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Dick Dastardly

8,312 posts

262 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I'm working away again today but will be back about 10 pm and up for doing the 3 nightfalls then, if anyone else wants to team up.

lovechild

912 posts

157 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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R.I.P Nanny Sims, sad news. Are you running Crota just for the Necrochasm? It really is a hunk of junk.

Iron Banner gear wasn't 42 last time round, so I only got the cloak for cosmetic reasons. I'll be playing this one sporadically for fun as I need nothing from it.


Graykiraa

150 posts

206 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Moog72 said:
Apparently Iron Banner is back again today at 6pm?? The last one was only a couple of weeks back and wasn't there more of a gap between these events last time around, so I'm wondering why are they running it again so soon?

As an aside, is Iron Banner armour light level 42?

I might give it a shot this time around if only to be able to grab a couple of bits of etheric light, potentially.
Nope the armour is not light level 42 AFAIK.

But as you say you can buy 1 etheric at rank 3 and 1 more at rank 5 per character.

I will be well up for lots of IB this week smile

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

151 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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lovechild said:
R.I.P Nanny Sims, sad news. Are you running Crota just for the Necrochasm? It really is a hunk of junk.

Iron Banner gear wasn't 42 last time round, so I only got the cloak for cosmetic reasons. I'll be playing this one sporadically for fun as I need nothing from it.
I appreciate all the condolences, thanks guys.

Yes, just doing Crota for the Crux so I can get Nechro. It may be junk, but it's one of the only remaining exotics I don't have, so I want it for the collection if nothing else.

Not sure I'll be running IB this time around. It's fun but I don't think many of us need the armour any more, and while Jolders Hmmer is a fantastic HMG, I've got two perfect rolls from pre-HoW so don't need another, and the pulse rifle looks rather lacklustre. Basically, given that I only really want Etheric Light, I'd be better served doing PoE 34/35. Even Skolas wouldn't take as much time as Rank 5 in IB will require!

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

151 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Finally got the Elder Cypher from Variks, took pretty much three days to the hour!

Also, this weeks Nightfall is an absolute doddle - Phogoth with Solar/Void Burns. Our quickest run was under eight minutes, and that was with only two Gjallarhorns. Didn't get much good this week, two legendary engrams and a Thunderlord (swiftly sharded) so nowhere near as good a haul as last week.

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Dick Dastardly said:
I'm working away again today but will be back about 10 pm and up for doing the 3 nightfalls then, if anyone else wants to team up.
I hope to be around a bit later (after 9) and still have two to run as there were very few people around earlier

Jumped into Crucible with my upgraded Red Death hoping for good things but I think the elite IB boys were on the other side brushing up on their skills pre-event as I got nowhere, not a single kill before I had to jump out early to take a call. The map makes a big difference though and this one was Burning Shrine with those revolving doors and things. Only been on it a couple of times and frankly I was "lost" most of the time frown

Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Despite having played the game since it was released, last night was the first time i've gone through the nightfall. We did three runs on the top level and 2 things took me by surprise. Firstly, how easy it was. I understand Phogoth is one of the easier runs, but even then to walk into the final room, kill the adds and then take down Phogoth in probably 30 seconds was much easier than i'd imagined. I ran the Phogoth bit of the Thorn bounty a couple of weeks ago and i was expecting it to be more like that. Secondly, this is what i dropped for my three runs:

Run 1) Purple engram that decrypted into a take it or leave it scout rifle called Hygiea Noblesse
Run 2) Nothing
Run 3) Nothing

One legendary engram seemed somewhat pathetic to me. Am i just being trolled by the RNG and those returns are normal enough, or is there something not quite right there? I ask partly because after those runs i played 3 games of IB. Across all players for the 3 games, so 18 drops, i saw 1 blue engram and that was it. Last time i played IB there were more weapon drops than you could deal with.

So all in all i'm not best impressed that 3 nightfalls and 3 IB matches led to 1 engram, but seriously those rewards seem so pathetic i wonder if there's either something not right or if i'm missing something? Otherwise i'll chalk it up to RNG trolling frown

paul99

800 posts

242 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Did you run the NF with the same character 3 times? If so you only get the rewards on the 1st successful run on each character.

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Adding burns to any NF makes it "easier" since you are doing more damage if you have the right weapons. Phogoth isn't particularly hard though and if anyone in the fireteam is rocking a Gjallahorn then it becomes a cake walk with a solar burn NF. Maxed Ice Breaker was doing over 22,000 damage on a wizard critical hit mind you showing just how much a burn can add.

Three runs for me netted a Monte Carlo and nothing else of note. Saw a Gjally drop though (a first) although sadly not for either of the blokes who actually wanted it frown

Might have to level up my warlock a bit to make him a little more effective (currently 29) or might even go with the current trend and bin him off and build another titan. I need to review what armour I've got to see if I can get one to level 32 as soon as he hits level 20 if I were to go that route.

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Snubs said:
Secondly, this is what i dropped for my three runs:

Run 1) Purple engram that decrypted into a take it or leave it scout rifle called Hygiea Noblesse
Run 2) Nothing
Run 3) Nothing
Does sound like you've run the NF with the same character three times. You always get something from a NF completion even if it is something crappy like strange coins or engrams. I don't think I've ever had a run where nothing at all has been given out.

youngsyr

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14,742 posts

191 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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You're guaranteed a reward for the first nightfall completion with each character each week.

You get nothing as an end of game reward for the second onwards completion with each character.

Nightfalls used to be very difficult - at best you were the same level as the enemies (level 30), quite often people were one level lower than the enemy (level 29). Now most people are one or even two levels above the enemies, so they have both a weapon power and armour advantage.

Plus people tend to have the perfect weapons for any situation in the Nightfall now, back when the game first came out, you had to make do with whatever weapons you'd managed to unlock up to that point.

Snubs

1,166 posts

138 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Ahhh yes, you're all quite right i used the same character for all 3 runs. What a noob getmecoat

On the upside i feel less hard done by. I'm in the process of creating a second character atm, but Snubs Jnr is currently at far too low a level (around 12) for nightfall work.

Thanks for clarifying.

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

151 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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youngsyr said:
Nightfalls used to be very difficult - at best you were the same level as the enemies (level 30), quite often people were one level lower than the enemy (level 29). Now most people are one or even two levels above the enemies, so they have both a weapon power and armour advantage.

Plus people tend to have the perfect weapons for any situation in the Nightfall now, back when the game first came out, you had to make do with whatever weapons you'd managed to unlock up to that point.
Thanks for the tip re muting squeakers, Youngsy, but you're only partially correct with regards to Nightfalls. Pre Dark Below they were level 28, so when you were at or near the Light level cap, the player has always had the potential of a level or two advantage. Of course, TDB hit, Nightfalls got bumped to 30 with the cap raising to 32, and the same happened with House of Wolves.

They were tougher at first simply because, as you correctly state, most players didn't have the optimal weaponry to take advantage of any burns. Apparently Xur sold nearly 1.2 million Ice Breakers when he offered it in January this year, and the number of us that don't have Gjallys/Fatebringers etc is dropping week by week simply by virtue of playing the game.

RMCA

90 posts

124 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Need one more for a nightfall, 34 & 32 poe starting shortly?

Dr_Megashlong

Edited by RMCA on Wednesday 1st July 18:03

paul99

800 posts

242 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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I should be on at 7ish if you still need someone

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

151 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Another Crota takedown with no crux. Spent ages on LFG trying to find a group, but got bored and decided to help Zombie run a Nightfall, which rewarded him with... well, that's his place to tell you, not mine. Zombie, sorry I cut you off by leaving fireteam, I'm so used to being in party chat it took a second to realise that I'd left you hanging mid-sentence!

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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SimianWonder said:
Another Crota takedown with no crux. Spent ages on LFG trying to find a group, but got bored and decided to help Zombie run a Nightfall, which rewarded him with... well, that's his place to tell you, not mine. Zombie, sorry I cut you off by leaving fireteam, I'm so used to being in party chat it took a second to realise that I'd left you hanging mid-sentence!
Suitably cryptic but we all know what that means, Zombie is now a member of the GHorn club! Congrats though smile

<thumbs through notes> I reckon that leaves me and Penguin as the people who post on here regularly as ones without that elusive rocket launcher. I'll probably pick it up in early September as Bungie bin off all the good weapons for Taken King knowing my luck

SimianWonder

1,144 posts

151 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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No, sorry, I didn't mean it to come across that it was anything particularly special, and sadly, it wasn't Gjallarhorn. Heck, it wasn't even an exotic.

I was awarded another No Land Beyond from Deathsinger on a second HM Crota run, and got another Fang of Ir Yut. Now, I dismantled the first one I had as I couldn't see myself using it over Fatebringer, but I've been really enjoying Vision of Confluence the last couple of weeks and if Fang is anything like as good, it will make for a damn fine tool in its own right. Anyone else use Fang a lot, and what are its merits against Fatebringer and Vision?

Adamjr

116 posts

270 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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SimianWonder said:
Another Crota takedown with no crux. Spent ages on LFG trying to find a group, but got bored and decided to help Zombie run a Nightfall, which rewarded him with... well, that's his place to tell you, not mine. Zombie, sorry I cut you off by leaving fireteam, I'm so used to being in party chat it took a second to realise that I'd left you hanging mid-sentence!
No problem sir, took me a second as well! Was awarded a Pest Control Matrix autorifle. Would have been more annoyed but it was so quick to run through. In fact it's such an easy run I promptly soloed it with my warlock and got another legendary rocket launcher. Was a bit more humbug that time! If you still have an HM Crota to run tonight Sims I'll lend a hand no problem smile Should be on at my normal time (9:30 ish)

Moog72

1,598 posts

176 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Ah OK, I may have jumped the gun a little there, but Pest Control Matrix is a fine auto rifle in it's own right hehe