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Hi Dylan, I've fixed your posts for you. Don't worry, we're in this together ❤️

That's it. Tomorrow I'm making some Destiny / WoW top trump cards and we're gonna settle this once and for all.

So what you meant is it's not the Destiny killer for you.

The difference of course being that I've actually played both for extensive amounts of time, whereas you experienced about 5% of WoW.

You laugh Dave, but I did that dungeon twice last night without fucking up, like a pro.

Anyone who wants to give it a go will have 1 on 1 tuition from me. I still play the fuck out of it, it's such a shame that so many see the sub as a barrier despite the game being free, this is literally the game that we could all play together, doing stuff solo or together, whether it be dungeons, elite quests, raids, PVP, you name it. This game is the Destiny replacer, once and for all, but sadly some see the £9 a month as a waste. You can have groups from 2 people doing quests, up to 40 people doing a raid and literally anything inbetween. I've still not touched PVP, still licking my wounds from the first time around when I tried it as a warrior and got my arse handed to me regularly. Apart from Blackwing Lair, I've now cleared every raid in the game, although I've done about half of BWL so not much left to go. The guild we're in is great too, loads of helpful peeps and we're starting to get to know each other quite well too, if we could get a few more FG faces in there it'd really complete the set. I've also maxed out every secondary profession now, fishing was a cunt to do. Good gold maker though when just chilling.

So what you guys are saying is that I need to delete everything and start again? I could be convinced. Might do that tonight actually.

Hell yeah I'm in. Also fuck you Tom.

Ours is better anyway.

It's a step in the right direction, but it's still not worth it because any class can do the same and get the same stuff with the same results. It's pointless. A healing class would be awesome. Not a subclass, a whole new class with its own abilities and stuff. Think Mercy but with more firepower. Give it a mana pool and use Intellect as a stat, making its healing more powerful, and Discipline as a stat making its resources last longer, so it can heal longer. Restrict it to SMGs and scout rifles or something, but make it extremely strong at healing so it makes the difference between a raid completing or failing. Make the Titan a tank class. Give it Discipline as a stat to determine how long its shields last, give it strength as an actual melee damage stat, so punching shit draws aggro. Give bosses the ability to do massive damage dealing strikes, but then give the Titan the ability to punch the boss to get it to focus on the Titan, so he can soak the damage. This will give the healer something to do, and the DPS will have their windows in which to unload and zerg the fuck out of the boss. It creates actual boss mechanics that don't involve stuff like "stand here to achieve this", it makes the fights a lot more active and beating them will be a lot more rewarding. I don't feel needed in a raid in Destiny. I can die and the raid can be completed with the remaining people, no problem. It gives me no incentive to get better and I have no interest in gearing up or focusing on any stats apart from power because it's all irrelevant. Raiding, for me, is a chore in destiny. I have no idea what gear will drop and even if it does, I don't care because it'll have random crap on it which likely won't make a difference. Make me feel needed, make me feel like I have a shot of winning something which will make an actual, tangible difference to my character, and I'll start playing again. Destiny's problem is simple: it's trying to be all things to all people. There's a bit of FPS in there, a bit of RPG, a bit of loot pinata, but it's all just wishy washy crap. There's a reason WoW is so successful after 15 years still, it makes you feel like you're needed. The activities couldn't be done without you. In Destiny you can take 6 of the same class in to any raid and win. Makes no difference at all. In WoW I feel the pressure of having to perform. If I don't, the group wipes. Simple as that. It makes me want to learn my class, know the fights, know my role and my stats. It makes me want to optimize my class to the nth degree because that tiny little bit of extra stats could literally be the difference between winning or losing. And the rewards, whether they drop or not, are tailored towards my class. They have stats I want, and are useless to anyone else. They offer me the ability to make my class stronger so I can perform even better next time. I feel like a disposable character in Destiny, for me there are a billion others. A hunter can do my job, a warlock can do my job, we can all use the same weapons and wear the same armour. What's the point in being a Titan? The class abilities like shoulder charge are fucking ace, we all love them or hate being on the receiving end of them. That's what the game needs more of, not this flippy-floppy-you-all-get-a-piece-of-vanilla-candy stuff. Destiny needs balls.

Welcome dude! Scottash and Jew love this game, I'm sure they'll be along shortly to bask in the glory of your wisdom. Or get your drunk and take you on a wild adventure you'll never forget, never know with those two.

That is such a cool username. Welcome to the club dude!

Howdy! Welcome to the club 😄

Destiny needs stats. I don't mean the current stats which are about as effective on your performance as the colour of your armour, I mean actual stats. In WoW for example, each class and role has its primary and secondary stats, and you can shuffle and fiddle till your heart's content. There are tons more stats which also affect your character, however this is more for flavour. As a tank, I stack defense rating to make me tougher, this is my primary stat. My secondary stat is stamina, which increases the size of my health pool, so when I take the big hits, I survive. As a healer, I stack healing power as my primary stat and intellect as my secondary stat. More intellect, bigger mana pool, more heals before I run out. Swap these around however and you've just made both of these classes completely useless. There are thousands of items in the game which offer all manner of stats and although the drop rate is RNG, the place to get them isn't. Want that tanking 'at? Go farm BossyMcBossface in McDungeonland until you get it. You know what you need, you know what you want, and it gives the game a purpose. This also allows you to experiment and play with your gear. Fighting a boss with a short enrage timer? Go for max DPS. Fighting a boss that hits like a truck? Go for a larger health pool. Keep the weapons as they are, with the god rolls and random rolls, but maybe add some stats to them. As for armour, keep the blues as random stats like it currently is, but the legendary stuff? Give it fixed stats and give it a specific path to obtain it. Whether it be a questline, a certain strike or dungeon, raid, boss, whatever. This system could be implemented in the current game with almost no overhead, it's literally just a spreadsheet going on in the background. It would give all the quests, bounties, missions, strikes, etc all a purpose. You know what you want and you know what you need to do to get it. Goals. As it currently stands the entire game is concentrated around the power stat which is fine, but as you've all seen, all they can do at the end of an expansion is increase the power level, moving the carrot a bit further away, creating a non-stop cycle of tedium and boringness. The other stats mean absolutely fuckall, in fact maxing out one stat at the cost of another in D2 amounts to having a different coloured lollipop in your mouth when you shoot people, that's how effective it is. The classes also need more of an identity. Every game with the holy trinity performs well, just look at WoW, and even Overwatch. It makes your class stand out and if you fail at your role, you fail the group, so it incentivizes you to max your gear out and be on your game. The classes at the moment are slightly different, but not different enough. Apart from their supers the only thing differentiating them is their appearance, their jump and which way they lob their grenade. Anyone who's been a warlock will know that the jump is just a pain in the ass and completely unnecessary. You could go a step further and restrict certain classes to certain weapons. For example all classes could use ARs, but only a Titan could use an LMG, and a warlock a shotgun. Only hunters can use sniper rifles, that sort of thing. The game as it currently stands is any class can do anything, and the crap you get is entirely RNG based which just makes you feel like your character is exactly the same as every other character in the game and the only thing differentiating you is RNG. Give classes a proper identity, remove or add some abilities to really give them flavour, make the stuff worth grinding for and the game will get a LOT more interesting overnight. It'll also go a long way to helping fix the PVP system as you can't simply have every class running around with a Mida Multi Tool. I'm not saying turn the game in to an MMO, far from it, but do something to make sure your character is your character. You want other people to see your stuff and go "oh shit, look at that 'at, he must've done the hardest raid on hard mode", not "oh he got lucky from an engram".

I'm not in the position to commit to anything right now unfortunately, work's mental, got exams coming up, and I'm not in the right frame of mind to be letting people down. I'll post up when shit cools down again 🙂

Thanks for organizing this Lolliott, it was actually great fun! I vastly underestimated this whole paper RPG thing as there is so much more to it than I could've ever imagined, it's literally a case of seeing where your imagination runs out, really good stuff. I can certainly see how people can sink an entire Saturday night in to this stuff. We're gonna hafta do another session in a week or two so I can find out exactly what those fuckers are up to. I have some theories but I'll wait to see what the conclusion is. @phil bottle stop running from blood you fucking fanny, you're a Hackney boi, this should be standard stuff for you 😂

Your mum looks better when she's laid down.

I want to do this, but there's just not enough meat on these games' bones to warrant the cash. I loved the older GT games, GT3 in particular owes me half my teen years. I'm really hoping that GT7 goes back to those roots with such an awesome campaign, I'll be all over it like a rash, and can then come and make you guys look good on the lap times 😄 PS has anyone else noticed that the grin smiley is half face, half forehead? Was it modeled on @Chookes ? @GazzaGarratt can you look in to this pls.

Ah, the game that made me want a PS1, together with Wipeout. Don't think I've ever played it though.

The "ink plan" basically means "when you're down to about 25% of the cartridge, which is only 50% full to begin with, we'll automatically order a new one for you and you won't be able to print until it arrives". You don't print all that much I don't think so it shouldn't be an issue but printer cartridges belong in the same category as loot boxes in terms of value for money.

USB slots are USB slots. Use them for scale. Looks like you might need a new desk.

Well, once you've taken it apart for its inaugural clean you simply leave half the screws out for next time, takes half the time to clean then.

Apart from graphics cards, anything with the words "gaming" on it is just a tax on those who don't know better and it drives me up the fucking wall. Does being a gamer mean you get extra performance? Does anyone look at a non-gaming router and go "nah, don't need the extra performance, that's for gamers". No, nobody does. Everyone wants to whack regardless. Fucking thieving scumbags. Anyway. Ignore that, Leigh's situation was rather different to the norm which is why he was fucking about for ages. All you need is a good router from a good brand, (google reviews on them, tbh the lack of advancement in this tech nowadays means that all but the shittiest models are running on the latest protocols), wired straight in to your PS4, job jobbed. Don't go blowing loads of cash on shit you don't need, if there's one thing we can all attest to, it's to you not needing more fucking power in CoD. Your shit ping is the only thing keeping us within the same postcode on the scoreboard. Have a read here, I've relied on this site (this used to be PC Format magazine for those in the know) and they've always been fairly decent. Whatever you do, don't go spunking £200 on a router for the sake of a 2m ethernet cable as 90% of the router cost goes in to the wifi shenanigans. Best gaming router 2020: the top routers for gaming | TechRadar WWW.TECHRADAR.COM Secret weapons

Looking forward to this.

Be more specific, where's it gonna live? I have some proper commercial ones at work which we're going to bin. They're in perfect working order, I still don't know why we "upgraded" to these new unreliable, pay-per-print pieces of shit but whatever, they're surplus to requirements. If your bowls club has a couple of square feet to accommodate one, it's all yours. Scans, copies, prints, colour, the lot. Absolutely bulletproof too, never let us down.