Sheer curiosity.
Do you think Bungie devs figured out the current Crota strategy being so easy? I mean going to the middle balcony makes The DPS team invulnerable. Boomers, melee Knights, Thralls, Etc were all a concern when we camped left stairs. Now the only player who risks dying is the sword bearer. Jumping through distract bubble towards ogre closet makes that part easy too.
I mean it's amazing that the community came up with a basically perfect strategy for that fight. But one has to wonder if the level designers saw that one coming
I discussed that with my team in the week when Hard launched.
We were 100% certain that Bungie will update the game and remove the ledge. However, it haven't happened yet. And there is so many small, but important details in that particular "strategy" that leaves wonder about the process:
- When you are actually on the ledge and hiding with the group behind the column when Crota is on the right, all players can "go inside" a bit, despite the glass is there.
- On that same position, and despite the glass is there, the thralls can scratch you from the inside, but you can also melee-kill them if outside (guns don't work). Despite the glass.
- You can pick up inside Orbs when outside and vice-versa, despite the glass.
It really seems deliberate. Because, let's be honest, without the ledge, HM Crota encounter is truly crazy. We tried it few times, it is manageable, but th level of trial-and-error is too high simply because it is almost impossible to avoid single member getting killed.
I am looking forward to HoW and level rise, so we can table HM Crota with higher defense numbers. But with current damage level that all ads are providing to players, it would really be extremely frustrating, simply because it is impossible to stay alive because of relation of dealt damage and ability to sustain it in situations that are commonly occurring in encounter.
With the current relation of ads (level 33) and players (level 32), only viable tactic for encounter is to actually avoid encounter. There is almost no logic to encounter anything - even the group of thralls - simply because their DPS is too high for the level 32 gear.
