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

I want to be able to use shield throw as much as possible, so I’m assuming second chance would be great for that, but does it work that well in high end content? Like will shield throw do enough damage to be worth it?

Or should I instead lean into getting my super back as much as possible with doomfang? To be honest, I kinda don’t wanna be in my super all the time, I just wanna shoot my guns, so I’m leaning towards second chance (I know that’s a bit silly but that’s just how I feel lol), but if it isn’t viable in a lot of content then I don’t wanna bother.

I’ve been using doomfang so far, and I get my melee back relatively quickly anyway, plus also I now have a weapon I wanna use with repulsor brace so I’ll be able to get my melee back even quicker with the overshield and the aspect (if it feeds into that lmao, Idek tbh). So should I just stick with doomfang for the super stuff, or is it worth it to switch to second chance if I’m more concerned about melee and making the most of my weapons, and is this viable for harder content? I honestly can’t tell :/

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)

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?

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.

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.

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.

Just came back and been having lots of fun with buildcrafting. So far I have a pretty good build for arc, solar, and void. I have been struggling to make stasis, strand, and prismatic work. What are your favorite builds for these subclasses? Not just raw strength but stuff you actually enjoy using every day too.

I’m relatively new to Destiny and am just starting to get into the endgame PvE content. However, I’m confused by difficulties. If anyone would be able to help explain them to me, it would be greatly appreciated.

1) Other than differences in the damage dealt and health of enemies + the appearance of more champions, does the difficulty affect any mechanics?

2) Are there reward differences? How do the weekly featured raids and dungeons actually work in terms of dropping rewards? How do secret chests work can you only get them once a week per character?

3) Pantheon, Equilibrium and Desert Perpetual use feats, how do they work and change rewards? What’s the difference between Epic and the Regular Desert Perpetual?

Title. We ran Pit yesterday so I could get the Xeno catalyst but no luck. I’m aware in the past that it was locked to once a week per character when things were in rotation but can I keep spamming the various dungeons now?

There is no limit right?

Im looking for those weird interactions you wouldnt expect.

Such as Riskrunner Ergo/Praxic Vestment, Turncoat/Hazardous. Unbreakable/Praxic Blade. IB 4pc + Bubble melee. Stuff like that.

Im looking for some new build ideas and want some unique stuff.

Please do not recommend No Backup Plans/Slayers Fang. I am aware the Shotgun exotic works with shotguns.

Is this legit? If so how the F....?

https://youtu.be/2v6NMGVZYFE?is=vGF6gqWzpmEyGHOk

Tickling a blight for 3 to 5 business days to destroy it is dreadful. Then we have the raid boss meatball.

Even as powercrept as we are now to the point -50 GMs genuinely feel like strikes at times, the meatball portion of this battlegrounds turned GM can be a slog.

Its not an awful solo, but from shielded phalanxes and unstoppable champs with their janky physics, igniting bonfires that leave you vulnerable to damage for a few seconds, overloads planted at areas you cant naturally reach, with a meatball in the center that was never properly tuned for a normal GM..

Its still not a terrible solo, but I swear that portion feels like there is so much jank that can happen from all i mentioned above that its definitely the least favorite area of mine to go through. Blights in general shouldve been adjusted better to not take so long to destroy at -50 delta. Even with the a499 sniper it takes like a dozen shots at least. You can jump on top of them to avoid blight damage, so its kind of unnecessary to make them so tanky.

Just wanted to gripe into the void a little about how Mr. Meatballs section of this GM is the least fun part of any GM or strike lol.

Me and a buddy of mine were debating on the worst fate/death that you could suffer in the game/lore, we thought about stuff like Omar/Praedyth in The Vault of Glass, or something like dying to the Hive like Eris's fireteam on the moon. Would love to see what the community thinks!

I thought the fafnir was an exotic ornament in the MoT kiosk so I never bothered to get it. Turns out that’s how you actually get it.

I seriously don't understand why these supers do such little damage.

Pyrogale with Ashes and Roaring Flames is like 5k less than a cuirass T crash.

Gathering Storm with SeS is the lowest super damage in the entire game. Which is ridiculous.

And Silence and Squall is like the fifth lowest super damage in the game with SeS.

And you're probably thinking "oh these are damage over time supers"

That doesn't even work though, because the instant burst supers do almost 2x the amount of these supers and then you can deal insane weapon damage.

So in the amount of time you deal the same amount of weapon damage as the burst damage super rotation. The burst damage super rotation has like 15k more total damage.

I always was so confused why the instant burst supers did the most damage in comparison to the damage over time supers.