I had every intent of writing a post on the Battle for Azeroth announcement from Blizzcon but I still feel like I am percolating my heads into something that is more intelligible than a rant. Instead I am going to focus on my weekend spent in Destiny, which saw me finishing off leveling my Warlock and getting it properly geared. I am half convinced that there is some sort of shared internal item level spread across all of your characters, because every time I have managed to push up my third character… its initial reward cycle has been insane causing it to leap ahead of the others. This was definitely the case with the Warlock who is now sitting at 294 as compared to 291 that I can manage to hit on either my Titan or Hunter. At this point I am fairly happy with the cobbled together gear that I have on the warlock because it gives me a stat spread that I like… 3 mobility, 5 resilience, and 7 recovery. I managed to get the Nightfall done so far on both the Titan and the Warlock and am hoping that maybe I can find some folks to do it with on the Hunter this evening. There is also talk about stepping foot into the raid again as well, which I am hoping we can pull off without going too late into the night. Having half of our normal crew on Pacific time and the other half on Eastern/Central time is a pain in the ass for timing any sort of activities.
As far as the raid goes we managed to get through the bathers event and made some pretty decent progress on the doggos. Functionally I think that encounter is going to come down to simply executing everything we have done over the course of a few attempts… in a single go. I like the raid so far because it feels very much like Final Fantasy XIV… in that it is a dance and once learned you can execute it pretty rapidly. I have a feeling that at some point we will be bringing four seasoned players and two learners and getting more people in the clan some experience. Fore the moment however we are shifting bits and pieces of the same handful of people trying to push through and learn it all. I mean there are raid guides out there that we could be following, but it feels more significant when we sort out things on our own. If we do make it back tonight I feel like we are probably going to make it through the pleasure gardens… which if my math is right means we have one more encounter before we actually face Calus. In theory if things go well we might be able to actually clear the raid next week. Its funny how much of a driving force it is for me to unlock the engram for the rest of the clan.
Next week is the start of the faction rally, and I am assuming that I will do what I did last go round and support a single faction on each character. That also means I am likely going to match up the factions with the gear that I would like to see them wearing. The only bad thing about that is the fact that New Monarchy has the coolest looking gear for multiple classes. I feel like probably the Hunter set is the best looking so I will be repping them on that character. Which means I am probably going to go Dead Orbit with the Titan and Future War Cult with the Warlock because I am most likely to wear the respective armor sets. The real goal for me however is to play just as much as it takes to unlock all 12 dropped weapons and a full set of gear for the Hunter. Past that anything else is gravy, and I am pretty happy with the gear I currently have assembled on the titan and warlock. The hunter is going to get a lot of play time if for no reason other than the fact that the New Monarchy shaders are the ones I am most likely to use for weapons. Basically we have yet another extremely busy week ahead of us in Destiny 2. The icing on the top is the fact that Greysky Armada should easily hit rank 6 next week.