It's a pretty good all around weapon. Great for PVE, and so-so for PVP. It was really solid in the crucible in year one, the only real sorta effective counter to Thorn. But that archetype of pulse rifle is generally outclassed by the low impact/mid to high ROF pulses.


Still, a solid weapon overall.

The Undying Mind is a pretty good one too.  Tons of Vex majors at the end to blast.



 

If we can get enough people together, I'd like to run some raids tomorrow night and this weekend.

Primary focus is gonna be challenge modes, for people who need year two Moment of Triumph calcified fragments. This week's challenge mode is the Oryx fight - that's detonating all 16 bombs at once and killing him in one damage cycle.


Thalnok is the tier 3 Court of Oryx encounter for the week, for whoever needs that.

Cool. I'll probably be on tonight for a little bit, I picked up a couple gunsmith weapons I want to try out.

I'll be ready to raid sometime around 7-8ish eastern tomorrow.

In the reef.


MK44s, Bones, Ram, 4th Horseman, legacy chest.


 

My awesome Arrcom clan mates are like "God, you hate Xur this week" cause I didn't give my opinions on this stuff.


It's all PVP-centric stuff, IMO.


No good reason to use the MK44 Stand Asides unless you want to be that guy running around shoulder charging everything. Granted, shoulder charge is pretty stupid in the crucible, the hit detection is ridiculous at times, and you can get some really funny kills with it from time to time. But I think Armamentarium with double grenades is the more better option for most PVP encounters, and shit, basically anything for PVE, I like Ruin Wings.


Bones, if you have a hard time making some of the jumps in the raid, pick these up. Since blink got nerfed, I started using these with better control jumps on my bladedancer in PVP. It helps get a lot of the movement back bladedancers lost in the past couple patches.


The Ram is still pretty good. Not as good as it was in year one, but still very good. I used it on a max armor/max recovery sunsinger in Iron Banner last week, and at full health and 320+ light, you can survive flux grenade and magnetic grenade sticks, winging shots from golden gun even after the gunslinger patch if they don't have deadeye on (and most people don't in crucible), sometimes you can survive one swipe from arc blade if they don't hit you square on and/or they don't have encore on (and most people don't in crucible), you can survive shoulder charges provided you don't get hit in the air with Peregrine Greaves.  Fusion grenade sticks will still kill you deader than shit regardless of armor.  In PVE, if you're playing voidwalker, having an energy drain available at all times will save you and help keep you alive in hairy situations.


4th Horseman, I would have really loved to been able to use it in House of Wolves, after the shotgun damage patch. Back when Found Verdict was king and killed everything. Now, I dunno. Might be fun if heroic strike modifiers fell on like specialist/arc burn. Probably good to troll people in the crucible with, although it's terrible on ammo. Basically pointless in the raid. It looks cool and sounds cool though, like Invective on crack.

 
I dunno if they've patched it, but I think the Mythoclast counts for fusion rifle kills for that quest.

 
Yup.

 
The trip for the warlock specific scout rifle, Tlaloc, is totally worth it though. It's blah without a charged super, but once you get that super going, it turns into one of most ridiculous weapons in the game.

That was a good, mostly clean run.  Had some weird issues at the totems with auras not transferring over, but whatever.  #Destiny.



Anyways, I'd be down to run another one tomorrow evening.

I plan on trying to raid again this evening. Same Bat-time, around 7-8ish eastern.

I'm always down to do some PVP as well if folks need the Mountaintop quest line done.

 
The reason most folks are like "wtf I haven't completed this quest!?" is that no one really plays anything outside of clash or control. I play a lot of PVP and I don't think I completed it until like three or four months ago, mostly because I had nothing else to do.


Anyways, it's not that bad a quest. It has a lot of steps but none of them are really terrible.

I'll be bringing a titan or a hunter, so I can run relic if need be.

On a side note, here's a pretty cool link to see how often you're using what weapons in the crucible.
http://destiny-data.herokuapp.com/#/?_k=tl76uy




I actually use my primary weapon.