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.