This weekend I spent most of my time in Destiny 2, and as a result I started working furiously on trying to knock out a bunch of objectives that had been clogging my inventory. During the podcast on Saturday night I spent the entirety hanging out with Thalen and working on some objectives he had surrounding the completion of escalation protocol on Mars. It is funny how much more reasonable that seems to be when you are grouped up with at least one more person. We managed to get it through I believe wave 5 before ultimately having to retreat and start over. I miss the days when you could drop down on planet as a solo and get all of the way to seven.
The highlight of the weekend however is that I finally got through the Last Word exotic weapon quest. This one features a few sections that are a colossal pain in the ass. The biggest of these is the pure Crucible section, that involves moving a gauge to 100. A guardian kill gives you 2 points and a death takes 1 point away. I apparently had a good weekend as far as crucible goes and found myself only a few kills away from completing this objective and thankfully managed to push through. The next step involved farming a bunch of things up… and then getting 25 “revenge” medals from the Crucible, which weirdly went way faster than I would have expected. Finally I had one painful mission to get through and a duel with a hive that I failed out like 20 times before finally getting through and claiming my weapon.
Another thing I spent time on this weekend was working through the Rat King’s Crew quest. I never really prioritized this one because it isn’t a weapon I would likely ever use. I really do not enjoy sidearms in Destiny. However it has clogged my quest log for ages and I spent part of yesterday getting Thalen caught up. Sadly I needed to run out and get some errands taken care of so we only got one of the two crucible matches in. I think after that we just need to run a Nightfall… of which I am really hoping that the modern Ordeal style ones will work.
I also managed to get the last piece of exotic armor for Titans this weekend, because apparently Xur’s overly expensive engram finally includes the Season of Opulence gear. I had read somewhere that this was the case so I went ahead and gambled a stack of Legendary Shards on it. There is apparently a super powerful build based around these legs that I might try at some point. Mostly I just wanted to check another space off on my list of exotics. I need to start working on the same for Hunter and Warlock as I am way behind on both of those.
All told I am up to 927 light and my Hunter is up to 919 without the best weapons swapped over. At some point I will push up the Warlock as well so I can have all three active and at reasonable light levels. Most of my running around with Thalen on Saturday night was with the Hunter, and I only swapped back to the Titan to get exotic quest steps done. In my downtime I am working on slowly knocking out other Triumphs that I never got when I transferred from PS4 to PC initially. There are a bunch of lost sectors that I have never quiet collected for example, or region chests opened. For the time being it seems like Destiny 2 is my main game, so I am settling in and finding stuff to keep me happy.
