Tell me about your current favorite loadouts! (Destiny)
by marmot 1333 
, Monday, October 01, 2018, 12:48 (2321 days ago)
This weekend I finally masterworked a gun and an armor set. I waited a while to see what kind of weapons I got, what I liked playing with, what all the options were, and a sense of how the game economy works now.
I created a build around a really great drop I got for the energy pulse rifle Right Side of Wrong: Wolf Dot W2, Alloy Magazine, Outlaw, Full Auto. Masterwork stat is stability. I put in a minor spec mod. I just hold down the trigger and it's sooo stable. Headshots all over the place, and it absolutely tears up red bars.
I used the chrome plugin DIM to find a bunch of perks on armors in my vault that were either for pulse rifles or rifle class. Here's what I ended up using:
- Energy Weapon Targeting
- Heavy Ammo finder x2
- Rifle Loader
- Unflinching rifle aim
- Pulse rifle reserves x2
- Rifle dexterity
- Pulse rifle scavenger
- Recuperation (health on orb pickup)
My armor MW resistance is void, arc x2, and solar x2.
This was the first weapon that I MW'd since forsaken dropped. Now I'm swimming in orbs, heavy ammo, my pulse rifle has some crazy amount of ammo (760+ if I remember correctly). Having these extra orbs makes a ton of difference as far as being able to super way more often.
On friday, my helmet was holding down my average, with a 529. I finally got a PG drop for it (now it's at 543) and my average went up about 11 points in a few days of heavy playing.
My character finally feels strong enough to actually do stuff at Dreaming City, and I ran my first few Blind Well runs last night. Pretty nuts.
I think Destiny may be in the best place it has ever been. It's casual friendly, it's hardcore friendly, there is SO MUCH to do. I had tons of fun this weekend and honestly just wanted to keep playing today, instead of going to work.
Tell me about your current favorite loadouts!
For PvE, I just play whatever makes me highest light. I'm at about 522 at max.
For Gambit, so far I've been building the loadout based on a certain task.
For Crucible, unless I'm going for a certain bounty I'll be using...
Primary: Three Graves - Year one pulse rifle from Dead Orbit. It's got a slow rate of fire but it hits hard and is very stable. I can 3 shot people often.
Secondary: The Last Dance, (Forsaken, Masterworked) - Extended Mag, Outlaw, Kill Clip. Shoots super fast, reloads really fast, kill clip makes it a two shot when hitting clean heads.
Heavy: Worldline Zero Sword - Long range lunge, not only kills the person you're striking but anyone close to them too.
Helmet: Prodigal Son with Sidearm Targeting - Makes The Last Dance even deadlier.
Arms: Wing Contender with Sidearm Loader - See above.
Chest: Scorned Baron Vest with Unflinching Light Arms Aim - Seeing a trend here?
Legs: Whatever, don't have anything yet that benefits more than anything else. At one point, I think I had some legs that added ammo to a sidearm, so my Last Dance had, like, 42 rounds per clip.
Cloak: Same as legs.
Seriously, what a fun hand cannon. If I’m running that, I pair it with the EP shotgun or sometimes a Misfit with Dynamic Sway Reduction and Under Pressure.
I love running my Bygones with Headseeker with Trust as a secondary.
My armor isn’t quite there yet, but Heavy Finder is a must. I pick the rest of the armor based on my weapons and trying to get either Kinetic or Energy Aim or any perks like that.