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Destiny |OT35| Time to Explain At Last
- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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HM yep. It's not late for me at all. Actually gives me time to go eat dinner.
Sentinalprimus
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Not exactly a new strat, did this on the first day to get the kill. It is pretty good though and makes the Ogres a non issues for lower light level teams. I ran the normal stratergy last night with a team that had no person under 312 and the fight is significantly easier once you don't have the light disparity between you and the boss so none of these 'easier' strats will be necessary in a few weeks as people will be geared enough just to do it the using the same strat as normal mode.
i missed our run on Tuesday. i wanna try. 309 good enough for ya? hoping for a good drop.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Perfect.
DirtyAquaticApe, OkayRene, and Messiek are down for that. I will drop you a PSN message when we are on.
silver.tongue
Member
Sure. My hunter is 307 tho. Way lower than my 311 warlock.
Can i get in on this with my titan? Will be online around 6:45 est.
Hey Jafku, do you still need people for this?
Odious Tea
Member
Up for an Oryx HM down either now or in the near future if anyone wants to give it a shot. I'm a 310 Titan. Haven't cleared Oryx HM yet, looking to do so tonight. Done NM a bunch.
If there's interest I'm happy to join or host a group.
If there's interest I'm happy to join or host a group.
silver.tongue
Member
Okay, since HM Oryx is getting postponed, I'm gonna do some court of oryx.
Send a message to silvertonguebr if you wanna tag along. Gonna do some T1, T2 and T3.
Send a message to silvertonguebr if you wanna tag along. Gonna do some T1, T2 and T3.
SteveO1683
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Someone shop the knight saying surprise motherfucker.
haha. Such an awesome gif.
saveweyard
Banned
Got a spot open still? I'll bring my Titan. Just making dinner right now.
Is it a full run or just Oryx? In any case, do you still need one more?
This is the strat that Kadey and her group were trying this morning. They struggled a bit, especially taking down the knights. It's very similar to the NM strat. It still requires a lot of coordination.
DrDrizzay101
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Only when cheesed and/or over-leveled. You can only properly evaluate encounter design when it's the current end game content since it's been scaled to our power levels at the time. Being able to solo Skolas in 5 minutes now, and block his Devouring Essence with your sword, doesn't change how brilliant that fight was during HoW.
Of course it's bad design that the completion time can't be lowered, I've talked about this issue 10 million times. It makes the fight feel slow and boring once it's mastered. But Oracles especially got a bad wrap from all the cheesing. I played with tons of groups and only a small handful of people like Deafmedal and ms ever wanted to play legit.
Oracles felt anything but slow when played legit as the current end game during vanilla. The pacing was spot-on when #Forever29s were dropping left and right as the tension ratcheted up heading into the seventh wave. Very smart add spawns and difficulty escalation tailor made to the environment's geometry.
Look at the Hobgoblin platforms and spawn timers, the Goblin and Minotaur spawn locations, frequencies and pathing towards Oracle locations, timing and frequency of Templar's appearing/disappearing act. Some Minotaurs spawn in the right cave which keeps your attention, but some spawn from bottom-middle doors near the cleansing pool and path up to the right. They can sneak up the stairs behind unsuspecting players just as the Templar teleports into position to cut off your escape route if you run forward.
How many people did blind VoG raids? Do you remember the mystery and suspense after finally clearing Confluxes when these strange yellow lights started blinking all around you? As you slowly pieced together the Marked/Cleansed/Negated mechanics you also noticed how each of the seven spawn points played a distinct tone. As the waves progressed and Oracle spawns increased it started to feel almost like... a song.
Then one day you read the VoG Grimoire card and this line jumps out at you:
Vault of Glass Grimoire said:
...making you realize it was a song. In fact, when the tones are played in order of the Oracle spawns across all seven waves it forms a "hymn of the Oracles" that matches a soundtrack theme you can hear in Orbit.
TL;DR: It's far from perfect but Oracles is fucking great.
Using the the blessing bubble in the middle and using ToM to melt the ogres from the middle and then having the platform holders kill the light eater knights is smart.
So is killing all adds from inside the aura before detonating bombs. You have 30 seconds after oryx is staggered so it's a good idea. People rushing blowing up bombs is more risky.
saveweyard
Banned
Hmmm
Ugh, that fucking RL is shit even with The Taikonaut equipped. Got 7/10 so far. :-(
Finally finished my striker grenade quest, now I need 30 super multi-kills. Group up, damn you!
JohnOfMars
Banned
So sad that I learned this so late.
It's also one of the few raid encounters where there are so many "boss"/mechanical targets, which is great for a fire team vs standing all together and DPSing a single target for every encounter in the raid. Speaking of which, I totally forgot Totems in my listing! Which I really like!
Edit: for when you're quoting something other than a GAF post, try the
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theechrisfox
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I need the arc sword version of Sunless Cell... psn same as gaf name.
TheAquaticApe
Member
Be on in 15 Nami. Traffic.
Added. Anybody want to run this to get their own sword/just to help? Would be much appreciated.
PSN: GibbShift
silver.tongue
Member
Send me an invite when ready.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Drizz, one other KF inconsistency to add to your list. The raid has tons and tons of jumping, all first person, but when it really counts or your entire team wipes? 3rd person with tons of effects on your screen.
silver.tongue
Member
Well, it is preety clutch to have at least 1 bubble.
When jumping equip sword and go to third person mode or else your doing it wrong.
Have you tried looking for a group on GAF? The pool of players is usually better in skill and personality.
I don't like losing HMG ammo just to jump.
I see people on my team doing this. Blows my mind.
But I'm also very cheap when it comes to heavy ammo synths.
Bungie is selling some engrams: http://bungiestore.com/collections/accessories/products/destiny-engram-4-pack
MagnetoWasRight
Member
When are you doing this? I'll be on in thirty.
Team is full. We're just waiting for Messiek.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Or be a Titan?
MagnetoWasRight
Member
Sent you a message on psn.
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