Anzo

So like before seems best to do the dreaming city stuff first for a bigger jump then the rest of the crap. 

36 minutes ago, Rev said:

Has anyone finished the volundr forge yet 

I saw on reddit that a few have. Final tier of the Forge is 630 recommended...

If the reaction on reddit is any indicator, people are not happy. Reddit, of course, is never happy but they are extra pissed today. “Worse than Osiris” is a common phrase I’ve seen. 

So temper your expectations of what you will accomplish this week. Looks like it might be more of the same grind from the same milestones for the vast majority of us until we can get to 610-615 light. 

@StephenO1683 How ya been buddy? You should join us...

Yes! I fully expected the princesses to be just the scene we saw in the trailers but they triple downed on it in great way. 

🎶Slaughter Race 🎶😂

Thank you for the updates Glenn. Sending good vibes your way. 

Celeste

PS+ Extension only

God of War followed by Celeste. Haven’t played Spider-Man or RDR2 though. 

My 18th birthday present. Birthday isn’t until next month so I had to wait a few weeks for it. Quite agonizing at the time!

NOT A SPOILER!!

My kids noticed a cool little detail during the credits. There is a browser scroll bar to the right that scrolls down with the credits. 

I really liked it. As SBL said, the “internet” is merely the canvas on which a story about friendship is painted. 

There is a mid-credit scene and a post credit scene that are absolutely perfect!

6 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

6 total right?

Yes, 6 total.

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I got one free when I bought that one game on steam and never used it.

Yeah that is my biggest gripe currently as well. I don't know the flow of a match yet to tell whether or not I am doing well. Just seems like I'm laying stuff down and voila, I'm winning or losing. 

Beta went live yesterday afternoon.

My butt will be in a seat on Tuesday. Can't wait!

Donated. @HardAct I’m about 4-5 hours from Yreka but if you need something delivered to your son on a non-urgent timeline (not sure what that would be but just throwing this out there) please let me know. 

22 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

List your trophies and what ones you're working on. Which ones were the hardest to get? Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was the hardest Platinum I've earned so far. Working on the Destiny 2 Platinum.

 

 

level 16

21 Platinums

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1.Marvel's Spider-Man

2.Watch Dogs 2

3.Assassin's Creed Origins

4.God of War

5.Mafia 3

6.Burnout Paradise Remastered

7.Far Cry 5

8.Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2

9.Middle-earth: Shadow of War

10.Far Cry Primal

11.Lemmings Touch

12.Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

13.Mad Max

14.Lego Marvel's Avengers

15.Lego Batman 3

16.Lego Marvel Super Heroes

17.Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

18.Infamous Second Son

19.Watch Dogs

20.The Amazing Spider-Man 2

21.Ratchet & Clank

91 Gold

408 Silver

1,801 Bronze

2,321 total

 

Sadly the D2 Plat is impossible to get right now because Trials is on hiatus. 

9 minutes ago, Nokt said:

I completely forgot about that mod, I think I have a couple from dismantling gear, and I could also go find the rest of those cats.

Transcendant Blessing mods are only found by completing Ascendant Challenge Bounties that randomly pop up after completing Ascendant Challenges. 

I wasn't aware of this con's existence until this year but will definitely go to it in the future. 

That is a terrible loss HardAct and I'm so sorry for all you are going through. What sort of insurance did you have on your home and does it cover fire?

My GOW PS4 Pro is whisper quiet. I just checked and it is not the CUH-7200. If it is even quiet than mine then that's great.

5 minutes ago, Nokt said:

Thanks @Anzo.

I'm pretty sure I have higher LL boots and helmet, I just don't use them because of the perks for crucible. I should swap them out when I do other activities, but I don't really care enough.

 

I'll probably need some clan peeps to help me out with anything 560 and above. I barley passed the nightfall with one of my friends who is even lower LL than I am. Impossible for me to do the ascendant challenges by myself or with my friend. I don't even do enough damage for me to have him just run around as a decoy. Clan bounties are about the only thing I can do. I'll have to hop in discord more often.

As long as you keep those higher light items in your inventory, they will be taken into account when other powerful gear drops. D2 is different from D1 in that sense. You don't have to wear them. Personally, I would just wear them even if the perks don't match what you want exactly. Don't worry so much about "builds" or specific perks until you are closer  to the 600 cap. If you get stuff that has good perks AND higher light then that's just a win-win. 

And if you happen to get a piece of gear that you like (weapon with a good roll, armor with desired perks) just hold onto it or put it in your vault and you can infuse it up later. 

So @Nokt following what I just posted, my general weekly cadence while leveling up was to do all the 520 things first. Once those were done I did the 540 things and so on. That way, even if I was above the soft cap in many cases, I would get all of my gear to generally the same level. Then I'd knock out the Dreaming City/Petra bounties for a bigger jump.

HOWEVER, If all of your gear is within 1 or 2 power of each other, then consider doing the 560, 580 and 600 activities first to get a big jump, then all of the easier, lower soft cap activities to bring everything else up. 

Some examples:

1) You are 534. Most of your gear is 537-539 but your helmet is 527. It would be better to do the 520 soft cap activities until you get a Helmet to drop at 535 ( +1 over your light), because it represents a + 8 difference). Now you should be 536-537 and you then do the 540 activities. Those will then start dropping 539-540 items instead of 535-537 ones because your baseline is now higher. Once those are done you then complete the 560, 580 and 600 cap activities (you'll notice that many of those you don't have to be that high of light to complete them, it is merely that their caps are higher) since those will give you > +5 light items. Once those are done you do the rest of the milestones to round out your gear that week.

2) All of your gear happens to be 540. Don't do the 520 and 540 soft cap activities first. You will only get 541 level items. Do the 560 - 600 cap activities first to get +5-10 items right off the bat. THEN do the 520 - 540 cap activities to get 545+ level items, representing greater gains for you.

Hope that helps.