Chasing Madness

Sometimes I get stuck on things and I am not entirely sure why. For example I could have done a bunch of useful things last night prior to the reset… but instead I spent my time in Iron Banner trying to get wins on the Hunter. It either was not my night, I just suck at playing the hunter, or I kept running into some premade groups… or a combination of all three. I did manage to get two more wins before finally giving up on that achievement for the evening. I am not sure WHY completing the Iron Banner page suddenly became important to me last night but it seemingly did. I did manage to get 75 packages for the entirety of the event and a lot of gear that I will mull over and decide what to keep and what to shard.

At some point I swapped back to the Titan and worked my way through the material gathering phases of the Thorn quest. I finished the first step by doing a third nightfall and a single bounty on Io. That left me with the other two steps and I opted to take the PVP route for those… the first requiring me to get kills on Titans and I managed that in a single round of Iron Banner because I happened to be on a stacked team full of Titans. The next step was to get Hunter kills and for some reason it was just Titan and Warlock night, and I kept getting teams with only a single Hunter on them. As such I think it took me a total of 4 Iron Banner matches to rack up enough kills to move things forward to the most painful step.

In this step as I understand it there is a hidden 500 point system that is instead represented as a percentage bar. You earn the absolute most points from a Void Hand Cannon streak while in either Competitive or Iron Banner. So there are sorta multiple components to the math behind this but essentially you can move the bar forward with either Void Weapon kills or Hand Cannon Kills. Ideally the weapon everyone keeps pointing towards is the Kindled Orchid… of which I don’t exactly have a stellar roll and it has been wasting away in my vault. I could in theory try and get a better roll, but they really need to rework the way the whole forge system operates. It seems way the hell too difficult to get a Ballistics Log each week.

Thankfully however the new Vex Incursion event has a fairly reasonable option as well. As it stands the best version of the Optative that I currently have is one with Accurized Rounds, Outlaw and Zen Moment. The version that I would be chasing if I so decide to do this nonsense would be one with Rapid Hit and Kill Clip since that appears to be the best combo in my eyes available on the weapon. I do have one with Rapid Hit and Mulligan that might be an option as well. Regardless of what I use… this is going to be a really long grind to go from the 12% I am sitting at as of last night to 100%. I guess I am going to be doing a lot of crucible with Last Word in my kinetic slot, Optative in my energy slot, Hammerhead in my heavy slot and while playing a Sentinel Titan in an attempt to max out the possible point gain.