Aksis Challenge Mode made easy (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, December 21, 2016, 20:21 (3138 days ago) @ Chappy

I had a question about always having your empowered people throw - doesn't that pull the center empowered person out of position? On the xbox side anyway, we tend to put the center guardian in front of the right side stairs so they can cover the right plate if Aksis teleports to front center (and cover the back plate for all other scenarios). When the center guardian is in that location, they don't have line of sight to throw at Aksis.

What we found is that the people with the cannons are more likely to be rushing all over the place chasing down servitors, so having the empowered players handle the bombs allows them to at least stay in their quadrant of the map. In the video you can hear us counting out the bombs as they are thrown... we get to 6 bombs as quickly as possible. As soon as someone picks up the 7th bomb, they make a big deal of announcing it so that everyone knows the final bomb is in hand and ready to be thrown. At this point, all 3 empowered players make sure they are in their positions. The 3 cannoners might still be chasing down the final servitors at this point (just to get them out of the way and make sure they don't cause confusion), which is fine. Once all 3 empowered players call out that they are ready to go, the one holding the 7th bomb lets it fly.

The key is that there might be very little time between picking up the 7th bomb and being forced to throw it to prevent a team wipe, so it is very important that the 3 empowered players are relatively close to their ideal positions. Hence having them be the throwers, which allows the cannoners to travel more freely.

* is cannoners a word? I don't know, but I like it.
** Look Cyber, I spelt cannon right! :D
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*** ahhh, I now see that it should be "cannoneers". To late, can't fix it now ;)