Exotic Armor (and your skill trees) (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 06:03 (3887 days ago) @ Cody Miller

This is where my main frustration comes from.

I've only played Titan, but recently started a Hunter to see if things might be different. Regarding my Titan, I have terrible, terrible trouble building my tree around my armor most times, to the point where I never switch to other things.

Example: When playing Striker, I have "Helm of inmost light" or whatever, that essentially gives me two of my striker abilities FOR FREE, ('head strong' and 'death from above') so if I wear that helmet, I shouldn't have those selected in my skill tree because I'm getting them from the helmet. Well, as luck has it, I never use those two out of preference anyway, because I like using "aftershock" and "aftermath". So if I use this helm, I get 4 abilities when I would normally only get two. Should be easy decision right?

WRONG!

I still use Armatarium. It keeps me at 29 and as I said earlier, two grenades in Destiny is hard to give up. While you peasants are waiting for your single one to charge, I throw them around like money. And in PVP, WHY would I want to use anything else? I might get to use my super 3 times in a match, on a good day. But give me 10 rockets or 300+ rounds for my HMG and I'll get way more kills over all. Same logic applies to boss fights. I've essentially not changed my Titan build since I hit lvl 20. I feel like I can't possibly make it any better.

Example: When playing Defender This one gives me way more trouble. For one, the skill tree drives me nuts. Do I want to have offense buff for weapons, or defensive shields for my team? Or do I want to be an Orb generating machine? Or do I want to heavily lean towards melee kills?

So I decide on one. Then I try to incorporate "No backup plans" or "Saint helm XX" around it because they both buff defender. Well, if I pick one of those I gotta go change my skill tree around, AGAIN, and it might only last for an encounter or two before I change again.

Nope. Screw that. Bring out Armatarium. Two sticky grenades? Yes please.

Bam. One piece of armor to rule them all (for me).

And that's the problem I have at this point. I feel like I have no incentive to change armors around, and a little incentive to change weapons.

I didn't realize it until I typed it out, but maybe I would be MORE inclined to change armor sets if I had something like a load out I could pre-configure and change on the fly (but only if I had the necessary pieces with me of course).

It's so taxing to go in the middle of a battle and think, "man, Defender would really help here... but then I gotta go to the menus and change this chest for that helm, and those legs for that launcher, and....fuck it. Armatarium. Change nothing."

So, does anyone else deal with this for the other classes?

Is there "One gun or armor to rule them all" for hunters and warlocks?

I feel like I'm limiting myself, but if I try to change equipment, it's a hindrance.