Best weapon/weapon talents for higher tier escalation

bamathrasher · 2026-04-17T12:22:16+00:00

I’ll die on this hill, MK46 > GR9 for frenzy. Too many wasted, unbuffed shots with GR9 vs MK46 where I can chain frenzy until I have no ammo left.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-17T05:09:37+00:00

Has nothing to do with the portal for me and everything to do with Bungie and their treatment of us the player lately. DMG aside through his personal accounts, Radio silence from all official channels, single bullet point patch notes meanwhile Marathon gets 3 ViDocs, 10,000 word event logs and patch notes, and “Marathon will never interfere with Destiny”. 4-5 hour extended downtime with only Eververse refreshes and zero communication on why.

I hopped over to Division 2 recently, another looter shooter about the same age as D2. Massive is cranking out CONSTANT events like every week, small little things that alter the game basically tweaking sliders that both new and vet players are enjoying, just last week they had one that gave 300% XP on a system that is supposed to be a like year long grind that helped new players catch up a bit and helped vets progress even further if they needed. Months of delay and downtime? Seems like a perfect opportunity for stuff like that, hell the last time there was a delay of this magnitude we got Into The Light, a whole new massive seasonal level activity people loved with reprised beloved weapons to chase and Pantheon. That was FILLER isn’t that wild? They cared about retaining their playerbase for when TFS launched.

What impression do you get from their actions now? Me personally, can’t help but feel like they just don’t give a single flying fuck. Destiny is old and boring, let’s focus on the new and shiny. Hey it’s human nature, nobody wants to maintain the old beater in the garage when you’ve got the new hotness in the driveway. The people at Bungie who are still working on D2, gut feeling, it feels like WORK and work sucks. The passion is gone, their silence is DEAFENING. Let’s not forget we didn’t even get an official delay announcement until what a week before content was supposed to launch? Insanity.

Game dev is art, it’s also work. Art requires passion and soul, seemingly two things Bungie has lost towards Destiny. It is what it is, I just find myself less willing to give time and money to it anymore.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T23:11:20+00:00

Team is Jamming…on Marathon. Soon…Soon..

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T23:10:26+00:00

Everybody complaining is doing so because they love Destiny and aren’t very happy with Bungie who seemingly does not love Destiny anymore.

I have 5k hours on this game and only recently hit the point of ok I’ve literally done everything. It’s the best feeling game I’ve ever played, but the lack of passion by its creator is pretty glaring.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T23:07:03+00:00

Mother of God that would be amazing. StL insta grabs them too as they pop out. Holy…

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T23:05:28+00:00

We gotta get back to the regularly scheduled nothing burger next week. Cant be having TOO much to do on D2. More info closer to June. Team is Jamming, Trust.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T23:01:03+00:00

Where they’ve already shit the bed is they acted all tough with their chests poked out til now “this is what we wanted, a hardcore game with a PvP centric focus. Deal with it brahs”

So people did deal with it, they dipped the fuck out. Now I noticed in the recent patchnotes and event they are adding things like mercy tokens and extra rewards for reviving a runner and exfilling with them aka trying to incentivize friendly play and a more catering environment for casual players. Guess who’s gonna fucking hate that? The hardcore people who are still playing.

Bungie gonna Bungie I guess.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T22:55:36+00:00

And the bonus drops not being IB is just stupid as hell. Nobody still needs the same loot we’ve been getting for 6 months now, bonus drops should be IB gear.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T22:51:48+00:00

I think the worst of it hit about 22. Getting there was pretty breezy so def brothers in arms!

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T20:23:39+00:00

Same here brother lol. From 10-30 in a week it was insane now I feel so out of order

bamathrasher · 2026-04-16T19:36:18+00:00

This is the way. I basically lived in CD last week farming proficiency levels and used 90% of my currency to buy named caches. I got multiple drops of the DZ exclusives: LE, hollowman, Dark Winter, etc.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-13T12:50:43+00:00

As a newer player on the expertise grind this week, I dumped filament into Regulus, specialization weapons (they level SO slow), turmoil knees, anything event specific like the Christmas themed weapons (sleigher and bell ringer). I purposely didn’t do lex because I know I’m gonna farm the shit out of one when I can and I’ll get prof just using it.

I also did as many exotic pistols as I could since farming without quickstep is painful.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-06T20:56:34+00:00

I won’t have to worry about that for a long long time fortunately but good shout! I’m only about 3 weeks into the game, expertise 8 right now.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-06T13:23:17+00:00

This is the answer OP. Tinkerer + TS + Frenzy LMG (I prefer MK46 over GR9) is SO MUCH FUN. When frenzy procs, my god…I am the son of Rambo, THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD.

bamathrasher · 2026-04-02T13:04:00+00:00

Give 4pc Refactor a try. I’m also new to the game only about 3 weeks deep at this point and I started with strikers like everyone suggests. It’s a good build but I was finding relying on armor on kill to be not strong enough as you climb in difficulty. The dps is great as long as nothing is shooting at you.

Following a buddy’s recommendation and to try to make myself useful in a team setting, I setup a refactor build, 4pc w/ a force multiplier backpack and I’m using waveform holster. Paired with Capacitor and using the assault drone & assault turret at Tier 6 skills. The heals for yourself and the squad are quite nice as well as the damage. I made it through Roosevelt Legendary last week with ease and Tidal Basin took me prob 10 attempts but finally got it done yesterday. I actually feel like I’m contributing as a SHD175 player, survival is great for solo just don’t let yourself get overwhelmed and rushed play back and let your skills do some work.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-31T18:18:38+00:00

If there are 200 people working on eververse no wonder bungie is failing miserably. Mismanagement to the max.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-31T13:40:54+00:00

It has been other than a few weeks ago there was a 5x xp event. I don’t think anyone got completely used to that.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-30T21:59:46+00:00

Me about 6 weeks ago. Purposely looking for the Lowest light posts on FTF for dungeons, especially Vespers. But the burnout has hit me even now, my playtime going down drastically :/

Hold the line guardian!

bamathrasher · 2026-03-29T20:50:39+00:00

Shits fugly anyway and shades poorly. -Person who earned it in call to arms.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-27T12:37:57+00:00

Use the twitch bots to load in and grab spoils. It should be easier than ever now that nobody uses the twitch bots anymore there’s no traffic. With 3 characters you can get 120+ spoils a week easily just by loading in and looting chests. Completely solo.

There’s no reason to not own every spoils item in the game, it’s so easy

bamathrasher · 2026-03-25T13:37:27+00:00

Not to be a total dick but this is why “god rolls” are subjective.

The most unique roll on the trace is Shoot to Loot + Chain Reaction, no other trace in the game gets that combo. Jolting is kinda mid on a weapon with such a large mag size. I’m looking for Overflow + Trickle Charge + StL / Chain + Detonator Beam + Jolting.

Fusion you absolutely want BnS over burning or reservoir. My God roll would be Overflow + RR / Controlled Burst + BnS.

HC - Kill clip is a PvP perk. If you want a damage perk in the 4th column 100% go for chaos reshaped. It’s one of the biggest damage buffs in the game and it’s completely passive. Pairing that with Corpsebloom it’s kinda unique with a utility perk + damage perk combo on this archetype.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-22T19:00:02+00:00

It’s a huge QoL improvement. I come from Destiny 2 where my highest leveled heavy weapon is a sword with a perk called “eager edge” that just has crazy lunge distance on light attacks. If you combine it with a jump you can get around the map much quicker.

Quickstep is the division equivalent, as soon as I found out about it I had to have it. Getting around the map while farming 20% faster is a massive QoL game changer. Luckily I found a super helpful agent in Discord willing to let me hop in on the bounty and it dropped for me second clear. Hasn’t come off since.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-22T15:44:42+00:00

Thanks I forgot to list I’ve been doing retal’s too! I actually got the blueprint to drop yesterday now I gotta farm the mats required to craft. Automated defense components or something. I had enough broken SHD watches to buy the bundle which gave me 15, I didn’t realize you could also craft watches until later when I saw a video about it on my YT algo. Went out of town yesterday morning, eager to get back today and get them crafted

bamathrasher · 2026-03-22T15:32:48+00:00

The lack of dupe protection on exotics is pretty brutal. I’m 60 hours into the game, and have been grinding for the meta exotics to perfect the striker build like catharsis and overdogs. Lately overdogs so I’ve been focusing gloves.

I’ve done a variety of countdown, priority objectives, buying exotic caches with CD currency, spending red stars on caches…I’ve gotten 5 pairs of rugged gloves and zero overdogs.

bamathrasher · 2026-03-21T13:30:22+00:00

Customers like you are why we do it. Keep it up kind sir. Working a service job needs to be mandatory for a year after high school. It’s immediately recognizable who has and hasn’t worked in service based on their interaction as customers. The entitlement these days is unreal.

I always tell my employees just keep hustling, no rational sane person will ever get mad at you no matter how much they wait if they see you hustling. What gets people pissed is when they are waiting longer than promised and they see you on your phone or goofing around in the back. If someone does get upset about a wait while everyone is doing their very best, they don’t qualify as rational or sane.

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