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Destiny |OT24| Dances with Wolves
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Ruthless_Barbarian
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Diprosalic
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Remember there's no checkpoints. If you have a full team, whoever backs out to let someone here go help would not be able to get anything.
I'll give you some pointers though. Small Arms is a tricky modifier because it boosts your Primary Weapon damage, but actually reduces the damage from your Special and Heavy Weapons. This is bad because it means your shotguns won't kill Captains quickly enough, and your rockets won't damage Skolas as much as they should.
The key to this fight is staying alive. There's no rush. The fight is broken up into 4 moments.
The very beginning has the transparent Servitors you need to kill in order to harm Skolas. This will only be required for the first 25% of his health (you'll know because it'll say Servitor Bonds are broken or something like that). Before tackling Skolas, you need to clean up ads! Entering the room run left and do your work from that platform. Then rotate to the other side of the room, clean up from that platform.
You wanna keep moving around the room to avoid being swarmed. Whenever Skolas is too close to you, it's time to run to the other side of the room. Clean up ads, kill Servitor, damage Skolas. Nice and easy.
Once you break the Servitor bonds (Skolas is now at 75%) get ready for a big wave of ads. Get safe. Forget Skolas for a while and just kill Vandals, Dregs and Captains. When you feel it's too swarmed, run to the other side.
Once things calm down, you hurt Skolas with whatever you have. Normally Snipers are the best because they stagger him, but with Small Arms there's no good way of damaging him quickly. Just damage him with whatever you have until he comes too close, then run away and repeat.
Once he's at 50%, the fight gets interesting. 2 things will happen: one person gets randomly debuffed and mines will spawn, along with a new wave of ads. This is where you will wipe most of the time. It takes 10s for one person to cap a mine (less if there's multiple people capping a mine). If you get there alone and the counter is at 8 seconds, that'll be a wipe.
What you need to balance here is getting there on time versus killing as many enemies as you can before you go. Invisible Hunters and Titan Bubbles are MVP here. It's extremely important you work on ads constantly. Once mines phase is done, clean up any remaining enemies then hammer Skolas.
Once you get him down to 25%, same thing as 50%. Mines + wave of ads. If you get through that, you basically won. After mines the second time just play it super safe and damage Skolas, running away when he's close or there's a Captain nearby who can one-shot you.
It's a fun fight that gets super tense when you need to run to get a clutch revive + the revived person picking up the debuff just in the nick of time, to then run the hell away before you get killed on the spot. It just requires your team to be working well together! It's not something that depends on specific weapons or armor at all
great post. we did it.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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They want everyone to use Red Death instead of Thorn in Trials.
EJRobinson90
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The Mango Sentinel
Member
I'd MUCH rather deal with Thorn than Red Death. Fuck.
At least he has Alpha Lupi. Still didn't have that and i've been wanting it for trials.
VikasNarula
Member
hehehe
Here's my helm engram haul with 230 or so Motes:
Skull of Dire Ahamkara
Knucklehead Radar
An Insurmountable Skullfort
The Ram
Achlyophage Symbiote
Eternal Warrior
Apotheosis Veil
And the final engram turned into.......
~~~~CELESTIAL NIGHTHAWK~~~~
I didn't have any of these before. It's been a good week for me.
Skull of Dire Ahamkara
Knucklehead Radar
An Insurmountable Skullfort
The Ram
Achlyophage Symbiote
Eternal Warrior
Apotheosis Veil
And the final engram turned into.......
~~~~CELESTIAL NIGHTHAWK~~~~
I didn't have any of these before. It's been a good week for me.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I appreciate that
Sadly all the try-hards will still be using Thorn no doubt.
Nah, RD over Thorn anyday. If someone kills me with RD and gets health back, that's fine. Fuck being sniped with Thorn from across the map and losing shields from one bullet.
Bungie saw my post and changed it obviously.
You win at RNG.
BlindMonkey
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Until today I was missing 3 exotics, the new titan legs (thanks xûr), purifier robes, and nighthawk (xûr maybe thanks).
I have no motes of light thanks to blowing them all on chest and helmet engrams in the last few weeks.
I have 39 exotic shards though Lol.
I have no motes of light thanks to blowing them all on chest and helmet engrams in the last few weeks.
I have 39 exotic shards though Lol.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Yeah I've had that since launch period. This was the first time I dumped all my motes into an exotic engram.
MrChowderClams
Member
Fuck this game
I need to stop gambling T_T I JUST WANT A NIGHTHAWK
I have a few friends with the Bones of Eao, and they all make me jelly with their extra jumping shenanigans.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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I have one with 133 int. Max would be around 135 I assume?
edit: actually the max i've seen is 142, but with split stats.
Lol my highest one is 108. Sad face
The Mango Sentinel
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What the hell do I do with all my ascendant energy?
Nothing. Turn to shards to motes.
MrChowderClams
Member
I converted mine all to shards and all my shards to motes and all my motes to exotic shards ;-;
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Same. Heard a couple of players got hunter boots from 28 PoE chest :/
MrChowderClams
Member
I HATE YOU. STOP TAKING ALL OF THEM.
(　-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷄◞ω◟-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷅ )
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Also, this is not from an exotic helmet engram. This is from a legendary helmet engram and I got it on the day HoW came out
wesleyshark
Banned
The rewards are shit. I haven't kept a single queen's weapon. The only good weapon from Variks is the fusion rifle. The elemental primaries are pretty weak (solar Autorifle with Captain burn? Really? ...Solar?)
If beating Skolas was worth the time and effort, it would be fun. But all you're getting are armor and weapon cores for mediocre weapons and somewhat decent armor that is trumped by what Brother Vance sells or what you can ascend from previous content (VoG armor 4 lyfe).
I'm missing the boots as well. Don't have a hunter anymore but man those Titan Greaves....
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
I'm level 11 but I'll play with you
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Damn. Really disappointed I can't just trade them for glimmer. I wonder why.
Orthogonal
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Mark of the Devourer negates Red Death health regen. Both are 2 shots, but I think Thorn has a greater impact on the overall meta.
Is there a page that has a list of all exotic weapons/armors in the game?
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Yep I got the hunter boots from PoE 28.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
You can convert them into shards and then trade the shards for glimmer.
Jinjo
Member
Fuuuuuuuuck yeeeesssssssssssssss!
Also, Peregrine Greaves were on my want-list too. Now only the Bones of Eao & Purifier Robes. Will gamble two engrams for The Ram.
Good Xur week. That glorious Red Death. Just when I think I'm out they pull me back in. Gotta level that for the upcoming Pulse-rifle era in PvP when HC's get nerfed.
wesleyshark
Banned
It took me ~42 engrams to get the purifier robes a couple weeks ago. >_<
Worth it
Orthogonal
Member
Good plan, just hope they don't fuck over the economy to make hoarding useless.
MrChowderClams
Member
Out of 40 or so exotic engrams in these past few weeks exactly 0 have turned into the nighthawk for me. Have a bunch of mask of the third man and Glasshouse though ¯_(ツ_/¯
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