Sennex

This is exactly it right here. If you can practice with it, and learn how the sights work, you will destroy anyone with Thorn. Thorn just forgives a lot of mistakes, but it isn't a better weapon by any stretch. I would arguably put up any of the Exotic hand cannons as better than it.

I will update as soon as it finishes downloading

Hawkmoon is much more accurate than Thorn. It has a longer range, and hits harder. You just don't have the DOT. In Iron Banner, Hawkmoon does not one hit kill typically, but in regular crucible, you can rack up a ton of headshots with it for one hit kills. Also, in PVE, Hawkmoon > Thorn

I'm in! Gotta represent with my Wales Flag!

So that gif is from a movie that is getting ready to come out, I am totally going to watch that shit.

NSFW but funny as hell http://i.imgur.com/Jng3yhx.gifv No nudity, but yea, work will probably frown on this.

I haven't tried this on PC yet, but on PS4, it is loads of goofy assed fun

cirathorn - 96

I agree with this 100%, and it is why I rage against the current state of mental health care in the US whenever anyone gives me a chance. Everyone's life and health could improve by talking to a 3rd party professional about how they feel and think.

Crazy! I had swords, armor, axes and what not coming out my ears! I play on whatever the default difficulty is

So, 1.07 wiped out my progress so far. No big deal, I shouldn't have patched when I did; but it made me think that all of us have different play styles and could benefit from a thread like this. The battlefield near the starting town, where you get a side quest to locate a missing brother. Go there and keep going there until you have looted all of the dead. I want to say it took me 4 trips to loot everything, but it was well worth it as I am stocked up on crafting materials of all sorts now, and even got some decent armor out of it. (It was hideous armor, blue and white striped) There is a high level drowner near the crossroads. Do not try to fight it until you are around level 10. When in Combat, don't be afraid to run away and then come back. Don't be afraid to eat some raw meat in the middle of combat. Mainly just take your time, avoid guys with shields or zweihanders/ great axes Read Everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are a lot of little things on the map that you should do. so explore all the things. Coupled with exploring is doing the side quests. In a lot of games you can skip them, not in Witcher. Also liberate towns, rebuild idols and monuments, etc.. Basically if an NPC is standing near something and wants to actually speak at you, then help them

Howdy! (Talk about an intro! I feel like I am meeting you for the first time.) You sound like a shy person stuck in a rut, that is spiralling into depression. The good thing is you have spotted that you need help in dealing with this. I know you said you are shy, but I would look at maybe volunteering your time somewhere? If you are shy, you could maybe volunteer with a group that helps special needs kids. They "get" shy folks, they "get" folks that tend to dwell on things and what not. (Not saying you are special needs or anything like that, just that if you are around a bunch of folks that are similar, it could help you) Also, dogs and cats need help, perhaps volunteer with them?

There isn't a release date yet

You can read it for yourself here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/07/17/nerfing-gjallarhorn-and-thorn-is-the-exact-wrong-move-for-destiny/ The article makes a number of preliminary points which have already been stated repeatedly on this forum since the "Weapon Balancing" preview was released: 1) Bungie's annoying habit of removing any advantage the player base finds, in an attempt to force players to play Destiny "like it was meant to be played". 2) The fact that guns like icebreaker and Gjallarhorn wouldn't be as crucial to the game if most of Bungie's bosses weren't just bullet-spongy one-trick-ponies. But one thing in the article stood out to me, and I think it speaks to a lot of our frustrations: "I remember a GDC talk by Blizzard’s Rob Pardo where he outlined a concept any MMO designer should be familiar with. “Always balance up,” he said, talking about both World of Warcraft and Diablo 2 (this was a while ago). If you find something in your game that feels overpowered, that’s good. Players will enjoy it. The solution is never to remove that feeling of power, but to power up other things in the game to meet it." What Bungie could have done, and should have done, was to follow this simple rule of thumb from WoW and Diablo. Instead of nerfing the players' best PvE weapons since we're "using them too much", why not instead boost the damage output on the lesser used guns? Maybe players would choose to use our exotic slot on Lord of Wolves over Gjallarhorn on a Solar Burn strike if Lord of Wolves was buffed into a comparable weapon? Or maybe we would use a new TTK exotic over icebreaker if the new exotic had comparably advantageous perks. What Bungie has done is the exact opposite of this MMO rule of thumb - and it has lead to a ton of frustrated responses. Bungie - instead of trying to get players to use other guns by nerfing the weapons they've come to know and love, why not improve the large amount of shitty, "immediately-shard", guns in this game so players will have other options. Bungie: The update is not set to launch until September. Plenty of time to listen to player feedback on the projected changes, revisit your course of action, and change the direction you're steering Destiny. I would strongly recommend you listen to the playerbase and the advice of your peer developers in the MMO world.

I need to practice more with Shotguns and Pistols

BF4 on PS4 played amazing today for me. I was shocked at just how different it was over the PS3 version.

yea, I think you are correct here. Nerf the old stuff, so we don't keep trudging it around with us. I have a feeling we won't be able to "Ascend" any of our current gear again. If they did this, it would be in keeping with what all MMO's do when expansions come out

We had a decent talk about various DC movies the other day, and in order to better help with conversation, I figured toss it up here Also, I saw this pic and wantd to share it.

I think he is dead lolz

You said Windows 10 is a bit of a mess. It isn't Thats why you should be ignored. As far as getting a copy of it, well, there are ways, and there will be more ways as of the end of this month.

I could be wrong here, but how I read the Thorn change is DOT is applied once per target, and you can have a max of 5 targets affected. The old way was to stack 5 dots on 1 Target. I see Thorn being an assist machine way more than it ever was before.

Xur not selling a weapon is apparently a bug

Ignore him. Windows 10 is solid as shit right now.

I was thinking about the nerf last night and again this morning, and once again Bungie is messing with PVE for PVP reasons. A few observations from a sub-par player: Everything in the game is already a bullet sponge because of the Max level +1 balancing they have done, so decreasing the effectiveness of IB by 37.5% only means that players will go through content slower. (Black hammer nerf increases this downtime) Places to camp and use IB: CE Bridge, VoG Oracles, Valus T'Arc tank, ??? (I don't know where you all camp, but these are the only ones I camp at with IB, and is it really camping?) Cluster Bomb (Gjallarhorn/ Hunger of Crota): This means it takes longer to go through adds, there forcing us to camp and go slower It appears that the intent here is to force us to go through content slower. I foresee a lot of Sparrow skipping sections of Strikes in the future, until Bungie nerfs them as well --------------- That all being said, I do think that the Thorn Nerf is actually pretty impressive. It only affects PVP Also, I think the Hard light buff is a good thing. EDIT: How many folks will switch to Patience and Time now instead of IB? I know I will, third eye, and Active Camo? Going to spend a lot of money on synths though

"I can't disappoint you when I have nothing to disappoint you with." - Xur