I'm doing my best to get comfortable filling whatever position is needed in a raid team. I was fortunate to find a group for hard raid last night, but it was a struggle. We just couldn't take out Atheon due to an unfortunate string of glitches and poor decisions made causing team members to die (standing around watching relic, not clearing supplicants, using bad juju as primary).
After a couple hours, we didn't clear, but I was able to get substantial time as relic holder since most of the others didn't want to have anything to do with it. This brings me to some questions. Hopefully the flawless raiders in the community here as well as anyone with extensive relic experience can shed some Light on the situation. Let me know if any of my assumptions are incorrect.
Mars/Left/Red/Desert:
Relic holder should take out the mobs by him/herself while other two concentrate solely on oracles.
Relic holder can either do the jump-R2 smash attack to take out multiple enemies -or simply run down and take each goblin out one by one with the shoulder smash attack (R2).
There were times, though, when the goblins seemed to be alerted to the portal team's presence right as we entered. They were already shooting, and would shoot me when I would be mid-air to smash attack, or while I was running down to shoulder smash. What's the best plan of attack when this happens?
Venus/Right/Green/Forest:
One portal team member helps whittle down the Minotaur while the other concentrates on the oracles. Relic holder takes out Minotaur then any remaining enemies.
Ideally, the Minotaur and his fodder buddies are grouped in the middle. The helper can easily lob grens/shoot a rocket, or use an MG to dole out Dave to make it easier for the relic holder to clean up. What do you so when the Minotaur is hiding on the left or right behind the rocks? It makes it harder to spot him and deal damage. The portal team ends up spending too much time in extermination efforts and gets behind on oracles. More problematic is when the two accompanying goblins are spread out to the left and right. I would be able to take out the Minotaur, but would get shot by the other two gobbies.
Any tips? I was bummed so much time was wasted but relic experience was welcomed.
I've got an Atheon checkpoint too d anyone wants it. Just pm here if you're interested. I doubt I'll be able to find a group to finish him off before the reset.
