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The Mythocast - DestinyGAF's Own Occasionally-released Podcast
It's been quite a year. It has been a true honor to share it with you all.
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In this section, I just wanted to give some shout-outs to members of the community that I've personally experienced going well above and beyond the call of duty as a member of a gaming community.
Whether it be helping newbies, stimulating discussion in our threads, or just being awesome, I thank you all for your service.
By no means is this list even close to exhaustive or representative of everyone that makes DGAF what it is.
Truly, we could fill an entire thread with the heroic tales of warmth and guidance our members have spawned.
This is just a small sampling of a few players I've seen regular contributions from first-hand over the last 365 days.
Also, below is a link to information about the Weekly Newbie Raids open to all. For now, we rotate between VoG, CE, and PoE35... but King's Fall is coming ASAP!
This section is also where information on any future community assistance events will go.
A small selection of reminiscences from the first year of Destiny... remember, you can always click on the little arrow by the username to see the full post.
I can't believe it has been a year with this game, I remember not even going to DGAF until the week of the HM Crota release.
I completed my first raid with people from the Bungie forums and still friends with one of them to this day, we stuck together for 17 hours and defeated Atheon for the first time, it was glorious.
The loot cave was awesome, spending 6 hours a day sometimes shooting at a damn cave with the guys from Bungie forums.
Then, Crota's End. We all left because we were pissed off about the level difference that they pull with the raid and they left the game and went back to FF XIV or Everquest. So in January I forgot I actually had a account with NeoGAF and found the Destiny OTs by coincidence, because at that point I was really thinking about dropping the game and never come back but I stuck through with you guys/gals through the dark days of Crota and the Trials of Hand Cannons bullshit.
And now that I only play with you guys, I can't wait for Year 2 of this game. Year 1 was stupid fun and I'd imagine Year 2 will be as well
tl;dr: I almost gave up on Destiny in January but found the DestinyGAF thread.
Thank you guys.
You know, I left Destiny very disappointed and angry with the game when it was first released. I was pretty much done with it forever, and said to myself "man...that game could've been great".
Then when Taken King was announced, I thought "man...maybe I should check out Destiny and see if it's changed". I picked up the DLC, started playing again, and found very quickly that I was having a lot of fun. It seems a lot of other people I know came back around the same time, so I had plenty of people to do raids and PoE with.
I have to say, coming back to Destiny has been a really pleasant experience. GAF especially has been really cool to play with.
Looking forward to some TTK with all of you!
And some delivered via haiku...
Next, as a sendoff to our beloved Year 1 Gear, the results of LTWood12's Exotic item survey:
"If you could only keep one exotic armor and weapon, which would you choose?"
And finally, a handful of memories in GIF form...
Nighthawk vs. Crota
Atheon vs. Arc Blade
One in a million.
TOO SEXY
Gjallarhorn is the solution to all problems
A fine duel. Good show!
- Sign Up List for Xbox Players!
- Bungie's Twitter and Bungie's website, Weekly Updates released every Thursday. BungieHelp, Bungie's technical support Twitter.
- www.destinystatus.com is a great resource to see all of your characters' information at a glance.
- www.destinytracker.com has tons of detailed PvE and PvP statistics on your Guardians.
- A very useful database of in-game items including detailed armor and weapon information.
- Xur's weekly location and inventory. A Tower resident from 5 am EST Friday through 5 am EST Sunday.
- www.destinylfg.net and www.reddit.com/r/fireteams for finding groups outside DGAF. DGAF's the100.io groups for forming advance groups with GAF members.
- All Ghost hunting locations, and all Gold Chest locations.
- Public Event timings and locations
- Tower Ghost for Destiny for easy inventory management between all your characters. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Android and iOS.
- Join NeoGAF Destiny Clans here! PM me to have your clan added to the list.
- List of DestinyGAF Twitch streams
[/URL]All of our original progression guides are obsolete as of the release of the The Taken King.
New guides will be posted as the intricacies of the new system come to Light. You can still read Building with Exotics for general theorycrafting and choosing your exotic combinations.
Congratulations and thank you to all those who survived the Year 1 leveling process!
- Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4
Important correction on the second tip of Volume 3:
The XP amounts are right, but bounty XP is not split between your equipped items, it applies equally to all of them. Equip everything you want to give XP to before turning in bounties. - Patrol Missions Explained (quickie image guide)
- Basic PvP Tips
- The Last Word PvP Advice from Master Zoba (as of 2.0, Soft Ballistics is recommended over Aggressive)
- Trials of Osiris tips from Hawkian.
- Weapon Reforging tips from Reddit courtesy of reneruiz
- Vault of Glass Flawless Raid Tips
- Crota's End Flawless Raid is recommended for trophy hunters.
- Class Selection Advice (Dax Memorial Edition): Hunter is totally the best class.
- Unlock all Achievements, then PM Lnkn52 to be added to the list! Send a PM here.
In honor of The Last Word's most famous user 'round these parts, I wanted to give the last word to Zoba. See you all starside!
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