Usually if you just go to orbit and then back in that will clear up some of the glitches. No need to restart from the beginning.

From what I remember hearing is that you guys were trying to do the 16 orb method on Oryx on your attempt? That ends up causing a lot of weird items glitches in my experience.

The last time I ran we had the issue in the evening and the following day the issue cleared up. Different hosts could also help (going to orbit to change).

To those who payed with Junior and I when we ran into the glitches during the Oryx fight (or anyone else who might be able to shed light on the question):

Both Junior and I still have the Oryx checkpoint. Do you think it would be worth trying again on that checkpoint? Or is the consensus that we need to restart the entire raid to avoid all the glitches?

As background for those who weren't there, our team made it to Oryx and executed well (we exploded at least 16 orb-things), but his behavior was unexpected. Sometimes he would take NO damage after exploding all four orbs that round and maintaining consistent damage. The "thunderdome" round would spawn when it should have been missiles, and vice versa. He would wipe us with his "clap slam" without being enraged or otherwise without warning.

We DID complete the Golgoroth challenge during the course of getting to Oryx. Might this have been the cause of the glitches later in the raid?

Needless to say, it was pretty disappointing since Junior and I have yet to complete this raid. I would really like to finish him off from the checkpoint, rather than from the beginning. Thank you to UpNorth, Beardfade, Monochron, Funkmon, and ChaosSociety for helping us get as far as we did!

Is this your first time doing Oryx? These don't sound like glitches to me.

If you don't do enough DPS to his heart (the black orb inside of the bright white section of his chest to stagger him before detonating orbs, then he claps and wipes you.

If you don't do enough DPS to oryx's chest to keep the white stuff open and expose the black heart, then the orbs won't do any damage to him at all. Same if one orb detonates early and/or late - that orb's damage won't count.

If you don't damage him with any orbs, then he'll trigger the thunderdome phase regardless of how much health he has left.

My guess is that your raid group simply didn't have enough dps (or maybe wasn't shooting at the right things all of the time).

I know: killing Oryx is so 2015. But for Junior and I, it was a long time coming. What a crazy challenge is that last battle, and at the same time very rewarding (even if the loot is not so).

Thank you to Skwatchee and Blackt1g3r for the huge help. Special thanks to Beardfade and Monochron for their explanations, encouragements, exhortations, patience, and persistence.

Hard mode, anyone?

Last night, on the run of Oryx we finally completed, there was an added bit of difficulty I don't remember noticing before. During the Oryx Missile phase, boomer-like taken Knights spawned on the platforms. Isn't this a hard mode mechanic? We were definitely playing on normal.