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You're surprised? One of the reasons I haven't played in so long...
Same day Dark Souls 3 is released. Damn you Bungie, how am I supposed to play two games at once.https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/44472/7_This-Week-At-Bungie---03172016
Alright! April 12 we're getting new content! Check out the link... they have a really cool picture which appears to show taken guardians. Not sure that's what they were going for, but that's certainly how it looks.
"From here onward, we’ll refer to it as the “April Update.” As promised, it will have something for every type of Guardian. Here are some of the highlights to look forward to:
- New PVE Challenges
- New and Updated Gear
- New Quest featuring the Blighted Chalice Strike
- Increased Max Light and Rewards
- Sandbox and Crucible Updates
- And more…"
Not a DLC... as long as you have already purchased Taken King this content will be free. I'm excited!
So I finally made the move to start looking into Trials for more serious play, rather than just casual for bounties. Doing ok so far, and was a bit better than I thought I'd be.
I figure to really consistently get to the lighthouse, I just need to find a regular team and build skill together. Everyone I know how goes to the lighthouse regularly, plays with a regular set of teammates. So if anyones down for trying to put together something regular for Trials on XboxOne, I'm down. Cheers.
I had a few exotic, sublime, and legendary endgrams saved up but I couldn't resist and cashed them all in and 6 out of the 8 exotic special weapon ones turned into the 4th Horseman.Wow, looking at Planet Destiny, reddit (DestinyTheGame), and the Bungie forums there is some SERIOUS GOD DAMNED speculation about what's going on here in April. haha It certainly looks like we're going back into a Taken version of Prison of Elders... not 100% sure, but the gear we're seeing in the picture is all PoE and it makes sense that they would re-use the arena for an update. Others are talking that what we're seeing might, just might, be a Taken Subclass, rather than just Taken shaders. That would be awesome... I mean, our guardians are already ascendant hive, and our swords have the crystal which Oryx used to "take" others, so why not?
Lots of excitement going around, but since this isn't an actual DLC, but rather an update, precedent has already been set that engrams received now have the ability to draw from the loot table after the update. So if you're bored with the current loot table it might be wise to start filling up your vault with legendary/exotic engrams and encrypt them after the update hits. Last time we had a big update when they released the 2nd round of exotics in year 2 the old engrams were able to pull from the new loot table, so odds are this will be the same. I haven't decrypted an exotic engram in a few months... my armor vault is already 50% just exotic engrams. haha
The guys from Planet Destiny also made a good observation that some of the weapon archetypes we have now might not be available in the future... specifically 1000 Yard Stare archetype... very high impact sniper capable of resurrection-sniping. Who knows for sure, but just like high-range shotguns from the past, this archetype has a high chance of disappearing. But unlike the past, the infusion system won't be so easy to side-step by Bungie, so we'll probably be able to just keep on infusing current weapons. So it might be wise to do some grinding and try and get your hands on a decent roll and hold onto that weapon like there's no tomorrow.
*My entire post is conjecture on my part. : )
Good luck buddy... Trials is difficult. I have a team and for the last month or so we have been giving it an honest effort. But when we get to about 4-5 wins the skill level of our opponents is often leaps and bounds above ours. Not to mention the weapons... most of these guys have adept Doctrines and they just destroy us at any and every range. We also run into full red-bar teams and there isn't much you can do against them.
Yeah, the matchmaking is odd now that Bungie has switched to connectivity over KD/skill. Coming up against a lot of great teams early. Still, managed to make it 8-0 twice last night before losing out. One was against a shitty red-bar team, and the second was a heartbreaking 5-4 loss that ended with two of our guys in the zone and one of their corpses in the zone, with the win being awarded to that team.
It's just that for me, playing with randoms from LFG is always hit or miss. One of my "teammates," sounded like he was a 13-year old Scotsman. After any loss (probably went through 4 cards, trashing a card once we got a loss) he would invite the whole opposing team to party chat and just go full bore racist on them. Nothing like having some kid yell everything in the book and have the opposing team threatening to kill him, all while both parties screamed their best into my headset.
i hope these new PoE events have matchmaking
the no matchmaking is absurd. what is the point? some sort of mmo purity? it's flat out stupid.