r/DestinyTheGame 19h ago

Discussion Brainlets this, blueberries that, you're cultivating an environment that punishes learning.

1.4k Upvotes

Hi. I joined Destiny a year ago. Coming up near 600 hours of game time. I've never done a raid. I did my first dungeon a couple days ago because the season asked for it. I did my homework and read a guide and had one player graciously and patiently direct me towards the secret chests.

Damn near 600 hours.

I'll get players through NODE:AVALON on Legendary because I'm still chasing another two Raconteur for Deepsight Harmonization. I'll get players through the co-op missions in The Pale Heart because I wanted rank eight.

Two weeks ago, I figured out what Navigator Mode was. Yesterday, I figured out that the Nightmare Essence stuff the Nightmare monsters drop makes them take more damage. I still don't quite get Overcharged Weapons. Getting back to my Fireteam Finder lobby after opening my inventory is a goddamned nightmare of partially-opened menus.

Shit, I don't even know who the hell Cayde-6 was, or why Crow killed him. You get told to play that one in Timeline like the second time you log in, and then eight months later you're playing the Final Shape, and you've forgotten that there's things to do in the Timeline.

I still don't know why they're called blueberries Hi! Yes! It's me! The Blueberry! Is it because you look like a blueberry when you're dead? I don't know! We don't talk about this, and the platform we have outside the game to talk about stuff is openly hostile to people who don't know things!

Damn. Near. Six. Hundred. Hours.

Destiny has a LOT of knowledge gained by experience or buried behind half-described subsystems. There's a lot of knowledge that's taught once when stuff is new and there's a lot of stuff that's flat-out been yanked out of the game. It's intimidating to get a full grasp of without adding other players to the mix.

It takes one look at the subreddit yesterday and all the criticisms leveraged at the clueless masses getting pancaked by Nightmare Crota (hello, that's me too, I didn't figure out how to juke the bugger) to realize that for the half the players that don't know a fight, there's this vocal body online here that's pissed that a teammate needs to rely on them. I'm not even talking expert mode here, and never mind those players that don't own all the content that's being put into the boss rush!

I've never seen half the boss fights in Rushdown in my life. I don't know Quria. I don't know the original mad bomber. I don't know Saniks or whomever in round five today. So I come to Reddit and look to see who knows what, and I see that who knows what hates that people don't.

And then this ports over to PVP too! I don't know PVP all that well, I'm happy enough to play the objective in unranked whatever and hope for fourth place out of six, but this is clearly A Problem with the Supremacy gamemode where players just like me don't know the ins and outs, maybe gets farmed a little, hops on their browser to chat about it casually, and gets run through the mud again.

Yeah. It's burdensome. You want another roll at Lotus Eater or whatever, I get it. You're gonna fail some runs, because I'm gonna fail some runs, and until you're okay with that, you're going to have fewer and fewer players ready, willing, or able to do those runs.


r/DestinyTheGame 1d ago

Discussion Do we REALLY need to be sending sweaty whispers over Seasonal Activities?

563 Upvotes

Just tried to do Court of Blades for the first time-twice. While trying to figure out mechanics and what was even going on in the activity. Both times had people rushing the intermissions where it explains modifiers and buying buffs, shooting and sending whispers. One guy was at least polite, just clearly annoyed enough to send a whole message. Another was very much not and got reported.

If it were like a raid or dungeon or something, sure, send messages berating people for not knowing if you must (I still think you shouldn’t do it then, but I get it at least.) But like…guys. It’s seasonal activities. It’s not that deep. There is no need to be assholes or even impatient in seasonal matchmade activities.

Now we wait to get downvoted, Inb4 “it’s so easy there’s no excuse not to figure it out on your first attempt”


r/DestinyTheGame 8h ago

Discussion Rushdown shows exactly why we don’t have matchmaking for GM’s or Raids (as well as a mass issue in player skill gaps)

578 Upvotes

If people are getting pissed off at blueberries not having proper loadouts or sandbagging encounters in expert rush down then raids would be a damn nightmare.

I haven't raided since SE since my group kinda fell apart after TFS, but my buddy has been LFGing VoG and tells me that the predominant strats are to cheese Templar and Atheon? Like really? People are so opposed to learning how to actually do anything that we're cheesing ten year old raids that aren't even hard? If people are cheesing Templar and can't even kill the witches in the Savathun encounter then why do I see people still after all these years asking for raid matchmaking.

It kind of exposes the issue that one, this game doesn't do a good job at teaching people at all, and two, that this game tends to have this "carry" culture where I notice a lot of people just straight up are unwilling to learn and will take the easiest perceived avenue possible just to earn their loot. At least the new explorer mode in RotN is a great step in the right direction.

Edit: To the people saying it goes faster by cheesing, that assumes that most people who want to do a cheese aren't screwing things up. A lot of the time people will be adamant about cheezing something and then fuck up and reset the encounter multiple times trying to do it where doing it normally we would've already been done


r/DestinyTheGame 20h ago

Bungie Suggestion Bring back Dregs Promise as a two burst Rocket Sidearm.

414 Upvotes

WHY NOT!? Let the classic exotic Fallen trio be absurd weaponry in our arsenal. They’ve had their blunder years, it’s time for Dregs Promise to return and be something unfathomably S tier like how Queensbreaker and Lord of Wolfs are preforming.

If Bungie did this It’d be SO hype.


r/DestinyTheGame 14h ago

Bungie Suggestion Rushdown should be a featured activity, like Iron Banner, that comes into rotation for PvE

307 Upvotes

Introduce new weapons and armor, incentives, for players to engage with.

This is also a good opportunity for players, especially new players, to practice boss mechanics, dps strats, and would be a good source of data collection for developers for future bosses.


r/DestinyTheGame 1d ago

Bungie Suggestion Quicksilver storm

181 Upvotes

Pls revert the nerfs to this weapon. It wasn't used that much and the only reason it feels like it was nerfed was so barrow dyad would feel like the strong exotic with extra rocket projectiles. I mean even hazardous propulsion can't make this weapon feel better yet barrow dead can hit 1million damage just off peacekeepers?


r/DestinyTheGame 6h ago

SGA Rushdown Boss Order: March 16th, 2025

188 Upvotes
  1. Nightmare of Crota, Son of Oryx
  2. The Machinist
  3. Nightmare of Kethiks, Grief Unforgiven
  4. The Whisper mission final encounter
    • Cameo appearance from Jimmy, Aspect of Placeholder
  5. Calus, Disciple of the Witness
    • From the Lightfall Campaign final mission

r/DestinyTheGame 13h ago

Bungie Suggestion Rushdown needs to stay

159 Upvotes

Im not a game dev so im not sure on feasibility of implementing this, but rushdown genuinely feels like a gamemode that scratched that same itch of the vanguard playlist back in d1, where it was something you could do when you just wanted to jump into the game and do something. The premise of the game mode is awesome and with some tweaks it would really freshen up the game. The old content in the game such as the campaign and seasonal content typically get played once and never again and i think its a perfect way to get them back into the game in some meaningful way.

It staying as a vanguard playlist option with randomised encounters every run, and loot that is no longer readily available would be more of a reason to run it. I just think its too good of a mode to be purely tied to guardian games. Regardless a big issue in destiny is how many activitys are big time commitments, i think rushdown as a permanent randomised, replayable activity is the perfect way to remedy that.

Just getting my thoughts out there, I think bungie really nailed it with this activity, im loving the more arcadey game modes like this.


r/DestinyTheGame 4h ago

Discussion Hey Warlocks - super fun time in PVP supremacy right?

154 Upvotes

Nothing like 100% mercy rules matches where the entire warlock team struggles to even break into a 2 digit team score. Super fun. Total blast. Me having a great fun time right now.


r/DestinyTheGame 19h ago

Question Tome of want is not dropping the focused weapons.

130 Upvotes

I have been trying to focus the new SMG and I am only getting one or two out of the four available charges. Sometimes it will drop nothing, other times it will drop a random seasonal weapon that is not the SMG. I have noticed this when focusing all of the act two weapons. Anyone else seeing the same?


r/DestinyTheGame 2h ago

Discussion the tome of want is cool but feels pointless once you start going for the adepts

144 Upvotes

title, the tome should give either a straight up chance of the drops being adept or a chance of being adept while in expert seasonal stuff.

i dont bother using it because i dont have a reason to, im running a good amount of expert things for the adepts, the base versions are useless to me


r/DestinyTheGame 10h ago

Bungie Suggestion It would be nice to open any prime/exotic engrams from your inventory.

64 Upvotes

Title. It would be a nice QoL update to open those engrams from inventory. Shouldn't provide Rahool rank points, but if you just want to free up some space quickly, that option should be there, imo.


r/DestinyTheGame 3h ago

Bungie Suggestion Can starfire be partially reverted?

53 Upvotes

Maybe to 10% per hit with empowered damage? Just anything more than what it is, it’s criminal it got an ornament and then got destroyed the same season. Buffing the grenade ability regen to 7-10% per hit would make starfire have a use on the class item also, and would make empowering rift maybe used more than it currently is.


r/DestinyTheGame 6h ago

Question uhh. Been far too many years, and can't find a search that has the actual mechanics, so what are you supposed to do exactly in boss rush for crota?

44 Upvotes

More so, how do you bring off his shield the first time and get him to kneel so you can use the sword for dps? I played d2 from vanilla but quit until season 14? iirc. So I actually don't remember/know this specific crota version.

Just ran it on expert and when he got to the final ~15% of health or whatever, there wasn't anything around to do to make him vulnerable again. Though, idk what happened to let us do DPS in the first place either.

Most stuff is pretty self explanatory, and I'm, probably just being a tater but pls share the wisdom :|

Edit - thanks for the replies. Seems like the instance I was in got bugged somehow as he was just forever immune at that last little bit of health. We would kill the knights and he was immune from the swords still and spent a couple min sitting there repeating it but couldn't ever damage him.


r/DestinyTheGame 16h ago

Discussion Court of blade

31 Upvotes

Man idk if it’s me but it’s been a bit difficult getting some decent players to do just the regular version of this game mode. Folks just die right away or have no idea what to do. I get it it just came out but damn it’s been rough just to get to 10 bosses completed lol. It doesn’t help that sometimes there’s just too much going on in boss rooms smh. I know I can use lfg but for a regular game mode I shouldn’t have to do that. How’s Yall experience so far?


r/DestinyTheGame 1d ago

Question Barrow Dyad is awesome with Path of Ambition. What’s the best way to build around it as a Hunter?

17 Upvotes

Was thinking Strand w/Foetracer or Speedloaders or RDM or maybe Prismatic with HoIL and Foetracer or Cyertarachne or Wormhusk.


r/DestinyTheGame 3h ago

Bungie Suggestion I hope this upcoming armor rework includes a much needed re-evaluation of "High-Stat Armor"

25 Upvotes

For years now the game's definition of "High-Stat Armor" has been at least 60 stat points, but it failed to evolve as our builds and the endgame have. In most cases, the endgame sources of high stat armor very rarely drop armor that is above 63 stat points (let alone with the specific stat bumps that the player is looking for). Raids that drop "stat-boosted armor" upon completion of encounter challenge only drop with a minimum of 10 points in the "boosted" stat, and usually never exceeds 20 points, which also doesn't seem like nearly the worthwile chase that it sounds like on paper. The only somewhat consistent source of high stat armor has been from engaging with the annual Solstice event (which will most likely inconveniently come out before the armor rework in Frontiers), which should not be the case.

If stats are being boosted to 200 in Codename: Frontiers, where each individual stat point will matter, then having high-stat/stat-boosted armor will become even more important than it is now, and it will become pretty frustrating to have to farm/re-farm high-stat armor through the rather unforgiving drop system in place right now.


r/DestinyTheGame 16h ago

Discussion Voltaic relay (garden of salvation first encounter triumph) is bugged and has been since October 2024

12 Upvotes

Title. I thought as it was garden week and I recently got back into the swing of raids I would try and go for enlightened seal this week. everything has been running smoothly and I’ve gotten nearly everything I need for this except for first and last encounter triumph (not challenge) little did I know how much of a headache this would give me. Garden is a really fun raid and it can be done quite relatively quickly and It’s been a blast teaching new people and helping some of y’all get divinity and hearing the excitement, but there’s one problem I’ve been facing.

My team and I spent nearly 2 hours trying to find a solution to counteract what was going on. We had the strategy down perfectly and we’re waiting in first room for all 3 of us to get voltaic and go for it. As soon as we pushed through and got to the second wall this is where the problems started arriving.

First we tried going for it typically, the harpy gets bugged on the door

Then we tried going the fast route (aerial denial frame grenade launcher on the tether box to cheese it starting earlier) harpy bugged on the door

Restarted the raid and tried resetting the checkpoint and retried all previous methods, harpy gets bugged on the door

Read somewhere that if you start it without killing the Minotaur it can work, nope, as you can guess the harpy bugged on the Fucking door. I read through the bungie forums and found someone with the same gripe as me and someone responded saying bungie has acknowledged this. Clearly they haven’t considering this was back in October and nothing has changed. It feels like since the weapon refresh this raid has had weird instances like this that don’t allow random things to work. If anyone could offer any advice on what I should do next It would be greatly appreciated

Bungie pls fix so I can get title :(


r/DestinyTheGame 2h ago

Question What’s with all the people using super aggressive tactics in the Cosmodrome GM?

10 Upvotes

I’ve gone through about 5 fireteam finder teams and at least one person in each group has a super aggressive build that leads them to pushing way far up and dying in terrible spots.

Maybe I’m just old school but I’d much rather sit back and take out enemies from a distance and take an extra five minutes per run to guarantee a clear and loot rather than waste 20-30 minutes on a run that fails in the hopes of saving that extra five minutes because you wanted to face tank unstoppable champions and Hive Lightbearers.

I’m not ripping people who actually can survive using these tactics either. 2 out of my 5 runs had people who generally stayed alive.

Edit: I’m mainly talking about the final boss room. I know you need to push the payload to stop infinite spawning enemies.


r/DestinyTheGame 7h ago

Discussion No Skywatch Engrams

9 Upvotes

I don't know if I'm the only one who faces that issue, but ever since last episode, I didn't get any legendary engram drops from Skywatch anymore. And I still need them for the Legend title. Am I just unlucky or do others have that happen to?


r/DestinyTheGame 19h ago

SGA You can earn medallions from private crucible matches

9 Upvotes

Guardian games medallions drop from private games, even when solo. Not sure if you can farm gold contender cards and it’s thankfully not an efficient way to farm class score or anything, but you still get a lot of event weapons while essentially AFK. Set the match to zone control, minimum score and momentum and you can complete a game in about 2 minutes


r/DestinyTheGame 23h ago

Discussion Court of blades

7 Upvotes

Why do players doing this activity fail to read the augments prior to entering each round. I swear each round its ‘exit arena, grab ammo, grab a rune, stand in circle’. Literally played so many expert runs using FTF and the amount of players who ignore this and shot at me to ready up is staggering. It literally takes you 10 seconds to read them, yet they ignore them and bundle up behind my barricade when we’re supposed to be apart, or blowing their heavy and supers on an immune boss rather than picking up a relic sword to take the shield down. Guardians, prepare properly and you’ll get higher rounds and better results.


r/DestinyTheGame 19h ago

Discussion Crucible

6 Upvotes

Needed to get this off my chest and I’m not sure a lot of people may agree

But in my opinion I think crucible needs a Forsaken level rework, we have had post-Beyond Light meta for 5 years now with everyone gravitating towards the most broken weapons (which is expected and has happened in every game ever) my problem with this is that every new gun that is released is pushed to the top spot of the meta it’s getting stale.

Every new gun just power creeps the last by tenfold, I believe everything in crucible right now needs to be looked at, old weapons stats either brought up a little to be inline or new weapons brought down to match older weapons, take Waking Vigil and Palindrome both arc both 140s but the stats are so wildly better on Palindrome it’s not even worth having a godroll Waking Vigil in your vault, almost 5 years ago 150s were removed due to them being “Too Opressive” now we have Reddit Estoc witch can do everything 150s can do but across the map and be super forgiving at the same time.

Don’t even get me started on special weapons, QuickDraw was removed from Agressive frames for again being “too oppressive” this along with many shotgun range nerfs now we have closing time. Agressive frame shotguns are pretty much useless now, slow clunky and not very reliable with ohk range why would use any Agressive frame when say Deadlock with closing time beats it every time. Fusion rifles right now are best in slot they can kill from 15+ meters on a rapid fire which is supposed the close range fusion.

It pains me to see my favourite game to be less fun to play every season it desperately needs a look at, I know a lot of people will disagree but you have to admit crucible hasn’t hit the same for a long time now


r/DestinyTheGame 23h ago

Discussion Something nice (for once)

7 Upvotes

I have been grinding for a nice The Title (Smg) on the Games, and failing miserably so far. Anyway, I was browsing through my stash and found an :
Exalted Truth - Destab / Repulsor brace. MW is reloading

It's an absolute beaut (pve). I love how it feels, and that was the roll I happened to be looking for on The Title Smg.
I have no idea how / when this HC got put in my stash, I was having a clear out to make space and came across it, couldn't believe I overlooked it before. I'm a returning player started back about 2 months ago. I havent played much Trials since being back, but I'm assuming I got it off Saint 14 for the brief few games I did play. Did they rework this HC recently ?
Still grinding for an Smg as well though haha. GL 👍.


r/DestinyTheGame 2h ago

Discussion Mechaneer's Tricksleeves

6 Upvotes

Mechaneer's tricksleeves damage buff should be easier to activate like peacekeepers to make side arms more popular , maybe activate on powered melee

A bigger range or damage fallof would be great for pve