Greetings and Salutations, my name is Commander Pika. Here to help all players enjoy Destiny 2. Information, guides, tutorials, and some fun along the way.
I'm a returning player from season of plunder. And there is so much that changed over the past year(s maybe) that it's crazy to think about. DMT was my favorite scout and now it dosnt feel like the same gun. There's a new 2 subclass and I hear d3 was never even in shop. So I am literally a fish out of water ATM
PSA: do a master lost sector if you’re still trying to farm for these roles before the season ends. You guaranteed an extra perk on any of the weapons, even if you get them in the world.
@Commander_Pika , let's hope so... I usually do lost sectors on expert for the quick clear. If I knew you could get double perk drops for master clears... well, I know now that's to you, fellow Gardian. 🍻
I happened to find this video today... while using the facilities while on duty.. i was wondering why my world drops started dropping extra perks in the fourth column... is there a way to prevent it from reverting to no extra or the third column? Subscribed for the great info!
been trying to get a rangefinder last foray so badddddd. haven’t even got one with the perk, nevermind a good roll with it. how many damn lost sectors do i have to do
As a lost sector farmer... thank you for the update. I got all the god rolls expect for the Heliocentric. My best roll is Demo+Incandescent. It's a great roll but HC+Incandescent is still at the top of my list.
I managed to get that HC+Incandecent roll late in the game although the barrel options are bad all I got to pick from a steady round or accurized, but want something for either the mag size or reload
@damionh7218 , I'm happy to hear that your farming has produced fruits, and may RNG bless us all with great rolls of heliocentric and all other word drops. I hate the lost sectors in the Pale heart, but a Gardians gotta do what a Gardians gotta do... Happy farming, fellow Gardian, and I hope your next heliocentric has all the perks and barrels you are looking for. 🍻
I tried farming crux termination but it was so bad. I'm just gonna wait until I can focus on gunsmith. This season's world loot poll was great though, and some of the weapons are up there as actual meta picks. I can't wait for next season! Whenever I got a world drop I was eager to see what I got!
Nice palindrome gameplay haha, and very good points, I'm kinda mad they haven't updated Banshee at all in Final Shape, everything his engrams can offer is so outdated
My greedy ass has been trying to get a psi hermetic with arrow head, accurized, outlaw, head stone and head seeker. Also a heliocentric with heal clip, kill clip and incandescent. No luck with either but I gotta little time left.
I believe! I too have been trying to get some of those greedy rolls. Also be on the look-out for Enlightened Action over Outlaw on Psi Hermetic. More forgiving and helps with the poor handling and reload.
@@Commander_Pika shh 🤫 (if I tell the universe and bungie I want outlaw maybe they’d give me enlightened action instead) Also you have some of the greatest destiny videos on RU-vid. Thanks for the work man.
Since TFS I've wanted a Marsilion-C with envious assassin and cascade point. I've gone through hundreds of gunsmith engrams focusing at Banshee and still haven't gotten it. Maybe I'll give farming lost sectors a shot.
RNG be a fickle mistress. At least you have something you want to spend Gunsmith engrams on XD. (un)fortunately, Marsillion-C isn't in the Lost Sector loot pool. Weapons in Gunsmith Engrams/Foundry Focusing are only those that are no longer in the "world loot pool".
I did hundreds of runs of onslaught and got a ton of the gold weapons but all the perfect god rolls was non gold even tho gold had multiple perks. The gold realy makes no difference but still annoying. Blast furnace and midnight coop are 2 of the best primary weapons out there. I got kinetic tremors one for all on blast furnace and kinetic tremors explosive payload on midnight coop and hung jury both. Kinetic tremors is super nasty on blast furnace as it takes literally no time to proc kinetic tremors it’s crazy
Giving "Legend" title away for free that everyone can get Event boils down to farming engrams in the cosmodrone Dripfeed Who comes up with this stuff? We need more firings!
it would be "that" long, haha. If you aren't in a hurry, just take the casual approach. Got catalyst to grind, time to kill, or a podcast to listen to? Then spend some time in Skywatch.
The people complaining about the bug fix are 50 years old and grind strikes all day long. They have 0 clue what they are talking about and just yap to yap.
*UPDATE from 9/5/2024 TWID:* Choir of One's reserves will be 200 at base and 300 with max (x3) reserves with the launch of Episode 2. This far exceeds my "worst-case scenario" from the video. Barely any change. This thing is a monster. For perspective, that's: 1.3 million minor total damage and 700k boss total damage at base, 2 million and 1million (respectfully) at x3. Higher than the special weapons and nearly all heavy weapons mentioned in the video, while still having the same DPS. Only thing worth noting is that "point blank" hipfire shot seems to have the impact damage too high, which is also causing it to deal more damage with Divinity, so that might get slightly toned done. But, the "normal hipfire" shot does plenty damage anyway. Tl;dr: Choir is still super strong, people had nothing to worry about, and stop complaining. IMO, expect the normal damage to get adjusted in the far future. TWID: www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/twid_09_05_2024
Its reserves should be closer to 300 with 3 reserve mods. With 200 I might as well not shoot the gun unless it’s a tanky red bar or yellow bar which is lame.
the funny thing here is, while the ammo nerf puts it in line with other specials especially rocket sidearms it still kinda doesnt, no one is using those for boss dmg but minors/major dmg so Choir of One now equalling these ends up being a nerf because it simply doesnt have the add clear potential these sidearms currently have, especially the solar one with incandescant or the arc one with voltshot. yes it can get volatile rounds but that perk needs overhauling to be on par with voltshot/incan. But the issue now becomes, because choir of one is now nerfed in boss dmg it now doesnt have a place at all due to that much lower ammo, so it now not only doesnt excel in boss dmg it also doesnt excel in minor/major add clear potential, a dmg nerf simply would have been better here, it means perks like onslaught actually have a "use" i mean whos going to onslaught on potentially a 20-25 shot special weapon with 5 shots per mag dump if you hipfire, you will burn through that ammo so quick to a point ide rather not use it and use a rocket sidearm instead because it simply does a better job all round now
While I do agree Destabilizing Rounds is inferior to voltshot/icandescent for add-clear (due to its cooldown), the complete package Choir of One has is actually pretty solid; you can't just look at the damage numbers. Choir has 3 splash effects: 1) Void explosion caused by it's intrinsic (hidden) Radiolaria Transposer perk, 2) the DoT pool that perk leaves behind, 3) Destabilizing Rounds, which did get a cooldown buff with TFS. All of that is a pretty satisfying package. As for boss damage, yes it will no longer excel in total dmg and prolonged DPS, but it is still good for a special weapon. It won't be your main source of damage for a lengthy damage phase, but it can be a could part of it (or be solid supplimental damage/dps when you run out of heavy ammo). The biggest crime is that of Onslaught, which imo really doesn't belong on the weapon in the first place due to its low mag size. Onslaught needs a big mag, lots of ammo, and quick reloads. It is possible they change that perk if the ammo economy sees a drop in its usage after release.
I think I personally would have preferred the weapon deal less damage and have a better ammo economy, but I think the intent is to limit/eliminate double special as a play style. Either way, destiny fans losing their minds over patch notes will always be a thing it seems. Quite a shame.
@codyhaney5075 I think the intent is actually to encourage double primary, that many people run, but in a non throw fashion. Primaries having infinite ammo means they can only be so powerful, and I don't think they'll ever give primaries limited ammo again. Special ammo "primaries" like this and rocket sidearms allow Bungie to use ammo reserves as one of the balancing tools for the weapon, allowing us to have more power fantasy while still having a limiter. It's reserve nerf will mean it's basically the strongest primary that is sometimes a good heavy weapon, expanding the design space. It also helps that the Choir and Rocket sidearms suck in pvp, enabling the power fantasy in pve to evolve without immediately destroying all balance in crucible.
No, the goal is HYPE, they got people to put in time to acquire this weapon, make some excitement and media coverage in the fan base, and now they want it to be "as intended", Every live service game does this, I mean have you seen how Warframe's trading economy gets manipulated?
As one of the only 3 people who enjoy FOTL, I wish they would go back to the Haunted Forest. It cannot be that hard to bring it back into the game. Haunted Lost Sectors are cool, they're okay, but I feel like there could be more into it. I hope this year they shake it up a little to make it more fun. On the other hand, these events are just for reeling in money because people want to buy the cool sets. I would be okay with doing a short quest during FOTL to obtain the armor sets, like in Solstice, instead of purchasing them but, that's just a dream.
I mean, it IS going to kill the weapon for boss damage. that's crazy. Still Hunt is literally in the game btw, how about we cut it down too so it isn't the only worthwhile weapon that barely works outside of one specific class. And I do understand that the goal is balance. However, it is actually rare that things end up balanced. Look at starfire protocol, and then well of radiance. Look at the state of prismatic hunter and remember the year of strand titan we had. Bungie doesn't know how to balance their own game and, to make matters worse, they keep firing their own staff.
I was going to put Still Hunt in the video, but already had too much. While it's burst and damage rotation capabilities are strong, the Celestial Nerf did make it equally viable across classes. And when it concerns Boss Damage, Choir of One currently does similar to 50% more damage than Still Hunt.
While I feel like this weapon is clearly overtuned there is a major problem with Bungie's difficulty philosophy due to Salvation's Edge. Salvation's Edge is far more difficult than other raids and it is also a chore to teach people how to do it. Once I got all of my Adept Salvation's Edge weapons that I wanted I really don't have any kind of want to run it again or teach people to learn how to do it. That being said personally I don't feel like anything in Destiny is very difficult, especially for players that consider themselves more "hardcore". But when you make activities feel like a chore to teach you need some kind of powercreep to help get new players to run activities. I've got one friend that only plays void titan, however with the state of the game, you have to be running a meta build otherwise you are a major hinderance. Prismatic is clearly stronger than any other subclass with only a few of the other subclasses being able to find a niche. The new activities were tuned around this subclass, and you can effectively play this subclass without using any weapons. That means what ever weapon you do chose to use has to also be overtuned to be deemed useful. I would love for bungie to make many parts of this game more chill and relaxed so people don't feel the need to be running everything thats overtuned. Making the strike playlist -5 at all times I believe was a major mistake. Instead of strikes being an activity to chill out with friends, you can get melted pretty easily without running the meta builds. Guardians are supposed to be like gods, and unfortunately Bungie feels the need to make everything feel like it's the exact same difficulty. I do not feel as if master mode for raids is significantly harder than normal mode, however at the same time I don't feel as if normal mode raids is something I can chill out to anymore. A game needs its high highs and its low lows. I also feel that you miss the point on why people are upset with the prismatic hunter nerfs. The vast majority of the population of Destiny players do not play pvp and have no desire to touch it. There are many other games that do the pvp shooter genre better, and much of pvp is designed around console/controller players. While I agree prismatic hunter is not very fun to play against - especially in the game mode trials, in pve I really do not believe prismatic hunter is the strongest subclass, with that title going to prismatic warlock. While prismatic hunter does have the highest boss DPS in the game on an extended damage phase with Still Hunt, in almost every other scenario I would rather be on prismatic warlock. Most people that play Destiny play hunter, and for their class to get a nerf due to an activity that they never touch is frustrating to say the least.
thanks for making this video, i honestly just hope that your right on the worst case senario, kinda wished they just told us the amount of ammo reserves it was intended to have or that they intend to update it to (or both). i love the weapon as a high risk high reward weapon, even if the way i generate ammo for it now w/ special ammo finisher almost trivializes it, and i hope they just lean into that while keeping the damage its doing (excluding the bug w/ divinity and of course not to mean they keep its total damage as it is pre fix).
Yeah, it would have been nice if they told us the exact values, but it did come from the Community Team outside of scheduled TWIDs/posts. Maybe we'll get hard numbers in the next TWID.
D2 players just have a Pavlovian response to start wailing when the word "nerf" is uttered. Frankly, I thought it was wild that it shipped the way it did. If it didn't get nerfed then it would quite literally be the ONLY exotic to use in many activities (something people would then also complain about).
I agree with you (even before seeing the numbers I'm pretty sure anyone who is actually half-knowledgeable on the game knew this should've got a nerf) but I think the negativity around nerfs (or fixes or whatever you wanna call it) is just a result of a mix of things, one of those being general negativity around the game (not now as a result of the current mood but in general, we've been doing this for 10 years now after all), another one being just how, and I don't know any friendlier way of saying this, bad people are at this game. There's an unwillingness to acquire any kind of skill, be that via just improved game sense, knowledge, builds etc. from a lot of people, which is imo also why battleground GMs are generally badly received as those can be still challenging even nowadays. I liked the Liminality GM a lot but I think it could've been a ton harder still, for example. Honestly, seeing "Choir of One" and "about 200 in reserves" is all you need to know if you know anything about the game. That's a fine number, especially if it's without reserve mods, you can still pair this with a rocket sidearm (which should technically also be nerfed) and a decent heavy and you'll never run out of ammo. A lot of people just seemingly play the game in a fundamentally flawed way and can't see that. Also I do like "spicier" takes even though I personally think "Destiny 2 is a bit too much on the easy side currently and taking some reserve ammo out of a completely standout weapon is fine" isn't spicy. I don't think that stuff is elitist either. Anyway the big takeaway people should have from this video, Choir of One aside, is that trace rifles need some sort of buff/help. I really wanna use my laser rays again without feeling like I'm handicapping myself.
As a strictly PvP only player, I'm glad the enhancement system was finally added to at least one PvP only weapon (Summoner). I've long been a proponent of PvP only players having a similar path to grinding max light level as PvE players. But for some reason PvE players reach PVP endgame level faster than PvP players.
yes. you must have completed Dual Destiny at least once (which will add it to your collection), on that character, before you can get Exotic Class items to drop from Pale Heart chests (or Xur).
Two months plus on and I still don't regret not purchasing this expansion and still have no intention to purchase it. I know its not me that's changed, its the game and not for the good.
Nope. So just shift the pure solution whichever way seems most natural. Only criteria is the "pure shape" doesn't contain that statues shape. So if it's Triangle statue, either CC or SS are viable pure solutions.
It's not guaranteed to be active, as it rotates for Nightfalls, crucible (and I could have sworn gambit got it this season). You can see the activity modifier when hovering over the core playlist at the top of the director screen and then in the modifier list (bottom left) when you queue that activity.
@@Commander_Pika ahh I didn’t realise it there wasnt always at least one activity with it active and googling it is a nightmare cause it just shows double do and everything else, really appreciate my friend
