It warms my heart to know at least the raids are still excellent experiences.

This is probably my favorite raid ever (yes, even including VoG).

Are you TRYING to make me relapse?!

Not necessarily... but if this is what it takes for you to abandon some of your absolutist world views, then I'll consider it progress! ;-)

Alas there is no chance for it blind, so I am safe after all.

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Thanks for that. I’ve been looking for something like this for a week now.

I could see using this as a bedtime screensaver.

I also watched clip simllar to the one cheapLEY posted (with no deaths--a line of good jumpers just making their way with the dialogue playing). The title of it was "The moment I fell in love with the DSC raid."

The darkness is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

If you pop four cores out of Taniks and deposit them instead of just two, you get an extra damage phase.

Gotcha. Was not aware. Doing 4 cores sounds like a nightmare, though.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I want to. It means you can ignore scanner, as the bins are just the four bins in the areas where Taniks isn’t. Operator and Suppressor really have to be on their game, though. Getting detained at all might be enough to screw you, as depositing four means every carrier needs to make it without handing off. I suppose the Operator and Suppressor might be able to grab after Taniks is suppressed, but that seems like a long shot.

As for Divinity, I’m not sure what you mean. If you’re using Divinity, I don’t think you have to hit the crit spot—I don’t think it matters at all. For everyone else the Divinity ball appears right below the boss.

You get about 20% more damage. I mean, the Outbreaks are definitively the ones doing the heavy-lifting, but why not, right?

In my experience, Taniks moves around enough that it can be tricky to hit his head. Probably just safer to hit him and not have to worry about the chance of missing in exchange for the little bit of extra damage from Divinity itself.

If you pop four cores out of Taniks and deposit them instead of just two, you get an extra damage phase.

Gotcha. Was not aware. Doing 4 cores sounds like a nightmare, though.

So I just did the 4-bomb method with my clan a couple nights ago. It was my first time trying it, but the rest of the group had some experience.

It was a chaotic, frantic mess that worked beautifully lol.

We had our fireteam split into pairs, each pair was assigned to one corner of the map. Once the boss started moving towards one of the 3 corners, we all knew we’d be planting the bombs at the other 2 corners. As soon as the boss’ “legs” became vulnerable, we all rushed him, shooting as we went. Every time a bomb dropped out of him, one of us would pick it up immediately and rush back to our corner. If 2 players were running to the same corner at the same time, they’d work out who was going to which bin on the way over. There was always a bit of a scramble under the boss as we raced to pick up the bombs, but the general rule was “pick up the bomb that you knock out of him”, so it wasn’t too bad, and everyone was proactive about grabbing a bomb if it looked like nobody else was about to grab it. Our operator would hang back and pop bubbles as the bomb carriers ran, but I don’t think he ever had to pop more than 2 bubbles per bomb phase. Occasionally a bomb carrier would die on their way back to their corner, but someone else was almost always close enough to grab their bomb and deposit it in time.

We probably wiped 4 or 5 times attempting this method, but i think the damage phase caused more wipes for us than the bomb phase. Once we had a good, smooth damage phase we beat him (1-phased him, in fact). We then switched characters and ran the raid again. This time we 1-phased the boss our first try.