Literally Impossible to Complete Ticcu Divination Catalyst Quest [Updated]

[Bronwyn031]

Lifelong Warframe player new to Destiny 2. Was genuinely enjoying myself in D2 till it came to this quest step. Kill 50 Guardians in PvP. HA! I've been at it for almost a solid week and only been able to scrounge up 24 of the 50 kills so far. And those kills are just plain blind luck. Only ADS kills count and the bow is miserably weak sauce in PvP. And I'm going to go on record and say that I do believe the majority of random PvP are hacking. Side arms, sub machine guns, assault rifles are one shot machines. I will accept that shotguns and hand cannons are OP but since when does a sidearm one shot a full shield and full health guardian? Doesn't matter if you slide, super jump, crouch or peek from cover, BAM one shot and you are dead! Yet a fully charged ADS bow shot from Ticuu won't even drop their shields. Heck, I've seen players walk through my Hunters Stasis Super unscathed to one shot me. Would be nice if there was a private lobby where I knew people played clean. I haven't played such a terrible online shooter since Battlefront 2.

[Update]
Finally got the catalyst everyone! Shortly after making this post I soldiered onward through crucible zone control. It was weird, kills I know I were making wouldn't register on the quest ticker until after I left the event and came back in. I think they were registering but just not on the ticker. By the way, like some mentioned, hip fire shots count! Just don't hip fire then ADS kill them and proc sacred arrows. Those kills do not count. I would always run with teammates because you won't be killing anything that isn't already damaged with hip fired Ticcu shots. Stay in the back of your fireteam and just spam lock on hip fired shots until targets start dying. I was able to rack up the remaining kills for the catalyst in just a few more hours. Now with the catalyst installed you can spam fire hip fired arrows into large groups like up to three bursts without proc'n Sacred Flames then any ADS charged hits will send the entire chain up in a glorious fireworks show. Against the Nightfall End boss I stuck three bursts of arrows into him and proc'd Sacred Flames for like ridiculous amounts of damage. Between using my Catalyst 2 shot Gjallarhorn and Ticcu, I can halve the Nightfall boss's health before finishing him off with my super. I think the catalyst was worth the effort. Makes Ticcu unrealistically OP'd IMO.

[Maxine]

Just wait for Momentum Control.

[sophAur]

hip fire and ads. It's a guaranteed kill.
I see what your rant is about, but the tornado part of squall is quite easy to avoid, and surprisingly, sidearms have one of the highest dps among primaries.

edit: If you're talking about devil's ruin exotic sidearm, it deletes guardians. However, it comes at a cost of a 1 full second charge time.

[mark1971]

Well done, you only have 26 left.

[Bronwyn031]

Originally posted by sophAur:

hip fire and ads. It's a guaranteed kill.
I see what your rant is about, but the tornado part of squall is quite easy to avoid, and surprisingly, sidearms have one of the highest dps among primaries.

edit: If you're talking about devil's ruin exotic sidearm, it deletes guardians. However, it comes at a cost of a 1 full second charge time.

I've made that kill so many times and the quest counter doesn't advance. Online says the kill cannot be made with Sacred Flames and has to be a ADS kill which makes the quest even more hair pulling hard. I generally try to kill steal behind a teammate if they somehow don't one shot the target. I got 2 of my 24 kills off literal players who were AFK during Crucible matches.

[R4]

As Rayz mentioned, just wait for Momentum Control. Its will be so much easier

[Bronwyn031]

Originally posted by hbabibi:

git gut

Haha... will work on that one for sure, but thanks for the words of encouragement.

[Nevermore]

the thing about Ticu's Divination is that its hip fire tracks enemies, all i did to get (you may consider this to be cowardly) but in order to get the catalyst i would hop in control, and wait for a few guardians to get low on health, peak out for a second and hipfire them, not only will it be a kill but it also explodes and does more damage to anyone nearby, so waiting for the right moment and hip firing others is the best and fastest way in my experience

[IblisFlare]

Originally posted by Bronwyn031:

Originally posted by sophAur:

hip fire and ads. It's a guaranteed kill.
I see what your rant is about, but the tornado part of squall is quite easy to avoid, and surprisingly, sidearms have one of the highest dps among primaries.

edit: If you're talking about devil's ruin exotic sidearm, it deletes guardians. However, it comes at a cost of a 1 full second charge time.

I've made that kill so many times and the quest counter doesn't advance. Online says the kill cannot be made with Sacred Flames and has to be a ADS kill which makes the quest even more hair pulling hard. I generally try to kill steal behind a teammate if they somehow don't one shot the target. I got 2 of my 24 kills off literal players who were AFK during Crucible matches.

If you just ignore the exotic perk for Ticuu's and just use it like a normal bow, it becomes a lot less pain inducing to do this step. It's what I did when I was doing that.

[Bronwyn031]

Originally posted by Dark Angel:

the thing about Ticu's Divination is that its hip fire tracks enemies, all i did to get (you may consider this to be cowardly) but in order to get the catalyst i would hop in control, and wait for a few guardians to get low on health, peak out for a second and hipfire them, not only will it be a kill but it also explodes and does more damage to anyone nearby, so waiting for the right moment and hip firing others is the best and fastest way in my experience

This was my strategy as well. I try to kill steal from teammates in Control Crucible matches but when everyone is using hand cannons; the target is usually dead from a single shot before I can get an arrow off. I even switched over to "Oath Keepers" to keep the bow fully drawn in anticipation for the engagement.

[Chariot]

Originally posted by feline:

Originally posted by Bronwyn031:

This was my strategy as well. I try to kill steal from teammates in Control Crucible matches but when everyone is using hand cannons; the target is usually dead from a single shot before I can get an arrow off. I even switched over to "Oath Keepers" to keep the bow fully drawn in anticipation for the engagement.

honestly . You cant use a bow VS gun , even in real life :0 . but if you need only kill count just get that homeing bow spam to target :o

You can easily be good with bows in crucible, A good monarque player is a menace to deal with, I snagged a few kills in IB using a bow.

[Saya]

Wait for momentum control and aim in head. Explosion kill not count (atleast, when i was using it and bungo "fixed" it)

[R A Z E R]

Momentum control is where you want to do that as weapon damage is increased in that mode, bows are practically a one shot weapon in there. It's where i spend my time doing pvp related catalysts when it's on rotation.

[Nevermore]

honestly whatever you have to do and however long it takes for you to get the catalyst in my opinion is worth it, Tuccu's Divination is extremely OP in non pvp or co-op situations, a few hip fires to a a mob, tagging 5 or 6 enemies and then aiming down the sight and just hitting one of them will cause a chain reaction that obliterates the whole area, pretty much guaranteeing an easy nightfall or quest

[BAD]

Oh god, Exotic missions is such a pain, luckily Grand overture doesn't involve PVP kills (thank the traveler). Just keep using the the weapon, load up on any mods that help the bow (target acquisition, nocking the arrow, readying it etc.) and put on a podcast.

[youmissed]

Originally posted by sophAur:

hip fire and ads. It's a guaranteed kill.
I see what your rant is about, but the tornado part of squall is quite easy to avoid, and surprisingly, sidearms have one of the highest dps among primaries.

edit: If you're talking about devil's ruin exotic sidearm, it deletes guardians. However, it comes at a cost of a 1 full second charge time.

the pvp kills for it was a pain in the ass i just kept spamming it tagging them took longer but it worked