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A Post-IB Recap (reply)

BeardFade — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:17:01 +0000

I know being on the 2nd page might make this hard to get this conversation going again, but now that I'm post-IB, I had a few thoughts I wanted to share.

1) Overall, loot dropping was much improved and made the experience a lot more fun. IB packages were great, allowed me to get all three of my characters into the mid 300s (lowest is 305, highest 308). I got a 320 ghost to drop for me, I literally yellled. Robot Chickens and Rellekh can attest to this as they were in my living room when it happened. Getting that much gear from IB made the experience worth the grind IMHO.

2) Clash was fine, except for one thing: the damn auto-spawn switching. For anyone who knows my play style, I purposely stay on the half of the map my teammates are on. I hang back and I take people out from a distance. This leads to a relatively long average life for me. I think I'm pretty close to the 1 minute mark for average life length if I remember correctly. So, frequently, I'd be the last one alive on my team; they'd all revive on the other half of the map and all of a sudden I'd go from being supported to being surrounded with no escape. On one particular occasion, I started the match with a 14-kill streak to have it ended by this. I was frequently frustrated to unscope on a target to find 2 or three triangles converging on me suddenly in the radar. That wasn't fun at all.

3) Ranking went really fast. I had all 3 characters to rank 5 by Saturday morning and I don't think I even played that much. I don't even have class items for any of my characters, so I was only getting 2/3s the possible buff. I got the titan class item to drop for me, so next IB, I'll be able to do this even faster I think.

Overall, though, this was one of the best IBs for me yet.

We'll call it the "Vortech Hammer deficiency allowance". (reply)

Vortech — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 06:07:47 +0000

slow down the regen, or limit the number of times it can regen.

There should be no regen at all. The whole point of regen on a blade dancer is that you take hits getting in close enough to actually connect with your attack. Titans do not have that problem, and so should get zero regen on super kills.

Suncharge?

Anyway, The re-gen should work until you get your first kill.

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Earendil — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:09:54 +0000

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Nailed it :) (reply)

CruelLEGACEY — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:46:20 +0000

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Go sit in your bubble and think about what you've done. (reply)

MacAddictXIV — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:45:37 +0000

Wow! (reply)

CruelLEGACEY — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:41:31 +0000

Hopefully this works. I'm traveling and on my phone. But I had this happen last night.

Hammer Bro Down

I mean, that was an awesome shot. But to get Luck in the chamber to proc right when you need it most... amazing :)

Go sit in your bubble and think about what you've done. (reply)

Beorn — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:37:05 +0000

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get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

MacAddictXIV — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:05:01 +0000

Even on paper it looks overpowered: homing range based super that heals you. Yup.

For the record, anyone who uses homing hammers is stupid.

Why? Because fleetfire or exposive pyre?

Nope. I'm stupid. I thought it was in the same tier as Forgemaster. disregard the stupid person who plays Titans all the time.

get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

dogcow — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:56:10 +0000

Even on paper it looks overpowered: homing range based super that heals you. Yup.

For the record, anyone who uses homing hammers is stupid.

Why? Because fleetfire or exposive pyre?

get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

MacAddictXIV — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:50:58 +0000

Even on paper it looks overpowered: homing range based super that heals you. Yup.

For the record, anyone who uses homing hammers is stupid.

get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

Cody Miller — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:44:52 +0000

slow down the regen, or limit the number of times it can regen.

There should be no regen at all. The whole point of regen on a blade dancer is that you take hits getting in close enough to actually connect with your attack. Titans do not have that problem, and so should get zero regen on super kills.

Even on paper it looks overpowered: homing range based super that heals you. Yup.

You just need a little luck in the chamber (reply)

unoudid — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:32:17 +0000

Hopefully this works. I'm traveling and on my phone. But I had this happen last night.

Hammer Bro Down

I hate my team less. (reply)

BeardFade — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:22:37 +0000

I think that makes a lot of sense. But there still can be a considerable amount of strategy in Clash. It is still better to control certain areas as a team, allowing more advantageous encounters.

I think that would be the worst. (reply)

BeardFade — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:21:00 +0000

I never seem to win a rift match without just taking things into my own hands. It's the equivalent of playing sports as a kid when everyone else can't understand the simplest of strategies, and you just end up yelling, "FINE! I'll do it!"

I Was Gonna Say Hammer Heads. (reply)

Morpheus — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:48:38 +0000

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I played 1 game before raging... (reply)

TheeChaos — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:46:51 +0000

I feel you, I played a couple games last night and did really bad. Not because of supers or anything just didn't play well. I also tried playing this morning, then while loading into the game got disconnected for destiny servers. So i just put in battlefront.

Part of me still wants to play destiny, but when I get on I just can't do it. Must be the new games out pulling me away.

get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

TheeChaos — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:44:59 +0000

it seems different than other regens. Primarily when I play blade dancer, there is this "grace period" between me getting a kill, and my health getting high enough to not die. More times than not, I die if I keep getting hit. Hammerbros don't seem to suffer from this. It could just be perception.

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cheapLEY — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:23:49 +0000

I can easily see myself playing my fingerprints off if there is an IB Mayhem Clash.

That might be the best sentence ever posted on this forum. I laughed so hard.

get rid of instant health regen on hammers, and its fixed (reply)

Schedonnardus — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:02:15 +0000

slow down the regen, or limit the number of times it can regen.

I played 1 game before raging... (reply)

CruelLEGACEY — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:46:36 +0000

Yet again, Sunbreakers are destroying Iron Banner for me. Of my 10 deaths in my first game, 7 were from hammers, and most of those hammers weren't even thrown at me (they were thrown at teammates near me which is all it takes thanks to the insane splash damage). It's utter garbage. I'm pretty far towards the "Destiny PvP would be better without supers" camp, so this probably bothers me more than most other players. But I can't stand it. Not touching IB or 6v6 crucible again until they nerf Sunbreakers... which isn't happening until December.

Sigh :(