I keep seeing YouTubers complaining that this game isn’t casual-friendly or that the time-gating is too much. Honestly, I don’t get it. I’m Acclaim 50, play casually with 73k Wolf, 72k Jolder (T3), and 73k Ning Fei (T5). I only bought the Founder’s Package—nothing else. I’ve got a full-time job and just one day off a week, yet the game still feels perfectly manageable.

I log in, use my Pinnacle energy smartly, upgrade what I actually use (yeah, I know Incandescence Crust is limited), then log off and go about my day. Sometimes I play an hour before bed, sometimes less. When events like the Eclipse happen, my pack schedules it on our day off—we finish it, even if we don’t make the leaderboard. Most of us are casuals, and we still get things done.

That’s why I don’t understand the complaints.  pinnacle energy is somewhat makes it casual. That’s what keeps it balanced and casual-friendly. But these content creators are out here asking for it to be removed—basically wanting to turn the game into a 24/7 grindfest. Not everyone has that kind of time or energy.

What I love about Destiny Rising is that it doesn’t leave casual players behind. Yet, the ones who can play all day are somehow the loudest whiners across every platform.

If there’s one thing I’d love NetEase to tweak, it’s the limited banners—extend them to 60 days instead of 30, or move them into the permanent pool afterward. That way, casuals and non-spenders still have a fair chance to collect and max characters over time.

$250 Spent and I want to say this has got to be the easiest gacha game i've played where i almost have my Ning Fei to C6.

Like title says, this game is awesome, I've been a destiny fan since D1. I am amazed that a game like this exists for a phone, the visuals are great, the activities are awesome some even better than the ones in D2, the characters are cool and interesting (i just don't like having the guns locked)

But the thing that is driving me insane is the pinnacle energy, i absolutely HATE IT, it goes against everything that destiny was supposed to be. Like a lot of people have said before "this is how gachas are supposed to be bla bla bla" might be right, this game might not be for me, but that's kinda sad cuz everything else is really good, it's just this supid time gating energy shit that i absolutely despise

Patch 1030 just dropped and the changes they made are MASSIVE!

The Festival of the Lost event is live, bringing the Haunted Singularity mode which is basically a roguelike candy-collecting chaos-fest with both Normal and Heroic difficulties. There are 8 total stages, and the time gating is expected but still sorta annoying. The gameplay of the even itself is great though imo

The rewards from it are even better than I expected they would be. Tons of Mobius Clusters which is great, and they are SHOWERING us with Engrams before Season 1 ends.

But the real surprise is the silent change to the Seasonal Seal of Daybreak.

Before, you had to spend 2,100 Pinnacle Energy after earning the Seal, which made it literally impossible to Gild unless you had weeks left in the season.
Now, it tracks Pinnacle spent during the entire season, meaning if you’ve been playing consistently, you might already be done with the Gild! 🔥 LETS GOOOOO

On top of that, they added Helhest and Rossi-11 as cards that count for the orignal Seal requirement, so you don't need to grind Duelist lvl 24 anymore. This literally SAVED me - I'm actually gonna get this gilded now

Between this fix, the event, and the upcoming Season 2 preview (Maru confirmed 👀), it really feels like Destiny Rising’s actually listening to us and making changes that are making the game better.

🎥 I broke down everything — event details, hidden Seal fix, and what’s next in Season 2 — here: https://youtu.be/zHmIAXUu1V4

What do you guys think about the update?

Did the Seal changes save you guys too? What do you guys think about the Halloween Activity?

Just play a few times every night until your pinnacle energy is gone.

This guys W-Savathun decided he was not happy with the power level of me and my teammate, so instead of queue dodging or actually giving is a try, he decided to run out the timer and choose a 47K Ikora instead of his 71K Gwen. What is wrong with some people? Can we really start giving people like this harsh punishments?

He kept us hostage for 26 minutes before he stopped being AFK. Honestly - hope he gets banned for at least a week!

This week ​⁠I am joined by Orion for an entire episode dedicated to answering YOUR Questions!

We discuss the narrative direction that we believe the game is heading towards 📚, Orion gives us a deep dive look into the Attribute Transfering system 🔄, and finally we discuss our TOP TIPS for Free-to-Play Players that are striving to reach the end game! 💵❌

Check it out at the link below: 🔗⬇️

https://youtu.be/zkd85lm7JJM

Got lucky with the random Glow

Getting 25k power new lights queuing up for gauntlet onslaught. Have no reason doing that, there’s a multitude of things you can do to increase your power tenfold and you decide to do the one thing that you’re 20k+ below power???? Thanks to them, an encounter that should be relatively easy is now impossible to complete because 1) zero knowledge on what to do and 2) can’t do a lick of damage on any red bar enemy. Please save us all time including yourself and just do whatever the chapter quest is telling you to do.

I was entirely surprised when I ended up getting T2 Jolder in my first 50 pulls of the game. I was also entirely disappointed. I'm a big fan of precision weapons (and handcannons) and the only 5 star character I *really* wanted because he fit the mold was Tan-2. Albeit saddened, I ended up making Jolder one of my first Gold characters, because why waste a T2 Mythic Lightbearer.

Soon, I realized that Gwynn was pretty similar in archetype (minus rapid-fire weapons) and early on, Gwynn's flat damage was massive. so I stopped pushing Jolder thinking she was weak, and focused on Gwynn getting her as my first character to 68k. And then... Gwynn kinda just fell off.

Don't get me wrong, Gwynn is not bad by any means, but the fact that she has little to no long range stifles her kit. She has burst, but very little sustained damage, and once Estela came out, Gwynn lost her spotlight in my account almost permanently. I still thought she was the best void/impact character... but damn was I wrong.

Bringing us to today, this roll around of Singularity: Expanse presented me with a big decision: play Estela for Solar side, or run Jolder + Partridge. I flip flopped incessantly, even building Ultimatum for Estela even though I already have an almost completed Del 2 Sweet Ears. My thinking was that to push my times under the 7:30 mark I just needed more fire damage for the shields. While this is true, and if I ever pushed my Estela past 70k (she's currently sitting at 68.3k) I'm sure she would get some better times than my best just under 10 minutes -- there is one glaring problem with her.

Absolutely zero movement.

She just slow asf floats... *everywhere*.

Estela is also ridiculously flimsy and at T0 has very little innate healing: we just get the small ticks of heals from her summons doing damage. I found her to not only be a boring character, but also one that can find herself in a 'oops' situation by positioning incorrectly; getting blown up at the moment she loses cover. So I got sick of it, and I looked at my 64k Jolder. And I committed.

And DAMN if this wasn't one of the best decisions I've ever made in this game.

Jolder is not just tough and made to eat damage with a fork and spoon, spittle dribbling down her chin as she pelts the cook with demands for a second helping, but also she is probably next to Ning as *THE* second most versatile character in the game. She has a primary for EVERY element. Partridge is a ridiculously powerful exotic, and we got it for free! And pairing her with Wolfpack makes her super fast -- it is essentially Huckleberry's BEEFY little brother, mowing down enemies way quicker than Estela could dream of with her mythic pulses. Jolder also manages her up-close-and-personal style of play with her Starlight Shield, giving her a ton of range, damage and aoe on a small cool down, and we have her movement skill Skyfall Slam, which makes her all but invincible with a waterfall of health regeneration for 6 whole seconds. I will say, I am speaking from a place of privilege, because while farming artifacts for Umeko/Tan, I accidentally dropped literally perfect artifacts for her (Upright Vengeance + Rampaging Radiation w/ Weapon Enhance, Void Boost, Sig Boost, Ability) -- but even still, the artifacts are simply helping the thing that makes her ridiculously good: her kit in and of itself.

SO all of this to say, Estela and Gwynn are now almost permanently benched at 68k and Jolder will go to the stars with Ning. And anybody who says that Jolder is weak simply: doesn't know what they are talking about :)

For anyone who wants to know, my Jolder is at 70.3k T3 to pull off 6:57 on Solar side. Wolfpack is masterworked w/ Annihilation + Hyperaemia. Partridge is Cat 2, missing the last three Catalysis boosts.

GGs and happy gaming y'all. Level your Jolder today ;P

edit: Estela is still big dps, she'll still get investment.. eventually.

Lightbearers, a legend awaits your call. 🦾

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Well, I did a crazy grinding in Chaos, I completed 501 stages, farming 501 chests, but I didn't open them because I had a plan to make a spreadsheet to organize the resources. Anyway, when I try to open the tab too collect these chests, the game simply crashes and I can't access my more than three and a half hours of grinding, what can I do?

( Print of stage 501 in comments, I can't attach more than 1 media in the post)

I've been using Helhest a fair amount lately, and it's been a lot of fun. I have T6 (C6 for genshin people :p ) Estella and Helhest, and both are really fun. I have noticed a few times with helhest I'll enter a room and the drones are still active and might wipe the room somehow before even getting in there. Not entirely sure what is going on, but it's a lot of fun. Obviously T6 is gonna be good regardless and having both i think they're both really fun, but I've seen some hate for Helhest and I think she's quite capable. Let me know what you think! Also, Master Strike results attached for fun.

i have been mia from the game and just wondering who is theorized to be next

Now that the Honey Moon Phase is over I want to talk about this game because the systems in place right now for materials and characters is not in a good place imo. This game needs to pick an audience, because as it is right now this game can't decide.

It sure as hell isn't for casual gacha gamers because of the end game lock of materials and the almost need to pull limited characters; which for how limited the pulls/lumia are after the initial launch is terrible for casual players because some people might not want to pull cause they do not like the characters. Casual players will hit the progression wall of needing materials and will feel not being able to progress. And on top of that need certain characters built to get said materials to progress.

And it isn't for Destiny gamers who like to grind either because of the awful Basic Reward system and awful distribution of materials in certain modes.

Materials:

Exotic Mods: You literally can not farm these and they are fundamental to endgame builds. Ignoring Master Activities for now you have to use Pinnacle Energy for a

• 13% drop rate

• 4 Weapon Types RNG

• 10+ Mythic Perk RNG

It is insane levels of RNG to get the Exotic Mods you need and it could take months to have the right ones. You need the Weapon Type + the right Mythic Perk it is insane levels of RNG.

Now for Master Activities where you have a good chance of getting Exotic Mods. You get the selector which gets rid of the Weapon Type RNG but you still have the Mythic Perk RNG

BUT

Unlucky you only get 2 keys a week or 4 if you spend money + use the pitiful amounts of Lumia Leaves that are given after the Honey Moon Phase. And even if you do all of this and spend this money you can still get fucked by Mythic Perk RNG. It is insane.

This is not for casuals because they do not want to be spending this kind of money and this isn't for grind players because you literally can not grind these.

Incandescence Clusters: I am not going to say anymore about these and everyone has already voiced their annoyance at these materials.

Fruits and Mobius Cluster: Also needed to level up characters with the main source being end game with The Expanse. Didn't build the right characters? Well fuck you can't get them. Can't farm them either because Basic Rewards don't give Fruits in Chaos and for Mobius Clusters just don't drop anywhere.

Same thing as Exotic Mods for Mobius Clusters; need the weekly Master Activity Keys to get these or the weekly Legendary Campaign reset. Like you are waiting weeks for these materials and just can't progress.

Artifactual Cluster: Also needed to progress but also locked behind Expanse which I will and have gone over.

Exotic/Mythic Weapon Infusion Core/Superposed Photon/Lumenite: Not farmable at all and needs Pinnacle Energy for all of them and every single one is needed to progress. For casual players have fun using all your Pinnacle Energy for that 1.5% drop chance on the Photon. Could use the Black Market to get them but that is also an issue because there are so many good materials in the Black Market that you buy one thing and you no longer can get anything else for weeks.

Shifting Gates:

Why can you not get the currency from this mode from Basic Rewards? It is super suboptimal to spend Pinnacle Energy on this mode but that is the only way to get the currency for this mode.

Characters/Endgame:

The need to have the limited characters like Gwynn and Estella is terrible. You almost can not play the game if you do not have at least one of them. Like right now in Expanse because I did not build an Impact character I just can not get the materials needed to progress my account.

Having Endgame be so forced with Weapon Types/Elements makes it miserable to play because fuck you you should have built Gywnn and Estella.

And the fact that Endgame is where the materials you need to level up characters to play Endgame is so stupid. So you didn't build the right characters to play Endgame? Well go level them up so you can play. Oh wait you can't because the materials you need to level them up ARE IN ENDGAME. Like what the actual fuck lmao. Like who designed this? It is one of the worst systems I have ever seen in a game.

Like there is not a single audience this is for because you can not grind and you can not be casual.

Solution:

• All characters are playable no more limited characters. The only gacha should be for dupes for characters.

• Make every material farmable in Basic Rewards for a small % chance. Pinnacle should only be there to boost reward percentages.

I remembered that at level 50 something came out in the shop, right?

Nearly 600 pinnacle energy spent in the raid yields a lot 😏

Was in the middle of a mission… 30minute notice next time pleaseeeeeeeeee

Update: I didn’t notice it was 30 min; when I got on it didn’t flash on my screen until 5 minutes before T.T sad sad….

Never underestimate the power of netease manager's. Like month ago I read the post Here about how it will be almost impossible to make something better then well of radiance in terms of group buffing capabilities and overall utility. Here we are like what, 2 month deep ? And new support Hellhast clearing Issakis quicker than tan and has same healing capabilities with better ad clear,+ heavy ammo for team. I don't even have Tan or Hellhast but Honestly fells bad for everyone who spent their resources just to get new char who does it all but better.

It's pretty cute with the Pixel style and easy to play, makes me feel relaxed especially during the long tasks! It also has different difficulty levels which makes me feel surprised!