Crota Hard mode Sword bearer hit math (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Sunday, February 15, 2015, 10:08 (3379 days ago)
edited by Cody Miller, Sunday, February 15, 2015, 10:15

A new mechanic in the Crota hard fight, if you didn't notice or haven't played it, is that Crota will automatically enrage after his health hits a certain point, meaning once you pass that point you have to kill him on that sword or you will all die. Basically, you do not want to take him below this point unless you can finish him off.

You don't need to know exact numbers or do math to get this right:

Crota will start his enrage once his health bar is over the 'C' in his name. If you are a little bit past the 'r', then you are at your limit before he starts enraging.

Practically, this means that if you are going for nothing but smashes, as a level 32 you can do 13 hits, and the 14th will enrage him. If you are going for the 2x uppercut combo + Smash, then three rounds of that will put him just below enrage.

Crota will die to 18 smashes, and slightly less than 4 of the uppercut + Smash combos.

So:

Safe Smash method: Down Crota twice per sword, getting 3 hits per down, plus a 4th on one if you can. Don't do over 13 smashes. After two swords, run to ogres, then on the third sword down him twice and get in as many hits as possible. It is possible to down him six times over two swords and kill him, so that would be 9x smashes over three downs. The most likely way to hit this is 4x for the first two downs, and one for the third. You can't enrage him after only three downs, so extra hits are fine. This is hard, so if you are going for a two sword kill a much easier way is…

Faster Uppercut method: Down Crota twice per sword, getting the combo on each down. On the 4th down, you'll kill him. The timing is more important, so on the first sword if you can down him three times, you will have plenty of wiggle room on the second sword to kill him. You cannot enrage Crota until the 4th down, so go to town.

The Safe sword method is what I'd recommend for new groups, and if you are more experienced and want to try something else to avoid the ogres, then mess around with the uppercut Combo.