I am sad re: hard mode cheese (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Friday, January 16, 2015, 11:30 (3400 days ago) @ someotherguy

Well, the "fix" that Bungie put in made it so that when you despawn the enemies, the sword bearer sticks around. You then need 1 person to take the sword and cross the bridge normally, and then kill the gate keeper. At that point, they need to run like hell because the ogres will spawn. Everyone else can just stand on towers out of the reach of the new sword bearer and snipe ogres until the encounter ends. It's not a 100% gimmie, but it's a 99% one, and a terrible fix. Why do the enemies despawn when you stand on a box? It makes no sense.

Regardless, I'm totally in agreement that the encounter is fun to beat legitimately. That being said, after I've beaten the thing legit a dozen or so times, but been screwed by the RNG, I'm grateful for a faster path to loot. Once you've proven that you can beat a thing, all you're doing after that is running it for loot, which is not fun.