***Massive Raid Spoilers*** Cont'd for real (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 13:42 (2853 days ago) @ Kahzgul

My last post timed out on editing. D'oh.

Baths:

Again there are four plates in the corners, and one more in the middle pool room. Note that the pool room also has some hanging pink lantern things in 3 groups of 3. Collecting orbs here gives you 50 seconds of immunity to damage from the water. It only counts down when you're actually in the water, so standing on platforms etc. can be helpful if you aren't a symbol guy. Split your team into two groups of 3. One for the right side and one for the left side. To start the fight you need a player on each of the four plates and a firth guy to jump on the plate in the middle room. Guy 5 should be the "C" player for the left hand side (axes is his first stop) given my following example. Also, the 6th player should be sure to grab the orb buff and then hop onto a safe platform on the right hand side (cup, I think) before starting the fight.

Okay, here's how the fight goes down: One player will start on each plate on their side, and the third guy will help the top (higher elevation / back of the room) plate kill his big add first (called "bathers"). It's a braid, basically. Guy A stands on the top plate, guy B stands on the bottom one, and guy C stands on a platform near guy A. When the fight starts, guys A and C murder the bather (he spawns immediately) and then guy C takes over the top plate. Guy A will run through the middle room (which is now the only place to get a refresh of the immunity buff) and then helps guy B kill his add (guy B will probably have to solo this fight though because of how the timing works out). Then guy A takes over for B, B goes and refreshes his buff, and then B helps C with his add, and so forth. Shortly after guy A gets back to his original platform, all of the chains (you'll see what I mean during the fight) will hit the bottom, and whoever is running to the middle to refresh their buff will hit that bonus plate and phase 2 will start.

Phase 2: You need 4 DPSers and 2 Crowd Controllers. Arcstriders are the best crowd control because their super lasts nearly the whole phase (use the arc chest exotic). For DPS, a hammer titan or warlock who has the nova that lasts for a really long time are best. The DPS guys stand on the center plate and then blast the shit out of the pink lanterns. Each guy should be assigned his own set of lanterns to hit, and when you kill your lanterns, turn and help your buddies. It is very possible to destroy them all in a single phase. The crowd control guys need to take turns popping their supers and destroying the bathers who continuously spawn from the three pools in this room. Two arcstrider supers will outlast the entire phase if you pop them in sequence. Whoever isn't supering should just shoot normal adds (especially psions) to help out. When the DPSers' supers wear off, they should use whatever else they have to destroy those lanterns.

You should be able to destroy all of the lanterns during this phase, but if you can't, a psionic projection will appear floating in the center room. DPS this down quickly or it will wipe you (this is easy as long as everyone shoots it). The fight then essentially starts over so everyone goes back to their A, B, and C positions and does it all again until you win.

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Pleasure Gardens:

My favorite fight! First clear all of the trash in the room and get as much ammo as you can. There's a pit you can jump into to wipe if you need more ammo. After clearing the trash, two "prism weapons" will appear. The fight starts when the 2nd prism is picked up. There are two sides to this fight. 2 players need to use the prisms and hop from pillar to pillar, standing in beams of light and using the weapons to pop flowers (more on this later) and kill houndmasters who appear. The other four players will drop down into the safe room (there's a hole in the roof) and pick up pollen orbs (there are four of them). Most of this fight is a stealth game. The prism players should direct the other players about where to walk so they aren't seen by the patrolling dogs. Importantly, the dogs cannot hear your footsteps, even when you sprint. We number the potential flower spawns (they look like barnacle clusters) going clockwise from the safe room as L1, L2, L2, and "forest" and going counter-clockwise from the safe room as R1, R2, R3, and "rocks." It will take a little practice for your pollen people to figure out how to navigate the room from flower spawn to flower spawn.

Anyway, you pick up the prisms and six dogs will spawn and start patrolling the space. Also, two flowers will spawn (they glow purple). The prism people need to call out where the flower spawns are, and then help navigate the pollinators to the flowers. All four pollen people should move as a unit. When the pollinators get to a flower, the prism person on that side shoots the flower with the prism and it will "pop." This gives the pollinators a stacking buff for DPS and also spawns two houndmasters (one on each side). The prism people need to immediately kill their houndmaster and then help the other prism guy if needed to kill theirs (they die really quickly, but sightlines are tricky from some places). The goal here is to get a buff of x48 or higher before the hounds "grow restless" (you'll get an alert in the lower left corner of your screen). If the hounds see someone, or a short while after they grow restless, the hounds will start to howl. They will run to specific places to do this: L1, L3, forest, R1, R2, and R3. Each member of the raid should be assigned to a specific dog. Go to the howling place and dps the shit out of the dog. If you have x60 buff or higher, killing them all in 1 phase is possible, but generally you want to dps them down below 1/3rd health and then run back to the safe room (where the pollen spawns, you *must* drop down from the roof to get in). Then you do it all again and the 2nd time you kill them and run to help anyone who needs it. Swords are amazing for dps on the dogs, as are supers.