Actually later than that would be even better. It's going to take me hours alone to get my hair done.
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Destiny |OT33| Hey Luke, What's the Theme for King's Fall? (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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Actually later than that would be even better. It's going to take me hours alone to get my hair done.
KanameYuuki
Member
Anyone up to kill Taken lieutenants and champions on PS4?
Twilight Gap
Member
Oh, Sharing the gaze back and forth.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
No, with two guys swapping the gaze you have many more damage cycles (you can take down around 4 bubbles) and don't have to spend as much time killing ads.
Hmmm, it's true that when we did it we had 2 Black Spindles and my 308 stillpiercer, so that miiiight have helped.
We were doing a little bit more than 25% each time...
He's talking about the one gaze strategy...
oh yea I know that but we were trying the one gazer strat just to see how effective it was. I normally do 2 gazers sharing back in forth.
This was a test for me because people talked about how good the 1 gazer strat was.
And my opinion at this moment is it's a luxury strat for really high level groups with multiple Black Spindles. We just couldn't do the damage needed to make that work. 2 gazers is what we would've needed
Oh ok, didn't know you were testing it out.
EJRobinson90
Member
At least they didn't lie when they said that the weekly PvP bounties would have NF Tier rewards...11 coins T_T
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
1 person doing the gazer is easy, just gotta use snipers and weapons of light. The taken will keep coming so just be prepare to drop the orb of goo again soon. It works well IMO to get the job done and fast.
Oh, yeah, Strider!
We had weapons of light and a nightstalker arrow!
Yes! I feel dumb for not thinking of this (because I've done this with Hadium Flakes in the Mausoleum).
I will keep my eyes open for nodes near zone edges.
Someday I will get this done.
Twilight Gap
Member
doing daily. lobby is open
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
lol that's what you get for playing crucible
you have limited game time now, spend it wisely
silver.tongue
Member
I like this strategy, but I can't see how it can be done with no add control.
I mean, we died twice near the very end because we just got overwhelmed by adds...
Having a one Gazer leads to a lot of enrage timers, because most of the time you are clearing adds as each failed gaze spawns new adds that take at least a minute to clean up each time. I definitely don't recommend it if you are trying to get through the raid as fast as possible.
EJRobinson90
Member
lol that's what you get for playing crucible
you have limited game time now, spend it wisely
You're right. Can't even buy an exotic helmet engram from that
Did you make a new PSN? I don't see you on.
How many phases do you get through before he enrages with the 1 gaze strategy?
My team takes about 2 or 3 phases of gaze to finish him with this method.
It's by far the easiest way to kill him.
Darryl M R
Member
Is this the just collecting spinmetal/whatever thing? I'm doing that right now and my arc kills. Want to do the strike together next week after arms day?
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Aggressive Ballistics RIP
agreed..the only reason why I do not have ToM or any type of swords...
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Twilight Gap
Member
This mission is such a tease for 3rd person Destiny.
I'll do exotic quest with you if you need me next week. Also Solar sword.
Yeah, sure.
I still have to farm the material for the arc sword so I can get all 3 and be done. I should be able to finish all that by Wednesday no problem.
Sounds good.
I take it that Accurized is the way to go then? What's your preferred middle perk?
5 or 6 phases idk exactly.
Yea and like I said it seems easy in theory but you need a really high light level team/snipers to do it. Which we didn't really have in comparison to the groups that have claimed to do it this way.
Which is why I am calling it a "luxury strat"
Quick and painless for high level groups. Not really viable for lower light level teams.
Twilight Gap
Member
To be precise, the meta is "stagger", meaning people use weapons that make you flinch (Mida, Red Death, Hawksaw, whatever other Scout or Pulse is good), so sniping is no longer as viable. Therefore everyone equips shotguns.
Played a game on Memento yesterday and couldn't snipe anybody because they were all using pulse rifles and my reticle would jump as soon as I saw them.
Swords are "in fashion" but wont replace Rockets, especially in competitve play.
Balance patch can't come soon enough.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
He's talking about the one gaze strategy...
Yeah, I knew as much. I thought he was worried that moving a person from DPS duty to gaze duty would result in less damage
Twilight Gap
Member
I do like how much Destiny mixes the two though. It's almost as much a third person game as it is a first person game. Bungie was always good at that .
When you get to the Taken phase (when his health is low enough, I forget the percentage) you can constantly keep going, you don't have to worry about clearing adds.
I don't think it' s a luxury strat at all, because even with 2 gazers, while they're swapping you're not going to be doing DPS. The downtime for clearing adds using 1 gaze should be roughly the same amount of time.
xplicitone
Member
I tried the 1 gaze strat today for the first time. It worked wonders. 3 single gazes I believe.
We had 3 people 300+ but everyone had a Spindle or 1000 yard stare
We had 3 people 300+ but everyone had a Spindle or 1000 yard stare
From what I've seen, 1 gazer is safer and requires less communication, but slower (more likely to enrage), which makes it better for groups who have never run together. The 2 gazer strat is faster but more dangerous (lots of adds in the pit if you don't have someone keeping an eye on them) and requires more communication, so it's better for experienced groups with great communication.
Dave_6
Member
We mustve been doing something wrong then somewhere. When we got to the taken the ads would pile up in the middle and kill us if we didnt have someone focusing them.
You guys saying it's quick and painless come show me! I have the checkpoint after all
I really do wanna see it work because like I said, it seemed to have a lot of potential. Just seemed we didn't have the damage to pull it off.
Jeez, I'll take one.
All I ever get now is Claws of Ahamkara, Alpha Lupi chests, and Hereafters.