That’s nice I guess. I mean there was always stuff available to buy with bright dust which is easy to come buy.

Eververse never really bothered me because it’s such a small portion of the loot pool.

Tried out the Menagerie. Might be one of the most fun activities in the game's history.

It's basically a mini raid. You and 5 others go from encounter to encounter, each with it's own mechanics. None of them are as complex as a raid encounter and you can get by without communication, but playing with randoms is still gonna be rough.

Gonna want a nightstalker with Orpheus Rig, cause there are ads fucking everywhere, all the time. And they're fucking strong.

Definitely feel like this is a game mode made for people who don't raid but still want that experience. Having done a few raids now, I totally get why they don't do matchmaking for them, as it would be a shit show, and a waste of most people's time. This seems like a good compromise.

Sounds like they possibly want this type of content to be a gateway to raid content. Something to get your feet wet, so to speak. And then if you like it, you start raiding for real.

New details on finishing moves

* Just like other games the move is activated by hitting a promp when the enemy is at a health threshold.

* Finishing move costs super energy to use (they are still deciding on how much)

* There will be mods to add extra benefits to using finishing moves such as making the enemy drop ammo packs for the whole team.

* At launch players can only have one finisher equipped but post launch bungie plans to add a multi finisher system and even a optional randomise system.

Fucking cool.

Hall of Triumphs is gonna keep me pretty busy through the next month. I'mma get that Bad Juju.

Moon looks fucking good.

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Solstice of Heroes event goes the whole month. Adds a new mode called Aerial Dead Zone which is kind of like the EDZ but floating in the sky. Uses assets from that area but the layout is completely original. Point of the mode is to find and kill mini bosses before the main boss shows up. The more mini bosses you kill, the more chests you get after killing the boss.

Also adds a new set of armor.

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Nice.

* Shadowkeep and New Light delayed until 10/1/2019
* Moments of Triumph extended until 9/17/2019
* Another Iron Banner 9/17/2019
* New raid race for world first is Saturday 10/5/2019
* Cross save is coming before Shadowkeep, but no date listed, just "later this summer)

That right there validates breaking up with Activision. They'd never allow that.

Was thinking the exact same thing. I was skeptical of how much of an impact the split would make when it was announced, but Bungie has been killing it ever since.

Highlights from the Armor 2.0 livestream

-Gunsmith will have the Legendary Solstice of Heroes armor set when Shadowkeep releases.

-Intelligence, Discipline, and Strength stats being introduced. They will scale from 1-100.

-Every 10 units will unlock a tier that gives you a base percentage increase to speed, movement speed, damage resistance, and ability cooldowns.

-Ghost and Sparrow will display on the equip screen.

-Glimmer cap raised to 250,000 from 100,000.

-Exotic items are all converted over to armor 2.0.

-Exotics in the Collection can be pulled out with Armor 2.0 as a fixed roll.

-Randomized perks on armor are gone. Replaced with three mod sockets.

-Every piece of armor has an Energy limit and mods now have an Energy cost. You cannot exceed your armor’s Energy limit.

-Energy limit can be upgraded 10 tiers.

-Armor mods no longer consume and will persist forever once obtained.

-Ascendant Shards return, used as an upgrade material for armor.

-Upgrade materials can be obtained throughout multiple activities.

-Master-worked armor gives +2 to all stats.

-Ammo finders broken up, now tied to specific weapon archetypes (Scout Rifles, Snipers, etc).

-Major and Minor damage resistance mods.

-Mods must be acquired to use them. They come from the Gunsmith, Gunsmith packages, world engrams, Pinnacle engrams (Iron Banner, Raid, etc).

-Appearance tab for every armor piece.

-Exotics will always be recognizable.

-Solstice of Heroes armor glows will come with Armor 2.0 if you’ve unlocked them.

-Not all mods will stack.

-Energy types for armor (Arc, Void, Solar) determine what mods can be slotted into that piece of armor.

-Void subclasses updated.

-Bottom tree Nightstalker focuses on invisibility and Smoke Bomb synergy.

-Pre-Armor 2.0 can still be used, modified, and Masterworked

-Old mods can be dismantled into Mod Components which are used to purchase new Armor 2.0 mods.

-Ammo will now drop with a special glow to indicate your ammo-focused mods are working.

-All Legendary Armor in the game will drop with Armor 2.0, regardless of where they come from.

-Classes, not level number, now display over Guardian’s heads.

-Weapons of Light buff returns via Ward of Dawn!

All good changes, but I know it's gonna be hell getting the mods I want.

It's hell.

The servers are down. I want to try out Destiny 2 on Stadia.

Dunno what's going on.

Also good luck with that.

Cross platform and such now. I'm easy to find.

I've always been easy to find. Just look for the Hunter in hilariously Neo-Pop shader.

Figures you're a Hunter.

I'm also a Yeet Titan but yeah I main Blade Barrage Hunter.

We'll dance soon.

These niggas doing seasonals.

Seasonal what?

Seasonal seasons.

The overly long Astral arena thing is a seasonal activity, helps you get the newer, targeted gear. Every season has some kind of mode like that.

Oh, well yeah.

Did you mean the blueberries you're paired with suck at it?

Not sure how you could suck at Astral alignment. It's one of the most self explanatory activities they've made.

It's a bit long tho.

Almost as long as Sundial. With the same stages too. It's fun but yeah, sometimes the Blueberries aren't the best at it.

Izanagi Burden catalyst just dropped from iron banner. 500 kills to activate it. Oof.

Catalyst that just want kills are not bad. Go to the Moon and just loiter about with the public Knightmare Hunts. I go there to wipe away weapon bounties quick. Tons of enemies all the time on that part of the Moon.

Slogged through Iron banner at 1305 for the pinnacles and faceless hunter mask. Ended up getting the last enhancement prism I needed to get an ascendant shard. Now I gotta decide which past exotic to buy. Leaning heavily towards Sleeper.

Sleeper's not so hot anymore but that could be community hysterics again.

It wasn't hot anymore, but with this seasons mods it's shredding again.

Seasonal mods are kinda tacky but I need to grind a legendary lost sector to get these exotic gauntlets.

Heard the Prophecy weapons are pretty good. We should team up soon to take it on.

I haven't done any of the dungeons yet. I have been curious and never looked at playthroughs as to not spoil myself. We could team up, maybe bring that Drave with us. Battlefield beta is in two days so I'll be mostly consumed by that this week, fair warning.

yeah we stepped into a hive dungeon a few nights ago and lol'd through a lil bit of it before going "WTF". It was MASSIVE with no real good indicator of what to do.


There was this lil white circle it looks like someone was supposed to stand in, but nothing worked.

I was FINALLY able to get a ticket in with a MS Engineer for the shit I've been experiencing lately. They told me on the phone it was something to do with the "live service" on my account. Great.... wonderful.




You know..... angry old man shaking fist at cloud might actually make sense in the future when our data is stuck there without a reliable way to retrieve it.