As we grapple to know Destiny 2‘s looming spacepyramid threat, this week the enigmatic forces extended an olive branch in the form of a gun which… turns its victims into orbs you can pick up and dunk on their mates to murder them too? And this is to help us understand them? Great. We’ll be having espresso mornings any day now, then. The new quest for Ruinous Effigy arrived in Tuesday’s replace and it’s nicely price getting. It’s nice enjoyable to play with, and such a wonderfully odd reward from an alien presence.
Ruinous Effigy is a brand new Exotic hint rifle which, like different Exotic hint rifles, fires a continuing beam of vitality. Normal sufficient up to now. Then you kill somebody, and the gun turns them into an orb. Hundreds of kilograms of muscle, metallic, chitin, and gristle one way or the other condensed right into a small glowing orb. Then you may choose up the orb and wield it as one other weapon.
Left-click is a powered-up punch that one-shots trash mobs. Hold C and it’ll pop a purple dome which reduces injury and negates boss stomps whereas hurting enemies and therapeutic you. The orb has restricted ammo which counts down each second as nicely, however when you run out when holding the dome it’ll maintain regular however eat your well being as an alternative. And right-click consumes the orb in an almighty dunk with quantity of AoE injury (finest carried out from the air for dramatic impact). With the weapon’s Catalyst, wounding an enemy with the orb boosts beam injury too. It has a whole lot of intelligent little methods. But why would a gun do any of this?
Ruinous Effigy is a present from the mysterious forces of the Darkness pyramids, see, born of a department from the spacetree they’re so interested by on Io. Eris thinks they’re making an attempt to speak and reaching out with what we perceive finest: weapons. Zavala thinks the gun is perhaps a lure. Banshee-44 says it’s natural however actually not wooden.
“Effigy” is the fitting phrase. It seems to be prefer it’s made out of scrap wooden glued along with some mechanical doodads and sloppily painted with white gloss, as if a toddler tried to make a toy gun from junk discovered within the shed. Its beam warbling beam appears like a Doctor Who ray gun too. Appears to be trash within the form of a gun; really performs gunmagic past our understanding. It’s a delightfully unusual artefact of first contact: “Hey, we’ve noticed you primates enjoy guns and hot dunks, take this, go transmute some lifeform into an orb then use that impossible object to punch their mate in the face.” I’m not saying they’ve learn us mistaken, however I wouldn’t settle for a neighbourly muffin basket from them.
I’m actually digging the apocalyptic vibe in Season Of Arrivals because the pyramids begin spreading out and giving us bizarre toys. They’re such an ominous presence, crackling with vitality as they cling over the planets and moons we all know will probably be eliminated come September’s growth. I’m so glad this orbplank is the primary little bit of pyramid tech we actually get to play with.
Season move holders can now get Ruinous Effigy from a brand new Exotic questline began by the Drifter’s Prismatic Recaster. You’ll be despatched by Eris Morn’s weekly Interference quest, then to gather some crystals and kill the Savathûn’s Marionette enemies across the photo voltaic system, the lastly grind out a number of rounds of Gambit or Reckoning, get Void kills, and rating some precision multi-kills. It took me a number of hours, and the busywork was high-quality as a result of: 1) I like preventing the Marionettes and their beefy mates 2) The crystals are highlighted from 200 metres away when you whip your Ghost out; 3) Look I get pleasure from Gambit Prime, okay.
