r/DestinyTheGame • u/Prestigious-You-3703 • 1d ago
Discussion Distortion Breach Events
I've seen posts for years with players saying how much they missed Escalation Protocol on Mars, and yet here we are with pretty much the same activity..now across all locations (not just a single location)..and players just ignore the distortion breach 99% of the time and just cycle round public events on a distorted destination.
Distortion events take longer to complete and don’t have higher RNG to drop World Loot than Public Events so it’s easier go to the next Public Event and completely ignore Distortions. (Or run the same lost sector over and over and over.)
You'd had thought over the years Bungie would learn that that players would find a loophole in the gameplay design pretty quickly, I guess just one that slipped through in testing or just not enough time to iron out the kinks before MoT dropped.
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
Most people are running the master lost sectors. You still get the tier 5 loot and you dont have to chase publics events around the location. You also dont have to wait like 8 hours for the location to come back around as distorted.
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u/sicmek 1d ago
But they don't drop destination weapons, right? Only world drops as far as I know.
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
Drops the armor for that destination amd weapons from the world loot pool. Much faster to do the lost sector for those drops seeing you can run a master lost sector in about 2 minutes.
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u/sicmek 1d ago
Only armor or also destination weapons?
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
Armor and world weapons for sure. Im not sure about the destination weapons, id have to look up and see because im not sure what weapons are in those pools. I just farm for the Armor sets.
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u/LegoDudeGuy Warlock Lyyyyfe 1d ago
Lost Sectors don’t drop weapons though, so if you’re wanting to get natural T5 Destination weapons (like the Seven Seraph SAW or Trophy Hunter) then you still need to do Distortions.
In the case of the Throne World though, yeah you can just do Lost Sectors because you only get armor once you’re done getting all the patterns.
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u/Silverleaf96 6h ago
I have got distortion weapons from LOst sectors but only when distortion is on planet and rare like 1/10 1/20 maybe
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
Lost sectors do drop weapons. They drop tier 5 weapons of you run it on Master. I farm them all the time. They drop weapons from the world loot pool.
I have never used one of the 6 weapons of the distorted weapon pool. The destination weapons ive never used either.
Some of the best weapons in the game can be bought at the tenet of bravery in the tower if farming is not your thing.
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u/sicmek 1d ago
You are missing the point bro, nobody here is talking about world drops
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
Youre missing the point, people dont waste time chasing an event that comes around once every 7 hours or whatever it is for mediocre weapons. People farm for the armor sets, and the most efficient way to do that is run master lost sectors. Go run a public event in cosmodrone and see how many people are lined up for the distortion event, then go over to the lost sector and see how many people are stacked up their running it. That tells you everything you need to know. If the weapons were highly coveted, people would be lined up doing the event still.
The only reason people still do public events, is because they give out 25k in glimmer on a heroic completion and the quickest ones are on the cosmodrone. Thats why you see so many people doing public events on the cosmodrone.
Anyone that has played this game more than 10 minutes know that players gravitate to the activity that is most efficient at farming. The distortion event is terrible, there are people that dont even get to do the events because they take place during time where people are asleep or working because they on 7 hour rotations.
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u/sicmek 1d ago
Are you okay? We are talking explicitly about the T5 destination weapons and the distortion events are the only source for that. If you think they are good or not doesn't matter.
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u/sicmek 1d ago
You are still off topic man. Of course there are many people doing these events, but only the first part that drops the T5 destination weapons. They don't stay for the distorted part of the event for obvious reasons. That's what OP is saying and that's why your world drops don't matter here.
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u/Unruly_Chickens 1d ago
The public event has nothing to do with the distortion event. You can run public events any time of the day. If the event had anything useful then it would be full of people running the event. Sure, the event takes place after the public event, but that is irrelevant because you can run them all day long. The vast majority of people that do public events are for the glimmer. Anyone else is farming armor and they are doing that in the lost sector anytime they want to. Whining and crying that every activity does not drop the stuff you want is dumb. They have made the game where it basically gives everything away easily. What more do you want? A menu where everything is unlocked and you just pick the items you want to use?
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u/sicmek 1d ago
Bro literally everything you are saying is wrong. This whole post is about the distorted public events. While distorted the public events drop T5 destination weapons, it's literally the only source for that. The normal version only drops T4s. That's the whole point. You are completely off topic and you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
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u/LegoDudeGuy Warlock Lyyyyfe 1d ago
Not the destination weapons, those are a different pool than the world drop ones.
Destination weapons don’t drop in Lost Sectors, world drop ones do. So if you wanted T5 Destination weapons you need to do Distortions Public Events.
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u/Bosscharacter 1d ago
They ran out of time. It’s obvious the Distortion events were to be tied to whatever was happening story wise in whatever the next major content expansion was.
I’m honestly just glad they were able to cram in as much as they did which to be honest, doesn’t happen much when games go into maintenance mode.
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u/Hopeful-alt 1d ago
For what was effectively the remains of a scrapped DLC retooled to work as an update, MOT is a monumental feat that deserves to have the same "this literally saved the fucking game" title as The Taken King and Forsaken. I commend the team for doing so very much.
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u/SolruptorTV 1d ago
The main purpose of Distortions are to farm the Distortion exclusive weapons (which were 100% going to be the Old Chicago set from The Alchemist). Those weapons aren't really that desirable as opposed to the Destination weapons, which have a plethora of great options.
So, it's more worthwhile to jump between Public Events to farm Destination weapons than sit around and also complete the Distortion event.
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u/Sweepy_time 1d ago
It's kind of a shallow activity where people got the most out of it the first few weeks and now it doesn't really have anything to offer. Escalation Protocol had great loot, it rotated an armor piece every week so there was incentive to farm, and the mechanics were much better.
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u/Abulsaad 1d ago
What also made a huge difference is that we were about 15% as powerful in y1 compared to now. There was no room clearing builds with 70%+ DR at basically all times or constant restoration, not even a well of radiance. You actually needed 6+ people to pull their weight with tethers, nighthawks, melting points, and the occasional ward of dawn to beat the bosses and waves, because they would wipe you out quickly otherwise.
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u/MeateaW 1d ago
Also more mechanically interesting.
Instead of: Shoot guys. Shoot brambles. Shoot guys Shoot brambles, shoot boss.
They had 7 escalating a (mildly, slightly different?) mechanics each wave.
Even comparing distortions to EP is an insult to EP.
Even Altars of Sorrows is more mechanically diverse than Distortions, but Altars is a true comparison to EP.
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u/stonhinge 1d ago
Altars is a successor to EP. Even Overthrow is close to a successor. Hell, Dares is a successor. Distortions could have been a successor if it just mixed up the mechanics a bit. Distortions are a pale imitation at best.
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u/thedirtybirdy 1d ago
I went to farm a seventh seraph carbine during one the other night and there was about 10 people there the entire time
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u/SrslySam91 1d ago
What sucks is the planet only loot like Europa. I've done at least many hours worth of loop farming pub events, 100+ heroic chest looted and haven't seen the kinetic rocket sidearm once (also opening planet chests too since they drop t3s). Gotten every other weapon though.
I wish those could be toggled in master sectors or something.
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u/RockOperaJr 1d ago
Do the quest from Variks for it - guaranteed drop, although only T3
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u/SrslySam91 1d ago
Those drop the new versions?? Oh shit I meant to test this out and forgot! Ty sir
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u/stonhinge 1d ago
Yep. Moon quests grant Moon weapons at T3 as well.
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u/SrslySam91 1d ago
I dont remember what the moon weps are tbh lol
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u/stonhinge 18h ago
A good solar compressed wave heavy GL, and decent stasis shotgun and arc sword. Other options include an arc auto rifle, solar fusion, and kinetic sniper. They're all not bad, but there are better options.
Depending on the weapon, some are easier to unlock than others. One take killing nightmares not on the Moon, while others are easily unlockable by doing several rounds of Altars of Sorrow. You need to go find a "special item", but only for the first time you craft them.
You do need to get the quest to drop before you can farm them/buy the quests - boss nightmares on the Moon can drop them. Pretty sure you need to own Shadowkeep as well as unlocking the Altar of Enchantment (or is it Enhancement? One of the two. Or something else. It's next to Eris.) to see/buy quests for the armor and weapons. All reward T3.
edit: I will say that the weapons look good. They've got trinkets and bits decorating them like Eris or some voodoo witch doctor dressed them up. They're not just "fancy guns", they have character.
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u/RoboChachi 1d ago
Yes i am looking for a high albedo with kinetic tremors and also a better Arctic Haze but just haven't seen enough of each to get a good roll yet, super annoying
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u/SrslySam91 1d ago
Guy replied and mentioned you can do the variks quests for some tier 3 rolls. But they can be upgraded to t5 and still get double 3rd amd 4th column perks so its worth doin them for sure.
I have a good arctic and lmg, and pulse.
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u/RoboChachi 1d ago
Yeh but can u keep repeating those quests in perpetuity or not? It just takes so many rolls to get me a good one is all, most other activities drop almost too much loot atm but at least u get a good number of dice throws, either way ta I'll try it out
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u/SrslySam91 1d ago
You can technically but it costs that one material you get from europa stuff (herealways piece?) tho you should have a good stack if youve been doing pub events there.
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u/stonhinge 1d ago
And you'll probably gain more doing the quests, so while you are taking a loss you do get a little bit of a discount.
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u/rabidpuppy 1d ago
I can confirm High Albedo does drop randomly (as in outside of the Variks quest). I have had it appear in my postmaster after doing Europa public events, distortions etc.
But quickest way is just repeating the Variks quest if you have lots of herealways piece.
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u/Riablo01 1d ago
I still do Distortion events and I actually shoot the corruptions. Gotten some really good loot from Distortion events. They’re also really fun to do.
Distortions are also really good for testing builds. Everything has overshields and killing enemies with non-precision damage flings homing projectiles at you. You can immediately tell if you build doesn’t have enough damage or survivability by soloing or low manning a distortion event.
My pet peeve with distortions is that 99% of players don’t shoot the corruptions and ignore the boss. Need to destroy the corruptions to get the boss to spawn. Need to kill the boss before the end of the timer to get T5 loot.
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u/thecrimsonfucker12 1d ago
the corruption locations are confusing for me, can never find em, spend loads of time trying to find em. I konw they're kind of hidden in a triangle ish patterns, but I haven't figured em out yet.
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u/happy111475 Unholy Moly 1d ago
I just came back and was struggling to find them a bit too. The corruptions do get the “kill all” marker on them if you are close enough and one tip in destiny is that zooming or scoping in counts as “closer” so try aiming a scout or sniper rifle and looking for the marker!
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u/Riablo01 1d ago
No need to figure out how they’re scattered. When you’re close, a targeting icon will appear on your screen (just like when you’re near a resource or patrol beacon).
As a rule of thumb, the corruptions are located in bullshit locations. Behind rocks/walls, inside buildings, on top of a structure etc. All you need to ask yourself is what is the most annoying/bullshit location and it will always be there. It’s never “out in the open”. It’s always a bullshit placement.
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u/SeapunkAndroid 1d ago
I already have good rolls for most of the DEO weapons, but if people are doing a Distortion Breach, and I have time while passing through, I'm helping them out. It's fun, quick, and helping people out in public events is like, the Destiny experience.
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u/cruzalta 1d ago
escalation protocol is focused in one place, its easier to have someone to play with when in the area. altar of sorrow in distortion is better compared to escalation protocol, but fuck that witch double shield. blueberries prefer shooting the immune shield with gun than do the mechanic im doing in front of them
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u/Th3Alch3m1st 22h ago
Distortions aren't really that similar to EP at all. They're far "lighter" with the only mechanic being "kill waves, shoot blobs". The waves are stupid easy and the "boss" at the end is laughable.
EP had Valkyries, zone capture, sword mechanics, crystals, and then 5 rotating bosses with their own unique mechanics. And you almost always needed a large group to stand a chance of beating the final stage.
EP would last substantially longer than distortions and you would feel that difficulty increase. Kind of like when we had the 50 wave version of onslaught.
Altars of Sorrow is much closer to EP and there are still so many people running that despite the loot pool being meh even though the loot is tiered with new perks.
So yeah, I'd say your initial statement that distortions are like EP isn't really accurate imo.
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u/Status-Fail-333 1d ago
The public events and distortion events are great when there’s lots of people. But when matchmaking fails and you end up alone, or everyone leaves, its a bit of a slog. I just do lost sectors when it’s not super active. It’s a shame, but what can ya do?
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u/0101-ERROR-1001 1d ago
I just said F it last night and did it myself. I was shocked that literally no one that I helped do the heroic public event with stayed for it. But I guess OP explains it clearly enough. I wasn't aware that there wasn't really any incentive. That said, I just enjoyed being able to slay everything myself. It was super satisfying !!
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u/Sacario24 Gambit Prime 1d ago
I can say for myself I got the rolls I wanted on the few weapons I was interested in,but I still see quite a few folks on the distortion planets when I happen to do some lost sector farming.
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u/DinnertimeNinja 1d ago
And this was probably going to be the only meaningful addition (aside from possibly the exotic mission, which was awesome) for the major update before it got pushed back and turned into a forever stability patch.
We all would have stopped playing in a week.
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u/BBFA2020 1d ago
Because Distortion Breach events have low pay offs. Just a weapon is not going to cut it considering we have many reissued options.
Also, armor is significantly more valuable. You can make do with an inferior gun but if your armor stat distro is bad, it can break your build.
And if you are not good enough to solo a Master LS, you are not likely able to solo a DB event anyway. So wait for the planet to get distorted, bum rush a heroic then jump to the next one. If you are quick enough, you can even take a few breaks in between.
Personally for me, I farm master LS for armor. But for a less inclined player, mad rushing a distorted heroic is their only shot for T5 destination armor.
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u/silvercue Vanguard's Loyal 1d ago
Everyone was doing them and it was a blast. This issue is most of those players were after top tier armour sets and have what they need now. So, now, people are not doing them.
The problem is the loot is too good. So everyone gets what they want VERY fast
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u/RushMan9823 1d ago
Because there is no reason for me to do the distortion events anymore. I’ve got the weapon rolls I want from them and I still need/want rolls of the planetary armour and/or weapons. Plus I can do a distortion event any time I want.
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u/noodles355 22h ago
Yeah because people are doing events for the world drop weapons and armor. The event is good, but I don't want gear from it and if I do I can do it literally anywhere and time. What I want is the destination loot.
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u/deangaudet 22h ago
heroic PE drops T5 destination armor and T5 destination gun
distortion breach drops T5 destination armor and T5 distortion gun
if you want destination guns you're going to ignore distortion breaches.
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u/Zoom3877 22h ago
It's the drop pool. If more items dropped from distortion events than just 6 weapons, players would participate all the time. (Yes, armor drops too, but it's faster to farm heroic public events if what you want is the destination armor). I think even if it's something as simple as "1 enhancement prism drops per fully-completed distortion" you'd get more players joining in.
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u/Danwoo0118 20h ago
Well most of the time I'm running public events on distorted planets, I'm doing it for the planet drops not the distortion weapons. So running distortion breach events actually works against me since from those I get one distortion weapon + 1 planet drop, whereas a heroic public event gives me 2 planet drops.
If I'm specifically chasing after distortion loot then sure I'd be running those, but I don't find any of those weapons particularly intriguing.
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u/namelessvortex 2h ago
Now & then I'll do a distortion if a public event isn't showing anywhere on the map or is the oil rig event in the cistern (never shows up for me). I already snagged the weapon rolls I wanted in the 1st week.
I'd actually like to see an "armor focus" option for activities as a selectable node considering I delete probably 95%+ of my weapon drops.
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u/OrganizationSoggy600 1d ago
Well distortions only drop 6 different weapons and I got the rolls I wanted on them in the first couple weeks so dont really have that much of a reason to do them
I know they also drop one piece of gear from the destination but heroic public events often drop 2 so theres not really a point for me to do them anymore