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Consumables for Silver? The Future of Eververse Microtransactions

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Published on: Oct 13, 2015 @ 19:19 Update 1.17 brought a suite of tweaks, fixes, and belt-tightening currency adjustments, but also a fresh wave of personality in the form of new emotes. As we detailed in our brief outline of Silver pricing, these Rare emotes can be yours for the cost of 200 Silver, though the “Legendary” quality ones cost 500. Everyone will have 400 free Silver to spend, so expect to see a bunch of your friends and enemies grieving, bowing, and slow-clapping their way through Destiny’s PvE and PvP experience. Speaking of Silver, would you want Silver to be

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Destiny Taken King: December Y2 Exotics

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Published on: Nov 20, 2015 @ 12:42 The following Exotics are being added to the game, some old, some new, but they’ll all have a fresh coat of Y2 paint. Follow Bungie’s Instagram for more Exotic announcements! [divider] Updated Y1 Exotics MIDA Multi-Tool is really designed to fill a high mobility playstyle, but it can also easily fit into anyone’s loadout and be used successfully. The MIDA has seen its share of upgrades, and has come out better because of them. It is an extremely fun weapon to use, and versatile to boot. Although it suffers from damage output problems, it more

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Is That Worth Buying?

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Published on: Nov 20, 2015 @ 04:52 Inventory Check out what the community is saying about this gear! Item Class Subclass Buy? Strange Coin Exotic Chest Engram No 19 Legacy Special Engram Maybe 31 Immolation Fists Titan Sunbreaker Yes 13 Don’t Touch Me Hunter Any Maybe 13 Claws of Ahamkara Warlock Any Maybe 13 [divider] Immolation Fists 44 Intellect 44 Strength Great stat split for Subreakers. While their grenades aren’t terrible, Melting Point and Hammer of Sol are the best tools they have, so Int/Str is what you’d aim for anyway. In fact, according to the Armory, it’s all you

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Where’s Xûr?

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Published on: November 20, 2015 @ 3:05 Xûr, Agent of the Nine has arrived with a fresh stock of Exotics. [divider] Where is Xûr? Xûr is located down in the Tower bar. He’ll be available until the reset on Sunday (1 AM Pacific, 11/15). [divider] Item Class Subclass Buy? Strange Coin Exotic Chest Engram No 19 Legacy Special Engram Maybe 31 Immolation Fists (31/44 INT, 31/44 STR) Titan Sunbreaker Yes 13 Don’t Touch Me (57/70 STR) Hunter Any Maybe 13 Claws of Ahamkara (31/44 DISC, 31/44 STR) Warlock Any Maybe 13 Curios Type Buy? QTY Price Glass Needles Material Yes 3 3 SC + 3 Motes + 1 Exotic Shard Void

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December Weapon Patch Outlook: Where Do They Stand?

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Published on: Nov 19, 2015 @ 22:01 December can’t come soon enough! Bungie hasn’t teased a balance patch for quite a while, but with today’s weekly update, we got a list of weapon balances that December is going to bring. For the most part, Bungie addresses real concerns about weapon balance in both PvP and PvE. However, there are a few slated changes that have us shaking our heads. We’ll breakdown the specifics and let you decide for yourself! [divider] Auto Rifles Outlook: Good We can all agree that Auto Rifles have come a long way from their dismal state in

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Weekly Update 11.19.15 (More Exotics)

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Published on: Nov 19, 2015 @ 19:09 Full weekly update at Bungie.net Next week, I'll have a Raid designer visit the Weekly Update to talk about Challenge Modes for the King's Fall Raid (Normal and Hard). — DeeJ (@DeeJ_BNG) November 20, 2015 [divider] Bringing Balance If you like reading Patch Notes or experiencing the changes they bring to the game, your next destination is the December Update. It will come labeled with one o’ them fancy numbers, but the nickname suggests you can expect it to arrive (wait for it) in December! We’re packing this digital parcel with things that

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December Weapon Update Preview

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BASE WEAPON CHANGES AUTO RIFLES The 2.0 update brought Auto Rifles back into the competitive PvP space as an option. However, we find they are still occasionally losing to Pulse Rifles at close range. Based on that data, Autos are coming up a tiny bit to help them fulfill their intended role. Goals: Auto Rifles are optimal at close to medium range Auto Rifles can effectively compete against Pulse Rifles in PvP Changes: Small increases to base damage. Low RoF (Suros Regime, An Answering Chord): 3% base damage increase Med RoF (Zhalo Supercell, Paleocontact JPK-43): 7% base damage increase High

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