I’m definitely going to hold out for the Mida, checking the wiki that’s a scout rifle and that suits my style of play much better. Quick question, though - is it worth gambling for engrams from Xur with your motes of light? I haven’t found another use for them yet and they’re starting to pile up.
If you play Iron Banner, you can pay one mote of light every day (or 12 hours maybe) for an IB reputation boost on your wins/bounties. And any Iron Banner weapons you find or buy can be “re-rolled” for one mote of light. For people serious about IB weapons, you can easily spend 50-100 motes trying to re-roll for ideal perks.
I can’t remember if that’s the only other thing motes of light are good for, but that’s the only thing I’ve used them for.
Mida is great, one of my favorite weapons ever, but with that said, there are a lot of solid purple scouts out there. I’m rocking Another NITC with firefly and unless i’m doing a burn nightfall, it’s pretty much my everyday PVE weapon. I do miss the MIDA’s active radar, and slightly increased rate of fire, and I’d buy it in a second if I didn’t have a solid scout.
And I’ll echo what everyone is saying about Hard Light, it looks great, sounds amazing, but it’s not a very good gun : (
Even with stability cranked it’s just so hard to handle. I’m not a fan of these high ROF low impact guns…and the perks on it aren’t very useful.
Unrelated: I did the math again, and I’m at 449 hours of Destiny. That averages to over two hours every day for over six months now. No wonder I’m behind on all my favorite television shows.
I don’t have a great handle on estimating time, so I don’t know where this ranks among my most-played games of all time, but this is almost certainly the most sustained activity in a video game for me. Probably still peanuts compared to anyone with a decent MMO addiction, but I dodged that bullet. This is my WoW, basically.
Timex
2045
Regarding Mida…
It’s a solid scout rifle, but in practice, I wouldn’t use it as my primary in most cases. I’d rather run something like Vision of Confluence if I’m gonna use a scout rifle.
What’s great about Mida though, is that it boosts your speed when moving. This can be extremely useful in certain situations, such as doing a lamp run as a hunter in the Crota raid. In cases like that, where the map is slowing you down, the speed boost from Mida becomes significant, and makes the run much easier.
Is MIDA’s speed boost more than other guns that give you a speed boost? Suros Regime bumps up your agility too, right?
Moore
2047
I think half life holds my record, due to mods (I worked on one for a long while and played it a SHITLOAD)
Congrats though! finding a game that can grab you that much is everything great about gaming. I can enjoy a book or movie as much as a game, but I generally need years between rereads or rewatching - gameplay that really grabs you and lets you continue enjoying it for hours on end is one of gaming’s largest strong points over other entertainment for sure.
Timex
2048
Mida has a perk that boosts your agility by +2, but that’s not the primary perk.
The primary multi-tool perk explicitly increases your move speed, and it’s most definitely faster more than what you get just by having a slightly higher agility. It’s a noticeable speed increase.
(The primary perk also makes the weapon fire on a hair-trigger, but wtf is the point of that, I have no idea)
In addition to all that, the Multi-tool also has a very high stagger on targets, similar to weapons that have the large caliber (I think that’s it) perk that makes rounds stagger targets more. Against PvE mobs, it will stagger them all the time… in PvP, it will cause extra flinch.
Decided to roll the dice with my motes to Xur and came up lucky in a way I didn’t expect - no weapon, but I got an ATS/8 Arachnid helmet which, considering I was only wearing a rare helmet, was a big upgrade. Bumped me from level 28 straight to 30, too. Maybe I’ll have an easier time with that Wakening mission that I haven’t yet been able to beat solo, the end with all the aspects and the shard and stuff is more than I’ve been able to handle at once so far.
Kadath
2050
OHHHH! Even more importantly now that you are 30 you can join me again in the Thrall Lamp Abyss, this time on hard mode! Can get you another shot at loot including 36 light gloves or an Oversoul Edict, a 331 damage pulse rifle with kick ass perks. Look for you tonight! Sorry to have been so chatty last time, I didn’t wanna just drag you in to those events without explanation tho. I’m not usually that verbose =)
Didn’t think of that, cool more opportunity for goodies! And you didn’t seem unusually chatty, it was my first exposure to raids and I didn’t have a clue. Good to have a guide.
Hah, you guys should’ve heard me explaning the Crota fight to a bunch of first timers last week. I think I spent 30 minutes. They were very polite.
I watched a video of the guys at Giant Bomb playing through Vault of Glass last night and holy crap, that made absolutely no sense to me. They weren’t bothering to explain what they were doing and some of them hadn’t done it before so they were definitely making mistakes but that whole business of warping to different areas to grab artifacts and keep zones protected from Vex blowing themselves up, just looks like chaos. How the hell does anyone solo that, looks like you need all six to cover everything!
It’s theoretically “impossible” to solo, in reality it can be done by a Sunsinger reviving themselves in a very specific way that I wouldn’t call an exploit, but likewise clearly isn’t how it’s meant to be done. Similarly, long ago you could kill Atheon (and other bosses) by tossing a lot of grenades at their feet, which would cause them to slowly shuffle backward, and eventually they’d fall off the ledge. That’s not what Bungie wanted you to do and so they patched that out, but I wouldn’t call that an exploit—with the negative connotations that has—in the same way I’d call something like glitching through level geometry.
But whatever you think of it, no, it’s not meant to be solo’d. I know people completed it as duos too, although I think patch changes might have even put a stop to that; I can’t remember exactly the mechanics that would or wouldn’t allow that.
Thanks for the warning on not wasting my coins. I mostly just wanted to check it out because I’ve never found better than a blue autorifle, so I was just wondering if there were autorifles out there that didn’t suck.
The Mida multitool is definitely my favorite gun in the game. Both against AI and Crucible. But Another NITC is a great substitute as well, since it’s purple, and I can then carry an exotic special.
OTOH, I’ve never even heard of the scout rifle Timex mentioned. I thought the MIDA multitool was the only exotic scout rifle, since it’s the only one I’ve ever seen Xur sell. (And getting weapons from Xur or completing exotic bounties are the only ways to get exotics, right? Even purple weapon drops are extremely rare. At least up to level 31. Maybe it will change if ever get to 32).
Exotics can drop in PvP, though very rarely. Legendary (purple) engrams have a very small chance of decrypting to exotics as well. So in a sense, you could get an exotic anywhere, but realistically that’s unlikely. The ways people usually get exotics are Xûr, exotic bounties, raids, and weeky Nightfall missions.
The bounty exotics can only ever be aquirred from the bounties. Xûr will never sell a Thorn, nor will you just find one, for example. All the others could theoretically drop from engrams/nightfalls/raids or be bought from Xûr.
With three characters, it hasn’t been that uncommon for 2/3 of my nightfalls to yield exotics in a given week. Nightfalls are also good ways to get legendary rewards too.
And on raids, in addition to the potential for raid gear, there are designated spots (after certain fights, in certain chests) where exotics have a pretty decent chance to drop.
I played enough Iron Banner to get two characters up to rank 4 this week. I’ll be picking Thorn bullets out of my armor for weeks, but that’s four more pieces of ugly Crota gear I can replace with the blinding bling of the Iron Banner! Ugh, what a glimmer grind at the end though, even with cashing in 15,000 glimmer worth of network keys I’d been saving up from Exclusion Zone farming for just such an occasion.
Also I fully upgraded my Super Good Advice, for some reason.
I’m jealous, but not quite enough the have actually done the IB. Still, it must look cool to be decked out head to toe in IB gear. I also think it’s a good idea for them to have made other avenues, besides the raid, to get to 32 light.
I really wish I had some Dead Orbit shaders. The IB stuff, Warlock in particular, is pretty flashy looking. Not bad, but pretty bright. But with those dark shaders it looks great: http://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3030es/media_3_of_4_dead_orbit_shaders_ib_gear_for_all_3/
I think those faction shaders are a troll. I leveled up Dead Orbit 12 times and never got one. I’ve never seen someone in game wearing a faction shader.
Unless they’re Playstation only, then that would explain why I’ve never seen one.
