Loud Lullaby

In part because of my self imposed exile from Blizzard products, over the last several nights I have played an awful lot of Destiny 2. The weird thing about it is that I am not really grinding my ass off to get that light higher. In fact this week I am not sure if I have actually earned any powerful engrams. Instead I find myself piddling around and working on various quests. One of my favorite of these are the weapon quests that start dropping on the moon that lead to purifying a weapon of a sort. I am not sure how many of these there are but I have picked up a fair number of them. However the moment I get a new one it suddenly becomes my key priority.

Last night for example I unlocked this super angry climbing pick. It really is a brutal looking weapon, but I am not sure if I could actually qualify this as a “sword”. Unfortunately I don’t really know what makes a good sword versus a bad sword, but this one seems to be one that you want to use the light attack on as you get a bonus when you do so… and you also get some ammo refunded to the weapon. This means I need to vary my play style because I generally go for the slow big hits rather than the blade flurry.

Another weapon unlocked last night is Every Waking Moment, which is a Submachinegun which I am coming to love more and more. This time it has dynamic sway reduction which really helps with the kick on a sub. Subsistence helps to reload the weapon on kill and then ricochet rounds extend the range a tiny bit and increase stability. The total package leads to a very predictable experience and this is quickly becoming my weapon of choice for anything serious, paired with either the Monte Carlo or my good ole Standby the Breakneck with Barrier Rounds equipped. Monte Carlo would never leave my hand were it not for the fact that I can’t equip barrier rounds.

If I need to swap things up a bit I got a new scout option. The previous roll that I liked has Subsistence and Multi-Kill Clip. This one has good ole Triple Tap and Explosive Payload making it theoretically way more useful for me when I end up using a scout rifle. The only time I run one is when I know I will need to sit back and plink things from a distance, at which point triple tap helps quite a bit. I am still not the biggest fan of the look of the Vex themed weapons that come from invasions and incursions but they are solidly rolled most of the time. Weirdly I seem to get more scout rifles than any of the other weapons.

Another weapon that I like an awful lot that I got recently is the Loud Lullaby which is the Eris Morn Hand Cannon. The roll I got is pretty solid with Opening Shot and Outlaw as well as Flared Magwell. I am playing around with this quite a bit, and it has become my go to when I get a hand cannon bounty. Previously I had been using a Duke and this is absolutely replaced that. There is also the side benefit that it looks really freaking cool.

As far as seasonal progress goes I am still way off from the end, but I have heard as you near the end it starts to pick up thanks to all of the XP Bonus perks that you pick up along the way. I love that the seasonal bits carry over between characters, and at some point I will start working on my Hunter who I managed to get to the 900s by pulling stuff out of the collection and seasonal rewards. Any time there is a piece of gear gained you get a copy of that item on every single character which is really nice. Mostly this is just a show and tell post, but this is what I have been up to over the last few nights.