there are a lot more ps exclusives this time around. full armor sets for all three classes, guns of course, i think class items as well.

i can deal with console exclusives as they are now everywhere in every major game, but the time frame is WAY too long. who thought 1 year exclusives was a good idea?! COD didnt even do that. i could deal with 1 month, hell even 6 months, but a year is ridiculous.

6/23/2015 4:51:35 PM

Ah bungie, even when they try to get it right...they get it wrong. Who thought $20 for armor, shaders and emotes was a good idea? I really hope I can blame Activision for this shit show of an expansion model.

6/24/2015 11:13:17 PM

35 PoE #3 for the week in the bag. now if i can get a decent reward from crucible for a change

6/24/2015 11:32:05 PM

Updates on the webpage. Looks like they're working to bump the upcoming xpac down to $20. Hinted at other bonuses for Year 1 players.

6/25/2015 7:05:25 AM

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=13090

Quote :

"This week at Bungie, we’re working hard to fix what’s wrong with the Collector’s Editions for The Taken King. You’ve voiced your objections. We agree wholeheartedly. Now, our attention is focused on creating solutions. These things take time, so pardon our silence these past few days. In moments like these, actions speak louder than words. In developing The Taken King, one of our goals has been to celebrate you and your triumphs. E3 was a place to reveal the new adventures we hope to send you on, but our conversations there didn’t do justice to our plans to honor your legacy. Don’t take it from me. Here are some words from Luke Smith: I am Luke Smith, Creative Director on Destiny: The Taken King. Many, many years ago, I wrote to you each week in this spot. We talked about Battle Rifles, we talked about stuff we weren't going to talk about, and at some point I did a horrible hand-drawing of an upcoming map and teased you with it in the Weekly Update. Anyone who knows me knows I can be sarcastic, anyone who remembers podcasts I've done knows that I can be pretty blunt, and anyone who’s watched me in a ViDoc knows I'm pretty unpolished. However, most of you don't know me. Reading my interview with Eurogamer and imagining it came from some random developer of a game I love - that random developer looks like an Asshat. But that Asshat was me - and those words rightfully anger you. I'm sorry. My words made it sound as if Bungie doesn't care about their most loyal fans. We do care. We are listening. And we will make it right. Here's what we're doing about the Collector's Edition of Destiny: The Taken King... We’re actively working to make the digital content from the Collector’s Edition available in a $20 upgrade bundle (suggested retail price), available on 9/15/2015. If you purchase a stand-alone version of Destiny: The Taken King, or already have, you'll be able to pick up the digital items as soon as they are available. The Taken King Collector’s Edition Digital Content consists of: (3) Class Specific Emotes, (3) Armor Shaders, and (3) Exotic Class Items with XP Bonuses. If you have decided to pick up the Legendary Edition of Destiny: The Taken King at retail, you can also elect to pick this up if you want to upgrade into a Collector’s Edition. If you purchased the existing Digital Collector’s Edition, and you already owned Destiny and both expansion packs, we’ll have some additional information for you soon. If you want to get caught up on all of the options available for Destiny: The Taken King, you can view the details here. (Note: You won’t see the Collector’s Edition Upgrade we described above, yet. We’re working on it.) For those looking for a little more context about Emotes and Class Items in The Taken King, we will be introducing new Class Items with stat attributes. These will provide players with another gear slot that can contribute to both your Guardian’s look and build preferences. The Class Items included in the Collector’s Edition are a welcome addition for players looking to level up newborn Guardians or fresh subclasses, but they are not the only new Class Items available in Destiny: The Taken King. This is part of our focus on making the game more rewarding and adding more variety options for players. The same goes for Emotes. So, that’s what we’re doing about the Collector’s Edition. Here are some other questions, and answers, about some other topics many of you care about. “Hey, I have Destiny and all its expansions. Do I really have to buy stuff I already own to play The Taken King?” The Digital Download is for existing players who already own Destiny and both expansion packs, and are ready to jump straight into The Taken King this September. “Hey, I’ve been here since day one. What do I get?” If you already have a Light Level 30 Guardian, or if you’ve picked up and played both The Dark Below and House of Wolves, then you’re a VIP in The Tower’s book. They’ll reward you accordingly with a victory lap that will include a permanently exclusive set of items. When you stride through the Tower, people are going to ask you where you got those wonderful toys. You’ll nod and let them know you earned them. It’s a Year One thing, and they just wouldn’t understand. And they won’t ever be able to get their hands on their own set. And we’ll have more fun stuff for you to announce in the very short term future, just for you. Thanks for caring enough to sound off. We heard the feedback, loud and clear. We’ll talk more soon."

[Edited on June 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM. Reason : The fans won...sorta]

6/25/2015 12:05:02 PM

Quote :

"The Taken King Collector’s Edition Digital Content consists of: (3) Class Specific Emotes, (3) Armor Shaders, and (3) Exotic Class Items with XP Bonuses."

am I misunderstanding... ? this would be $20 on top of the $40 for the actual Taken King DLC.. so actually $60 for those that already have the other DLCs and the game. this cash grab is painful to watch

6/25/2015 12:59:26 PM

my understanding is that it would be $20 extra, so $60 total. i keep saying that they are treating this game like COD which is it totally not. the type of player is not the same! no one is grinding COD like destiny. loot means more to a destiny (MMO) player! that is why everyone gets pissed when these things are behind a paywall. this is classic activision strategy - bunch of weird collectors editions, a lot of overpriced cosmetic dlc, etc...

6/25/2015 1:26:21 PM

dat horse armor

6/25/2015 2:21:11 PM

I will not pay 20 bucks extra for a couple shaders and a couple pieces of armor.

6/25/2015 8:43:10 PM

fry have you got any of the elemental primaries to drop?

I'd like to run a 35 with someone who's done it before. Also... i'd like to know how often decent weapons drop.

6/26/2015 7:30:57 AM

i have gotten a couple. to be honest though, most of the weapons you can get from PoE aren't very good. ToO seems to be where the goods are

6/26/2015 8:32:21 AM

i've only beaten skolas twice. the first time i got the elder cipher. the second time i got the hand cannon with void.

6/26/2015 8:52:19 AM

Xur stuff this weekend

Peregrine Greaves [Exotic Titan leg armour] – 13SC
Crest of Alpha Lupi [Exotic Hunter chest armour] – 13SC
Heart of the Praxic Fire [Exotic Warlock chest armour] – 13SC
Red Death [Exotic pulse rifle] – 23SC
Exotic Shard – 7SC
Exotic Engram [Helmet] – 23MoL

6/27/2015 9:00:00 AM

6/27/2015 11:16:09 AM

went ahead and bought the titan boots. Perk isn't great, but...200+ strange coins aren't gonna spend themselves. Also bought Red Death since I didn't have it. Bought 3 helmet engrams...got 2 nighthawks and a skull of ahamakamamama. All useless to me. Oh well...decent xur run for me

[Edited on June 27, 2015 at 8:24 PM. Reason : sdf]

6/27/2015 8:23:39 PM

Fuck you bungie. Just had a 7-0 trials run ruined by a weasel code.

6/28/2015 1:53:27 AM

i'm usually pretty good at getting a 1-0 streak, but i've run out of passage coins

6/28/2015 3:48:18 AM

at 7-0 in ToO right now and still have the mercy boon left

i fear an epic meltdown

6/28/2015 4:43:47 PM

yep

6/28/2015 6:20:05 PM

Nooooooo

At least you will get the launcher

6/28/2015 6:54:02 PM

attempting flawless again tonight. this might be the first week we wont make it

6/28/2015 8:23:16 PM

^^ happy with the launcher. not sold on the sniper (eye of sol).
i really want a 9-0 now. that was a great shot at it... i even had a mercy at 8-0, we lost 4 matches in a row after that, it was incredible

6/28/2015 9:25:59 PM

the competition is definitely more intense this weekend. we usually run 9-0 without losing tbh

6/28/2015 9:34:11 PM

also, thorn/the last word imbalance ruins ToO and iron banner. almost no variety to speak of with primary weapons

6/28/2015 10:11:13 PM

i need to knock out two more 35's today/tonight before the reset

6/29/2015 5:35:27 AM

I feel that it's thorn, the last word, red death, and vex...

If you aren't running one of those, you're losing.

I'm really getting pissed, i joined a clan to play destiny since i didn't have enough people to do raids but i'm carrying a 1.5 kdr on losing ToO runs.. I thought these guys should be good.

6/29/2015 7:41:56 AM

Just did the nightfall with 2 random without voice communication in 6:03

6/30/2015 6:15:18 PM

This week I think the weekly will be more difficult/tedious

7/1/2015 1:38:58 PM

the weekly is usually tougher because there aren't any burns.

7/1/2015 3:08:49 PM

yeah i skipped it... got the hunter and warlock to level 5 in iron banana tho.

7/6/2015 8:10:43 AM

still can't get party crasher or fellwinter. saw 3 or 4 party crashers get rewarded to people last night . it's really frustrating fighting against those shotties. only got to iron banana 2, about 500 xp short of 3... just didn't have time

7/6/2015 8:18:44 AM

ive barely played this lately. I did knock out the nightfalls/3 32 POE's. Haven't done squat other than that though and won't have any time to do it tonight. After tomorrow, going on vacation for 2 weeks so looks like i'm gonna be stepping away for a while

7/6/2015 8:23:21 AM

et tu, brownbear?

7/6/2015 9:31:15 AM

^^^i am pretty sure that ib weapons dont start dropping until rank 3.

[Edited on July 6, 2015 at 2:28 PM. Reason : have you gotten the matador? i have seen some pretty beast rolls with that one too.]

7/6/2015 2:27:58 PM

have the matador - got it from regular crucible. it's good, but not as good as party crasher/fellwinter.
ymmv, but i did get a couple of legendary IB weapons last night as a 2, just not the good ones. i guess there are probably tiered tables based on the rank. the grind - it's real. really wish bungie would actually reward performance instead of time/RNG (especially in a competitive playlist, of all things..). their update to "fix" rewards in crucible is complete vapor as far as i can tell.

7/6/2015 4:50:46 PM

arc burn on taniks seems like it could be easy

7/7/2015 7:12:36 AM

arc on taniks? Daaaaaaaaaamnit. Those tracer rounds and snipers during the spider part is gonna be a biiitch

7/7/2015 12:20:09 PM

ran it with 2 randos earlier. wasn't horrible but you can get yourself in a bad spot with arc + lightswitch.
of course, when you have 90+ kills and the other two only have 30+ each... it could be better

danged game gave me a hard light for my troubles

[Edited on July 7, 2015 at 1:11 PM. Reason : ]

7/7/2015 1:11:04 PM

apparently the queensbreakers bow is a beast in the nightfall this week with arc burn and specialist.

7/7/2015 1:18:00 PM

it is, does work

7/7/2015 1:46:44 PM

on if anybody wants to run PoE or whatever

7/7/2015 6:36:58 PM

took down walker in 4 shots with ldr

7/7/2015 7:13:42 PM

stupid golden chests

7/7/2015 7:23:07 PM

^only thing I haven't done

7/7/2015 9:39:11 PM

^,^^ only 5 short myself... everything else is done

7/9/2015 8:39:05 AM

Done.. I Am Legend

7/9/2015 9:19:37 AM

yeah seriously... i did like 3 on earth and most of venus i think but none anywhere else.

7/9/2015 10:38:06 AM

I'm debating on playing this again seems like a lot of people still play?

7/9/2015 6:52:48 PM

2 months for 3 chests and Hard PoE. I got dis.

7/10/2015 8:01:17 AM

2 months for 3 chests and Hard PoE. I got dis.

7/10/2015 8:01:17 AM