Okay, It Was That, Then. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Saturday, January 10, 2015, 00:37 (3752 days ago) @ Morpheus

3. The closest person should pick up the dropped sword and IMMEDIATELY cross the bridge and kill the sword weilding Gatekeeper on the far side. If you are too slow or hesitate your sword will vanish before you're done with it. (If you fail to kill a Gatekeeper your next sword guy will face two of them, the one you didn't kill and the new one. If that guy fails to kill any Gatekeepers your next guy will face three. Killing two is doable. Killing three is possible but is very much a long shot.

So my teammates(I was too scared to pick up the sword first) didn't kill the Gatekeeper each time--that's what happened. Now I understand. And that's why the middle plate had to continue running around non-stop: none of us on the other side had a sword. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told only the Swordbearer's Sword could damage Gatekeepers. Is that really right? Also, once you kill them, do they respawn? Or is it just those three?

Correct, only a sword can harm a Gatekeeper. Assuming your team has a perfect run you should face six Swordbearer's on the near side and use their swords to kill a corresponding six Gatekeepers on the far side. If one of your team doesn't manage to kill their Gatekeeper the next person can try to kill two before his sword goes away. If two of your people fail its usually best to wipe and try again from the start though since the next person faces three. It is possible for one person to kill three Gatekeepers, but they have to get across very quick and make zero mistakes.

Heh heh. I saw. Second that happened, I Struck like crazy--had to do a Nightfall and three weeklies. But I finally bought it.

Wow. That's a lot. Good job enduring it all. The Last Word is good for Crucible. It can fire extremely fast, pretty much as fast as your can pull the trigger, and that gives you the option to fire it slowly for accuracy or go to town on someone up close with its stable rapid fire. Once you get used to its capabilities it can be very deadly, just don't expect a miracle from it. The other powerful guns still give it a run for its money.

PVE is hardly neglected. It has two challenges each week that grant lucrative items. The Weekly Heroic Strike grants up to 9 Strange Coins and is the best way to buy exotic weapons from Xur. The Weekly Nightfall Strike grants very high end items and takes far less time to get those items than ranking up Iron Banner. Then there's the Heroic Daily Story missions that grant much needed upgrade materials.

True, but on a side note, you can only do all those once. And it's good to have, but take the Dailies for example. That's two Ascendant Materials. And each weapon or armor piece requires six(sometimes eight) for each single upgrade in the final tier. That's 9-12 days trying to get that full upgrade. And during those 9-12 days, if you're doing Heroic Strike, Nightfall or Raid, which there's a good chance you're also doing, then you may possibly get another Legendary piece that you have to fully upgrade. Another 9-12 days for that, and it never ends. The Queen's Wrath event that RC described yes, it sounds ludicrous but it also--especially to me--sounds like a HUGE relief and a large burden lifted off us if only for a limited time--so we wouldn't have to be committed to a full-blown Raid and 5 constantly different partners (who never tell you it's their first time until we get to the friggin' Vex timegates). Raids are fun, but they're often difficult, and always a huge timesink. Yes, time investment in a game like Destiny is necessary and required, but doing The Buried City, The Archive and A Rising Tide over and over as a means of a shortcut dries up real quick.

Right, but look at it from my perspective. For a while I wasn't even doing the dailies much less the weeklies. I was relying on drops and marks to buy and upgrade my armor (via sharding). Imagine how happy I was to learn I could be steadily earning towards the next upgrade. Just throw in a little patience and you'll have your guns and armor upgrade in no time. :)