I'd probably do a lot better on pc in the crucible

The frame rate lock on consoles is interesting. 

It probably means the competitive scene is really gonna be mainly PC. 

Are all game modes 4v4?  I can't really believe they'd do that across the board. Maybe if there's a competitive ranked playlist, like league play in Blops 2, but fours for the regular crucible playlist?

It's interesting on PC that they chose Battlenet as a distribution service.  Although I feel Blizzard and Bungie probably share a lot of goals and ideals in common as far as game development.

The 9 player patrol sounds nice.

In the corner by the Speaker. 

Legacy chest. 

Warrior - no. 

Skyburner's - no. 

Praxic Fire - maybe. 

Juju - absolutely. 

How do figure those classes are the least used?

Defender certainly isn't for PVE, I'd argue out of all the titan subclasses it's probably the most used for PVE. Likewise with warlocks, especially because of self res in high level PVE and PVP. 

A 33% damage bonus across all members of the fireteam is huge, more so than most individual supers IMO.  There ain't but one super currently in the game that offers significant single target DPS, and it requires an exotic armor piece to do it.  Every other super in the game sucks as far as raw DPS is considered.

With their respective elements, I suppose it's possible that bladedancer/defender/sunsinger are being replaced by arc strider/sentinel/dawnblade.  

Bladedancer and arc strider, meh, both seems redundant of each other being fast melee based arc attacks, bladedancer can eat shit and die as far as I'm concerned with where the subclass is today.  

I would be disappointed if defender went away, it is hands down the best overall team oriented support subclass in the game, but then again we don't know what all capabilities a sentinel titan will have, along with the damage boost/healing auras available to the warlock.  

And I'd be totally okay with sunsinger going away, sunsinger can GTFO of the game solely on the basis of spite and malice for me.  It's not really competitive in PVP, passives suck, super sucks, grenades except fusions suck, it's a hindrance in most high level PVE offering no real team oriented boosts or skills, no real ad control capabilities, except maybe solar grenades against garbage enemies that could just be primaried to death.  Dawnblade seems to solve a lot of those issues, giving the solar class warlock real offensive capabilities.

Along with that, who knows how exactly the remaining subclasses will return, or if they'll return at all?  Maybe we'll get additional new subclasses with future DLC?  Only time will tell.

I played a good bit of sunsinger recently for the Age of Triumph warlock subclass quest.  I haven't really messed with the class in PVP since its glory days, when scorch melee/flame shield and firebolt grenades with touch of flame were crazy-over-the-top good.

The subclass is not in a good place right now for the crucible.  That subclass quest, for the radiance multi kills, so frustrating.

I'll probably be on clearing old inventory and cleaning up things.

If you can make it to 380+, we can probably get you through the 390 raids and hopefully get you some good stuff.

Yup, the strike playlist will be your best friend, along with Archon's Forge.

I've got offerings and I'll be on and off throughout the day if you wanted to do some Forge work, Jim.  Forge specific weapons and armor can drop at max light (once you pass 395-397 or so anyways), and you'll get a ton of engrams for your time in there that can decode at higher light items.

The past couple Wrath of the Machine attempts I've been a part of, I feel the communication is a little lacking, and what commo we get is a little slow.  I'm not saying you should be this guy:



What I am saying is that you need to quickly and concisely call out important events and moments during the course of the raid.

At Vosik, let people know as soon as you/your side are ready to throw, or you're gonna be a second or two late, you're clearing ads so you can get to the bomb.  This is very important, because the amount of ads the game spawns can quickly overwhelm your party if you're not actively killing them.  The sooner you get the charges thrown out is the sooner you can go back to killing ads.  

Or that it's too dangerous right that minute to go get the far back charges, and that's totally fine, we'll do an extra set versus having someone needlessly die trying to get to the charge.  Let people know if the captain is in your face and you're out of heavy, that you need help.  Or you knocked a captain off into the pit, this does not kill that captain, he will respawn at random at the worst possible time and people need to be on the aware and ready for that.

Charges go out, call out that monitor as soon as you see it.

Decide before the DPS phase who's gonna look out for the safe rooms.  This person (two people on challenge mode) should be the only one deciding what safe room the team is going to.  I'd suggest that this person not really even focus that much on damaging Vosik, just be on the lookout for the safe room and call it as soon as you see it.  Four or five shooters depending on weapons and party configuration should be more than enough to kill Vosik without too much drama.

Siege Machine is fairly straightforward, but Aksis on the other hand goes back to communication.

Phase 1 starts, you're killing ads, then the captains spawn.  Let people know, you're taken the turret out, you're hurt and need help with the captain (especially teams in the middle, because the guys on either side can shoot down into the middle to assist with the captain), what servitor is coming out of your door, the turret is coming back to life.  Turrets are the big killer here, everyone needs to be on the lookout for turrets regardless of your side.  If you're on the left waiting for a servitor to be blown up so you can throw the charge, and you see the turret on the right starting to flicker to life, call that shit out.  If you're on a cannon dashing about and you see a turret come out, call that shit out.  Shoot at it, help the other sides out.  Turrets will be the #1 reason for wipes at this phase.

So you survived phase 1, phase 2 starts, you're killing shanks, dodging Siva swarms, then empowerment hits.  CALL THAT SHIT OUT.  Right away.  If you're empowered, everyone needs to know that you are empowered, and where you are on the map so teammates can adjust to fill in empowerments as needed for each Aksis supercharge/stun/teleport.  And with every stun, empowerment will shift, call that out immediately so people can get into position for the next teleport.  

Communicate, dudes.  I feel it's safe to say if your raid group fails and cannot complete a section, it's probably 75% communication (poor or lack thereof) and 25% whatever else (player skill, weapons, equipment, acts of God or whatever deity you choose to worship, someone at Bungie pushing the wipe button, etc) that got you killt.

Any interest in finishing Wrath before reset?

I should be on tonight, we can run you through the nightfall and get you some better gear. 

There's only one super in the game right this minute that's for big boss damage. Everything else is really situation. 

Like stacking Weapons with tether is always solid for boss damage. All the other supers really aren't a thing for bosses, IMO. Lance nova bomb does okay but depending on the boss it's easy to miss with it, and it's better for killing packs of trash with vortex or scatter. Storm is a no, that's worlds better for ad clearing than boss DPS. No one uses radiance aside for self res. No one uses blade for boss damage, except maybe like arc burn/airborne/brawler strikes, and even then you'll probably get stomped by the boss for your troubles. Same with Fist, and hammers really require modifiers to wreck and destroy, so they're a heroic strike thing. 

1. For what it's worth, I've never really had to tinker with any PC game in the past three or four years to make it work. Drivers update automatically,anti virus runs silently in the background, no muss, no fuss. 

2. Destiny 2 is going to be administrated through Blizzard's Battlenet service. Historically, Blizzard stays on top of their games and they are not scared to drop the banhammer on cheaters with extreme prejudice. 

3.  This makes sense. The majority of the guys I play with are on Xbox, so that's where I'm gonna have most of my playtime. But I do plan on playing Destiny 2 on PC as well, mostly so I can experience the game at its best performance.