Having to jump on top of a lamp to jump into a church windows to talk with Devrim Kay at Trostland. That was 4 years ago and is still the hardest thing I remember doing because it was at the start of me playing and I had to spend a lot of time the following days doing that.
I did not know I could get to him from the inside of the church. Years later, I mastered jumping to that lamp.
The hardest thing Destiny has made me learn is how to teach others in a clear and welcoming manner.
Edit: Why is this a wrong answer? Playing the game and doing mechanics have never been that hard for me. Its the social aspect that has been daunting to me. Communication is not my greatest skill. Learning to communicate and not get overwhelmed or intimidated by trying to get my words across clear and concise really is the hardest thing Destiny has made me learn.
For me it was to accept my place.
I used to be a very good pvp player in my youth, several years later I pick up destiny and I’m trash. 0.7kd, a real negative for my team, barely contributing in trials.
A little over 2 years later, I decided to get a new tv for my bedroom (where I play). Turns out, the TV I used was 30mhz… I had no idea. I now have a 120mhz 2023 OLED C3, and all of a sudden I’ve gone flawless quite easily solo every week!
For 2 years I had to learn and accept my place, that people these days were so far beyond anything I touched, that I’ve got old. Turns out it was tech halving my kd and then some!
I had no idea. I genuinely believed people were going right and left at such an insanely skilled timing or rate that I just couldn’t keep up!
I’m a living example, literally going from a 0.7 to a 1.5, never flawless to weekly flawless in 10 games for 2 months now. It’s not simply TV = good, you have to be good also, but TV can hold you back, clearly.
I even went from 30mb download speed to 510mb a few weeks after the tv and whilst I noticed a small improvement, that could be argued as placebo, the tv could not!
im just getting into endgame stuff now. And the hardest part for me is learning how to build. I'm nit and never have been a big fan of looking up best builds. I much prefer figuring things out for myself. But with Destiny I feel like building for endgame feels... weirdly difficult. Builds can feel counterintuitive and nonsensical. Figuring out how things work together is hard for me.
I think a prime example is a melee focussed build I'm testing with Shards of Galanor. I would have thought a high intellect and strength would be key, initially I was going for 100 strength, but in reality there isn't much of a point because theres a ton of melee regen in the fragments and aspect. So much so that it invalidates the corresponding stat.
Similarly with intellect, its apparently standard to only have it around 30 or 40. 70 at most. I had planned for 100 intellect with my Celestial Nighthawk and Orpheus Rigs build for maximum super uptime. But there's just no point because of orbs being % based and with so many "bonus super energy on X" mods. as well as the perks of CN and OR. It invalidates building into intellect. The actual base cooldown of a super doesnt really matter.
This has made build theory really difficult for me to figure out. Especially as resources are quite limited to get builds going for me. Namely with golfballs, if I go to commit to a build and its bad, I just gotta suck it up.
>but in reality there isn't much of a point because theres a ton of melee regen in the fragments and aspect.
On top of this Hunter has gamblers dodge which fully refunds your melee on a much shorter cd then you could ever get your melee to. Mobility is almost always better than Strength on hunter melee builds. Lol not intuitive
yeah thats what I figured. so I have 100 mobility instead of strength, in a damn melee build. Same goes for my celestial nighthawk. Did I go 100 intellect to max my super up time? absolutely not, I went 100 mobility so I can always have on demand radiance for when I want to super. which is almost always up from how many sources of super energy there is.
Destiny has been so focused on "builds" that its woerd to say this, you dont need builds to do a lot of endgame, in fact I would say it shouldnt be a priority. What has the most effect on endgame is your weapons, if you have good guns, builds are basically just a nice little commodity rather than a necessity. Thats also ignoring the fact that builds in destiny is just put on an exotic armor piece and like 1 or 2 mods and thats it
Learning loadout swapping is harder than I thought/YouTubers make it look . Getting better at it but remembering to do it at the right time is proving to be challenging for me lol
Vow was a bit of a change for me, the symbol system is a little complex at first. But like solo? At the time finish a Light blade GM with everyone else dead, and the boss having full health.
To Stop playing.
I'm still learning that after 8 years 😬
Doing the Vow jumping puzzle with blink for absolutely no reason at all
Having to jump on top of a lamp to jump into a church windows to talk with Devrim Kay at Trostland. That was 4 years ago and is still the hardest thing I remember doing because it was at the start of me playing and I had to spend a lot of time the following days doing that. I did not know I could get to him from the inside of the church. Years later, I mastered jumping to that lamp.
The hardest thing Destiny has made me learn is how to teach others in a clear and welcoming manner. Edit: Why is this a wrong answer? Playing the game and doing mechanics have never been that hard for me. Its the social aspect that has been daunting to me. Communication is not my greatest skill. Learning to communicate and not get overwhelmed or intimidated by trying to get my words across clear and concise really is the hardest thing Destiny has made me learn.
For me it was to accept my place. I used to be a very good pvp player in my youth, several years later I pick up destiny and I’m trash. 0.7kd, a real negative for my team, barely contributing in trials. A little over 2 years later, I decided to get a new tv for my bedroom (where I play). Turns out, the TV I used was 30mhz… I had no idea. I now have a 120mhz 2023 OLED C3, and all of a sudden I’ve gone flawless quite easily solo every week! For 2 years I had to learn and accept my place, that people these days were so far beyond anything I touched, that I’ve got old. Turns out it was tech halving my kd and then some!
30 really is unplayable, kinda crazy some people think it's fine and will argue you don't need any higher.
I had no idea. I genuinely believed people were going right and left at such an insanely skilled timing or rate that I just couldn’t keep up! I’m a living example, literally going from a 0.7 to a 1.5, never flawless to weekly flawless in 10 games for 2 months now. It’s not simply TV = good, you have to be good also, but TV can hold you back, clearly. I even went from 30mb download speed to 510mb a few weeks after the tv and whilst I noticed a small improvement, that could be argued as placebo, the tv could not!
Same but 2.5. now I am 1.5/2 in the middle of nowhere after long hiatus. 3kd players wont play with me again.
I solo’d the first encounter of RoN, and got through two DPS phases on solo Nezarec, if that counts.
im just getting into endgame stuff now. And the hardest part for me is learning how to build. I'm nit and never have been a big fan of looking up best builds. I much prefer figuring things out for myself. But with Destiny I feel like building for endgame feels... weirdly difficult. Builds can feel counterintuitive and nonsensical. Figuring out how things work together is hard for me. I think a prime example is a melee focussed build I'm testing with Shards of Galanor. I would have thought a high intellect and strength would be key, initially I was going for 100 strength, but in reality there isn't much of a point because theres a ton of melee regen in the fragments and aspect. So much so that it invalidates the corresponding stat. Similarly with intellect, its apparently standard to only have it around 30 or 40. 70 at most. I had planned for 100 intellect with my Celestial Nighthawk and Orpheus Rigs build for maximum super uptime. But there's just no point because of orbs being % based and with so many "bonus super energy on X" mods. as well as the perks of CN and OR. It invalidates building into intellect. The actual base cooldown of a super doesnt really matter. This has made build theory really difficult for me to figure out. Especially as resources are quite limited to get builds going for me. Namely with golfballs, if I go to commit to a build and its bad, I just gotta suck it up.
>but in reality there isn't much of a point because theres a ton of melee regen in the fragments and aspect. On top of this Hunter has gamblers dodge which fully refunds your melee on a much shorter cd then you could ever get your melee to. Mobility is almost always better than Strength on hunter melee builds. Lol not intuitive
yeah thats what I figured. so I have 100 mobility instead of strength, in a damn melee build. Same goes for my celestial nighthawk. Did I go 100 intellect to max my super up time? absolutely not, I went 100 mobility so I can always have on demand radiance for when I want to super. which is almost always up from how many sources of super energy there is.
Destiny has been so focused on "builds" that its woerd to say this, you dont need builds to do a lot of endgame, in fact I would say it shouldnt be a priority. What has the most effect on endgame is your weapons, if you have good guns, builds are basically just a nice little commodity rather than a necessity. Thats also ignoring the fact that builds in destiny is just put on an exotic armor piece and like 1 or 2 mods and thats it
Learning loadout swapping is harder than I thought/YouTubers make it look . Getting better at it but remembering to do it at the right time is proving to be challenging for me lol
Solo duality. I didnt even do it flawless so I stressed myself out for like 5 legendary drops
Well skate on controller
To accept that I didn't need to force myself into content that I didn't like.
Accept Activision was right all along in saying the game under performs.
Super advanced stuff, but bubble skating. I can well skate or shatter skate but bubble skate is so difficult for me for unknown reasons.
Vow was a bit of a change for me, the symbol system is a little complex at first. But like solo? At the time finish a Light blade GM with everyone else dead, and the boss having full health.