Overall I've been quite pleased with Bungie's latest product: Destiny. The gameplay is solid and the universe (even though it is still in its infancy) is already feeling very complete. However, one issue I have found is with the exotic weapon bounties. Right now I have the "Thorn" bounty active. Doing missions on heroic difficulty or killing endless enemies on the moon is certainly no issue, but the current objective it gives me is "use void damage to defeat guardians in the crucible. Death will slow your progress." That last bit is potentially the greatest understatement I've seen in a game to date. I've played halo, fear, l4d, cod etc. all of the classics and been ranked pretty decently in all at some point. Destiny's crucible favors the grinder to begin with, but to boot when faced with a challenge, they disencourage the less skillful with punishing crucible deaths. Let me make this clear again HAVING A NEGATIVE K/D IN CRUCIBLE WILL DISALLOW PROGRESS ON THE THORN BOUNTY. If anyone has thoughts on this or better ways (Other than being a lvl 28 warlock) to complete this bounty, please let me know. Thanks.
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I finished it this weekend. A few strong matches and I had the 500 void points finished. In addition I am a good player, but far from the best and I did ALL the void points solo. It really wasn't bad, just a little patience and you will have it! ALSO, the last part killing Xyor the Unwed was EASY. I just finished it yesterday with only myself and a Defender (only 2, not a full fire team). We were catious, wiped only once on the waves section, and hugged the left side of the room with the rocks to avoid Phogoth and add fire. Retreated to the entrance hallway just past the Shrieker when we got overwhelmed. It was actually not bad! Bring lots of Solar and Arc damage to get rid of knight and Wizard shields. My defender buddy had an Arc fusion gun and focused on the knights, I had 77 Wizard with a solar rocket launcher and I was gunslinger (normally i am bladedancer) so wizards were a little more managable.