In the shared-world shooter Destiny , the visits from Xur, the Agent of the Nine, are among the highlights of every week. What does he have this Friday, April 3rd?

The enigmatic merchant sells a selection of the best exotic armor and weapons obtainable in the game each week: Primary weapons cost 23, other weapons 17, and armor pieces 13 strange coins.

Today is the first time that Xur comes after the switch to daylight savings time, so confusion is expected. Players will already be looking for him at 10:00 AM, driving everyone crazy and running through the Tower like Thralls. However, Xur will not arrive until 11:00 AM.

In recent weeks, the mystery surrounding his inventory has grown larger again. While in previous months his entire inventory was correctly predicted a few times, this is now only sporadic and incomplete, and it is likely to be less common in the future, although the prediction was accurate last time. Let’s see how it goes today.

Everything about Xur on April 03, 04, and 05 in Destiny

When does Xur come and when does he leave again?

Xur arrives on Friday, April 3rd, at 11:00 AM in the Tower. He leaves on Sunday, April 5th, at 11:00 AM.

Where exactly is Xur in the Tower?

Xur is located by the Speaker. In the video from our friends at ProNDC, you can see the exact way there:

What are the numbers in parentheses next to the armor pieces?

These are the values that this specific piece has. They can fall within certain parameters, there’s an article that deals with Strength, Intelligence, and Discipline on armor pieces in Destiny here.

What armor does Xur have for Hunters, Warlocks, and Titans? What weapon is available?

Xur sells the exotic rocket launcher Dragon’s Breath for 17 strange coins.

For Titans, he sells the exotic DLC helmet “The Glasshouse” (strong 110/118). He wants 13 strange coins for that.

For Hunters, he has the gloves “Don’t Touch Me” (77/83) – with this pair of gloves, some stunts are possible.

And for Warlocks, he also brings gloves, the Sunbreakers. (79/85).

This week, he sells an exotic chest engram and also has heavy ammo syntheses.

How does upgrading work with Xur in Destiny?

Xur can help 6 or 7 weapons and 6 armors reach their maximum potential that they could achieve in Vanilla Destiny to the potential that they can achieve in “Darkness Awaits” each week. There’s an article that deals with upgrades through Xur here.

These armors can he upgrade this week

• For Warlocks, he has the Sunbreakers (80/86)
• … and the Apotheosis Veil (93/100)
• For Titans, the gloves No Backup Plan (80/86)
• … and the Mark of Alpha Lupi (strong 148/159)
• For Hunters, he has the chest armor Lucky Raspberry (121/130)
• … and for the helmets the Achylophage Symbiont (fantastic 119/127 – only 1 below the cap)

These weapons can Xur upgrade this week

• The pulse rifle Bad Karma
• The scout rifle MIDA Multi-Tool
• The hand cannon Thorn
• The sniper rifle Patience and Time
• The machine gun Thunderlord
• The machine gun Extremely Good Advice

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The shared-world shooter Destiny announces significant changes with Patch 1.1.2 in the Weekly Update. They aim to simplify certain strikes, fix bugs in raids, and introduce a kind of “player rating player” system.

The Weekly Update from Bungie arrived late on Thursday night – due to the time change. By the way, Xur will also be delayed by the time change and will arrive this Friday, April 3rd, at 11:00 AM.

Bungie is still in the phase of introducing changes for the next Patch 1.1.2, which is scheduled for April: It will bring a larger vault and changes to sound and graphics settings. Today it was clarified what else it will change.

What Bungie wants to change in the raids

They want to eliminate bugs in the raids “The Glass Chamber” and “Crota’s End“. The focus is primarily on gameplay issues with Atheon and Crota, the two final bosses.

No details are revealed yet, but they say players can read about it in the future patch notes. Those should be expected soon.

What Bungie wants to change in the strikes

The changes planned for the strikes in Destiny focus on the fact that some are completed much less frequently than others because they are longer, tougher, and harder. Two offenders have been identified: the strike with “Valus Ta’aurc”, the Cerberus Vae III strike. If it is completed at all, it takes an average of 27 minutes. The second one that stands out is the PlayStation-exclusive strike “Dust Palace” with 23 minutes.

Both strikes are to be shortened and simplified. This will involve weakening some of the elevated enemies. Additionally, Valus Ta’aurc will lose 15% of his health points. The group of final bosses in the Dust Palace will have 15% less shields.

And this is what Destiny is taking from League of Legends

Another problem they want to address is the so-called “toxic behavior.” This refers to player behavior in the gaming industry that harms other players and annoys them persistently. The biggest evil in Destiny are players who join a strike and then simply go afk or pretend to, to let themselves be carried while others do the work.

Some of these players have already been excluded from matchmaking, that is, group search. They will continue to do so and will resort to even harsher measures.

Innocent players should not be afraid: it can happen, of course, if the pizza delivery person rings the doorbell during the final boss, that one has to go afk. No one needs to worry about that; this is about repeated and intentional behavior. However, the Weekly Update also prominently highlights particularly helpful members of the community.

To ensure Bungie quickly knows who behaves negatively or positively, they will give players the opportunity to praise or reprimand teammates at the end of an activity. Here, specific things like “inactivity” or “leaving the game” can also be addressed.

However, they will never act solely based on these reports, they write.

Next week, one probably cannot expect the patch yet. They want to present in the next Weekly Update how they intend to regulate ammunition in the crucible.

However, one can expect the appearance of Xur. Remember: He will arrive at the Tower on Friday, April 3rd, at 11:00 AM. We are in daylight saving time, even if it doesn’t look like it outside. Here is our article about Xur on April 3rd.

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In Destiny, the armor value hardly makes a difference, as a YouTuber has tested in a self-experiment.

Destiny is a game full of secrets

The shared-world shooter Destiny is full of mysteries. Where is the Last City located? Who is the Wolf? What is Xur actually doing with all those coins? Why does the worst player in an activity always get the best loot? Does it really help to do a silly dance and shoot the lock of a chest to get better loot?

And there are even some mysteries in the gameplay. Normally, we don’t get “numbers” from Destiny; instead, we only see bars indicating how good the item and the Guardian are in something. Here, Guardians have three bars in their talent tree: one each for armor value, agility, and recovery rate.

Indeed, this armor value, which can be increased through specific traits in the classes’ talent trees, is one of Destiny’s mysteries. From classic MMORPGs or RPGs, one would think: It’s logical, the higher the value and the fuller the bar, the less damage one receives. And those with higher agility can also run faster.

On the trail of the armor value in Destiny

But the game doesn’t tell us exactly how much damage is reduced or, better yet, how the hit points of the Guardian increase. A YouTuber has tested how the armor value actually affects things. This is the same person who has already dealt with movement speed. Once again, he uses the same methods, sets up an experimental procedure, conducts the experiment, and analyzes the results frame by frame afterward.

And his result is: The armor value hardly plays any role. Although the armor value does what it’s supposed to do, the result is minimal. A shooting Acolyte of the same level as the Guardian would need 23 shots to take him out with full armor. If the Guardian only has a minimally filled armor bar, it would only take 22.

With a Minion, armor would be irrelevant again: After 9 hits, it’s game over, although he admits that the Thrall with full armor can just barely kill the Guardian. With a low armor value, however, it’s very easy. But dead is just dead.

In two videos, the YouTuber shows his results. The conclusion is clear: the armor value can basically be disregarded in PvE.

Not completely useless in PvP

In the discussion on Reddit about this topic, it was mentioned that in PvP, the armor value makes a difference and can decide whether players survive a Hunter’s tripmine grenade or other typical attacks with a tiny bit of HP.

Here, a YouTuber from Planet-Destiny conducted investigations outside the Iron Banner and found that for Hunter and Warlock in PvP, the “Toughness” value provides a little more HP and can really decide whether one can narrowly survive certain situations or not. However, the differences are relatively small, it’s about 7 to 11 hit points with a maximum HP of 200. But exactly those can determine in PvP whether one survives or not. For Titans, however, it is advised not to invest in this value. The yield is even lower here.

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In the shared-world shooter Destiny , the first Hunter has managed to defeat the final boss of the current raid Crota’s End. The video shows perfect mastery of the game, knowledge of all tricks and techniques.

About 7 weeks ago, a Warlock already managed to take down Crota on Hard mode. For a long time, it was thought that Warlocks were the only class that could achieve this. Now, for the first time, a Hunter has succeeded, and he has to play flawlessly or nearly flawlessly for about 9 minutes for this triumph. Here is the video:

You can see that he forces Crota to his knees with two shots from his exotic rocket launcher Gjallarhorn, each shot followed by a throwing knife. The decisive kick is delivered by a Tripmine grenade on Crota’s head, which only activates at the moment the Hunter is there to strike with the sword. He must achieve this sequence a total of four times if he wants to claim the triumph.

The impressive aspect of the video is certainly the almost robotic precision with which the individual steps are executed. The impressive speed at which the player switches between his numerous weapons is also noteworthy. The sections where he must chain headshots with the Black Spindle without room for error are among the highlights for us.

These tricks in Destiny are used by the Hunter for his impressive kill

If you’re wondering what the first minutes of the video mean: This is a certain tactic. Destiny ensures that players are not “out of ammo” for too long, and when players run out of ammo, they should quickly get more. Therefore, the Hunter intentionally empties his magazine at the beginning, takes out several enemies that drop heavy ammo (the purple boxes), and accumulates a supply that he returns to during the fight.

In this article, we discuss this trick for heavy ammunition.

As some of our readers point out, a second trick is even more interesting: The Hunter places the Tripmine grenade on the ground, shoots with the Red Death pulse rifle on it, and can heal himself thanks to a specific trait of the weapon, even when there are no enemies nearby. One never stops learning!

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