Are you aware of some of the huge bounce blinks you can do when you blink into the ground at the top of an incline ? If so can you do some videos on that and or some breakdowns of in-game situational blink theory? Sometimes I find myself in situations where I can't get the momentum going in a tight space or pick the wring options for creating that momentum.
Aye there are a few other blink jumps that weren't quite gone over, for instance timing your blink based off a ledge can be used to launch you much higher into the air, or even for a swift downward momentum that can be just enough to not kill, but gain a quick cover.
Just a little thing here for ya, TDT. There's a small Blink-using RUclipsr who I look up to for my playstyle. Absolutely love it all. Name is Maximal GFX, give him a look.
Blink is one of the few tools in this game that has a legitimate skill gap on and once you get it, you can break some serious ankles. There's just so much nuance to it (not to mention its on a historical niche subclass) that I feel like it takes a year of use to get the hang of it to where it becomes second nature. I've been off and on with blink since the start of Destiny and whenever I put it back on it takes me a second to rewire my brain to account for the changes in momentum. I think adding a sword is my next step in my blink journey.
Blink is on probably the best warlock subclass right now, so don’t know what your on about there. Also in destiny 1 it was on hunter too so it wasn’t really a warlock thing
It's nice to see a big content creator that understands the value of blink instead of just bashing on it like the others. I have dedicated myself to putting out tons of blink content to try and help change that narrative and make the community see that a good blink player is a hell of a threat. Glad to see that you agree on Astrocyte being mandatory, putting on your helmet is my first and biggest rule of blink but I have sadly interacted with many blink users who don't take that advice. Great video and thank you for shedding some light on the blink community!
Fantastic video. I've been using blink all year, and I've noticed some other things you've mentioned before. First, and this is arguably blinks biggest weakness: the hitbox You ever blink, and from your POV you're perfectly safe, but you still die? That's because blink isn't a "teleport" in the conventional sense. When you blink, you don't magically flash from A to B unlike melee de-sync. When you hit jump the second time, it sort of...splits your hit box. Your hit box will be simultaneously at point A and B for a split second. Essentially, you blink, but you can take damage if they shoot point A. A good way to prevent this is to blink *out* of cover, so that your start point is protected and concealed, and your B point is your destination. A good spot to practice this is the doorway out of the inside spawn on Twilight gap. Another thing about blink is that you *need* to be observant. Blink is an all or nothing jump type. When you hit that second jump button, it can be very disorienting for your enemies, but ALSO YOU. This takes practice, but you can very easily get turned around when you blink, especially if you blink *into* a closed area. Good chance you're gonna go through a doorway and end up kissing a shipping container placed in the center of it. Also, blink is risky depending on the map. If you're on twilight gap, cauldron, anomaly. Basically any map with lots of doors and staircases. You should always assume that red you see on the radar is corner camping with a shotgun. Remember: if you blink through a door, you are blinking right next to an enemy that is in cover. A solution I've found to this is to actually backwards blink through doors. That way instead of having to manually whip a 180 turn, you'll already be facing the enemy you're going past. After all, the enemy is expecting you to come through to door either to their front or side. They are most likely not expecting you to bypass their field of view and appear behind them, thus forcing them to spend time turning. Obviously this is diminished with mouse and keyboards flick times, but on console this saves valuable time, and often gets me a W in a 1v1. Hitting a shotgun shot on an enemy fully behind you is not easy no matter what your input method. That confusion is your golden ticket. And lastly, an important tip. If you're using blink to evade or gain distance, it's important to remember your trajectory. If you blink at the optimal 45 angle, your momentum isn't necessarily kept after the fact. If you blink into the air, you will fall like a sack of potatoes until your feet land. This is a big reason supers can catch up to blink. Sure you're gaining large chunks of distance, but the downtime between blinks is lethal sometimes. Best way to counter? Blink more horizontally if you're fleeing, or use eager edge to gain the momentum back. Double blinking *can* do this, but the second blink usually pulls you down. Awesome video!
If they would allow cooldown reset when your feet hit the ground, they could give the exotic the ability to change direction and increased distance. Then you could comfortably use for jump puzzles. This is the main reason I feel most voidlock mains don't use blink. #blinkOrDie
Us arcstriders require another blink video from TDT, as it wasn't a thing yet when this one was released, and EVERY arcstrider main once wanted to master blink, and deliver sweet arc staff justice in crucible with good ole sorcery-like movin' tech.
It’s exactly the same only difference being that you can chain an upper cut to a blink in any direction. And shorter blinks of course because you don’t have av
When I unlocked blink in destiny 1 I felt like a master wizard. I kept blink on even during difficult jump puzzles because I felt cool even when I was failing. Such a cool jump
*Proceeded to try Blink.* *Proceeded to immediately find it way more comfortable to use than the apparently difficult Burst Glide.* *Gets recommended this video for uncommon Blink tricks.* *Becomes satisfied with the False Blink.* I know what I'm doing next. Also, thank you for the informative video.
I’ve been a voidwalker main ever since I started in D1, and earlier this season was my first time ever going flawless with blink on. It was probably my best ever trials card - flawless in under 30 minutes without losing our mercy, and I felt so proud to finally do my favourite movement mechanic justice. If you haven’t used blink before. Do it. Yes it’s weird at first but games should be about fun not ultimate meta at all times, at all costs (and blink remains a hyper-competitive option once you have it mastered). Just honestly try it out people. (Oh and use astroycte, it’s just better)
Hunter main and pve blink enthusiast here. I am one of probably 30 people who unironically use blink as an arcstrider in pve. Learning it proper on Warlock before it came back to Hunter with arc 3.0 was an experience to say the least. But now, whenever I'm about to blink, I do the very quick math of where I'd end up post-blink. Some jumps are impossible with blink, and will force me to go off it for a bit. Anyways, great vid. Blink is a very scary tool to both fight and learn. Mastering it can really throw enemies off, by using some of the techniques in the video, for example. (P.S: Plz add a blink exotic to hunters like astrocyte. Bungo plz)
At last! A good blink tutorial! But I noticed that sometimes the blink can take you THROUGH obstacles. I was hoping that you would address that as no other jump is capable of that. It would also be nice to see what blinking looks like to other guardians. Maybe another players pov
I'll be honest that isn't really something that's needed to be talked about as I've mained blink for the past 2 years and only run into blinking through objects maybe once or twice a month and that minor information that's extremely hard to replicate isn't exactly needed for a beginner or even intermediate blink player
@@average_trans_furry I think you are right. If even he hasn’t found anything interesting to do with that information then it’s probably not worthwhile. Although it is used in pve much less, I wonder if there are any weird glitches possible with it.
@@dugleypot2291 as far as I know there's no oob glitches that use blink, it's just far easier to sparrow glitch out of the map in 99% of scenarios and if you aren't sparrow glitching your probably running through a wall that's non existent so blink just doesn't really have a place
@@average_trans_furry as for other guardians pov I gotta say (as a non blink warlock) that I could swear blink doesnt make you invincible I have vague memories of killing Warlocks mid blink they leave like a line that you can shoot, but who knows maybe it was just lag.
@@reynauldwhistles2338 yeah no your aren't invincible, infact your hitbox is actually left behind where you blinked for about 0.2 seconds, theres been times where I've blinked above someone and they shotgun where I was before the blink and get the kill.
honestly, they really need to take astrocyte verses perks, and put them into default blink (maybe not the weapon ready speed, but definitely the better blink perks). the fact that blink NEEDS an exotic to be even decent is stupid. then rework astrocyte to have completely different perks
Blink is the butter for my bread. The super dodge, the team jukes, the "Here's Johnny!" Moments. Haven't been on warlock since WQ release, but I had a super blink technique that hopefully hasn't been patched.
One very useful technique for PvP is what I call a grenade peak. If you jump past a doorway, throw a grenade through it, and then blink past all without hitting the ground, you essentially get a free grenade on your targets. Basically: jump> throw grenade> blink. Also works great for avoiding shotgun rushers if you just do it backwards. Hold S > jump > throw nade > blink > tap with gun.
I’ve been exclusively using astrocyte for pvp this season and i go from feeling like and absolute terror to a clay pigeon in the span of a couple minutes. Blink is really a trip. This is a terrific guide for beginners and intermediates alike. I’ve already been slaying out with devour nova warp and this tech with the dash is gonna be nasty.
I appreciate that. I try to main Nova Warp with Blink all the time and I honestly rarely use Void without it. The Eager Blinker tech is very good to know. I am definitely gonna see how that works on controller!
ive been using blink for a couple months now and i gotta say that i only use my camera movement if im trying to make a long jump. Mostly during jumping puzzles i find myself using the camera but i mainly play pvp, i know sweatlord pvp man, but i use my keyboard to control my blink so i can focus on the other player while i jump. it took alot of time to get used to but im able to get to places so much faster than my teammates. the momentum thing is a learning curve too but if you can get the timings down it is really good for backing out off battles to regen. ive been doing all of this on normal blink no exotic helmet and i dont think its terrible with its cooldown times. instead of using it to push all of the time use it as a good way to get behind you opponent and shotgun or melee them, i dont really find myself clipping into them ever so that shouldnt be and issue i think. last thing im gonna say is that the helmet is defiantly a great way to learn blink and a better version of it, i just wanted to learn the normal blink so i can have another exotic slot open for my build (triple 100's with a 66, im very proud of it sorry)
I love how I'm watching this again because I'm getting reused using my Warlock and the astrocyte verse now makes anything near you volatile if you blink so if you do the false blank you now make your enemy volatile
Love this video. I have a ton of time into blink, nowhere near as much time as TDT. I'm 80% confident that you can blink through titan barricades without taking damage if you space it properly. It's a great tool to cross lanes safely (for example, if you angle it properly you can blink into the elbow hallways on Endless veil safely. I didn't realize eager edge would work with blink even without ammo so now i'm going to be practicing that for more consistent horizontal blinks. Thanks for this video!
I’ve been using blink for a decent while, it essentially took me flawless, and before void 3.0 I pretty much used it exclusively without astrocyte, and it’s still so so so good, but since my play style pretty much got removed from the game I decided I’d just try astrocyte for the heck of it and…. Oh boy…. Voidwalker is feelin REAALL good right now
So two things, one eager edge without ammo is brilliant, wouldn't have thought of that andtwo on alter of flame there is some sort of collision on dark stairs with the block and blinking, I've only had it happen once or twice but you can launch yourself into the air after a blink giving you a crazy amount of non lethal speed.
I was doing Trials of Osiris in TFS this last weekend and kept hitting my head on the ceiling in endless vale just like you showed. Shits hilarious, I thought blink was bugged
Most of the time, I use bottom or middle tree dawn (almost never top because I dont find it fun) but When I use void, I almost always have blink on me and There were some things I didn't know about blink so nice video!😎👍
One thing people underestimate with blink-locks is the ability to just dodge a rocket, effectively nullifying an enemy heavy pull. I often will punish players in trials by jumping in a weird ass direction when i see some kind of a rocket pointed at me. Also great against snipers, slugs, and fusions, so basically the cream of the crop. It's one of the most versatile tools for movement in the game for getting into and getting away from situations
did 6 cards this week on trials and im glad no one plays blink becouse no one expect you to be so fast anywhere. Im glad i came back to blink after few seasons.
The "melee while pulling out sword" is an animation glitch issue. If you press melee way too fast it will temporarily cancel the draw animation of the sword and use your melee. Remember that you have roughly 2 seconds before Eager Edge goes away when pulling out your sword, so you can safely wait for the animation to finish before swinging.
I really wish they could change blink so when you hold the jump after you first press itll show a marker where you will end up and on release you go to that marker like how the blink ability works in dishonored as an example, and yes they really need to roll the astercite verse into blink by default heck the rework I want could be the new effect of astercite verse after they make its current/origonal effect in by sefault, I also wish they would roll the effcts of stompies or at least tripple jump into hunter default jump. I hate that we have "quolity of life" movement exotics that are 90% mandatory if you dont wnat use your movement in any situation -.-
I started getting back into blink and my god its so much better ever since the shotgun nerfs, used blink awhile back but felt like it didn't help as much due to shotguns still mapping you so it felt useless, but now its very viable/ ez to blink away from a shotty
With the release of Vow I've really gotten into blink because it's so goof against Rhulk And because I have a godroll astrocyte that pairs with a full set of armor designed for 100 mobility and a significant int spike After only about a month I feel I've mostly mastered the astrocyte, though I am very good when it comes to visual and spatial reasoning so that helps my blinking My friends hate me in private crucible, I was running rat king with matador the other day and SLAYING I joined halfway through the match and after about 10 minutes I had 40 points and first place had 70
As another blink main, if you combo blink into super, use dash blink dash dash blink to gain the most distance with your charges. Another way you can use it is tricky, but if you snipe like I do, it is a great tool to use icarus grip with a short hop left or right, snipe, then blink to get out of a lane. It mostly only works with high impact weapons because you only have the two charges. Another thing to note is hitting an incline while falling gives you a huge boost of momentum which can be translated into blink distance. Last note is a double blink straight up in midair to keep in the air messes up a lot of shotty users.
If you are very new to Destiny 2 and want to get into blink movement. I recommend that you practice blink in 3rd person camera. Pulling out a sword and just run and blink it. It really helps let you get a good feel of blink for first timers.
Astrocyte Verse needs to completely remove the cooldown for blink entirely, on top of it's other perks. That would make it a significantly more viable exotic and one I would certainly main, even over Ophidian Aspects.
Brilliant this ! Gonna definitely try this out . Ive recently been having a lot of fun on the titan using shield bash for movement with a legendary slug with icarus on Usually heritage or sojourners . Really catches people out
I'm a d1 day one and d2 day one been on a year break cause pvp has been neglected. But I'm returning and told my self I'm gona try blink like give it time and really try it . Good info
Exotic idea: Birth Of The Dire Phoenix Warlock Helmet _”If death can spring from the longest life, then life can spring from the longest death” -Sun Tzu, Probably_ Exotic Perk: Molten Revelation Press To cast your dawnblade or well of radiance from beyond death, ignoring all revive penalties and timers. While in Dawnblade or a well of radiance, temporarily gain a solar aura that instantly revives dead teammates when you stand near their ghosts, ignoring any respawn timers. Teammates and enemies standing in the aura are also minorly healed. Appearance: This helmet would look like a jumble of metal scraps, with lava shining in between. Surrounding the head would be a wreath of fire. While in a solar super, the player’s wreath would drip lava creating a big molten vail around the player’s head.
Not sure if you played Destiny 1 at all, but Solar Warlock used to be able to self-revive back then and there is a reason it got removed from the game. It was busted. Not balanced in anyway and other than camping the res with a shotgun headshot and melee combo or using a super yourself in things like Trials, there were no counters. And you're proposing to take that and up it up to 100 making it even more brokenly OP. Not going to happen.
Make it replace your super fully for the revive. Since this is basically D1 Rez tho that’s still probably not enough to not make it immediate gamebreaking meta unless it makes it a 5 Tier supercharge.
Definitely going to be trying this on my warlock! I got a pretty good Astrocyte’s and I want to make use of it, but in practicing it I actually ended up with making an arc hunter blink build using stompees and Worldline.
First XD I used blink for a weeks of trials early last season and my god was it fun with riis and igneous. Solo trials on cauldron was a great time, made about 2-3 dawnblades waste a full super in ONE play session, plus the most satisfying and engaging ape plays I’ve ever made, coming from someone who typically only uses shotguns when other options won’t work (or work well)
i have mained blink for about 80% of playtime in pvp on warlock and at least for my play style i like to use transversive steps, since blink is momentum based and the faster you are moving can affect the blink movement, you cant double blink unless you have eager proced without astrocyte verse on tho
Been using blink (in pvp) ever since I got astrocyte verse to drop. Not precise enough for pve tho. Surprisingly helped me understand tangents in calc tho
I started using blink around 3 or 4 months ago and I'm pretty good at it and I already know the mechanics of it, seeing this video will probably help me if I don't forget it because bungie recently restricted me for having bad wifi. Blink Is fun to use but I sadly got a bad roll on astrocyte
I’ve tried using Blink once and it gave me a headache. Gave me a headache watching this too. Blinking when Nova Warp’s active is really fun though. It’s like Icarus Dashing but Void.
I've always been intrigued by blink, but never had the patience to learn how to use it well enough. This video is quite helpful and informative though, and explains why I've almost killed myself multiple times by slamming myself into the ground at breakneck speeds. And as a helpful side note to people (though I've never been able to do it myself) there's a gap of time when you're mid blink in which your hitbox will be where you are. I sort of listened to the vid in the background, so don't know if that was mentioned or not, but feel like people should know it
I want to add that if you want the most out of blink then use astrocyte. But if you like using other exotics and already know how to use blink feel free to use whatever you want to.
What i would realy like to see for blink is when you press the button for shatterdive or icarus dash, you would stop for a second in the air and can readjust your ankle and blink in the direction you're looking, because i would like to play it more in PvE but it just sucks that you cant stop mid-air after a long fall
Fun idea: add a function for Astrocyte Verse that if you do not blink after blinking, you go invisible at the end of the animation. It would make blink more wanted. If that makes it too powerful, uhhhh take away the movement buff, just make blink better 5head lol
I like my Lock to have 100 movement, recover and intellect and run around with transversive steps. And then use blink as a flanking too to get around players extremely fast. It often catches them off-guard. But I'll give the helmet a try the moment I get a better roll 😁
I’ve been using blink since season of arrival and it is fun to use blink and a spread shotgun. You blink over and behind the enemy and if you do it right you should be right over their head.
The problem with blink is that Astrocyte is mandatory not optional. It’s not like Stompees that make a hunter jump better. It takes Astro to make blink simply playable.
Observe a blink warlock in his natural habitat: m.twitch.tv/tdt_streams
Are you aware of some of the huge bounce blinks you can do when you blink into the ground at the top of an incline ? If so can you do some videos on that and or some breakdowns of in-game situational blink theory? Sometimes I find myself in situations where I can't get the momentum going in a tight space or pick the wring options for creating that momentum.
Aye there are a few other blink jumps that weren't quite gone over, for instance timing your blink based off a ledge can be used to launch you much higher into the air, or even for a swift downward momentum that can be just enough to not kill, but gain a quick cover.
Can you do a video on the state of handheld supernova? No one has done this yet. Blink main here.
Just a little thing here for ya, TDT.
There's a small Blink-using RUclipsr who I look up to for my playstyle. Absolutely love it all. Name is Maximal GFX, give him a look.
"Disorientating"
Blink is one of the few tools in this game that has a legitimate skill gap on and once you get it, you can break some serious ankles. There's just so much nuance to it (not to mention its on a historical niche subclass) that I feel like it takes a year of use to get the hang of it to where it becomes second nature. I've been off and on with blink since the start of Destiny and whenever I put it back on it takes me a second to rewire my brain to account for the changes in momentum. I think adding a sword is my next step in my blink journey.
Blinking past players in pvp is always a luagh. Most players lose where you are completely
Blinking behind people anime style is really fun too
@@crabexe "NANAI"🙄
@@mitronzongo *Nani
Blink is on probably the best warlock subclass right now, so don’t know what your on about there. Also in destiny 1 it was on hunter too so it wasn’t really a warlock thing
Gjerda:
- I used exclusively blink for three seasons
Mesome:
- Hold my astrocyte beer
Just like in the lore, I am a Hunter learning how to Blink from a Warlock. But I will deny this until the day I die.
lol I love your comment!
It's nice to see a big content creator that understands the value of blink instead of just bashing on it like the others. I have dedicated myself to putting out tons of blink content to try and help change that narrative and make the community see that a good blink player is a hell of a threat. Glad to see that you agree on Astrocyte being mandatory, putting on your helmet is my first and biggest rule of blink but I have sadly interacted with many blink users who don't take that advice. Great video and thank you for shedding some light on the blink community!
Your Daily Blink videos are awesome Roger! Keep up the great work man!
@@byLags Thank you for watching, I'm not stopping until we can get some respect on blinks name!
@@RogerBlinks I've been using blink for a long time, and I refuse to stop :)
@@enderwarrior3590 That's what I like to hear!
@@RogerBlinks :)
Fantastic video. I've been using blink all year, and I've noticed some other things you've mentioned before.
First, and this is arguably blinks biggest weakness: the hitbox
You ever blink, and from your POV you're perfectly safe, but you still die? That's because blink isn't a "teleport" in the conventional sense. When you blink, you don't magically flash from A to B unlike melee de-sync. When you hit jump the second time, it sort of...splits your hit box. Your hit box will be simultaneously at point A and B for a split second. Essentially, you blink, but you can take damage if they shoot point A. A good way to prevent this is to blink *out* of cover, so that your start point is protected and concealed, and your B point is your destination. A good spot to practice this is the doorway out of the inside spawn on Twilight gap.
Another thing about blink is that you *need* to be observant. Blink is an all or nothing jump type. When you hit that second jump button, it can be very disorienting for your enemies, but ALSO YOU. This takes practice, but you can very easily get turned around when you blink, especially if you blink *into* a closed area. Good chance you're gonna go through a doorway and end up kissing a shipping container placed in the center of it.
Also, blink is risky depending on the map. If you're on twilight gap, cauldron, anomaly. Basically any map with lots of doors and staircases. You should always assume that red you see on the radar is corner camping with a shotgun. Remember: if you blink through a door, you are blinking right next to an enemy that is in cover. A solution I've found to this is to actually backwards blink through doors. That way instead of having to manually whip a 180 turn, you'll already be facing the enemy you're going past. After all, the enemy is expecting you to come through to door either to their front or side. They are most likely not expecting you to bypass their field of view and appear behind them, thus forcing them to spend time turning. Obviously this is diminished with mouse and keyboards flick times, but on console this saves valuable time, and often gets me a W in a 1v1. Hitting a shotgun shot on an enemy fully behind you is not easy no matter what your input method. That confusion is your golden ticket.
And lastly, an important tip. If you're using blink to evade or gain distance, it's important to remember your trajectory. If you blink at the optimal 45 angle, your momentum isn't necessarily kept after the fact. If you blink into the air, you will fall like a sack of potatoes until your feet land. This is a big reason supers can catch up to blink. Sure you're gaining large chunks of distance, but the downtime between blinks is lethal sometimes. Best way to counter? Blink more horizontally if you're fleeing, or use eager edge to gain the momentum back. Double blinking *can* do this, but the second blink usually pulls you down.
Awesome video!
If they would allow cooldown reset when your feet hit the ground, they could give the exotic the ability to change direction and increased distance. Then you could comfortably use for jump puzzles. This is the main reason I feel most voidlock mains don't use blink. #blinkOrDie
I actually never knew there was a cool down. I always thought it was just like the others, once your feet touch the ground
i already comfortably use blink in jumping puzzles
I use blink in pvp. In pve, it's bad. There are too many times where you are falling down and have to catch yourself; blink won't help there.
@@Madchemist002 bro how often are u positioning yourself like that to get pushed off the map lol🤣
I tried Blink a few weeks ago but never learned half of what you've learned, I will be revisiting Blink with a new vision and grand ambitions
Godspeed
Us arcstriders require another blink video from TDT, as it wasn't a thing yet when this one was released, and EVERY arcstrider main once wanted to master blink, and deliver sweet arc staff justice in crucible with good ole sorcery-like movin' tech.
It’s exactly the same only difference being that you can chain an upper cut to a blink in any direction.
And shorter blinks of course because you don’t have av
1:15 FUN FACT: That flat line is called a tangent line
I ended up not using that term because I was already throwing out a lot of jargon. Glad to see there are some math peeps out here
When I unlocked blink in destiny 1 I felt like a master wizard. I kept blink on even during difficult jump puzzles because I felt cool even when I was failing. Such a cool jump
*Proceeded to try Blink.*
*Proceeded to immediately find it way more comfortable to use than the apparently difficult Burst Glide.*
*Gets recommended this video for uncommon Blink tricks.*
*Becomes satisfied with the False Blink.*
I know what I'm doing next.
Also, thank you for the informative video.
I’ve been a voidwalker main ever since I started in D1, and earlier this season was my first time ever going flawless with blink on.
It was probably my best ever trials card - flawless in under 30 minutes without losing our mercy, and I felt so proud to finally do my favourite movement mechanic justice.
If you haven’t used blink before. Do it. Yes it’s weird at first but games should be about fun not ultimate meta at all times, at all costs (and blink remains a hyper-competitive option once you have it mastered). Just honestly try it out people. (Oh and use astroycte, it’s just better)
Hunter main and pve blink enthusiast here. I am one of probably 30 people who unironically use blink as an arcstrider in pve. Learning it proper on Warlock before it came back to Hunter with arc 3.0 was an experience to say the least.
But now, whenever I'm about to blink, I do the very quick math of where I'd end up post-blink. Some jumps are impossible with blink, and will force me to go off it for a bit.
Anyways, great vid. Blink is a very scary tool to both fight and learn. Mastering it can really throw enemies off, by using some of the techniques in the video, for example.
(P.S: Plz add a blink exotic to hunters like astrocyte. Bungo plz)
At last! A good blink tutorial!
But I noticed that sometimes the blink can take you THROUGH obstacles. I was hoping that you would address that as no other jump is capable of that.
It would also be nice to see what blinking looks like to other guardians. Maybe another players pov
I'll be honest that isn't really something that's needed to be talked about as I've mained blink for the past 2 years and only run into blinking through objects maybe once or twice a month and that minor information that's extremely hard to replicate isn't exactly needed for a beginner or even intermediate blink player
@@average_trans_furry I think you are right. If even he hasn’t found anything interesting to do with that information then it’s probably not worthwhile. Although it is used in pve much less, I wonder if there are any weird glitches possible with it.
@@dugleypot2291 as far as I know there's no oob glitches that use blink, it's just far easier to sparrow glitch out of the map in 99% of scenarios and if you aren't sparrow glitching your probably running through a wall that's non existent so blink just doesn't really have a place
@@average_trans_furry as for other guardians pov I gotta say (as a non blink warlock) that I could swear blink doesnt make you invincible I have vague memories of killing Warlocks mid blink they leave like a line that you can shoot, but who knows maybe it was just lag.
@@reynauldwhistles2338 yeah no your aren't invincible, infact your hitbox is actually left behind where you blinked for about 0.2 seconds, theres been times where I've blinked above someone and they shotgun where I was before the blink and get the kill.
I did NOT know about the Eager Blink, that's incredibly useful, thank you for this video!
My brother has used blink for years, me playing alongside, and I didn't know half of this. Great content, subbed.
honestly, they really need to take astrocyte verses perks, and put them into default blink (maybe not the weapon ready speed, but definitely the better blink perks). the fact that blink NEEDS an exotic to be even decent is stupid. then rework astrocyte to have completely different perks
They won't do that until they have to add it to hunters sadly 💀🚬
@@elshelalu2027 they still havent done it....
Blink is the butter for my bread. The super dodge, the team jukes, the "Here's Johnny!" Moments.
Haven't been on warlock since WQ release, but I had a super blink technique that hopefully hasn't been patched.
Pve astrocyte main here. I never knew the eager edge trick. Thats amazing. Good video man.
Pve astrocyte 💀
One very useful technique for PvP is what I call a grenade peak. If you jump past a doorway, throw a grenade through it, and then blink past all without hitting the ground, you essentially get a free grenade on your targets. Basically: jump> throw grenade> blink. Also works great for avoiding shotgun rushers if you just do it backwards. Hold S > jump > throw nade > blink > tap with gun.
I’ve been exclusively using astrocyte for pvp this season and i go from feeling like and absolute terror to a clay pigeon in the span of a couple minutes. Blink is really a trip. This is a terrific guide for beginners and intermediates alike. I’ve already been slaying out with devour nova warp and this tech with the dash is gonna be nasty.
I appreciate that. I try to main Nova Warp with Blink all the time and I honestly rarely use Void without it. The Eager Blinker tech is very good to know. I am definitely gonna see how that works on controller!
ive been using blink for a couple months now and i gotta say that i only use my camera movement if im trying to make a long jump. Mostly during jumping puzzles i find myself using the camera but i mainly play pvp, i know sweatlord pvp man, but i use my keyboard to control my blink so i can focus on the other player while i jump. it took alot of time to get used to but im able to get to places so much faster than my teammates. the momentum thing is a learning curve too but if you can get the timings down it is really good for backing out off battles to regen. ive been doing all of this on normal blink no exotic helmet and i dont think its terrible with its cooldown times. instead of using it to push all of the time use it as a good way to get behind you opponent and shotgun or melee them, i dont really find myself clipping into them ever so that shouldnt be and issue i think. last thing im gonna say is that the helmet is defiantly a great way to learn blink and a better version of it, i just wanted to learn the normal blink so i can have another exotic slot open for my build (triple 100's with a 66, im very proud of it sorry)
With sbmm introduction this is a great time for me to try this out. Thanks for breaking it down.
I love how I'm watching this again because I'm getting reused using my Warlock and the astrocyte verse now makes anything near you volatile if you blink so if you do the false blank you now make your enemy volatile
Love this video. I have a ton of time into blink, nowhere near as much time as TDT. I'm 80% confident that you can blink through titan barricades without taking damage if you space it properly. It's a great tool to cross lanes safely (for example, if you angle it properly you can blink into the elbow hallways on Endless veil safely. I didn't realize eager edge would work with blink even without ammo so now i'm going to be practicing that for more consistent horizontal blinks. Thanks for this video!
I've been wanting to get good with blink since D1. Your video has me psyched about it. It looks worth the time and effort. Thanks, man.
I love Blink but I've never really understood the physics behind directional control with it, appreciate the info!
I feel you my blink brother. I like blink a lot. (I love it when my friends get mad at me bc I killed them after blinking)
It should be noted that your blink distance is affected by your mobility stat
As a voidlock blink main in both pvp and pve since Vanilla D1, I am glad that one of my fav youtubers shares my same love for blink
I’ve been using blink for a decent while, it essentially took me flawless, and before void 3.0 I pretty much used it exclusively without astrocyte, and it’s still so so so good, but since my play style pretty much got removed from the game I decided I’d just try astrocyte for the heck of it and…. Oh boy…. Voidwalker is feelin REAALL good right now
Happy to say this helped me alot on pvp!!
Blink in pve is not the go 😂😂
So two things, one eager edge without ammo is brilliant, wouldn't have thought of that andtwo on alter of flame there is some sort of collision on dark stairs with the block and blinking, I've only had it happen once or twice but you can launch yourself into the air after a blink giving you a crazy amount of non lethal speed.
Great job man.
I was doing Trials of Osiris in TFS this last weekend and kept hitting my head on the ceiling in endless vale just like you showed. Shits hilarious, I thought blink was bugged
Most of the time, I use bottom or middle tree dawn (almost never top because I dont find it fun) but When I use void, I almost always have blink on me and There were some things I didn't know about blink so nice video!😎👍
One thing people underestimate with blink-locks is the ability to just dodge a rocket, effectively nullifying an enemy heavy pull. I often will punish players in trials by jumping in a weird ass direction when i see some kind of a rocket pointed at me. Also great against snipers, slugs, and fusions, so basically the cream of the crop. It's one of the most versatile tools for movement in the game for getting into and getting away from situations
did 6 cards this week on trials and im glad no one plays blink becouse no one expect you to be so fast anywhere. Im glad i came back to blink after few seasons.
The "melee while pulling out sword" is an animation glitch issue. If you press melee way too fast it will temporarily cancel the draw animation of the sword and use your melee. Remember that you have roughly 2 seconds before Eager Edge goes away when pulling out your sword, so you can safely wait for the animation to finish before swinging.
Motivating stuff! I tried out blink casually years ago but I'm going to have to work on actually learning this skill
great video for those in the community who are uninitiated. my buddy always rags on me for being a blink main but its just so damn fun
A real helpful video as I'm trying to get better at using my cover and jumps effectively
Never thought that I, a Hunter, would come to this video, but I'm happy to be here
I really wish they could change blink so when you hold the jump after you first press itll show a marker where you will end up and on release you go to that marker like how the blink ability works in dishonored as an example, and yes they really need to roll the astercite verse into blink by default heck the rework I want could be the new effect of astercite verse after they make its current/origonal effect in by sefault, I also wish they would roll the effcts of stompies or at least tripple jump into hunter default jump.
I hate that we have "quolity of life" movement exotics that are 90% mandatory if you dont wnat use your movement in any situation -.-
Blink with a high mobility hunter now is nutty; never thought I could bring my skill from D1 back after all these years.
I started getting back into blink and my god its so much better ever since the shotgun nerfs, used blink awhile back but felt like it didn't help as much due to shotguns still mapping you so it felt useless, but now its very viable/ ez to blink away from a shotty
Blink is also faster than the other Warlock jump options. I use it to quickly move from enemy to enemy with my Winter’s Guile + Devour melee build.
"Build"
it is not faster than burst glide being used with slightly inclined map geometry to hurl yourself forward.
With the release of Vow I've really gotten into blink because it's so goof against Rhulk
And because I have a godroll astrocyte that pairs with a full set of armor designed for 100 mobility and a significant int spike
After only about a month I feel I've mostly mastered the astrocyte, though I am very good when it comes to visual and spatial reasoning so that helps my blinking
My friends hate me in private crucible, I was running rat king with matador the other day and SLAYING
I joined halfway through the match and after about 10 minutes I had 40 points and first place had 70
As another blink main, if you combo blink into super, use dash blink dash dash blink to gain the most distance with your charges. Another way you can use it is tricky, but if you snipe like I do, it is a great tool to use icarus grip with a short hop left or right, snipe, then blink to get out of a lane. It mostly only works with high impact weapons because you only have the two charges. Another thing to note is hitting an incline while falling gives you a huge boost of momentum which can be translated into blink distance. Last note is a double blink straight up in midair to keep in the air messes up a lot of shotty users.
I love blink, been using it since D1. Best movement for warlock in my opinion.
If you are very new to Destiny 2 and want to get into blink movement. I recommend that you practice blink in 3rd person camera. Pulling out a sword and just run and blink it. It really helps let you get a good feel of blink for first timers.
Man, I miss blink on hunter.
I miss bladedancer in general.
Haven't mained blink for a hot minute. Might as well pull it out again.
I'm surprised I didn't realize eager would work with that either lmao.
As someone that loves blink, this video warms my heart..GG
I'm hoping arc 3.0 grants blink to hunters
Please no shotgun Hunters are bad enough please no more!
Lol you guys are really worried about that but not warlocks having blink already?
@@lewis18051 Blink is worse than hunter jump
Hey, You aren't the only one. I've been using it since D1 as well.
Astrocyte Verse needs to completely remove the cooldown for blink entirely, on top of it's other perks. That would make it a significantly more viable exotic and one I would certainly main, even over Ophidian Aspects.
*has been using blink since D1*
I have finally found someone who understands. Hello, brother.
Omg I’ve needed this
Brilliant this ! Gonna definitely try this out . Ive recently been having a lot of fun on the titan using shield bash for movement with a legendary slug with icarus on Usually heritage or sojourners . Really catches people out
The picture of "Sagawa today" clearly shows the face of an insane madman.
I'm a d1 day one and d2 day one been on a year break cause pvp has been neglected. But I'm returning and told my self I'm gona try blink like give it time and really try it . Good info
Exotic idea:
Birth Of The Dire Phoenix
Warlock Helmet
_”If death can spring from the longest life, then life can spring from the longest death” -Sun Tzu, Probably_
Exotic Perk:
Molten Revelation
Press To cast your dawnblade or well of radiance from beyond death, ignoring all revive penalties and timers. While in Dawnblade or a well of radiance, temporarily gain a solar aura that instantly revives dead teammates when you stand near their ghosts, ignoring any respawn timers. Teammates and enemies standing in the aura are also minorly healed.
Appearance:
This helmet would look like a jumble of metal scraps, with lava shining in between. Surrounding the head would be a wreath of fire. While in a solar super, the player’s wreath would drip lava creating a big molten vail around the player’s head.
Not sure if you played Destiny 1 at all, but Solar Warlock used to be able to self-revive back then and there is a reason it got removed from the game. It was busted. Not balanced in anyway and other than camping the res with a shotgun headshot and melee combo or using a super yourself in things like Trials, there were no counters. And you're proposing to take that and up it up to 100 making it even more brokenly OP. Not going to happen.
Make it replace your super fully for the revive. Since this is basically D1 Rez tho that’s still probably not enough to not make it immediate gamebreaking meta unless it makes it a 5 Tier supercharge.
Gjerda also uses blink on his warlock. His video on it is pretty good and philosophical as well
Definitely going to be trying this on my warlock! I got a pretty good Astrocyte’s and I want to make use of it, but in practicing it I actually ended up with making an arc hunter blink build using stompees and Worldline.
Great video man. I'll give it a try and see if I can get better with this.
This is going to be cool to have if hunters get it w arc 3.0
Unfortunately it’ll suck if they don’t get the equivalent of astrocyte along with blink
@@nathanflinchum1153 unfortunately too true
Blink helped me get my glaive kills in IB. I've really been enjoying it. Gonna look at a close quarters build for trials using it
First XD
I used blink for a weeks of trials early last season and my god was it fun with riis and igneous. Solo trials on cauldron was a great time, made about 2-3 dawnblades waste a full super in ONE play session, plus the most satisfying and engaging ape plays I’ve ever made, coming from someone who typically only uses shotguns when other options won’t work (or work well)
i have mained blink for about 80% of playtime in pvp on warlock and at least for my play style i like to use transversive steps, since blink is momentum based and the faster you are moving can affect the blink movement, you cant double blink unless you have eager proced without astrocyte verse on tho
Been using blink (in pvp) ever since I got astrocyte verse to drop.
Not precise enough for pve tho.
Surprisingly helped me understand tangents in calc tho
I started using blink around 3 or 4 months ago and I'm pretty good at it and I already know the mechanics of it, seeing this video will probably help me if I don't forget it because bungie recently restricted me for having bad wifi. Blink Is fun to use but I sadly got a bad roll on astrocyte
Can't wait to use blink again, when we finally get it back on hunters
No
I’ve tried using Blink once and it gave me a headache. Gave me a headache watching this too. Blinking when Nova Warp’s active is really fun though. It’s like Icarus Dashing but Void.
I don’t wanna use blink don’t wanna learn blink but I’m here cuz I’m interested in how people can use blink correctly. It’s crazy how good u r with it
I've always been intrigued by blink, but never had the patience to learn how to use it well enough. This video is quite helpful and informative though, and explains why I've almost killed myself multiple times by slamming myself into the ground at breakneck speeds.
And as a helpful side note to people (though I've never been able to do it myself) there's a gap of time when you're mid blink in which your hitbox will be where you are. I sort of listened to the vid in the background, so don't know if that was mentioned or not, but feel like people should know it
I want to add that if you want the most out of blink then use astrocyte. But if you like using other exotics and already know how to use blink feel free to use whatever you want to.
What i would realy like to see for blink is when you press the button for shatterdive or icarus dash, you would stop for a second in the air and can readjust your ankle and blink in the direction you're looking, because i would like to play it more in PvE but it just sucks that you cant stop mid-air after a long fall
Awesome video! Do you think you'll cover osmiomancy gloved ever?
I have such difficulty with blink, but this makes me want to get used to it and get good
honestly i forgot Nova Warp even existed until i started watching this channel
tbh im using it too since some years, like 2 i think, had a "hunter main phase" inbetween, but i like blink more than any other jump xD
I might not like blink, but Mesome using blink as a cut for gameplay is always so cool and impressive.
Fun idea: add a function for Astrocyte Verse that if you do not blink after blinking, you go invisible at the end of the animation. It would make blink more wanted.
If that makes it too powerful, uhhhh take away the movement buff, just make blink better 5head lol
Oh my lord I'm not the only blink nova warp main. THERE'S TWO NOW! HUZZAH!
You and Gjerda are the reason why I want to master Blink so I can break some ankles
Fr, blink in crucible is the most fun jump. I desperately hope they bring it back to hunter with arc 3.0. I'll lose my shit if they ever do
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It’s called a _Tangent_ line.
I'm a warlock main and I love blink even if my hunter friend knows nothing about what a warlock is truly capable of
I love blink wish I could use it on stormcaller to although I don’t dare use it in pve if I have to parkour
Ye. It sucks for parkour
How convenient since I wanted to start using Blink in PvP about a week ago.
I like my Lock to have 100 movement, recover and intellect and run around with transversive steps. And then use blink as a flanking too to get around players extremely fast.
It often catches them off-guard. But I'll give the helmet a try the moment I get a better roll 😁
I once blinked through a hole of stasis shards and a wall in a doorway absolutely bamboozled my friend
I’ve been using blink since season of arrival and it is fun to use blink and a spread shotgun. You blink over and behind the enemy and if you do it right you should be right over their head.
The problem with blink is that Astrocyte is mandatory not optional. It’s not like Stompees that make a hunter jump better. It takes Astro to make blink simply playable.
I copied the astrocyte, MIDA, and sojourner’s tale loadout you use, and I’ll admit, it’s not half bad. I definitely need to give it more practice.
Not only using blink, but MIDA as well
Madness (I'm a MIDA enjoyer)
TDT: makes video about people using the “same old thing”
Also TDT: I have been using blink for 7 years
Think that's mostly to do w weapons