I'm looking to venture into The Dreaming City, possibly tonight. I'm still basically Spoiler free on details.
However at some point later I'd like to know specifically what I may have missed out on by not being there Day 1? (Petra location moved or something like that) I think this is going to require someone who was there on Day 1 who also has revisited during the new cycle?

No, seriously, what Blights?

I haven't given anything to the cats, but I got a piece of Dreaming City armor from I think a public event. It has a mod that lets me do more damage there but also causes me to take more damage. The mod is called Riven's Curse.

Yeah I’ve managed to get the complete set on my Titan, with the exception of the Helmet. The armor, as well as the Dreaming City weapons, seem to be part of the loot pool from PE chests and high value targets.

All the armour seems to come with that perk that you discribed. I also got an armour mod somewhere that does gives you the boost to damage output in the dreaming city, but without taking more damage.

Can’t you just buy them from Petra with Dark Shards? Or is that not the same thing and I’m confused?

I... don’t think so...

But I’m gonna run and check as soon as I get home, lol.

lol - I love his writing, I love many of his novels, but I'd say his biggest fault is that he doesn't know how to WRAP up.

My theory is that he just loves writing so much, he never wants to stop.

For those of us who are exploring the Dreaming City...

How the heck do we please these judgmental cats?

I know that it requires a "small offering". I've ended up with one of those in my inventory shortly after arriving in the Dreaming City, and gave it to a cat who in turn gave me a piece of armor. I'm trying to complete the Dreaming City armor set, so I'm trying to find more Small Offerings so that I can give them to more cats. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to get more Small Offerings. I've seen a few posts on reddit saying that people have gotten them from Heroic Public events, or from the Blind Well. I must have done ~20 heroic PEs, a dozen Lost Sectors, 6 or 7 Tier 2 Blind Well completions, a boatload of Patrols... nothing.

Has anyone managed to get a Small Gift to drop? Any ideas of how its supposed to happen?

I still maintain that his short stories are far better than any of his novels. Dude doesn’t know when to shut up.

lol - I love his writing, I love many of his novels, but I'd say his biggest fault is that he doesn't know how to WRAP up. I'm good with really long stories, I just want the ending to be good, when it finally comes. And that's something he's NEVER been very good at. (I think I'd agree it's less of a problem with short stories, simply because they're short to begin with; he can just end and I'm happy. Novels need SOMETHING more than that.)

Honestly, I think a lot of my opinion just comes from The Stand. You could cut that book in half and it would still be about 30% longer than it needs to be. I think you could probably ditch the first 200 pages and it wouldn’t matter at all.

And this coming from the guy that likes The Fellowship of the Ring the best, loves The Council of Elrond, etc. I love world-building and long stories. I don’t know, maybe I just don’t actually like Stephen King’s writing that much (although, again, his short stories are great).

It might be fun to get a big group of us together one night, split into fireteams of 3, but all stay in a party together while our fireteams explore. Maybe even set up a couple livestreams so we can keep tabs on what each group is up to :)

Yes, please. I just got into the Dreaming City this evening. I only spent 30 minutes or so there, but I can't wait to go back in, and it will undoubtedly be better with people.

A tension I've felt about Destiny from the beginning is that it is almost always better with people, yet I enjoy discovering things on my own, too. That said, I'd be up for exploring this with others. I'm a bit more anxious about large parties with members doing different things. Maybe it's an age thing, but I find that distracting if I'm going anything that I want to pay attention to. One thing that has made protocol so awesome was we were a large party, doing the same thing!

I still maintain that his short stories are far better than any of his novels. Dude doesn’t know when to shut up.

lol - I love his writing, I love many of his novels, but I'd say his biggest fault is that he doesn't know how to WRAP up. I'm good with really long stories, I just want the ending to be good, when it finally comes. And that's something he's NEVER been very good at. (I think I'd agree it's less of a problem with short stories, simply because they're short to begin with; he can just end and I'm happy. Novels need SOMETHING more than that.)