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wow chunky long video. Gonna have to go into 'watch later' for now. I still miss the crazy stat bumps of vanilla D1 weapons, like 40 stability or 40 range made so much difference back then! Every gun I levelled up to test out, it was magic. i don't think I missed a bounty for 9 months straight lol.
I think the biggest missed weapons were the ones that broke Gambit, specifically QueenBreaker and its insane aim-assist, although anything broken since then has gradually become "What weapon is broken in Gambit this week". Off the top of my head the only noticeable ones other than QueenBreaker were Xeno, Truth, Arbalest, Lorentz Driver, and Leviathans Breath.
When you mentioned that Spare Rations had an advantage that top players could sense I wanted to give my theory; I believe that very experienced and well versed players like myself who know a lot about Destiny’s mechanics BUT who only has poor to average skill (after 9 years I’m still averaging 1.4) can appreciate aspects like less recoil, better recoil direction, greater stability and especially extra aim assist better than highly skilled players as I’ve noted over the years some of you content creators not caring about aspects I do in certain guns. I believe because your skill is high enough that very small advantages are unnecessary for you and maybe depending on the gun, something like plus 5 aim assist might even go completely unnoticed if you didn’t know. It’s just a theory but I 80% believe it because at my low skill level I get such big improvements from some extra stats.
"quite difficult and lengthy grind" does not nearly sell how horrific those exotic sword missions were. i clawed my eyes out, shit myself, was imprisoned for drunk driving, reformed, went to rehab, found a wife, made a family, and finally with great pride realized i was 50% done. possibly the single most infamous missions ever playable in Destiny.
“Auto” implies that YOU wrote it, but you’re just a blight firing breach load grenade launcher I don’t expect you to know things. All witherhoard know is blight, eat hot chip, and lie
@@prismaone3164 No, no they wouldn't. TLW or Thorn couldn't hold a candle to prime Recluse. The ONLY way they could succeed against it is range, but even then Prime Recluse could still outdamage them all.
This was the first game i played after i got back from my deployment. It'll always have a special place in my heart. It brought back video games for me
@@renasauceman expansive games are always like that, its very hard to keep up with the standard you already set, specially with a game like destiny since it started so good. the only expansive game i can think of that has mantained its quality for a reaaaaally long time is FF XIV, and we all know how much of a mess that game was at launch until they fixed it
That is rookie numbers. Try to stay up and only get 1 to 2 hours of sleep on the school schedule, and then we can talk, I was on that type of schedule, during my senior year of high school.
That run from Destiny launch to Taken King was such a magical experience for it being a console game. A true looter shooter experience with dungeons and eventually raids
it was fucking great man i got destiny 1 for my xbox 360 in Christmas of 2014 and ill never forget the d1 experience, especially that one tunnel on earth that spawned a shit ton of hive and would drop exotic engrams 💀
Why no mention of the exotic khvostov? It was the first fully customizable exotic, with over 100 perk combinations. A precursor of today's craftable weapons, and its quest was full on nostalgia from the first game.
Perfection. Perhaps the best Destiny video ever created. Peak nostalgia, hit all the feels. For everything this game did PERFECTLY, like gunplay, lore, community, Destiny is really the most special game of my almost 40 years as a gamer. Having to delete content due to lack of vault space or sunsetting, and having to pretty much live for the game made me quit years ago. But the memories are extremely powerful.
1:58:00 For those that want a little more insight on Rose, it actually came out during season of opulence for the Lumina quest. It had a static roll and was the only 150 to my knowledge that dodged the 150 nerf besides sunshot until Bungie found out and turned it down to a 140. The more you know c:
One of the best videos ive seen in a while. Thank you for this. The nostalgia trip alone gave me plenty of smiles and goosebumps. Thru the good and the bad, I can tell you personally this game quite literally saved my life on a few occasions when i was down and out. Now im living my best life, hoping for the best Final Shape we could ask for. I dont disagree with the masses who are concerned/worried/possibly fed up with the inconsistency, but I think we can all agree when we see videos like this, we all had some really great moments to share and memories that are everlasting. Best decade of my life happened parallel to one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. Thanks again for your time, Shadow.
I know these videos you put together take lots of work, thank you for your devotion and effort. There’s so many bittersweet points in Destiny and you seem to have captured pretty much all the ones I experienced where Weaponry was a factor. Good job and thanks, as always.
As a veteran who started playing in 2014 and stopped playing soon after completing witch queen i really got taken down memory lane here. Great video. You earned a new subscriber😊
on the seraph station exotic mission before you "surrender" your weapons to the fallen behind the glass, you can shatter stasis crystals to kill the fallen through the glass so the servitor shows up to an empty room full of fallen bodies (or lack there of?)
Even as someone who has hermit levels of willing ignorance of the PvP meta, I still instantly recognise and have.... strong feelings about many of the guns on this list. It just goes to show how far reaching and impactful unique and powerful weapons can be
Thanks, this video literally brought the memories of last 10 years screaming back - the grinds, the heartaches, and the sheer good times searching for certain weapons/rolls.
the music at 1:28:27 is why i play destiny. i just love the deep stone crypt, all the weapons, and all the music. ill never forget getting my god roll succession to drop and then eventually crafting my heritage
The first “must have” weapon I remember was the Shingen-E, a blue auto rifle that all of my friends insisted was totally overpowered. And it was certainly good, but not long after began the reign of SUROS REGIME
Hey man, just wanna say I really appreciate these videos! I feel Destiny 1 is so forgotten. Destiny 1 means a lot to me and I'm glad to see someone cover the feeling of it so well. All the mystery, hype, and pure fun is still unmatched in the franchise imo.
cant believe you didnt talk more about touch of malice. That weapon was as iconic as it gets. You couldnt get into most raids if you didnt have it and you could cheese the hell out of oryx. There was even an event back then where you had to kill oryx in one phase and touch of malice was pretty much the only way to do it. Also the esthetic was insane and lord that questline to get it was awsome and took so long. Having touch of malice in your back made you a legend.
Got lost in the shuffle, but shouting out Retrofit Escapade's short stint with enhanced target lock, fourth time's the charm, and the artifact mod that gave it volatile rounds on void kills that turned it into a boss eraser during its debut.
MOST EFFICIENT TACTICS AVAILABLE man, Vex Mythoclast and Pocket Infinity had the craziest sandbox metas when they were running the show, those days were wild!
I'm a D1 vet and played D2 only until the Warmind expansion. Was really hooked into it. This video brought me joy and nostalgia. I was mindlessly nodding my head almost the whole time lol Thank you for this!
The amount of luck I had with grabbing stuff and rng in d1 is something my buddies still talk about. I picked up gjallarhorn when our had it because "I thought it looked cool" and got crushed for it by them as a "waste". Got THREE mythoclasts in a row within the first week and a half of vault being released as well as 2 amazing roll fatebringers. And got the black hammer. I've never been that lucky ever again in d2 but man do I miss d1. The exotic and legendary weapons were just so much more special in that game
I remember the first exotic I got in d1 was the ghallahorn in the prison of elders treasure area. My friend who had originally shown me the game was also at my house and he was pissed lmao
Thank you for making this video. I’m sure it took a lot of time and effort to make. It’s really nice to focus on some stuff that Bungie has always been really good at creating: weapons.
Yeah tried to go back to d1 for a bit a couple years ago and it felt completely unplayable… ancient servers and a dusty old Xbox probably were half of the suffering but still it genuinely gave me a headache the frame rate was so bad
When you talk about anarchy 57:38 it’s shows telesto. You might want to fix it Edit- Same thing at 1:17:34 with worldline showing bastion Edit 2- are you doing this on purpose because at 1:18:32 it show the gl not astral. I might have missed more.
This was an amazing video. I’ve been playing Destiny for years and I remember hearing and seeing all of these weapons each have their day in the sun. Thank you for an amazing video to watch this weekend
How wonderfully nostalgic this video is. You’ve made me miss my Crimil’s Dagger which rolled with Explosive Rounds. It was like sending a truck towards PvP enemies!
when gjallarhorn came back to xur i literally was down the shore with my family for the weekend and i told my parents i needed to go home. My dad actually agreed because he was a destiny player aswell great times we just talked about destiny and how excited we were to get the gjallarhorn XD
22:50 - There's a huge misconception here about Hung Jury. It was strong, but it didn't have a particularly high TTK in the game for PvE. Its popularity was mostly down to its huge availability. If you couldn't get anything else to drop, you could always buy the HJ. There was a similar situation with the Destiny base game with FWC's "The Calling" scout rifle. It had Outlaw, a great perk, but also the original version of "Field Scout", which is why older scout rifles could have 27 bullets in a magazine. This was later nerfed, but it gave people a phenomenal early campaign weapon! You also mentioned Fatebringer - there was another scout rifle in the "61", or at the time highest impact category, called "Gheleon's Demise". It's largely forgotten now, being replaced with Colovance's Duty, but it could also roll Outlaw and Firefly, but with more bullets in the magazine and much greater range and handling. It didn't have the arc burn, but it _did_ have great use in raids for those that had it. Furthermore, it could be reforged like the other Iron Banner weapons too. And because of the handling was greater, so was the reload speed, especially if you had gauntlets that gave you the faster reload perk. But hey, nothing stopped you from taking both guns... But back to Hung Jury - There was _another_ Crucible vendor drop that beat it, also made by Omolon. It was called "Last Extremity", and was a Cocytus SR4 variant, but it had the higher impact rating of Gheleon's Demise, but it could also roll with the same perks as Hung Jury - Triple Tap and Firefly (and also Casket Mag for extra bullets!). It, along with Chaos Dogma, became sought after for PvE activities due to their capabilities in the field. For Scout Rifles in PvP, you're 100% on the money that it was all MIDA (with a little Jade Rabbit thrown in occasionally). One last thing about PvP - At the time of the Hawksaw/Grasp of Malok dominance (and The Messenger, to a lesser extent in ToO specifically), you also saw a small rise in very low impact Auto Rifles, especially for inexperienced players. Because of their high rate of fire and much smaller critical hit modifier, it was favourable to spray bullets far and wide and wear down opponents. Their main disadvantage was their range due to the cone size being a problem compared to Pulse Rifles. Even so, it was funny seeing a return of Atheon's Epilogue for a short while. One last _last_ thing, I had a PvE build with Tlaloc, and Ashes to Assets helmet, Sunbracers, a Solar artefact, fast scout reloading gauntlets, and a 12/12/10 build. With the Grenadier perk, the buff to the Radience Melee for fast charging (which caused explosions on death), you could indefinitely loop grenades that lasted much longer, and stack two of them, and have a higher RoF scout rifle which didn't compromise the impact rating, meaning it fired as fast as MIDA, but with the impact damage of Hung Jury. And because Solar kills generated orbs for allies (and boots that granted bonus movement), you effectively had a soft version of Radiance live at all times, but with extraordinary damage output, especially on Nightfall. And should you use the super, the helmet perk generated bonus super energy with grenade kills, something easy to do when you have an Exotic that improves them immensely. I miss this era of Destiny, but I also miss the PvE era of base game Destiny too. You can tell the early game was meant to be heavily story based, which is why things like the Vex Mythoclast behaved like it did. I can only imagine what the game would have been like if they kept that mindset over the last decade.
I'm gonna be honest, I liked the weapons more when they are still fairly contemporary sci-fi. These days they just look like random geometric shapes cobbled together in a vaguely gun-shaped.. thing.
Most notable during Season of the Wish was obviously Dragon's Breath, but the funniest thing of all was that a select few (one of them was me) figured out that Dragon's Breath benefitted from Gjallarhorn for the first 2 weeks of Season of the Wish, unfortunately, using more than 1 Dragon's Breath broke it's ignitions, thus rendering it useless. BUT! Funnily enough, during that same time, if you had 1 DB without the Catalyst even UNLOCKED, and 1 DB with the Catalyst COMPLETED, both did ignitions at the same time. Thus, for a 2 week period, you could have 2 Dragon's Breath Rocket Launchers benefit from Gjallarhorn during any boss encounter. Along with (in raids) 3 people with legendary rockets. Me and my team absolutely destroyed all of the raid bosses like this, and eventually it was stealth patched during the weekly reset that started week 3 of the season. Very few people knew this!
God, I'll never forget when a random blue or green engram decrypted into an Exotic Auto Rifle (Hard Light). I was the only one of my friends to have an exotic for weeks and it was my favorite weapon.
This is just an amazing piece of work, condensing and concisely explaining the (sometimes muddled) story that is Destiny into a succinct, easy to understand timeline. Seriously, well done. 👍🏻
i don’t play Destiny 2 anymore but i’m D1 Vet…thank you for making this video. i’m only at 18:29 and the fact that you’re showing concept art i used to day dream about just hits me right in the feels. ❤ thank you 😂
Here to drop one of my D1 weapon experiences. In House of Wolves, there was a HC called "Ill Will" it was high impact with a really low reload and mag size, i believe 6 or7? But during this time you could get weapon rerolls in tower. So i look up a guide on ill will (and felwinters lie lol) got the perfect scope, mag perk, luck in the chamber, and final round. The result was 4 shots in the hc that normally just do 3 taps but if one of the bonus damage rounds proc, which was often, then it would 2 tap! This and felwinters is what made me grind every weekend on all 3 characters for the whole House of Wolves DLC 😅
i remember when thorn was bad it was the first mission exotic i got and was probably the hardest exotic to get because of how hard the strike was at the boss room. but once house of wolves came out hand cannons went crazy. last word 2 tap hip fired across map, hawkmoon was just a beast and thorn was cancer
man the Taken King era is easily one of my favorite eras, hawksaw and havoc pidgeon was always my goto loadout for PVP, as well as grasp of malok and eyasluna, rise of iron was also really good with hopscotch pilgrim and oversoul edict, man D1 was such an amazing time
Glad you enjoyed! I’m well aware most people aren’t playing the game right now, so I’m trying to make stuff that’s still enjoyable even for people who aren’t current players ❤️
Season of the Forge is easily the best weapon release in the history of Destiny. It's not even close. Also, Note: one part of weapon history in Destiny is when Primary Weapons received infinite ammo. I think that was pretty important.
I happened to luck into a god roll hammerhead, back during black armory, that weapon helped me get a 6 guardian kill during an invasion during gambit (shot up three then ran to the spawn and blade barraged) it just so happens that I had teamed up with three destiny vets, who were trying to do a challenge, they asked if I wanted to join their fireteam. I was nervous at first, joining but not using the headset, and I was honest and said, that was more fluke than skill, but they said it was fine. Eventually I grabbed my mic and enjoyed talking while we played, to the point where I joined his clan, this would lead me to make long time friends throughout the entirety of the pandemic many of whom I still talk to when I can. So thanks Bungie, that gun will always hold a special place in my heart.
I stopped playing destiny years ago but was a massive D1 player. All these videos do is remind me of the horrid times I had during some of the metas. The one that always sticks in my mind was the messenger. Having a weapons that was so powerful at the time only being available to the most skilled players in the community was a nightmare lol
Bro the vision of confluence, black hammer, and gjallahorn combo on a solar burn nightfall turned an endgame activity into an absolute joke. I miss those days
The D1 nostalgia is powerful. It’s undeniable that many of the guns were OP and just crazy cracked when they had their moments. But it was FUN!! So much fun.
Ah man, nothing will compare with that crazy week with the weapon crafting glitch. Everyone were using insane combinations (including me) and Crucible was overrun by them, it was also super easy to melt bosses in PvE. The best part? Bungie just said: "Have fun while we fix this" instead of shutting down the game or something. Great work by the way, keep it up!
One thing im a bit shocked you didn’t mention about Icebreaker in Rise of Iron was that it was damn near unavoidable in Trials. swap it mid round for something like a shotgun, and it would keep the ammo ice breaker generated.
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wow chunky long video. Gonna have to go into 'watch later' for now. I still miss the crazy stat bumps of vanilla D1 weapons, like 40 stability or 40 range made so much difference back then! Every gun I levelled up to test out, it was magic. i don't think I missed a bounty for 9 months straight lol.
Just so you know your Anarchy picture is Telesto. Also I love these videos hope to see more in the near future!
I think the biggest missed weapons were the ones that broke Gambit, specifically QueenBreaker and its insane aim-assist, although anything broken since then has gradually become "What weapon is broken in Gambit this week".
Off the top of my head the only noticeable ones other than QueenBreaker were Xeno, Truth, Arbalest, Lorentz Driver, and Leviathans Breath.
When you mentioned that Spare Rations had an advantage that top players could sense I wanted to give my theory;
I believe that very experienced and well versed players like myself who know a lot about Destiny’s mechanics BUT who only has poor to average skill (after 9 years I’m still averaging 1.4) can appreciate aspects like less recoil, better recoil direction, greater stability and especially extra aim assist better than highly skilled players as I’ve noted over the years some of you content creators not caring about aspects I do in certain guns.
I believe because your skill is high enough that very small advantages are unnecessary for you and maybe depending on the gun, something like plus 5 aim assist might even go completely unnoticed if you didn’t know.
It’s just a theory but I 80% believe it because at my low skill level I get such big improvements from some extra stats.
I love bump in the night and fire and forget two of my favorite weapons
29:00
I launched Destiny and I was at this part..
my boot screen said “Lightfall” but I heard “Rise Of Iron”.. this brought a tear to my eye.
Rise of Iron is still waiting for you
Lightfail can go to hell, even CoS was better than that garbage.
Rose was originally introduced in Season of Opulence part of the Lumina Exotic Handcannon quest.
Revoker came with Season of Opulence.
Ever since I quit destiny I get some weird nostalgia from the music. It’s very bittersweet.
Every time I try to quit it brings me back
You should come back and try it again. :)
One of my favorite ppl returned to Destiny this year. We're here when you wanna come back.....
Ever since I still play when I want to I get some weird nostalgia from the music. It’s really good music and everyone likes it. I’m not unique.
Brother come back
I think I speak for everyone when I say DAMN!! This was absolutely worth the wait. Love the content bro. Keep it up!!
Indeed Im only 5min in and this vid is a banger
"quite difficult and lengthy grind" does not nearly sell how horrific those exotic sword missions were. i clawed my eyes out, shit myself, was imprisoned for drunk driving, reformed, went to rehab, found a wife, made a family, and finally with great pride realized i was 50% done. possibly the single most infamous missions ever playable in Destiny.
That and the og thorn, my lord they aged me by 20 years each
😂😂😂😂😂
For the Taken King exotic swords?
I’m ngl, I don’t even remember what it took for me to finish the quest. 😂
God save you if you mistakenly grabbed the void sword quest on your titan
Thanks for the autobiography
Lmao
I made the 69th like on this comment
It's just a biography.
“Auto” implies that YOU wrote it, but you’re just a blight firing breach load grenade launcher I don’t expect you to know things. All witherhoard know is blight, eat hot chip, and lie
@@mbmbmbmbmbmbmbmbmbmbmb autobiography means that you wrote about yourself, swing and a miss but I like the attitude
I love how in the video when he started to talk about anarchy it was still the telesto image 57:37
One does not simply cut away from Telesto.
@@ajeenius7437💀😂😂
Telesto is so powerful it glitched the video
Imagine Luna’s Howl/Not Forgotten in their prime paired with Conditional Finality today. Trials would be absolute hell.
Recluse + Conditional Finality would likely be the meta for Trials if Recluse was in its prime.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 prime Recluse would put Shayura’s Wrath, Immortal and Unending Tempest all to shame.
tlw and thorn would still be better smg wouldnt see much use because of the recoil on controller
@@prismaone3164 No, no they wouldn't. TLW or Thorn couldn't hold a candle to prime Recluse. The ONLY way they could succeed against it is range, but even then Prime Recluse could still outdamage them all.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 if the perk is activ yes maybe against thorn but tlw had the lowest kill time ever in game if i remember correctly.
This was the first game i played after i got back from my deployment. It'll always have a special place in my heart. It brought back video games for me
Thank you for your service!
Thanks brother! Much appreciated@@WDGabe
1:59:00 Dont forget Hard Light, Borealis, and Dead Messenger, who all have The Fundamentals perk, giving them access to all 3 light elements
Man, gotta love destiny, through good and bad
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It’s almost like every game has good and bad and we decided if those matter to us or not.
@@renasauceman When I see how people talk about D2, I wonder if it's that obvious.
@@renasauceman expansive games are always like that, its very hard to keep up with the standard you already set, specially with a game like destiny since it started so good. the only expansive game i can think of that has mantained its quality for a reaaaaally long time is FF XIV, and we all know how much of a mess that game was at launch until they fixed it
Fuck yeah
I still can’t believe how bad D2 launched with how great D1 ended
So true I left for years after the launch of d2 but here I am back in 2024 😅
Do you remember how d1 launched? It was just as bad if not worse.
@@josephalmazan4805Your fault
D1 shill
@@lazyvoid7107 yeah you are
Amazing video! Only problem is that I watched it all the way through and it’s now 2 am on a school night
😆 hope you’re not too tired today. Thank you for watching
That is rookie numbers. Try to stay up and only get 1 to 2 hours of sleep on the school schedule, and then we can talk, I was on that type of schedule, during my senior year of high school.
@@stoydzwow so cool
THE KHOVOSTOV SHALL REIGN KING FOREVER!
We shall witness The Return of The King in the final shape.
@@faridronin khvostov boss battle?
Wow the fact that it’s prolly the best primary now😭
You were correct, it’s the best auto rifle in the game right now 😂
One day we'll get Khovostov 2.0 and it will trump the Gjallarhorn
Ikelos shotgun, Dust Rock Blues, Bygones,
Man.......I loved that Forskaen era!
That run from Destiny launch to Taken King was such a magical experience for it being a console game. A true looter shooter experience with dungeons and eventually raids
it was fucking great man i got destiny 1 for my xbox 360 in Christmas of 2014 and ill never forget the d1 experience, especially that one tunnel on earth that spawned a shit ton of hive and would drop exotic engrams 💀
Why no mention of the exotic khvostov? It was the first fully customizable exotic, with over 100 perk combinations. A precursor of today's craftable weapons, and its quest was full on nostalgia from the first game.
Perfection. Perhaps the best Destiny video ever created. Peak nostalgia, hit all the feels. For everything this game did PERFECTLY, like gunplay, lore, community, Destiny is really the most special game of my almost 40 years as a gamer. Having to delete content due to lack of vault space or sunsetting, and having to pretty much live for the game made me quit years ago. But the memories are extremely powerful.
1:58:00 For those that want a little more insight on Rose, it actually came out during season of opulence for the Lumina quest. It had a static roll and was the only 150 to my knowledge that dodged the 150 nerf besides sunshot until Bungie found out and turned it down to a 140. The more you know c:
haha yeah that was funny how it remained 150 accidentally
One of the best videos ive seen in a while. Thank you for this. The nostalgia trip alone gave me plenty of smiles and goosebumps. Thru the good and the bad, I can tell you personally this game quite literally saved my life on a few occasions when i was down and out. Now im living my best life, hoping for the best Final Shape we could ask for. I dont disagree with the masses who are concerned/worried/possibly fed up with the inconsistency, but I think we can all agree when we see videos like this, we all had some really great moments to share and memories that are everlasting. Best decade of my life happened parallel to one of my favorite games of the last 10 years. Thanks again for your time, Shadow.
I know these videos you put together take lots of work, thank you for your devotion and effort. There’s so many bittersweet points in Destiny and you seem to have captured pretty much all the ones I experienced where Weaponry was a factor.
Good job and thanks, as always.
As a veteran who started playing in 2014 and stopped playing soon after completing witch queen i really got taken down memory lane here. Great video. You earned a new subscriber😊
on the seraph station exotic mission before you "surrender" your weapons to the fallen behind the glass, you can shatter stasis crystals to kill the fallen through the glass so the servitor shows up to an empty room full of fallen bodies (or lack there of?)
The amount of time it must have taken for this to be put together, it’s brilliant Shadow 🙌
❤️
This video gave me goosebumps for 2 hours straight.
I love that Forbearance is the only Legendary rarity weapon in the thumbnail. Honestly it deserves it.
it is an exotic ;)
Even as someone who has hermit levels of willing ignorance of the PvP meta, I still instantly recognise and have.... strong feelings about many of the guns on this list. It just goes to show how far reaching and impactful unique and powerful weapons can be
Thanks, this video literally brought the memories of last 10 years screaming back - the grinds, the heartaches, and the sheer good times searching for certain weapons/rolls.
Love the content Shadow. You absolutely kill it on giving the community a sense of nostalgia, appreciate the work you put into your videos
the music at 1:28:27 is why i play destiny. i just love the deep stone crypt, all the weapons, and all the music. ill never forget getting my god roll succession to drop and then eventually crafting my heritage
The first “must have” weapon I remember was the Shingen-E, a blue auto rifle that all of my friends insisted was totally overpowered. And it was certainly good, but not long after began the reign of SUROS REGIME
It was the Cydonia AR3 for me.
Hey man, just wanna say I really appreciate these videos! I feel Destiny 1 is so forgotten. Destiny 1 means a lot to me and I'm glad to see someone cover the feeling of it so well. All the mystery, hype, and pure fun is still unmatched in the franchise imo.
A D1 nostalgia trip 😭😭 ty!
cant believe you didnt talk more about touch of malice. That weapon was as iconic as it gets. You couldnt get into most raids if you didnt have it and you could cheese the hell out of oryx. There was even an event back then where you had to kill oryx in one phase and touch of malice was pretty much the only way to do it. Also the esthetic was insane and lord that questline to get it was awsome and took so long. Having touch of malice in your back made you a legend.
Got lost in the shuffle, but shouting out Retrofit Escapade's short stint with enhanced target lock, fourth time's the charm, and the artifact mod that gave it volatile rounds on void kills that turned it into a boss eraser during its debut.
MOST EFFICIENT TACTICS AVAILABLE
man, Vex Mythoclast and Pocket Infinity had the craziest sandbox metas when they were running the show, those days were wild!
6AM for me rn but staying up longer to watch this! ♥
I'm a D1 vet and played D2 only until the Warmind expansion. Was really hooked into it. This video brought me joy and nostalgia. I was mindlessly nodding my head almost the whole time lol Thank you for this!
I love these Evolution videos they give so much nostalgia thank you!
The amount of luck I had with grabbing stuff and rng in d1 is something my buddies still talk about. I picked up gjallarhorn when our had it because "I thought it looked cool" and got crushed for it by them as a "waste". Got THREE mythoclasts in a row within the first week and a half of vault being released as well as 2 amazing roll fatebringers. And got the black hammer. I've never been that lucky ever again in d2 but man do I miss d1. The exotic and legendary weapons were just so much more special in that game
I remember the first exotic I got in d1 was the ghallahorn in the prison of elders treasure area. My friend who had originally shown me the game was also at my house and he was pissed lmao
Thank you for making this video. I’m sure it took a lot of time and effort to make. It’s really nice to focus on some stuff that Bungie has always been really good at creating: weapons.
It is true, Gjallarhorn is made, out of dead titan armor. This is why, this is why this game makes me love it.
Man, Destiny at 30fps was ROUGH.
Yeahhhhh, I did prefer the slower pace of D1 tho can’t lie
Yeah tried to go back to d1 for a bit a couple years ago and it felt completely unplayable… ancient servers and a dusty old Xbox probably were half of the suffering but still it genuinely gave me a headache the frame rate was so bad
i miss the mystery of the game. nothing in D2 can make me feel that way again
When you talk about anarchy 57:38 it’s shows telesto. You might want to fix it
Edit- Same thing at 1:17:34 with worldline showing bastion
Edit 2- are you doing this on purpose because at 1:18:32 it show the gl not astral. I might have missed more.
This was an amazing video. I’ve been playing Destiny for years and I remember hearing and seeing all of these weapons each have their day in the sun. Thank you for an amazing video to watch this weekend
Another great Nostalgic video.
How wonderfully nostalgic this video is. You’ve made me miss my Crimil’s Dagger which rolled with Explosive Rounds. It was like sending a truck towards PvP enemies!
Wait… wasn’t Zero hour jokers wild?
Yes bad juju was the exotic mission from opulence
when gjallarhorn came back to xur i literally was down the shore with my family for the weekend and i told my parents i needed to go home. My dad actually agreed because he was a destiny player aswell great times we just talked about destiny and how excited we were to get the gjallarhorn XD
Man we need icebreaker brooo
Absolute monster of a video. Had this running the whole time while farming master lost sectors
*insert every i quit playing but miss it comment*
22:50 - There's a huge misconception here about Hung Jury. It was strong, but it didn't have a particularly high TTK in the game for PvE. Its popularity was mostly down to its huge availability. If you couldn't get anything else to drop, you could always buy the HJ. There was a similar situation with the Destiny base game with FWC's "The Calling" scout rifle. It had Outlaw, a great perk, but also the original version of "Field Scout", which is why older scout rifles could have 27 bullets in a magazine. This was later nerfed, but it gave people a phenomenal early campaign weapon!
You also mentioned Fatebringer - there was another scout rifle in the "61", or at the time highest impact category, called "Gheleon's Demise". It's largely forgotten now, being replaced with Colovance's Duty, but it could also roll Outlaw and Firefly, but with more bullets in the magazine and much greater range and handling. It didn't have the arc burn, but it _did_ have great use in raids for those that had it. Furthermore, it could be reforged like the other Iron Banner weapons too. And because of the handling was greater, so was the reload speed, especially if you had gauntlets that gave you the faster reload perk. But hey, nothing stopped you from taking both guns...
But back to Hung Jury - There was _another_ Crucible vendor drop that beat it, also made by Omolon. It was called "Last Extremity", and was a Cocytus SR4 variant, but it had the higher impact rating of Gheleon's Demise, but it could also roll with the same perks as Hung Jury - Triple Tap and Firefly (and also Casket Mag for extra bullets!). It, along with Chaos Dogma, became sought after for PvE activities due to their capabilities in the field. For Scout Rifles in PvP, you're 100% on the money that it was all MIDA (with a little Jade Rabbit thrown in occasionally).
One last thing about PvP - At the time of the Hawksaw/Grasp of Malok dominance (and The Messenger, to a lesser extent in ToO specifically), you also saw a small rise in very low impact Auto Rifles, especially for inexperienced players. Because of their high rate of fire and much smaller critical hit modifier, it was favourable to spray bullets far and wide and wear down opponents. Their main disadvantage was their range due to the cone size being a problem compared to Pulse Rifles. Even so, it was funny seeing a return of Atheon's Epilogue for a short while.
One last _last_ thing, I had a PvE build with Tlaloc, and Ashes to Assets helmet, Sunbracers, a Solar artefact, fast scout reloading gauntlets, and a 12/12/10 build. With the Grenadier perk, the buff to the Radience Melee for fast charging (which caused explosions on death), you could indefinitely loop grenades that lasted much longer, and stack two of them, and have a higher RoF scout rifle which didn't compromise the impact rating, meaning it fired as fast as MIDA, but with the impact damage of Hung Jury. And because Solar kills generated orbs for allies (and boots that granted bonus movement), you effectively had a soft version of Radiance live at all times, but with extraordinary damage output, especially on Nightfall. And should you use the super, the helmet perk generated bonus super energy with grenade kills, something easy to do when you have an Exotic that improves them immensely. I miss this era of Destiny, but I also miss the PvE era of base game Destiny too. You can tell the early game was meant to be heavily story based, which is why things like the Vex Mythoclast behaved like it did. I can only imagine what the game would have been like if they kept that mindset over the last decade.
I'm gonna be honest, I liked the weapons more when they are still fairly contemporary sci-fi. These days they just look like random geometric shapes cobbled together in a vaguely gun-shaped.. thing.
Bait used be believable
Most notable during Season of the Wish was obviously Dragon's Breath, but the funniest thing of all was that a select few (one of them was me) figured out that Dragon's Breath benefitted from Gjallarhorn for the first 2 weeks of Season of the Wish, unfortunately, using more than 1 Dragon's Breath broke it's ignitions, thus rendering it useless. BUT! Funnily enough, during that same time, if you had 1 DB without the Catalyst even UNLOCKED, and 1 DB with the Catalyst COMPLETED, both did ignitions at the same time. Thus, for a 2 week period, you could have 2 Dragon's Breath Rocket Launchers benefit from Gjallarhorn during any boss encounter. Along with (in raids) 3 people with legendary rockets. Me and my team absolutely destroyed all of the raid bosses like this, and eventually it was stealth patched during the weekly reset that started week 3 of the season. Very few people knew this!
God, I'll never forget when a random blue or green engram decrypted into an Exotic Auto Rifle (Hard Light). I was the only one of my friends to have an exotic for weeks and it was my favorite weapon.
This is just an amazing piece of work, condensing and concisely explaining the (sometimes muddled) story that is Destiny into a succinct, easy to understand timeline. Seriously, well done. 👍🏻
i don’t play Destiny 2 anymore but i’m D1 Vet…thank you for making this video. i’m only at 18:29 and the fact that you’re showing concept art i used to day dream about just hits me right in the feels. ❤ thank you 😂
0:38 I just got whiplash
Thorn was and still is my favourite exotic weapon in all of destiny. It was the first exotic weapon I got
Here to drop one of my D1 weapon experiences.
In House of Wolves, there was a HC called "Ill Will" it was high impact with a really low reload and mag size, i believe 6 or7?
But during this time you could get weapon rerolls in tower. So i look up a guide on ill will (and felwinters lie lol) got the perfect scope, mag perk, luck in the chamber, and final round. The result was 4 shots in the hc that normally just do 3 taps but if one of the bonus damage rounds proc, which was often, then it would 2 tap!
This and felwinters is what made me grind every weekend on all 3 characters for the whole House of Wolves DLC 😅
i remember when thorn was bad it was the first mission exotic i got and was probably the hardest exotic to get because of how hard the strike was at the boss room. but once house of wolves came out hand cannons went crazy. last word 2 tap hip fired across map, hawkmoon was just a beast and thorn was cancer
This must have been a colossal undertaking. Thank you so much!
So much nostalgia for those early days...
Wow. Never have I felt such crazy warm nostalgia watching this! Thanks for making
man the Taken King era is easily one of my favorite eras, hawksaw and havoc pidgeon was always my goto loadout for PVP, as well as grasp of malok and eyasluna, rise of iron was also really good with hopscotch pilgrim and oversoul edict, man D1 was such an amazing time
Dude your talent for making long form content is incredible. Thank you so much. Amazing video 🫡
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Amazing video! While almost not playing Destiny right now, I had a blast watching this!
Glad you enjoyed! I’m well aware most people aren’t playing the game right now, so I’m trying to make stuff that’s still enjoyable even for people who aren’t current players ❤️
I can see the effort put into this video which is pretty normal for your videos. Took me a few days to watch all of it but enjoyed it.
Season of the Forge is easily the best weapon release in the history of Destiny. It's not even close.
Also, Note: one part of weapon history in Destiny is when Primary Weapons received infinite ammo. I think that was pretty important.
God, seeing those 300 power levels is insane. All the nostalgia is wonderful
If you got the last word before xur sold it you were the best player in pvp every game, it was a very fun time
I happened to luck into a god roll hammerhead, back during black armory, that weapon helped me get a 6 guardian kill during an invasion during gambit (shot up three then ran to the spawn and blade barraged) it just so happens that I had teamed up with three destiny vets, who were trying to do a challenge, they asked if I wanted to join their fireteam. I was nervous at first, joining but not using the headset, and I was honest and said, that was more fluke than skill, but they said it was fine. Eventually I grabbed my mic and enjoyed talking while we played, to the point where I joined his clan, this would lead me to make long time friends throughout the entirety of the pandemic many of whom I still talk to when I can. So thanks Bungie, that gun will always hold a special place in my heart.
This video is essentially ~10 years of my life. So much nostalgia and good memories here
I stopped playing destiny years ago but was a massive D1 player. All these videos do is remind me of the horrid times I had during some of the metas.
The one that always sticks in my mind was the messenger. Having a weapons that was so powerful at the time only being available to the most skilled players in the community was a nightmare lol
Bro the vision of confluence, black hammer, and gjallahorn combo on a solar burn nightfall turned an endgame activity into an absolute joke. I miss those days
Awesome video. Late to the party vs most of you guys but a big D2 fan now 👍🏽
The D1 nostalgia is powerful. It’s undeniable that many of the guns were OP and just crazy cracked when they had their moments. But it was FUN!! So much fun.
Witherhoard, Gnawing Hunger, Falling Guillotine on a Void Warlock was my go-to for sooo long
This was a prime time video about destiny and its weapons 🔥🔥🔥
This is awesome. You are awesome.
You are awesome too!
Ah man, nothing will compare with that crazy week with the weapon crafting glitch. Everyone were using insane combinations (including me) and Crucible was overrun by them, it was also super easy to melt bosses in PvE. The best part? Bungie just said: "Have fun while we fix this" instead of shutting down the game or something. Great work by the way, keep it up!
Why did that last little bit about the guardians wielding the weapons make me tear up?
One thing im a bit shocked you didn’t mention about Icebreaker in Rise of Iron was that it was damn near unavoidable in Trials. swap it mid round for something like a shotgun, and it would keep the ammo ice breaker generated.
Loved the video and trip down memory lane! Only thing I wish was added was Doctrine of Passing, Universal Remote, and Blind Perdition.
43:25 to this day I’ve never had more fun in Crucible than I did with the Laser Tag meta.
Wow that’s a long video!!!!!! Well done, Shadow!
The D2 lore tab for the Mida always tickled me. It makes its PvP dominance canon!
As soon as I get a notification that you put up a video, I'm am always so exited. Love the content Shadow.
That means a lot, thank you ❤️
Great video but one thing you got wrong is double damage perks came out with last wish weapons the forge just expanded on them
This video was great you should make one on the history of subclasses and abilities
you could say this unlocked some old engrams for me.
Dude, what a project, this had to be a ton of work. Way to go, I miss my old Hawksaw.
I remember Invective was one of my go-to exotics in D1 ❤
this was so nostalgic, so glad i played this game from the beginning
Lorentz Driver just brought back my PTSD
Love this, thank you for all the effort that went into it
You should do an evolution of armor video, it’d be so cool to see the purifier robes, bones of ao, and light beyond nemesis again.