In Destiny, the final boss of the new raid Crota’s End has been defeated almost two hundred thousand times, and it hasn’t always been done fairly.

On Thursday evening, Bungie shared some numbers in the Weekly Update. Crota, the final boss of Crota’s End, has only been defeated 95 times so far. Extremely low.

Now the Community Manager DeeJ tweeted again, saying that the numbers were probably a bit outdated. Crota has now been defeated 162,321 times and the number keeps growing.

Wow! Old data was old. A few days makes a huge difference. Confirmed Crota kills: 162,321. And counting…

— Bungie (@Bungie) December 20, 2014

Crota cheese in Destiny is technical this time, not clever

What Bungie doesn’t say but they surely know, and what almost everyone probably knows by now: There is a new “cheese”, a cheat, an exploit to make the fight against Crota ridiculously easy.

This time it’s also not some “clever” method that utilizes game mechanics, where you shove him off the platform, where there is some secret safe spot or blast him away with Gjallarhorn, but is the blatant exploitation of a technical error: It was accidentally discovered by a fireteam, then spread via YouTube and… well.

The Destiny community is so connected that such a cheat spreads like wildfire.

In the last Weekly Update, they joked that Atheon had been defeated 2.4 million times, surely also dozens of times “legit”, as intended. It might be that they will write the same for Crota as well.

Will the Crota exploit be fixed quickly?

The question is whether Bungie will fix this during the holiday season. The last Weekly Update sounded rather like it is time for Christmas and New Year for at least two weeks now. Maybe a precise hotfix will come anyway. Until then, it is up to each Guardian whether they want to exploit this for a bit of loot. One thing is clear: This is not a “cheese”, not an exploitation of a game mechanic, but a clear cheat. Exactly the kind of stuff for which players in other MMOs have been banned or penalized.

Some are already saying: Good that this time the hard mode is a few weeks away, so Bungie can let the Guardians find all kinds of cheeses and cheats in normal mode and it will go legit in hard mode.

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In Destiny there is no matchmaking for the main activities, so players resort to other methods to find Guardians: They look for teammates for the raid or for clans.

We present the most popular ways to ensure your light doesn’t have to shine alone. Whether it’s Facebook groups, dedicated sites, or forums – there are plenty of options to find German-speaking players and groups for the raid, the Nightfall strike, or the Weekly.

Bungie follows a clear policy regarding matchmaking in Destiny: Light activities are allowed, heavy activities are excluded from matchmaking. Guardians should only take on those challenges with their friends. If someone makes a mistake, at least it stays within the family.

But what do you do if you don’t have a buddy available? Do you then stare into the void, thinking that the most attractive ways to play Destiny are forever excluded?

If Bungie doesn’t program a raid finder, Guardians in Destiny will have to rely on themselves. The solution is: You use communities to find suitable groups and teammates in Destiny, whether on Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, or Xbox One.

Not everyone has already found their crew with whom to embark on weekly Nightfall strikes, raids, or anywhere else. After all, not everyone on your friends list plays Destiny and even on the same console as you. Maybe you are a shift worker or only have sporadic time, don’t want to commit to a guild, or find it challenging to make social contacts.

But without group activities, Destiny is only half as valuable.

We present some options on how to find activity and company on your platform at any time of day or night.

Special Websites

There are special websites and mobile applications designed specifically to find partners for Destiny. These were already being worked on before the release, and some have now emerged as the go-to resources.

The most well-known English-language site is certainly destinylfg.net. As with any of these sites, it’s clearly separated by platforms, you get the gamer tag of the group leaders looking for players (they do this under the keyword LFM – Looking for More) and you can see the activity for which these groups are seeking players.

If you want to search for a group in Destiny yourself, you do so with LFG – Looking for Group, and then provide your gamer tag.

The advantage of such sites: There is usually something happening, you can find someone at any time of day or night. The interface is organized, and after a little orientation, you will find your way around.

The downside: The options in German aren’t great, so you probably need to have some knowledge of English. Furthermore, it’s relatively anonymous. Cozy and comfortable is something else.

Community Forums

Destiny is an incredibly popular game, and the “normal” console forums have their own threads where forum members can meet for Destiny. Of course, there are also dedicated forums specifically for finding Destiny players. Or in a heavy metal forum, there might be a thread in the gaming section where players arrange to meet.

You need to register normally as a forum member when you find such a forum, and then post in the appropriate thread there.

Among the community forums in Germany where players regularly look for Destiny players is, for example, the Playstation Trophy Forum, where you can also directly apply for runs on trophies for Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 . They are all AV-Hunters there. Their specialty is the history of the Flawless Raider.

The advantage of such sites: You can specifically choose players who have the same goals as you, who are German-speaking, with whom you can then form your own “community”. You can pick the site that you think has members who are similar to yourself.

The downside: It may not always be the case that someone is immediately available to look at this thread, and you need to find the forum that suits you. Such sites are more interesting for players looking for a long-term connection to a community and who need to introduce themselves there first. You can see this also in that often the same people post in these threads.

Facebook Groups for Destiny

Facebook groups seem to be the best solution in the German-speaking area. There are several large ones with nearly 10,000 Guardians. It is enough to simply post in the appropriate group that you are looking for players or keep an eye out for who has a spot free.

You can get into these groups easily, just apply. If they are “closed,” it’s often just a formality to keep spammers and advertisers away.

The advantage: There is activity, you can see who you are going out with, and communities form quickly in such Facebook groups. Maybe a guild invitation will pop up for you as well. And you get to see what else is going on because it’s more like a “small society”.

The downside: Hm, actually none. You need Facebook for this, and some (understandably) are quite averse to that. You also need to find the appropriate Facebook group here, see what the vibe is like, whether you feel comfortable there, but once you have found one for your platform, nothing stands in the way of the rest.

Here is an example of a Facebook group for PS4.

How do you find your groups in Destiny?

It is expressly allowed and encouraged in the comments to promote your Facebook groups or community pages. 

Tell us where you form your groups, look for new ones, and hang out.

We will then see if we can compile a list of Facebook groups, pages, and community forums that are actively used by German-speaking Destiny players. Please include the platform this refers to and if there is a particular focus on what is happening there.

We look forward to your help.

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Destiny has released some impressive numbers for the end of the year. The MMO shooter on Playstation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One shows its cards here.

The Weekly Update for Destiny, the last of this year, has no special announcements to make, there are no fixes for Crota’s End, for any weapons, no buffs for the Exotics from the Glass Chamber and no outrageous surprises in the structure of the game. We have truly had enough of that in the past few weeks.

Guardians learned too late that they could upgrade the old exotic weapons at Xur to new, bare naked versions. However, the Guardians found out a few days later, after another announcement that also concerned exotic items. And that’s why some resources and some shards were wasted.

Instead of any surprises, numbers are mentioned and they are significant:

• 12,869,066 players have played Destiny so far. If all these players were put into a city, it would be as big as New York and Los Angeles combined.
• 22,932,276 Guardians have been created.
• They have spent 872,404,449 hours in-game. This means each player has spent an average of nearly 68 hours.
• Currently, over 500 developers are working on Destiny.
• Atheon, the final boss in the old raid “The Glass Chamber,” has been defeated 2.4 million times.
• Crota, the final boss in the new raid “Crota’s End,” has only been defeated 95 times.

At Destiny, they are confident that the numbers will have increased by the time you read this. Now they will take a break for Christmas, visit family, and disperse in all directions. They have one request: Guardians should be kind to the newcomers who will surely be joining Destiny over Christmas.

The next update for Destiny will be released in January and hopefully bring some changes that players are waiting for. They are not revealing more details yet. Information about the next update will be available after the holidays.

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In Destiny there has been the “Cloak of the Pit” for three days, a white auto rifle that, with a lot of care, is supposed to eventually become the “Necrochasm” of the best weapon in Destiny. Today we’re looking at the intermediate stage, the legendary auto rifle “Eidolon Ally” and explaining how you can use a trick to increase your reputation with Eris Morn faster in Crota’s Curse.

Briefly the backstory. Once upon a time in Destiny … a few months ago, they said they wanted to tell the story differently now. “That sounds good,” said the Guardians, “so far it has been pretty lame.”

“Yes,” Bungie said, “we want to do the quests now like before with the exotic loot quests.”

“Ehm … really?” asked the Guardians, because the exotic loot quests had not exactly been the most fun parts in Destiny.

Cloak of the Pit, Eidolon Ally, Necrochasm

Now we have the result of this change in mindset at Destiny: The Cloak of the Pit, the Eidolon Ally, and the Necrochasm are a quest auto rifle that becomes stronger at each stage of the quest. Originally, something like this was also planned for the other quest weapons, the fusion rifle “The Murmuring.” However, they decided against it.

The first auto rifle in this series, the “Husk of the Pit” or also Cloak of the Pit, we introduced to you on Wednesday morning. Swords of Crota, the great sword bearers, have a chance to drop the rifle. Now, the white gun is not exactly a hit and is attracting a bit of mockery. It feels like a pea shooter, while a lot of ammunition comes out, not much is happening here in terms of damage.

What will happen to the Husk of the Pit? And how does it work?

To turn the Cloak of the Pit into the next best weapon, the legendary auto rifle “Eidolon Ally”, you need Rank Level 3 with Eris, under Crota’s Curse, to then purchase the item Embalming Sphere. The embalming sphere costs 10 Black Wax Meditations.

Additionally, you first need to kill enough Hive to be able to upgrade the weapons at all. Then you will get the legendary auto rifle “Eidolon Ally” or “Eidolon Ally.”

What you can do with the Eidolon Ally and whether the weapon is worth it, ProNDC will tell you:

How do I get the fastest reputation with Eris Morn?

You need reputation rank 3 with Eris Morn, there’s no way around it. But how do you get it the fastest? There’s a “trick,” better said, a kind of exploit. For this, you need to be able to play in the morning at 10 AM, as new missions arrive from Eris Morn then. It’s important to accept and complete the missions without logging out in between. Once you’ve done that and log back in, Miss Eris should have new missions for you.

Maybe you have time on the weekend, so you might be able to speed up the reputation increase to rank 3 by a day or two, thus shortening the time until you have the Eidolon Ally.

Getting the 10 Wax Meditations shouldn’t be a problem. And you can quickly slice through the Hive, especially if you repeat a correspondingly low-level mission; there you can also farm some serious Glimmer.

And what’s next? How do I get the Necrochasm?

The Necrochasm will only be available in January and even then you probably have to defeat the final boss Crota in the raid Crota’s End for the exotic item “Crux of Crota.” Whether it drops all the time or if there is only a chance to get it, is not known at the moment.

And is the Necrochasm worth all the effort? Is it the new hammer weapon in Destiny? No idea.

At the moment it’s a bit like hunting for something of which one does not even know if one really wants it. Whether the Necrochasm can rank among the currently strongest weapons in Destiny, is still unknown. Currently, the Gjallarhorn and the Icebreaker lead the ranking of the most sought after weapons. However, in the raid Crota’s End, there is also decent substitutes like the Black Hammer and the rocket launcher Crota’s End. But none of those are primary weapons…

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In Destiny Xur, the Agent of the Nine, will also appear at the Tower on December 19 to offer his goods. We have his inventory and location, tell you what he is selling, which exotic weapons and armor he can upgrade this time, and have screenshots and videos for you.

The Guardians long for Gjallarhorn

When watching current videos, such as about the Guardian who soloed the new raid, you realize how incredibly important the “big” weapons in Destiny are. While the focus has been on light levels and armor in recent weeks, the key to success is indeed the few exceptional weapons. There is hardly a stronger upgrade for a Guardian than the rocket launcher Gjallarhorn. Even if the new rocket launcher from the raid can be a substitute.

But how do you get Gjallarhorn or the Icebreaker? Either you are incredibly lucky and randomly receive the exotic weapon somewhere in Destiny. Or you buy it from Xur, the Agent of the Nine. But he only has it each week with a vanishingly small probability. Should he perhaps have Gjallarhorn, the Icebreaker, Thunderlord, or another similarly spectacular instrument of death on offer this week?

The new Xur in Destiny

If you missed it last week, there are some changes to Xur. While he can still sell exotic weapons and armor, he also serves as a quest NPC for “The Cauldron of Sacrifice” and he upgrades armor and weapons. He can probably also upgrade the PlayStation-exclusive weapons Hawkmoon and Monte Carlo, but not the Vex Mythoclast.

Alongside Xur, there are currently two other important NPCs in the Tower. While Lord Saladin with his Iron Banner has a rather dreary existence, Eris Morn is more popular than ever since Guardians learned that she has the “Eidolon Ally”, a legendary automatic rifle in Destiny.

Everything about Xur, Agent of the Nine, on December 19, 20, 21

When does Xur arrive at the Tower and how long does he stay?

Xur arrives at 10:00 AM CET on December 19 at the Tower and stays until Sunday, December 21, also at 10:00 AM.

Where is Xur? What is his location, his position?

He is by the Speaker in the North Tower.

In this video from ziro.tv, you can see everything:

What is the deal with the different stats on the exotic armors: Strength, Discipline, Intellect?

Here we have an article. Please note that the limits of the 32 tier armors, what stats they can reach at maximum, are higher than with level 30

What does Xur have for Warlocks, Hunters, Titans?

Sniper rifle Patience of Time for 17 strange coins. One of the most popular weapons in Destiny, especially for Hunters. Arc damage is often in demand during the Nightfall strike, additionally, the stealth feature allows for some tricks.

The new DLC gloves Ruin Wings for Titans, he parts with them for 13 strange coins. They start with 94 strength, at max upgrade they reach 101.

Knuckle Head Radar, a helmet for Hunters, costs 13 strange coins, with a roll of 97/104.

The Claws of Ahamakara for Warlocks are also DLC gloves, costing 13 strange coins. The Claws of Ahamkara have 2 stat values, which is a bit confusing. They have 56/60 discipline and 58/63 strength.

And an exotic helmet engram, where Guardians can once again try their luck by investing 23 light particles.

Which 6 weapons and 6 armors can Xur upgrade in Destiny this week?

These weapons can be upgraded this week, cost an exotic shard, between 7000 and 8000 Glimmer, and the old version of the weapons. Caution: The weapons and armors lose all their upgrades and come back “naked”, as if they were freshly dropped.

• The hand cannon Dorn
• The scout rifle MIDA Multi-Tool (MIDA Multi-Tool)
• The Void rocket launcher Truth
• The shotgun Universal Remote
• The fusion rifle Plan C
• The Solar machine gun Super Good Advice
• As a seventh weapon, so that no one gets upset: PlayStation exclusive Monte Carlo

And regarding armors:

• Crest of Alpha Lupi, the Crest of Alpha Lupi, for Hunters with 152/164
• Lucky Raspberry, the Lucky Raspberry, the Hunter chest with the most awkward name in Destiny and with 116/124
• For Titans also the Crest of Alpha Lupi, the Crest of Alpha Lupi, with 134/144
• TheNo Backup Plans, gloves with 105/113
• For Warlocks Heart of Praxic Fire, a chest armor with 129/139
• The Sunbreakers, gloves with 92/99

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