First time VOG hard mode - Struggling with Gatekeepers (Destiny)

by c0ld vengeance , UK, Monday, December 22, 2014, 18:03 (3865 days ago)
edited by c0ld vengeance, Monday, December 22, 2014, 18:06

So my raiding group have all finally hit 31 and we decided to try our luck at The Vault of Glass hard mode. We got all the way up to the gatekeepers right before Atheon and got no further. Now I know what we need to do but we always get overwhelmed at the sync plate/Conflux so we tried another method that I've read about.

The idea is to progress as normal and activate a sync plate. You then send a couple of people in the left/past/Mars gate to eliminate everything but leave the Gatekeeper in there with a small amount of health, then exit and send your team over to the right/future/Venus gate and fetch the relic from there. Now obviously this leaves the Venus side vulnerable to capture and an oracle will spawn... Here's where stuff gets confusing for me...

No matter how efficiently the outside team destroys the oracle after it spawns, we always seem to wipe due to being "succumbed to the ocracles" after a short amount of time, usually after we pick up the relic in venus.

Is the a limit to the amount of time you are allowed to let a red ocracle spawn? Are there other oracles spawning that I don't know about that we are missing? Has anyone had any luck with this idea?

Occurring to the method, after you pick up the Venus relic, it's then very easy to quickly send one guy back into Mars, rocket the low health gatekeeper and grab the other relic before he goes blind.

Sorry if this has been brought up before but it's the first time I've really struggled enough to ask.

Cheers Guardians