Angry doesn't sound good to me. I'll hold off until they've calmed down a bit.

Skolas has 3 modifier groupings:

Small Arms & Lightswitch
Catapult & Angry
Brawler & Juggler

Of the 3, Brawler/Juggler is the easiest, with lightswitch/small arms being the hardest.

This week is smack dab in the middle. The enemies are more aggressive, but won't kill you in one hit.

I need to try Skolas. Xur needs to sell the gjallarhorn before the nerf so everyone gets a chance to easily kill bosses with rocket spam!

Is Destiny much fun as a solo game? I'm considering checking it out, but have no interest in grouping up for raids and stuff.

Not really. The game is built around grouping up. You can play the whole game in a group. You can't do that alone. Honestly, if you're not interested in the social aspects of it, there's not a lot there. And in many cases, even if you wanted to do something alone, you're not allowed.

Strikes, for instance. If you go to play a strike, you will be matchmade with 2 other random people. You don't have a choice in the matter. You go on patrols, and you'll find other players.

The saving grace of this game is the people you play it with. I know I'd have quit long ago if not for the Daggers. They help keep the the game fresh for me, even though I've done pretty much everything possible in the game.

You don't have to do raids, but you won't get far in building your character if you don't participate in some sort of co-op along the way. The game's more about teamwork and character-build than it is about story, environments, etc.

Bungie will be pushing a patch today. It's the small patch that adds the Nepal shader and emblem, along with fixing the Husk Of The Pit drop rate.

So keep that in mind. And those who need a husk, get ready to fist Crota. I mean run Fist Of Crota...

Now I know what he does with the swordbearers...

For those of us that have been to the Lighthouse, and those still hoping to, here is Brother Vance's inventory (taken from Reddit):

Infinite theorem (Machine gun)

Hunter chest // 169 Dis // More ammo for Shotguns and Auto Rifles
Warlock chest // 78 Int, 82 Dis // More ammo for Snipers and Scout Rifles
Titan chest // 89 Int, 81 Str // More ammo for Fusion and Auto Rifles

And here's the Patch Notes:

Update 1.2.0.5 - The one about Husk of the Pit and Nepal rewards.

Weapons

Fixed an issue where “Packing Heat” achievement/trophy could not be unlocked by newly acquired Exotic weapons
Fixed an issue where Husk of the Pit drops were disabled
Drop rates for the Husk of the Pit from Blades of Crota have been increased by 150%

PvP

Updated the House of Wolves Control playlist to include the following maps with a lower weight in the rotation:
Rusted Lands
Shores of Time
Pantheon
Exodus Blue (Sony)

Updated the House of Wolves Clash playlist to include the following maps with a lower weight in the rotation:
Firebase Delphi
Twilight Gap
Blind Watch
Exodus Blue (Sony)

Inferno and Doubles playlists now have different tuning values for ammo crates
Special Ammo initial spawn time and respawn intervals have been changed to 180 seconds
Max of three Special Ammo crates will now be placed at one time *Heavy Ammo crates now spawn only once per match at 300 seconds

Tower

Tess Everis is temporarily leaving the Tower
A Kiosk terminal can be found near Eva Levante in North Tower that contains Tess' old inventory of special order items
The Nepal Aid shader and emblem have been added to the game
Redemption codes will soon be sent to the email used to place orders in the Bungie Store
These items will be found at the kiosk mentioned above

Technical

Fixed a potential crash when closing the vendor screen
Fixed a very rare case where an account could blocked by a WEASEL error on sign on
Fixed issues with suspend/resume handling on Xbox One

It would have been nice if the sent out the redemption email ahead of the Shader release.

damn update kicked me out of the last round of poe earlier today

no bueno

Update that was not included in the patch notes. Rotatable Armor

taken from reddit

Cool!

Drop rate on husk of the pit is fixed. I got it to drop on my very first blade. Lol

great, more shit to constantly delete from the postmaster

Finally scored myself a No Land Beyond

Giant musket of death. It really shouldn't have scope glare since there is no scope!

Have you used it yet?

I think that is a sarcastic banana dance.

It's reputation preceded itself

More details on the Taken King from Game Informer:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featur...pressions.aspx

The ghost shell perks seem pretty cool. I also like the Three Coins purchasable from Xur which increases the odds of getting an exotic.

Reading one-stop-shopping recaps of everything Game Informer has posted so far, I think Destiny has figured out how to pull me back in.

Did anyone else get 9 more coins yesterday in the mailbox? I already got them once for registering on their site so I am not sure why they sent me another 9 coins.

Not everyone got coins. Some people got glimmer, or focused light XP boosters.

You should have also gotten a Legendary weapon. I got a 55A-AllFate, which I also got from the Nightfall this week. Lucky me!