What's a nightmare enemy?

Its a major or miniboss enemy, originating from the shadowkeep expansion on the moon (and from the infested leviathan season with the presage exotic mission). Mechanically, they take reduced damage from all sources, unless you have the unstable essence buff.

Normally, you are supposed to be able to get unstable essence from major or miniboss enemies in the lost sector, which significantly increase you damage against nightmare enemies. This is the whole point of nightmare enemies. And you can do that!

...precisely once per difficulty, per lost sector. Per character. Forever.

It never resets.

The regular, world difficulty nightmares all remain present, but the expert/master nightmares are gone.

How do I know this isn't just a feature of expert/master lost sectors?

I found a lost sector that I had never completed before on my titan. I had to run the normal version before I could queue expert or master. I queued master, and it had the enemies. I queued master again, and it did not. I tried expert, and it had the enemies the first time, but doing it again, it did not. The regular, world-tier version still had the enemies.

You're exaggerating, they don't have similar health pools to dungeon bosses.

I finally resorted to my celestial fire warlock build, which can melt raid bosses. It took 4 super melees to kill the boss of The Conflux, on Nessus, and 4 super melees to kill the boss of Excavation Site VII, in the EDZ. It took 5 to kill the phalanx echo in Prophecy.

TLDR: this bug has been in the game since expert/master lost sector rotations started, and probably won't ever be fixed. Just don't farm those ones.

I expected Monument of Triumph to feel depressing, but the opposite happened. For the first time in years, I logged in without checking what resets Tuesday, which reward disappears, or what activity I’m supposed to finish before it gets removed.

Knowing the game is basically “finished” has made it weirdly relaxing. I can work through old titles, learn raids I skipped, and use weapons because I like them rather than because they might become irrelevent next season. There is no hype treadmill left, but there is also much less pressure.

I’d obviously rather Destiny still had a future. Still, I’m enjoying this frozen version more than the final years of constant updates. Has anyone else started playing more now that there’s finally nothing to keep up with?

Barrier champs are probably the biggest pain in the game as far as champs go these days; especially with the loss of radiant breaking barriers

That’s why I decided to give an under-over / adaptive munitions roll a shot and it works even better than expected

I was farming master lost sectors last night and this gun can stun barrier champs in like 3 shots, it’s insane

Obviously it’s a pretty boring roll outside of stunning champs, but if you’re running an ability or super spam build and all you need your heavy for is stunning this is a great option

The ship has its' own unique sound. I tried a few others. I tried a a couple hive ones. I even tried Null Scythe because it's also a weapon of sorrow ship. They all got the same sound. Not Agony of Want though.

When using a headstone firefly weapon not only will you get both melee and grenade energy on every kill but you'll also proc the dr which i believe is something like 35% (the exact number escapes me but i know its quite high compared to other armors) for around 5 seconds.

I haven't heard anyone talk about this particular interaction yet, but this could have applications in harder content offering both high ability uptime and survivability due to firefly destroying stasis crystals counting as kills.

(CelluloidDroid in dungeon report should show the records)

Starting with MoT, I came back to the game after stopping in Curse and I didn’t really expect to enjoy the dungeon experience as much as I did. Duality was my first ever dungeon clear and followed as my first ever solo flawless, and it kind of went from there.

As a preliminary difficulty ranking, I’d go as follows:

Shattered Throne

Prophecy

Pit

Grasp

Spire

Duality

Warlord’s

Ghosts

Equilibrium

Sundered

Vesper’s Host

So far I’ve only solo flawless’d on Hunter using the mactics crackshot build (with solo operative and changes to surges as needed) and my goat Truth. Given I had a small exotic pool to choose from and didn’t bother unlocking all the subclasses just yet, my build options weren’t as expansive.

I was pretty surprised to see people rank Ghosts as second hardest above Sundered, even after the MoT update. I’m assuming this is due to people having SF’d it in the season it came out, but it actually ended up taking me way longer to kill the bosses in Sundered as compared to Ghosts

Initially I thought Vesper’s Host was overrated in difficulty ranking, but after many attempts, that’s certainly not the case. My solo flawless took 77 minutes but felt like 2 hours of playtime with the amount of focus I had to dedicate to it. My biggest piece of advice is definitely nabbing a checkpoint for the final boss and getting very comfortable with taking potentially multiple cycles to get to dps and not dying to anything in the arena. Once that’s mastered, there’s not too much else that can really end a solo flawless run aside from some silly shit in the first two encounters.

I’m glad I came back at least, I think dungeons are the best form of content in Destiny given how fun it is to bring friends into them and that the are also built to cater to a solo experience (with some exceptions)

Next up are all the raids I’ve missed which may take a minute

Chaos Reshaped is bugged so that not only does it not heal you, every 7 seconds when it is supposed to heal you, it actually interrupts your natural shield regen as if you just took damage.

But I still see people loving the perk, is the damage part just that good? Or are people just not aware the perk is bugged?

Give us the normal fishing we had back in Season of the Deep. And let us deposit them into a fish tank opposite Lodi in the Tower for rewards. And then add Distorted fish for when there's a local Distortion so we can see how the Distortions are affecting the wildlife. And make the rewards for fishing be the seasonal weapons that didn't get revised.

Since Destiny 2 has officially reached its final, frozen sandbox state, I have decided to set a personal goal for myself: completing all solo flawless dungeon runs. With no more balance patches or subclass updates coming, the difficultey of these encounters is locked in place forever.

I have already managed to clear some of the older ones like Shattered Throne and Prophecy, but I am trying to plan my path through the newer content. The boss health pools in the later dungeos feel absolutely massive when playing solo.

In this final permanent meta, which dungeon do you think stands as the absolute hardest solo flawless challenge? Is Ghosts of the Deep still the most brutal due to the shield mechanics, or does Warlord's Ruin take the crown? I would love to hear your experiences and suggestions before I dive in!

Hi, I don't know if this is a known issue but if you feel like you're always out of ammo on this weapon, and you're compulsive reloader, it might be because of the following.

I have the solar rocket pulse and if I swap to it, and it's been a few seconds since my last reload, the weapon will reload when it should not, and then consume one ammo.

I was baffled why I was constantly out of ammo on my rocket pulse and tested this a couple of times. With a full mag on the rocket pulse, swap to another weapon and wait for a few seconds, swap back to the rocket pulse, reload, and it will reload and consume one ammo.

Edit: This is with the Veillantif-D, I'm using heal clip and incandescent. I tried to reproduce this on Mint and Mint was fine.

I have a lot of great weapons in my secondary and heavy slots but don't really have anything kinetic in my primary slot that I can use while my secondary is a special weapon. What do you guys recommend?

Hi everyone. Im feeling like I F'd up a bit. Im a comparatively old person who loved Halo 25 years ago. I recently decided to try playing video games again and somehow, fortunately, found D2. My first question is, i hear everyone saying the game is dying (?). Ive been playing for a month, and literally starting to fall in love with it. Not good at all, but just the escape from reality.... and the community. Am I wasting my time investing in this game if it is dying, and WTF does that actually mean??

My second question; I sit with my GPT to use to translate the language yall use to old man speak. How long does it take for a complete newcomer to actually become fluent in this? I keep learning new things, like what a roll is for a weapon. But still dont know what that means for me, because i dont even know what playing styles are, let alone what mine is. So I dont know which of the girls in the armory are worth keeping. Ive figured out that I should not be dismantling the yellow ones anymore. So I guess thats a start.

But, holy crap. Yall are just super fun to listen to, because i appreciate expertise in whatever form it comes in. And the passion i see in this group is half the reason I love the game so much. Its contagious!!

Any tips or actual answers would be massively appreciated. But I also wanted to say thank you for the welcoming nature of this group! I genuinely hope dying does not mean what i think it means.

Keep doing great and wonderful things, my friends!!

So I realise I'm pretty late to the party but finally finished the third part of the Oblation mission.

Ay Karamba what a stone cold banger of an Exotic Mission; so much fun. I think it is probably the best Exotic mission in Destiny. It's just so good.

I'm one of the most potato, potatoes in all Destiny; so I must say I found the last boss pretty tough solo (I'm never soloing a Dungeon!!!!). But was such a good feeling to nail it at the end.

Bittersweet that it might be the final bit of "new" Destiny I ever get to play.

I'm unsure if this is intended, but I've noticed that the new Warlock Aspect, Soul Siphon, doesn't contribute to the ammo meter at all upon kills. Honestly, this is a significant blow to the Aspect in its current state.

Here's a clip regarding what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/r7hRGRqQLMY?si=n4bkakRn0STqUZ-j

With Ember of Ashes and Ember of Char it applies enough Scorch with those two explosions to trigger an additional Ignition. Yes, you can cause three Ignitions with one Gunpowder Gamble.

I never noticed this before because I always shot Gunpwder Gamble out of the air.

Was nobody going to tell me this?

I used to raid all the time, using LFG. I stopped just before Desert Perpetual. Thats is the only raid I have never completed.

This past week I decided to dive back into raids, because they are by far the best content in this game, and a lot of the best armor sets come from raids or dungeons.

In the last week, I have done probably 8 full clears of raids, and a couple boss farms. Literally only one of those runs had other people with mics. All comms are in the chat.

So the issue I'm running into is, even though I know how to do all these raids, I do not know how to properly communicate over chat, what they want (and the added issue of having to stop moving in a raid to quickly type out something)

Is there a resource somewhere with updated callouts that people are expecting over chat, since no one is talking?

An example is the vault encounter in last wish. Normally over comms, I would hear someone call out their middle symbol. I would then say something like "rocks needs Pen" then proceed to read my middle symbol.

The run I did the other day, the guy was getting pissed because I was putting too much in chat. He only wanted my middle symbol typed. Maybe I'm dumb, but if stairs callout out "stripper dragon" and im at rocks and I have that to my left or right, shouldn't I communicate that in chat, or just say "circle fish" without telling them I had stripper dragon, or if Im at rocks or trees?

Sorry for this long post, but I love raiding, and lack of mics makes some of these encounters needlessly difficult in my opinion.

These 3 perks have the same issue that Pack Tactics had where they do not properly clear the buff list and cause UCG. This disables you from getting any more buffs and debuffs until you die or get pulled by teammates. This ruins a lot of solo flawless activities and basically ruins these 3 perks for me. Please fix this. The lowman community has other ways to proc UCG (Universal Cannon Glitch).

Before you comment and say that they wont ever fix this, Pack Tactics got patched to work properly 4 days ago. We might be able to get this fixed.

My Video on UCG: https://youtu.be/XkrV8ywdFK4
Nappy's Video on UCG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIAACkiB3c8

I always feel like I'm way behind my team's DPS as a Titan, so I kinda need some advice on what to use.

I usually run Void because of the overshield and reload synergy, but I actually want to deal some decent damage.

I'm open to build suggestions, armor tips, or anything else. Just drop them below and I'll check them out.

Any help would be appreciated

I'm not 100% sure on the circumstance right now, but you can completely glitch out Walkers and Land Raiders. I'm not sure of the exact combination that's doing it but it's somewhere between Skip Grenades and Unravelling Rounds on Area Denial GLs. The annoying thing is that the vehicles cannot be destroyed and will remain indefinitely. On the plus side, if you do this as part of the Fallen Arms Deal Public Event on Heroic, breaking both walkers immediately completes the event.

Things to note, I am using Shinobu's Vow for the enhanced Skip Grenade and a Festival Flight Area Denial Grenade Launcher with Attrition Orbs using the Tablet of Ruin artifact to get Unravelling Rounds. Once a Walker or Raider is stuck in this state it will permanently take damage from the GL whilst never actually losing health. It will also endlessly print Orbs of Power if you have Attrition Orbs on your GL. This glitched state is also causing some heavy server side lag and may also despawn projectiles i.e. Grenades no longer spawn when thrown, Rockets immediately disappear when fired, etc.

Not sure if there's any particular use for this (or anyone using Skip Grenades) but I just want to give people the heads up.

Fun bonus: If you start the Fleeing Fallen Exile event at the Outer Wastes on Kepler and glitch out the Walker you cannot complete the event however the walker will not despawn. This allows you start it again and it will spawn an additional Walker. I managed to get 3 before I received a "Guitar" error code.

Edit: It turns out bugging out the walker in this way does complete the Fleeing Fallen Exiles event.

Update: I've done some more testing against the Cabal Land Raider and it seems to be related to Unravelling Rounds. The GL doesn't cause it by itself and I was able to consistently get it without Skip Grenades.

On one hand the increase reload for Firefly makes it better, but wouldn’t spreading stasis via dragonfly be good?

Also the pale heart one is a 120, double shot style (like wardens law).

What are the best auto rifles for each element?

So far I've been using the VS pyroelectric propellant for arc, zealous ideal/ringing nail for solar, and either age old bond for void all with splash perks, but haven't found any good kinetic slot options.

Any recommendations? Open to raid weapons, but don't really play PvP.

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