Last night's fight with Crota was rough. We started strong, but we were fighting both the hive and our internal clocks by the end.

There's a new methodology floating around which negates the need for killing the boomers (and, by extension, wizards). The timing looks like it will require some practice, but it certainly looks quicker and less random then what we were trying last night.

Vid with questionable but informative commentary

Breakdown is as follows:

-Clear out the starting hallway as usual

-Run outside, and get on the little window ledge above the pool room entrance. Boomers can't hit us here, and neither can Crota from the middle.

-Burn down the swordbearer with primary/secondary. Sword-wielder and designated defender titan use heavy.

-Sword-wielder grabs sword, runs to the right (OUR right) jump-up-ledge just next to Crota's platform. A designated Defender places a bubble in the right tower to block/blind boomers.

-Sword wielder gives signal. All four guardians on the windowsill fire a rocket- this will take Crota's shield down immediately. Sword-wielder get 2-3 hits on Crota, then jumps back to his safe spot. as soon as this occurs, another salvo is fired. 3 more sword-hits. ANOTHER salvo. 3 more hits. Hitting Crota this many times per sword allows us to kill him before ogres. (Side note- this sounds really hard, but because we don't have to worry about boomers showing up mid-sword, we can focus on timing)

-Everyone runs inside the left entrance to the safe hallway. Dodge and avoid boomer fire. Wait for Crota to rotate back to middle.

-Repeat from step two. Ignore enrage.

This approach takes out a LOT of variables, and allows us to refine our handling of the ones that matter. The bad news is it requires practically everyone to have full heavy ammo at the start.

Is everyone still available to try again tonight?