You, DeeJ, and Atheon's Revenge (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 19:47 (3924 days ago) @ Cody Miller

So your raid buddies have to learn every role. Whatever. None of them are that complicated. You either have the shield, or you kill Oracles. Home team is at the Venus gate or Mars gate. Done.

People act like Shield is the hardest thing to use, it isn't! It's just the one thing that cannot go wrong ever for the raid to work, but arguably if anyone else stuffs up enough the team is through anyway.

The problem is switching weapons:

1. Portal and Away team have different optimal weapons. Even oracle killers and relic holder are different.
2. With it set, you can choose your loadout and stick with it.
3. With random teleports, you have to go into your menu and switch stuff around. This costs time, and ammo.
4. Portal team in particular has to act very fast upon materializing. Picking up the relic right away will allow the cooldown to end right as vision is starting to cloud. A delay can push that over to past when it goes to black. If nobody knows right away who is picking up the relic, there will be a delay. Oracles have to be killed immediately on hard, you don't have time to dilly ally. Switching weapons aggravates this. That hawkmoon for killing supplicants won't work on oracles so well. Likewise, Atheon's Epilogue won't do so well vs supplicants.

If it weren't for the need to tailor weapons to your role, it would work fine.

It might not be that big a deal, we'll see.

I suppose if you're speedrunning, and every second counts, it might matter that you don't have the OPTIMAL gun for the situation you're in.

I'm pretty sure, though, that you have at least one weapon that will serve ACCEPTABLY in every job. Maybe more than one.

Even I do, and my arsenal's pretty pitiful. ;)