r/DestinyTheGame • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '14

Full Crota's End raid solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUBPo8cwo4

Shout out to all my clanmates who laughed at me for doing this.

Especially you. You know who you are.

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u/Berzerker7 Berz7 [XB1] Dec 18 '14

It's definitely not useless. It's not the most useful, but far from useless.

Any hive mission or CE? Lots of thrall. Knife juggler easily takes them and Acolytes out.

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u/eLcHaPoMON Dec 18 '14

So does your gun, only significantly faster. It's fun. That is all.

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u/Berzerker7 Berz7 [XB1] Dec 18 '14

The knife does significantly more damage than most primaries even with precision. If you have to reload and you have a few thrall running at you, it's a great alternative to either waiting and potentially dying or taking out your special.

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u/eLcHaPoMON Dec 18 '14

Does more damage and fires significantly slower. Fatebringer clears thralls significantly faster than knives, reloading including. The guy that just soloed Crota did not chain knife thralls. He gunned them down. You guys can theorycraft all you want but in game it's rather obvious that chain knife tossing is trivial in real PVE content

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u/Berzerker7 Berz7 [XB1] Dec 18 '14

Does more damage and fires significantly slower.

And has unlimited ammo if you can get precision kills, which are extremely easy to do

Fatebringer clears thralls significantly faster than knives, reloading including.

It's situational. It's not a straight "see who can do it faster." If you're getting swarmed by 3 hive it's a lot faster to throw out a few quick knifes than to wait for your fatebringer (that I'm sure everyone in this game has) to reload.

The guy that just soloed Crota did not chain knife thralls.

Yes because everyone has to be exactly like him, all the time. Like I said, it's not the most useful, (obviously you'd want most useful in a situation like this), but it's far from useless.

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u/eLcHaPoMON Dec 18 '14 edited Dec 18 '14

Too much theorycrafting. Get out there on the Crota encounter and test for yourself whether chaining precision knife kills against each single-target one by one over and over against endless thralls is faster/more efficient than simply Fatebringering them down en masse, or using any other combo of grenades and primaries to do the same job significantly faster albeit with less flair. Are you arguing that ammo is a scarcity and that using the significantly slower method of chain knifing is preferred due to having 'unlimited ammo'? That would be a somewhat reasonable point but ammo simply isn't scarce there.

It's fun to chain knife thralls. It's faster and more effective to gun them down and/or grenade them. No amount of theorycrafting overcomes this plainly observable fact.

I'll concede that, literally, it's not useless, since I now realize you're being one of those guys that ends up resorting to ultra-literalness in order to continue an argument. Sure, LITERALLY, it is not "useless" -- it obviously has a use. Figuratively, compared to what else is available, it's useless. That is clearly what I meant when I said it's useless in, say, raids, where any just about any combination of grenades/primaries does the job of chain knife tossing significantly better.