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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Sunday, November 30, 2014, 22:08 (3869 days ago)

Do you hate failing at crucible? I sure know I used to. I still fail at it, but I’ve at least found solace in the amount of rage I cause with the most OP things some sadistic developer ever conceived: Exotic Fusion Rifles. Here’s a quick guide to things that you can use to make much better players furious to the point of hemorrhage.

The Vex Mythoclast

Are you a PvE connoisseur who found Iron Banner infinitely frustrating? Was Atheon’s Epilogue overpowered at range by those damn Suros dudes? Was your Timepiece too slow for those Suros dudes? Did your Corrective Measure still not protect you from that asshole with the Suros? Then your Mythoclast won’t help either! The Vex Mythoclast is the trophy wife of your Destiny experience. If you can’t shoot than all its substance will just be style and its chief ability will be to give you a red-lit-LED view of the guardian that murders you. You can turn Send It on, or just go with the Enhanced Battery, but unless you’re good at shooting stuff to begin with, this thing won’t help you in the crucible.

If you are good at poppin’ domes, stop reading! This thing is stupid good, even with the damage nerf. Its accuracy and the size of its projectiles make precision damage as inevitable as damp underarms on raid night. It’s a refreshing change of pace from the sameness of the Autorifle hegemony of crucible, and more importantly, it’s damn irritating getting melted, and nothing will melt your enemies like this puppy. It won’t offer maximum trollage, but nothing says ‘I’m better than you’ than killing somebody with a gun you lucked into with RNG that they’ll probably never see. Forget the fact that Shadow Price gives you an open exotic slot: you’re here to troll, and I always get good and lathered when some guy immolates me with one of these things. Besides, this is for Terrible Players. Can’t you read the title? Go away!

Watch this guy kill people with one.

Plan C

If your playstyle demands a variety of CQC and sniper ducking, then you sure are lucky you bought a Plan C when Xur was selling them. MacGyver’s cock is probably a Plan C that ejaculates Swiss army knives. This thing can range out with Hammer Forged for long shots on Bastion, use Perfect Balance to get the recoil to literally nothing, or Accelerate Coils to outshoot all those trigger-jockeys who thought Perun’s Fire could match an exotic. But these abilities are just versatile build makers, and this thread is about trolling. That’s were the eponymous Plan C ability makes itself felt.

You can already flip this thing out fast, but once you’ve got Plan C upgraded, all you have to do is hold on and not miss. This thing won’t outshoot some jackass rounding the corner with a shotgun, but you should be cooking your Fusion Rifle anyway when turning a corner, so you had that coming. If you see someone coming, though, they’re boned. Flip that shit out and waste that fool! You can fire two blasts with this thing before most Fusion Rifles can fire one; even if you’ve haven’t cooled down the quick-fire, you can still expect to see that hunter sliding at you with the shotgun dissipate into a striating glow of radiating discharge. And believe me, every dude sliding at you has beat the Light Beware users with that slide, and he will be pretty hot that some stooge nuke-sprayed his corpse into the ionosphere. The time to kill with Plan C upgraded is far too brief for fairness, which is what we’re going for, so get that thing upped and make people angry!

Watch this guy run out of people to kill using one.

Pocket Infinity

Does Mythoclast require too much accuracy? Is Plan C too unwieldy and is switching guns all the time too demanding? Time to give in to the darkside! Get the missive, then do the time and get your Pocket Infinity fully upgraded. Turn on Perfect Balance. And never look back. Master the only skill the gun requires: constantly charging. And watch people who can shoot, marauding Bladedancers, Havoking Titans, and Radiating Sunsingers all melt like popsicles on an Alabama July-afternoon.

This gun is the fire-hose that riot police see in their dreams. Who cares if you miss the first shot? It doesn’t need an 8 burst magazine because it fires that many anyway. As long as you crank accuracy, center mass will kill at ridiculous distance. If you start firing, everything in front of you will burn in the searing fire of trolling fury. The only skill this weapon requires is the readiness to fire it when your enemy comes into view; as long as you watch the radar, you will kill plenty of people that you couldn’t under any other circumstances. And when they see you flailing around and missing wildly, still firing long after their body has melted away…then, in the distance, you will hear the jimmies rustling, softly.

Here's someone who is good at Pocket Infinity making love to a lot of faces.

Special thanks to the people who made the videos. The troll is strong with you, and I hope you don't mind me channeling that by stealing your work.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by ZackDark @, Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Monday, December 01, 2014, 03:52 (3869 days ago) @ iconicbanana

Plan C
Watch this guy run out of people to kill using one.

What the hell.

Pocket Infinity
Here's someone who is good at Pocket Infinity making love to a lot of faces.

Oh wow. That double-shot, is it an innate perk or is it an upgrade?

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 06:17 (3868 days ago) @ ZackDark

Oh wow. That double-shot, is it an innate perk or is it an upgrade?

The double shot is the final perk, aptly named 'pocket infinity'. The PI will fire on automatic until you run out of bullets; it has a 3 bullet clip, but it also returns missed shots to your clip, and since every pellet counts as a shot, missing one pellet means a new bullet. You can half hit someone three times in one auto burst, kill them, and still have a full clip.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by JDQuackers ⌂ @, McMurray, PA, Monday, December 01, 2014, 06:24 (3868 days ago) @ iconicbanana

Oh wow. That double-shot, is it an innate perk or is it an upgrade?


The double shot is the final perk, aptly named 'pocket infinity'. The PI will fire on automatic until you run out of bullets; it has a 3 bullet clip, but it also returns missed shots to your clip, and since every pellet counts as a shot, missing one pellet means a new bullet. You can half hit someone three times in one auto burst, kill them, and still have a full clip.

Holy shit. I can't wait to finish this bounty. I'm on the final part where I need to just jack up some L28 bad guys with a fusion rifle in the nightfall and then it's all mine! Dis gun b good.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by Blackt1g3r @, Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:02 (3868 days ago) @ JDQuackers
edited by Blackt1g3r, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:05

Holy shit. I can't wait to finish this bounty. I'm on the final part where I need to just jack up some L28 bad guys with a fusion rifle in the nightfall and then it's all mine! Dis gun b good.

This gun is amazing! Unfortunately, it's not that great compared to some other fusion rifles until you can make it an automatic. So even when you finish the bounty, you still have a long way to upgrade it before it gets good.

Edit: The automatic fire makes Pocket Infinity behave like an automatic rifle. For some reason I assumed that I would just empty rounds until it was empty, but it doesn't (which is waaaaaayyyy better).

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:10 (3868 days ago) @ Blackt1g3r
edited by iconicbanana, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:17

This gun is amazing! Unfortunately, it's not that great compared to some other fusion rifles until you can make it an automatic. So even when you finish the bounty, you still have a long way to upgrade it before it gets good.

Something to remember if you have a new Plan C and a new Infinity: playstyle should dictate which you work to upgrade. Plan C is far more useful straight out of the box as well, and doesn't require it's Plan C upgrade to be a kick ass Fusion Rifle. Pocket Infinity is not helpful until you unlock the Pocket Infinity upgrade; it is a labor of love, and you need to tough it until you get there.

That said, I don't see a lot of upgraded PI's in crucible. I do see a lot of dead bladedancers who thought running toward me with their super would be an easy one shot. BBRRRRRRRRPHFFF.

Edit: I should be more specific with "playstyle". Think about the abilities you use. If you like Blink, for instance, Plan C will fit you much better than Pocket Infinity; that charge time in close engages will kill you with PI, whereas with Plan C, blink-whip-it-out-and-blast is as effective as a shotgun, over longer ranges.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by Beorn @, <End of Failed Timeline>, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:27 (3868 days ago) @ Blackt1g3r

Edit: The automatic fire makes Pocket Infinity behave like an automatic rifle. For some reason I assumed that I would just empty rounds until it was empty, but it doesn't (which is waaaaaayyyy better).

For what it's worth, it should be noted that each successive shot in Pocket Infinity's "automatic" mode is progressively weaker. Law of diminishing returns and all that.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 08:32 (3868 days ago) @ Beorn

Edit: The automatic fire makes Pocket Infinity behave like an automatic rifle. For some reason I assumed that I would just empty rounds until it was empty, but it doesn't (which is waaaaaayyyy better).


For what it's worth, it should be noted that each successive shot in Pocket Infinity's "automatic" mode is progressively weaker. Law of diminishing returns and all that.

I think it goes something like 250-200-130-100-100-etc. It has some uses in PvE (oracles/containment fields in VoG, Wizards) but I mostly find it useful in crucible. Even the weaker bursts are helpful there because you probably damaged your enemy with the first burst or two, and the last will finish them off if the first ones didn't kill them. That damage reduction also resets as soon as you stop holding the trigger, and if the third shot is what killed your target, chances are you probably still have two shots left in your mag, and you won't necessarily need to reload.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by Durandal, Monday, December 01, 2014, 09:13 (3868 days ago) @ iconicbanana

I used PI during the first half of the Iron Banner and eventually dropped it for Invective. While it was good for point clearing and premeditated destruction, the shotguns are better for those immediate assaults.

If I hadn't been required to use an Autorifle for the bounty perhaps I might have gone with a hand cannon/fusion rifle combo. Still it was fun to precharge then turn a corner and drop a full volley onto a point.

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Dr. Banana’s Guide to Exotic Fusion Rifle Crucible Trolling

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 09:17 (3868 days ago) @ Durandal

I used PI during the first half of the Iron Banner and eventually dropped it for Invective. While it was good for point clearing and premeditated destruction, the shotguns are better for those immediate assaults.

If I hadn't been required to use an Autorifle for the bounty perhaps I might have gone with a hand cannon/fusion rifle combo. Still it was fun to precharge then turn a corner and drop a full volley onto a point.

There are no words for the joy I feel seeing some dude rush me with a shotgun. I never used my primary at all during Iron Banner, but I wasn't really trying to get any of the precision bounties. I was just there to melt people. In general for crucible, melting is just my jam.

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Dr. Banana’s Late Edit For New Patch Notes

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 10:18 (3868 days ago) @ iconicbanana

In light of the new patch notes, some things to recommend (without play-testing at all, haha!).

Mythoclast

More damage means more PvE! Still probably doesn't matter if you suck at crucible.

Plan C

You move faster now! MacGyver is love, MacGyver is life!

Infinity

Don't be tempted by that bigger mag! The perfect balance is better, that thing is truly a firehose without it.


Troll on, mo fo's, troll on.

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Dr. Banana’s Last Edit For New Patch: P.I. Bug

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Monday, December 01, 2014, 14:50 (3868 days ago) @ iconicbanana

Reports of a PI nerf are most likely due to a bug that is now registering your first blast as a forth-or-fifth blast. This means horrible spread and less damage. It appears to be a bug on the lines of that last Thorn bug; feel free to keep upgrading it, just don't use it right now in the crucible for the love of God. Nobody trollin' like Bungie trollin'.

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