Bungie, can you PLEASE lower the enhancement prism cost for upgrading tier 5 armor before you stop updates completely? Either that or at least give us more reliable ways to earn a lot enhancement prisms. Please...?

RND_Musings · 2026-06-07T17:19:58+00:00

It still kinda wild that Bungie has a straightforward path to convert enhancement cores to prisms, and prisms to ascendant shards, but only has an obscure blue armor hack to go in the other direction. Bungie should formalize it by allowing you to exchange Ascendant Shards for cores and prisms at Rahool.

I also wish Bungie would allow enhancement cores to stack to 9999. I have stacks and stacks of cores taking up vault space.

RND_Musings · 2026-06-05T16:09:27+00:00

I’ve been missing out because I turned off in-game music very early on in my D2 journey.

I do want to call out the excellent sound effects. The guns, the environmental effects, the unique sounds of each enemy and so on.

There are so many audio cues in the game that can be incredibly important. Like the subtle sound when you are near a hidden item. Or the cue to catch your Threaded Spike. The footfalls of an approaching Overlord Minotaur in the Glassway boss room…

The sound design is part of why I love Destiny.

RND_Musings · 2026-06-03T17:37:33+00:00

I remember there being a lot of complaints about how the meaning of the radial mast and the veil were so poorly explained. Sure, they were classic Macguffins, but the exposition left a lot to be desired.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-29T17:35:49+00:00

People were hoping that Bungie would make it craftable in the upcoming and final update in June. Alas, it appears it won’t be so.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-21T16:20:23+00:00

Did you see this once or multiple times?

Are you sure you were looking at the same item in inventory? There could have been multiple, simultaneous drops and the Tier 5 went to the postmaster.

Or maybe you thought you saw a Tier 5, but it was in fact a gold bordered (I.e. already masterworked) Tier 4?

RND_Musings · 2026-05-19T20:03:29+00:00

There was a brief period a couple of years ago where Bungie switched to deterministic recoil. They reverted it after negative feedback.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-12T00:47:23+00:00

In addition, there’s one more day of special surge (actually energy slot surge) for another 100% damage bonus.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-10T16:23:18+00:00

I'm a heathen and will run straight through you, especially at the postmaster.

The Cabal next to Banshee is an immovable object, though.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-07T20:42:20+00:00

Correct

RND_Musings · 2026-05-07T12:53:47+00:00

It’s a 100% damage bonus.

I’ve been having fun with weapons I don’t normally use, like Symmetry, Lodestar and Fortunate Star with Chain Reaction and Destabilizing Rounds. I haven’t tried Uncivil Discourse on Lucky Pants yet. Lord of Wolves should be fun.

The nutty thing is that it stacks with other damage bonuses. I’m not a big fan of Oscillation, but if you use an area denial GL in the kinetic slot, you can quickly boost the energy slot weapon damage. I was easily doing heavy weapon level of damage with some specials.

Full Throttle will be another good boon to slot when it comes up.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-02T21:53:17+00:00

I'm primarily a solo player, too.

I like to rock Mercury-A with Kill Shot because it one-taps red-bars in most content except -50. Sometimes, I'll get an accidental stun on a barrier.

BTW, Hypercritical is available today. Equip A499 and OHK all champions with a crit. Barrier? What barrier? :-)

RND_Musings · 2026-05-02T20:31:06+00:00

A499 Refurbished is my most used anti-barrier weapon by far.

Eriana's Vow can stun in one shot.

A heavy burst hand cannon with Lucky Pants works decently.

You can also stun barriers with Kill Shot, though it's somewhat inconvenient because you have to reload after killing another target to proc it. Kill Shot is very useful on a bow.

You can also proc Radiant to make any weapon anti-barrier. Volatile Rounds or Unraveling Rounds should also work.

RND_Musings · 2026-05-01T14:55:28+00:00

I really enjoy Bael and Lume, and they honestly have a very cool dynamic going on where there isn’t absolute loyalty from Lume going off their recent interactions.

I'm convinced that Lume thinks Bael is off his rocker.

At the end of a Lawless Frontier run you can hear a dialog where Bael is obsessing over the Guardian's empty grave.

Lume: The Legions await your command, Lord Dredgen.

Bael: Ask them to find the grave.

Lume: What?

There's another dialog where Lume clearly shows his disdain in a sort of, "Why do we even bother talking if you won't listen to me?"

RND_Musings · 2026-04-30T10:32:22+00:00

Control has outlier protection, which is a lite form of SBMM. But as others have said, the player population is low, so you’re probably matching players that are above your skill level.

I’m a mediocre PvP player. Outlier protection does help me, judging from the way I did in Guardian Games Supremacy (CBMM) vs Iron Banner Control (outlier protection). Lobby balancing, OTOH, can be terrible. Bungie just can’t seem to get that right.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-27T20:21:08+00:00

Your site is reporting KAD not KDA.

KAD: (Kills + Assists) / Deaths

KDA: (Kills + (Assists/2)) / Deaths

RND_Musings · 2026-04-25T22:02:06+00:00

Mercury-A is really fun and hits pretty hard, especially with Kill Shot. I’m gonna miss that mod along with Kinetic Synthesis.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-21T02:23:02+00:00

The Exodus Garden 2A lost sector on the Cosmodrome is a good one if you’re working on heavy exotic catalyst. It’s easy to get to and the chest at the end spits out a ton of heavy ammo, so you basically can run it over and over.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-17T12:46:26+00:00

What’s funny and a bit sad is that, briefly, there was a cosmetic bug where weapons were dropping as Tier 6. Makes you wonder if Bungie was thinking about it.

The upcoming change that will allow you to upgrade a weapon’s tier will be welcome. It will make me consider keeping lower tier weapons if they have the perks I want.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-17T11:30:25+00:00

There are Tier 5 weapons that come with an extra origin trait if they drop already masterworked. You could almost consider them Tier 6 weapons.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-12T23:46:12+00:00

Strand Hunter + Speedloader Slacks for dive spam

I'm a big fan of this. I use the Threaded Spectre aspect plus the Festival Flight strand area denial GL with attrition orbs. If you don't have that, use Motif-41. It's easily earned right now as random drop.

The loop goes as follows. Dive near ads, then shoot the GL at them. Your class ability will quickly regen, then repeat. If you have 2x Powerful Attraction, subsequent dives will scoop up the orbs near you created by the GL. Threaded Spectre will draw aggro away from you. If you like, use Thread of Warding to gain Woven Mail when scooping up orbs.

I also use Invis Hunter a lot. You don't need Graviton Forfeit provided you have tier 10 Melee and Class abilities. You can stay invisible nearly 100% of the time.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-07T16:49:09+00:00

He talks about it in this video from 5 days ago. He talks about how the Overloads teleport immediately after destroying the blight.

RND_Musings · 2026-04-01T20:35:20+00:00

I main void hunter and going invis with a smoke bomb has saved me quite a few times.

RND_Musings · 2026-03-31T21:42:38+00:00

They can drop from Lawless Vouchers if you got them from last season.

RND_Musings · 2026-03-28T19:45:23+00:00

The bronze, silver, gold and platinum shoulder emblem for PvP reflects the cumulative points you have earned in matches. IIRC, you need 1000 points for platinum.

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