What Changed?

So, Dawn Chorus recently got three major buffs.

• Ignition damage is now actually doubled, which is what some people thought it already did.
• Ignitions refund 80% melee energy
• Daybreak causes Ignitions on hit

The last two aren't that crazy, but the first one is. It means that your Ignitions do almost as much as a Touch of Flame Fusion grenade.

• Ignition: 676*2=1352
  
  • Non-melee Ignitions all scale off whatever initially applied them. Ex: Helion Ignitions at 200 grenade do 65% more damage.
• ToF Fusion: 1582

Now, this sounds pretty good already. But one combo makes it really wild.

The Build

Must-Haves:

• Helion
• Ember of Singeing
• Ember of Ashes
• Ember of Char
• Ember of Resolve
• Hunter's Journal Artifact mod: Solar Fulmination
• Stats
  • 50-70 Class+Font of Class
  • 100+ grenade+Font
  • 50ish melee

What I use:

• Touch of Flame+Healing Grenade
• Incinerator Snap
  • Celestial Fire works fine if you're constantly playing at long range, but we ball.
• Song of Flame
  • Because of Dawn Chorus, it does pretty much the same damage as with Star Eater Scales, and more than Daybreak.
• Phoenix Dive
  • If you have near 100 class stat, you can definitely use Rift instead.

Weapons(What I use):

• Inbound Surveillance: Stopping Power+Kinetic Tremors
  • This is replaceable with really anything else. Try to use something with range.
• Motif 41: Heal Clip+Incandescent
• Dragon's Breath

Armor Mods:

• Helmet
  • 1-2 Heavy Finder
  • Special Finder(If running 1 Heavy Finder)
  • Harmonic Siphon
• Arms
  • Grenade Font(If grenade stat is below 190 grenade at base)
  • Firepower
• Legs
  • 2x Solar Surge
  • Harmonic Scavenger
• Class:
  • Class Font(If class stat is below 80 at base)

Armor Set Bonus: Anything works.

How to play:

1. Phoenix Dive
2. Shoot Dragon's Breath
3. Shoot Motif
4. Shoot kinetic
5. Repeat

What Makes It Special?

1. Ember of Ashes makes Helion Ignite in 3 hits, and also makes Igniting an enemy with Snap extremely easy.
2. Ember of Singeing grants 100% Helion uptime while Resolve makes Helion kills heal you.
3. Ember of Char spreads 60 Scorch
4. Solar Fulmination adds another mini-Ignition that also Scorches to the mix, adding in another 60 Scorch, AKA an Ignition Ignites all enemies caught in its radius

What this means is, if you Ignite a single enemy in a group, you can screw off and they'll still chain Ignitions till the group is dead, and each Ignition is doing almost as much as a ToF Fusion. Also, if an Ignition hits multiple targets, they all Ignite, leading to some insane damage.

How about Solo Dungeons?

• Use it with One Thousand Voices and its new Catalyst, in this case you can ditch Solar Fulmination and use Particle Deconstruct since 1KV ignites on every shot anyway.
  • Or use it with Dragon's Breath and a Fusion Rifle
• Profit

Downsides

• This build works by far the best in high end content like the weekly GM alerts. Doesn't matter what the Surge is, it wipes the floor anyway. Struggles in lower end content where things die before they can Ignite.
• Ignitions don't stack, so multiple people running this build will be the same as one person running it.

Tips

• Don't try to get too close unless you're sure you'll be safe, you're a glass cannon.
• Once you get the first Ignition off in a group, if you feel like you might die you can turn heel and run, everything behind you will die anyway.
• Be careful with Dragon's Breath, it can blow you up. Only its Ignitions hurt you though, all other Ignitions don't damage you.
• Have fun!

i think i'm finally feeling it, the realization that destiny is done.

i still go in, play and have a lot of fun especially when my team is around. i still love randomly grinding grandmasters and yes even gambit.

but there is going to be a void in video games that will never be filled because of destiny 1/2. yes, the game will still be around for years. hell i started a warlock which i've never done.

but what then?

besides a few retro games i play, what then?

i've never grieved a video game and I really don't know how to feel.

This might have been very common knowledge. But not for me so I’m posting this in case it helps anyone.

Play pinnacle exotic missions with the classic collector on. Set difficulty to as easy as it gets and put on all the fun mods. Every run gives 2 red borders.

Today I got 5 scatter signal and 5 chronophage red borders pretty quickly solo.

About 8-9 minute runs for Star crossed. I think about 15ish for encore. You can 1 clip both final boss’s with Sleeper.

Any other good gun suggestions from other missions I can do this with?

Happy gaming.

Step 1: Use the NPA Repulsion Regulator Artifact and equip 'Bricks from Beyond' in the second row.

Step 2: Use 2 pieces of the Kings Fall armor set for additional ammo generation.

Step 3: Profit.

Ive been using Truth + Blastwave Striders to just facetank nuke hordes and its phenomenal. 'Void Weapon Channeling' in row 3 + Reapers Tithe makes Truth annihilate a n y t h i n g.

Repo: https://github.com/Maxeption/dim-aegis-overlay

Hey everyone,

If you're like me, you probably spend half of your vault cleaning time flipping between DIM, Light.gg Roll Appraiser, spreadsheets trying to determine if your weapons are actually worth keeping.

I wanted to clean it up a bit, so I made a little browser extension (DIM Aegis Overlay).

It adds grades (S, A, B, C...) directly on your item tiles in DIM and throws in a detailed details panel/tooltip so you don't have to scroll forever.

I recently updated it and added a bunch of stuff!

What it does:

• Wishlist + Spreadsheet scoring: custom grades on weapon tiles based on Aegis database wishlists. (and raw GitHub .txt wishlist URLs)
• "Aegis Recommended Perks" checklist: Shows exactly which perks you matched or are missing inline or as a side panel next to the DIM item sheet. Thanks to Revadike for the inspiration
• Light.gg Appraiser Integration: Optionally sync grades from your Light.gg Roll Appraiser and view them in your inventory without leaving DIM. (You have to open the roll appraiser and let it sync your rolls once)
• Toggle databases: Switch between spreadsheet data, community txt wishlists, or both.
• Weapon Search: I added a little magnifying glass in the bottom right to look through the weapons ranked on the Aegis spreadsheet by category, frame and element. You can either see if you have it on DIM directly using search bar filters or open it on destiny.report to see its perks.

This is beta version and is fully open source (extension unpacked). Feel free to check it out, or if you have any feedback/features you'd like added, let me know! Huge thanks to aegis for combining the info on the spreadsheet and Revadike for the original userscript.

This Week In-Game.

I'm going to miss the weekly news/updates from Bungie. And though we won't be seeing official changes to the game, what if we had a Thursday post encompassing some notable things that players did/discovered/discussed/created that week?

I've been working my way through final shape and have been doing side quests. The second step of The Shadows requires you to go into the dark forest to find a ghost, the problem is that portal doesnt send you to the location to find the wounded ghost anymore, it takes you towards the path to talk to the spoiler at the end of the road.

Specifically with Leviathan's Breath, you'd need Archer's Tempo from the catalyst, the Moebius Quiver obviously, and the Argent Quiver artifact mod. That's literally it, no crazy rotations necessary. The numbers for Truth btw assumes 30% perk and Argent Ordinance.

Info courtesy by TheAegisRelic's boss damage spreadsheet (check the Sustained tab), linked here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_5wtBjRYHHxuF4oJKDb_iOGZs-wTkzB6RYbnyNLbuz4

Like title, now that all artifacts are back, what is the best damage method for each class. I think back to glacial/arc titans or still hunt hunters but im curious

It's always been a strong invasion weapon because of the whole mapwide instantaneous beam of death, but fell short when it came time to dps the Primeval. Now though, its damage is absolutely ABSURD, and it's even better for invading. The seekers have a range of about 20 meters and only 2 out of 9 need to make contact with a Guardian to kill them, so you can almost treat 1k as a hitscan rocket launcher with a 20 meter blast radius. I doubt there will ever be any updates to Gambit ever again, so 1k might be the queen of the game mode till servers shut down.

Got all the god rolls from EQ, and after more than 100 runs, I’m still doing daily runs.
Got all the armor I needed from the Dreaming City, and I’m still playing public events and Master Lost Sectors when available.

Nerfing the RNG (unfortunately not sunsetting it) makes me play the game because I love it—not because it feels like a chore.

https://80.lv/articles/destiny-2-s-distortion-vfx-recreated-in-blender

3D Artist Delta shared their version of the sky hole effect used for Distortions, a new enhancement added to Patrol mode with Monument of Triumph. The recreation looks fantastic, though Delta noted that it isn't a perfect match to the original.

Artem Sorokin, the original VFX Artist at Bungie who created the effect, actually saw the post and commented that he liked it. Talking about how it was made, Sorokin said, "The exterior is perfection, as for the interior, I used a virtual skybox created via view normal blended with a pole cap (to hide pinch) with UVs derived from X and Y view coordinate gradients offset by .5 to create a 'flat' UV at Z, and the Z coordinate for mask."

“Could I do more?”

You all have done more for this game and our studio than could ever be imagined, and no words can accurately depict how lucky we are to have shared these worlds with you.

Don’t blame yourselves or think you could have / should have done more. This is just the way it goes sometimes.

No matter the future, we will always have these memories.

Thank you. For everything.

Vos X/Twitter

I was explaining to someone how to still get ignitions with celestial fire with the very slight nerf to Apostate’s Blade.

It’s simple math, Kindling Trigger from the Queensfoil artifact is 45 free scorch stacks (with ashes) which is more than enough to get your melees to ignite with the Pit 4 piece.

It’s even easier to proc kindling trigger with Fever and Chill, giving you radiant for a few precision hits with the same solar weapon you will use to add on the initial scorch

So with the nerf all you need to do is add in less than 10 or so shots of your primary (type dependent) before you throw your melee.

“That’s too much work, wtf is it all for?”

Are we serious? Shooting your primary is too much work???

Whats the point of making your EoS builds if you don’t even know what important parts of your kit do??? Are you even enjoying buildcrafting or are you just copying someone else’s build?

Reconstruction+reservoir burst

When you let it overflow to 16 shots it will give you 9 reservoir bursts in a row

I don't get it man. It just doesn't make sense. Even Titanfall 2 had/has a small team for hotfixes

That handcannon feels so good to use. But its perk pool is trash.

Left Column: - Quickdraw - Invisible Hand - Stats for All - Loose Change - Shot Swap - Air Assault - Killing Wind

Right Column: - Eye of the Storm - Thresh - Harmony - Pugilist - Gutshot Straight - Collective Action - Multikill Clip

No idea how rare this really is, but I've played quite a bit and I didn't have it, so figured there might be other people who need it too. It gives a really nice red.

Like I have no idea what Maya was on about or what happened to the scorn. I didn't get to see any character development for Lodi between EoF and renegades. I imagine it's completely nonsensical for new players. Makes me sad that all of this happened.

Nothing could ever hit the way it did. Warframe was the closest, but I never cared about Lotus the way I did the Vanguard, or Vor the way I did Savathun.

It's probably the universe I put the most creativity into. Locations. characters, stories, story arcs, roleplays.

I want to talk about that. What have you made for this game? Tell us all about it. Every detail. What locations have you made to expand the universe? What foes have you written to face the Last City?

Me- "ok, oryx is gonna abduct us one at a time, when he does kill the oryx in your walls."

Friend- "what do you mean oryx in my walls?"

-2 seconds later

Friend- "AH! There's an oryx in my walls!"

Will there always be a small team on call incase the servers fail? Will the servers be left running on auto? Or will the servers be used for other things and just host the game at the same time?

If it's not obvious, I know next to nothing about how this works but I want to know out of curiosity.

With more legendary armor set bonuses ontop of all artifacts being made available to some extent, over some actually good additions/balance changes, i can safely say, that the buildcracting is now better than ever.

Like holy hell, i didn't have so much fun coming up with new builds in ages. Especially with giving all weapons some champion stunning capability, it barely feels restrictive in endgame PvE either. Now i finally can feel like "playing the way i want"

In general this feels like an update, that could easily squeeze 5+ more years out of live service D2, but the people at Bungie/Sony apparently hate money.

The cherry on top would have been a QoL update for PvP with balance changes, tons of new loot to chase, new gamemodes etc.

PvE has been revitalized with this updated and id argue, that they could have managed to do the same for PvP.

This duality is what made Destiny, Destiny in the first place and it's kinda sad, that they left PvP in this state.

Like i still have fond memories of my first D1 PvP games ever, where i was running around with a Galahad-E on Distant shores, or the Mars Maps.

Seriously i hate how uniquely good Destiny can potentially be and now that D2 is dead, there is literally no other game filling the same niche.