Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. X1 Destiny.

Typically Nightfall or Crota raid on Tuesdays. But I'll drop down and run lower content with anybody that joins. Message me on XBL if you're unable to join the chat party because it's full or whatever.

Seasons Greetings

As composed by wadster90:

You know Cooler and Cubert,
Brune and OD.
Norpo and Porter,
Freaky and GT.
But do you recall,
The most famous cheeser of all?

Wadster the red-nosed warlock,
ready to go and cheese.
Nightfalls should drop some sweet loot,
Gjallys around if you please!

If Crota is to meet his end,
Cubert needs to leave.
We all need to DPS,
and force him to a knee.

GT wants some armor,
OD needs a helm,
I still want a Mythoclast,
The best in Atheon's realm

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. X1 Destiny.

Nexus is the strike this week. Void burn for the Nightfall.

I'll be back in town and plan to be on. I do still have guests in town though, so there's a chance I may be delayed. But I don't need to sleep anymore, so should be on at some point, even if not right at 9.

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Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. X1 Destiny.

Plan for tonight is to run Nightfalls, up to 3 times to cover everybody's characters.  Be sure to join the Xbox Live chat party, because we will be running parallel strikes.  Nightfall and Heroic Weekly this week are level 30 Phogoth with Arc Burn.  Please try your best to NOT go into matches underleveled, because it makes it more difficult and time consuming for everybody involved.  The Bada Bing Best Known Method for Nightfall and Weeklies is to run at max level, and then to switch out to alts at the end as needed for rewards.  e.g., I will be running everything 3 times on my 30 Hunter, but switching to my 29 Warlock on one run, and my 29 Titan on another run.  We would much rather wait 5 minutes while you go to Tower and switch out, instead of spending an extra hour struggling through Nightfall underleveled.  Rough plan for the rest of the week:

• Tuesday: Nightfalls, weekly Heroic if there is time
• Wednesday: Crota's End Raid
• Thursday: TBD Raid - CE or there's a request for Vault of Glass Hard Mode to try and get some Fatebringers

People will start to break off for the holidays starting on Friday, so will have to see who's around to see what we play.

The past couple of weeks have been Arc Burn with lots of Thrall.  The best guns we've seen for these runs have been:

Primaries

• Fatebringer: One of the best guns in the game for current content.  It's a Legendary hand cannon that does Arc Damage.  That means it gets a damage boost for Arc Burn, gets tons of ammo drops, does 1-shot kills for most trash mobs, and still leaves an Exotic slot open somewhere else.  Can only be earned via RNG drop when killing the Templar in VoG on Hard Mode.
• Bad Juju: Since the last update, Bad Juju is awesome for Hive missions.  The set of perks allow you to hipfire, in full auto mode, and never have to reload.  You can essentially go Rambo mode on all the thrall and solo the mobs.  Can be obtained by completing the Toland's Legacy exotic bounty.  I recommend everybody in the clan start working that bounty off.
• Suros Regime: This is a really good choice for the Lamp run at the beginning of Crota's End Raid.  It has the Lightweight perk that can be unlocked for +2 Agility, which is very helpful for running quickly.  It is also effective when firing from the hip (not ADS), which is very helpful for clearing the thrall crowds.  Has been offered by Xur several times, so most of us have one of these.  Doesn't really matter at this point if you ReXurbished it to 331 damage or not, is mainly useful for the +2 Agility and ability to clear low level trash mobs.
• Vision of Confluence: This is a mediocre choice, but is useful for the Wizards and shielded Shanks that show up in the current maps.  Does Solar damage in the primary slot.  Can only be earned via RNG drop when running VoG in Normal or Hard mode.

Secondaries

• Murmur: This is one of the best choices in the Secondary slot.  It's earned from the Eris story line, so I believe everybody who is currently actively playing has it.  Can swap between Arc or Solar damage, and is awesome at vaporizing Thrall mobs.  Also has the Lightweight perk for +2 Agility.
• Ice Breaker: Everybody's favorite unlimited ammo sniper rifle, newly ReXurbished this past weekend.  Good choice for Wizards and providing ranged support at the CE bridge.

Heavies

• Gjallahorn: "Gooberhorn" is the best rocket launcher in the game, once you unlock the Wolf Pack rounds.  Can currently only be earned via RNG.  So if you don't already have it, don't worry about it.
• Thunderlord: Exotic arc damage machine gun.  Again, can currently only be earned via RNG.  So if you don't already have it, don't worry about it.

If you don't have these weapons, Arc damage is the best choice.  Preferably Legendary or Exotic max damage 331 variants.  If you don't have that, please chat with the party to see what options are best.  It is always worth it to move your best gear to the character that you are playing on.  We'll wait.

Xursday Considerations

The first post-DLC Xursday is in about 5 hours.  We expect that Xur will have Exotic guns and Exotic upgrades to pre-DLC Exotics.  We also expect Xur to have some Exotic armor.  Here are all the new Exotic armor pieces that come with the DLC:

Name	Rarity	Class	Type	Offense
The Glasshouse	Exotic 36	Titan	Helmet	Def: BoL/WoL last longer
The Stag	Exotic 36	Warlock	Helmet	Def: Self-res disorients enemies
ATS/8 Arachnid	Exotic 36	Hunter	Helmet	Off: GG zooms ADS
Starfire Protocol	Exotic 36	Warlock	Chest	Off: Extra Fusion grenade
Ruin Wings	Exotic 36	Titan	Gauntlets	Off: More hvy ammo drops
Claws of Ahamkara	Exotic 36	Warlock	Gauntlets	Off: Extra Scorch/Energy Drain
Don't Touch Me	Exotic 36	Hunter	Gauntlets	Taking melee dmg makes you invisible
Mk. 44 Stand Asides	Exotic 36	Titan	Boots	Off: More Shoulder Charge
Radiant Dance Machines	Exotic 36	Hunter	Boots	Off: Move faster while ADS

I've marked "Off:" or "Def:" for if the armor is more offensive or defensively inclined based on it's perks.  I'm also making a guess that Exotic DLC armor will have max light of 36 - i.e., 3 higher than the DLC legendaries (like pre-DLC armor).

IF Crota's End raid works like Vault of Glass, one type of armor will be withheld for Hard Mode.  On VoG, you could only get the Raid Helmet by playing Hard Mode, so the easiest way to 30 was to have an Exotic Helmet instead and get the Normal Mode raid armor drops.  If that same mechanic continues, and if we look at the DLC Exotic offerings, we know that the HM armor can not be a Chest or Boots, because there aren't Exotics offered for all 3 classes.

What does this mean?  My *GUESS* is that a HM-only Crota's End drop is probably a Helmet or Gauntlets.  However, reddit data from players has shown Gauntlets dropping as loot in Normal Mode.  Nobody has reported receiving a Helmet yet.  That means if Xur is offering a helmet for your class, you should buy it.  It would appear that the CE HM-only drop will be a helmet again.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. X1 Destiny.

Welcome darknorpo to Destiny!  I'm traveling this week, but OmniscientDeath should be on, look for his party invite.

Player	Hours	Progress	Grimoire	Main	Alt1	Alt2
Beer4Porter	48	39%	1260	27	0	0
Brune TSLJ	284	70%	1740	29	14	9
CoolerSopranos2	164	65%	1700	29	26	2
Cubert30	392	90%	2000	30	30	30
darknorpo	6	14%	490	11	0	0
gtdroptop	329	70%	1830	29	28	28
o DeadEye o	10	17%	530	9	6	0
OmniscientDeath	254	70%	1870	30	29	28
Wadster90	363	85%	2015	30	29	29
YVRShyAsian	499	87%	2090	29	29	28

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Destiny.

If we have six at level, we'll most likely run Raid. If not, then Nightfall. The strike this week is Nexus, with Solar burn for Nightfall. The Nightfall pattern has been cracked:

Arc Sepiks, Void Phogoth, Solar Sekrion, Arc Valus, All Aksor, Void Sepiks, Arc Phogoth, Void Sekrion, None Valus, Arc Aksor

We are on the Solar Sekrion week. So many exotics to choose from: Ice Breaker, Pocket Infinity, Invective, Super Good Advice, Gjallarhorn, Vex Mythoclast