Opinions (Destiny)

by Phoenix_9286 , Thursday, October 04, 2018, 13:09 (2219 days ago) @ stabbim

I think a lot of players are confused about the stuff from the last boss in EP, not knowing that the weapons just drop from the boss, and it's the armor that comes out of the chest. TBH the chest is pretty pointless now unless you're wanting to complete the armor set for some reason, since that armor doesn't have any perks.

I am definitely one of those players. Obtaining the key was an opaque experience for me. I still don't know how to get one without looking it up.

I'm also probably one of the rare breed that hasn't found any armor in Foresaken worth wearing. Ok, that's a small lie. I've seen bits and pieces in a few sets that would make for a banging western themed Titan, but by and large, nada. And perk wise? Just like D1 the perks always feel largely irrelevant to me. Probably because this is a loot based game, and the loot doesn't tell you anything relevant about the stats and perks it carries.

For instance: I have a pair of Scatterhorn Gauntlets with Fastball and Fusion Rifle Scavenger. Just how much of a boost does Fastball add to my grenade throw distance? Just how much bonus ammo am I getting for fusion rifles with that scavenger perk? Even the base stats for Mobility, Recovery, and Resilience feel meaningless.

Diablo and Borderlands do it right. Give me hard numbers, or comparison bars, or something. The vague descriptions are unhelpful. For now I'll settle for, and be happy with, using my Year One armor and infusing it every time there's a significant stat boost.

This is way off course now, but I've always felt like D1 had more meaningful perks that would dramatically change your situational viability than D2. I think I have most of the Exotic Titan armor now. You know what I use exclusively? Lion Rampant. Why? Because it's been the single most useful and utilitarian piece of kit I've acquired. It's never NOT useful, and that's been a blessing and a curse. I miss D1 where if I ran hammer, it was Immolation Fists. If I ran bubble, No Backup Plans, Immobius, and Monte Carlo. I don't feel that connection with D2. Never have.

Now shout at me for playing the game wrong.

The shotgun itself is pretty legit, and I do recommend grabbing it. In general use it's not a lot different from other full-auto shotguns like badlander, but the trench barrel perk does give it a lot of potential for melting large enemies. Personally, I try to have one of each damage type for each weapon class. So, I've got Ikelos SG for solar, a Badlander for arc, and a Basilisk for void (I still think full-auto plus auto-loading holster is a killer perk combo). Purely by coincidence, they're all full-auto with 8 round mags.

Now that I know it just drops from bosses, I'll consider pursing it. These are on a rotation right? We've been doing a lot of EP recently now that we don't get smoked so damn fast. It'll give us a reason to poke at it every week.

I'll probably still use Badlander though. It feels satisfying in all the right ways, and I was never much for punching before I fired.