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djcj · 15 Oct 2015 at 14:59

It looks like it's the black spindle daily mission again. Does anyone on ps4 fancy helping me do it this evening?

fez · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:31

djcj said:
It looks like it's the black spindle daily mission again. Does anyone on ps4 fancy helping me do it this evening?

Yep, I would like to give it a go. What time are you thinking?

I tried last time but I was a bit weak for it honestly. We didn't have a plan because it was just 3 randoms so the adds built up at the end and we really struggled for time.

Greboth · 15 Oct 2015 at 15:41

I shall take the third space, I should be on around 7:30-8 tonight. Best technique still seems to be titan bubbles with swords as you have him down in ~1 min leaving 3 or 4 mins for clearing adds. We can party up later though and discuss techniques.

oweneades · 15 Oct 2015 at 16:03

Whatever you do ensure you clear the Blights as a priority before slamming the boss. If you don't you will be overrun with adds.

I would say that you also want to be heading into the last room (boss arena) with around 7 minutes to spare. You can do it with less but those extra couple of minutes can make a big difference one the boss is down.

Second room - Tortured Vandal snipers should be a priority as they will muller your team if left unchecked. Whilst there are two yellow bar wizards they are much easier to take care of.

djcj · 15 Oct 2015 at 16:11

Yeah 7:30-8pm is good for me. I'll bring my titan bubble.

fez · 15 Oct 2015 at 16:26

Cool, I'll add you to my psn.

1. mctrials23
2. Col_Jacko
3.Greboth

djcj · 15 Oct 2015 at 17:24

It looks like you're both already on my friends list so should be good to go

fez · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:24

Probably be on closer to 8 than 7:30 guys

djcj · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:32

I'm ready when you guys are, just doing a bit of patrol.

oHUTCHYo · 15 Oct 2015 at 19:59

Massive thanks to Sonny and Razer - Black Spindle ahoy!

1st run was very quick but stalled at end, 2nd time a charm

3x Titans bubbles and swords with sunbreakers to clean up

Hands are still shaking!!

Psycho Sonny · 15 Oct 2015 at 23:22

oHUTCHYo said:
Massive thanks to Sonny and Razer - Black Spindle ahoy!

1st run was very quick but stalled at end, 2nd time a charm 3x Titans bubbles and swords with sunbreakers to clean up

Hands are still shaking!!

i told you we would wreck it. the only reason it took 2 attempts is because of a couple of hiccups (misplaced bubbles) and not switching supers when the boss was down.

we got to the tunnel leading to the boss with 7mins and 45 seconds left on the clock on our first run.

if you aren't clearing the first 2 rooms with 7-8 mins on the clock then your strat isn't nailed down tight. we were using 3 bubble bros so we never supered any adds either which would have sped things up even more i imagine.

that 3rd bubble on the second run was perfect timing when we were swording the boss (must be why the cryptarch tells us to "keep it well oiled guardian") we killed the boss without any of us dying or only 1 dying iirc on that platform.

Phog · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:51

Hard mode raid being brought forward to next Friday.

Trials is delayed until they fix unlimited shadowshot bug.

IB drops are apparently "working as intended"

Sunbreakers are being "looked at"

(from latest bungie update)

ZXSpectrum · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:56

well I managed to pick up a copy of TTK for £30 so should get that after the weekend and expand the game a lot more!

Greboth · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:12

Failed again last night trying to get black spindle

bah! who needs it anyway. We struggled with the sword and bubble as he keeps walking around the platform away from the protection of the bubble. Though we found it is pretty easy to take him down with sleep stimulant from the doorway. Roughly adding up I think it took about 30 shots of SS to kill him though if you can get more headshots im sure that could be brought down to low 20's. SS is also useful as it 1 shots the blights but then add clear up you do really need a sword.

Rybo89 · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:33

Just bought 4 exotic weapon engrams and all of them was a 160 machine gun....

Why not 280? Am i missing something? Is there anyway to upgrade exotics to 280 from 180?

oweneades · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:36

They are Legacy (Year 1 exotics) Engrams. Designed specifically so you can "unlock" the ability to buy that weapon in year 2 and/or complete your collection (they are the only way to get Thorn for example).

Bungie have received flak for both the name (why not "Year 1") and the positioning of these engrams in Xur's inventory.

razerbwfc · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:48

Psycho Sonny said:
i told you we would wreck it. the only reason it took 2 attempts is because of a couple of hiccups (misplaced bubbles) and not switching supers when the boss was down.

we got to the tunnel leading to the boss with 7mins and 45 seconds left on the clock on our first run.

if you aren't clearing the first 2 rooms with 7-8 mins on the clock then your strat isn't nailed down tight. we were using 3 bubble bros so we never supered any adds either which would have sped things up even more i imagine.

that 3rd bubble on the second run was perfect timing when we were swording the boss (must be why the cryptarch tells us to "keep it well oiled guardian") we killed the boss without any of us dying or only 1 dying iirc on that platform.

Aye thanks to both of you. Tried this a few times before with no luck. Misplaced bubble was my fault, almost died just getting onto the platform and panic bubble ensued about an inch short so ended up on the floor, haha!

2nd run was much better though. The bubbles on the boss strat worked perfectly, he was down in no time. Then sunbreakers and swords to mop up the adds with a fair bit of time to spare. Stressful but worth it.

You were right about having the Spindle equipped around the tower though Sonny, invites/pm's left right and centre all night!

Jayman · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:50

Apologies for what may appear a daft question but having played the original destiny last year & having finished the story & not bothered with any DLC, if I want to get the taken king do I need to buy the taken king pack which includes the previous 2dlc packs plus the original destiny again?

Basically I'm not sure what I actually need to get to back on this game now.

oweneades · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:54

Essentially yes. You want to buy the "legendary" edition which for intents and purposes is the same price as just the TTK expansion itself. You will get the vanilla game again but also all of the expansions up to and including TTK.

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