Slow Infamy

For several weeks this thing has been building behind Ikora Rey and I find it super interesting. I have started noticing other changes. Like at the Ramen shop there are traditionally a few people eating there, but last night they were gone. I am not sure if this is on some sort of a cycle and I just always happened to be walking by when they were sitting there or if this is something changing as a result of the building happening. I noticed some other NPCs that I swore were in one specific place moved somewhere else. It is subtle but sorta cool to see, and I am assuming that the gate we are building is somehow going to be used in conjunction with the conclusion of the Season of the Undying.

Next reset brings us back the Festival of the Lost and it seems like they are bringing back something that started with last years. There is a really cool mode called the Haunted Forest, which is essentially the infinite forest but dark… and the goal is to see how many loops you can finish in 15 minutes. Your rewards are increased by the number of loops your group can complete in that time. Last year they introduced the Horror Show auto rifle that dropped fully masterworked and at Maximum Light, and it seems like they are bringing this concept back. The Braytech Werewolf gun shown in the thumbnail seems to be a version of the Winter Wolf weapon Anna Bray rewards.

I wound up playing a good deal of Gambit Prime last night, as I am trying to get my Infamy up high enough to do a reset and knock out the machine gun pinnacle weapon that I have had in my quest log for awhile. I also find Gambit weirdly relaxing and was ultimately working on both a Werner bounty and trying to unlock the Gambit Powerful award for the week. I’m up to Heroic III which means I need to get through Fabled 1-III, Mythic 1-III and Legend in order to get that reset. Gambit takes way longer than Crucible so the grind feels so much slower than it did last week.

I am now at level 70 on the seasonal journey, and I have a feeling that I won’t have much trouble hitting 100 by the end of the season. This is the only part of this process that I really don’t like is that it feels like I need to be playing Destiny 2 as my primary game in order to get full benefit. I want the items that are available along the path and as such I am playing pretty constantly to make sure I can get them all. I will say that with all of the XP bonuses the levels come way faster as you go, but it also sorta makes you always doing something to help it out. Like if I am running around in the world and I see one of those “Kill A Bunch of Stuff” patrols, I am always going to pick it up because it is super easy to complete and worth a bunch of XP. Similarly I am always trying to make sure I have a bunch of bounties available.

I noticed that Savathun’s Song is this weeks Nightfall, so I think my next grind is going to be running the strike trying to get Duty Bound. I love the look of this weapon because it looks like quite possibly the most Warhammer 40k gun available in the game. I have no clue if it is even good but I want to own a copy, and as a result I am hoping to run the strike a bunch in the Ordeal playlist in an attempt to get it to drop. I’ve had pretty good luck so far getting the strike specific drops, but having said that I will run this thirty times with no luck. The above screenshot is just one I found online to show off the weapon and it appears that they have applied the Leviathan shader to it.

Speaking of Leviathan… I would really like to get through that place. I have access to ways of running it and just getting carried through it. However I would far rather build a super casual raid team and work our way through it. We got pretty close to callus but I think it was the dexterity check of running the orb around the ring that ultimately killed us. We have a handful of people now playing but if you are among my mutuals out there… and are interested in this nonsense hit me up. The goal would be to find a week night and run for a few hours until we down Leviathan and the six other raids and lairs that exist in the game right now. I think for me Thursday nights are probably the best option, but I am open to negotiation.