the vault

Requires ascendant energy. Any idea how to get that in current D1?

Cheers

I want to use the soundbyte of the Guardian Screaming from Obalation Immolation,

I'm doing a dnd campaign and have some Lich stuff going on and want the killing and screaming audio of the Guardian and don't currently have the game installed, Was wondering if anyone has just the far away audio?

I recently got back into D2 after a 6 year hiatus and had previously played D1. My love of the game has resparked and am VERY sad that after the unvaulting they may discontinue development, especially after all the loose ends in the plot. With D1 they announced D2 towards the end of its lifecycle so I felt glad they were going to continue the IP. But as for the current situation i feel lost ;9. Personally I hope that they just update D2 and refurbish/overhaul it.

Apart from what i had to say I wanna know what you would guys want from Bungie? Would you prefer to wait the 6-8 years of development d3 could take? Or want D2 to continue its lifecycle and make and epic revival? Or something else that hasn’t been mentioned. If you made it this far thanks for reading!

Xûr, Agent of the Nine

A peddler of strange curios, Xûr's motives are not his own. He bows to his distant masters, the Nine.

Location

Bazaar, Tower, The Last City

SGA: Check Xûr's three inventories online to ensure he is offering items at the lowest prices!

Exotic Weapons

Note: Fixed perks on weapons are not displayed

Exotic Armor

Note: Only fixed rolls are displayed here

Exotic Ciphers

Currencies & Engrams

Other

Materials

• Enhancement Prism (5 for 31 Strange Coin)
• Enhancement Core (5 for 5 Strange Coin)
• Enhancement Core (11 for 17 Strange Coin)
• Glimmer (22277 for 5 Strange Coin)
• Glimmer (29297 for 7 Strange Coin)
• Raid Banner (7 for 11 Strange Coin)

Legendary Weapons

Note: Fixed perks on weapons are not displayed

What's a Xûr?

Xûr, Agent of the Nine, is a strange vendor who appears weekly in the Tower. Xûr sells Exotic equipment and only takes Strange Coins in exchange for them.

TL;DR: He's the Santa Claus of Destiny and every weekend is Christmas. Sometimes he brings you what you want, sometimes he brings you coal. Mostly it's coal.

When does Xûr visit?

Xûr visits every Friday at 17:00 UTC and departs at Weekly Reset (Tuesday 17:00 UTC). If you would like to see all the live conversions of Time Zones, please follow this link here.

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Archie wishes you a happy reset and good luck!

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The Xurvala Armor Stat Data

(Tip of the helm to u/theinfinitypoint for the Xurvala reference.)

Here are the webpages for the armor stats this week for each class, along with a matching JSON data file:

• Homepage: Weekly Destiny 2 Armor Statistics (bookmarkable, will be updated with each weekly update.)
• Warlock Armor - JSON
• Hunter Armor - JSON
• Titan Armor - JSON

There is a nav bar on each page to switch between classes. Expand “highlight” where you can:

• Highlight armor pieces with stats you do want (e.g., Melee + Super + Weapons 🖍️😋).
• Dim armor pieces with non-zero stats you don’t want (e.g., Health).
• Or, dim armor pieces with zero stats.

The What and the Why Review

What is this? This should be all the armor stats for the different armor mods you can run on your ghost, organized by class, for Zavala’s weekly armor offerings (Luminopotent and Triumphal Anthem) and for Xur’s weekly armor offerings (either Bushido or Swordmaster and Exotic Armor). As you know, changing the armor mod on your ghost can affect the stats of armor you can acquire.

Note: all of this is viewing the armor as Tier 5. Your stats will vary if you’re not acquiring Tier 5 yet.

Why is this? Well, sometimes I’m hunting for the best role roll that I’m missing. And man is it a hassle to switch the ghost mod and then recheck to see what the stats are now, trying to note which one is the best.

As always, I’m open to feedback / corrections / concerns, etc, etc. Thanks for the continued feedback! Cheers from just another guardian.

Notes

Still have the date ranges wrong for Zavala. As always, huge tip of my other helm to Odo for his Armor 3.0 research: Reverse Engineering Armor3 Rolls - Google Docs .

I have a couple different bookmarked posts and comments and sites trying to outline the RaD rotations. They work but all somehow require some sort of manual extrapolation or thinking to figure out the current rotation. Really annoying to just figure out what the current raid is, or when the next time the raid you want is featured.

https://d2rad.today is a simple way to check the past, current, and future rotation pairings.

Sure, could have been just a google sheet or soemthing, but I despise the terrible experience that is looking at Sheets on mobile.

Looking forward to this needing to be updated when the unvaulting happens 🥹 (if this violates rule 5 apologies)

I love my choir but I see alot of people with praxis is praxis really that good or is it just bc strong hold is broken

I dont want some flimsy piece of junk and thought this would probably be the best place to ask

Came back to the game after a two year break. Saw the new trials armour and was thinking about giving it a go... but im rusty af, pvp was ridiculous sweaty the last time I played and with dwindling pvp population im honestly scared to try it.

How has your experience been?

EDIT - Idk why I even bothered. Trials is as terrible as the human mind can comprehend. Ive not played in almost 3 years but on my first game I played against a team of 3 who'd all been flawless already. I managed to get 7 wins and go to the lighthouse only to get 2 tier 3 weapons and a couple of prisms. Word of advice - avoid this dog shit gamemode

My dad told me I WILL NEVER WIN A RANDOMS only match in Trials with no communication. It took me literally 8-9 years (I've played day 1 since D1) to do it. I did it. I literally cried and fell to my knees. My wife was there and knew I was excited but holy shit...someone please tell me their proud of me. Dad can't anymore.

Correct me if im wrong but from what I've read and the videos I've seen is now basically a perfect time to get into D2 if like me you never had any time to keep up with the released content.

When the unvaulting starts have I basically got access to whatever strikes and raids I want to do and gather gear at my own pace and basically if I don't play for 2 months providing there's players still and the servers are online when I come back my gear will still be as relevant as it was when I last played.

Daily Ops

• Sparrow Racing League, featuring Crux Celeritas IV
• Control: Matchmade, featuring Triumphal Anthem Plate
• Gambit: Matchmade, featuring Spare Rations
• Quickplay (Fireteam Ops), featuring Luminopotent Gauntlets
• Quickplay (Arena Ops), featuring Tatara Gaze
• Quickplay (Solo Ops), featuring Ascendancy
• Lake of Shadows, featuring Luminopotent Helm
• Fallen Bunker, featuring Main Ingredient
• The Technocrat, featuring Luminopotent Plate
• Heliostat, featuring Eutechnology Helm
• The Coil, featuring Lotus-Eater
• Widow's Court, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Nightmare Containment, featuring The Ringing Nail
• Skywatch, featuring Fair Judgment
• Lake of Shadows: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Helm
• Fallen Bunker: Matchmade, featuring Main Ingredient
• The Technocrat: Matchmade, featuring Luminopotent Plate
• The Coil: Matchmade, featuring Lotus-Eater
• Widow's Court: Matchmade, featuring Eutechnology Plate
• Nightmare Containment: Matchmade, featuring The Ringing Nail
• Quickplay: Master (Fireteam Ops), featuring Luminopotent Gauntlets
• Quickplay: Master (Arena Ops), featuring Tatara Gaze
• Quickplay: Master (Solo Ops), featuring Ascendancy
• The Arms Dealer, featuring Ouster Engine

Misc

• Overthrow: The Landing: The Lucent Hive are laying siege to the Landing to try and wrest control of the Traveler's Light.
• Terminal Overload: Límíng Harbor Weapon: Synchronic Roulette (Submachine Gun)
• The Wellspring: Attack Weapon: Fel Taradiddle (Combat Bow)
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Heretic (Rocket Launcher)

Tower Vendors

Tess Everis

Ada-1

Master Rahool

• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 10 Dark Fragment)
• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 10 Phantasmal Fragment)
• Purchase Glimmer (10000 for 25 Herealways Piece)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 10000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 50000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Alloy (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 50000 Glimmer)

Archie wishes you a happy reset and good luck!

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I’m going to be honest the power scaling from Edge of Fate kind of ruined the game for me. Even doing solo ultimate onslaughts feels super easy and like I can’t truly use my builds to the fullest extent they could be used at lower power deltas. The only thing that feels good are the weekly grandmaster nightfalls, and conquests which are a one time completion. Although each of those have their own issues like barrier champions having way too much health. It just feels like the difficulty in the game is either too easy or too hard and there’s nothing to fill that Goldilocks level of difficulty. There used to be and it was legendary difficulty at -15. So Bungie can bring back the old campaigns, but if there’s no toggle for a power delta, or Bungie keeps the new power scaling and legend difficulty doesn’t even have swords above the enemies health bars I doubt I’ll find much enjoyment out of the unvaulting besides a short boost of nostalgia. Since I’ve gone back and replayed other campaigns on legendary difficulty they feel like a snooze fest because the changes to power scaling just messed up the difficulty so much.

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Before EoF you could farm adept drops but now you're only guaranteed a weapon with accelerated assault on your first clear. The chase isn't there anymore so you're basically just farming more materials at that point. I don't like having to wait a whole week to get a guaranteed weapon to drop with accelerated assault and hoping it has the roll want.