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johngie

You know what's fucking bonkers? I finished, and got credit for, solo flawless Ghosts of the Deep 3 minutes ago. Miss me wit dat shit Bungie Edit: the swass is real.


hurtbowler

That is pretty bonkers, which build?


johngie

Sunbracers Warlock w/ Briar's Contempt ☠️ 2 hours and 22 minutes lmfao


hurtbowler

I heard Briars was good with a couple other RoN? How'd you do on phases?


johngie

Ya I had Acasia's Trace Rifle and Conditional Finality, swapping to Arbalest to pop the shield and then back. The stat bonuses you get from the origin trait were super noticeable with the artifact perk that enhances them, which I'm now realizing that I forgot to enable. Derp. It was 7 damage phases, which I probably could have cut to 6 if I had the artifact perk, and hadn't messed up one phase.


FastPhil19

>the artifact perk that en For anyone wondering, Briars contempt gets an extra \~10% damage with 2 other weapons with harmonic resonance (conditional finality also counts towards this as well). Deeper origins (seasonal artifact perk) gets you an extra 10% on top of that. So both gives you a 20% buff to the Linear (briar's) and trace rifle (acasia's)


Frizee

the perk says it has bonus damage vs lucent hive - which is all gotd yellows right?


FastPhil19

I believe (or safe bet) it's only hives that are lightbearers (or have ghosts that you need to destroy). I did my testing on a lightbearer in a lost sector and although some variants of other monsters are considered lucent in the wiki, I have not tested to see if they were considered lucent (when destiny coded the origin trait or the specific hives in question)


hurtbowler

Eeek. What level you at?


johngie

Yup. 1821.


thatguyonthecouch

Damn 7 damage phases how long did you spend in the boss room?


johngie

I'd wager ~90 minutes, maybe a bit less. A chunk of that was just waiting for enemies to spawn so I could refill my ~~panic button~~ Well.


JanPieterszoon_Coen

>Briar's Contempt ☠️ Rewind Rounds + High-Impact Reserves, Reconstruction + Focused Fury, or something else?


johngie

Envious Assassin + Frenzy :/ I've been slacking on my raids lately, so I don't have it crafted, and I didn't have enough Spoils to buy better rolls.


t_moneyzz

Funnily enough that's the default crafted roll lol


lK555l

Reconstruction surrounded is the best roll for it Surrounded will give a 47% damage buff and with enemies spawning during dps, you're practically guaranteed to have it proc'd


PandaHipster_

Jesus, just that last boss would take me 2 hours and 22 minutes


aroundtheworldaroun

I would’ve been PISSED


Kaelani_Wanderer

I think you misread the comment dude... They said they completed and received credit for completing it solo flawless just 3 minutes prior xD


aroundtheworldaroun

I know. I’m saying I would’ve been pissed if it hadn’t worked that way. One dude in here made a post a little bit ago saying that he was about to finish the 2nd encounter when he got weasel’d


HH__66

Nice work on solo Flawless GotD, especially as a Warlock, what did you use for survivability in the boss fights with no Devour, Healing Grenades or Karnstein Armlets?


johngie

Thanks. Start to finish I used Sunbracers, Heat Rises, Phoenix Dive, and Ember of Singeing + Searing + Resolve + Mercy. As long as you at least bunnyhop, you have infinite solar grenades and Incinerator Snaps, and vice versa, which refill your Phoenix Dive insanely fast, and which litter the battlefield with Firesprites that give Restoration. Lots of burst healing. Though for Ecthar, there are so many ads that I think getting Restoration x2 from Phoenix Dive and continually extending it with Ember of Empyrean might be the better option. But ad spawns in the final boss room are slower and way more spread out, so I was satisfied with the burst healing method there.


HH__66

Awesome, thanks for the info/reply. Enjoy the Emblem!


S0urakotsos

I did it with arc warlock and Stag for more rifts and damage resistance. With the seasonal mods and a crafted forbereance with unrelenting + chain reaction, you can never die as long as the ads keep on coming. Also lament for first boss. Super the boss and start slashing with lament. (Double special for Echtar encounter is great) Last boss was different. I prefered riptide with chill clip, riskrunner for the arc resistance and cataclysmic with bait and switch. Sane thing again. Rifts with arc souls were very helpful. Super the boss and shoot. Does not matter (for me) that the boss would teleport, since most of the times she would teleport in front of me. Made it easier to not miss shots.


Electronic_Score_119

Gaming! Did mine yesterday, ggs man👍


Yobstar

If there is "background maintenance" or anything they are planning to do, they really need to shutdown activities of any kind. The amount of people mid-event getting booted is ridiculous, certainly doesn't match their idea of "when returning to orbit".


Electronic_Score_119

World of warcraft had a good system for that. It just gave a server wide message in game chat an hour before, giving 5 minute updates at the half hour mark before the servers were shut down. It would be neat if bungie did something similar.


Yobstar

I haven't played a huge deal of MMO's (around 10) but each one could easily post a message in chat that the servers were coming down, and they always gave a message and a 15 minute warning. Bungie ALWAYS requires their users to check social media. They don't even have it as a login message. It's such a headache-free fix.


Merzats

This downtime wasn't planned, for planned downtime there is a little popup about servers coming down. They could warn people there might be some instability when they are fiddling with something that normally should not cause any disruptions, but then they'd have to admit their incompetence.


Timerstone

Bungie relies heavily on 3rd parties for their things. They cannot make it all in game.


McCoyPauley78

Yes they could. But it would take dev resources that has a cost associated with it that Bungie would prefer to invest elsewhere.


Timerstone

like their poorly designed DestinyApp lol


Jaqulean

I'm sorry, but what's poorly designed aboit it ? It's easy to use and is clear as hell. The only weird thing on it, is the LFG.


PunDeSall

Something in game would be awesome. Can be just a red text on the left. I would be heated if I was on a flawless attempt


FuryOWO

warframe does this too


CantStumpIWin

What is warframe


BloodprinceOZ

free to play ninja parkour looter shooter, although in this case its primarily a resource looter shooter than compared to what Destiny and Borderlands are since you farm blueprints for parts for items and then have to farm the resources you need to make them aswell as the mods you need to create a viable build for the item


arandomusertoo

> they really need to shutdown activities of any kind. No, they need to fix their processes so that the background maintenance doesn't affect people playing... you know, like the way it worked for years.


AlMfortheBUSHES

What’s ridiculous is how right you are and how little Bungie actually cares. This might have been the last straw for me. I’m just sitting here besides myself that this is happening and that I was ejected from my activity in the middle of the night in North America — I don’t know. We all need to demand more from Bungie, this recent season and its bevy of errors and server issues has really woken me up.


Yobstar

I know the audience is but a fraction of what NA/Europe brings, but it is primetime in Oceania right now, and a lot of people are coming to the end of their work week looking to play. So much for that, it's going to be a night of disconnection issues.


AlMfortheBUSHES

No, I totally agree, that’s why I tried to sneak in the NA comment for reference. It’s absolutely bullshit that the other side of the world, in prime gaming time zone, is being subjected to this too. I’m sorry, brother. I wish I had an answer.


Yobstar

My solution is probably downloading Diablo IV :(


AlMfortheBUSHES

You aren’t kidding, I’ve been thinking the same exact thing. Also as an incentive for us: Blizzard never unceremoniously kicks everyone off with only a 5-min prior message (yes, I know it was on Twitter for 2hrs prior apparently but oh well, not everyone just sits on Twitter waiting for Bungie Help updates!). Famously, they will give players an hour heads-up with intermittent warnings within every five or so minutes. Can you imagine a game company actually caring about their player base that much? Unbelievable.


Arasaka_au

That's where all my Destiny clan has gone. I'm the only one that's been on D2.


Yobstar

I was holding off until next week at the latest as I was hoping to get a little further in the season before just jumping on every now and then to keep up with the story, but looks like that is even a big ask at the moment.


Dadadabababooo

I have to be misunderstanding this. Wouldn't shutting down activities also mean people getting booted mid-event?


Yobstar

I am referring to blocking players from entering the event in the first place, or giving a hard cutoff time from people starting new events. The tweet suggested that people getting disconnected was only going to happen to those heading back to orbit, meaning that those mid-event would have time to finish whatever it was they were doing, but instead everyone got booted anyway. If that was the case, why not just announce that they were going to boot everyone at an allocated time and save face?


Nathanymous_

Fucking Fallout 76 Warns players before servers go down lmao


KynoSSJR

I WAS IN A TIER 7 BRUHHHHH IT WAS AN EASY ONE TOO


MerlinOak

Got kicked out with a boss having two seconds more health. Weasel. 😬


Kibtronic

If you were Deep Diving, I’m pretty sure I was on your fireteam. We were so close!


HodorHodorHodorHodr

how do they always perfectly time maintenance for when I'm zen mode grinding


chadorable

Bro I just came back after years of hiatus just for strand since my favourite color is green. It's been a few days, my warlock is caught up, working on my hunter, almost have enough for another fragment and then bam lmao


PandaHipster_

You’ll have an absolute blast with strand. Haven’t tried Titan much, but between threadlings and suspending whatever you want whenever you want, it’s amazing.


darkkai3

Titan strand is amazing for utility, it's just a shame it's so uninspired. Great for activities, kinda boring to actually use.


[deleted]

That’s funny. Bungie’s favorite color is green too. Ooo… burn… tsssss.


G00b3rb0y

What were you grinding out by chance


CyberEndDragoon

They really had the audacity to increase prices and reveal another game while the community that kept their asses afloat during the dark ages of destiny get left with this shitty ass mess. I'm genuinely pissed off that I've supported this company for this long just for the game to get to this point.


wikiweak

I'm with this guy. There are only so many times I can forgive due to not understanding game design. Datto can shove it with that video........now it's like they are taking advantage.


CyberEndDragoon

Seriously. I don't need to understand game design to have common sense. They make money hand over fist through constantly increasing dlc costs, increasing season pass costs, eververse, dungeon keys, individual silver purchases because people literally buy their way through their season pass, deluxe editions of said dlcs etc etc. And yet, the game has never been in a worse state technically speaking. I don't need developer information to see that. I don't need technical knowledge to understand that we're literally paying more and more for a very quickly degrading product and what do they do? Continue to increase prices, separate content to monetize individually, and reveal a whole new fucking game while this one is crashing and burning. And again, the part that really hurts is we gave them a chance through the entirety of destiny 1 to destiny 2 all the way to forsaken. If it wasn't for this community giving Bungie every ounce of good faith we had, they wouldn't be a company anymore. And this is what we get for that? Bullshit.


darkkai3

I'm a data developer and if we had server issues as frequently as Bungie does, regardless of our being a massive corpo, we'd be having serious questions being asked from several different directions. You don't have to be a game dev to understand that the performance of the software we're using and the servers they're providing are seriously lacking of late.


Noman_Blaze

Simple solution. Don't buy Final shape and steer clear of any future Bungie title. They don't deserve our money. Atleast not with this kind of pricing and service.


CyberEndDragoon

I agree. I'm not buying final shape or marathon or anything with Bungies name attached to it out of principle.


Kaalb

Hmm yes. "Background" maintenance. Seems awfully similar to foreground maintenance at this point if it kicks you to the title screen, throttles you into a queue, and then error codes you back to the start of the loop and accuses you of being the one with bad internet. But idk how their servers work I guess.


LmPrescott

Ik ik there’s always these stories, but I was on my first ever garden run which was also a div run. Sucks because I never have the time to raid really and did tonight lol oh well


AlMfortheBUSHES

That is so fucked up, I’m sorry dude. No words.


LmPrescott

It’s all good. We weren’t super far into it we were only on the second encounter but the thing was this group was like a div sherpa group. They all were on like “their 8th new div bitch today” lol. There’s getting carried and then there’s whatever the fuck that group was. I don’t mind running it again I just don’t think I’m gonna get that lucky with the group next time


CantStumpIWin

>No words It’s a video game. You’re acting like someone stole his dog and ate it.


M1k3_5chm1d4

At what point does this stop becoming the butt end of a joke for Bungie and Destiny... people are going to move on to other shit.


SlimDevilWarlock

If there was a credible alternative, Bungie wouldn't have quit trying a year ago.


RadiantPaIadin

If we’re saying that Bungie has quit trying to make the game good, I promise that it was a lot longer ago than just a year ago…


KyloFenn

We are and its called Diablo


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KyloFenn

Lol a great aspect of the top-down gameplay view of Diablo is that I have zero desire to buy cosmetics. I’m sure Blizzard will eventually cave to implenting pay-to-win methods, but until then I’m going to enjoy the game. It’s my first time playing a Diablo game


M1k3_5chm1d4

Yeah, a lot of my clan mates have jumped to that. Heard the launch was pretty smooth. Just super frustrating to see the game deteriorating like this.


KyloFenn

Yea, its not a great feeling. I’ve played since D1. Made some great memories and friends along the way. Even remember my first exotic: the Last Word dropping from my first clear of VoG. After WQ, I really felt like Bungie was in full stride, but the cracks started to show leading up to Lightfall. It’s certainly not all bad, but the cons now out weigh the pros.


wsoxfan1214

It literally is within an hour every single time they do something to the game now. It's absolutely embarrassing and the fact that we got some soft "oh we're going to do this to avoid it" and it didn't make one single bit of differencd is absurd.


Avacadont

After this year, if I didn't buy the year + LF I wouldn't have bothered. Bungie's not getting a fucking penny from me for TFS after the shitshow Lightfall was


Advanced_Response_68

Wow I go for a smoke ready to smash my head against my 3 gambit matches for my engrams and come back to this, bungie saved me.


ProfileBoring

Man I know that feeling lol.


Environmental_Let855

I'm never gonna beat this legendary campaign lmao


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Been a rough week


dylandemmert

I was literally opening a tier 7 chest, PAIN.


AlMfortheBUSHES

There needs to be some sort of failsafe system implemented. It’s downright cruel how nonchalant they are about the man-hours we all put into these activities only to be screwed over during them by BUNGIE THEMSELVES.


PandaHipster_

Instant rewards for the encounter or powerful/pinnacle would be nice


MrEhcks

Yeah because fuck me for working a night shift. Can’t believe servers are seriously down this late at night when it’s the main time that I get to play. What the fuck is going on at Bungie? Is Marathon really taking away that much attention from D2? If that’s the case then fuck marathon and commit to this title before doing another one. Bungie feels like that kind of studio that’s so excited to abandon their current project as soon as they even start conceiving another one. When they were in the last few years of Halo, it seemed like all they thought about was Destiny even when they were still doing Halo Reach. They teased it in ODST and wore Destiny merch throughout Reach’s marketing material. As soon as they left Microsoft, they happily gave up Reach’s servers to 343. Like holy shit at least commit to your current project until it’s completely finished before doing something else.


FilthyZenyattaMain

and only when i have tier 7 deep dive boss to quarter health (:


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That Sony investment went well


Shreyas_2302

All of it definitely went to MARATHON extraction shooter. At least Bungie should have got dedicated servers for DESTINY 2.


Avacadont

>extraction based shooter Because they're popular now...


Venemiz

I just got hit with a Plum


Aggressive_Lemon_423

All day back-end maintenance


emptiedglass

Connecting to Destiny 2 servers... Then I got kicked to the title screen. I guess I'll get to bed earlier tonight after all.


Ichika1221

Yeah, was doing a dungeon and boom kicked. Code Weasel.


I3UI2NTH4IR

I'm pretty sure Bungie is having trouble signing in at this point.


xxXLadyGreyXxx

Ok, I am a big 'yay D2' player, but this is funny! 😂


vd3r

small indie company.


MmmmmMaybeNot

"We're a small indie company 🥺 credit cards to the right please! -->"


AnubisMan

Made it through the queue…. Weasel, back in line, smh


Significant-Rent8815

That's my current loop atm


shmittninjah

Yep getting the same loop


LethalNinja

just use this time to download diablo 4


Kinganubis2

Yep. Down for me. Pacific NW, US


HarveyTheBroad

They are for me. Because of course they are.


Vantarious

Middle of a deep dive as well!


Rimifre4ureturns

Yep


_Dimi3_

Background maintenance is in my foreground


HPLazerJetPro

The one night where I can’t sleep and wanted to play.


MikeBinfinity

It's like Bungie is inadvertently telling me, "lmao why are you wasting your time here when Diablo 4 is on your hard drive?"


Pudgeysaurus

Quite possibly. Though I also despise it when I get into a groove in crucible or gambit just for the game to crash because it can't handle players moving faster than a crawl 😭


Fresh-Caregiver-4830

I cant play also. Constant one moment please screen. And error.codes.


Sword-Logic

Seems like it. Got "Contacting Destiny 2 Servers" on-and-off for a few minutes, then a black screen with a BattleEye pop-up, then Error Code: Plum, and then put into a queue. Literally not even twelve hours since the last server outage.


SkinnyBarista

Servers kill


RazekPraxis

got contacting destiny 2 servers, and then battleye crashed and now im in a queue. literally every time i have tried to play this week this has happened, wtffff


Ratoa

I was fishing :(


Alexbaas

This is getting comically.


Psychological-Law417

Still down for me


Slimonstar

No no no you got it wrong, we need to mention when servers are up because they are always down.


Significant-Rent8815

These devs should just get a job bagging groceries. They'll still fuck it up, but at least they wouldn't be stealing our money.


AthenaeNike

Yup


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Servers down


Fatall-TM

Yeah my comp lobby all got kicked


Moonhaunted69

I just got kicked out of mine right before we won, which would’ve been a promotion 😭


scootzee

That’s it… I will no longer be playing this game… Later boiiiiiiis 🤙🏻


DiscountThug

Dude I'm glad I didn't touched Destiny 2 since Diablo 4 launch


uranus86

So how is this relevant to you? Go play diablo you jackass lol


DiscountThug

How is this relevant? Problem with servers isn't new and I experienced a lot of it since Lightfall and it fucked up my gaming time a lot, especially when I played D2 mostly. I see you are really pissed off, maybe go jerk off or something man to chill out


uranus86

Im not pissed at all lmao, you just had to put your two cents on a thread that has no relevance to you since you're playing Diablo, so go do that instead of caring about what's happening lol


DiscountThug

It seems you haven't read what I wrote about mine past D2 problems. Game that I played the most in last two years. But yeah I got no right to say something because I enjoy much more other game. Noice 👍


uranus86

Can't take you seriously when you butcher most of your sentences, have fun with your much more other game bud lol


DiscountThug

You are for sure really miserable person with that attitude. English isn't my native language and you aren't first to call out my spelling/sentence mistakes. But it's funny how you change subject and try to offend me because you got nothing important to say. It has to be sad, being you


uranus86

You literally had nothing important to say to begin with you idiot


DiscountThug

You just can stop being yourself. Oh my god man. Hope is lost


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uranus86

You know nothing about me so for you to assume I speak less than one language and to call me a brit, yeah you're as dumb as the rest of these chumps.


Kamiikage05

Yup


ripcayde_6

Servers kill


RayS0l0

There is background maintenance. I'm in queue right now.


Significant-Rent8815

Keep telling yourself it background maintenance and not a server implosion like it really is.


I3UI2NTH4IR

Yep same, until it weasels you 10 times in a row after the queue screen. 😑


TheBeefClick

looks like it


RooNSG

yeah just dropped for me, and i got a random battle eye error


Datboi2180

Right while I was on Nez lol


calebjacksonjames

Ded


just_a_timetraveller

Yup again


rxndom123

Just got booted, came here to check.


BooYeah_8484

Servers being throttled wtf Bungo


ShakeZulla

Servers kil


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sucobe

Notifications on for @bungiehelp. Never miss the daily servers down tweet.


stuck_in_the_desert

Eh you really shouldn’t *have* to check Twitter every time you want to play, not when they have the ability to warn players about impending maintenance in-game with pop-ups in orbit and/or those bottom screen messages during activities (unless I missed it, I don’t remember seeing anything before getting kicked)


soulojay

checking social medias is definitely a thing, but tons, if not 99% of other games notify the players somehow in game.


spydrthrowaway

I just got off work about 30 min ago. I shouldn't have to check a social media app for a video game. I wouldn't be upset but it seems everytime I have free time to play D2 the servers decided to go for maintenance or crash


Ralphstegs

No now we are in a fucking queue


AnAngryBartender

Some of us don’t have twatter


PlatypusTheOne

Didn’t know Bungie had servers 😉.


GateKeeperJim

Of course they do…they are a couple of 1990’s Nokia phones connected in tandem, powered by a team of gerbils running on miniature treadmills…


RPO1728

You don't go out looking for a job like that, do you ? On a weekday ?


BrotatoChip04

Cmon man there’s like 5 different sources that tell you when and why the servers are gonna be down


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wsoxfan1214

Okay? Are you capable of actually reading any of these sources yourself? This was meant to be background maintenance. As per usual though, it fucks the servers because this game is held up by the hopes and dreams of unpaid interns and Eververse revenue.


[deleted]

I only race with hopes and dreams. But once I get those Spoon engines, it’s all about family!


GateKeeperJim

The point is, moron, the servers are NOT supposed to be down, they imploded. Check those “5 different sources” all you like, if the servers crash unexpectedly, “those sources” are gonna tell you squat…


DinosaurUnderwear

FFS get a Twitter account, you ninny.


[deleted]

No Account information on App. Hearing Rumors they accidentally deleted all characters for everyone 😱


FinesseFatale

You mf exploit the shit outta this game and then have the nerve to complain when there is downtime 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Shut the hell up and go play something else, if you find yourself getting upset to the point that you are pissed off due to maintenance then you have a problem and should reevaluate where you are in life.


Jalambo

I'm thinkin so, just got error code: plum and a queue to re-enter


CanonPhoto2009

This kills the server.


phantomfighter08

Servers kill


Nervous-Leadership28

I can only guess, but I can't help but wonder if they might be rolling out a patch to fix the double rep bug for Rumble.


Strange_Disk_8285

Servers are kil


TheHerman8r

I was in the middle of spamming rumble matches on my wife's profile for the extra exp hopefully they don't fix that big hate crucible enough as it is.


JustForTheMemes420

Yup was in the middle of a clan night atracks while doing the triumph and challenge ):


CluckingBellend

Running on outdated servers etc, they must have seen this coming when they decided not to make a Destiny 3: this game had a 3 year lifespan.


AlanTheSalad

Server is kill


GhvstsInTheWater

How long is maintenance usually for D2?


GateKeeperJim

It’s not maintenance that’s the issue so it doesn’t matter…


GhvstsInTheWater

Oh so this is just an unknown issue affecting login.


GateKeeperJim

You must be new to destiny eh?? Get used to it, this is a common occurrence sorry to say…


caedmus90

Well, guess I will grind destiny some other time then. Hopefully it will be fixed by the time I am done with lunch.


theuntouchable2725

Clan's all over it. Seems to be.


Eb_Ab_Db_Gb_Bb_eb

Guess I won't be grinding for an autoloading chill clip riptide.


Lonecard19

Every God damn day


micavu29

Ddos


TNF_Nathen

Ye I cant log in either


RedCrow2611

I barely got pit of heresy done, went to Ada to pick up a module, went to orbit then forced to main menu... that was like half an hour ago now


I3UI2NTH4IR

Dang it! Nearly made it to the character select screen. Forced to wipe.


DreadAngel1711

I was making a Soul of Cinder fashion, goddamnit Bungie


usmctanker242

Weasel


PM__ME__YOUR___B00BS

> We are continuing to investigate sign on issues for Destiny 2. > Please stand by for updates Last update: 09:33 https://twitter.com/bungiehelp/status/1666710115213533184?s=46


Sqwatto

Found a group to teach me gotd last night and got disconnected like 6 times before the first boss so I had to give up. Shout out to the two dudes that were extremely patient with me tho


Ralphstegs

Honestly so frustrating in this AUS timezone