You're missing something, Raga. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, October 19, 2014, 01:28 (3933 days ago) @ Riceamike
edited by Ragashingo, Sunday, October 19, 2014, 01:34

You do kill oracles in the Templar fight, yes. You do kill Praetorians to open the door, yes.

The difference in the Atheon fight is that AS SOON as you get teleported, you're on a timer. The players outside the portal are fighting Supplicants, which are harpies that can home in on you and ONE HIT KILL YOU. The players INSIDE are slowly going BLIND. Their screen filled with darkness to where they can't see anything. If the Relic user doesn't clear out the enemies in time or by chance dies before the grenade meter fills so they can cleanse and release the blind from the players, the party wipes.

I've run through the raid four times, Raga.

I've killed Atheon once. That's how difficult it is. Even with a team of 28 through 30's with experience we couldn't even do it. I spent ALL DAY yesterday attempting it to no avail.

Your team has to work like clockwork, and assigning teams to do a certain job is what gets you through it. Making this random will eliminate all possibility to plan ahead or an already grueling challenge.

I'm sorry you haven't done the raid to experience this, but as someone who has I can't think of a worse idea.

No, I've done the Raid. I was designated the Relic Guy for the final section and really, it's not that hard. There's like four enemies on the ground for the Away Team to kill before the two shooters turn their attention fully to the Oracles. I got pretty good about taking out the ground enemies with the Relic's Death From Above attack. Most times the way would be clear by the time the Relic's cleansing ability was charged.

And the thing is, every Raid team that doesn't spoil themselves goes through a seemingly random teleport of their players at first. There's got to be some groups out there who never realized it was based on distance. They probably figured they were supposed to wing it, like with every other encounter in the Raid, and did just fine. Heck, our group didn't choose an away team based on their class or level or how leveled their weapons were. We choose to send the three who had never played the Raid before!