Xbone Weekend #2: "Wiles in Trials" (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 19:06 (3520 days ago)

Ran some Trials with Paddy and Kanbo. While we somehow couldn't get Paddy to the lighthouse, we did start off strong, going up against three Lighthouse Emblem-wearing folks and showing them what a ragtag group of misfits and their mascot can do...

Teams would quickly start to fear us, playing it safe up top, though that wasn't always safe...

We even ran up against a solid team of triple Gunslingers, which are my specialty. We lost against them (due to a surprise Golden Gun on the final round), but they had to earn that victory.

Our misfortunes ultimately caught up to us, but I gotta hand it to Kanbo, he's a great Sunsinger. He actually throws grenades! And he focuses on reviving teammates, which is essential to victory in Trials. We also got the awesome Helmets, so everybody wins! (I did finally get a Void Messenger on PS4, so there's that, at least).

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Afterwards, I broke my record for head bounces, and hopped into lots of Crucible.

I found myself on the fortunate side of lag...

As well as the worst side...

In the end, Malagate and I had a great run (12 victories in a row!). One game in particular was started very well, and ultimately lasted only about five minutes (we didn't even make it to the six-minute Heavy Drop).

Pics!

Thanks to Xur, I finally hit 34. No need to scrounge for Motes this time.

My runs in Crucible resulted in a fun amount of spare XP.

And I've started Week 3 well enough, with a fortunate Nightfall run,

And a quick VoG that left some presents for me at the Postmaster...

Fun times! I think I'll be starting on my Titan tomorrow. Looking forward to what this week brings!