So... How is DBO doing with this? I'm actually pleased to see a quest with such a challenging barrier to entry (step 1: Get TLW, step 2: Be awesome).

Did it in about an hour. I never switched out last word. Only hip fire, never ads. Get heavy ammo, hang back, then when the rockets stop flying clean up with an HMG. The key is to get medals, as those add bonus points. Things like Master Blaster, Machine Lord, and Buckshot bruiser are easy to get and boost your score, but killstreak medals are the way to go. A 15 kill streak medal took me up something like 40%.

I am not good at heavy ammo like Cody (I die pretty quick when it comes around), or streaks. I didn't get that many.

In short, I played objective and ran around in hallways with a Felwinter's Lie. It was much easier for me. I barely even shot TLW.

I ended up cheating, switching off TLW at start and only going back on when situations were in my favor. This is after several games where I would get up to 6-10% and then blow it all the next game.

I was in one rumble match where a guy went 22-0. He was obviously a hardcore PVP'er since he had the good Fellhammer, Adept Messenger and the Deer helmet. I just couldn't seem to touch him, at best I would get within one shot of the kill, and he always seemed to find me just as I got a two kill streak going. Then I had a mach where three guys where boosting to get it, and made a nuisance of myself so they spent the whole match hunting me down.

I generally hover around the 1-2 K/D zone, so this is a hard bounty for me to begin with, and I feel a bit awful for having to play the mechanics rather then the game.

Took me a couple hours for the first part, the rest too me maybe 2 hours more.

Hate this quest. Being on a losing team makes it worse. I had a match where I had almost a 2.0 k/d last night, led the team, but lost 16% progress cause we lost.

I've resorted to unequipping TLW the second I know the match is going south.

I should add, I've been at it for 3 days now, and I consider myself a decent PvP player. I've had a positive K/D over that time, but it's not enough.

I'm curious what strategies people are using to complete the Jolly Holly quest, step 1: Earn 100% faction approval from Tex Mechana by playing Crucible with The Last Word equipped.

My strategies are as follows:
- Use heavies for kills.
- Pick a subclass with a super that allows for easy multikills. (Sunsinger for me)
- Let your teammates take the lead.
- Don't get close unless you are going to die.
- Keep an escape route nearby. If you are getting surrounded / overwhelmed, just run!
- If the map is a bad one for you (or if the game is going poorly) unequip TLW.
- Play control and forget about controlling the zones, just focus on kills.

It took me about 4 games or so to complete. A few more if you count the 1 or 2 matches where I unequipped TLW because I didn't know the map. I kept TLW equipped the entire game.

It's making me a better player, to be sure, but it sucks to win a game with a 2.5 K/D ratio and only net a 2% gain to my overall quest progress.

!? How does that even happen. The games where I got over 2 K/D I earned at least 15%. I had 1 game where I managed a 3.5 K/D and I think I went up 30+%.

FYI, then next step requires a crap-ton of glimmer. The step after that is easy, just get shotgun kills in the crucible - I don't think you can backwards on that step. The final step includes a 290 light level Shield Brothers strike with the requirement that you shotgun the Shield Brothers to kill them! I haven't even attempted that one yet since I'm only like 270 light currently and I think you really want 3 people for the attempt.

I'm no MLG strategist, and my main strategy consists of See enemy>Run towards enemy>Shoot, but I remember those three games pretty well, and I am probably the absolute worst person at using TLW (multiple witnesses can attest to this), so who knows, maybe my advice will help someone:

1. The Drifter (Control) 25-10
I've only played it this one time, but I love it. The trick here was to hold C and B, and float between B, A, and the circular center with either Last Word or shotgun (you can see enemies on your radar long before you're in their sightline. I imagine that those good with TLW will fare better in this area than I did, because I exclusively ran the shotgun/melee/grenade/Super combo.

2. Sector 618 (Clash) 23-5
A bit more familiar with this map. I stayed near the Rift Spawn, avoiding the left platform (longer sightlines). You have access to two ammo boxes on that bridge, and enemies tend to give you plenty of leg room to hit them if you jump over the crates. It's great for TLW I'm sure, because of narrow sightlines that favor shorter range encounters. Again, ran the same non-TLW combo.

3. Memento (Rift) 21-2

I actually have a video of this one!

Focused mainly on hitting the enemy from the side. Rift is a great gametype to focus on for this Bounty, because enemies all tend to face the objective, and it's real easy to get behind/beside them and push through from there. I ran the same combo, but actually fired The Last Word for the first and only time during the entire bounty (as you can see by my terrible aim with it after the one kill, there's a good reason for that)! :P

Holy crap I suck with that gun. Currently sitting at a very long and painful 38%. I was playing skirmish with Raga and Red and we did ok for the most part except for one match were we just got smoked. Hoping I can finish this quest up and never have to use TLW again. Congrats to those who are good with this gun

I got to 91% normally, but then fell back to 78% after a pair of disastrous Rift games. So I cheesed it. I only equipped TLW when I had either a super or heavy ammo, and unequipped it as soon as those were gone (unless I was on the cusp of merciless). I'm semi-ashamed, and semi-really, really glad I was able to do it. This was by far and away the most challenging task I've been given in Destiny.