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Destiny |OT15| What Cheese May Come
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Byron Bluth
Banned
CROTA STRATEGY USED
1. Bubble with blessing at the crystal
2. Clear trash, make sure everyone is using supers to make a nice reserve of orbs
3. Go to Left side stairs, but do not go out until everyone is ready, heal, heavy synth. Etc. swordbearer does not come out until someone exits the area.
4. 2-3 people on the swordbearer, one Titan with Ghorn and a warlock to make a shit ton of orbs (that player should not use their super at the crystal but save it) to help with healing and supers
5. Rest of the players on the knights in the left tower, do not shoot them immediately, wait for them to take their positions and then fire, firing early will stagger and fuck up path finding and then you may not see them behind there
6. Take out wizard and the swordbearer should go down at the same time, and a Titan should pop a blinding bubble on the left tower to blind the next 2 boomers that will come out usually around the second Crota kneel
7. DPS on Crota, Ghorns all the way, swordbearer does their thing going up the left side rock, we aimed for 3 swords, so you have to be careful you don't do too well (come on Bungie!) in case you leave Crota with too little health and hit the enrage
8. Regroup inside the left area and wait for Crota to move to centre, heal up, pop heavy ammo, etc start doing #4-6 just before he goes centre, don't wait
9. ogres, rush down to the left tower inside since it is the closest, have the team jump up above the doors, suppress ogre with suppression grenade once he comes out the door (they will still melee but should be fine since you are above the door, do not use the coffins, too low). DPS ogre, then be safe and kill the second ogre from that room, a blessing of light bubble is very useful here too
10. Go back to left stairs when safe, ensure Crota is not there, wait if needed
11. Rinse repeat for the last kneels
1. Bubble with blessing at the crystal
2. Clear trash, make sure everyone is using supers to make a nice reserve of orbs
3. Go to Left side stairs, but do not go out until everyone is ready, heal, heavy synth. Etc. swordbearer does not come out until someone exits the area.
4. 2-3 people on the swordbearer, one Titan with Ghorn and a warlock to make a shit ton of orbs (that player should not use their super at the crystal but save it) to help with healing and supers
5. Rest of the players on the knights in the left tower, do not shoot them immediately, wait for them to take their positions and then fire, firing early will stagger and fuck up path finding and then you may not see them behind there
6. Take out wizard and the swordbearer should go down at the same time, and a Titan should pop a blinding bubble on the left tower to blind the next 2 boomers that will come out usually around the second Crota kneel
7. DPS on Crota, Ghorns all the way, swordbearer does their thing going up the left side rock, we aimed for 3 swords, so you have to be careful you don't do too well (come on Bungie!) in case you leave Crota with too little health and hit the enrage
8. Regroup inside the left area and wait for Crota to move to centre, heal up, pop heavy ammo, etc start doing #4-6 just before he goes centre, don't wait
9. ogres, rush down to the left tower inside since it is the closest, have the team jump up above the doors, suppress ogre with suppression grenade once he comes out the door (they will still melee but should be fine since you are above the door, do not use the coffins, too low). DPS ogre, then be safe and kill the second ogre from that room, a blessing of light bubble is very useful here too
10. Go back to left stairs when safe, ensure Crota is not there, wait if needed
11. Rinse repeat for the last kneels
You're in, send a friend request to rarbusto. We'll be on a bit before 9 probably just running some bounties. I need 3 black wax idols to get my titan to 32 (was using my hunter last night and we only had one titan so we were struggling) so I'll be on a bit before then farming some.
Darknyss09
Member
yeah, I saw you found a group. No worries... I forgot I had a meeting at 3pm anyway
xplicitone
Member
Sounds good, will do
perfect.
Byron Bluth
Banned
I can't believe weapons are not a guaranteed drop. I got my second Titan helmet, 3 shards and glohoo.
Like 14 hours of Crota and 70 ammo packs later, that's it. Fuck.
Like 14 hours of Crota and 70 ammo packs later, that's it. Fuck.
I had bounties saved up to turn in since Tuesday.
scarletham
Member
I've not been keeping up with the thread lately. What's the general consensus on CE HM?
GuitarAtomik
Member
The more I read about CE HM, the more I think I'm jut not going to bother with it until the level cap is raised. Sounds like a lot of bullshit for some ok primary weapons that will be mostly used for Nightfalls. Still want that Crux tho.
garbage
Run for the hills.
I wonder how much time bungie spent on the hardmode.
First 2 parts are identical.
Cutting a minute of ir yut is a job of 30 seconds.
gatekeepers were already there in normal - changing the spawnpoint is simple.
The wizard behaviour is already coded since september. It follows the exact same movement pattern as the jumping knight.
Chalice is just removed.
Adding the extra enrage trigger is 1 line of code.
I know there's a lot more behind it and all that, but just the coding can be done in less than an hour by one guy.
I'm not trying to be that guy whos still dissapointed - i'm over it. Just sharing my thoughts i had after i went to bed yesterday.
First 2 parts are identical.
Cutting a minute of ir yut is a job of 30 seconds.
gatekeepers were already there in normal - changing the spawnpoint is simple.
The wizard behaviour is already coded since september. It follows the exact same movement pattern as the jumping knight.
Chalice is just removed.
Adding the extra enrage trigger is 1 line of code.
I know there's a lot more behind it and all that, but just the coding can be done in less than an hour by one guy.
I'm not trying to be that guy whos still dissapointed - i'm over it. Just sharing my thoughts i had after i went to bed yesterday.
Kor of Memory
Member
Just got this drop 15 minutes ago. Can't wait to put some points into it.
gutterboy44
Member
This one gets my vote.
Edit - Though it's actually "ENRAGE IS NEAR!"
Good catch, Destiny |OT 16| Enrage is Near is not only correct but better.
Clearly it took over 40 days for them to implement all of those fantastic additions into HM.
gutter_trash
Banned
Same here. I want the Crux but i rather do the raid with level 33 gear post HoW dlc
Byron Bluth
Banned
Back Speed and I were the only 2 people to not get a weapon. So lame.
They make the first Crota kill on normal a guarantee but then super fucking hard not. What the fuck. Be consistent Bungie.
Just a lack of talent / skill and time. You can't build and test a raid in 3 months time after the launch of a game. You can tell how rushed the content is. This game has Halo 2 story written all over it from the start. Things were scrapped and restarted, but they had a deadline of Sept to meet. We got what we got. At this point enjoy the life support we get in between all DLCs. You will beta test each raid in normal mode so bugs (any way you complete the raid) will be analyzed and they will patch before the release of the hard mode.
There is no reason the broken perk to carry more heavy ammo should still be in this game. They clearly demonstrated during the exotic nerf / buff time they can change weapon and gear perks. If this hasn't been working as intended and they can't fix the perk the high level gear should be changed to something that is more useful to the players. Ammo synths can't be used because your inventory is full is a joke and waste of resources to the players. The VoG raid is still a mess and the games servers struggle often (most recently during IB).
I would continue on, but you've probably already heard me say this shit a hundred times while in party chat. It took them awhile to design VoG most likely. CE had a shorter dev as you can tell. HoW probably won't fair much better. I'm sure the last raid they release before Destiny 2 will just be a mashup of all the previous raid bosses in 1 timed battle with no checkpoints at all. It would probably work and be easy for them to copy and paste the code of just the boss fights together. To make it fun you can have Xur making it rain glimmer on the dance floor while Eriss and the reject crew from the tower cheer us on. They can call it Destiny Super Ultra Deluxe Meteor Content Drop as well. You can gain access to this time stream via the reverse gate in VoG.
Kor of Memory
Member
And now, for Vault of Glass
First 2 parts are identical
Blinding in the time portals triggers differently.
Copy pasted Mechanic from Templar to Aetheon.
Honestly, the only thing I'm slightly miffed about is the way enrage works, because it seems so odd to fight against. That said, Hard Mode Crota has a lot more going on than VoG ever did.
ditto
MagnetoWasRight
Member
The good news is that they datamined Crota's End early and it was 30/33 and the datamine for the Arena says 32/34. I'm sure there will be room to tweak it before launch, but it bodes well that we won't be bashing our heads against this artificial difficulty next time.
Byron Bluth
Banned
You down for later tonight?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Lets be honesty, we all know Bungie is working super hard. I know they will increase the vault space, fix the heavy ammo bug, fix the lag issues, add more weapons. They did so much work, its gonna be call Destiny 2 and we have to paid them another $60 before another amazing and hard work expansion such as The Dark Below.
FTFM
Definity
Member
Yep. That's my plan. I may just stop once I get the word of Crota.
Dhruv_hanom
Member
Need one more for Crota HM starting in 20 mins
Hey, so wanna "Raid" the chalice dungeon once bloodborne is out?
Kor of Memory
Member
Meh, Titans are a'plenty. I'm more curios to see a strategy sans G'horns.
Yes, except for Ir Yut.
Captain Smirk
Member
Just when I run outta heavy ammo synth on 1 character and call it my last go...we get crota to one hit and enraging thralls come from behind, ugh!
CouchMaster
Member
Not worth the trouble. I'm just gonna do it once and never touch it again, at least not until they fix all the bullshit glitches and bugs.
scarletham
Member
I'm down. PSN: theFLYINGPIGEON
Did you check the postmaster?
Byron Bluth
Banned
Still looking?Need one more for Crota HM starting in 20 mins
Hey, so wanna "Raid" the chalice dungeon once bloodborne is out?
Ah I see someone replied =]
My friend will be leveling my Abyss Defiant for me, but will get me if I get a Raid invite.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
If you guys need another and don't mind a 31 lemme know
Byron Bluth
Banned
Need one more for Crota HM starting in 20 mins
Hey, so wanna "Raid" the chalice dungeon once bloodborne is out?
Damnit! I just finished and have to go take my son to a doctors appointment.
I'll be down for more runs later! Did you guys get it yet?