One of the hold outs from the original Festival of the Lost is the Candy Trading quest. This involves starting at one NPC and eventually working your way back to that same NPC, swapping candy each time with another that might be interested in the item you just got. In the original Destiny this quest chain more or less died at Eris Morn who gave you a Box of Raisins… and nobody wanted a box of Raisins. This year it begins with Eris on the moon who still has her raisins. However it turns out that maybe the Spider in the Tangled Shore is interested. This kicks off a chain of events and mini quests that require some candy and some of the ever so important Chocolate Strange Coins. Since I had not really seen a run down of the sequence I thought I would create one this morning.
Spider – The Tangled Shore
Spider gives you the quest called Even Handed, which requires the following kills with any weapon or ability.
12 Scorn
12 Fallen
12 Cabal
12 Hive
Handing in the quest will give you an item that you then need to take to Ana Bray.
Ana Bray – Mars
Ana will give you the quest Armed to the Teeth which requires you to get kills with different types of weapons while on Mars.
10 Power Weapon
10 Energy Weapon
10 Kinetic
Turning in will give you an item that a certain gensym scholar might like.
Asher Mir – Io
Asher will give you the Precisely quest that asks you to make precision kills on two different types of mobs that appear on Io.
10 Precision Vex Kills
10 Precision Taken Kills
Asher will give you an item that he thinks the Followers of Osiris might like.
Brother Vance – Mercury
Brother Vance asks you to make kills with specific elements with the In Your Element quest. These can be done with abilities or with elemental weapons.
10 Void Kills
10 Arc Kills
10 Solar Kills
When you turn in he gives you some Splice Drops that look pretty and taste horrible, aka the perfect candy for an AI.
Failsafe – Nessus
Failsafe is going to give you the Touched by the Light quest which asks you to defeat enemies with your abilities. Since my hammer throws are easily repeatable by reclaiming the hammer each time I used this to get through the quest quickly.
5 Cabal Ability Kills
5 Vex Ability Kills
5 Fallen Ability Kills
Failsafe gives you a treat that maybe your friend in the EDZ might like.
Devrim Kay – EDZ
Devrim tarts the Foregone Conclusions quest which asks you to perform finishers on mobs of various types. To get Fallen I went into the Hallowed Grave lost sector in The Sludge.
5 Taken Finishers
5 Cabal Finishers
5 Fallen Finishers
Upon turning in you get a piece of candy fit for someone in the dreaming city, and off we go to there.
Petra Venj – The Dreaming City
Petra gives us the quest The Best of My Abilities and asks us to do a number of specific ability kills.
5 Melee Kills
5 Grenade Kills
10 Super Kills
After turning in we get a piece of candy that sees us travelling over to Titan.
Sloane – Titan
Sloan wants us to help clean up the rig and gives us the Not In Our House quest asking for kills in specific regions of the rig.
30 Kills in Solarium Region
15 Kills in Festering Halls Region
15 Kills in Arboretum Region
This sends us back to Eris with some candy we think she might like.
Eris Morn – Moon
This quest asks us to equip a specific dance and dance in front of Eris with The Dance of My People quest. This is the dance that we got as kinderguardians and likely no longer have equipped. For each race use the following dances:
Human: City Dance
Awoken: Graceful Dance
Exo: Popping Dance
Satisfied with our performance she hands us a bag of goodies… that includes a toothbrush because she is that kind of killjoy.
I am not sure if this is a fixed number of items in the pouch or if this varies. In my particular satchel I got the following items.
5 Fright Night Shaders
5 Chocolate Strange Coins
3 Enhancement Cores
1 Toothbrush
I also got an achievement unlock as part of it, so for me at least it was worth the extreme time sink. Additionally each step of the quest rewarded a couple of the chocolate strange coins and you need a silly number of those to get all of the masks required to get the new auto rifle.
During the Iron Banner weekend Bungie ran a Double Valor event, and I managed to get two full resets and most of the way to a third. Now things get a little fuzzy, because I swear at some point I saw a note stating that this past weekend was a Gambit Double Infamy event, which caused me to focus in on playing an obsessive amount of Gambit Prime. Now at face value, it feels like it takes way longer to get through a match of Gambit Prime than it does a Crucible match. As a result the entire process of leveling your Infamy feels sluggish at best. So I opted to try and take advantage of whatever resources I happened to have to make it a better experience.
That said… I realized at some point last night that I don’t actually think there was ever a double Infamy event and I have no clue where I saw that stated. That means I ground a completely nonsense amount of Gambit and did in fact get the reset on my own. The reason behind this was that as part of the Notorious Hustle triumph that gates the 21% Delirium Heavy Machinegun I had to get a reset at some point during a season. I find it funny that I knocked out my multikills without issue and now have the Infamy Reset, but am still needing a bunch of Envoy and Primeval kills. I think this is in part because I have gotten randomed into a lot of groups stacked against clan teams lately.
For resetting my rank I picked up a really nice curated roll of the Trust Hand Cannon, which also had a nifty shader I had not seen applied to it called Gambit Chrome. In truth… I am more excited about unlocking a new shader than I am about picking up a curated hand cannon. It is an interesting build with Genesis and Explosive rounds, and I plan on playing around with it a bit in the crucible. Too bad it is not void damage to help out with the Thorn quest. Speaking of which that is probably going to be my next big nonsense push, in order to try and knock that out. I did however get the Lumina quest to 78% buy running around with rose equipped during most of my Gambit matches. That is actually a shockingly good Hand Cannon.
All of the time spent in Gambit allowed me to finish out this seasons Gambit Pinnacle weapon the Exit Strategy. I’ve yet to spend any time playing with it, but I figure at some point I will give it a shot. I love my SMBs but I tend to prefer them in the secondary slot with an energy affix rather than kinetic ones. I may play a few matches with Trust in my energy slot and Exit Strategy in my kinetic, which is effectively a similar loadout to what I have been running of late. SMBs have more or less replaced shotguns for me because they can burn things down super fast but don’t run into the ammunition woes that Shotguns do during strikes. I have an Iron Banner SMB with High Caliber rounds which is nice for staggering out a major while I burn it down.
I think I talked about this a bit yesterday, but I hit a weird streak where Gambit was paying out like a way too loose slot machine. I managed to pick up three of this exact weapon within the span of two matches. I mean the curated roll is fine, I like that it has multi-kill clip on it… I am ambivalent to it having slideways since I am not used to sliding a ton in battle. Again it serves the problem of being a kinetic slot SMB when I am not sued to using them in that slot normally, but I could mix things up a bit. Deconstructing the spares however was a good source of materials.
Also as I said before I picked up seven different exotics dropping from random majors in Gambit. I’ve become another one of those Titans running around with the One-Eyed Mask equipped. I gotta say it is damned handy in Gambit for finding where the invaders are. There are a lot of times you get tagged by someone while running across the map and One-Eyed Mask does an excellent job of drawing a giant bullseye on them so you can go hunt them down. I still think it was just weird that I hit a spot in the randomizer where the game was paying out significantly. I wish I could somehow get banshee on the other hand to keep handing me the same three weapons.
All in all it was a fun grind, and I have reached a point where I like Gambit Prime a lot better than I realized. I have an inventory full of synths and I need to sort out what exactly to do with them. I should really play some Reckoning so I can get a full set of the Reaper armor given that apparently that is the role I play the most often in Gambit Prime. I like burning down those High Value targets. I wish I was a little better at invading and also killing invaders, but apparently I spend the least amount of time picking up large quantities of motes. This week however… is going to be all about the Festival of the Lost and getting myself a Braytech Werewolf.
For several weeks this thing has been building behind Ikora Rey and I find it super interesting. I have started noticing other changes. Like at the Ramen shop there are traditionally a few people eating there, but last night they were gone. I am not sure if this is on some sort of a cycle and I just always happened to be walking by when they were sitting there or if this is something changing as a result of the building happening. I noticed some other NPCs that I swore were in one specific place moved somewhere else. It is subtle but sorta cool to see, and I am assuming that the gate we are building is somehow going to be used in conjunction with the conclusion of the Season of the Undying.
Next reset brings us back the Festival of the Lost and it seems like they are bringing back something that started with last years. There is a really cool mode called the Haunted Forest, which is essentially the infinite forest but dark… and the goal is to see how many loops you can finish in 15 minutes. Your rewards are increased by the number of loops your group can complete in that time. Last year they introduced the Horror Show auto rifle that dropped fully masterworked and at Maximum Light, and it seems like they are bringing this concept back. The Braytech Werewolf gun shown in the thumbnail seems to be a version of the Winter Wolf weapon Anna Bray rewards.
I wound up playing a good deal of Gambit Prime last night, as I am trying to get my Infamy up high enough to do a reset and knock out the machine gun pinnacle weapon that I have had in my quest log for awhile. I also find Gambit weirdly relaxing and was ultimately working on both a Werner bounty and trying to unlock the Gambit Powerful award for the week. I’m up to Heroic III which means I need to get through Fabled 1-III, Mythic 1-III and Legend in order to get that reset. Gambit takes way longer than Crucible so the grind feels so much slower than it did last week.
I am now at level 70 on the seasonal journey, and I have a feeling that I won’t have much trouble hitting 100 by the end of the season. This is the only part of this process that I really don’t like is that it feels like I need to be playing Destiny 2 as my primary game in order to get full benefit. I want the items that are available along the path and as such I am playing pretty constantly to make sure I can get them all. I will say that with all of the XP bonuses the levels come way faster as you go, but it also sorta makes you always doing something to help it out. Like if I am running around in the world and I see one of those “Kill A Bunch of Stuff” patrols, I am always going to pick it up because it is super easy to complete and worth a bunch of XP. Similarly I am always trying to make sure I have a bunch of bounties available.
I noticed that Savathun’s Song is this weeks Nightfall, so I think my next grind is going to be running the strike trying to get Duty Bound. I love the look of this weapon because it looks like quite possibly the most Warhammer 40k gun available in the game. I have no clue if it is even good but I want to own a copy, and as a result I am hoping to run the strike a bunch in the Ordeal playlist in an attempt to get it to drop. I’ve had pretty good luck so far getting the strike specific drops, but having said that I will run this thirty times with no luck. The above screenshot is just one I found online to show off the weapon and it appears that they have applied the Leviathan shader to it.
Speaking of Leviathan… I would really like to get through that place. I have access to ways of running it and just getting carried through it. However I would far rather build a super casual raid team and work our way through it. We got pretty close to callus but I think it was the dexterity check of running the orb around the ring that ultimately killed us. We have a handful of people now playing but if you are among my mutuals out there… and are interested in this nonsense hit me up. The goal would be to find a week night and run for a few hours until we down Leviathan and the six other raids and lairs that exist in the game right now. I think for me Thursday nights are probably the best option, but I am open to negotiation.
For several weeks this thing has been building behind Ikora Rey and I find it super interesting. I have started noticing other changes. Like at the Ramen shop there are traditionally a few people eating there, but last night they were gone. I am not sure if this is on some sort of a cycle and I just always happened to be walking by when they were sitting there or if this is something changing as a result of the building happening. I noticed some other NPCs that I swore were in one specific place moved somewhere else. It is subtle but sorta cool to see, and I am assuming that the gate we are building is somehow going to be used in conjunction with the conclusion of the Season of the Undying.
Next reset brings us back the Festival of the Lost and it seems like they are bringing back something that started with last years. There is a really cool mode called the Haunted Forest, which is essentially the infinite forest but dark… and the goal is to see how many loops you can finish in 15 minutes. Your rewards are increased by the number of loops your group can complete in that time. Last year they introduced the Horror Show auto rifle that dropped fully masterworked and at Maximum Light, and it seems like they are bringing this concept back. The Braytech Werewolf gun shown in the thumbnail seems to be a version of the Winter Wolf weapon Anna Bray rewards.
I wound up playing a good deal of Gambit Prime last night, as I am trying to get my Infamy up high enough to do a reset and knock out the machine gun pinnacle weapon that I have had in my quest log for awhile. I also find Gambit weirdly relaxing and was ultimately working on both a Werner bounty and trying to unlock the Gambit Powerful award for the week. I’m up to Heroic III which means I need to get through Fabled 1-III, Mythic 1-III and Legend in order to get that reset. Gambit takes way longer than Crucible so the grind feels so much slower than it did last week.
I am now at level 70 on the seasonal journey, and I have a feeling that I won’t have much trouble hitting 100 by the end of the season. This is the only part of this process that I really don’t like is that it feels like I need to be playing Destiny 2 as my primary game in order to get full benefit. I want the items that are available along the path and as such I am playing pretty constantly to make sure I can get them all. I will say that with all of the XP bonuses the levels come way faster as you go, but it also sorta makes you always doing something to help it out. Like if I am running around in the world and I see one of those “Kill A Bunch of Stuff” patrols, I am always going to pick it up because it is super easy to complete and worth a bunch of XP. Similarly I am always trying to make sure I have a bunch of bounties available.
I noticed that Savathun’s Song is this weeks Nightfall, so I think my next grind is going to be running the strike trying to get Duty Bound. I love the look of this weapon because it looks like quite possibly the most Warhammer 40k gun available in the game. I have no clue if it is even good but I want to own a copy, and as a result I am hoping to run the strike a bunch in the Ordeal playlist in an attempt to get it to drop. I’ve had pretty good luck so far getting the strike specific drops, but having said that I will run this thirty times with no luck. The above screenshot is just one I found online to show off the weapon and it appears that they have applied the Leviathan shader to it.
Speaking of Leviathan… I would really like to get through that place. I have access to ways of running it and just getting carried through it. However I would far rather build a super casual raid team and work our way through it. We got pretty close to callus but I think it was the dexterity check of running the orb around the ring that ultimately killed us. We have a handful of people now playing but if you are among my mutuals out there… and are interested in this nonsense hit me up. The goal would be to find a week night and run for a few hours until we down Leviathan and the six other raids and lairs that exist in the game right now. I think for me Thursday nights are probably the best option, but I am open to negotiation.
