{"id":10725,"date":"2022-02-22T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2022-02-22T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:07:35","slug":"crunch-time-benie-the-raid-carrier-this-better-be-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2022\/02\/22\/crunch-time-benie-the-raid-carrier-this-better-be-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch Time \/ Benie.. the raid CARRIER?! \/ &#8220;This better be worth it&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Destiny 2&#8217;s servers being down as we patiently wait to <del datetime=\"2022-02-22T07:17:52+00:00\">wait hours while being part of the glorious queue time to play the game<\/del> play the new expansion, I&#8217;ve been working my scales off. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be doing the (now former) current season (Season of<br \/>\nthe Lost) and just getting done with the previous Season of the Splicer instead, Kovo and Nova were willing to help me achieve it.<br \/>\nOne thing before I start this, I find it funny how I, in the history of playing expansion packs, am going to be playing two that start with &#8216;The&#8217; (that has to do with some really bad person in power). First it was in WoW: The Lich King. And now it&#8217;s The Witch Queen. It&#8217;s just funny, and cool. One controlling an undead horde, the other controlling a bug-like horde. Except this bitch isn&#8217;t playing around.. with Guardian-like Hive who can pull their super, just like you can. PvP-like PvE. Going to be interesting.<br \/>\nI will freeze their asses with Stasis.<br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\n<em><strong>Crunch Time<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\nI dunno what annoyed me more; having to rely on a group of five others to stop the forces of a worm god, or doing this deceiving solo content. Deceiving meaning, having to have weapons that can stun Unstoppables and Overloads (and sending waves of pain after you).<br \/>\nBut what&#8217;s the most annoying part, I had to do this.. 49 times. That&#8217;s how much content there was in that season. But it wasn&#8217;t just those two activities. There was also story\/lore bits with Mara Sov, Crow learning who he was (and who brought him down), and talking to the Queen of Lies herself: Savath\u00fbn who needs you help to sever her from her worm in exchange of knowing more about the darkness (and claiming she&#8217;s been &#8220;helping&#8221; you).<br \/>\nThough there was one time where she actually almost got to me: &#8220;I&#8217;m not your enemy, and you are no hero&#8221;. Kovo told me this made Vale leave Destiny 2. Goodness. I can see<br \/>\nwhy.<br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\n<em><strong>Benie.. the raid CARRIER?!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\nWith Dusky, Sparky, Snowflake, Kovo and Nova on, we did Vault of Glass (the first two fights). The second one, I was with Kovo. My job was to keep everything from coming out of the pit infront of me, and I did that job as good as I can. Died twice, but not as much as the others. And we were able to complete it the second time. How I died the second time is Kovo was trying to help the others. I held the line as long as I could, but got<br \/>\noverwhelmed. Still, I managed to defeat the boss before I died, giving them the victory.<br \/>\nI was praised for carrying the raid. Like, holy fuck was I praised. Even Dusky, praised me. That&#8217;s something. That is respect well earned from him. And I enjoyed myself. Yes I was in last place in the DPS chart, but I didn&#8217;t care. I had fun. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8220;This better be worth it&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n==============================================================<br \/>\nWith finally being done with the former season, Kovo wanted me to get an exotic weapon he felt I&#8217;d use quite a lot. With my desire to attack ranged, he felt this weapon would work. And said this thing is even used in a few raids.<br \/>\nThe exotic is called &#8220;Ager&#8217;s Scepter&#8221;. I went through some hell (but it wasn&#8217;t that<br \/>\nbrutal) to get it. It just felt &#8220;god.. how much effort does this damn thing TAKE?!&#8221; What I didn&#8217;t like the most is having to kill Champions of that 6 player thing (which forced me to use weapons that I don&#8217;t like using). However, after I started using them.. it wasn&#8217;t that bad. But I refuse to let Kovo be all &#8220;told ya&#8221;.<br \/>\nThen when I got the weapon, it has you learn how to use it (which I liked, but also didn&#8217;t as the game wanted me to deal with a boss and a bunch of screaming Taken coming after my dragon ass, (and this was solo)). But it was a good way to learn how to use it, and how<br \/>\nthe &#8216;infinite ammo&#8217; proc hits&#8211; frozen enemies hit by this thing refill your reserves clip. Started really getting into this gun.. when the proc actually worked. Kovo believed it&#8217;s because of the servers lagging.<br \/>\nThen came to getting the catalyst, which showed up in a chest after doing the 6 player thing. Then having to kill enemies and all sorts of other shit.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s just say, when I finally got it unlocked and Kovo told me what to do.. it was like.. it was like&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/EbwV8xpxRTkAAAAd\/chill-out-mr-freeze-arnold.gif\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nYES!! Exactly!! I have a literal death beam of ice, that I can charge it with my Super energy! And just.. holy fuck. I can DESTROY minibosses with this fucking thing!! It feels so satisfying when I switch on the<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/txB5EVY_IIkAAAAM\/unlimited-power-laughter.gif\" width=\"247\" height=\"208\" \/><br \/>\nbutton! Watching everything MELT that I point this thing at.. ohh god. I love it.<br \/>\nBut I have to say this: it&#8217;s a bit funny. Me, being a fire-based dragon using an ice-based weapon. How does that even work? Now, give me a flamethrower version of this gun. I&#8217;ll be set for life. I&#8217;ll truly be melting faces with that thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Destiny 2&#8217;s servers being down as we patiently wait to wait hours while being part of the glorious queue time to play the game play the new expansion, I&#8217;ve been working my scales off. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2022\/02\/22\/crunch-time-benie-the-raid-carrier-this-better-be-worth-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}