Did the raid first time last night. By about 3 hours in we were smashing our heads against a wall.
We had to go into gates and bring back shields and relics I think and we couldn't formulate the best strategy.
Seemed.people who were going in gates were dieing in there.
Relic holder needs to rush the minotaur with support from the adds shooter, whoever has the fastest fire rate on oracles, whoever deals the most void damage on adds (add shooter), kill the adds as fast as possible, relic holder using L1 to preiodically clense the team (get them to stay close together to make it easier), while killing oracles move towards the portal so when the last oracle goes down you don't waste times vengeance buff running to it.
Once through jump to middle platform with team, throw up relic shield, stay away from the block on the left of the platform, hammer the boss with everything EXCEPT rocket launcher (will kill the person that fires it inside the shield), when times vengeance buff reaches 4 sec everyone in the bubble needs to go back to their positions (gate team far back in prep for next teleport) relic holder should be last person off the center platform, because dropping shield with a buttload of people on the platform risks a full wipe if the boss gets a well timed shot in.
If youre just starting out, return to positions when timer is around 8s till your team gets it down as 4 sec is cutting it fine if everyones lost with what to do.
Miss an oracle = wipe
Outside team loses the portal and doesn't get it back up in time = wipe
Take longer than 8 minutes = may as well be a wipe for first timers, you won't survive enrage.
Drop relic for too long (a few seconds) = wipe
Additional notes:
- WALK through portals, one at a time, they are buggy and can mess up if you run.
- Call out "Venus" or "Mars" as soon as you get warped so the team outside and your own team knows where you got sent to, this allows outside team to prioritize one particular portal if theyre getting overrun, also there is a bug where sometimes the boss only warps TWO people, in which case calling out which one you're in allows the remaining person to quickly hop through the open portal and rejoin the team.
- Venus is significantly harder to kill the adds in than Mars, also in mars the mob is more likely to drop heavy ammo, so save heavy weapons for the minotaur in the venus zone as theyre more effective, you can kill the adds in the mars zone with primary/secondary weapons quite easilly.
- When first starting out, relic holder will be clensing three times per warp, once you get it down and increase the speed at which you clear the zones, you can drop it to two safely.
- If the two warpgate guards have fully leveled gjallahorns, and unload during times vengeance buff, OUTSIDE of the center platforms shield bubble, you can kill the boss a lot quicker.
- it's safer to jump left or right off of the center platform when times vengeance is running out, then from there backwards to the rear wall, since you spend less time in line of sight.