Two nights now my raid group(s) have been beating our heads against hard Crota. We've been running the middle strat, with (usually) two Defenders - one for a boomer distraction bubble and one for a retreat bubble, your usual level 32 geared out hunter swordbearer, and we've managed to get Crota to the edge of enrage quite a few times, but then either a thrall despawns our sword or the sword just doesn't seem to hurt him any more and he just stands there and takes it and then kills us all :/ Got any tips?
[from the distant land of Xbox 360, if you're wondering - far beyond your reach]
I have a few hard mode clears under my belt now. I usually play distraction Titan tho.
- Make sure everyone stands infront of window when using middle strategy just incase Thralls spawn
- I like to shoot at the glass when we're standing in Crystal room waiting for Crota to move back to middle to pull Swordbearer-AI down. But some sword users don't want to run farther to Crota from there
- Make sure everyone has Tracking on their Rocket Launchers for Crota
- We carried like 2-3 31s and it was mostly a random team too last night. But we had an excellent sword user that knew what he was doing
- Don't let anyone die at all during enrage before the final swing or something like that. That's like the worst ever. Crota will just stand back up and kick sword user's butt.
- I've seen Warlocks suicide and repop to create orbs. But I don't like them using that strategy. This guy was a good player that was doing this yesterday but he was only L31. So after repopping he just got re-owned.
Hard mode Crota is seriously frustrating due to getting so close to a kill and then getting blueballed. I am so glad I got all the stuff I wanted. Though I still plan to hit it up like once a week. My titan has 2 helms but neither has infusion. Just minor stuff like that I'd like to acquire for completeness sake
Btw, finally, I want to say I think it is all up to Sword user. He can't just be good he has to be darn near perfect. And a bad distraction titan can get him killed as well by not holding down Boomers