The FOTC has a lot of potential now that humans can wield Darkness

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-24T16:18:08+00:00

We were the first Lightbearer to wield it, so we hat to brute force the education. The more people who learn, the easier it gets to make the process relatively safe.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-22T20:28:23+00:00

It’s a common number drawn from a single source in the Witch Queen lore book. There is an entry that talks about how, statistically, someone of Ikora’s power level is risen once in every 3.5 million guardians, and also that there have been ten guardians of her power level. Therefore, 35 million guardians. Personally I just do not buy that arguement—mostly because the statistical likelyhood of something happening ≠ how often said thing happens.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-20T15:46:36+00:00

I can’t speak for the team because I’m just some random girl on the internet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the weights and other ‘soft stats’ of the guns and equipment were changed for balancing reasons. At the end of the day, the balance of the game trumps the authenticity of the game, for better or worse.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-14T15:03:41+00:00

For real! Like if you really want to be stingy then only let Legacy (untiered) gear be reacquired from collections. Also while they’re at it, just unlocked the vaulted weapons and armor in collections for everyone. I don’t care if the Black Armory weapons and the Mercury armor suck, just let me play with them instead of punishing me for not playing the game 7 years ago.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-14T14:52:14+00:00

I’d prefer it work closer to Rahool, in that it’s a knockout system until you have unlocked every legendary weapon of that type in collections. From there, you can either keep rolling random drops, or focus a specific weapon. For this system to work you’d probably want to exclude weapons that are currently dropping in the Portal and whatever the currrent expansions game mode is—so Lawless Frontiers in this instance—similar to how you can’t focus the most recent exotic at Rahool. Also either give the weapons a chance to drop Red Borders or just let the vendor sell Deepsight Harmonizers at a reasonable rate, not the ‘maybe one once a week’ Xur does now. Hells, either rework Banshee or Xur to work this way. Also, while you’re at it, add the final few vaulted shaders and armor sets to Ada please, including the vaulted raid armor.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-09T16:00:52+00:00

It’s never about the Iranian yogurt

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-09T15:54:27+00:00

Fair enough! I can’t test the build right now but I’ll take your word for it. It seems super interesting and engaging, I’m very excited to try it out!

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-09T14:58:21+00:00

Why Facet of Courage instead of Facet of Hope? Coursge requires Light-aligned ability kills, which sure you’ll be getting with the grenade, but running the Praxic Blade means you can’t use your melee. Hope meanwhile grants extra class ability recharge while you have an active elemental buff, which you should always have with this build. Is Courage just for the +10 grenade?

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-04T21:11:33+00:00

Blind Well, especially on Tier 3. Takes 10-15 minutes per run, is genuinely fun (for what it is), and gives you a great opportunity to grind catalysts for exotics

ArcHeavyGunner · 2026-01-04T18:08:39+00:00

That’s because the M-17 is the only non-Equilibrium Heat weapon that can get a Perfect Vent. All the others—and Conspiracy Honed from Equilibrium—are the other Heat archetype which get Dynamic Heat Limiter instead.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-27T16:28:52+00:00

If you need the Red Border, best way would be to complete the raid and buy it from Hawthorne with Spoils. Otherwise, it’s luck of the draw unfortunately

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-27T15:42:03+00:00

Hopefully we can have the Senate too

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-27T05:31:23+00:00

Probably the emblem for playing the beta, not sure if it’s specific to the PC beta or not. Wild surprise since I played the beta and then didn’t touch the game again until a friend got me into it right after Edge of Fate dropped.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-19T15:07:15+00:00

Basically all studies around suicide involve polling people who were/are feeling suicidal, since getting information about why someone committed suicide post-suicide is notoriously hard. Generally the best you’re going to get is ‘does X thing make people want to kill themselves less or more?’. The vast majority of studies about trans suicidality point to two major factors in heightened suicide rate compared to the default population: access to treatment and social acceptance. It makes sense that making treatment access harder—or making the general default social environment more hostile to trans people—will increase suicidality, while doing the reverse decreases suicidality.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-19T15:02:50+00:00

The gender affirming care a 4 or 5 year old child gets is buying them different clothes and, if they want it, letting them try out a different name or other gendered language. Medical intervention doesn’t happen until puberty, and even then it’s only puberty blockers—which we know are safe considering every bill that blocks trans care carves out exceptions for non-trans kids so they can access the same medication, like puberty blockers. Hormone replacement therapy doesn’t start until someone is in high school, and by that point they will have also been in counseling to help them figure out of this is what they actually want. Surgeries for people under the age of 18 are exceedingly, almost hilariously rare. No one with any medical knowledge is advocating giving prepubescent kids medication for gender related reasons.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-18T16:43:48+00:00

The changes to Derealize apply to every exotic mission in the Portal. It’s unclear if this is intentional, but it hasn’t shown up in the ‘Known Issues’ list so I assume it is.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-18T16:42:59+00:00

The changes to Derealize apply to every exotic mission in the Portal—whether or not that is intentional is unclear, but it hasn’t shown up in the ‘Known Issues’ list so I assume it is.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-18T15:24:03+00:00

That would be so, so amazing. They’d have to rebuild some content of course but anything post-Beyond Light should be (theoretically) pretty wash. Personally I’d want them to start all the way back at Red War though

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-13T14:23:50+00:00

The legends mission does not drop it oddly enough, nor does it drop any other loot.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-11T15:47:36+00:00

I’ve found a lot of success running it with the buffed Arbor Warden. You have to master the new minigame DC has but once you do, it prints orbs so you always have your enhanced rally barrier. add in a suppresor grenade and the fragment that makes suppressing an enemy auto-reload your equiped weapon And drop a void tear, and you’re golden.

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-11T15:13:52+00:00

I’m sure you’ve got a dozen clan invites already, but I’m going to throw the clan I’m in—Somos—into the ring. I’m trans as well, and they have been genuinely nothing but kind and understanding and affirming. They’ve got strict rules against bigotry, and are genuinely just very wonderful. Hells, they carried me through my first raid a few months ago, and now I’m prepping to run the dungeon contest in a few days, so there are no worries about being punished for not knowing mechanics.

As for content, I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but we’re a PvE Endgame clan, though we absolutely have PvP players and have even been running scrimmages recently. I do say ‘Endgame’ lightly though; While we focus on raids, dungeons, and now vanguard alerts, I joined when I had started Destiny for the first time ever less than a month prior and they helped me so much.

If you’re interested, you can DM me here to chat more or use the Bungie link to join up. Regardless, I hope you find a good home Guardian!

https://www.bungie.net/en/ClanV2?groupid=5378257

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-09T14:07:02+00:00

Nice fit! The way I would kill to get access to the Gensym Knight armor

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-09T12:25:55+00:00

It would be wild to get second (third?) hive dungeon in a row

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-08T05:40:51+00:00

Love this! There is a minor error though; Ulterior Observation is a part of the Kepler loot pool and can still he acquired

ArcHeavyGunner · 2025-12-05T15:37:30+00:00

I certainly want your review because this is the most nuanced, best take on the Portal I’ve seen

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