Day One Raid Checklist

Detailing some weapons to have ready for the day one raid!

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[mattgoldknopf]

Arcane needle is in the Found in the Dark quest, after campaign

[spynix]

Arcane needle is in the Found in the Dark Quest. If you have Needlestorm and Threadling grenade, then IDK what happened to it. But I believe you can still get it by going to the Seclusion from the Blooming. Don't take the Darkness portal. Go through the Witness vision area. There should be a Prismatic chest with it somewhere in there.

[roundraccoon]

Although envious bait and switch is better, it may be worth running auto loading or field prep bait and switch for ease of use. Since if you die before a damage phase, you now only have one perk on the gun. And dying before a damage phase is not the most unheard of thing in a contest raid.
Consistency and staying alive is more important in a day 1. Not optimizing damage.

[michaelparris]

arcane needle was in the prismatic chest in the area around the threadling grenade mission start

[MrGobills]

You have to redo the queens pt 2 quest at the lost city for arcane needle

[braydenpianoman]

On a second character you need to launch and complete all of the tower adventures manually to get the found in the dark only exists for the first char

[ThatLazyyGuy]

Fireteam power will not apply in day 1 raid. They made it an exception to fireteam power feature

[maxpoop]

expanding abyss only adds an extra 5% from tractor

[ThatLazyyGuy]

You can’t stack cenotaph anymore but you can stack a cenotaph with someone else’s aeon finisher, so it is strong for that reason as well as div duty as you mentioned

[lady_legs]

Lucky pants was disabled because you could swap at 1s and not have the "out of luck" debuff. You just had an infinite lucky pants proc

[mattgoldknopf]

They said fireteam leader light lvl thing, won't work in raid while contest is active.

[brizzzyplays]

For fireteam power it brings you to 5 below the highest guardian

[LeeVization]

Bungie stated that the shared light level is disabled in the contest level raid. So everyone has to be at cap

[papaslaus]

“Day 1 raid checklist” doesn’t even know how to unlock dark melee.

[uzer_zero]

BUNGiE's the one that sorely needs a Raid Prep checklist. Start with: drop an expansion that doesn't completely cack on Day One and beyond. Still think the raid should have dropped next Friday, not tomorrow.

[Emenord]

Why am I subscribed to you? You don't inform us of anything, you aren't up to date on info, and holy hell, I thought being shackled to Well was bad - NO, you shackle Warlocks to Xeno AND Aeon on top of it, AND you're intending to ride someone's coattail day 1 Raid, in terms of Light lvl. Also: Remember Bungie has added surges to raids, now. Enjoy!