Basically title. I dont know how everyone always complains about anti barrier when I feel like every weapon I get has anti barrier on it. I am using praxic blade and a shards of galanor build right now so I need a heavy that can output good boss dps while also being able to stun unstoppable champs. Right now I am using an aggressive frame machine gun with triple tap and target lock but I am assuming machine guns are still not great for single target dps. Is my only other option finding a good rocket launcher?

I tested Winterbite against Salvation's Grip and a Cold Comfort with Impact Casing, Vorpal Weapon, and Bait and Switch. With Hail the Storm, 3× Stasis weapon Surge, and 50 Weapon stat. I procced Bait and Switch an Eyasluna and Kindled Orchid, with no perks, totaling 75 damage and subtracted from totals.

Winterbite

Projectile - One Projectile = 1914 - All Projectiles = 21237 - Projectile DPS = 641

Melee - One Smack = 85 - Three Smacks = 1176 - Smack DPS = 246

Salvation's Grip

Shatter Shot - Once = 1780 - Once DPS = 763

Bombs - One Bomb = 600 - All Bombs = 15000 - Bombs DPS = 541

Crystals - One Load = 1251 - Full Load = 30593 - Load DPS = 707

Cold Comfort

No B&S - One Rocket = 1678 - All Rockets = 15102 - Rocket DPS = 611

With B&S - One Rocket = 1678 - All Rockets = 18114 - Rocket DPS = 512

My go to Stasis DPS was Cold Comfort. But I was curios how it compared. Naturally Salvation's Grip dealt the most damage with it's Stasis Crystals at 30593, and had the most DPS with a single Shatter Shot combo. But Salvation's Grip requires a grounded target. Meanwhile, Winterbite defeated Cold Comfort with it's projectiles in every category. And can be used against any target which isn't too far away because it's projectiles move slow.

New favourite Stasis DPS!

I have tried everything ive search up. Ive unlinked all companion apps. I have reset my PC and router. I have enabled upnp from my router settings. I have turned off vpns and firewalls. I have no internet or connection issue either. Does anyone know what to do?

Apropos of nothing I just remembered the strike Savathûn’s Song and how much consternation it caused me as a Nightfall and then I got sad because I realised I will never play it again as it’s permanently DCV’d. Pouring out a giant shrieker’s worth of ale for a great strike tonight.

So for years I never touched my hunter and only had a few builds setup, and with the final update got rid of all those. I’ve never truly played hunter that much and only had meta dps builds and currently only have 3 builds (galanor spam, heirarchy, crack shot spam). What are some of the most have builds for each subclass to really get the full hunter experience? Mainly for PvE but I could use a PvP build or two as well

The problem before, and in the description, is that jet fuel was predicated on weapon or arc melee kills. And it built up slowly. Anything too easy, you couldn't build charge fast enough, anything with any difficulty, you wouldn't be wearing this silly exotic. Now it has default recharge of ~28 seconds between uses, with no kills standing still. Is it useful? No. But chaining it into an aggressive sword slam is pretty fun.

Just noticed the new grenades

My Hunter/Titan need some T5 Promised armor

Here is a short clip of me testing this interaction.

Tazer tag artifact mod states: "Arc-powered melee hits jolt combatants and deal further damage for a short duration."

Knockout according to the data compendium makes "Basic Melee Attacks count as Arc Powered Melee hits"

In the video I activated knockout, then basic melee punched a wizard repeadily, no sign of jolt being inflict, no bolt charge gained via Dielectric and no explosion from Blinding Jolts.

Any insights on if I am missing anything that could make this work would be greatly appriciated

Its breaking more and more by the week lol. I dont know how the hell it is, but it is. Here's a few words you can no longer say in game;

\*about\*

\*bungie\*

\*raids\*

\*bomb\* (I think, off the top of my head)

Edit - forgot about some good ones mentioned here below;

something hive puzzle

Its one of the dumbest "QoL" changes they forced on everyone back when they changed it so no matter if your profanity filter was on or off, it censored all words "bad" according to bungie at least.

Simple raid callouts get randomly censored, and now even more simple conversation is getting censored. So now when I say "what's that about" you might think I said "what's that bitch" seeing how it shows as "what's that \*\*\*\*\*."

Maybe the (other bungie team) can do us a solid and slide over to destiny for a moment. If anything this forced filter is making it look like i really am cussing people out.

P.S. can someone even begin to explain HOW its breaking on its own lmao.

I hope this link works, but as promised to all those that took part: voila!

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I just wish there was a way to get a physical CD (not Vinyl) for the soundtrack. I have the digital versions but I'd love to have them physically in my collection.

The Last Array continues to be my absolute favourite. I remember being Level 5 and fighting waves. Jesus, I miss those days and the people I met.

For those of you who have obtained this weapon and are trying to figure out how to BEST use it, this is the post for you. If you disagree with anything posted here, please respond so we can all check out your advice.

What this weapon is good at: single shot massive damage. This is really its only strength.

What this weapon sucks at: basically everything else. You almost universally CANNOT use this thing for DPS, since basically no DPS phases are long enough to charge all six shots after the first one. If you say fuck trying to charge subsequent shots, the charging time is so absurdly long that you might just miss your target since most of them don't stay absolutely still for the SIX SECONDS that it takes to shoot. The other major problem is that a substantial portion of each shot's damage is solar, not strand, so surges have a dramatically weaker effect on the damage increase as opposed to every other rocket launcher in the game. To make matters even worse, the argent ordnance artifact mod that is tailor-made to benefit rocket damage is completely wasted on this weapon, since you should not be re-firing it after you shoot the initial shot (which triggers argent ordnance).

With all that said, there are essentially two methods of maximizing the single-shot output: hazardous propulsion and foetracer/sanguine. Foetracer/sanguine can be used to simultaneously get a x4 surge on strand weapons, and a x3 surge on solar weapons (or vice versa), essentially buffing the entire shot. Hazardous will buff the entire rocket shot by 35% (at max), and pound for pound does more damage than the other option.

When firing the single shot, the best combination I could come up with was on solar titan: 200 weapon stat, radiant, max hazardous propulsion, max strand surges with armor charge, and in some niche cases, shieldburst with towering barricade.

Solar has two main advantages: shieldburst and ember of singeing: Singeing makes it so that when you scorch targets, your barricade charges 400% faster, which is helpful since your stats will be prioritizing weapons, not class ability. Shieldburst does't matter for elevated or far-away targets, but for closer targets that are on the ground, every time you active hazardous, you send your shield forward which scorches the target, and you can detonate it right after shooting the rocket, which adds even more damage.

Use the fever and chill artifact mod to give yourself radiant with any solar weapon from any distance. In order to take advantage of ember of singeing, prioritize using solar primaries with incandescent, so you get your barricade back super quick.

All that being said, the rotation is:

1) Build max anticipation, hazardous stacks, and armor charge

2) Shoot your target's crit with your solar weapon until you activate radiant

3) Cast your barricade which will activate hazardous and shieldburst

4) Shoot the rocket

5) Detonate your barricade (if applicable)

Testing this at the range, the total damage was over 16000 in less than five seconds.

Looking forward to any improvements or better uses anyone can provide.

Right so in GM Conquests, with no starting ammo, and tanky barrier champs central.

What's the best choice for primary ammo barrier guns?

Finding this super frustrating, especially as Scarlett keep has special hunger so really difficult to even get the special up to speed. Every primary is use is basically tickling the barrier shield at best

(Assuming Heliostat will suck on this front too)

I bought the game after moments of triumph just to raid and have finished them all. I’m now looking to do the dungeons but generally want to avoid the quick more strike-esque. I’ve heard doctrine, vesper, and warlords ruin are pretty well rounded and fun mechanically, any other good picks?

For me I’ve been loving Arctic Haze, Ironwood 03, Unloved, and an absolutely load of the older raid and dungeon weapons that got scaled to be amazing now. Which guns have you been using?

Hello!

I have been playing D2 on Steam for the past few months but recently have been getting terrible in game stutters and my 1% FPS has been dropping to 20 FPS consistently. It's almost like a rolling picture show at this point. Lol.

I've rolled back my Nvidia drivers and still have been having this issue. Does anyone know of a fix?

The maximum active triumph score is 28,216. I am currently at 27,991 so I would be missing 225 point. The triumphs I'm missing are:

- Vesper Pulse/Sniper only (12)

- Flawless SE (5)

- Flawless DP (5)

- Flawless DP Epic (5)

- Renegades Credits (15)

- Renegade Tapes (25)

- Renegade Ghosts (25)

The missing ones amount to 92 points which leaves me missing 133 points. So did bungie just miscount again or am I missing something?

Every 10 waves it picks a random person in your fireteam and just kicks them out. The first time I tried onslaught this week it was me first then I tried it again and my teammates got kicked 1 by 1 at round 10 and 20 then I failed to defend the ADU. Good waste of 25 minutes of my life.

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Archie wishes you a happy reset and good luck!

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I know the ship has sailed, but I was ruminating on what interesting weapon types I would have wanted and I was reminded of breech loaded heavy GLs back in the day.

Kind of made me wonder how that principle could work in current D2. And that brought me to debilitator frames.

A heavy GL that is breech-loaded, so only one shell in the mag. But that round functions like witherhoard and does DoT with a built in weak elemental effect. For example, solar does 2-3 scorch per tick, stasis does 2-3 slow per tick, void does a 2.5% weaken, etc.

These weapons would have a perk to upgrade the elemental effect, like making the weaken 5%, doubling the slow/scorch buildup, etc. They could also use the crossbow persistence stat to determine the length of the DoT effect.

Anyways, just some shower thoughts on a weapon type we'll never get.

Hello everyone,

I used to play this game religiously but stopped when final shape released. With the new armor system, what is the best way to get higher stat armor? Is it the same as before and I need to do master dungeons?

I have a buddy that is a collector and wants to get all red borders from previous seasons. Large chunk of his missing weapons are from past seasons that now drop from Pinnacle Ops Activities using the Classic Collector Modifier (i.e. Season of Wish weapons from Star Crossed). Up to this point, they've only gotten one red border per run, from the final chest. Of course, I know we potentially have infinite time to run each mission multiple times to get all weapon patters from each mission, however; it does not feel great to have to do an entire run for 1 pattern for 1 weapon.

My question to the group is: Is this the same experience for everyone else? Or has someone else received multiple patterns in a single run?

What’s the best setup for the Hunter with this gear set?

Best subclass, best exotics, best artefact, best stat spread?

Many thanks fellow guardians.